New psychologies are needed: Psychologies of possibility, not prediction. Psychologies concerned not merely with what is but with what is becoming. Psychologies created not by a few experts, but re-created in many places and many times over with the participation of ordinary people. Psychologies that do not tell us who we are, but instead help us actively create our lives in new ways. Psychologies that create community -- continuously.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Heldagskursus i en performativ tilgang til læring og udvikling

På dette heldagskursus vil LOIS HOLZMAN og DAN FRIEDMAN introducere dig for den socialterapeutiske metode - en unik tilgang til menneskelig udvikling og læring med fokus på gruppen samt på udvikling gennem performance. Gennem de sidste 30 år har Holzman og Friedman været med til at skabe og lede forskellige former for pædagogik, folkeskole, læreruddannelse, ungdomsskole, psykoterapi, forskning, organisationskonsultation, valgpolitik og teater, som fortsat praktiseres i dag – primært i USA, men også i adskillige lande i Sydamerika, Afrika, Asien og Europa.

DEN SOCIALTERAPEUTISKE METODE ER
• en anerkendt tilgang inden for både de postmoderne og de Vygotsky-inspirerede bevægelser inden for psykologi, psykoterapi, uddannelse og organisationsudvikling.
• en praktisk, filosofisk og aktivistisk tilgang, der relaterer til mennesker som skabere af deres kultur og improviserende performere af deres liv.
• det metodiske grundlag for en række specifikke tiltag, der anvender den socialterapeutiske forståelse af læring og udvikling i klinikker, klasseværelser, hospitaler, fritidsaktiviteter, arbejdspladser og samfund verden over.

KURSETS PROGRAM vil veksle mellem øvelser, fælles refleksioner og korte teoretiske oplæg og ende med udlevering af en ’værktøjskasse’ i form af et minikompendium med øvelser og teoretiske pointer. Øvelserne er inspireret af improvisationsteater og designet til at skabe fællesskab og tillid i gruppen. De fælles refleksioner vil fokusere på, hvordan deltagerne kan anvende læringen og øvelserne i deres eget arbejde. Undervejs vil vi udforske følgende emner: performance og leg; menneskelig udvikling og gruppekreativitet; styrkelse af socialitet og håndtering af fremmedgørelse; udviklende filosofi og læring; sprogets betydning for udvikling; samt Marx’, Vygotskys og Wittgensteins bidrag til den socialterapeutiske tilgang.

PÅ KURSET VIL DU BL.A. LÆRE, HVORDAN MAN
• Ser og forholder sig til gruppen frem for individet som genstand for indsats og udvikling.
• Bruger teatralsk improvisation som en metode til facilitering og udvikling af gruppen.
• Udnytter en gruppes diversitet til at maksimere dens emotionelle, sociale og kognitive kreativitet.
• Værdsætter og anvender konflikt til at udvikle gruppen.
• Støtter alle medlemmer til at tage ansvar for gruppens udvikling og effektivitet.

MÅLGRUPPEN: Kurset er især relevant for praktikere inden for psykologi, undervisning, teater, psykiatri, socialt arbejde, antropologi, pædagogik, ungdomsskole, sociologi, fritidsaktiviteter, boligsocialt arbejde, og frivilligt arbejde, men tilmelding er åben for alle interesserede. Du behøver ikke have viden eller erfaringer med gruppearbejde eller med metoden for at deltage, men forventes at deltage aktivt i øvelser og refleksioner. Kurset foregår på engelsk.

PRAKTISKE OPLYSNINGER
TID: Onsdag d. 31/1 kl. 9.00-16.00.
STED: Lokaler centralt i København- oplyses snarest.
PRIS: 1200kr /studerende 600kr. (For at få studierabat skal du fremvise dit studiekort samt gyldig indskrivningsbekræftelse ved kursets begyndelse).
ANTAL DELTAGERE: Max. 30.
KONTAKTPERSON: Esben Wilstrup, tlf. 29928370, esbenwi@gmail.com.
TILMELDING: Send en mail til esben.wilstrup@buf.kk.dk med dit navn, telefonnummer og profession. Når du er tilmeldt kurset vil du modtage en mail fra arrangørerne med praktisk information vedrørende kurset.

OM UNDERVISERNE:
LOIS HOLZMAN, PhD, is the director and co-founder of the East Side Institute. As a leading proponent of a cultural approach to human learning and development, she has brought the writings of Lev Vygotsky to bear on the practices and methods of psychotherapy, as well as contributing to advancing their relevance to education, youth development and organizational studies. She is well known for her pioneering work in exploring the human capacities to play and perform and their fundamentality in learning how to learn. Holzman has helped shape and expand the international performance movement as a force for radical social change, through the bi-annual Performing the World conference, the Institute's International Class, and other collaborative community-building projects among psychologists, social workers, educators and cultural workers from around the world. Holzman is particularly respected as an activist scholar who builds bridges between university-based and community-based practices, bringing the traditions and innovations of each to the other. She has written/edited extensively on human development, learning and play; the institutions of psychology and education; and social therapy and its applications. Her most recent book is Vygotsky at Work and Play. Holzman earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Columbia University and was a postgraduate research fellow at the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition.

DAN FRIEDMAN, PhD, has been active in political and experimental theatre as actor, director, playwright and scholar for four decades. He is a founder of the Castillo Theatre and serves as the theatre's artistic director. Most recently he has added working with youth to his cultural projects, as founder and artistic director of Youth Onstage! and the director of Becoming Producers. Friedman has worked closely with Fred Newman for over twenty years, and is editor of Still On The Corner and Other Postmodern Political Plays by Fred Newman. He received his doctorate in theatre history from the University of Wisconsin.

THE EAST SIDE INSTITUTE is an international training, educational and research center for new approaches to human development, learning, therapy and community building. The Institute's work is devoted to changing psychology from a diagnostic, evaluative (and often stigmatizing) practice into a positive and creative force for the emotional, social and cultural development of all people and their communities. During the last 30 years the Institute has developed a unique group-oriented performatory approach called social therapy that relates to people of all ages as social performers and creators of their lives - of what they, their communities and the world are becoming. Drawing from the discoveries of its co-founders-philosopher-psychotherapist Fred Newman and developmental psychologist and learning strategist Lois Holzman- as well as the writings of psychologist Lev Vygotsky and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Institute specializes in creating learning environments that are improvisational, challenging, playful and practical.

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