Tool and Result Methodology
Join a month-long, online Revolutionary Conversation with Lois Holzman exploring a Vygotskian-inspired tool and result methodology and the history of an emerging social practice. Starts Oct. 27.
What Can Happen in a Minute?
Lots! Coming Sat., Aug. 12, it’s a one-day workshop with Stephen Nachmanovitch and Cathy Rose Salit—innovators who bring artistic and creative improvisation together with everyday life.
The Human at Play
Play and development impresario and faculty Carrie Lobman joins a fascinating conversation on BBC Radio 4 discussing "The Human at Play." Listen here.
Apply Now: The International Class 2017/2018
Come to NYC this fall to study the social therapeutic approach to social activism and community development with Lois Holzman and faculty. Registration Deadline: June 30.
Mad in America: A Conversation on Diagnosis, Drugs and Development
Join long-time activists and scholars, Robert Whitaker and Lois Holzman, for a wide-ranging conversation on the madness of contemporary society, efforts to engage and transform it, and what more we might do.
The Human at Play
Farrah Jarral on BBC-Radio 4 talks to Carrie Lobman about “The Human at Play.” Listen
“Yes and…” as Teaching-Learning Methodology
UNC-Greensboro faculty Omar Ali and Nadja Cech discuss their creative use of Newman/Holzman’s learning-leads-development performance methodology that they’ve brought to their students and to the community.
Institute Faculty Member Gwen Lowenheim on Social Creativity
Gwen Lowenheim, on the faculty at the East Side Institute and New York Institute of Technology, writes about the social creativity of language in Idiom, the newsletter for New York State teachers of English to speakers of other languages. Read Magic yet Mundane: the Social Creativity of Language.
Mad in America: A Conversation on Drugs, Diagnosis & Development
We’re mad in America—mad as in crazy and mad as in angry. Join Lois Holzman and Robert Whitaker for a conversation on the madness of contemporary society and efforts to transform it. Fri., June 9.
Healing Voices
Join for the NYC premiere of the social-action film documentary, “Healing Voices,” exploring the experience of psychosis and featuring live Q&A with director PJ Moynihan, ESI Director Lois Holzman, and reps from Hearing Voices NYC, Sat., May 13.
Disrupting the Tragedy Narrative on Dementia
"Changing Aging" shares a post by ESI faculty Dr. Susan Massad & Mary Fridley, Dementia: The Joy of Living an Improv-isational Life.
Revolutionary Transformation Through Play
Burgert Kirsten (Cape Town) interviews Lois Holzman on “Revolutionary Transformation Through Play,” for his “Liminal” podcast. Listen
Revolutionary Transformation Through Play
Organizational psychologist Burgert Kirsten in Cape Town interviews Lois Holzman for his "Liminal" podcast on the developmental power of play for people of all ages. Listen here.
Creating Community Across Borders
As borders close – we grow community! A synchronized art, music & poetry performance and fundraiser for ESI alumna Elena Boukouvala’s Play Is Hope, happening simultaneously in 15 cities & 13 countries. READ MORE
Science Can Do Better than Sokal
Newman, F. (2003). Science Can Do Better than Sokal. In L. Holzman (Ed.) Performing Psychology: A postmodern culture of the mind. [pp. 133-141]. London: Routledge.
Pedagogía 2017
Carrie Lobman will be a featured speaker at Pedagogía 2017, an international gathering of educators in Havana, Cuba, where she will present on the social therapeutic, performatory approach to developmental learning.
All Power to the Developing
Holzman, L. (2016). All Power to the Developing Keynote Presentation, “Another Way Out: Addressing Violence through Culture,” International Conference on Citizenship Culture, Bogotá Colombia, October 2016.
Creating Communities of Hope
Holzman, L. (2016). Creating Communities of Hope.. Keynote Lecture, 2016 International Conference of Allies Across Boundaries: Diverse Practices of Education and Human Potential Development. National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien Taiwan, November 2016.
2017 Social Therapeutics Online
Join Lois Holzman for a 14-week study of social therapeutics. The focus will be on core concepts and their points of intersection and divergence with other perspectives. Guest faculty: Michael Cole, Sheila McNamee, Peter Smagorinsky, and Tom Strong.
New Yorkers at a Crossroads with Lenora Fulani
What is the human cost of living in a city where the divide between rich and poor is greater than at any time in recent history? Where too many New Yorkers are homeless (or afraid they could be at any moment)?
Self-Organizing Institutions and the Development of Citizenship Culture
"Self-Organizing Institutions and the Development of Citizenship Culture,” Dan Friedman, presentation, October 19, 2016, biennial conference, Corpovisionarios por Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
“Sería hermoso que todos los bandos del conflicto hicieran teatro juntos”
Interview: Dan Friedman and Lois Holzman by Sergio Rodríquez, Arcadia, Bogatà, Colombia
Honor Your Playfulness
“Honor Your Playfulness,” Lois Holzman, presentation, October 7, 2016, North Carolina Honors Association Conference, UNC at Greensboro, NC.
Relational Practices– Health
Faculty Susan Massad and Barbara Silverman will present at the Taos Institute's "Relational Practices in Health" conference in Cleveland on "Creating an Ensemble for Performing Health."
Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance
Peter Smagorinsky's new book is the first in the Palgrave Macmillan series, "Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development."
What is Social Therapeutics? with Carrie Lobman
Beginning Oct. 14, join Carrie for a vibrant online investigation of social therapeutic community stages in psychotherapy, education, after-school youth programs and the work place.
Performance Activists Take the Stage on 42nd Street
Featured presenters include Patch Adams, Kenneth Gergen, Antanas Mockus, Richard Schechner, and participants from 30+ countries. Check out the latest news and photos.
Radical Therapist
Radical Therapist, Chris Hoff, talks to Christine LaCerva about the developmental challenge of social therapeutic groups. Listen
Performing the World 2016: Can We Perform our Way to Power?
Already, 24 countries represented. Check out the latest news on featured presenters. Register now!
Director of Training Christine LaCerva interviewed by the Radical Therapist
One radical therapist interviews another-- Chris Hoff speaks to Christine LaCerva about the history and practice of social therapy: listen here.