New International Class makes first visit to NYC

The Institute welcomed its 2013-2014 International Class, which gathered in New York City for a week of whirlwind activity.

The smiling faces in the photo above belong to (front row, l. to r.) Jelena Aleksic (Serbia), Ksenija Milic (Serbia), Lois Holzman (ESI director, NYC), Helen Abel (California), Shaheen Akter (Bangladesh), Teresa Cavanaugh (Canada); (back row, l. to r.) Sarah Weiler (Brazil), Pauline Warinaar (the Netherlands), Lea Cikos (Serbia), Nilton Mendes (Brazil), and Elena Boukouvala (Greece). Read their bios here.

The class will be back in February and again in June for two more residencies — all part of an in-depth, 10-month training program in the social therapeutic approach that has trained dozens of practitioners, scholars and researchers from cities and villages across the globe since 2004.