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Training/Classes

08 Aug

Posted at 17:13h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes

Let's Learn! is is a year-old educational project that doesn't just pay lip service to the idea of life-long learning. Or life--long teaching also, for that matter. It practices it. A project of  Lloyd International Honors College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in collaboration with the East Side Institute,...

19 Jun

Posted at 03:01h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Theatre, Training/Classes

Back: Mayari Perez Arroyo , Mike Pickering, Bashiru Lasisi, Guillermo Terisotto, Francisco Estefogo, Laura Sonnino, Martha McCoy, Eva Brenner. Front:  Andre Liberali, Mieke Lippstreu, Oscar Lozoya, Drazen Horvatic, Annie Rose Stathes.  This past Saturday (June 15, 2019) the happy group pictured above graduated as the 15th International Class of the East Side Institute (joining 130...

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...

03 Apr

Posted at 19:05h in Critical psychiatry, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Training/Classes

For the past few weeks I’ve been leading, with Robert Whitaker, an online conversation entitled, "Mad in America: Where do we go from here?" The course is created through an asynchronous group email and real-time Zoom calls where people share experiences, respond to readings and videos, and pose questions and responses....

06 Apr

Posted at 20:22h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes

The International Class is the signature program of the East Side Institute. I'm so proud to have taught and coached over 100 activists, educators, counselors, theatre artists and scholars over the years, and played a part in their development as leaders in a new kind of social activism. Read what one...

09 Feb

Posted at 22:59h in Critical psychiatry, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes

Hello to my blog followers and fans of The Overweight Brain. If you live in the NYC metro area I’d love for you to join me IN PERSON for a Revolutionary Conversation on psychology’s glorification of the individual—taking place the evenings of Monday March 1 and 8 at the East Side...

30 Nov

Posted at 14:44h in Education, Human Development, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, What's New

THE 2017 SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS ONLINE PROGRAM SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS: A Performatory, Practical-Critical Approach to Human and Community Development and Learning with Lois Holzman and Special Guests February-May 2017 The Institute’s 14-week in-depth study of Fred Newman's and my approach to developing people and communities will focus, in 2017, on its core concepts and their points of intersection and...