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.
“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."
“Psychological Investigations,” in Chinese!
Coming in November, in Chinese! A clinician’s guide to Social Therapy. Published by Beijing University Publishing Group.
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.
Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activities
Choice articles, blog posts & talks by Lois Holzman designed to inspire you to become more powerful in work and play.
Creating an Ensemble for Performing Health
Susan Massad and Barbara Silverman share the developmental potential of a new performance ensemble: the health team.
Diagnosis: 1000 People Speak Out
Holzman & Genn report on activist research as to how ordinary people regard psychiatric diagnosis.
ZPDs: Mundane and Magical
Check out Lois Holzman’s latest article offering a new take on the Vygotskian concept of ZPDs.
Improvising New Realities
ESI Associates Sandra Paola López & Chris Reyman have a new article in Critical Studies in Improvisation.
Creative Collaborations Through Inclusive Theatre and Community Based Learning
Lisa Kramer & Judy Freedman Fask share stories from their theater classrooms in this, the latest addition to the Palgrave series on Play, Performance, Learning & Development edited by Lois Holzman.
Using Improvisation & Performativity as Teaching Tools
Art Education Radio’s Tim Bolgatz interviews Lois Holzman, previewing her appearance at the Feb. 3rd, National Online Conference for Art Teachers. Listen here.
Mental Health News Radio interviews Lois Holzman
Mental Health News Radio’s popular host, Kristin Walker, talks to Lois Holzman about “The Overweight Brain” and a challenge to our obsession with knowing. Listen here!
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.
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
Play and development impresario and faculty Carrie Lobman joins a fascinating conversation on BBC Radio 4 discussing "The Human at Play." Listen here.
“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.
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
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.
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."
Cops & Kids and Reflections on Justice
Faculty Lenora Fulani discusses police / community relations on CUNY-TV series, Criminal Justice Matters.
On the Future of Mental Health
As part of his Psychology Today series, Eric Maisel interviews Lois Holzman on how emotions are social.
Interview with play impresario, Carrie Lobman
Play is critical to development; yet schools continue to strip play from the curriculum...
Psychology Made Its Bed, and We’re the Ones Who Have to Lie in It
The latest chapter in Lois Holzman's The Overweight Brain takes aim at "scientific" psychology...
Relating to People as Revolutionaries
Lois Holzman has a chapter in Del Lowenthal’s new book, "Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice,” on Relating to People as Revolutionaries..
Bringing Play and Development into new Arenas
Read Carrie Lobman's latest essay, Performance, theatre, and improvisation: Bringing play and development into new arenas, which...
Emotional Distress & Diagnosis: Word on the Street
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...
Afterschool: Growth! (The All Stars Way)
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...
Performance Studies in Motion
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...
Vygotsky at Work and Play,
Japanese Edition
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...
Read the Latest Installment of Overweight Brain
We live in a mass culture obsessed with the need to know at a time of such unpredictability that knowing is of little good. Read the latest installment..