Author: loisholzman

26 Apr Is a SOLE a ZPD? A Beginning Conversation

Posted at 16:07h in Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, What's New 1 Comment

I’m one of the millions of people who have learned from and been inspired by watching one or both of Sugata Mitra’s TED talks (Build a School in the Cloud, 2013; The Child-Driven Education, 2010 ). A trained physicist, Mitra is an innovative educational researcher currently located at Newcastle University...

19 Apr Become a Fulani Fellow!

Posted at 16:30h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, What's New 0 Comments

The All Stars Project is seeking diverse fellowship candidates with a relationship to, and an affinity for poor communities of color. What does it mean to be a Fulani Fellow? First and foremost, it means training and working alongside independent activist and grassroots leader Dr. Fulani and her high-performing and diverse...

04 Apr Words to Ponder #18

Posted at 21:34h in I Like This, Language, Play, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

What is under consideration is not the ontological state of affairs, but the ontological commitments of a discourse. What there is does not in general depend on one’s use of language, but what one says there is does. American philosopher W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000) ...

28 Mar Psychiatry and Social Therapy

Posted at 15:49h in Critical psychiatry, Interviews, Look and Listen, Social Therapy 0 Comments

Eric Maisel interviewed Hugh Polk, psychiatrist and social therapist, for his The Future of Mental Health series. ...

01 Mar The Future of Mental Health—Social Therapy

Posted at 15:41h in Human Development, Interviews, Look and Listen, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, What's New 0 Comments

Eric Maisel interviewed me on social therapy for his The Future of Mental Health Series at Psychology Today...

27 Feb Words to Ponder #17

Posted at 14:28h in I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 1 Comment

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,...

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

Posted at 00:34h in Critical psychiatry, I Like This, Politics, What's New 0 Comments

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 at 02:34h in I Like This, Politics 2 Comments

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...