Author: loisholzman

07 Feb Dreaming Big

Posted at 23:27h in Community Organizing, Human Development, Look and Listen, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

On January 1, 2021 the East Side Institute brought in the new year with the launch of our podcast, All Power to the Developing. This is a project I'm very excited about. It's a way to reach a wide audience with amazing stories from developmentalists across the world. So much...

01 Feb Words to Ponder # 39

Posted at 02:49h in Psychology of Becoming, Words to Ponder 1 Comment

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. Ursula K. Le Guin...

15 Jan If we created gender, we can create something beyond gender

Posted at 02:56h in Culture, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

I loved being interviewed by the wonderful Aurelie Harp for her important project, Womanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsLSqsNQt8&feature=youtu.be...

31 Dec For Fred, in the new year

Posted at 02:47h in Psychology of Becoming 4 Comments

As the moment in history we know of as the year 2020 comes to a close, the online, print, radio and TV media are filled with remembrances of those we’ve lost this year—from the famous whose names we knew before.2020, to those who died at the hands of police whose...

25 Dec “Yes, and…” to “Yes, and…”

Posted at 23:48h in Culture, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Improvisation is becoming more and more known, understood, practiced and valued around the world, and so I feel OK assuming that if you’re reading this, you’ve heard of “Yes, and…” It’s the golden rule of improv (or impro). It’s a rule that’s applied to guide improvisors in how to relate...

21 Dec Blue Will Not Be Fenced

Posted at 02:02h in Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

My wishes for the new year...

17 Dec Words to Ponder #38

Posted at 00:37h in Creativity, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

I don't read very much poetry, so I'm new to the work of Alberto Rios. So far I love the poems of his I've read—and these words I've been pondering. "I have been around other languages all my life, particularly Spanish, and have too often thought of the act of translation...

15 Dec Women’s Forum of New York (Panelist)

Posted at 06:35h in Interviews 0 Comments

Free to Perform, Perform to Be Free, Sponsored by The Women's Forum of NY...

05 Dec Free to Perform, Perform to Be Free

Posted at 21:02h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

That's the title of a Women's Forum of New York panel organized and moderated by Women's Forum member and All Stars Project CEO Gabrielle Kurlander. I loved the diversity of our voices in response to Gabrielle's invitational questions. I hope you do too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvnKgHQYc0&feature=youtu.be ...

03 Dec Knowledge as Play?

Posted at 01:18h in Education, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I want to tempt you to read this dialogic chapter written by me and Tomas Pernecky in his edited book, Postdisciplinary Knowledge. I thank Tomas for the fun we had and for the opportunity to contribute to the first book to articulate postdisciplinarity in philosophical, theoretical and methodological terms. Here's how...