get ideas out in the virtual forum

Mon Apr 13 07:56:02 CDT 2009

Arlene would be a great resource – she’s also a great presenter.

Having lived and worked in Lancaster County, Pa., for many years and trained
with Gerry Tremblay and Donell Miller in Philadelphia, I can also say that
there are many, many treatment programs in the Philadelphia and eastern
Pennsylvania area with many psychodramatists and psychodrama-interested
people.

Nancy Roberts Willis is at Keystone, a respected treatment center for
sex-addicted persons in suburban Philly.

Tian Dayton and I are connected to the Caron Treatment Centers in
Wernersville, Pa.

Rhona Case and Janell Adair are familiar with many inpatient and outpatient
facilities in the area.

Colleen Baratka is connected to Renfrew, the eating disorder center, and
used to, or still may, do groups there.

David Moran should have connections with many recovery-oriented places as
well.

Etc.

Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP

Lake House Health & Learning Center

932 Lake Ave.

Racine, WI 53403

(262) 633-2645

karenc at wi.rr.com

www.lakehousecenter.com

http://midwestpsychodrama.blogspot.com

http://lakehouseracine.blogspot.com

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From: Ann Hale [mailto:annehale at swva.net] 
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 8:45 PM
To: drjb at mindspring.com; HV Psychodrama; karenc at wi.rr.com; 'Adam Blatner';
grouptalk Listserv
Subject: Re: get ideas out in the virtual forum

Arlene Story, an addictions specialist (including sexual addiction)  and
TEP, located in Florida is head of clinical in an excellent treatment
facility (The Refuge). She may have some ideas about approaching the
addictions and recovery folks.  Perhaps we could have a theme something like
"Healing the addictions story"

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From: drjb at mindspring.com 

To: HV Psychodrama <mailto:hvpi at hvc.rr.com>  ; karenc at wi.rr.com ; 'Adam
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Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 7:59 PM

Subject: Re: get ideas out in the virtual forum

Hi Rebecca, Charlie Stovall from Dallas brought us Sante. She has been a
psychodrama student for several years (Dorothy Satten, and mine). She has
come to three conferences now and was the only one from Texas this year.
Sante had one of only two tables this year. We do need more advertisers at
the conference and anyone who can bring that to us really does us a big
favor. This year we competed with AGPA who had a larger conference the week
before and frankly, the management company did not come through with their
promise to bring advertisers.
I love the enthusiasm and the ideas of the membership for improving
conference and ASGPP. Hope we don't lose this momentum. 
Thanks, jeanne
-----Original Message-----
>From: HV Psychodrama <hvpi at hvc.rr.com>
>Sent: Apr 3, 2009 9:24 AM
>To: karenc at wi.rr.com, 'Adam Blatner' <adam at blatner.com>, grouptalk Listserv
<list at grouptalkweb.org>
>Subject: Re: get ideas out in the virtual forum
>
>Dear Karen et al,
>Thank you for your suggestions. I have suggested to members of the council 
>for the last couple of years that we offer a conference with a strong focus

>on recovery. If you Google psychodrama, you will find that it is mainly 
>recovery programs that are still using and promoting the method in 
>agency/program settings. Philadelphia is close to the home of the Caron 
>foundation as well as other established recovery centers.
>
>I just got a brochure from Santé, an addictions program in Texas. The 
>brochure had a whole article about psychodrama. We need to be doing
outreach 
>to these programs, to get their folks to present and to get their folks to 
>our conferences.
>
>I loved this past conference...it was like a big family reunion and I think

