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10 Oct

Posted at 16:11h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, Youth Development

I'm looking for people interested in exploring the politics, ethics and activity of a relational psychology of becoming.   Social Therapeutics and the Practice of Method: An Advanced Online Course with Lois Holzman and Faculty February — May 2016 Social therapeutics is a “practice of method” for human and community development. What Lois Holzman and Fred...

15 May

Posted at 18:55h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky, Youth Development

For this year's Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association in Chicago, I organized a symposium to bring Vygotsky's relevance to bear on the conference theme of "social justice." It worked! Those who attended the symposium—which I titled Vygotsky and Social Justice: Community Education and Community Development"—told me how...

25 Mar

Posted at 17:35h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky

I'm honored to be receiving an award at the upcoming American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Chicago. It's really an award for everyone in the growing international development community. I'll post my talk at the end of April, so check back next month. ...

23 Mar

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

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...

18 Nov

Posted at 20:17h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development

              My week in Japan was gratifying in so many ways, most of all the experience of being a participant in the ongoing process of organizing the young generation of Japanese teacher educators and psychology researchers. (A close second was the wonderful taste and visual pleasure of every meal I was...

10 Nov

Posted at 12:17h in Community Organizing, Culture, Events, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein

I've been in Japan since Thursday November 6 and I'm half way thorugh my trip. I'll be sharing a more comprehensive report once I return home. I was privileged to present a keynote adress to the Japanese Association for Educational Psychology conference in Kobe on Friday. I titled it The How...

28 Aug

Posted at 15:44h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Events, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New

  Three weeks ago I was in Washington, DC for the First Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives. It marked what I think is an important turning point for what has been a loud outcry against the DSM-5. The Summit was sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, which has been a...

13 Aug

Posted at 01:33h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Postmodern Marxism, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development

Thanks to my dear friend and colleague Professor Yuji Moro of Tsukuba University , my 2009 book Vygotsky at Work and Play is being published in Japan. Today Professor Moro posted the following on Facebook: "This is a cover of Japanese version of Lois Holzman's Vygotsky at Work and Play. It will...

21 May

Posted at 01:25h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Events, I Like This, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, What's New

    I spent the weekend with nine terrific people discovering and creating development.  The occasion was the spring Discover Development-NYC, a twice-a-year three day adventure that I have the privilege of leading thanks to the East Side Institute. People come together and immerse themselves in developmental activities of the Institute, the...