Creating community and building connection through play
Lobman, C. & Rich, M. (2022). Creating community and building connection through play: An improvisational response to the coronavirus pandemic. The International Journal of play, 11 (1), 39-53.
Finding Connection During the Pandemic
Hugh: It’s a crisis moment for so many struggling with serious depression, anxiety and feelings of loneliness. Our mental health system—particularly community clinics and peer-support organizations—has been overwhelmed by calls for help.Ann: Yeah. The pandemic has only intensified feelings of loneliness, lack of community and need for social connection. Hugh: This new wave of emotional distress, seems to me, is a perfectly reasonable human response to living our lives in an increasingly isolated and uncertain world. Good grief, is it any wonder that in year three of this pandemic—the enforced isolation, political paralysis, climate disaster, increased violence, and on and on—that we see
The Hamburger Syndrome
LaCerva, C. (2010) The Hamburger Syndrome, Blog Post, The Community Therapist, NY, NY.
Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers
Friedman, D. (2021) Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers. Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development. L. Holzman, Ed.
Medicine Across Borders: The Subjectivity of Health and Healing
Massad, S. (2021) Medicine Across Borders: The Subjectivity of Health and Healing. New York.
It Takes a Team
Kaiser Health News (November 24, 2021) talks to Susan Massad, MD, and Mary Fridley about Susan’s health team.
The Revolution Must Be Performed
Holzman, Lois (2021) The Revolution Must Be Performed, Keynote presentation, 6th Congress of the Int’l Society for Cultural-Historic Activity Research (ISCAR), Natal Brazil
Shaking the Rope of History
Lois Holzman presentation at the retirement ceremonies for Lin-Ching Hsia; Taipei, Taiwan Sept 3, 2021
A Year of Creating Heart in a Havenless World
Rich, Marian (2021) A Year of Creating Heart in a Havenless World. Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts & Communication, Vol. 18; pp. 183-198.
Embracing Uncertainty: Co-creating classroom communities for meaning making and discovery.
Lowenheim, Gwen (2021) Embracing Uncertainty: Co-creating classroom communities for meaning making and discovery. Creative Academic Magazine: Creative Ed-Ventures in Online Teaching and Learning. Vol. 19, pp. 29-31
Beyond the Therapy Office: Creating Our Mental Health Everywhere
Jessie Fields, Rachel Mickenberg, Hugh Polk, Beyond the Therapy Office: Creating our Mental Health Everywhere, workshop presentation at the Mad in America Continuing Educations forum, June 20, 2021.
The Necessity of Play (or, Non-Knowing Growing)
Holzman, Lois. The Necessity of Play (or, Non-Knowing Growing). Keynote presentation, The Association for the Study of Play, March 2021.
Playing in Unusual Places
Carrie Lobman’s Play, Development & Social Justice Series Play in Unusual Places Sunday June 27, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Registration: $30; Lower Income: $15 Click here to learn more and register Is joy a social justice issue? Host Carrie Lobman welcomes performance activists Rivka Rocchio, Chris Gage, Maureen Kelly and Christian Felix to share their play and performance work in the arenas of criminal justice, dementia care and corporate America.
The Performance Movement: The Obvious and Outrageous Way Out of the Epistemological Fly Bottle
Holzman, Lois. The Performance Movement: The Obvious and Outrageous Way Out of the Epistemological Fly Bottle. Conference presentation, Alive in the Anthropocene, January 23, 2021.
Playing Around with Changing the World
Lobman, C. and Rich, M. (2021) Playing Around with Changing the World. In Theresa Robbins Dudeck & Caitlin McClure (Eds.) The Applied Improvisation Mindset: Tools for Transforming Organizations and Communities. Metheun/Bloomsbury. Chapter Description.
Separate and Unequal: A Time to Reimagine Dementia
Fridley, M., Massad, S., Kontos, P., Carson, J. et al. (2021) Separate and Unequal: A Time to Reimagine Dementia, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Dementia Re-imagined
AgeBuzz Managing Editor Connie Zuckerman interviews Mary Fridley on “Dementia Re-imagined,” and a positive approach to dementia care, January 20, 2021.
Playing with the Pandemic
Dabby, Murray (2020) Playing with the Pandemic. Voices, a journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapy. Winter 2020.
Creating a New Performance of Dementia
Holzman, L., Fridley, M. and Massad, S. (2020) Creating a New Performance of Dementia. In the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health. Palgrave.
The Overweight Brain
Holzman, L. (2018). The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with Knowing Keeps Us from Getting Smart Enough to Make a Better World. New York: East Side Institute.
Lev Vygotsky Revolutionary Scientist
Newman, F. and Holzman, L., Lev Vygotsky Revolutionary Scientist. Japanese edition. Translators: Takashi Ito and Tomomich Kawamata, Hokkaido University, 2020. (Originally published, London, Routledge, 1993.)
The Overweight Brain
Holzman, L. The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with Knowing Keeps Us from Getting's Smart Enough to Make a Better World. Japanese edition. Tokyo. 2020. (Originally published by East Side Institute, 2018.) Lois Holzman's Introduction
Creating Our Mental Health
Polk, H. and Mickenberg, R. Creating Our Mental Health. Mad in America, virtual town hall and webinar, October 2020.
“Normal?”
Festival of the Brain presents an interview with Lois Holzman on the topic of Non-Knowing Growing (November 2020)
The End of Knowing as Critical Praxis (Practical-Critical Activity)
Holzman, L. (2021) The End of Knowing as Critical Praxis (Practical-Critical Activity). In Robert K. Beshara (Ed.), Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality 1st Edition. Routledge.
Non Knowing Growing
Holzman, L. Non Knowing Growing. Presentation, the Normal? Festival of the Brain conference, Folkstone UK, November 2020.
Vygotsky on the Margins
Holzman, L. (2020). Vygotsky on the Margins. In Adolfo Tanzi Neto, Fernanda Liberali, Manolis Dafermos (Eds.), Revisiting Vygotsky for Social Change: Bringing Together Theory and Practice. Peter Lang Publishers, NY.
Constructing Social Therapeutics
Holzman, L. (2020) Constructing Social Therapeutics. In Sheila McNamee, Mary Gergen, Celiane Camargo-Borges, Emerson F Rasera (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice. Sage Publications.
Creating What It Means to be Human
Kara Fortier talks to Marian Rich and Carrie Lobman on "Being and Becoming" for her PlayGrounding podcast.
Getting Out of Our Heads
Explore Newman and Holzman’s deconstruction of mainstream psychology and related critiques with Lois Holzman. January 2- April 25.