our purpose

[G. Sue McMunn]

Well stated Adam. Thank you.

If you believe it would help, I am willing to reach out to this  
individual.  Perhaps he or she would like to serve on a committee or  
run for Ex. council in order to have a greater voice.

We all hold a passion for Psychodrama and J . L.'s teachings.
It is important to build our Sociometry.
We need to use our special skills to reach many people.    No one  
person has the answers nor can do it alone. I believe our society is  
essential.

Warmly, Sue


Sent from Sue's Ipod


On Jul 9, 2009, at 4:20 PM, "Adam Blatner" <ablatner at verizon.net> wrote:

> I was corresponding with a colleague who had been feeling somewhat  
> disenchanted with ASGPP. And after I responded, I thought maybe I'd  
> share it with you all. .
>
>    I wrote:
>      Is there any chance that I can lure you back towards the ASGPP?
>
>   My reasoning is that while our professional group may be as beset  
> with organizational vulnerabilities as much as many other  
> professional societies, and indeed, what's going on in national  
> politics, I still think it's important to support it. It's not just  
> the organization that needs it, though certainly they do. It's  
> because the tools developmed by Moreno are just substantially good  
> things that need to be refined and applied in the world.
>
>    It's because the world needs all the help it can get in every  
> way---that's the focus of my passion---
>         And it needs the dissemination of good tools  (a secondary  
> passion-point)
>              and the tools---the concepts and techniques---developed  
> by Moreno and refined further by several generations of other  
> professionals in our field and associated fields---just happen to be  
> really useful.
>
>       It seems to me that only through united action will more folks  
> in many different fields, in and beyond therapy,  find out about  
> them, learn to use them.
>         People with training in psychodrama know stuff hardly anyone  
> else in the world knows! (Oh maybe only several thousand others  
> scattered around the world). But the larger world is facing big  
> challenges, and it needs to know how to utilize the powers of  
> imagination, harness the practical applications of play and drama in  
> the service of consciousness raising, conflict resolution,  
> developing communications that are more meaningful, promoting  
> activities that add joy and a pay-off to doing the work.
>
>    I believe the World really needs this stuff!
>           I could go on and offer a more cosmic, theological  
> speculation and myth-building, but that might lay it on a bit too  
> thick.
>
>     So that's why I put up with imperfections. Let's try to work  
> towards improving those imperfections, but realize that what we're  
> dealing  with as our organizational and national leaders are  
> reasonably bright (but far from omniscient) people who have shown  
> some willingness to step up to the plate and take on the burdens of  
> leadership. They (our organizations' officers, including the  
> organizations in other countries) don't claim to know ahead of time  
> just how to fix it all. The do what they can, they improvise. It's  
> not good enough. They need encouragement, feedback, support,  
> appreciation, and if you have any ideas on how exactly to do it  
> better, well, let 'em know. But realize that they don't know. Nor do  
> our political leaders.
>
>      I think of humanity as very fragile, only barely emerging into  
> near civilization, and that breaks down easily. Only ten thousand or  
> so years beyond cave-men (excuse the gendering), only a couple of  
> million years out of near-monkey-brains. I think of us as only 5-15%  
> evolved into our potential.
>
>     I write this because there's a prevalent tendency to project  
> parental transferences on organizational leaders. That transference  
> says something like, "Here I am the victim of your decisions. You  
> better know what you're doing! I don't like a lot of the things you  
> make me do. I think you do know how to make it all better, but  
> sometimes you are thoughtless and uncaring and don't bother. So I  
> get angry with you, openly on occasion, passive-aggressive a lot."
>     What doesn't exist in the parental transference: "Oh, my. You  
> are loving and good but you really don't know how to make things  
> better. You haven't a clue. You really want to, but you don't know;  
> and I don't know; and I don't know who does know. You do some things  
> better than I do, you know some things I don't. But there's tons  
> neither of us know. Perhaps I should thank you for what you do give  
> of yourself instead of pouting and sulking in the hopes that my  
> evident discontent will spur you to do it right once and for all."
>
> And my reading is that large numbers of seemingly mature people  
> still operate with unresolved parental transference.
>
>    Well, so much for that digression. I hope this mild rant  
> expresses my rah rah for the cause. (smile).
>
> I welcome modifications and comments. Warmly, Adam
>
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