06/15/2026
We rebel. We make revolution. We crawl from the wreckage and into another car. We speed down another road to nowhere.
Maybe cars are the problem.
Maybe roads are too.
Join Dan Friedman — playwright, poet, theater historian, producer, grassroots educator, and longtime organizer with the East Side Institute — for a 5-week online seminar exploring the hidden assumptions shaping how we see, feel, think, rebel, and imagine.
Through philosophers, poets, music, video, online exchange, and Sunday Zoom conversations, we’ll examine the perceptual, emotional, and conceptual frames we inherit from an individualist, competitive, violent world — and experiment with what it might mean to remix them.
Will we succeed? Doubtful.
Will we make discoveries? For sure.
Crawling From the Wreckage
July 6–August 12
Sunday Zooms: July 12–August 9, 12–1:30 PM ET
Register here 👉 https://ow.ly/tPVX50ZaCfY
06/15/2026
Join staff, faculty, friends, family, and alums at
GRADUATION DAY
Meet, Greet and Celebrate Graduates of the 2026
Social Therapeutic Group Study Program
Since 2020, the Social Therapeutic Group Study Program welcomes group leaders, educators, psychotherapists, mental health workers, counselors and coaches, performance activists, organizational and business leaders, health care professionals and body workers, to explore the practice & foundations of social therapy and to advance students' respective practices.
Come celebrate our newest practitioners.
RSVP 👉 https://ow.ly/rMYC50ZbQPX
06/12/2026
Build locally. Connect globally.
Created by International Class alum Jim Martinez, Ph.D., this video offers a glimpse of the International Class as a global classroom for new performances of leadership.
Jim is an Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology, co-founder of Collective Infrastructures, and co-chair of Cultivating Ensembles. His work explores teaching, learning, and human development as collaborative, performatory activity.
The International Class is a 9-month leadership development program for environment builders.
It brings together educators, therapists, artists, organizers, founders, and community builders from around the world who want to grow their capacity to lead by creating with others.
Participants learn by building environments where people can grow—across differences of geography, culture, race, class, profession, and experience.
If you’re looking for a more human, collaborative, and developmental approach to leadership, we invite you to learn more and apply.
2026/27 enrollment is now open.
Application deadline: July 20, 2026.
Learn more and apply through the link on our website.
The International Class
Applications for the 2026-27 cohort are being accepted through July 20, 2026 contact Melissa Meyer, at [email protected]. partial and full scholarships that are available
05/22/2026
When the old scripts stop working and old roadmaps lead us to the same place, what do we do?
Carrie Lobman, nationally recognized advocate for play and creativity, says: we play!
Not as escape. Not as entertainment. But as a serious human capacity for creating with others under conditions of uncertainty, conflict, fear, and not-knowing.
In moments like this — when we are polarized, pressured to take sides, and pulled toward certainty and reaction — play is often the first thing we lose.
And yet, it may be exactly what we need most.
Because without the capacity to play, our responses to crisis can collapse into repetition, opposition, and certainty — reproducing the very world we are trying to change.
Join Carrie Lobman Sat, June 20th 👉 https://ow.ly/p4BZ50Z2Thm
05/22/2026