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Creating Environments for Emotional Health: “First, Slow Down and Listen!”

Hugh: Ann, I’ve been leading a series of workshops having to do with issues of mental health and mental illness at UX, a community organization that offers free classes and workshops. We’ve titled this series “Creating Our Mental Health,” and I’ve been looking forward to talking with you about how it’s going… and what I’ve been learning and trying out. Ann: Great! I’m so glad to see you volunteering and leading therapeutic workshops. It’s a great way to show, in practice, that we can build therapeutic environments and have therapeutic conversations outside the therapy office. How is that going? Hugh:

ESIAdmin2019-10-03T20:39:34+00:00October 3rd, 2019|Talkin Therapy|

“The Joy of Dementia” in Massachusetts

Ryan Laroche reports on Susan Massad and Mary Fridley's recent series of workshops exploring the joy to be found in creating the performance of the “dementia ensemble."

ESIAdmin2021-02-15T17:46:31+00:00August 23rd, 2019|Hot off the Press, Press|

Constructing Environments & Creating Relationality

Lois Holzman & Cathy Salit lead a 3-day exploration of social therapeutics and the becoming principle, Oct 26-28.

ESIAdmin2019-10-03T20:28:19+00:00August 11th, 2019|Training Updates|

“Psychological Investigations,” in Chinese!

Coming in November, in Chinese! A clinician’s guide to Social Therapy. Published by Beijing University Publishing Group.

ESIAdmin2019-08-11T21:28:44+00:00August 11th, 2019|Hot off the Press|

Transcript — Exploring the End of Knowing with Sugata Mitra

Exploring the End of Knowing. A webinar with Sugata Mitra and Lois Holzman, moderated by Janet Wootten (June 2019)

ESIAdmin2019-12-10T12:44:21+00:00July 18th, 2019|2019, Chapters, Articles, Presentations|

The Art and Science of “The Becoming Principle”

Join Cathy Salit and friends on a developmental playground and learn how to grow joyfully. October 27.

ESIAdmin2019-10-08T15:15:38+00:00July 10th, 2019|Whats new|

Tactics of Positive Resistance

An online conversation with Dan Friedman on moving beyond opposition to create positive alternatives for our world. July 8 - August 8.

ESIAdmin2019-07-10T21:20:41+00:00June 9th, 2019|Training Updates|

Performing a Positive Alternative amid a Failing World Order

Friedman, D. (2019) Performing a Positive Alternative amid a Failing World Order. Presentation to the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference, University of Manchester, England.

ESIAdmin2019-06-09T14:44:16+00:00June 9th, 2019|2019, Chapters, Articles, Presentations|

The School in the Cloud: The Emerging Future of Learning

TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra presents his groundbreaking work to support kids to devise their own learning. Coming September 17.

ESIAdmin2019-06-09T14:38:19+00:00June 9th, 2019|Hot off the Press|

Nasty Habits: Breaking with the Role of Authority Figure

Hugh: I’ve been thinking recently about how some of my clients see me as an authority figure. I think that’s problematic. Even more problematic is that I sometimes relate to myself in that way. As a psychiatrist, I was trained to think of myself as a keeper of truths, a judge of what behaviors, attitudes or reactions are right and wrong, normal and abnormal, good and bad. If I’m not attentive to what I’m doing, I can fall into old habits. I really don’t want to play that role, because it stifles human connectivity and gets in the way of

ESIAdmin2019-05-10T18:54:15+00:00May 10th, 2019|Talkin Therapy|

Musings on Ecological Validity (with a little help from my friends)

Holzman, L. (2019). Musings on Ecological Validity (with a little help from my friends). Draft of article to appear in Mind, Culture and Activity, 2019.

ESIAdmin2019-05-10T14:08:06+00:00May 10th, 2019|2019, Chapters, Articles, Presentations|

Exploring the End of Knowing

If knowing is obsolete, what becomes of education? A webinar with Sugata Mitra and Lois Holzman, June 23.

ESIAdmin2019-05-09T21:35:15+00:00May 9th, 2019|Training Updates|

Play in the Public Sphere

Part of our play and social justice series, join Carrie Lobman, Antoine Joyce, Danielle Marshall and Don Waisanen, June 9.

ESIAdmin2019-05-09T21:31:00+00:00May 9th, 2019|Whats new|

The Magic of Language

Lois Holzman leads a 4-week online conversation investigating the wondrous activity of “languaging.” Fall 2019.

ESIAdmin2019-04-22T13:53:38+00:00March 24th, 2019|Training Updates|

“Let’s Develop!”

Now in Japanese, Fred Newman’s 1994 classic text introduces an approach to continuous growth.

