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In Your Shoes: The Art of Care Open Session

Spring 2026 Sessions are Coming!
Engage in facilitated group activities and pair conversations to get to know one another, enjoy each other's company, and build trust. In Your Shoes™ employs theatrical techniques to foster empathy and connection, bringing participants from diverse backgrounds into a mutually respectful and creative exchange.

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The Lab humanizes global politics through performance. We cultivate a distinctive global community of collaborators that includes students, emerging and established artists, educators, policy leaders, and activists. Our work harnesses narrative, memory, and acts of witnessing with the aim of sparking  transformation and  change.

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Older man in a brown suit sits on a park bench and plays chess with a statue
Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski
Three women sit at a table and laugh together
Global Fellows
Group of people stand in a circle beneath a dark tent, holding their fists out in front of them
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Student Fellows
Man and woman sit in chairs on a stage and read from pieces of paper, in front of a banner that reads "Ways Forward in a Divided World"
In Your Shoes
Older woman reads from a piece of paper and wears a handsfree microphone
HERE I AM
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Woman with dark, pulled back hair and a tan blouse talks to a man with his back to the camera while at a mingling event in an outdoor tent