>there is a real need for that. But there is also a need to reach out and 
>bring new people in...
>
>One part of the problem is man power. I doubled the amount of ads for the 
>conference brochure when they were in Brooklyn that first year simply by 
>making hours of phone calls. It takes more people power than the council
can 
>do alone. Karen, will you help me create a PR plan for the Philadelphia 
>conference that we can offer to the council?
>
>Who among us knows what other conferences are coming up, where we can 
>present and "advertise" our conference? Especially in the Mid Atlantic 
>States.
>
>Rebecca
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Karen Carnabucci" <karenc at wi.rr.com>
>To: "'Adam Blatner'" <adam at blatner.com>; "grouptalk Listserv" 
><list at grouptalkweb.org>
>Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:50 PM
>Subject: RE: get ideas out in the virtual forum
>
>
>OK, Adam, you got me.
>
>I said I'd make suggestions, and here they are - 28 ideas that might raise
>attendance at our conference. I am certain that there are more, and I
invite
>everyone on this list to add one, two, three or more ideas of their own.
>
>Make the conference as affordable as reasonably possible.
>
>Have a well-thought-out conference theme that attracts people who are
>interested in the theme. No more vague theme titles or even "Meet Me In St.
>Louis" - one that I myself suggested this year, mind you, as part of the
>theme committee - but am now thinking quite differently. Instead make the
>theme related to what a person will GET if he or she attends whether he or
>she is a psychodramatist or not - or even interested in psychodrama -
>Innovative Healing For Trauma, Make Relationships Really Good, Peace Not
>War, whatever. The conferences that really draw people - like the
>Psychotherapy Networker and Smart Marriages - appeal to many disciplines,
>ages and people. The themes are important. Check to see how Smart Marriages
>(www.smartmarriages.com) makes its conference so attractive and appealing -
>even though the site is rather ordinary. It has a lot of great ideas that
we
>can use.
>
>Spend some time to write and rewrite what is so special about the
conference
>so the description is really appealing to people who haven't even heard of
>psychodrama. Don't assume that the same people will be coming every year,
>just because they love psychodrama and are loyal to it.
>
>Don't have the conference the same time as other major conferences that
>might draw like-minded people. The conference of the Psychotherapy
Networker
>(www.psychotherapynetworker.com) took place March 26-29, 2009. Its site has
>some interesting and appealing ways of promoting its conference, including
>video previews and bring-a-friend discount.
>
>Update the ASGPP site IMMEDIATELY about the next conference place and date.
>This information should be written up and ready to be uploaded on the last
>day o the current conference. People need to see this information right
now.
>
>The National Wellness Conference (www.nationalwellness.org) offers free
>webinars. This idea might be adapted to promote the conference and give a
>free psychodrama credit.
>
>Put as much information online as possible for vendors, advertisers,
>attendees, presenters. This saves paper, time, postage and mailing costs.
In
>the catalog, let readers know that more is online.
>
>Have a prize for the lucky person picked out from the first 100
>registrations - a free ad in the conference catalog or a really special
gift
>basket. I sure would contribute one of my books and/or gift certificates
and
>I bet others would too.
>
>Help attendees, especially new attendees, learn the ins and outs of
>attending the conference easily - tips on finding roommates, sharing
>shuttles and other transportation, a map with extra food choices, etc.
Smart
>Marriages does a good job of this also.
>
>Make the conference catalog less expensive - use cheaper paper for printing
>and therefore have more affordable ads, and forget the multiple on-and-on
>credentials of the presenters. Many people would appreciate this and more
>ads would be received. Support advertisers to write better and more
engaging
>ads. Smart Marriages does this and has a beautiful catalog and the cheaper
>paper holds color well.
>
>Use the extra space in the catalog to mention the award winners and why
they
>are so wonderful - even just ½ page would be fine for this.
>
>Don't bother having a really big catalog during the conference. Save paper
>and save money. Just tell us what rooms to go to on one sheet of paper,
>using front and back.
>
>Solicit ads for the conference catalog from people and places other than
>just psychodramatists and ASGPP members --  book publishers, therapy supply
>businesses, educators, Web sites, treatment centers, colleges, therapy
>products, marketing and practice-building coaches, Psychotherapy Networker,
>other conferences, etc. (I recognize this trend has been started but it can
>be expanded significantly).
>
>Use the internet much, much more widely to publicize the conference. So
much
>is free, and all is needed is the time it take to post.
>
>Have spouse/partner discount rate if they are willing to share materials.
>
>Offer attendees the opportunity to pick and choose. If they want to attend
>Friday night and Saturday morning, make it easy to do so.
>
>Announce conference on discussion lists for all professionals who would
>benefit, not just Grouptalk and Dramatherapy List and a couple of others.
>There are zillions of lists.
>
>Create YouTube videos; send the public to the addresses of the videos and
>always mention the time, date and place of the conference in the video
>description. Ask psychodramatists who already have YouTube videos add or
>change this information if possible.
>
>Upload conference catalog on www.scribd.com.
>
>Have a conference flyer online at the ASGPP site to download and post.
>
>Ask every trainer, practitioner and creative arts therapist and member to
>put the conference info on their Web sites and/or blogs and/or e-mail
>newsletters. Provide an electronic announcement to ease the
>
>Add ASGPP to Facebook with special Facebook page. Then "friend" the page.
>Lots of people will be exposed to ASGPP.
>
>Put up a MySpace page about ASGPP. Mention the conference.
>
>Ask all LinkedIn members to mention conference their member page "doings"
>and ask LinkedIn members to announce on the groups they belong to. There
are
>hundreds of therapy groups, attorney groups, geographic groups, educator
>groups and training groups on LinkedIn.
>
>Provide a pre-written press release to all presenters - in electronic
format
>- for the presenters to send to their local newspapers, newsletters and
>other media 1-2 months prior to the conference.
>
>Ask the conference city's Chamber of Commerce and/or visitor info group to
>publicize the conference in the city's tourist literature, Web site, etc.,
>starting NOW.
>
>Provide a CD with all the handouts of all the conference presenters to all
>attendees. This would require presenters to create their handouts early
>enough to be integrated into the CD but would a wonderful resource because
>as we all know, there are so many good topics that are presented at the
same
>time. The Qualitative Research Consultants Organization (www.qrca.org) does
>this. I presented there several years ago and still have my copy.
>
>Consider what would need to happen for YOU to make this a must-attend
event.
>
>Having written these, I am mindful that we are mostly volunteers with lots
>of other things on our plates. However, the more people who attend our
>conference benefit all of us, members, practitioners, trainers, the
>organization and the public itself.
>
>
>
>Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP
>
>Lake House Health & Learning Center
>932 Lake Ave.
>Racine, WI 53403
>
>(262) 633-2645
>karenc at wi.rr.com
>
>www.lakehousecenter.com
>http://midwestpsychodrama.blogspot.com
>http://lakehouseracine.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Blatner [mailto:ablatner at verizon.net]
>Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:40 PM
>To: karenc at wi.rr.com; grouptalk Listserv
>Subject: get ideas out in the virtual forum
>
>Hi Karen, you said, in your interesting last email just now, " I have a
>number of ideas
>regarding ways to create more interest in attending and updating the
>conference, and I
>would like to make these ideas available to whoever wishes to hear them. A
>number of these
>ideas have to do with marketing the organization, using the internet more
>creatively and
>languaging.
>     AB: Sure, let's get this stuff out in our community.
>                Some might be more relevant for the ASGPP in the USA, but
>from what you
>said, I suspect some of your ideas might be useful to our colleagues in Oz,
>UK, and
>elsewhere.
>
>
>    warmly, adam
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