Lobman, C. (2015). Performance, theatre, and improvisation: Bringing play and development into new arenas. In J. Johnson, S. Eberle, T. Henricks, and D. Kuschner (Eds.). *Handbook of the Study of Play. *New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
Listen to Eric Maisel and Lois Holzman’s wide-ranging conversation on living the creative, developmental life...
Join social therapists Hugh Polk, M.D. & Rachel Mickenberg Saturday 4/18 for their workshop "How Performing Conversation can Transform your Practice."
Join this wide-ranging online conversation with Cathy Stewart & Carrie Lobman and explore the relationship between democracy and development. Begins May 1.
Lois Holzman reports on what we heard on the streets of NYC when we talked with people about mental health diagnosis. Quite an eye-opener...
A Therapeutic Deconstruction of the Illusion of Self Newman, F. (1999)In Lois Holzman (ed.), Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind. Routledge. 111--32.
Jamie Turner writes about Lois Holzman on the TEDX Navesink blog.
Tune in Feb. 23 as host Eric Maisel interviews Lois Holzman, Donna Rockwell, Tim Carey and 12 others on challenges to bad psychiatry.
Salvi Greco describes the presentation he made at Performing the World 2014," Cook-Telling Stories-Lab,” as an “innov-active” workshop through which participants explore how through combining creative cooking and story telling it is possible to work on group process, group dynamics, group building, and focus on topics like unlocking creativity, change, innovation, self development, group/community development, and intercultural learning.
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On Dec. 5, Dr. Fulani led a special forum titled, “Looking at the World Through Independent Eyes,” that passionately conveyed the living history of the fight for voting, civil and human rights...
Dive into a fascinating 20-week, online group conversation and exploration of the social therapeutic approach led by Lois Holzman, with Carrie Lobman and Chris Helm. (Begins January 2015.)
Bonny Gildin explores the All Stars Project's model of afterschool development which uses performance and pretending to help young people in the inner cities develop as creators of their lives and communities...
Gildin, B. (2015) Afterschool: Growth! (The All Stars Way). In J. Vadeboncoeur (Ed.), Learning in and across contexts: Reimagining education. National Society for the Study of Education, v. 113, i. 2. pp 425-446.
Perone, A. (2014) Healing With(in) Imaginative Play. Child Life Council Bulletin, v. 32, n. 3, page 7.
On Dec. 5, Dr. Lenora Fulani led a special forum on the living history of the fight for voting, civil and human rights-- from Selma to Ferguson. "We have to support our young people to develop, so...
Teens need all the help they can get to navigate this crazy world. How do we as practitioners and parents support young people to grow amid the stress, conflict and confusion of their lives?
University of Haifa's Atay Citron and colleagues have a new book out featuring essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, along with Lois Holzman's and Dan Friedman's...
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What does it mean to support patient's emotional growth? This half-day workshop, Saturday, Oct. 18, will look at the relationship between radical acceptance and emotional growth and explore the group's capacity to create new emotions.
Check out who's coming to New York City Oct 10-12-- hundreds of performance activists, 30+ countries; presenters from Big Apple Circus, Clowns /Magicians Without Borders and the Gezundheit Institute's own Patch Adams.
Forward to the Japanese Edition: Holzman, L. (2014) Vygotsky at Work and Play. Shinyosha Publishing, Ltd., Tokyo.
Lois Holzman’s illustrative text on how Vygotsky’s tool-and-result methodology has been brought to life in New York’s development community is now available in Japanese translation, thanks to the efforts of Institute colleague, Professor Yuji Moro...
This online professional development group with Carrie Lobman is designed to enhance educators' creative group building skills and develop their capacities to create more collaborative, creative, playful and participatory learning environments. It responds to the needs of educators for new tools to address the daily demands of teaching, specifically tools that support their students in learning how to learn and developing motivation and confidence. It also provides educators with a way to make use of the latest innovations in human development, learning theory and practice. Summer Session: July 13, 20 and 27; 6:30-8:00 p.m. EDT Registration deadline is June 27. Fee: $185/ Students: $145
Holzman, L. (2014) Vygotsky at Work and Play. Shinyosha Publishing, Ltd., Tokyo. (Originally published in 2008 by Routledge, London & New York.)
Join Dr. Lois Holzman, director of the East Side Institute and founder of Performing the World, and Jacqueline S. Salit, president of IndependentVoting.org, as they share video reports from . . .
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Watch Lois Holzman at TEDxNavesink, PLAY! event: In this 14-minute video, Lois discusses the power of play. When it's revolutionary play it's at the heart of all becomings. Read Comments.
“Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age,” Lois Holzman, presentation, May 10, 2014, TEDxNavesink, Navesink, N.J.