Dr. Lois Holzman explores the topic of social therapeutics as a playful, performatory, philosophical methodology for person and community development. Influenced by three intellectual traditions, social therapeutics seeks to bring meaning to our relational processes in collaborative and appreciative ways to elevate human connection and bridge cultural divides....
EPISODE 1- Loiz Holzman & Diane Dever | The Knowing VS Growing Brain...
In this guest blog, two wonderful performance activists share their amazing work with you. Performing the world and we stay closer to one another By Cheng Zeng and Marian Rich Cheng: The Chinese lunar new year of the Mouse should have been a time for family reunions. Unfortunately, a devastating coronavirus has spread...
These words, written twenty years ago by renowned social constructionist Ken Gergen, are surely worth pondering today. "In important degree, identity politics is a descendent of Western, individualist ideology. It is not the single individual who commands our interest in this case; rather individual identity is conflated with group identity. Individual...
Social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, performance activism, and non-knowing growing have been spreading far and wide! Here are some of the places I spoke and groups I worked and played with in 2019, with links to some talks and videos (in no particular order). University of North Carolina Greensboro Lloyd...
While I don’t own the article I wrote for the recent journal Mind, Culture and Activity (the publisher does), I do have “permission” to share the online link to it. The first 50 people to go there can read it! (How generous publishers are.) I titled it “Musings on ecological...
When I have an academic presentation to make or an article to write on social therapeutic methodology, it's usually an opportunity to play around with conceptions I've spoken and written about many times before. I like the challenge of creating new frames ("What do I want to say to this...
On Sunday, December 8th, I had the pleasure of speaking with 75 people from 17 states in the US. They called in to the monthly Politics for the People conversation hosted by Cathy Stewart, VP for National Development at indepependentvoting.org. It was a privilege to be Cathy's guest, to discuss...
I’m so grateful for readers’ responses to The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world! “This book may disorient you – be stirred, not shaken! Lois’s book is about knowledge and knowing, and what is wrong with them. She lays down a...
You all know of the horrendous, racist mass murder in El Paso last weekend. What you may not know is that the East Side Institute’s development community is active in El Paso and its sister city Juárez and that we are continuing to use play, performance and social therapeutics...
