responses about ASGPP

[edwschreiber at earthlink.net]

I find it lovely, absolutely lovely when 
a colleague reflects back to us our strengths.

Thank you so much Patti.

-----Original Message-----
>From: PATRICIA DESERT <honeybwomn at msn.com>
>Sent: Apr 16, 2007 9:04 PM
>To: list at grouptalkweb.org
>Subject: Re: responses about ASGPP
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>As I read different comments coming in around this issue I am reminded of why I love being part of the psychodrama community and particularly a part of this listserve.  Each of you simply have offered your thoughts without judgment, criticism, blame, discounting defense, or argument.  To my way of thinking that reflects walking the Moreno walk not just talking the talk.  And that is very reassuring to me when hurt feelings and organizational issues come up.  I am one who has avoided joining any organizations over the years because of the blaming and shaming that goes on.  You each uniquely model for me a different way of being in an organization.     
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>And I LOVE Rebecca's ideas about considering a less expensive venue for the conference.  In the past several years I have had to carefully choose where to spend my training dollars and due to the high cost of the conference I have needed to opt out of attending several times.  Thinking about venues reminds me of one of the dance groups that holds its weekend conference in the NY mountains and rents one of the lodges popularly used in the 50's for adolescent and teen summer camp experiences.  The whole weekend including meals and cost of the different dance workshops is incredibly cheap.  Perhaps we can all put our heads together and find a similar place.
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>And I also want to acknowledge that our ASGPP staff are all volunteers and devote a huge amount of time and energy to organizing the conference.  I so admire you all for this and I deeply appreciate your efforts.  I wish I could be at the conference to tell you in person and to join everyone to address concerns and the questions around how ASGPP can continue to survive with grace, dignity, congruence, relevance, and style!  Patti