Category: Healing

• IPTN: Deep Conversations

  I have been writing about the conference from the position of one who, although having performed Playback for many years, has attended only two Playback conferences, this being the first truly international one. In contrast, many of those who attended had attended several conferences, and friendships among them may go back scores of years. In…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 27, 2015

  Arts, Healing, Social issues, Stories, Teaching

  Diversity, IPTN, sociall change

• IPTN: Conundrums and Burning Issues

  Montreal was hazy, a thin layer of smoke hung over the city. Tens of thousands of aces of forest were ablaze in northern  Canada, and the smoke from those fires rode the westerlies to Montreal. Some days were worse than others, resulting in hacking coughs and burning eyes. At the conference, this haze was a…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 21, 2015

  Healing, Social issues, Stories, Teaching

  IPTN, Playback Theatre, Social Change, stories, teaching

• Thoughts on the 4th of July

  The July 4th holiday has past, last night’s fireworks following a torrent of rain from an impressive thunderstorm. For a few days I have been thinking about the strange, or perhaps, not so strange, tension July 4th holds for me. My parents, as far as I know, did not face the holiday with the same…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 5, 2015

  First Nations, Social issues

  July 4th, Native American, U.S. History

• From Lived Experience Springs Hope

  

  After another wet day, the sun is again shining, the sky clear and blue. Over the past few days I’ve found myself in several conversations about the interweaving of the experience of being other, creativity, and social issues. These discussions have proven inspiring and hopeful. This morning I was going through the blogs I follow,…

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 24, 2015

  Arts, First Nations, Social issues, Stories

  Arts, healing, Indigenous, stories