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Author: loisholzman

18 Feb

Posted at 11:44h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Performing the World, Play, Psychology of Becoming

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...

22 Jan

Posted at 02:32h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Words to Ponder

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...

05 Jan

Posted at 01:31h in Activity Theory, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein

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...

29 Dec

Posted at 23:25h in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics

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...

05 Jul

Posted at 20:22h in Creativity, What's New, Words to Ponder

Today's words are from the improv pioneer Viola Spolin from over fifty years ago “Motivation is limited and subjective, it cuts the players off from ongoing stage life, and it implies that you have a reason for everything.” “Words can easily become labels, dead and useless.  The word or subject matter should...

19 Jun

Posted at 03:01h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Theatre, Training/Classes

Back: Mayari Perez Arroyo , Mike Pickering, Bashiru Lasisi, Guillermo Terisotto, Francisco Estefogo, Laura Sonnino, Martha McCoy, Eva Brenner. Front:  Andre Liberali, Mieke Lippstreu, Oscar Lozoya, Drazen Horvatic, Annie Rose Stathes.  This past Saturday (June 15, 2019) the happy group pictured above graduated as the 15th International Class of the East Side Institute (joining 130...