Author: loisholzman

13 Nov The Normal? Brain

Posted at 04:08h in Creativity, Human Development, Look and Listen, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

On November 9 I had the pleasure of being featured at the Normal? Brain Festival, originating in Folkestone UK (where it has taken place since 2015 in person over four days). This year the festival went virtual and runs through April 2020. The purpose is to bring science and art together...

10 Oct Non-Knowing Growing

Posted at 06:20h in Interviews 0 Comments

Normal? Festival of the Brain Guest with Commentators Click here...

28 Aug Love in the Time of Corona

Posted at 16:58h in Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

One day last week, while having some lunch of leftover mussels and pasta, I was looking through the Weekend Arts section of the NY Times (hard copy!) and saw a recommendation for a two hour show streaming over the weekend called “Love in the Time of Corona.” “That’s my title!” I...

26 Aug Three Hearts of the World

Posted at 20:45h in Psychology of Becoming 3 Comments

A decade ago, when we discovered Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?", we found a kindred spirit for our community’s work in schooling (Schools for Growth) and afterschool development (allstars.org). We were buoyed by his enormous popularity in passionately addressing the necessity of transforming schools. Over the...

07 Aug Words to Ponder #37

Posted at 18:59h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 3 Comments

Today's words to ponder are taken from Fred Newman's "Community as a Heart in a Havenless World." He gave this talk 30 years ago, but it just as well could have been today. "We have to learn how to build community by recognizing the extent to which, and precisely how, we...

10 Jul Playing through the Pandemic: Some Thoughts on Play, Happiness and Human Development

Posted at 19:38h in Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming 7 Comments

"it's taken being locked down and closed in for us to be opened up" The East Side Institute (Institute) of which I am the director is launching a new podcast in August called “All Power to the Developing.” I’d like to take its launch as an opportunity to share with you...

02 Jul Social Therapeutics and Social Construction

Posted at 18:02h in Creativity, Human Development, Interviews, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 1 Comment

Robyn Stratton-Berkessel is the host of Positivity Strategist, an interview series focusing on positive change methodologies, including social construction and appreciative inquiry. The current shows in this fabulous podcast, conceived in collaboration with the Taos Institute, feature a diverse group of scholars and practitioners responding to the invitation—"What are the...