Sociometric group phone conference

[Ann Hale]

Bud, I can understand your excitement about applied sociometry "close to home", our own network. I have often wanted our collective to use our tools more advantageously.  

 Moreno was quite clear that people's fears of (1) speaking their choices and (2) knowing others choices for oneself  could greatly alter the spontaneity of their answers and choice data.  He, I and many others concur that preparation for any sociometric data gathering needs to have clarity about how people's feelings will be cared for, the resources people have for handling conflictual aspects, the use made of the data, and other privacy and safety concerns. The care with which these are tended to can increase the usefulness of all that comes later. It DOES slow things down, and can be judged as solely resistance, but I prefer we not jump on methods without looking at the whole process.

We know how to gather data, we know and can create any number of methods, but what is in place for these concerns I mention?   Ann


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: BARNETT WEISS 
  To: Adam Blatner ; list at grouptalkweb.org 
  Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:08 PM
  Subject: Sociometric group phone conference


    Dear People:
    I thought that I would propose something that could develop into a powerful tool for all of us and the progression of all of our skills in cooperation with one another as well as beginning the process of sociometrizing ASGPP.

    I can set up a phone conference which will be recorded for free and as many as 100 persons can listen in on the conference.  

    We would choose a topic to be discussed as for example one of those already begun, or we could list a series of topics and vote on those as well. 

    Then everyone would vote sociometrically on the 5 persons they would most like to hear speak about the topic in a sociometric fashion listing all the persons they would choose down to a certain level of choice which we could determine. They would also give their rational for why they chose the persons they did. It could be just 5 in order or more. Anyone feeling strongly about not wanting a particular person on the panel could also state that.  


    Also, people would list the persons they know or with whom they have worked, or feel that they have had enough contact with even over the list serve or in other communications non face to face to be listed as part of their active social atom.  We would see their active social atom volume in terms of the group. I think both the face to face atom as well a second atom being the internet or other communication contact only with no face to face personal contact.

    A simple sociogram would be developed and available for all to see and out of that voting, the top 5 persons would come together on the conference call and begin to discuss the topic doing so for 1 hour at most. Others would be able to dial in and listen and would not be able to talk.  Since this conference would be recorded, all those who were unable to be on the call as listeners would be able to listen at another time.  

    I think this could be a great experiment as well as beginning a process that I have long wished for. 

    Of course I would also like to propose a sociogram similarly done for all those who intend to attend the Brooklyn conference on the criteria "Who would you most like to spend an hour with at the conference in a group of 4 or 5?" And provide that time for everyone to actually meet with the persons grouping as best as possible. Of course this is a totally personal criteria not necessarily task oriented. We could instead make it task oriented.  If we do something like this, we will be laying the groundwork for a tradition that will greatly diferentiate our organization from any other in history to my knowledge on the basis Dr. Moreno's major guiding principal.

    Blessings to all, Bud




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