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The East Side Institute
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An international center for the study of social therapeutics and performance activism — bringing human and community development to the forefront of culture change and social transformation, and promoting alternative and radically humanizing approaches to psychology, education and community building.

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A Hub for Social Activists

Welcome to South Africa

East Side Institute Associates

Associates & alumni Nomsa MazwaiBetsy PendryAlison Polley-GreenAnnalie PistoriusAlex Sutherland, and Africa Voices’ Robyn Whittaker PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS to bring ESI’s Christine Helm & Carrie Lobman to venues across Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town.

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People everywhere want health, happiness and hope. They want possibilities, not prescriptions; development, not diagnoses; connection, not constraint; opportunities, not fixed identities. We help people actualize these wants! Learn more about our social therapeutic offerings.

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The International Class

The International Class

Meet the 19th cohort of performance activists, creative scholars, clinicians & change-makers who are exploring, developing and make social therapeutics their own.

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Initiatives & Alliances

The Developmentalist

The Joy of Dementia

A Space for Every-Day Developmental Dilemmas! Lois Holzman offers advice to readers on how to move around-and-about everyday quagmires, qualms and quandaries.

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Developing Across Borders

Developing Across Borders

Step onto a world stage and grow! At a time of extraordinary uncertainty, Developing Across Borders welcomes participants from across the world into a weekly, virtual, group-building activity.

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Meet the New Associates

Play and Social Justice

Welcome our new Associates! Harouna Abdoulaye, Elizabeth Oyarese Adams, Yvette Alcott, Etty Elise Dafni, Bernard Einsiedler, Madhu Einsiedler, Louis Hinman, Chakradhar Iyyunni , Tamara Krneta, Morgane Masterman, Kate McGlynn, Eileen Moncoeur, and Shelley Schwartz.

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FEATURED CONVERSATION—

Suffering, Victimization
& the Tyranny of Trauma

In this fascinating conversation, public philosopher, author & activist Báyò Akómoláfé embarks on a “Meandering Search for Method” with developmentalist Lois Holzman – bringing his transjective/transversal framework of trauma into play with Holzman’s practical-critical engagement of scientific psychology. Hosted by Janet Wootten.

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