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PTW -- at the heart of a global community of performance activists -- is an international gathering to explore & celebrate performance as a catalyst for human and community development.

10/07/2026

What if a few well-chosen words could unsettle an assumption, open a new question, or help you see something differently?

That’s the invitation in Words to Ponder and Create With.

Drawing from an eclectic collection that includes Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sugata Mitra, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bayo Akomolafe and many others, Lois Holzman invites us to slow down, linger with provocative words, and discover what becomes possible when we ponder them together.

You may leave with a new question, an unexpected connection—or a thought you can’t stop thinking about.

Five Sundays, October 25–November 22, 2026
More info 👉 https://ow.ly/IHT050ZUin3

LONDON — IN PERSON | OCTOBER 25What can we create together in a moment of fear, polarization and uncertainty?Join Carrie...
10/05/2026

LONDON — IN PERSON | OCTOBER 25

What can we create together in a moment of fear, polarization and uncertainty?

Join Carrie Lobman, Chris Helm and Elena Boukouvala for this experiential workshop drawing on social therapeutics, performance activism, play and embodied practice.

Come experiment, create, play—and discover what becomes possible when we loosen our hold on what we think we know and make something new together.

In person only. Register Now 👉 https://ow.ly/rh5G50ZUgKn

10/01/2026

What does it mean to build a life team—and why might we need one?

In this short video, social therapeutic coaches Elyse Mendel and Lea Csikós invite you into the October Developing Across Borders workshop, Don’t Know How to Build Your Life? Nobody Does!

Over five weeks, we’ll explore the places in our lives where we feel stuck, expand and activate our networks of support, and discover what becomes possible when we build our lives with others.

Newcomers and returning life-team builders are welcome.

🗓 Sundays, Oct 25 – Nov 22 | On Zoom
👉 Register: https://ow.ly/svIh50ZTcXp

09/22/2026

Feeling stuck in love, family, career, or health?

In this video, Lea Cikos + Elyse Mendel talk about why you can’t do it alone—and what becomes possible when you build community, go slower, and create new tools for new moves.

Join their 5-week workshop: Don’t Know How to Build Your Life? Nobody Does!
A guide to building Life Teams—supportive partnerships that help you transform what feels stuck.

🗓 Sundays, Oct 25 – Nov 22 | On Zoom
👉 Register: https://ow.ly/hTC650ZOz0I

09/09/2026

Don’t Know How to Build Your Life? Nobody Does!

Elyse Mendel + Lea Cikos invite you to build Life Teams—support for getting unstuck around health, relationships, work, friendship (and more).

We’ll play with improv skills and Social Therapeutic tools to:
• ask for help (and offer it)
• “deprivatize” what you’re dealing with
• build community you can actually lean on

🗓 Sundays, October 25–Novemeber 22
🕥 10:30 AM–12:00 PM ET (US)
🎥 Watch the invite + join us.

👉 Register: https://events.humanitix.com/don-t-know-how-to-build-your-life-nobody

What if evaluation could be more than collecting numbers and reporting results?Join Veronica Smith, founder of data2insi...
09/08/2026

What if evaluation could be more than collecting numbers and reporting results?

Join Veronica Smith, founder of data2insight, on September 27 for a free interactive workshop and explore a playful, collaborative approach to making meaning from data.

Discover how organizations, activists, artists, and community leaders can engage people in turning data into insight—strengthening programs, deepening learning, and telling a more compelling story about the work they’re creating together.

Free registration — https://ow.ly/c4pb50ZKARN

When people from different cultures with widely divergent experiences come together to tell stories, some beautiful thin...
08/27/2026

When people from different cultures with widely divergent experiences come together to tell stories, some beautiful things can emerge...

A free Zoom-enabled storytelling circle with people from all over the globe, led by Gwen Johnson Gwen Johnson of the Letcher County Culture Hub (Kentucky) and Dan Friedman of the East Side Institute.

Thursday, September 17
10:00 am (Eastern U.S.)
Enrollment is limited.

For more information and to register contact Dan Friedman at [email protected]

Join Melissa Meyer and Desire Wandan for a 6-week dive into Lois Holzman’s "The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with...
08/25/2026

Join Melissa Meyer and Desire Wandan for a 6-week dive into Lois Holzman’s "The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with Knowing Keeps Us from Getting Smart Enough to Make a Better World." Through selected chapters and group dialogue, participants will explore how the belief that knowing is required for growth can limit creativity, risk-taking, and our capacity to create something new. Together, the group will explore “non-knowing growing” and learn about key influences, including developmental psychologist, Lev Vygotsky and philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. No prior familiarity is needed. Sept 8 - Oct 13.

Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/BiPv50ZuJMx

08/20/2026

What if the ruling ideas don’t just shape what we think—but become embedded in how we move, speak, react, and relate?

In Part 3, Dan Friedman turns to Pierre Bourdieu and his concept of habitus: the deeply ingrained habits and ways of being that carry the values of a culture, often without our even being aware of them.

Bourdieu called the body “a memory”—a place where culture gets reproduced without needing to be explained or consciously chosen.

So what happens when the world we want to change is also living through us?

This short video is Part 3 of a three-part excerpt from one of Dan’s lectures in his annual East Side Institute class, Crawling From the Wreckage, held in July 2026.

Dan leaves us with the question: What can we do about that?

08/19/2026

If ruling ideas become our “common sense,” how do we begin to challenge them?

In Part 2, Dan Friedman turns to Antonio Gramsci, who asked why oppressed people so often reinforce the very systems that dominate them. Gramsci’s answer was hegemony: the slow process by which a ruling culture’s values, assumptions, and ways of seeing come to feel natural, universal, and simply “the way things are.”

But Gramsci also pointed toward another possibility: building new cultural, intellectual, and social environments where different ways of seeing, thinking, relating, and creating can emerge.

This short video is Part 2 of a three-part excerpt from one of Dan’s lectures in his annual East Side Institute class, Crawling From the Wreckage, held in July 2026.

Watch—and consider: How can we create a new cultural “common sense”?

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