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.
Hugh Polk, Institute faculty and social therapist is interviewed by Eric Maisel
Read Eric Maisel's interview of Hugh Polk on his Psychology Today blog, Rethinking Mental Health.
Lois Holzman on Social Therapy
Lois Holzman on Social Therapy posted by Eric Maisel on his Psychology Today blog, Rethinking Mental Health.
Psychiatric Name Calling: What do people say about it?
Psychiatric Name Calling: What do people say about it? posted by psychologist Jeff Rubin on his blog “From Insults to Respect,” May 10, 2015, reports on the Institute’s community research project on emotional distress and mental health diagnoses.
Lois Holzman Lives What She Teaches About Play
Jamie Turner writes about Lois Holzman on the TEDX Navesink blog.
Salvi Greco brings Italian Cuisine/Story-telling to NYC
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.
The Radical Collaboration made Possible Through Play
The Radical Collaboration made Possible Through Play, Examiner.Com, video and article, Jude Treder-Wolff. Read and View
“Effective Education for the 21 Century,” — Bangladesh
The Daily Sun, Daily Amader Orthoneeti, Sun Academia, News Today and Metro report on series of workshops titled, “Effective Education for the 21 Century,” held in Dhaka, Bangladesh May 2011 and co-sponsored by Daffodil International University and the East Side Institute.
Carrie Lobman interviewed on BlogTalkRadio by Steve and Mary Alice
Carrie Lobman interviewed on BlogTalkRadio by Steve and Mary Alice, 2011. Listen
Lois Holzman interviewed by Ricardo Lana on the radio in Brazil, 2011
Lois Holzman interviewed by Ricardo Lana on the radio in Brazil, 2011. Listen
ABC Eyewitness News
ABC Eyewitness News, December 2007, In tonight’s extra, learning like you’ve never seen it before! Improvisation as a learning tool. We know it works in comedy but now in 30 schools in our area it is also working in the classroom. And, in the process, giving kids a sense of what’s possible… View Clip
Theatre for social transformation
Theatre for social transformation, Dramatool.org, 22 October 2007 Performing The World 4 More than 250 practitioners and scholars participated in Performing The World 4 (PTW4) just outside New York, between October 12-14, in roundtable debates and workshops that looked at and rehearsed social transformation. The conference met IDEA President Dan Baron Cohen who presented IDEA’s key aims and projects, and was completely seduced by 25 military police from north-east Brazil whose dance theatre workshops and performances aim at building inclusion, citizenship and social transformation. Read More
Teaching Improv to Teachers
Teaching Improv to Teachers, WNYC Radio, Beth Fertig “Improv is usually associated with comedy groups like the Upright Citizen’s Brigade or Chicago’s Second City. But classroom teachers also use improvisation exercises to help their students work together and become more creative. A new program is training city teachers how to use these improv technigues…” Read More
School of knock-knocks: Comedy schools aren’t all just for laughs
School of knock-knocks: Comedy schools aren’t all just for laughs, Columbia News Service, Eddie Vega, ” A sudden horror: the kind that sears itself into memory and resurfaces in recurring nightmares, the kind that wrecks nascent careers, the kind aspiring comic Bradley Moore experienced at age 6. Alone on stage in a room large enough to swallow his lanky frame, he faced a caboodle of glaring parents and other children his age…” Read more
Improvisation Boosts Reading in Poor Inner City School
Written by Janet Wootten Good News Network Thursday, 25 January 2007 Rachel Farmer is a fourth-grade teacher in Brooklyn who defies the stereotype of the exhausted teacher, run down by poor inner-city schools. Instead of burned-out, Rachel is lit up -- and so are her students. The kids read more books than any other class in the city of New York, placing them at the pinnacle of NYC's Accelerated Reading Program. This is a story of how Rachel beat the odds using a playful (improvisational) approach to teaching... Her class is a New York City success story. Eighty-five percent of
African activists take the stage at New York performance summit
New York Amsterdam News, Oct 27-Nov 2, 2005. Vol. 96, Issue 44 Magak, Kitche Healthcare activists, educators and therapists working in South Africa, Malawi, Senegal and Kenya came together in Tarrytown, NY, last week for the third biennial performance summit, Performing the World 3...
A Performance to Become Who We Are Not
Spirituality & Health The Soul/Body Connection (March/April 2004) At Long Last…A Performance to Become Who We Are Not BETSY ROBINSON What if you aren’t good at relationships, a “group person,” a joiner, a team player? What if group activity connotes strain or anxiety that you’d...