Become a Developmentalist: Practice, Reflection, and Real Dilemmas
Description
Join Lois Holzman for a practical conversation and conversational practicum on how you can grow, and help others to develop—anytime and everywhere.
By develop, we mean coming up with ways to respond to the situations that open up new understandings and new ways of living—whatever that looks like for you.
A developmentalist is a person with whom you can create new possibilities.
In this half-day workshop, participants will explore three features of a developmentalist’s practice and how you might build ‘stages’ for development in your practice with staff and teams, programs and projects, conversations, relationships, and more.
Together, we’ll:
Explore the “taken-for-granted” ways we see and do things
Shift our focus from products and outcomes to one that embraces the process of how human beings are always working, relating and being together.
Be more creative and playful with what makes us feel bewildered, confused, ashamed, hurt, frustrated, sad, fearful, conflicted and/or stuck.
The practicum section is then built around your dilemmas.
Everyone is invited to share situations, tensions, new opportunities, questions, or challenges—however everyday or extraordinary—from their own lives, relationships, work, and experience of the world. We’ll then use these materials to actively explore and experiment with new, developmental, ways of seeing, giving, responding and creating.
You may register for either of the following two sessions, held virtually, on Zoom (Click links below to see start times in your part of the world)
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LEADER BIOGRAPHY
Lois Holzman is an activist developmental psychologist, community organizer and conceptual revolutionist. Since the mid-1980s as the Institute's co-founder (with the late Fred Newman) and current director, she’s led its growth as a center for social therapeutics, performance activism and social creativity. She is founder and chief organizer of the Performing the World conferences since 2001, and is a trusted collaborator and mentor to grassroots social change agents worldwide. Her most recent book, A Developmentalist’s Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas (Routledge), offers a novel take on therapeutics — a social, creative, activity-centered approach to helping people grow and transform in the process of finding new ways to delve into everyday developmental dilemmas. “As a developmentalist, I’m interested in helping breathe new life into the cramped and narrow spaces in which we live far too much of the time.” Tackling the inadequacies of the medical model of emotional distress, her popular workshops and conversations invite anyone and everyone to play and ponder with Psychology Speak and how it impacts and limits our development.
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