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Psychology of Becoming

08 Dec A Life Devoted to Development

Posted at 21:50h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 4 Comments

I woke up the morning of December 4 to the sad news that Vesna Ognjenovic passed away the night before at her home in Belgrade Serbia. Vesna was a friend, a comrade and an inspiration to me and my community for over 20 years. We met in Geneva in 1996...

03 Nov Mental Health News Radio

Posted at 10:18h in Events, Human Development, Interviews, Look and Listen, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

Thanks to Kristin Walker for interviewing me on her important podcast series, Mental Health News Radio ...

23 Oct Will Humanity Seize the Day?

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 0 Comments

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 The Future of Performance Psychology in Japan

Posted at 13:24h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky 2 Comments

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...

02 Aug The Search for Method in STEAM Education

Posted at 18:02h in Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 0 Comments

Returning to my office this morning after a ten-day writing holiday, I found a delightful package waiting for me—several complementary copies of the new book, The Search for Method in STEAM Education by Jaime (Jim) E. Martinez. I’m sure I would have gotten one copy since I’m a close colleague...

01 Aug Roots of The Overweight Brain

Posted at 15:35h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Later this month I'll be posting the next and final chapter of The Overweight Brain. To whet your appetite (and maybe entice you to go back and read the book from the beginning), here's an interview with me by Janet Wootten—The Backstory of The Overweight Brain. Q: Lois, you’re about to post...

19 Jul Improvisation and the Unknowable

Posted at 16:07h in Creativity, Events, Philosophy, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 2 Comments

It’s a delight when things you’re involved in converge and feed one another. I’ve been working on another chapter of The Overweight Brain and got momentarily stuck (like two days’ worth of stuck) in the middle of writing a section on “the unknown” and “the unknowable.” I’ve also been preparing for...

14 Jul Musings on Ways of Being Human (and Empathy)

Posted at 15:16h in Culture, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 5 Comments

It’s been awhile since I wrote a post. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say—far from it! I could have written about the wonderfully developmental-for-all June residency and graduation of the East Side Institute’s 13th International Class. Or what it was like to be a panelist at the New...

17 Jun Talking Madness with Robert Whitaker

Posted at 17:29h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

On Friday evening, June 9 I had the privilege and pleasure of creating conversation with prize-winning journalist and prominent psychiatry critic Robert Whitaker. Our topic was “Mad in America: Drugs, Diagnosis and Development” (an event sponsored by the East Side Institute). Aided by invitingly probing questions from moderator Janet Wootten...

01 May Talking Back to the Psychiatric Norm

Posted at 12:21h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

Hats off to PJ Moynihan (writer and producer), Oryx Cohen (producer) and Gayle Berg (executive producer) of “Healing Voices” for their documentary film exploring the experience labeled, “psychosis.” And hats off to the hundreds of community organizations worldwide who have, since its release in April 2016, sponsored more than 500...