Atlanta Social Therapy

Links

The Atlanta Center for Social Therapy is part of a community of people and organizations throughout the world interested in new approaches to human development through performance.

Check out our links to some of the organizations we relate to and learn from:

East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy

The East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy is an international research and training center dedicated to creating and supporting radically humanistic practices and understandings of being human. To us, this means freeing psychology from its scientific pretenses and transforming it into a cultural activity and study.

Visit the international training center for social therapy for a complete guide to national training, online classes and other opportunities for learning, conferences, papers to download, research and bibliography.

Psych Out

Download Psych Out, the newsletter of the East Side Institute. These newsletters are in Adobe PDF format; Adobe® Reader® is required to view them.

Performing the World

Performing the World is an international community of people who recognize performance as a powerful developmental activity for social-cultural transformation. Open to all — performers, educators, artists, scholars, therapists, heath and helping professions, business professionals, youth workers, activists, community organizers — it's a community for sharing, creating and collaborating.

Our next international conference, Performing the World 4, will be in October 2007. Follow the link for more information and registration.

Vygotsky at Work and Play in Educational, Therapeutic and Organizational Settings

A two-day experiential conference sponsored by the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy and the Research Center at the All Stars Project.

The International Class
A Global Developmental Learning Community

A course of study focusing on postmodern, performance-based and social therapeutic theory and practice

This nine-month course of study combines residencies in New York City and distance learning.

Residencies. The International Class spends a total of 4 weeks (1 in the fall, 1 in the winter, 2 in the late spring) at the Institute in New York City working together as a group with Institute faculty. Site visits, observations, participant observations and experiential learning activities will supplement daily seminar activity.

At Home. In between residencies, students study the social therapeutic method, including its history, influences, family resemblances to other approaches and utilization in diverse disciplines, professions and locations. Learning formats include on-line — seminars, mentoring, dialogues with guest colleagues of the Institute and supervision (when applicable) — and conference calls with faculty and mentors.

Study materials include books, articles, videotapes, audiotapes and occasional web casts. Students will create 1-2 projects throughout the course of the program.

Social Therapeutics as Method: An Overview
The Practice of Creating Groups
Language, Conversation and Meaning Making
Performance and Developmental Activity
The Ethics of Psychology, Psychotherapy and Social Therapeutics
Social Therapy and Postmodernism
Social Therapy and Activity Theory
Therapy, Theatre and Community

For more information, including dates, fees, applications and scholarship forms, contact Lois Holzman, Director, East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, . To learn about the Institute's work and the social therapeutic approach, visit www.eastsideinstitute.org.

East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
920 Broadway, 14th floor
New York NY 10010
tel 212.941.8906, fax 212.941.0511

All Stars Project

The All Stars Project, Inc. (ASP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting human development through the use of an innovative performance and development based model.

The ASP creates outside of school, educational and performing arts activities for tens of thousands of poor and minority young people. It sponsors community and experimental theatre, develops leadership training and pursues volunteer initiatives that build and strengthen communities. The ASP actively promotes supplementary education and the performance learning model in academic and civic arenas.

Lois Holzman

Lois Holzman is a co-founder of the Institute with Fred Newman, and now serves as its director. Together with Newman, she has researched, written about and given expression to Newman's discovery of social therapy.

Dr. Holzman is the author or editor of eight books on social therapy and other postmodern approaches to psychology and education. Among them are: Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist; Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models; The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way of Learning (with Fred Newman); and Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind.