Social therapeutics as a playful, performatory, philosophical methodology for person and community development is the topic explored in this episode. Influenced by three intellectual traditions, it seeks to bring meaning to our relational processes in collaborative and appreciative ways to elevate human connection and bridge cultural divides.

Lois Holzman, Ph.D.,  is Director of the East Side Institute and Chair of the Performing the World conferences. She is mentor and coach to hundreds of scholars, educators, artists and community activists around the globe, who are creating performance activism as a new approach to community development and social change. Her latest book is  The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world.