Cultivating a School-to-Possibility Pipeline in MA
Cultivating a School-to-Possibility Pipeline in MA
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PeoplesLab: Transforming Corona into Possibility
By dorit cypis
When and where
Date and time
April 22, 2020 · 5pm - May 10, 2020 · 2pm PDT
Location
Online
Description
If the conflict between us is also within us, then this time of Corona isolation is an opportunity to focus WITHIN – to recognize our habits, biases, resistances and reactions; to witness, feel, assess and change.
Join PeoplesLab for a FREE Zoom session offering reflexive participatory tools to transform Corona into possibility on the following dates:
- Wednesday, April 22: 5pm-6pm PDT
- Sunday, April 26: 1pm-2pm PDT
- Wednesday, April 29: 4pm-5pm PDT
- Sunday, May 3: 1pm-2pm PDT
- Wednesday, May 6: 4pm-5pm PDT *Just added*
- Sunday, May 10: 1pm-2pm PDT *Just added*
Registration is free and required in order to receive a link to the Zoom room via email. Each session will be capped at 15 participants, and a waitlist will be started once a session reaches capacity.
Everything has shifted under and around us. It’s a new world order with broken old world structures. Before we can recognize where to direct our attention as creative social engagers, we need to grieve our loss. We must acknowledge that we have been in shock, disoriented, off-mark, fearful and grieving. Many of us are feeling unfocused and confused. Let’s not avoid our feelings.
As we awaken into this new world, who are we? How do we assess conditions with new eyes, ears, minds and bodies, weave our ways towards developing new generative models for who we want to be and how we can best work with others? Down the road, will people hug each other more, or, will we fear each other more than ever?
"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." – Moms Mabley
PeoplesLab offers procedural, pragmatic and sensorial tools for change: meeting conflict with an adaptive process to revive trust between people; guiding recognition and understanding of differing perspectives; illuminating ways in which we may be caught in old structures, beliefs and habits; teaching communication and negotiation skills to bridge differences; and generating creative options for effective collaboration. In an era of severe cultural tension and change, our collective future depends on asking “Who are we to one another?” and choosing to align in mutual support to meet each other with new creative responses.
Pictured: Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation.
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dorit cypisDorit Cypis has explored themes of history, identity and social relations as an artist, educator, mediator and social activator since the 1980s. Moving fluidly between the studio and the street, Cypis’ tools include performance, photography, immersive media installation presented in diverse art and cultural contexts nationally and internationally; mediation and dialogue facilitation; civic community programs building capacity for generative relations; publication on identity and social relations and curriculum development. Dorit developed PeoplesLab as a platform for building capacity to transform our conflicts into possibility. Dorit is a founding member of Mediators Beyond Borders International, founded Kulture Klub Collaborative (a network of artists and home-less youth to bridge survival and inspiration), and was an early director of Foundation for Art Resources. She holds an MFA at the California Institute for the Arts and a Masters in Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, 2014. Cypis was born in Israel and raised in Montreal, Canada. At the core of her work is a guiding question, “who are we to each other?" peopleslab.us