urgency & philosophy

[CGayle]

This is a similar dance that has appeared on this listserv many, many times. 
I suggest we look to bigger picture, the process, and what it may mean.

There are repeating roles.  Usually, Ed brings up a social issue of great 
concern, Adam B. then counters the emotional intensity, if not questioning 
bringing up of the issue, in one form or another.  Some jump in supporting 
Ed's view, some supporting Adam's and some come in a mediating or reframing 
role, eg, Rebecca bringing in the question of applications in our field.

We are playing out in micro-process what is happening in society in the 
larger macro-process.  This is a group drama....we are struggling with 
soical issues, even if a good number of people do not want to think about 
them or think that is appropriate for this listserv.  This group drama keeps 
emerging b/c we are facilitators of healing, and learned from our training 
that ultimately individual and family healing cannot be separated from 
societal healing...even if our work realistically can only be holding onto 
and healing one part of the elephant.

What is interesting, and barrier of cyberspace, is this group drama is not 
changing...it keeps repeating, as it has online for at least 2 years, like 
the movie Groundhog Day.

I envision a rich and powerful group drama if we could all be in a room at 
the same time...to play it out, struggle with it, expand the roles, 
encounter each other....and the issues and were we stand with them as 
psychodramatists, and with each other as healers.  I imagine a very rich and 
colorful cornucopia of human aliveness!

Blessings
Cynthia Gayle
Seattle