Lobman in “Mind, Culture and Activity”
Carrie Lobman’s article -- "Performing on a Wider Stage: Developing Inner-City Youth Through Play & Performance -- appears in the journal Mind Culture & Activity.
Finding Otherness: Developments in Independent Politics
Independent political strategist Jacqueline Salit recently spoke on the creative process of finding otherness and thereby creating new sources of emotional, social and political power.
The Search for Method in STEAM Education
Martinez, J. (2017). The Search for Method in STEAM Education. Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
After-School Growth: What Young People Have to Say
Gildin, B. (2011). After-School Growth: What Young People Have to Say. Democracy & Education, v.19/n.1.
Social Therapy and Family Play
LaCerva, C. (2016). Social Therapy and Family Play. In P. Smagorinsky (Ed.). Creativity and Community Among Autism-Spectrum Youth. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
The Search for Method in STEAM Education
The latest from Institute faculty and NY Institute of Technology professor Jim Martinez, discussing his work in creating developmental learning environments for STEAM education.
The Human at Play
BBC-Radio 4 presents a 28-minute segment on "The Human at Play," with host Farrah Jarral. She talks to some of the world's renowned play experts, including developmentalist Carrie Lobman, Ed.D., and asks :"Who gets to play in society? And who doesn't?
Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth
Smagorinsky, P. (Ed.), (2016). Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance. Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
“Yes and…” as Teaching-Learning Methodology
Ali, O. and N. Cech (2017). "Yes and..." as Teaching-Learning Methodology. In Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed.org. April 2017.
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.