re-visioning psychodrama 2

[Adam Blatner]

My thought has been how to get the ideas of Moreno into the greatest number of hands. The first point is that psychodrama was only one---albeit the best known---of his many interests. 
      I think that we should try to get Moreno's theological and philosophical ideas out there, without having to require that anyone who learns about these ideas has to attend psychodrama workshops.
       Of course there are areas of cross-over and complementarity, but that should be elective, not mandatory.

   Ditto for his social psychological ideas. Indeed, we might attract a good many more people if they came in a door other than psychodrama, which may be daunting, threatening to them, because to direct groups or even act in groups requires levels of self-disclosure and performance that many people find overwhelmingly threatening. 
        I can imagine people learning a certain amount of sociometry and role theory in a more didactic fashion, with a few gentle, and well-paced experiential exercises to make it more of a participatory learning process... yet no psychodrama per se. (They can learn that this edge is available, but not required.)

      Similarly, some may come in the doors of spontaneity training, playback theatre, improvisational drama, and the like.

    Psychodramatic methods may be used as action methods and sociodrama in education at most levels (if not all levels), adapted, and yet no one would be doing classical psychodrama. I mean here to appeal to teachers who want to learn about social intelligence and then to be empowered in part to some day teach it 
        This kind of education can also be adapted for business people, executives, management trainees, in men's or women's consciousness-raising workshops and so forth. 

        In fact, many of our associates and members are already applying psychodrama and Morenian ideas beyond the context of therapy or requiring that participants imagine themselves in the sick role, needding help.   So if this is so, might it change the way we market ourselves, what kinds of introductory programs we offer?   Sincerely, Adam Blatner
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