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19 Feb

Posted at 14:37h in Events, Interviews, Look and Listen, Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New

Thanks to the dozens of people who created conversation with me the week of Februry 8-12 on my book-in-progress, The Overweight Brain. You can view the online running conversation—so thoughtful and playful—and view or listen to the live chat. Video recording of the webinar with Lois Holzman on The Overweight Brain: Audio...

11 Dec

Posted at 19:12h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development

  ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PROPOSALS September 23-25, 2016 Deadline for Proposals: February 21, 2016 The ninth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. As the practice, understanding and appreciation for performance and play continue to grow, the world context in which...

15 Jun

Posted at 23:49h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes, What's New

Each June, I spend 2 weeks or so with an international group of innovators/activists/scholars/community organizers. They are the Institute's International Class, in NYC for the third and final residency of their 10 month program. It's a unique kind of time together—intensely active, intellectually and emotionally challenging and growthful for all, and...

05 Jun

Posted at 16:09h in Human Development, Look and Listen, Speaking Engagements, What's New

What's Developing in a World in Crisis? with Jackie Salit and Lois Holzman Each month the East Side Institute chooses an audio or video recording from its storehouse of talks and workshops. Some are classics, going back to the 1990s and featuring Fred Newman's annual lectures and plays. Others are from events...

03 Jun

Posted at 18:57h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Social Therapy, What's New

I just got word that a new book to which I contributed is hot off the presses. It’s titled Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice. Editor Del Loewenthal, Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton in the UK, has done an impressive job of bringing...

07 May

Posted at 01:44h in Community Organizing, Events, Human Development, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Speaking Engagements

[caption id="attachment_2613" align="aligncenter" width="2448"] Taipei view, next to our hotel[/caption] In April I I had the privilege of spending 5 days in Taiwan at the invitation of a dear long-time colleague, Lin-Ching Hsia. She is a political leader, a community activist and a professor of psychology at Fu-jen Catholic University in...

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...