Lois Holzman

Lois Holzman

Director East Side Institute

New York, New York, United States
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connecting academia and community
synthesizing psychology and performance (of the theatrical type)
dissolving academic disciplines for greater innovation
a sociocultural approach to human development and learning
social therapeutics

Specialties:
play and performance
postmodern psychology
performative psychology
Philosophical psychology
Vygotsky
Wittgenstein
Fred Newman

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  • Director

    East Side Institute

    - Present 23 years

    The East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy is an international educational, and research center for developing and promoting alternative and radically humanizing approaches in psychology, education and community building.

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Projects

  • Performing the World

    - Present

    Bi-annual multidisciplinary festival/conference/gathering

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  • A Conceptual Revolution

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    A Conceptual Revolution at Psychology Today
    Discovery happens at the borders. People talk. Ideas meet. Something new emerges. Old paradigms weaken. Creativity abounds. Welcome to the border crossing, where psychology meets culture, theatre meets therapy, play meets learning—and the discovery-in-practice is that human development is the performing of who we’re becoming.

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  • Social Therapeutics and the Practice of Method

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    What does a five-month, online, group study on a postmodern, performance based approach to human development look like? Well, according to our most recent class of psychology, psychiatry, social work, education, counseling, applied theatre, youth development, anthropology, sociology, community development, public policy and public health alumni, it looks something like this:

    Diverse, dynamic, intensely collaborative and intellectually rigorous, the program allows for a far-ranging…

    What does a five-month, online, group study on a postmodern, performance based approach to human development look like? Well, according to our most recent class of psychology, psychiatry, social work, education, counseling, applied theatre, youth development, anthropology, sociology, community development, public policy and public health alumni, it looks something like this:

    Diverse, dynamic, intensely collaborative and intellectually rigorous, the program allows for a far-ranging exploration of a proven methodology for personal and social transformation. For many, it's an opportunity to deepen and develop their work as practitioners, researchers and scholars via a method that is profoundly social and surprisingly therapeutic.

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  • The International Class

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    The International Class is a unique study and training program in cultural and creative approaches to human development and learning, The program focuses on social therapeutics, a philosophically informed, practically oriented method in which human beings are related to as creators of their culture and ensemble performers of their lives. Since 2004, more than 100 educators, psychologists, social workers, theatre artists and community organizers have graduated. A home where scholars and…

    The International Class is a unique study and training program in cultural and creative approaches to human development and learning, The program focuses on social therapeutics, a philosophically informed, practically oriented method in which human beings are related to as creators of their culture and ensemble performers of their lives. Since 2004, more than 100 educators, psychologists, social workers, theatre artists and community organizers have graduated. A home where scholars and practitioners from the world over reach their dreams of social activism.

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