Saturday, June 20 | 11:30 AM–2:00 PM Eastern US Time
Online Workshop
What do we do when the ways we’ve learned to respond no longer help us create anything new?
Fear and anger can clarify what matters. But they can also narrow us—pulling us toward certainty, opposition, and repetition at exactly the moment new forms of creating are needed. Even those deeply committed to social change and collective transformation can find themselves trapped in reacting to the world rather than creating what comes next.
In this live, participatory workshop, Carrie Lobman invites participants to explore play not as escape, entertainment, or relief from reality, but as a serious human capacity for engaging reality—especially under conditions of uncertainty, conflict, and not-knowing.
Carrie Lobman, Ed.D. is a scholar, educator, and movement-builder advancing play, performance, and human development as practices for social transformation. She is the Leader of Education and Research at the East Side Institute and a professor at Rutgers University. She is the author and editor of several books on play, learning, and performance, and her work is widely recognized in the fields of education and human development. Working with activists, educators, and communities around the world, she develops play and ensemble-based practices as ways of building new forms of connection, creativity, and collective power.
Registration information: https://events.humanitix.com/the-imperative-of-play-building-something-new-without-a-map
