ASGPP Conference

Adam Blatner adam at blatner.com
Mon Apr 30 17:59:52 CDT 2007


Well, if they want us to use the forum, they should make it easy. Put out 
the announcements on how to use it. Put them out again. Recruit five people 
who will post an issue from the executive committee. Request responses. Have 
messages from the president.
    Have each person on the exec committee introduce him/herself and what 
s/he wants to talk about, do, and get feedback about. What subcommittee 
responsibilities do they take on.
     See if you can recruit five people with whom you've had good tele to 
join you in this project. Better, ten or fifteen.
  Do we know who the exec council is, their old and new subcommittee 
assignments, if any have changed; their email addresses? That would be good. 
Sue Barnum is moving or has moved to New Mexico. A loss for Texas. Has she 
changed her email addrress yet?

    Have Mike Traynor and our new president and others get involved in 
promoting involvements.

    Then let's see how much momentum it gains, or if it peters out.

        What do you think about that?
                 Warmly, Adam
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward Schreiber" <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
To: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>; <list at grouptalkweb.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: ASGPP Conference


> Dear Adam,
> Yes, I feel the same about Grouptalk!  It is so damn easy to use.
> But for ongoing long term discussions, the ASGPP is asking us to use
> the site's discussion board.  So I want to support that request and  think
> it makes a lot of sense!
>
> Ed
>
>
>
> On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:
>
>> Dear Ed,
>>   Actually, there have been a few emails out from Nick Wolff over  the 
>> last year about the forum. I spoke with Mike Traynor about the  Forum and 
>> noted that it's hard to get on and very few people seemed  to use 
>> it---that's why I prefer Grouptalk. I said that if I knew  there were 
>> some folks reading and contributing, I might put up with  the hassle and 
>> use that format, but so far when I've checked it, so  little has been 
>> posted.
>>         I wonder how many others want to use that medium. I'd play  if 
>> others would, too.
>>
>>      You might ask Mike to re-submit the instructions yet again,  because 
>> I've found that one must be persistent in informing a  social group about 
>> an upcoming event or new resource, reminding  everyone at least three 
>> times, and then repeating the announcement  every 6 months or so.
>>
>>       Warmly, adam
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Schreiber" 
>> <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>; <list at grouptalkweb.org>
>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: ASGPP Conference
>>
>>
>>> Hi Adam,
>>> I endorse the open society standard, I think one great advance in  our 
>>> work
>>> was offered by Mike Traynor during the meeting.  He suggested that we
>>> use the ASGPP membership forum to engage in a full discussion,  ongoing,
>>> overtime of the issues of moving forward.  The issues generated   during 
>>> the
>>> ASGPP Sunday meeting were about moving forward and the particular 
>>> concerns
>>> and dynamics that needed attention.  So I support Mike's  leadership 
>>> and want
>>> to do some chatting on the ASGPP members board.
>>>
>>> On that note, I am unsure of how to post a new topic on the site.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to do that?  I tried but could not.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 30, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:
>>>
>>>> sounds good. Would it be helpful to articulate the concerns or 
>>>> issues, edited, condensed, re what the two subgroups were  seeking  to 
>>>> achieve? This might help many of us identify our own  hardly- realized 
>>>> concerns, functioning, as it were, as a kind of  doubling.
>>>>       Warmly, adam
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Schreiber" 
>>>> <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
>>>> To: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>; <list at grouptalkweb.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:23 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: ASGPP Conference
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Adam,
>>>>> To respond:
>>>>> There were 2 (at least) subgroups w/in the organization.
>>>>> They "came to a head" at the meeting.  There was a great
>>>>> deal of work done before the meeting on Sunday.  Nick, Ed,
>>>>> Council members, Rebecca, Louise, Nina, Natalie, Dale all
>>>>> reached out to address their concerns and feelings.  When the
>>>>> two sub-groups came together in an encounter, peace was found.
>>>>> Moreno's encounter enacted in-situ in the group process.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike Traynor was particularly helpful in standing as a bridge  between
>>>>> the two groups.  Ed Garcia and Nick held their presence well, with
>>>>> dignity.  Passion emerged.  Energy.  Care.  Honesty.  A mix  took 
>>>>> place.
>>>>> For me, for example, I had contact/encounter with those with  whom  I 
>>>>> had
>>>>> not before.  It was our method in action.
>>>>>
>>>>> John Rasberry, our new President summarized it at the end by 
>>>>> addressing
>>>>> a part of a letter to the Society from Zerka Moreno.  John  noted, 
>>>>> from her
>>>>> letter, the need to sit down together like at a table.
>>>>>
>>>>> John presented, in masterful form, the spirit of inclusion.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 30, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Adam Blatner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Good news. I'm wondering if there were any specifics that we   should 
>>>>>> know
>>>>>> about sooner than the PNN, or perhaps more specifically,    re: 
>>>>>> ..."altered the
>>>>>> sociometry that was stuck."    maybe or maybe not we'd be  helped  by 
>>>>>> knowing
>>>>>> what was altered...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    2. and more about: ... >  ASGPP Council reached to members   and 
>>>>>> held one
>>>>>> another to a standard, in
>>>>>>> public and in private  --   what standard?
>>>>>>      Well, maybe nothing more needs to be said, or maybe  something.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Thanks again Ed and rosalie and all..   warmly, adam
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Edward Schreiber" <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
>>>>>> To: <list at grouptalkweb.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:57 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: ASGPP Conference
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>>> Thanks to the conference committee for the most outstanding
>>>>>>> example of finding our way to peace together.  What an rich
>>>>>>> conference, warm, professional, honest, caring.  For those unable
>>>>>>> to attend Amy Goodman as keynote speaker brought us into the
>>>>>>> world fabric, asking us to address who shall survive.  The 
>>>>>>> workshops
>>>>>>> were rich, deep and broad.  That setting elegant, supportive and
>>>>>>> loving.  The work we did as a society set the course for the  next 2
>>>>>>> years with a clearly defined agenda for where we must go  (less 
>>>>>>> expensive
>>>>>>> conferences and continued inclusion - and respect for our
>>>>>>> differences) and
>>>>>>> brought us closer to realizing our true work:  all of humankind.
>>>>>>> The ASGPP
>>>>>>> annual meeting on Sunday morning brought us toward one  another, as
>>>>>>> difficult as that was, and altered the sociometry that was stuck.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Louise and Roberto as co-chairs were just wonderful as hosts  and 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> ASGPP
>>>>>>> Council reached to members and held one another to a standard, in
>>>>>>> public and in
>>>>>>> private I am sure.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For me, I went to the Conference uncertain about the future  for our
>>>>>>> organization.
>>>>>>> I left feeling sure that we are on the path to realizing the   dream 
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> Dr. Moreno and
>>>>>>> Zerka Moreno:  to created "democratic creatocracy".   Thank  you 
>>>>>>> ASGPP
>>>>>>> and thank
>>>>>>> you Conference Co-Chairs and Conference Committee for holding  that
>>>>>>> vision and
>>>>>>> putting it into action.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ed Schreiber
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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