drama in education

[Adam Blatner]

Hello, all, are there any folks in the East Coast arena interested in drama in education, 
applying sociodrama, etc.?
   There's a big conference coming up, a joint conference of the American Association of 
Theatre in Education and the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, in I think New 
York City, summer, 2009. Might any of you attend and/or check their websites and perhaps 
present?
        I consider this the most sociatrically promising frontier of Moreno's methods.
 That is to say, as much as I appreciate psychotherapy---i.e., trying to heal people who 
have accepted the "sick role"---, I think that applying these methods in business, 
communities, education, religion, and other contexts may make far more change in the long 
run.

      (This is in line with physicians who turn aside from treating those who are "sick" 
to promote public health measures not yet associated in the public's mind with sickness---  
e.g., physicians promoting pure water, sanitation, cleanliness, pure food (versus 
worm-infested), the building of workable privies and toilets (to prevent, say, hookworm), 
etc.  Tens or Hundreds of Thousands are helped by their efforts, whereas if they simply 
tried to help individual patients or even groups, the numbers would be more on the order 
of hundreds.)   warmly, Adam