A Powerful Discovery
Groups are where people grow. We help people learn to build environments where they can participate, perform and create with others, and in that process, grow and become more powerful.
The social therapy group is a philosophically charged activity where people from all walks of life bring their emotional pain (loneliness, anger, humiliation, depression) and create something new — new conversations, new meanings and emotions, new lives.
To the extent that we're focused on ourselves — on fixing what hurts us — we can't effectively use all of our creative, emotional and social resources. Social Therapy focuses on the whole person in their relationships with others. It helps clients experience the essential human activity of creating and performing with others.
The Social Therapeutic approach — at the leading edge of the postmodernist movement in psychology — is the topic of numerous academic and popular texts, and has inspired hundreds of practitioners and theoreticians interested in an activity-based, performatory approach to emotional growth. For more information, visit the East Side Institute.