Developing Across Borders Performs!

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.

East Side Institute

Step onto a world stage and Grow! With Barbara Silverman, Melissa Meyer & Lea Čikoš

At a time of extraordinary uncertainty, Developing Across Borders welcomes participants from across the world into a weekly, virtual, group-building activity. Some participants come at key transition moments in their lives. Others want to make their lives bigger — more responsive and responsible to a rapidly changing world. Many come to find their way out of emotional pain. With the support of a skilled social therapeutic coach, they build a space — a development zone — to perform as world citizens, to play with language, invent new ways of being and seeing — and in so doing, produce new possibilities for themselves and their communities.Join us for a free 90 minute session where you will be introduced to the methodology and history of Developing Across Borders and participate in a demonstration of a group.Information for joining an ongoing Developing Across Borders group will be shared at the end of this event and will be included in registration confirmation emails in case you are unable to join.

<h3>About The Leaders</h3>Barbara Silverman, L.C.S.W. is a master designer and organizer of location-specific social therapeutic group environments—having brought an explicitly developmental approach into public schools, mental health centers and other community-based agencies. A social therapist and educator, she helps groups self-organize to create spaces where all can grow. In 2010, Barbara founded the East Side Institute’s <a href="https://eastsideinstitute.org/developing-across-borders/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Developing Across Borders</a>, a global, cross-cultural development zone now with dozens of participants from every part of the world. More locally, she leads a social therapy practice in New York City. Barbara received her M.S.W. from the Adelphi School of Social Work. Melissa Meyer is a social therapeutic coach and the Associate Director at the East Side Institute. She is sales director for <a href="https://www.performingtheworld.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Performing the World</a>, an international gathering that explores performance as a method to help communities grow and create positive social change. Melissa co-teaches “<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/166157177591" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Creating Communities of Hope: Introducing a Performatory Approach to Human Development and Its Community Stages</a>&quot; a 5-week introductory seminar on social therapeutics. She leads and co-leads three <a href="https://eastsideinstitute.org/developing-across-borders/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Developing Across Borders</a> groups weekly.Lea Čikoš is a social therapeutic coach, a developmentalist, an intercultural trainer in non-formal education, a youth worker, community organizer, mentor, activist and world traveler. She was born and raised in today&#x27;s Serbia and has lived and worked all over Europe, currently residing in Belgium. Lea is a staff member and an associate of the East Side Institute (ESI), an alumna of the <a href="https://eastsideinstitute.org/study/international-class/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">International Class</a> and a graduate of the Social Therapist leader study program with ESI. She co-leads a <a href="https://eastsideinstitute.org/developing-across-borders/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Developing Across Borders</a> group weekly. She is one of the founders of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vcvsrbija" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Volunteers Centre of Vojvodina</a>, an organization based in Novi Sad, Serbia that has been working to bring opportunities for development to communities and youth in the region since 2004. She is a member of the trainers pool of the French-German Youth Office, has studied Environment and Romology and is a Veterinary nurse.

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