Composing Community Global Org.
A movement of curious individuals
A cross-disciplinary movement of curious individuals exploring how we listen, how different ways of taking part meet, and how meaning is composed between us.
Home of The Playground Approach (ALP)
ALP: Active ⇄ Attune Listening Playground, a practice of Reflexive Listening that takes form across the arts, education, therapy, organizational development, and community work. Founded in 2013 by composer Keren Rosenbaum, Composing Community Global Organization (CC-GO) grew from compositions, performances, educational programs, and community projects. Today it develops, teaches, and carries The Playground Approach into new settings. Our interest is in how people meet one another through creating: what each person brings, how others respond, and what becomes possible between them. We compose situations that invite different voices, rhythms, perspectives, and forms of expression, and explore how individual contributions can develop into a shared composition. The work is rooted in Rosenbaum’s Reflexive Music, where sound, movement, image, gesture, silence, objects, and physical action can each have a distinct role in the composition. The Playground Approach grew from its scores and études, and CC-GO now develops it across the arts, education, therapy, and organizational life. Through workshops, courses, public events, and performances, CC-GO brings this practice into artistic collaborations, schools, universities, choirs, cultural spaces, and community projects. Its collaborations have included the Goethe Institute, Musicians Without Borders, Al Akhawayn University in Morocco, the University of the Arts Helsinki, and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, with support from EU cultural funding. Current work includes the Felicia Blumental Music Center and Library in Tel Aviv, The Noona Center, and an international Playground Approach course at the University of Haifa. The practice grows through exchanges with education, therapeutic practice, developmental research, and organizational work. Each field brings its own questions, knowledge, and ways of working. What does an educator notice in a composer’s exercise? How might a question from therapeutic practice change an artistic invitation? A discovery may travel between settings, change through practice, and return with new possibilities. These exchanges take form through professional training, research, curriculum development, and partnerships with practitioners and institutions. Research accompanies this work. With psychotherapist Miriam Ben-Oz, Rosenbaum studies the theoretical foundations of The Playground Approach and its applications in psychology, social work, and therapy. Their article Cross-Sensory Expressive Patterns: On the Continuity of Organization Across Its Changing Realizations was published in Human Development in 2026. For us, composing community means creating conditions in which people can offer something of their own, meet others, and discover ways to continue together.

