April 7, 2015 Dear Readers, As I'm writing chapters on science and health I could use your input. Can you take minute to complete this poll? Thanks, Lois [column col="1/2"][yop_poll id="7"][/column] [column col="1/2"][yop_poll id="8"][/column] See other reader polls by clicking here. See more about Lois' Book, The Overweight Brain here....
I'm honored to be receiving an award at the upcoming American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Chicago. It's really an award for everyone in the growing international development community. I'll post my talk at the end of April, so check back next month. ...
March 24, 2015 article in The Independent Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its education system A step in the right direction...
On March 16 I had the pleasure of attending a symposium at which four Japanese colleagues presented their work. They were visiting the East Side Institute and All Stars Project to learn more, after having participated in a workshop I led months earlier in Kobe Japan. On their last day...
Thanks to Saybrook University's The New Existentialists, for publishing my essay, "Emotional Distress and Diagnosis: Word on the Street." I'm really happy to reach its readers. Check out the site for many thoughtful essays....
I'll be in London the end of March. Happy to be doing a workshop organized by All Stars London friends Workshop: Developing in a World in Crisis March 29, 1-4 pm Around the world – and right in our own neighbourhoods – the disparity between rich and poor affects us all. In times of...
I’ve been writing a new chapter on education—how our obsession with knowing makes schools stupid. The chapter begins with what I’m calling “the ABCs of the ABCs”—like A is for Age Groups, B is for Behavior, C is for Control. (I have a paragraph on each but I don’t want...
Lois Holzman Lives What She Teaches About Play By Jamie Turner February 9, 2015 Lois Holzman doesn’t just talk about play—she lives it. From her work as Director of the East Side Institute for Group & Short Term Psychotherapy, organizer of an international movement of play and performance activists called Performing the World, her...
Thanks to whoever Facebooked this to me! It's just what I need right now! ...
Continuing the conversation on how people think about diagnosis (1/14/15, "Lay People and Emotional Distress" and 9/17/14, "People Speak Out about Diagnosis")...