Critical Response Process Resources
The best way to learn and build fluency in the Critical Response Process is through group practice, ideally with everyone gaining experience in all three of CRP’s roles: artist, responder, and facilitator.
We’ve assembled some resources and assets that we think might be useful as you pursue your learning-about and practice-of the process.
Critical Response Process: a method for getting useful feedback on anything you make, from dance to dessert
In this concise primer, authors Liz Lerman and John Borstel give a detailed introduction to the Process. Beginning with its three roles and describing its four core steps, the book offers guidance for facilitators, practical examples, and useful variations.
Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory and Action
In this first in-depth study of CRP, Lerman and her long-term collaborator John Borstel describe in detail the four-step process, its origins and principles. The book also includes essays on CRP from a wide range of contributors.
With insight, ingenuity, and the occasional provocation, these practitioners shed light on the applications and variations of CRP in the contexts of art, education, and community life.
New to Critical Response Process?
These videos and resources offer a peek into the process and its origins, explaining how useful it can be for all kinds of feedback conversations, at home and in various work settings.
- Video: Learn the basic principles of the roles and steps >
- Text: A brief outline of CRP >
- Video: Liz Lerman talks about the origins & background of CRP > (broken)
- Video: John Borstel talks about CRP theory > (broken)
- Video: Cake Series
- Video: Links to Guildhall series?
Critical Response Process can be applied in a wide range of contexts. Those who have studied with us to become certified in CRP use the process in the arts, education, and organizational life on three continents.
In Online Learning Environments
Panel Discussion: CRP in the Digital Realm >
Video: Using Critical Response Process in Online Teaching >
Text: In Synchronous and Asynchronous Settings >
In Peer-to-Peer Coaching
Use these worksheets to strengthen your practice of Steps 2 and 3 of the process.
- Worksheet: Question generator for Step 2 – Artist as Questioner
- Worksheet: Questions for Step 3 – Neutral Questions
Sign up for updates & more information
Join our email list for updates and more information about the CRP Certification program.
We will never ever ever sell or share your name.
