14 Apr Getting, Losing, Giving and Giving and Giiving
Showing Up is a giving in itself. Looking forward to seeing you! ...
Author: loisholzman
13 Apr More on Cracks
Last fall, I hosted Cracks and Rhizomes—Can We Save Ourselves From Ourselves? in which I put Bayo Akomolafe in conversation with social therapeutic practitioners. Such a rich meandering they did together! You can listen to the entirety or to short teasers. Bayo speaks a lot about cracks, and we should all...
13 Apr Welcome Subscribers!
If you're a subscriber, you get notified when I post. But that hasn't worked for some months. I'm happy too say we're back "in business." There several recents posts for you to check out—letters to The Developmentalist, new Words to Ponder, and the most recent, "Playing With and In." And please become...
12 Apr Improvising With and In
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in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 2 Comments
Since 2016, I’ve been editor of a series of books—Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development—published by Palgrave Macmillan. I’m proud of the nine books I helped to get written and published. Every one of them has made important contributions within and across education, psychology, youth development and theatre/performance studies,...
13 Mar Words to Ponder #48
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in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Words to Ponder 1 Comment
These Words to Ponder are those of performance activist Hector Aristizabal, taken from a wonderful interview with him at Creative Art Space. To be creative is to participate consciously in the ongoing creation of the world. Creativity is not primarily about producing art. It is about entering into relationship with life...
11 Mar Appreciating Vygotsky … and Writing Letters
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in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 0 Comments
If you're a reader of The Developmentalist, my "developmental" advice column, you know I'm a fan of writing letters. They are a particular way of organizing your relationship with the person you're writing to and with yourself. Writing a letter and never sending it can be just as good as...
11 Mar Step Out Of Psychology Speak
Posted at 17:35h
in Creativity, DSM-5, Human Development, Interviews, Look and Listen, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments
I love Chris Hoff's The Radical Therapist podcast! I was a guest for the second time a few weeks ago, this time speaking about my book, A Developmentalist's Guide. Give a listen—to mine and others!...
12 Feb Join the 26/27 Cohort ofThe International Class
Check out the new webpages for the Institute's International Class. It's playful & philosophical, demanding & developmental, mundane & magical. And just what social change agents and those who aspire to lead most need!...
12 Feb Help Us Improve the People We Love
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in Creativity, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, The Developmentalist, The Developmentalist 0 Comments
Dear Developmentalist, My friend Annette and I really enjoy talking together. When we meet up, both of us are eager to share about what is going on in our lives, but we also enjoy listening and learning from the other person. Whenever one of us shares something, the other is quick...
07 Feb Joint Subjectivity
Fred Newman and I wrote this nearly 20 years ago. What do you think today? Over nearly three decades we have described our work (our politics) in many different ways. Perhaps this is an expression or result of differing elements of our joint subjectivity-- a moral and scientific aversion to labels and...