Events and Classes: March
How Play Builds Business Relationships
Revolutionary Conversations:
How Play Builds Business Relationships
with Joan Ingalls and Charles Alsdorf
Mondays, March 1-22, 7:00–8:30pm
Location: Hope Martin Studio, 39 West 14th Street, Suite 508
(between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Fee: $125.00
CLICK HERE to register
Strong relationships are crucial in business. When we build and cultivate good relationships, new ideas and creative problem-solving have a much better chance of surviving the inevitable challenges of hierarchy and office politics. So how can we get better at navigating and nurturing relationships? By getting better at play. Yes, play! When people play at work, they are more productive and engaged; they stretch themselves to give more, and they’re happier.
In this seminar, we will explore discoveries about play made by Fred Newman, a philosopher, and Lois Holzman, a development psychologist. Over the past 35 years, Newman and Holzman have led the development of innovative and successful non-profit and for-profit organizations that support and advance human development. And, in all of their work, they challenge traditional assumptions about play. They see the lines between play and work as being far less distinct than most of us assume — more dialectical than dichotomous. Using these insights of Newman and Holzman, we will create intellectually challenging — and playful — conversations that have practical implications for enhancing innovation and relationships in business.
Charles Alsdorf is a director at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLC, where he leads project teams in providing professional services to many of Deloitte’s corporate and government clients. He is a longtime student and practitioner of the methodology of Newman and Holzman. In his corporate career, he has blended his skills in building quantitative business models with his skills in organizing effective group dynamics.
Joan Ingalls is a social therapist in private practice in the West Village. Her interest in corporate teams comes out of her friendship with Charles and more than ten years helping sport teams with the Newman-Holzman approach.
How Play Builds Business Relationships
with Joan Ingalls and Charles Alsdorf
Mondays, March 1-22, 7:00–8:30pm
Location: Hope Martin Studio, 39 West 14th Street, Suite 508
(between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Fee: $125.00
CLICK HERE to register
Strong relationships are crucial in business. When we build and cultivate good relationships, new ideas and creative problem-solving have a much better chance of surviving the inevitable challenges of hierarchy and office politics. So how can we get better at navigating and nurturing relationships? By getting better at play. Yes, play! When people play at work, they are more productive and engaged; they stretch themselves to give more, and they’re happier.
In this seminar, we will explore discoveries about play made by Fred Newman, a philosopher, and Lois Holzman, a development psychologist. Over the past 35 years, Newman and Holzman have led the development of innovative and successful non-profit and for-profit organizations that support and advance human development. And, in all of their work, they challenge traditional assumptions about play. They see the lines between play and work as being far less distinct than most of us assume — more dialectical than dichotomous. Using these insights of Newman and Holzman, we will create intellectually challenging — and playful — conversations that have practical implications for enhancing innovation and relationships in business.
Charles Alsdorf is a director at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLC, where he leads project teams in providing professional services to many of Deloitte’s corporate and government clients. He is a longtime student and practitioner of the methodology of Newman and Holzman. In his corporate career, he has blended his skills in building quantitative business models with his skills in organizing effective group dynamics.
Joan Ingalls is a social therapist in private practice in the West Village. Her interest in corporate teams comes out of her friendship with Charles and more than ten years helping sport teams with the Newman-Holzman approach.
From Commune to Community: Still A Hippie After All These Years
Revolutionary Conversations
From Commune to Community: Still A Hippie After All These Years
with David Belmont
Saturdays, March 6-27, 4:00-5:30pm
Location: TRS, Inc., 44 E. 32nd Street, 11th Floor (betw. Park & Madison Aves.)
Fee: $100.00
Click here to register
A red diaper baby who came of age in the halcyon days of the 1960s counter culture, David Belmont spent the 1970s active in the New York City downtown rock music and avant-garde theatre scenes. Then, in 1979, he went into social therapy, met Fred Newman...and was completely transformed. Or was he?
