Moreno's sociometry: a wake up call

[Connie Miller]

Likewise Ann, Thank you and all of the other pioneers. 

 Today I received a copy of Marie Clare published in India. In it was one of my quotes in the assistant editors column with an acknowledgment to Souldrama. She read an article that was published in Live Positive, a magazine in India and loved it. I have been developing Souldrama for 12 years now and I am consistently appealing for trainers and coordinator to our community. Few have responded nor have been interested. Also I have sent out my second book to be published, Starve the Ego, Feed the Soul Souldrama: how to reduce the ego and gain spiritual intelligence. Although half of the book describes the transpersonal method and structure of souldrama as one that aligns the ego and soul so that we can develop our spiritual intelligence, the other half describes Morenos method of psychodrama and how action methods connect the right and left brain as we move through our rational, emotional and spiritual intelligence. In the chapter about our emotional intelligence I do mention Golemans model in connection to Moreno. So again, I put out an appeal for trainers and if not trainers I would like to know who is willing to train my trainers in psychodrama? I require that all trainers know 200 hours of psychodrama. Even though I am a TEP my schedule is overwhelming right now with people who want to learn this method internationally. They cannot learn Souldrama without learning psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy.

Each time I do a training, as in the following countries, I have more people wanting to know more about sociometry and psychodrama. I keep asking for help from our community. Honestly there has been little support. So I can attest that the needs for our methods are escalating-look at this schedule. There is much interest even though the cultural conserve of psychodrama has been changed. 
This method has interested coaches and industry as well as monks from India coming to train. We can talk about working together but now it is about "don't just tell me -show me". I am attaching a copy of my article " Letting go of the I in the IQ" also published in recovery view. Maybe it is about aligning our own egos and souls. Again I welcome any and all help for this is for the good of all mankind.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Schreiber [mailto:edwschreiber at earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:42 AM
To: 'Ann Hale'
Cc: 'grouptalk', Karendruck at aol.com, 'Sue McMunn', 'American Board of Examiners'
Subject: Re: Moreno's sociometry: a wake up call

Thank you Ann for this presentation. I am fully engaged in bringing the method to the world in a new way. Being a pioneer, in this way, feels at times risky, but must less risky than doing nothing. Jonathan Fox is a great example, Zerka and JL are of course great models for breaking ground. Thank you Ann for all this.


Ed



On Jun 24, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Ann Hale wrote:

On June 20, 2009 the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, reported the U.S. is committed to helping the world's 34 million refugees (my italics) build safe and fulfilling lives, calling their struggle a "humanitarian emergency." (Associated Press, June 20, 2009, 09:19am EDT) What Clinton is describing is the need for a qualitative and a quantitative response. What is needed are methods with deeply humanitarian belief systems capable of examining and resolving a crisis of this magnitude, and capable of assisting one person at a time find "Where do I fit on this planet? and "Will I be able to practice my religion, support my family, feel safe and connected when I arrive?" (If you will remember Moreno got his start resettling refugees in Mitterndorf in 1915-1917. It is here he discovered the connection between preference and lessening of conflict.)

At a time when psychodramatists in the US are complaining about decreasing interest, enrollment and membership, etc. the need for our methods is escalating. For years it has been documented that the sociometry section of the American Board exams has the highest borderline and failing grades. Students don't seem to know more than how to do "step into the circle if you like pizza" or "put you hand on someone who appears to be similar to you in some way". There is a huge methodology awaiting our membership and trainees, and a huge need. Learning to use sociometric methods is not a comfortable learning. You have to face your personal deficits, your value system, your needs, and what rejection feels like, when receiving it, or giving it. The payoff is the restoration of hope and the managability of complex, intersecting lives.

No, psychodrama, is disappearing from texts and journals. Whole books such as the popular "Social Intelligence (Goleman) can appear without one reference to Moreno. It is past time that we examine ourselves for choosing to retreat to the safety of private practice and align ourselves with mental health when we could have been preparing large numbers of students to intervene and strategize and resolve some of the sociodynamics which lead to devestating social and political problems. I am not just pointing fingers. I know myself to be underutilized and not involved to the level of my capability.

Playback Theater has risen to the challenge, and a scattering of psychodramatists are looking at the big picture. I am grateful for every one of you who takes the method to points of crisis. If we want our methods to be more available to those who need them we need to make sociometry more available on a global scale.

The Obama administration opened the Office of Public Engagement in February, 2009. Their Core Priniciples (7) are listed on the website of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. If you want to you can go to www.sociometry.net and get linked to this. Our current government is open to our methodology. Let's respond!
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