FACE BOOK COMMUNITY: SOCIOMETRIC ENCOUNTER AND BONUS HAIKU

[Dr Kate Hudgins]

Dear Adam

You say it all so elegantly.  My early learning of Moreno at my  
internship at St Es in the early 80's taught that JL was an early  
believer and pioneer of technology.  So, he would be pleased to see  
us with stars in our eyes about these news ways to meet in cyberspace  
with many new "feelers" out of how to make sensory contact that moves  
beyond the written word and more into interpersonal and even some  
might say cosmic reality.

I am putting together a web video conference for some people in  
Russia to be able to interview Zerka sometime in June.  I will take  
her to the media center at UVA where we will have a webcam and a MAC  
set up and do a SKYPE video conference for an hour or an hour and a  
half so people can ask her questions while she sits here in Cville  
comfortable but they can still be in her "presence".  We hope to make  
a podcast out of it.

I am still putting together my avatar to meet you and others on Godot  
island for our first Second Life psychodrama meeting there.  Kate

On Feb 15, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Adam M. Barcroft wrote:

> My dear Edward, you are evolving, right before my eyes.
> You have overcome your own internal forces of resistance to moving,  
> sociometrically speaking, closer to technology.  Don't worry Ed,  
> you will never become an Automaton!  I am glad to see Ivo joining  
> with enthusiasm, and creativity, and I applaud your creation of The  
> Facebook page: SOCIOMETRIC ENCOUNTER GLOBAL group!  I like the  
> professional appeal of LinkIn, and I think it is a very good  
> professional networking resource.  But these days, nothing compares  
> with the popularity of the Virtual pages of Facebook and MySpace,  
> Twitter and others.  It took me this long to get a Facebook  
> account, and the connections there I am finding very satisfying,  
> Facebook social atom has rapidly grown and keeps taking shape and  
> depth, everyday.  Even so, a rapidly expanding social atom is a big  
> role demand...!
> Like Kate I too have had quite a few OMG's on Facebook.  I have  
> found connections 35 years old, from when I was 7 years old, and  
> last week I even had some healing with a childhood friend, in the  
> sharing (a typed message, within Face Book) with her my story of  
> being psychically wounded with her, and I was only 9 years  
> old.....she also had a catharsis, and replied to tell me she had  
> grieved to read my note.   We have had some exchanges in the last  
> week now to integrate the matter more fully.  Also, I can imagine a  
> powerful psychodrama I could enact, to heal the matter even more  
> deeply.  This is a powerful result of sociometric re-activation,  
> offering unexpected opportunities for psychic repair and revision.   
> So, yes, Facebook has real possibilities for encounter, and  
> networking in a way that few people have ever been able to realize  
> before.  Facebook is a new social networking frontier, and is  
> becoming a worldwide standard.  And Second Life is a remarkable  
> space also, with it's Avatar animation, and custom environments.   
> Look for psychodramatic experiments underway on GODOT Island,  
> hosted by Pasternak, and run by researcher Kim Flintoff in Perth  
> Australia).
> These formats, and their overwhelming popularity in various human  
> societies, challenge us to move our own creativity into new social  
> arenas where Moreno's ideas can also take root and flourish.
>
> Oh, and here's a random sharing of a Haiku I wrote yesterday:
>
> Valentine' Day
>
> Under frozen sheets,
> gardens wait for coming heat,
> what ev'ry heart wants.
>
>
> Adam
>
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Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP

Clinical Psychologist
Director of Training
Therapeutic Spiral International, LLC
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