ABSTRACT
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
(Mark Twain)
While I have been a part of the therapeutic, school, outside of school and organizational development projects I have focused on in the preceding chapters, I have done so from my location as director the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy (Institute). As a research and training center for developing and promoting alternative and radically humanistic approaches to psychology, therapeutics, teaching and learning, the Institute functions as a kind of community think tank. It is both the source of the methodology utilized by the projects I discussed and the bene®ciary of the advances their practices make to the ongoing development of the methodology. It is this aspect of our shared history that I have tried to incorporate in telling my stories of social therapy groups, the Barbara Taylor School, and the programs of the All Stars Project and Performance of a Lifetime.
