A Conceptual Revolution (original) (raw)
Cognition
How can we prepare for what's going to happen? The answer may surprise you.
How can we prepare for what's going to happen? The answer may surprise you.
Grief
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on December 15, 2020
Try creating new rituals and sharing old ones with loved ones and even with strangers.
Try creating new rituals and sharing old ones with loved ones and even with strangers.
Relationships
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on August 28, 2020
Discover the powerful potential that virtual platforms offer—and create connection, joy, play, laughter, tears, intimacy, inspiration, and hope.
Discover the powerful potential that virtual platforms offer—and create connection, joy, play, laughter, tears, intimacy, inspiration, and hope.
Relationships
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on July 16, 2019
We have to be completely responsive to clients' ways of talking and simultaneously join them in developing new, opportunities and performances in their everyday lives.
We have to be completely responsive to clients' ways of talking and simultaneously join them in developing new, opportunities and performances in their everyday lives.
What can we do when anxiety is our constant companion?
Environment
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on February 13, 2019
How are these questions related: Do you talk—really talk—with your therapist, and do people really want to dialogue across differences?
How are these questions related: Do you talk—really talk—with your therapist, and do people really want to dialogue across differences?
Sometimes it's helpful to remind yourself where the "self" came from.
Relationships
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on June 9, 2018
If you don't act as a knower, your conversations can take unexpected turns that can build healthy relationships.
If you don't act as a knower, your conversations can take unexpected turns that can build healthy relationships.
Play
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on May 1, 2018
Every day, our culture reinforces the biases and hierarchies that maintain inequity and injustice. To be truly culturally relevant, educators must change that.
Every day, our culture reinforces the biases and hierarchies that maintain inequity and injustice. To be truly culturally relevant, educators must change that.
Environment
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on January 28, 2018
Information begets more information and opinion. Opinion begets more opinion and information. Where is communication taking us?
Information begets more information and opinion. Opinion begets more opinion and information. Where is communication taking us?
Creating stages for development is the greatest gift we can give to young people.
Relationships
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on August 8, 2017
Are your conversations filled with denials, rejections, and negations of what someone says? Do they get tense, lead to bad feelings, turn into an argument, or go nowhere?
Are your conversations filled with denials, rejections, and negations of what someone says? Do they get tense, lead to bad feelings, turn into an argument, or go nowhere?
Education
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on August 3, 2017
Will STEM education be just another fad? Not if Dr. Jim Martinez has anything to do with it.
Will STEM education be just another fad? Not if Dr. Jim Martinez has anything to do with it.
Psychiatry
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on April 25, 2017
Can we de-medicalize misery and suffering? Many are trying, including award-winning journalist Robert Whitaker.
Can we de-medicalize misery and suffering? Many are trying, including award-winning journalist Robert Whitaker.
Play
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on February 2, 2017
Social therapist Fred Newman says that while we might agree on how we'd like to develop ourselves and the world, there are no guarantees when it comes to development or democracy.
Social therapist Fred Newman says that while we might agree on how we'd like to develop ourselves and the world, there are no guarantees when it comes to development or democracy.
Play
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on November 2, 2016
Play helps us belong. Belonging helps us move about and around feeling alone, isolated and victimized. Playing is how we become part of existing communities and create new ones.
Play helps us belong. Belonging helps us move about and around feeling alone, isolated and victimized. Playing is how we become part of existing communities and create new ones.
Health
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on July 8, 2016
“Mental health” and “mental illness” mischaracterize neurodivergence by locating it as a problem, and a problem in the head, and nowhere else.
“Mental health” and “mental illness” mischaracterize neurodivergence by locating it as a problem, and a problem in the head, and nowhere else.
Asperger's Syndrome
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on June 7, 2016
Whether Asperger's is a disorder is a matter of context. Disorder is relational and situational, not absolute and irrevocable, as terminology and everyday assumption suggest.
Whether Asperger's is a disorder is a matter of context. Disorder is relational and situational, not absolute and irrevocable, as terminology and everyday assumption suggest.
Education
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on April 26, 2016
It's a simple idea, really. Children learn when they're happy. And they're happy when they have control over what and how they learn. Meet Sugata Mitra, who makes it happen.
It's a simple idea, really. Children learn when they're happy. And they're happy when they have control over what and how they learn. Meet Sugata Mitra, who makes it happen.
Play
Lois Holzman Ph.D. on April 5, 2016
Play might well be the cure—for loneliness, depression, social isolation, and more. What happens when we play, play at, and play along? Watch!
Play might well be the cure—for loneliness, depression, social isolation, and more. What happens when we play, play at, and play along? Watch!