Emotional Development
in a Time of Covid & Social Unrest
Saturday, March 20
12:30 - 2PM Eastern US (UTC-5)
Fee: $30; Lower Income $15
We have entered a new year with hope and expectation that 2021 will be more positive for all of us. However, these are still extremely challenging times. We continue to be affected and shaken by the uncertainty, polarization, isolation and loss that we as a world community are experiencing. People’s need for intimacy, connectedness and community is greater than ever as is the challenge to create new ways to build and live our lives. 

Social Therapy is effective in helping people be together and grow in the midst of change, chaos and uncertainty. Technology has expanded social therapeutic conversations worldwide. The virtual environment has become the way we can offer and give emotional support.

In this workshop, meet social therapists Murray Dabby, Rachel Mickenberg and Barbara Silverman and their clients who will share how they have advanced their social therapeutic sessions virtually, and in some cases leading international social therapeutic groups in response to the emotional impact of this unprecedented moment. 
Hosted by Joyce Dattner...
a life performance coach who has led groups and practiced social therapeutics for over 40 years. Joyce directs Life Performance Coaching and leads in-person and virtual social therapeutic coaching groups from coast to coast. While a NYC public school teacher in the 1970s, she joined East Side Institute founder Fred Newman and other educators and helping professionals in developing social therapeutics. A faculty member of the Institute’s Social Therapy and Emotional Development Dept, Joyce is an accomplished educator and facilitator who has travelled the globe to help advance social therapeutics. She was the founding director of the All Stars Project (ASP) of the San Francisco/Bay Area and a former member of the ASP national board.
Murray Dabby, LCSW is a community builder, youth organizer, educator, advocate for racial equality and social justice, musician, and social therapist. He is the founder and executive director of the Atlanta All Stars and the Atlanta Center for Social Therapy. Murray co-developed The Couples College training for couples on relationship building in a group context, and Curtain Up, Anxiety Down, a therapeutic improv workshop for people with social anxiety. Murray has a history in the performing arts: as a musician, community theatre director, and using performance and improvisation in his teaching methods. Listen to Murray share his therapeutic work on the ESI’s podcast All Power to the Developing.
Rachel Mickenberg, LCSW is a social therapist who is co-founder of the High School for Public Service in Brooklyn, NY where she created a mental health program open to all students. She is also in private practice where she leads groups with pre-teens, teens and adults. Rachel is a co-leader, with Dr. Hugh Polk, of the East Side Institute’s and the All Stars Project's Creating Our Mental Health monthly series, a community conversation designed to explore our understanding of mental health and emotional distress.
Barbara Silverman, LCSW 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 talented social therapist and educator, she leads groups that self-organize themselves to create spaces where all can grow. In 2010, Barbara founded the East Side Institute’s “Developing Across Borders,” 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.
For more information contact Ann Green, Psych NP & Social Therapist