2021 Dignity Workshop  28: Message to the World: "Mars," by Henry (Hank) Greenspan
Channel: Evelin Lindner
Date: 2021-12-01

This is the "Message to the World" from Henry (Hank) Greenspan titled "Mars" (from his play REMNANTS) and recorded on November 24, 2021,  for the 18th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict at Columbia University in New York City, December 9 – 11, 2021. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this conference had to take place online. 

Henry (Hank) Greenspan holds the copyright for this contribution. His award-winning play, REMNANTS, was originally produced for radio at WUOM-FM in 1991. Greenspan has since presented it as a one-person stage performance at more than 300 venues worldwide. 

"Messages to the World" are a contribution to the World Dignity University Library of Ideas to be shared with the world and, hopefully, inspirational for future generations. 

Henry (Hank) Greenspan is a playwright as well as emeritus psychologist and oral historian at the University of Michigan. All his teaching has followed the model of collaborative conversation and exploration. Fifty years ago, he initiated collaborative dialogues that lasted years -- with some people decades -- with Holocaust survivors, what a survivor called "learning together."  This was in contrast with the one-time "testimony" approach -- important in itself, but also limiting and limited. He started a group called "The Schmoozery: At our age, in this age," for fellow older folks at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. It fulfilled needs that he hadn't imagined.

See more on: 
- https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/people/retired-faculty-and-staff/hgreensp.html
- www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/36.php
- www.worlddignityuniversity.org