On-line Conferences?

Tue May 5 11:00:56 CDT 2009

sounds amazing to me!
how do we go forward?
Edward Schreiber

On May 5, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Eric Rutberg wrote:

> Dear Group,
>
> I have developed a working relationship with sousmack productions  
> (soulsmack.com) and they are very interested in helping us create a  
> web-based intructioal environemnt that will allow us to present and  
> produce psychodramatic events locally and broadcast them globally.
>
> Their most recent project will air on "Rachel Ray in the Morning"  
> this Thursday (May, 7th. 10am EST).
>
> SoulSmack is interested in your feedback as to how we can launch an  
> interactive forum for educating EVERYONE about psychodrama.
>
> What do you all think?
> Thanx, Eric Rutberg - Maine
>
> PS
>
> I am a clinical counselor (18yrs), specializing in experiential  
> therapies. working towards my Doctorate in Health Education. I am  
> passionate about using new media to promote our healing arts.   
> Don't forget to check out Rachel Ray on TH !
>
> Thanx,
> Eric
> From: "rorobear at aol.com" <rorobear at aol.com>
> To: ericrutberg at yahoo.com
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:52:59 PM
> Subject: Re: A Challenge to the ASGPP
>
> Eric
> Continue writing about your ideas on grouptalk...it is both  
> creative and appropriate in these times.
>  Rosalie Minkin...(I have been a psychodramatist for 25 years.)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Rutberg <ericrutberg at yahoo.com>
> To: rorobear at aol.com; List at grouptalkweb.org
> Sent: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:45 pm
> Subject: Re: A Challenge to the ASGPP
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is my first time chiming in to the group on this listserve. I  
> do follow the discussions with great interest and yet feel utterly  
> detached as I live and work in rural Maine. That said, I am  
> fascinated with the topic of making continuing education more  
> accessible. In a past incarnation, I was in radio broadcasting and  
> video-production. I am currently pursuing a doctorate in health  
> education with a focus on adult ed. I intend to marry the two.
>
> When I think about the future of adult ed, a vision of a multi- 
> stage, cross-continental production comes up for me. Last year, Al  
> Gore coordinated such a multi-media event for Earth Day. Speeches,  
> music, short films all co-occurring and broadcasted via satellite.
>
> What if scholars, from all over, could present locally but  
> broadcast globally?
>
> Thoughts?
> Eric Rutberg
>
>
>
>
> From: "rorobear at aol.com" <rorobear at aol.com>
> To: List at grouptalkweb.org
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:47:32 AM
> Subject: Fwd: A Challenge to the ASGPP
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Schreiber <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
> To: Adam Blatner <adam at blatner.com>; Group talk Listserv  
> <list at grouptalkweb.org>
> Sent: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 6:01 am
> Subject: Re: A Challenge to the ASGPP
>
> I just got an email from a long time member of our society telling  
> me, in response to my post, that she will not be attending the  
> conference, that she had to cancel her workshop, that the $1000. it  
> would cost to get there, stay there, be there was now  
> unaffordable.  She is about to receive an award from our  
> organization, and cannot attend.  What more do we need to realize  
> our structure, location, format is keeping people from us?
>
> We are stuck - mired if you will - in a conference structure, place  
> and timing that is not allowing us to grow.  And what's painful,  
> for me, is our method is one of the most needed.   I have not  
> fantasy about why "people don't change" as Adam suggests.  I am an  
> activist, spiritual at the core and I am putting out the challenge  
> we form a small group to redesign the conference to advance the  
> conserve.  If we don't, we stay where we are, in the decline.    
> Best,   Ed
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:
>
>> Dear Ed and all,
>>     First, good for you for passing alonng the IEATA conference  
>> information. (Interestingly, I've communicated to them my desire  
>> to get these announcements but they didn't send me one. What does  
>> that say about publicity skills?)
>>       I do support building bridges with related organizations,  
>> and recently suggested to one of their ex-officers that they tell  
>> folks about our conferences and also the IAGP conference.
>>
>>       Second, you seem to be implying that we model our conference  
>> on theirs, though there are a variety of differences. Could you be  
>> more specific in your suggestions?
>>     Please don't assume that any disagreement or hesitancy can  
>> only be interpreted as fear of change or any of the other reasons  
>> you fantasize that people don't change. Here's another reason:  
>> What (fairly specifically) would you suggest as an alternative?  
>> What are the pros and cons of your suggestion? Every political  
>> move has disadvantages as well as advantages.
>>    Warmly, Adam
>>
>> --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Edward Schreiber <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>  
>> wrote:
>> From: Edward Schreiber <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: A Challenge to the ASGPP
>> To: "Group talk Listserv" <list at grouptalkweb.org>
>> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 7:41 PM
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> How much are we willing to stay stuck in our conserve, a  
>> conference structure that no longer meets the needs of the larger  
>> community to hear, learn, grow with our method?  We keep the same  
>> format, the same awards dinner for the same selected people who  
>> can afford to attend, the same on-going structures that frankly  
>> are becoming stale.  A recent letter by Zerka to the President and  
>> the Council has called for us to grow.  Yet what I continue to  
>> hear is fear, resistance to take a leap.  So here's the  
>> challenge:  Read the enclosed and see what we could offer to the  
>> world - with the will, creativity, and drive to bring our method  
>> to the world in a way that grows us beyond the conserve our  
>> conference has become.
>>
>> Here's an example:best,Ed
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