CRP Essentials
CRP Essentials is a self-paced course that teaches you a structured, humane method for giving and receiving feedback. Build trust, deepen your practice, and create the conditions for honest, generative conversations about meaningful work.
Course Objectives
- To grant immediate access to what the Critical Response Process® is, who invented it, how it works, how to do it, and how to bring it into practice.
- To offer participants an accessible, virtual simulation of an introductory CRP workshop
- To highlight the diversity of CRP practitioners, applications, and variations.
- To share various tools, activities, and resources that can support a deeper engagement with CRP’s steps, values, and principles.
Navigating the Course
- Each unit is broken down into modulated segments with a variety of short lessons, experiential activities, CRP demonstrations, and testimonials.
- We’ve sequenced the course intentionally with each unit building upon the last for a cohesive experience.
- Some activities suggest bringing the practice into your daily life or even engaging with others. Please take the course at your own pace to get the most of this learning experience.
Your Instructors
Liz Lerman
Choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker whose work has been recognized with numerous honors including a MacArthur “Genius Grant.” The Critical Response Process® is her acclaimed methodology for giving and receiving feedback, now used by artists, educators, and organizations worldwide.
Phil Stoesz
Certified Critical Response Process Trainer – a practice that constantly waters the soil of all his facilitation and process design work. His facilitation is grounded in service, imagination and meaning-making – values that come from his Mennonite heritage, queer identity, and theatre training.
Sumana Mandala
Certified trainer in the Critical Response Process and Bharata-Nrityam artist and teacher. Through CRP and its values, she centers the importance of every voice in learning together and the related principles of responsibility + response in any space she enters.
Acknowledgements
- This virtual CRP course has been a work-in-progress since 2020. Many have supported through the process.
- For the current version of the course, we extend our gratitude to: Laura Bondel, Erin Donohue, Amy Jacobus, Ri Lindegren, Liz Lerman, Sumana Mandala, Neda Movahed, Phil Stoesz, Anna Clare Spelman, Darron L. West, Candice Williams, who helped bring this course to life.
- Deepest thanks to Jane Brown and Linda Reinisch for their belief in the impact of the Critical Response Process® and in making this course possible.
- Our sincere appreciation to those who supported us with interviews and participation in the cake demo: Will Bond, Enrique Borges, Lois Brown, Melissa Button, Donta McGilvery, Tim McMillen, Quinn Pursell, and Xanthia Walker.
- Others supported preliminary versions of the course which paved the foundation for the current version. Many thanks to: John Borstel, Amelia Cox, Raji Ganesan, Hira Ismail, Erika Moore, Yvonne Montoya, Matthew Nock, CJay Philip, and Arizona State University’s Herberger Online team.