Check out the new webpages for the Institute's International Class. It's playful & philosophical, demanding & developmental, mundane & magical. And just what social change agents and those who aspire to lead most need!...
Dear Developmentalist, My friend Annette and I really enjoy talking together. When we meet up, both of us are eager to share about what is going on in our lives, but we also enjoy listening and learning from the other person. Whenever one of us shares something, the other is quick...
Fred Newman and I wrote this nearly 20 years ago. What do you think today? Over nearly three decades we have described our work (our politics) in many different ways. Perhaps this is an expression or result of differing elements of our joint subjectivity-- a moral and scientific aversion to labels and...
Greetings All, As I hope you know, I gathered many of the letters and responses that appeared in this column into a book, A Developmentalist's Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas. (My editor at Routledge urged that title, although I would have gone with something more provocative.) If you...
Chris Hoff's The Radical Therapist podcast contains a treasure trove of humanity and innovation in over 100 interviews. I had the pleasure of doing my second podcast with Chris last week. Give a listen! https://chrishoffmft.podbean.com/e/the-radical-therapist-142-%e2%80%93-a-developmentalist-s-guide-to-better-mental-health-w-lois-holzman/...
I think about how exhausting the indicative becomes - the constant demand to perform progress, to show we're winning, to prove harm is decreasing. Bayo Akomolafe...
I’ve been pondering the popularity of empathy for quite a while now, and I’ve been meaning to write something telling you why I find it so distasteful. As a way to ease into that create space, I share a bit of conversation “A Meandering Search for Method: Becoming Human in...
What a wonderful wide-ranging conversation I had with Jon Wilson on his podcast-- Jung and the World. Listen here....
Carrie Lobman, the East Side Institute’s Leader of Education and Research and my close colleague and friend, gave the keynote address at the Cultivating Ensembles annual gathering last week. I love the title of her talk—“Boxes, Dualisms and Rhizomes”—and I loved the talk even more! Carrie urged that we go...
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