27 Feb Words to Ponder #17
Instead of thinking that you have to put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it,...
Author: loisholzman
24 Feb What is a Fulani Fellow?
Posted at 14:10h
in Community Organizing, I Like This, Learning Environments, Outside of School 0 Comments
Here's a unique and exciting opportunity—Apply to be a Fulani Fellow! This fellowship will be a rigorous introduction to and immersion in the on-the-ground ?practice, methodology, and approach to human development employed in the programs of the All Stars Project. The fellowship is designed as an opportunity for young professionals to train...
23 Feb Performance Breakthrough
Posted at 16:07h
in Human Development, I Like This, Look and Listen, Performance Movement, What's New 0 Comments
My friend and colleague Cathy Salit, CEO of Performance of a Lifetime and an East Side Institute faculty member, has a new book coming out on April 12. For many years, Cathy and her team have brought the power of performance to the people who work in hundreds of global companies...
22 Feb Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
2015 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award Goes to Social Psychologist Jean Maria Arrigo Jean Maria Arrigo, who confronted systematic efforts by the American Psychological Association (APA) to allow and conceal the involvement of psychologists in the torture and abuse of detainees following the September 11 attacks, has been awarded the...
20 Feb I’m an Independent
Posted on independentvoting.org, "I Can't Caucus For Bernie Because I'm an Independent" My name is Catana L Barnes. I am an independent voter and the president of Independent Voters of Nevada, I would like to caucus for Bernie Sanders but the state of Nevada and the Democratic Party of Nevada require that...
19 Feb Creating Conversation on Non-Knowing Growing
Posted at 14:37h
in Events, Interviews, Look and Listen, Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments
Thanks to the dozens of people who created conversation with me the week of Februry 8-12 on my book-in-progress, The Overweight Brain. You can view the online running conversation—so thoughtful and playful—and view or listen to the live chat. Video recording of the webinar with Lois Holzman on The Overweight Brain: Audio...
06 Feb Words to Ponder #16
If there is something you wish to know and by meditation you cannot find it, my advice to you, my ingenious friend, is: speak about it with the first acquaintance you encounter. Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) “On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking” ...
27 Jan Some Great Dialogues on Mental Health
Posted at 17:31h
in Events, Human Development, I Like This, Interviews, Look and Listen, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 0 Comments
Eric Maisel is conducting 100+ interviews on the future of mental health and posting them on his Psychology Today blog. Each week, he's summarizing them at Mad in America. Here's week 1's summary of The Future of Mental Health Interview Series And here's links to each interview Day 1: Bonnie Burstow on feminist psychotherapy and...
20 Jan What Makes a Difference for People of “Difference”
Posted at 20:21h
in Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Language, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Vygotsky 0 Comments
It’s time to change how we think about and relate to people whose makeup is or appears to be different from the norm. We now think of what’s different—let’s say a biological or neurological difference—as the main source of disability and difficulty, and we focus help and treatment on this....
20 Jan Building Bridges across the Rio Grande
Don't miss the newsletter of this great organizization developing projects bringing together people from the the El Paso-Cuidad Juarez US-Mexico cities....