Author: loisholzman

17 Dec John Shotter: Relational Becomings

Posted at 03:24h in Culture, Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 4 Comments

Renowned scholar John Shotter passed away on December 8, 2016 after a long illness. John loved to talk and to listen, to create conversation about everything, most especially about conversation itself. His contributions to social constructionism, Open Dialogue and a radically humanistic psychology are acknowledged and studied the world over. I...

16 Dec Performing Who You Are Becoming

Posted at 15:38h in Uncategorized 0 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjmPdBop5G4 Antoine Joyce, the City Leader of the All Stars Project of Dallas, recently spoke at TEDxSMU on how performance on stage and off has the power to develop and grow lives....

07 Dec Creating Communities of Hope

Posted at 20:09h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

[caption id="attachment_3254" align="aligncenter" width="4032"] National Dong-Hwa University[/caption] A few weeks after traveling to Bogotá Colombia to participate in the International Conference on Citizenship Culture, Dan Friedman (Institute faculty, artistic director of the All Stars Project's Castillo Theatre and associate dean of All Stars' UX) and I were on our way to...

30 Nov New Chapter Coming Before the Year Ends!

Posted at 19:26h in Publications, What's New 2 Comments

I'm returning to The Overweight Brain after a long hiatus. Chapter 7. The Cult(are) of Science will be done before New Year's Eve. Watch for it!...

30 Nov It’s a ZPD, not a ZPL

Posted at 02:31h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 0 Comments

A colleague of mine invited me to contribute a chapter to a book he's putting together. Over the summer I completed the draft chapter, which I call Zones of Proximal Development: Mundane and Magical. I share a paragraph from the beginning pages and another from the ending pages. (You'll have...

14 Nov Becoming a Learner

Posted at 14:58h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

Heading to Taiwan tomorrow for a week of activities...

12 Nov The Individual—Psychology Glorifies What It Doesn’t Care About

Posted at 19:27h in Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 3 Comments

As many readers of this site and the writings of the East Side Institute are aware, Fred Newman and I are among the vocal critics of psychology’s obsession with and glorification of the individual. We agree with our colleagues that psychology developed alongside and played a central role in the...

27 Oct Vygotsky Continues to Work and Play

Posted at 18:51h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 8 Comments

I'm happy to report that the expanded second edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play is just three weeks away from publication (11/17/16). To give you a preview, here's an excerpt from my Introduction to the second edition. In his thoughtful and very generous Foreword to the first edition...

27 Oct Addressing Violence through Culture

Posted at 15:58h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Español/Spanish, Play, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Theatre 0 Comments

Dan Friedman (artistic director of the Castillo Theatre and associate dean of UX) and I were in Bogota Colombia last week at the invitation of former mayor Antanas Mockus and his organization Corpovisionarois. We were both keynote speakers at their International Conference on Citizenship Culture. This years theme was "Another...