Author: loisholzman

02 Aug We Need To Be More/Other Than Critical

Posted at 17:30h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Popular Posts, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 1 Comment

I few months ago I was invited to write a chapter for a book being published on the topic of critical psychotherapy, counseling and psychoanalysis. I’ve begun working on it this week and am at that early stage in writing (for me) where something is emerging, but I don’t know...

19 Jul Piano Stairs

Posted at 15:04h in I Like This, Look and Listen, Play 0 Comments

Piano stairs at the metro station show walking can be fun. Check out Fun Theory. 13,000 folks already have. ...

16 Jul How Shall We Become?

Posted at 21:47h in Community Organizing, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Performing the World 2014 (PTW’14) is in full gear. The theme for this 8th PTW—“How Shall We Become?”—resonated! Nearly 200 proposals came to us from all parts of the world, from all kinds of people, from all kinds of communities. Most exciting was the way that nearly all the proposals...

30 Jun Mediation and Development

Posted at 00:27h in Speaking Engagements, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments

On June 25-27, 2014 I’ll be conducting training sessions for Inmedio, a German consulting firm offering mediation and conflict consultation for firms, non-profit organizations, teams and groups. This is the second time I’ve worked in Frankfurt with these talented and committed people—their trainees, principals and associates....

15 Jun The Possibility, Pleasure, Progress and Paradox of Play

Posted at 10:32h in Events, I Like This, Look and Listen, Play, Speaking Engagements, What's New 2 Comments

I'm really pleased to share TEDxNavesink PLAY, which took place on May 10th at Two River Theatre in Red Bank NJ. You can watch the terrific videos of the talks and entertainment (talks grouped under Possibility, Pleasure, Progress, and Paradox; you can find mine under Possibility). ...

07 Jun Play is a Human Right

Posted at 17:51h in Human Development, I Like This, Look and Listen, Play, What's New 3 Comments

You might be surprsied to know that play is a children's right according to the UN. Here's a video to promote and advocate for its realization around the globe. This is Me: Article 31 and a Child's Right to Play (narrated by CUNY Graduate Center's Roger Hart) My question—what about the rest...

07 Jun What’s Developing in a World in Crisis?

Posted at 14:20h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, Look and Listen, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, What's New 0 Comments

Through the programs of the East Side Institute I've had the privilege of working with hundreds of people around the world who have added elements of social therapeutics/a psychology of becoming to their practices as educators, artists, performers, youth workers, therapists, health workers, psychologists, and community organizers. At this date,...

28 May New Institute Website

Posted at 20:03h in I Like This, Look and Listen, What's New 0 Comments

The East Side Institute has a newly designed website—easier to navigate, update and interact with. Check it out! ...

28 May Duck-Rabbit and Dog

Posted at 19:49h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Philosophy, What's New, Wittgenstein 4 Comments

What do you see above? A duck? A rabbit? In his book Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein presents us with this "ambiguous figure" of a duck-rabbit to show us how how perception is not reducible to the mechanism of the eye and optic nerve. (Most people see either a head of a duck...

21 May One on One…with Me

Posted at 11:19h in Interviews, Look and Listen, What's New 2 Comments

Appearing in the May issue of The Psychologist, published by the British Psychological Society...