Gildin, B. and C. Lobman (2023) Performing the Way to Positive and Developmental Relationships in Outside-of-School Programs. Children & Schools, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 59–61.
Newman, F. And Holzman, L. Unscientific Psychology: A Cultural-Performatory Approach to Understanding Human Life. Translated by Yuji Moro with Makiko Kishi, Ryōta Kitamoto, Shōko Shiroma, Takayuki Daimon, Shin Nakamine, Takumi Hirosé. Hitsuji Shobō, Tokyo, 2022
Washington Post reporter Tra Bahrampour talks to ESI faculty Mary Fridley about a radically humanistic approach to dementia care...
Hugh: A few weeks ago you told me that working with clients who’ve been diagnosed as psychotic is changing how you practice. What does that look like? Ann: I’m kind of amazed about it myself, really. I’ve been seeing one client – I’ll call him Richard – for about four years. He was hospitalized during a “psychotic” episode – having severe panic attacks that included terrifying hallucinations that made it impossible for him to function at home or at work. After getting discharged from the hospital, he returned to therapy. At first he was suspicious and very guarded, and I
Join Performance of a Lifetime’s Cathy Salit, Sun., Aug. 5, to explore the paradox of growth & development.
Friedman, D. (2018). Something New Under the Sun. Plenary Talk, Play, Perform, Learn, Grow. Anatolia College, Thessalonika, Greece. April 13, 2018
Head into the recording studio with David Belmont & Gwen Lowenheim to play and perform as an improvised musical ensemble. Sat., June 16.
Friedman, D. (2016). Theatre and Performance, Community and Development: The Castillo Experience. Talk delivered at the International Conference on Social Learning and Recovery, Fu-Jen University, Taipei
Friedman, D. (2017). Creating a Public Space/Activity for Civic Engagement and Development. Talk delivered at Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities Conference 2017. Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy and Engagement. Northeastern University, Boston.
Ali, O. and N. Cech (2017). "Yes and..." as Teaching-Learning Methodology. In Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed.org. April 2017.
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.
Farrah Jarral on BBC-Radio 4 talks to Carrie Lobman about “The Human at Play.” Listen
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.
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.
Explore the politics, ethics and activity of a relational psychology of becoming with Lois Holzman. Begins Feb. 5…
Holzman, L. (2015). Social Therapy and Creating an Activist Life. Chinese translation of presentation at one-day conference on healing society at Fu-jen Catholic University, Taipei Taiwan, April 2015.
Is diagnosis helpful? hurtful? stigmatizing? a necessary prerequisite for getting help? What do you think? Take the survey and pass it on!
Read Carrie Lobman's latest essay, Performance, theatre, and improvisation: Bringing play and development into new arenas, which...
Listen to Eric Maisel and Lois Holzman’s wide-ranging conversation on living the creative, developmental life...
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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...
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.
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...
Newman, F. (2009) Let's Develop! (Serbian edition). Mostart, Zemun. (Originally published by the Community Literacy Research Project, New York, 1994)
Newman, F. and Holzman, L. (2002) Lev Vygotsky Cientista Revolucionário, Edições Loyola, Sao Paulo. (originally published 1993, Routledge, London & New York.)