ST. LOUIS ASGPP CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS

Tue Apr 7 21:02:47 CDT 2009

Dear Anath, I really like this idea of an ongoing psychodrama theatre--please keep proposing it. If you are willing, you might submit the idea as a proposal to the conference committee, offering yourself and others who are willing as directors. When the program committee gets it in  writing, they are more likely to remember and consider it as more than a passing idea. It might be a really good all day post conference workshop as well.

This is how we got the reflection groups started. I will work on reflection groups for next year because I think they are a great way to stay "homey" with old and new folks in small groups. I do not think they are a substitute for the process room or for what you are proposing.

I am always disappointed about how few psychodramas are done at the conference. Are we afraid of our own method?

I, too, loved being at the conference this year--it felt less hectic and offerred opportunities to be with people more deeply. Hope to see you soon, Jeanne

Please consider coming to see Zerka in Charlottesville. Here are the workshop dates and details:
Dear Psychodramatists, 
     This is a reminder that you are invited to some very special weekends with Zerka Moreno, teaching and directing in her home in Charlottesville, VA. 
     Now is the time for you to send your rsvp and deposit ($100) for the weekend(s) of your choice. This is such a unique and wonderful opportunity to be with peers and with Zerka in the safe intimacy of her living room. I can promise a worthwhile and heartfelt experience. 

    The workshops will start Friday night from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.; continue on Saturday, from 10:00 am to 6:30 p.m. with a break to go out for lunch and will conclude
with a Sunday session from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Because they are held in Zerka's living room, they are limited to 12 participants.

   The cost is $400 with a 10% discount for ASGPP members and IAGP members.
CEUs are offered for psychodrama, NBCC and NADAC.

  Send registration or inquiries to: Dr. Jeanne Burger, 1023 West Princess Anne Rd., Norfolk, VA. 23507
Checks should be made out Zerka T. Moreno Workshops

Workshops scheduled for 2009
Suitable for TEPs, CPs, students, those who are new to psychodrama

May 1, 2 & 3, 2009
Doing, Un-doing, Re-doing

 June 19, 20, & 21, 2009        
The Drama of Your Life

July 17, 18, & 19 2009 
Necessary Changes

September 25. 26 & 27, 2009   
Rewriting Your Script

October 23, 24, & 25, 2009
Unmasking Ourselves

Charlottesville is located 2 hours from Dulles airport in Washington, D.C. 
The Newport News/Williamsburg  airport is 2 1/2 hours to the East.
The Richmond, Virginia airport is 1 1/2 hours to the East.

Charlottesville also has it's own airport.
The Charlottesville airport is about 20 minutes from Zerka’s home.
Amtrak travels to DC with bus service to Charlottesville.
Go to www.pursuecharlottesville.com for some info on the city, maps and attractions

Lodging suggestions can be sent upon registration. 

If you are driving, Zerka lives close to the 250/ US 29 junction.
 From E or W I64, take N29 exit until you get to Barracks Rd.
 Go left on Barracks Rd and then straight thru 3 stoplights,
 (last one is at Georgetown Rd) and then turn left at The Colonnades
 (Directly across from a country deli). Once in The Colonnades complex
  follow the signs to the left to Cottage 24.
 Zerka’s phone number is 434 -245-4006.
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>From: thana ag <anathga at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 4, 2009 10:12 PM
>To: Adam Barcroft <amb1111 at mac.com>, "list at grouptalkweb.org" <list at grouptalkweb.org>
>Subject: RE: ST. LOUIS ASGPP CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS
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>Dear Ed,Adam,Rrebecca,Kate and All,
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>Reflecting on the Meeting in St.Luis,
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>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)
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>There was something  pleasant,holding  about  small number of participants,homey..,
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>And that brought the following thought to mind:
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>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
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>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.
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>Jumping in and stirring things up a little,
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>Adam Barcroft
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> Adam M. Barcroft MS, MA, NCCCo-DirectorThe Moreno Institute EastWork (413) 625-8322/Cell (413) 695-6666Fax (413) 625-8322www.MorenoInstituteEast.orgamb at MorenoInstituteEast.org
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