ST. LOUIS ASGPP CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS

[Adam M. Barcroft]

Dear Ed and Group-talk,
	The St. Louis conference offered for me some great strengthening and  
reinforcing of positive connections,
and I made many new ones, found some companionship, and I even  
attended a birthday party.
There was great food (if you are not a vegetarian),
the world's largest botanical garden,
the St. Louis Arch, a world-class Catholic Basilica, and like most  
human societies,
showed evidence of poverty along racial and cultural lines.
As I looked outside my Ritz-Carlton window, and across the train tracks,
I wondered how inequalities in the human condition are to be addressed  
with Moreno's methods and ideas,
and then I became aware of our steeply declining membership, and our  
journal remains without a publisher for some months now, and  
foundering in its current state, and I thought what an amazing  
paralell to what we are experiencing nationally in the USA and now  
globally, that the ASGPP is faced with the need to reinvent itself,  
it's assumptions, premises positions, and practices.  This reality  
sent a palpable shockwave moving through the ASGPP conference  
membership this year.  Changing ourselves is often daunting, and  
exciting, and this felt like as exciting a proposition as comes along  
maybe once a generation.  We have some of the finest models already  
existing in the world, and around the world, to consider as our models  
(ANZPA, BPA, FETPO).  We have many creative minds and the technology  
to transform ourselves.  This time of great crisis is also a time for  
creative opportunities that dare the ASGPP to dream itself again, and  
anew.  I felt the undeniable shock of the ASGPP being on the brink of  
decline, and I see the microcosm of the current human condition  
mirrored by the ASGPP, as we now realize that to move forward we must  
create new conserves that restructure our conferences and grow our  
membership.
	So that's it Ed, another perspective, and what I am stating here  
might be considered bold and controversial, and not information to be  
shared in a space such as a public list-serve like Group-Talk, but I  
share my perspective because it seems to me that we don't have to hold  
onto only ourselves, and we don't have to do it alone.  There might be  
some creative support by the Group-Talk community for what we the  
ASGPP is going through, and we might find something useful in it, a  
global network of support helping us to emerge from the soup we are  
in, and into a new generation Morenean butterfly.

Jumping in and stirring things up a little,

Adam Barcroft

Adam M. Barcroft MS, MA, NCC
Co-Director
The Moreno Institute East
Work (413) 625-8322/Cell (413) 695-6666
Fax (413) 625-8322
www.MorenoInstituteEast.org
amb at MorenoInstituteEast.org

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