Human Development

31 May

Posted at 19:23h in Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Training/Classes, Vygotsky

Lloyd International Honors College Julius I. Foust Building, Suite 205 Greensboro, NC 27412 May 15, 2018 Dear Dr. Holzman, Congratulations! This letter is to confirm that you have been appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice and Performance in Lloyd International Honors College at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a...

15 May

Posted at 19:35h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes

With deepening social and political crises worldwide, many who want to make a difference find that they need more. They search for new tools, methods, conceptions and approaches to move forward. Since 2004, the Institute’s flagship program, The International Class, has attracted over 100 passionate and creative scholars, researchers, clinicians and...

19 Apr

Posted at 20:59h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements

Being/Becoming an Activist Scholar: Lessons From Cultural-Historical Activity Research  This past week I participated in a symposium at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference held in NYC, along with two distinguished co-presenters, Kris Guitierrez and Anna Stetsenko. A diverse group of younger scholars served as interviewers, with many in the audience...

04 Apr

Posted at 17:27h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy

Continuing the theme of my last post on how critique and action and practice are and can be related, I share the introduction to the 2010 re-issue of Fred Newman's book Let's Develop! A Guide to Continuous Personal Growth. Newman's social therapy is one of the ways psychology is being...

01 Mar

Posted at 18:00h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming

On March 3 I'll be in Puebla Mexico as a speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Consciousness and Spirituality, sponsored by the Transpersonal Instituto  Universitario of Puebla. To this organization, transpersonal postulates a paradigm shift and expands existing models related to human behavior. This year's theme is "The Consciousness of...

23 Oct

Posted at 15:41h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development

The tenth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 21 through Sunday, September 23, 2018. These are very uncertain days. So much is, or seems to be, falling apart – nations and government apparatus, norms of diplomacy and civil discourse, civil society, the glaciers...

30 Aug

Posted at 13:24h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky

The Future of Performance Psychology in Japan—what a privilege to be part of creating such a thing! In mid-August I made my third trip to Japan to share the methodology of social therapeutics with Japanese psychologists and educators. It was very exciting and gratifying to witness how people I had worked...