Ambition

[Peter Howie]

Hi all,

I've been thinking recently about what keeps me going at times, what 
keeps others going and thing of this nature. Watching Frank Lowy in a 
documentary, a multi-billionaire Aussie with 180 mega-shopping 
complexes around the world, who funded the turn-around of Australian 
soccer/football and helped get us to international status, when asked 
what kept him going he said he was still full of ambition.

I'm imagining that J L Moreno was also full of ambition, ambition to 
do many things, one of which was to promote and teach his remarkable 
method and to try and set up systems to support its ongoing practice, 
teaching, methodological review and improvement and philosophical development.

I'm thinking on this and wondering about my own level of ambition. 
Psychodramatists with ambition that I know of would be Kate with the 
Spiral model work, Marcia Karp, Max Clayton - and there would be 
heaps of others. I am not thinking about abilities or skills as a 
trainer, educator or practitioner. More about their ambition to 
relentlessly push forward in creating a world that they would like to 
live in, surrounded by colleagues who support and challenge them and 
keeping going despite their own human flaws and foibles.

Anyway - this rises for me as I contemplate doing things a bit 
differently around here with how I spend my time promoting 
psychodrama and Morenian processes. How much do I have. Ho much do 
those around me support or parallel me. Things like this.

So how does this idea of ambition sit with some of you?

Cheers for now

Peter Howie
Brisbane, Australia


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