David will lead a conversation about the history and development of the community that includes social therapeutic, educational, cultural and political projects, and "who" it is that makes revolution in our tumultuous times. Bring yourself, your interest, and only legal substances.
David Belmont has worn many hats in the development community, among them: ballot- access expert, coordinating Lenora Fulani's presidential ballot drives in 1988 and 1992; statistician and researcher for the Neo-Independent magazine; social therapy patient since 1979; and musical composer and arranger for the Castillo Theatre. His formal musical credits include co-writing the film score of Fred Newman's Nothing Really Happens (with Josh Neretin), arranging the music (with Michael Walsh) and co-creating the sound design (with Michael Klein) of Fred Newman's Safe At Third (Josh Gibson Don't Bunt) and Heiner Müller's The Task. David co-leads Live Music Continuum workshops with Mary Abrams, has built several small businesses (music publishing and production, business consultation), and plays in amateur racquetball tournaments.
From Commune to Community: Still A Hippie After All These Years
with David Belmont
Saturdays, March 6-27, 4:00-5:30pm
Location: TRS, Inc., 44 E. 32nd Street, 11th Floor (betw. Park & Madison Aves.)
Fee: $100.00
Click here to register
A red diaper baby who came of age in the halcyon days of the 1960s counter culture, David Belmont spent the 1970s active in the New York City downtown rock music and avant-garde theatre scenes. Then, in 1979, he went into social therapy, met Fred Newman...and was completely transformed. Or was he?
David will lead a conversation about the history and development of the community that includes social therapeutic, educational, cultural and political projects, and "who" it is that makes revolution in our tumultuous times. Bring yourself, your interest, and only legal substances.
David Belmont has worn many hats in the development community, among them: ballot- access expert, coordinating Lenora Fulani's presidential ballot drives in 1988 and 1992; statistician and researcher for the Neo-Independent magazine; social therapy patient since 1979; and musical composer and arranger for the Castillo Theatre. His formal musical credits include co-writing the film score of Fred Newman's Nothing Really Happens (with Josh Neretin), arranging the music (with Michael Walsh) and co-creating the sound design (with Michael Klein) of Fred Newman's Safe At Third (Josh Gibson Don't Bunt) and Heiner Müller's The Task. David co-leads Live Music Continuum workshops with Mary Abrams, has built several small businesses (music publishing and production, business consultation), and plays in amateur racquetball tournaments.
Doing the Impossible: Using Play to Help Students Learn
Doing the Impossible: Using Play to Help Students Learn
(no matter what you are trying to teach them)
with Carrie Lobman
Friday, March 19, 6:30-8:30pm
Location: 920 Broadway, 14th Floor (betw. 20 & 21 Streets)
Fee: $25.00, Student/Unemployed $15.00
CLICK HERE to register
Most educational experts agree that play is a critical component of serious learning — learning that involves risk-taking and opens up new possibilities. The East Side Institute and its teacher collaborators have been harnessing play as a creative learning activity for decades, in all kinds of learning environments, across every subject area.
Come hear how alumni of the Institute's training programs have energized teaching and learning. Utilizing discoveries about the performance of learning and learning how to learn, these educators are masters at infusing play, creativity and improvisation into all aspects of teaching — in and out of school.
Discover how you too can play your way through the school year! Presenters work in K-12 classrooms, universities, museums, as well as technology-based and special education settings.
Carrie Lobman is associate professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education Rutgers University and Director of Pedagogy at the East Side Institute (ESI), where she also leads its Developing Teachers Fellowship Program, a teacher development initiative that provides public school teachers with training in a performatory approach to teaching and learning. She is the co-author of Unscripted Learning: Using Improv Activities Across the K-8 Curriculum (Teachers College Press, 2007), a guide to creating improvisational learning environments. Carrie received her M.Ed. from Hunter College, City University of New York, and her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
(no matter what you are trying to teach them)
with Carrie Lobman
Friday, March 19, 6:30-8:30pm
Location: 920 Broadway, 14th Floor (betw. 20 & 21 Streets)
Fee: $25.00, Student/Unemployed $15.00
CLICK HERE to register
Most educational experts agree that play is a critical component of serious learning — learning that involves risk-taking and opens up new possibilities. The East Side Institute and its teacher collaborators have been harnessing play as a creative learning activity for decades, in all kinds of learning environments, across every subject area.
