Co-Creation & Membership

[Connie Miller]

Marianne, Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. This touched my soul and brought tears to my eyes. Isn't this what it's all about? ...the good for all mankind? Many blessings , Connie
-----Original Message-----
From: Marianne Shapiro [mailto:mariann at fidalgo.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2007 02:03 AM
To: connie at souldrama.com, abepsychodrama at yahoo.com, tmceline at adelphia.net
Cc: list at grouptalkweb.org, asgpp at asgpp.org
Subject: Re: Co-Creation & Membership

 Dear Connie, 
 Yesterday a woman contacted me, through the ABE, that had been at the American Counseling Assoc.Conference in Detroit and attended your workshop. She was obviously inspired by the work she experienced with you, and now she wants to study Souldrama. She is seeking to earn 200 Psychodrama training credits closer to home, as this is part of the Souldrama curriculum. I appreciate the referral and also gave her information about the other TEPs in the area. 
 I am sorry that I have not experienced Souldrama, as I have been impressed with your outreach for some time and have also been thinking that the way to spread the psychodrama experience is through these larger conferences. Thank you for giving to the larger community and I imagine many people from around the country are now studying psychodrama because of souldrama. Souldrama is a much more user friendly word, I am envious that I did not come up with it myself as psychodram is very much about souldrama, as psyche does mean soul. I did refer this person to the 4 TEPs in the area, and to my PAT self as well. She will have ample opportunity to study further.
 My experience has been that psychodramatists are 'givers', and for me I have to decide where and to whom I will give. What is a wise use of my time/energy? Sometimes I have been too overextended or unfocused to even ask this question, and I have given too widely or unconsciously. I am now on the lookout for a variety of Conferences I could present at that are closer to home. I live in Washington State. Action methods are so applicable, adaptable and useful for a much wider audience, let's get out there. 
 I am aware that lately quite a few people have been making good suggestions about a variety of Conferences that we could present at, and I apprecaite that. 

Marianne Shapiro, PAT


.----- Original Message ----- 
From:Connie Miller
To:abepsychodrama at yahoo.com ; tmceline at adelphia.net
Cc:list at grouptalkweb.org ; asgpp at asgpp.org
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:01 PM
Subject: Co-Creation & Membership


Everyone has been talking about how to "get" more members.

Today, I just came back from presenting in Jersey City at the The Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, Inc. An International Professional Organization. The presentation was "Souldrama: A therapeutic method to access our spiritual intelligence" and it was well attended. I questioned how come I was the only psychodramatist presenting there. The attendees loved the sociometry, the action methods and the psychodrama. These presentations attract many people to the psychodrama community. This would have been an amazing opportunity to add your spontaneity and creative methods.

Then I recalled presenting at the pre conference in Detroit this year for the American Counseling Association, as I have for the past five years. This organization has 50,000 members. I have presenting there almost every year and I have also announced in our publications about how beneficial it would be to have other psychdramatists present there as well. One of the previous speakers was Irving Yalom, speaking about creativity in groups. There were10,000 members attending the National Conference this year in Detroiot. They are  looking for new creative methods! Each state has an organization and sub divisions that are hungry to learn action methods. The NJ conference was packed and very curious to learn more when I presented "Doubling" Each time, people are awed by Moreno's methods and the sociometry of the group. Each time, few know about the history of how the first self help groups were started. So I asked myself again, where are the other psychodramatists?

Then it occurred what is happening with Souldrama. To train in this model, I require 250 hours of Souldrama and 200 hours of psychodrama training with a trained psychodramatist. I have done many international and national trainings and I always have and plan to in the future, send the attendees to the local trainers in their state or country for the psychodrama training. 
This is co-creation. Even though I am a TEP and have a training group, my interest is in training others in this new model of Souldrama. I need the help of the all the other trainers in psychodrama to help support this model which is an outgrowth of psychodrama. This will help all of you attract new students for your training groups and spread psychodrama. I wonder about the resistance to my program, when so few of you have experienced it. Perhaps this is true with all new things.

So I have been inspired to share, my final thought ... perhaps we need less to worry about "getting" new members but perhaps we need to worry more about "giving" of ourselves and as well as sharing our knowledge of psychodrama and sociometry to the groups that are waiting to hear from us. Who shall survive? Maybe it is in the "giving" of the joy of the methods of psychodrama that the "getting" occurs.

Connie Miller TEP

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