spontaneity fears

[Adam Blatner]

Cynthia, howdy.  Responding to your email below as I clean up old emails...
         resistances to psychodrama:

 Any thoughts about how to help people to get closer to improvisation, enactment, creativity, spontaneity?
       I'd like to hear more about how artists feel about creativity.... 
                 Nothing has to be re-labeled, in the have to.. world, but our own creativity regarding different types of audiences, the semantic associations to these words, may lead us to start folks out with more neutral language .

      I guess it's a bit like talking about spirituality or sex... 
               There is a great deal of vulnerability associated with
                     --self disclosure    (what will you judge about me?)
                              -- unconscious self-disclosure: the more I behave, act, nonverbally, the more I say, the more there is to see and judge that I may not be wanting you to judge
           -- because I fear you will misinterpret, you excessively weight the negative, come to conclusions without my permission... 
                    so enactment is a big deal...

           And improvisation is also big: You will see how afraid, stiff, shallow, inhibited, I am and judge me and I shall feel ashamed... I'm embarrassed even to bring this up into my consciousness, and resent your stirring me up... 

         I think folks are more often more this way than the opposite, ready and willing to plunge in..
                             warmly, adam blatner
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: CGayle To: list at grouptalkweb.org   July 12, 2006 

  How about...the word, "psychodrama", scares people.  Even the word, "bibliodrama" scares people.  It's the "drama" piece I think.  Performance anxiety?  Unconsciously knowing one's stuff could emerge?  Frozen in cultural conserves?  
  A broader discussion is that people are also afraid of "creativity", however it is phrased.  I have had artists who work w/ spirituality also speak to this.  Warm up increases spontaneity in order to decrease anxiety, yet if people are turned off to these terms, they won't come in the door.  Does everything have to be relabeled?  Or are the methods prone to draw the people who self select for creativity?  And if so, then do we relish our "alternative" methods with glee and give up trying to be accepted in broader contexts?  
         I am very interested in understanding these fears more, and how to deal with. Cynthia Gayle Seattle
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