05 Dec Words to Ponder #11
"It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing...
Author: loisholzman
03 Dec We Can Stop Playing the Blame Game
In The City Beat, an essay by Omar Ali, the 2016 Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year and interim dean of Lloyd International Honors College at University of North Carolina at Greensboro on the origins of the blame game and how to stop playing it! Here's an excerpt: The philosopher...
30 Nov Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm
A new audio book by friend and colleague Eric Maisel. Print versions coming soon!...
26 Nov Giving Thanks From and To Uganda
Posted at 23:50h
in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 1 Comment
Today I share an email from a dear friend, Peter Nsubuga from Kampala Uganda. Peter is a graduate of the East Side Institute’s International Class 2009 whose organization, Hope for Youth-Uganda, was in its infancy then. Peter started this NGO in Central Uganda’s Mukono District to support vulnerable children with food, clothing and...
21 Nov Community as a Heart
Twenty-five years have passed since my friend, mentor and intellectual partner Fred Newman made what I think is one of the most significant statements about community I’ve ever heard. It was a cold November evening in 1990 and Fred was speaking to a hundred or so New Yorkers gathered in...
10 Nov Words to Ponder #10
"Poverty is not a personal characteristic. It is social, it is political, it is one of the ways the world is organized, and it has a history. Radically accepting the poverty of one’s own life and community while simultaneously depersonalizing it makes possible a certain kind of growth/development—especially if one...
30 Oct Words to Ponder #9
"No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child." Maria Montessori ...
24 Oct Words to Ponder #8
Posted at 17:35h
in Activity Theory, Human Development, I Like This, Philosophy, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments
This week's words are from Fred Newman's and my book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist—restructured from text* to poem. To reshape our emotional practice— to decide for ourselves what it is we want to do with anger, joy, humiliation and the rest of our incredibly complex subjectivity (which is nameless) and with the emotions newly created through/in the activity of building community that redefines...
19 Oct Jackie Salit on the Democratic Party Debate (as theatre)
Don't miss Jackie Salit (president, independentvoting.org) in the Huffington Post. "Mother Hillary and Uncle Bernie: A Theatrical Review" helps you see things you might have missed. "Like many a mainstay in American theatre, the CNN debate was a family drama. Like A Raisin in the Sun, or Death of a Salesman, or...
16 Oct Why I Love Castillo
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in Culture, I Like This, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments
The Castillo Theatre, housed in the NYC headquarters of the All Stars Project on 42nd St, is a special place. It's my favorite theatre. In my inbox today was an email from Castillo's artistic director Dan Friedman. It personally and eloquently gives expression to Castillo's values and aesthetics.—and I share...