conference psychodrama

Sun Apr 5 16:54:41 CDT 2009

Hi Anath, I'd like to hear more about what you harvested from your workshop on kabbalah

      I was taken by the idea that more sociodrama might be relevant because as my kids are visiting, it occurred to me that many kids raised with pretty good parenting may have neuroses that will be less about what the parents did "wrong" but rather what is missing in the postmodern world regarding roots, purpose, optimism, identity, and so forth,  deficiencies that I didn't have growing up in mid-20th century, but are more pervasive today, and deficiencies that I think might be just as pathogenic as overly protective or overly harsh parenting, inconsistency, and other issues that are often present in modern psychodramas. Yet these issues might require more sociodrama and even some axiodrama, looking at the relative ambiguity and lack for many of a transpersonal or larger philosophical ground. 

   Warmly, Adam
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  From: thana ag 
  To: Adam Barcroft ; list at grouptalkweb.org 
  Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 9:12 PM
  Subject: RE: ST. LOUIS ASGPP CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS

  Dear Ed,Adam,Rrebecca,Kate and All,

  Reflecting on the Meeting in St.Luis,

  1st here is the quote from Goethe that I used in my workshop ,"Kaballah meets Moreno" and promised to email :
  'until one is committed there is hesitency...boldnesds has genius,power,and magic in it .."(goethe)

  There was something  pleasant,holding  about  small number of participants,homey..,

  And that brought the following thought to mind:

  While we can pursue ways to augment the number of participants by all the various ways suggested,we can also accept that our numbers are shrinking and make it work to our advantage.How? By offering a unique opportunity to live in a  Society as envisioned by Moreno for the length of the Conference;.Organize the Conference as a Full  Immersion in Psychodrama-structured in a way that  "each of us will serve as a  therapeutic agent to another" by  among other possibilities running an ongoing theater,offering  to as many people as possible to be protagonists, auxiliaries etc .After "sharing"  -the director and those who would want more didactic learning could move to a processing room,while a new director would warm up a new group to a new drama.
  The emotional bond that may result will definatelly draw more people in subsequent years,it maybe a wonderful opportunity for those who run institutes to attract new students,for prospective TEPs to use it as an opportunity for supervised directing(saving lots of money),for professionals from other fields an opportunity to experience  a variety of  Pd styles,of   Sociodrama ,and an explanation how fdifers from Drama Therapy,again as directed by differrent PD directors..In short -we'll be oferring a form that no other venue does.
   The emotional bond- creating a community that wants to keep in touch,and hopefully reunite,may create a following ,and referrals as a unique opportunity to learn  the pure form of this method. from a variety of Directors concentrated in one place-should indeed this format  be successful and a big influx on numbers should follow= we wil have to change the conserve....Should that be our problem... Just a thought.
  It was good to say hello to old faces and see new glowing ones.
  warmly,
  anath
  From: amb1111 at mac.com
  To: list at grouptalkweb.org
  Subject: ST. LOUIS ASGPP CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS
  Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:20:49 -0400

  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
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  amb at MorenoInstituteEast.org

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