Looking for Innovators...

[Adam Blatner]

is this the kind of thing people are talking about? 


     
                  Perhaps this is for you or for someone you know who wants 
                  to make a difference:  
                  The International Class: 
                  A Global Learning Community 

                  America's most exciting multicultural learning opportunity!

                   
                  Application deadline for 2008/9 class is July 31. 
                  The International Class brings together innovators - practitioners and scholars from the US and around the world - who share a passion for social change and for advancing performance-based, activity-theoretic approaches to education, therapy, health care and community development. Under the direction of
                  Lois Holzman, the program is a 10-month course of study that combines three short residencies in NYC with online seminars and supervision in the Institute's cutting-edge developmental methodology. 

                  A creative playground and dynamic, cross-cultural learning environment, participants expand their therapeutic, performance and improvisational skills, engage the philosophical and political issues emerging from their research and practice, and build ties with colleagues working in some of the world's most impoverished communities.  


                  Who are participants? In its first four years, The International Class has included 39 practitioners and scholars from Argentina, the Balkans, Bangladesh, Canada, El Salvador, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan and cities across the US.  


                  What do participants say?  "For the last eight years, I have studied welfare policy and have been an advocate for more humane services in New York City. I applied to The International Class out of a recognition that my understanding of poverty was limited - and in some ways, provincial. My colleagues taught me about anti-poverty programs around the world, which helped to broaden my understanding. We also worked as a class to find new ways of handling the financial struggles of individual class members collectively - and took seriously what was needed - including money - to make it possible for this diverse grouping of people to learn together. As an American and an anti-poverty advocate, this experience has been invaluable." 

                  -- Rebecca Widom

                  "Being a member of The International Class has given me an broader perspective on education and youth development, and I have come to see my work in a global context. I am able to share the experiences of my international classmates in Africa, India, Asia and South America -- colleagues who have vastly less resources to work with, face far greater obstacles, and, yet, have continued to be innovative and to give. I've learned that we American educators can no longer hide behind our assumptions of what's possible and what's not. We must create performances of possibility." 

                  -- Joan Mahon-Powell  

                  More information? For more information, including details on program and fee schedules, scholarships, etc., please contact Lois Holzman, Director, East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy at lholzman at eastsideinstitute.org.

                 
           
     

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