ESIAdmin2019-03-24T00:13:25+00:00March 24th, 2019|Whats new|

Modern Art Exhibition at Avada Galerie

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ESIAdmin2019-03-15T12:59:29+00:00March 15th, 2019|Stories|

Bring your Curiosity: New Exhibition

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ESIAdmin2019-03-15T12:57:47+00:00March 15th, 2019|Stories|

A Timeline of Painting at Avada Galerie

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ESIAdmin2019-03-15T12:56:03+00:00March 15th, 2019|Stories|

New Perspectives on Storytelling and Art

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ESIAdmin2019-03-15T12:53:22+00:00March 15th, 2019|Stories|

Valerie Dicker Interview

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ESIAdmin2019-03-15T12:51:42+00:00March 15th, 2019|Stories|

This Weekend at Avada Galerie

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ESIAdmin2019-03-15T12:50:07+00:00March 15th, 2019|Stories|

Avada Galerie Workshop

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ESIAdmin2019-03-15T12:48:25+00:00March 15th, 2019|Stories|

The Creative Process of Richard Vora

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ESIAdmin2019-03-15T01:37:02+00:00March 15th, 2019|Stories|

Abstract Model

17 October 2018 — 30 April 2019 Valerie Dicker Abstract Model Curator Danny Lorens Location Gallerie 2 Photographer Misra Lorenz Valerie Dicker’s artwork combines cultural symbols with different colours and vast of materials. The Italian-American and New York based artist specialises in photography, digital art and painting. With a background in typography. Aenean diam odio, rutrum vel eleifend vel, pharetra id enim. Pellentesque ut turpis ultrices, pretium leo eget, tincidunt ipsum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi ornare risus

ESIAdmin2019-03-12T23:28:08+00:00March 12th, 2019|Exhibitions|

Retrospectiva & Divinity

17 October 2018 — 30 April 2019 Valerie Dicker Abstract Model Curator Danny Lorens Location Gallerie 2 Photographer Misra Lorenz Valerie Dicker’s artwork combines cultural symbols with different colours and vast of materials. The Italian-American and New York based artist specialises in photography, digital art and painting. With a background in typography. Aenean diam odio, rutrum vel eleifend vel, pharetra id enim. Pellentesque ut turpis ultrices, pretium leo eget, tincidunt ipsum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi ornare risus

ESIAdmin2019-03-12T23:14:48+00:00March 12th, 2019|Exhibitions|

Arkhaia

17 October 2018 — 30 April 2019 Valerie Dicker Abstract Model Curator Danny Lorens Location Gallerie 2 Photographer Misra Lorenz Valerie Dicker’s artwork combines cultural symbols with different colours and vast of materials. The Italian-American and New York based artist specialises in photography, digital art and painting. With a background in typography. Aenean diam odio, rutrum vel eleifend vel, pharetra id enim. Pellentesque ut turpis ultrices, pretium leo eget, tincidunt ipsum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi ornare risus

ESIAdmin2019-03-12T23:00:57+00:00March 12th, 2019|Exhibitions|

Moments

17 October 2018 — 30 April 2019 Valerie Dicker Abstract Model Curator Danny Lorens Location Gallerie 2 Photographer Misra Lorenz Valerie Dicker’s artwork combines cultural symbols with different colours and vast of materials. The Italian-American and New York based artist specialises in photography, digital art and painting. With a background in typography. Aenean diam odio, rutrum vel eleifend vel, pharetra id enim. Pellentesque ut turpis ultrices, pretium leo eget, tincidunt ipsum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi ornare risus

ESIAdmin2019-03-12T22:47:45+00:00March 12th, 2019|Exhibitions|

Disorders

17 October 2018 — 30 April 2019 Valerie Dicker Abstract Model Curator Danny Lorens Location Gallerie 2 Photographer Misra Lorenz Valerie Dicker’s artwork combines cultural symbols with different colours and vast of materials. The Italian-American and New York based artist specialises in photography, digital art and painting. With a background in typography. Aenean diam odio, rutrum vel eleifend vel, pharetra id enim. Pellentesque ut turpis ultrices, pretium leo eget, tincidunt ipsum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi ornare risus

ESIAdmin2019-03-12T22:35:21+00:00March 12th, 2019|Exhibitions|

Challenging the Tragedy Narrative: Why a growing camp is promoting a more joyful approach to Alzheimer’s, Feb. 21, 2019

Washington Post reporter Tra Bahrampour talks to ESI faculty Mary Fridley about a radically humanistic approach to dementia care...

ESIAdmin2021-02-18T01:30:36+00:00February 23rd, 2019|Press, Uncategorized|

Silence & Noise

17 October 2018 — 30 April 2019 Valerie Dicker Abstract Model Curator Danny Lorens Location Gallerie 2 Photographer Misra Lorenz Valerie Dicker’s artwork combines cultural symbols with different colours and vast of materials. The Italian-American and New York based artist specialises in photography, digital art and painting. With a background in typography. Aenean diam odio, rutrum vel eleifend vel, pharetra id enim. Pellentesque ut turpis ultrices, pretium leo eget, tincidunt ipsum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi ornare risus

ESIAdmin2019-02-07T14:56:49+00:00February 7th, 2019|Exhibitions|