a response to a grieving community

[Manuela Maciel]

Dear friends and Colleagues

I understand people`s feelings, good intentions  and need to protect a
beloved one but I can`t avoid feeling hurt, offended and sad that in such a
sensitive moment we don`t show more tolerance and that I am accused in
public of breaking boundaries, which I know that I didn`t , also as if we
are talking about a patient and not of a good common friend, from whom I
thought our common friends would like to know  a little about my last few
days with Clare. 
This is  something we do very often , this true "story telling" about a
deceased one , when a community is grieving, at least in my country,
Portugal. But maybe I was wrong with my good intentions of sharing with my
friends ...

I would expect "our family" to be more holding and containing and not being
judging and lesgislating how we express our feelings, specially in a
cross-cultural context... 

Where is Moreno`s and Clare`s dream of compassion and peace for the World?!
 
With much love to our "psychodrama family".

Manuela Maciel
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De: list-bounces at grouptalkweb.org [mailto:list-bounces at grouptalkweb.org] Em
nome de edwschreiber at earthlink.net
Enviada: segunda-feira, 12 de Fevereiro de 2007 15:33
Para: list at grouptalkweb.org
Assunto: Re: a response to a grieving community

It's so interesting to be a part of this last few email exchanges.

We are like a big family and a smallish community.

We sometimes extend ourselves to one another,
in our show of strength and passion.

And then when someone dies, like Clare,
We reach further to one another
in a kind of grace of spirit that moves us.

The Connie/Manuela emails have been so touching, for me
for many I am sure.

Then Ann H. comes on and reminds us
of the structures - sociometric and ethic - we must keep to.

Like a wise elder, Ann just keeps clarifying 
our community. 

Sometimes I wish she would run for ASGPP President!


Ed

Moreno Institute East

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