Author: loisholzman

23 Mar Human Development—Vygotsky at Work and Play in Japanese Educational Culture

Posted at 17:16h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

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...

25 Feb Word on the Street

Posted at 17:26h in I Like This, Publications 0 Comments

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....

25 Feb Developing in a World in Crisis

Posted at 17:04h in Community Organizing, Events, Speaking Engagements 1 Comment

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...

23 Feb The ABCs of How Schools Are Stupid

Posted at 15:59h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, What's New 18 Comments

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...

09 Feb Me, Play, Brains and Reggie

Posted at 20:00h in I Like This, Interviews, Play, What's New 2 Comments

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...

05 Feb Canine Wisdom for Writers

Posted at 00:11h in Creativity, I Like This, What's New 2 Comments

Thanks to whoever Facebooked this to me! It's just what I need right now! ...

14 Jan “Lay” People and Emotional Distress

Posted at 14:00h in Community Organizing, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy 0 Comments

For the past several years, the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy (Institute) and the Social Therapy Group have held forums and conducted surveys on the streets of New York City on mental health topics. We’ve been working on analyzing the data from nearly 300 surveys conducted...

29 Dec When It Comes to the Brain, Maps + Data = Maps + Data

Posted at 18:29h in I Like This, Overweight Brain Mini Blog 2 Comments

"Are We Living in the Age of the Brain?" In Prospect magazine.science writer Philip Ball does a good job exploring what all the brain research that's going on might—and might not—mean. His reservations, in part, have to do with generating more and more data for our already overweight brains. "But the challenges...

28 Dec Faces and Places

Posted at 00:12h in Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Some favorite photos from an eventful 2014...