role theory as a many-dimensional psychology

[georgia rigg]

Thank you Adam, for mentioning my work in blending psychomotor therapy and psychodrama.  I don't know where other award winners keep their certificates, but my ASGPP Innovator's Award sits in a prominent place in my bedroom, where I can remind myself that the years of work really paid off in those moments of recognition!  Jack and I continue to refine the model, adding John Mosher's Healing Circle Model and Jack's Five Element model of Oriental Medicine to the mix--really a tapestry of wonderful and productive means of healing.  We have a great 5 day workshop coming up at the end of September, and I'm already excited about how the model will have grown in the past couple of months.  Hope all is well with you, and that you are surviving the midwest heat wave--it has mostly been in the 60's and 70's here on the Pacific coast.  Blessings on your day, Georgia Rigg


--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Adam Blatner <ablatner at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Adam Blatner <ablatner at verizon.net>
> Subject: role theory as a many-dimensional psychology
> To: connie at souldrama.com
> Cc: "georgia rigg" <georgiaarigg at yahoo.com>, "Jack Shupe" <soulenacting at gmail.com>, list at grouptalkweb.org
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 6:02 AM
> Hi Connie, (and all),
>     In response to your recent comments on this most
> auspicious of dates (I think 8 is especially auspicious in
> China, which is why they're opening the Olympics---is it
> today?)
>             Your Souldrama work --- interesting that you
> call these imagined roles "altered states of
> consciousness."  Would involvement in any role playing
> also fit into this category?
>           Your noting developmental lines, and how many
> there are, according to various theorists, was delightful.
> I'm tempted to harrumph!  When there are so many,
> perhaps it is misleading to view them in that fashion rather
> than simply recognizing that almost all roles can be
> developed from a more, well, under-developed level to a more
> highly discriminated level; that most roles can be overdone
> or played in exclusion of others---becoming habitual, fixed,
> etc. and so forth. 
> 
>    I can see that you continue to thicken the theoretical
> foundations of your work, using different categories used by
> Jung, Ken Wilber, and others. 
> 
>              By the way, you included a copy to
> Transpessoal at yahoogroups.com
>                    Does this overlap with Al Pesso's
> Psychomotor therapy? Are you aware of Georgia Riggs' and
> Jack Shupe's work with this approach? (They presented on
> its overlap with psychodrama at the ASGPP conference in San
> Antonio last April.)  What do you know about that approach?
> (Just to network y'all and wonder if there are other
> folks on Grouptalk who know about this method. I've
> known about it and mentioned it even in my first Acting-In
> in 1973 and before.) 
> 
>           Warmly, Adam
>   
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Connie Miller 
>   Cc: Transpessoal at yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 6:12 AM
>   Subject: [SPAM] Re: Patricia, do tell more about Janet
> and how you use it forpsychodrama (Anne)L
> 
> 
>    Dear Patty and Neil,  
> 
>                     Thank you for bringing Janets work into
> awareness.  The work that I have been doing on souldrama
> takes people through seven altered states of consciousness
> by passing through
>             through seven doorways and the work of Janets
> fits in very nicely as one moves through the levels of
> emotional level of intelligence using Morenos work.   There
> have been many formulations   
>             of stages    in the development of
> consciousness that people encounter and inhabit as they
> develop. These states are obviously to be viewed as
> energetic levels of activation of conscious awareness,
>            constantly shifting. 
>             We can look at the general format of the
> organization of these states on Maslow's (1943, 1954,
> 1968, 1971) Hierarchy of Needs  
>   Anna Freud (1965) proposed the concept of developmental
> lines? to explain how pathology can result from a failure in
> normal human development in one or more areas of growth,
> using developmental lines to chart the emergence of a
> specific developmental potential through a sequence of
> stages of growth. For example, there is a separate line of
> development for the consolidation of a sense of self (Kohut,
> 1971),for affect (Brown, 1985), and for the defenses
> (Vaillant, 1977). Ken Wilber(2000) believes that there are
> roughly two dozen developmental lines: ?morals,
> affects,self-identity, psychosexuality, cognition, ideas of
> the good, role taking,socio-emotional capacity, creativity,
> altruism, several lines that can be called ?spiritual?
> (care, openness, concern, religious faith, meditative
> stages), joy, 
> 
>   The doorways of Souldrama can be a method to enter
> transpersonal experience. The first and second doorways
> represent the rational intelligence, the third and fourth
> doorways represent the emotional intelligence and the fifth
> and sixth represent the spiritual intelligence. Door seven
> is where all three intelligences are integrated. The
> doorways offer symbolic rites of passage and structure . The
> rationale for souldrama is that one needs to align their ego
> and soul to be on their higher purpose and gives us a
> structured action method to do so using psychodrama and
> sociometry in each doorway. This includes Carl Jung's
> theory of individuation that states that the individual
> strives to become whole and distinctive from the collective
> (Jung, 1933; Jung & von Franz, 1964). In order for an
> individual to realize their specific purpose, connection
> with one's unique self must be achieved (Eddinger, 1972;
> Harding, 1965). In this context, self is the whole of the
> individual, including all aspects of an individual's
> conscious and unconscious, often referred to as a
> paradoxical union of opposites (Harding, 1965). The Self is
> superior to the ego and is experienced as the center of the
> personality (Jung, 1933). If individuals become conscious of
> their whole personality, the self, they can become great
> spiritual leaders by becoming aware of their higher purposes
> and potential capabilities. 
> 
>   Blessings Connie