a response to a grieving community

[Adam Blatner]

I tend to support Manuela here. Warmly, Adam
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manuela Maciel" <manuelamaciel at mail.telepac.pt>
To: <list at grouptalkweb.org>
Cc: <iagp-psychodrama at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:52 AM
Subject: RE: a response to a grieving community


> 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
> -----Mensagem original-----
> 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
> 
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