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A Conceptual Revolution

The creative side of culture change

Grief
Connecting Through 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
Love in the Time of Corona

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
The Paradoxes of Good Therapy

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.

Environment
We Need To Talk! Or Do We?

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?

Play
Being Weird Is Good Teaching

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
The Communication Trap

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?

Play
We Have to Take Our Chances on Development (and Democracy)

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
Play as if Your Mental Health Depended on It

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
Is Mental Health Strictly Mental?

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
A Fresh Take on Asperger's

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
What Makes for a "Happy School?"

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
What’s the Opposite of 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!