07 Aug Social Construction: Re-Opening the Conversation, Re-Constituting the Possibilities
August 6, 2012 If you have an idea for an article to submit, let me know. I'm on the editorial board...
Author: loisholzman
21 Jul What is UX and What Does It Do?
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July 20, 2011 I've written before about the All Stars Project's unique and fabulous UX, a free, open-to-all, university-style development center, but it's worth mentioning over and over. This new project creates its curriculum from suggestions for courses from those who want to learn and ideas from those who want to...
11 Jul Fred Newman—Appreciation, Not Description
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in Community Organizing, Human Development, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Theatre, Youth Development 1 Comment
July 11, 2011 Hundreds of messages are filling my inbox—outpourings of condolences, love and respect on the passing of Fred Newman. From all corners of the world those who studied with Fred, read one of our books, heard him speak in person or on video, or “met” him through others are...
05 Jul Fred Newman 1935-2011
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in Community Organizing, Human Development, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development 1 Comment
July 5, 2011 I share this news with deep sadness. My dear friend, mentor and colleague Fred Newman passed away a few minutes before July 3 turned to July 4, Independence Day in the USA. Fred was nothing if not fiercely and passionately independent culturally and politically. But not psychologically or...
24 Jun Why languaging makes us special (for each other)
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in Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Language, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 1 Comment
June 24, 2011 I had the pleasure of hosting Stephen Cowley, a philosophopically-inclined developmental psychology professor from England, last evening at the East Side Institute. Stephen was in NYC for a conference on “biosemiotics” at Rockefeller University and enthusiastically accepted my offer to visit and have a more informal setting for...
21 Jun Wittgenstein and Therapy and the Masses
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June 21, 2011 Fred Newman and I have written quite a bit about the specific ways that Ludwig Wittgenstein has influenced the social therapeutic practice and our understanding and articulation of the practice. As I teach a course/lead a conversation, “The Thought Leadership of Fred Newman,” these past three weeks (as...
11 Jun What’s the Big Deal with Definition?
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in Creativity, Culture, Education, Language, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments
June 11, 2011 At the East Side Institute we’ve conducted online courses for almost ten years now. They’re not conventional, didactic courses but rather exercises in creating conversation and a conversational relationship while simultaneously playing with concepts. Sometimes these courses work beautifully and sometimes they work less well. My colleague Gwen...
04 Jun Psychology and Revolution
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in Culture, Human Development, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy 1 Comment
June 3, 2011 This coming Monday I'll begin teaching a short course on "The Thought Leadership of Fred Newman." Each week, I'll choose an article or two of Fred's or Fred's and mine to present and discuss with participants. I'm hoping this will jump start my work on a new book, which...
31 May Bangladesh Welcomes Holzman and Lobman
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in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Theatre, Vygotsky 7 Comments
May 31, 2011 May is one of my favorite months of the year, with light lasting into the evening hours, baby green tree buds turning into adult green leaves, and bursts of color (both flowers and people’s clothing) dotting the city streets. But this year I spent the middle of the...
27 Apr Out of Our Heads
April 27, 2011 I loved Alva Noe's Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. I read it last summer out at Montauk, the ocean beach town I also love (in a similar way—both are inspiring and demand respect). It was a...