Come hear how alumni of the Institute's training programs have energized teaching and learning. Utilizing discoveries about the performance of learning and learning how to learn, these educators are masters at infusing play, creativity and improvisation into all aspects of teaching — in and out of school.
Discover how you too can play your way through the school year! Presenters work in K-12 classrooms, universities, museums, as well as technology-based and special education settings.
Carrie Lobman is associate professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education Rutgers University and Director of Pedagogy at the East Side Institute (ESI), where she also leads its Developing Teachers Fellowship Program, a teacher development initiative that provides public school teachers with training in a performatory approach to teaching and learning. She is the co-author of Unscripted Learning: Using Improv Activities Across the K-8 Curriculum (Teachers College Press, 2007), a guide to creating improvisational learning environments. Carrie received her M.Ed. from Hunter College, City University of New York, and her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
PHILM: Philosophy & Film @ the Institute
Philm: Philosophy and Film at the East Side Institute
Memento (2000)
with Chris Helm and Rafael Mendez
Friday, March 26, 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: 920 Broadway, 14th Floor (at 20th Street)
Suggested donation: $12.00
Click here to register
Join in for a sociable evening of film … it’s Friday-night-at-the-movies with a philosophical and methodological twist! Enjoy a favorite film, followed by some playful, philosophical conversation.
Memento (2000)… This thriller-in-reverse takes the classic ‘whodunit’ and transforms it into ‘what did I just do?’ raising challenges to self, knowledge and notions of morality.
Christine Helm earned an M.A. in Anthropology and Education and an M.Ed. in Applied Anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is director of the Enterprise Center at the Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York and teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Chris is a faculty member for the Institute’s International Class and Therapist Training Program.
Rafael Mendez is an associate professor and coordinator of psychology at Bronx Community College, his alma mater. He earned his doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology at Boston University in 1983 and was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School at Children's Hospital in Boston. He's a trained social therapist practicing at the Brooklyn Social Therapy Group and is on the faculty of the East Side Institute where he assists in leading Fred Newman's Developmental Philosophy Group.
Memento (2000)
with Chris Helm and Rafael Mendez
Friday, March 26, 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: 920 Broadway, 14th Floor (at 20th Street)
Suggested donation: $12.00
Click here to register
Join in for a sociable evening of film … it’s Friday-night-at-the-movies with a philosophical and methodological twist! Enjoy a favorite film, followed by some playful, philosophical conversation.
Memento (2000)… This thriller-in-reverse takes the classic ‘whodunit’ and transforms it into ‘what did I just do?’ raising challenges to self, knowledge and notions of morality.
Christine Helm earned an M.A. in Anthropology and Education and an M.Ed. in Applied Anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is director of the Enterprise Center at the Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York and teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Chris is a faculty member for the Institute’s International Class and Therapist Training Program.
Rafael Mendez is an associate professor and coordinator of psychology at Bronx Community College, his alma mater. He earned his doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology at Boston University in 1983 and was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School at Children's Hospital in Boston. He's a trained social therapist practicing at the Brooklyn Social Therapy Group and is on the faculty of the East Side Institute where he assists in leading Fred Newman's Developmental Philosophy Group.
How to Talk: A Revolutionary Conversation with Fred Newman
How To Talk: A Revolutionary Conversation with Fred Newman
Sunday, March 28, 2:30-4:00pm
Location: TBA
Fee: $55.00
Details to be announced shortly.
Sunday, March 28, 2:30-4:00pm
Location: TBA
Fee: $55.00
Details to be announced shortly.
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