New ASGW Funding for Psychodrama Research proposals due Jan. 30

[Adam M. Barcroft]

Dear Group-talkers,

I thought the following information relevant to our recent discussion  
regarding the creation of, and need for,
more group research using the Morenean Arts and Sciences:

This just in my "in-box" today, through the American Counseling  
Association's "enews" letter, dated November 18, 2008, V.X #23:

"The Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) has set aside  
$1,000 for professional research and will be making grants of up to  
$500 to increase understanding of group leadership, group membership,  
group processes, or training in group work. Open to professional and  
student members of ASGW, the research grant program will be  
administered by the Research Committee. Proposals must be received by  
January 30, 2009. A call for proposals is available from Deborah  
Rubel, ASGW Research Committee Co-chair at:

deborah.rubel at oregonstate.edu."

It looks like this offer is limited only to group workers in the U.S.,  
and it bears noting that this offer is open to other types of group- 
work besides our favorite Morenean brand.

My own opinion is that there is room here for group-work that includes  
Moreno WITH other approaches, such as the use of outdoor adventure- 
based counseling (wilderness, ropes-courses), non-competitive group  
games, storytelling and story-coaching, the use of the contributions  
of Bowen, Erickson, Jung, or even approaches of (dare I say) Gestalt,  
Yalom, Bion and others?  These seem like fruitful areas for inquiry,  
as long as the practice is compatible in it's theoretical elements.

Of course I realize that we of the ASGPP have our own Journal-In- 
Transition to support,
and that is another discussion that continues here on Group-talk and  
on one of the ASGPP Forum discussions, at:

http://www.asgpp.org/ForumII/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=530

For hard-core Morenean research, I am interested in research that  
examines Moreno's General Hypotheses and Recommendations for Further  
Research, Books I-IV, WSS (1953 edition) pp.696-717.

Even farther on the fringe, more abstract, yet critical to mapping the  
territory of humanity's survival, is sociometric research that looks  
at advancing what Moreno called Clinical Sociology and Sociatry.  With  
sociometry we can measure, predict, till the soil for a science of  
peace that surpasses all therapy (WSS 695).


Peace,

Adam

Adam M. Barcroft MS, MA, NCC
Co-Director
The Moreno Institute East
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