List Digest, Vol 10, Issue 17

[dkarner]

Hello Group Talk,

I would like to introduce myself, Deborah Karner, a student of sociometry, 
psychodrama and sociodrama and a new member of ASGPP.  I fit the new but not 
the young category.  My past life has been in theater and opera and in work 
with intergenerational and older adult groups helping people to allow 
themselves to act from their own spontaneity and creativity.  My path has 
brought me to this place of sociometry and psycho and sociodrama.  I feel as 
if I have entered the Magic Shop.  I would like to be an active part of this 
group of people who seem to be open minded, inclusive, creative, 
spontaneous, and unafraid to sit in the fire of differing opinions, 
disagreement, perhaps even conflict, and who are willing to use that energy 
of tension, of give and take, to keep moving together and trusting the 
process at the micro and macro level.  I have never met anyone through 
e-mail before, nor felt compelled to stand forward in a new group until I 
had thoroughly evaluated where my safety connections might be.it has taken a 
leap of hope for me to write.

 I understand that electronic communication is imperfect in its facelessness 
and unforgiving delivery of meaning through words yet it is a rare 
opportunity to speak my truth and exercise risking being vulnerable among 
people I hope to meet and come to trust.

I look forward to meeting those of you who will be at the conference.