Wasn't there a session involving Ole Drier on therepeutic work, Lois:?
mike
PS-- And what about the idea of us gathinger together a bunch of key
papers /abstracts to ground discussion?
On 10/6/05, Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
>
> Adding my impressions to Ana's and Dot's and others...
>
> Just about everyone (myself included) was frustrated that the sessions
> they
> REALLY wanted to go to were at the same time as theirs! That's a good
> thing
> though, reflective of an interesting program.
>
> Like others have mentioned, I was pleased with the presence of play and
> its
> relationship to development. I also urge we do more interactive and
> playful
> sessions, like Ana's and to a lesser extent, the one Artin, Tony Perone,
> Carrie and I did. The whole issue of adult play, adult learning and
> development is, I think, underrepresented in ISCAR. Maybe that is
> changing.
>
> A new thread was therapeutics, which I was so pleased to see (as I've been
> just abut the only one presenting on that in the past). I presented in one
> session and Pedro gave a terrific overview of how CHAT might contribute to
> reinvigorating (my word, not his) psychotherapy. I would love to see an
> ongoing discussion of AT and psychotherapy, which I could initiate if
> there
> is interest.
>
> It's my impression that there was lots on children and relatively little
> on
> teens, except in relation to identity. I wished for more reports and
> discussion on intervention projects.
>
> Overall, I found the environment more informal, friendly and just less
> stuffy than in the past!
>
> Lois
>
>
>
> > From: Dot Robbins <drobbins72000@yahoo.com>
> > Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:36:02 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > Subject: [xmca] ISCAR - Sevilla 2005 -- Theoretical Concepts in CHAT and
> their
> > connestion...
> >
> > Dear Ana,
> > Thank you so much for your reflections....I found myself returning to a
> > mountain of work, with no perceived time for reflection of Seville.
> Thanks for
> > changing that. It was a deep joy to speak with you, Ana, and to connect
> with
> > others, and a little sadness at not being able to hear more
> presentations....I
> > would like to say that I was profoundly touched at the session that
> Michael
> > Roth organized, especially with Bakhurst's positive-critical thoughts on
> the
> > thrid generation of activity theory.....points that really need to be
> > addressed. And, Mike's statements, as I told him, touched me to the very
> core
> > of my being. Clearly, we need to ask ourselves who profits from CHAT
> research
> > and practice.....Mike received a question about the "romantic" climate
> in the
> > film the "Butterflies of Zagorsk," a BBC production during the 1980s
> about the
> > blind and deaf institute in the former Zagorsk, Russia, where people
> were
> > trained so that they actually could receive higher degrees in
> psychology!
> > at
> > Moscow State University. One woman, is a mother of two children, a poet,
> a
> > psychologist....and my mind wandered back to this nostalgia. Mike
> stopped it
> > immediately....he told us that every situation we are in can be used for
> our
> > research (and of course, we know it can enhance our own transformation,
> and
> > that of others). Mike spoke of his work in Africa, and how that is his
> > laboratory....and of very large classes in California he wants to
> humanize. I
> > was stunned beyond belief at his words, as I am very involved in an
> orphanage
> > 120 km West of Moscow, and to be honest, I have never viewed this
> situation as
> > my field of research, my field of helping to create transformation. And,
> I
> > returned home to rural Missouri truly empowered inside, to start to
> create my
> > research field every day, in the trenches where I live at the moment.
> Mike's
> > speech completely transformed me, as a human being, and as a researcher.
> I
> > learned to stop romanticizing the past, and jump into "today," no
> matter!
> > where I
> > am, and really live, and also know that I am the one who has profited so
> > greatly from Vygotskian-inspired theory and practice. Sevilla was
> wonderful!
> > May some of these notes we are writing reach the organizers, and may we
> show
> > them our gratitude. As well, Seth has given more of himself to ISCRAT
> and
> > ISCAR than many of us realize....He is often alone in many areas, and
> each of
> > us needs to jump in more and help him and others with concrete actions.
> I
> > thank all of you for so many things as well. For me, Sevilla is a new
> > beginning....And, I really want to thank you, Ana, and Lois (perhaps
> others)
> > for going beyond words to active sessions that allow us to move,
> interact, and
> > become more human.
> > warmly,
> > Dot
> >
> >
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