The Joy of Dementia
Fridley, M. and S. Massad, S. (2020). The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!) Australian Journal of Dementia Care. January/February 2020.
Why be Half-Human? How Play, Performance and Practical Philosophy Make Us Whole
Holzman, L and C. Salit (2020). Why be Half-Human? How Play, Performance and Practical Philosophy Make Us Whole. Draft chapter to appear in Social Construction in Action. Taos Worldshare: Taos Institute.
If We Created Gender, We Can Create Something Beyond Gender
Associate Aurelie Harp talks to Lois Holzman for her Womanity podcast (January 2020)
Creating an Ensemble for Performing Health
Massad, S. and Silverman, B. (2020) Creating an Ensemble for Performing Health. Draft of article to appear in the Taos Institute’s Harnessing Humanness in Healthcare - Appreciative and Relational Practices, 2020.
Oncology Nurses Creating a Culture of Resiliency with Improvisation
Salit, C. (2018) Oncology Nurses Creating a Culture of Resiliency with Improvisation. In Theresa Robbins Dudeck and Caitlin McClure (Eds.), Applied Improvisation: Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre. (Methuen Drama / Bloomsbury Publishing).
Transcript – Forget What You Know About Dementia
Forget What You Know About Dementia. A webinar with Richard Coaten, Mary Fridley, Susanna Howard and Peter Whitehouse, moderated by Lois Holzman (November 2019)
Creativity and Community Among Autism-Spectrum Youth
Peter Smagorinksy’s wonderful book now available (and affordable!) in paperback. Check out chapter by Christine LaCerva on Social Therapy and Family Play.
Social Therapeutics & The End of Knowing
This 12-week online seminar with Lois Holzman and guests starts Feb. 24
Keynote– Play, Perform, Learn, Grow
Holzman, L. (2019) Keynote presentation to the Play, Perform, Learn, Grow conference, The Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Labels, Learning and Love
Lois Holzman interviews outspoken NYT bestselling author Irshad Manji — Getting beyond labels requires courage and curiosity. How do we create environments to be more loving?
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:
“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."
Constructing Environments & Creating Relationality
Lois Holzman & Cathy Salit lead a 3-day exploration of social therapeutics and the becoming principle, Oct 26-28.
“Psychological Investigations,” in Chinese!
Coming in November, in Chinese! A clinician’s guide to Social Therapy. Published by Beijing University Publishing Group.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Exploring the End of Knowing
If knowing is obsolete, what becomes of education? A webinar with Sugata Mitra and Lois Holzman, June 23.
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.
The Magic of Language
Lois Holzman leads a 4-week online conversation investigating the wondrous activity of “languaging.” Fall 2019.
“Let’s Develop!”
Now in Japanese, Fred Newman’s 1994 classic text introduces an approach to continuous growth.
Modern Art Exhibition at Avada Galerie
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Bring your Curiosity: New Exhibition
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A Timeline of Painting at Avada Galerie
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New Perspectives on Storytelling and Art
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Valerie Dicker Interview
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