FORUM ALL OF US

[Adam M. Barcroft]

ab,

That is a strong statement and I support what you are saying about  
silence,
about what the silence is not saying that needs to be said.
I hear and echo that your questions deserve a response
from different areas of the leadership, which I hope you are getting.
I would love to hear periodically from our ASGPP President John  
Rasberry,
and I am wondering if John would create a new Forum topic folder  
called, maybe,
"Letters from the President."
  This could include many kinds of letters, even copies of  
appropriate excerpts of communiqués to share with the membership and  
Forum audiences.
Mainly just having John check in with us about aspects of the  
membership,
or communicating his vision for holding the future of the ASGPP.
I would love this, personally, but if others agree,
saying so here might help encourage John to at least think about it.

I am one of those folks working on initiating and developing a global  
Forum community.
  It seems to me like you raise some important questions.
The Forum can have updates from any part of the leadership, under a  
Topic:
"Talk to the ASGPP leadership."  Not all the leadership would have to  
participate, only those who want to or have been requested to  
respond."  Reasonable?  Or make subfolders for Officers and Council  
members.  WE create this, the Forum community with the leadership.

Also, questions like:

"I don't know that what I send will go into the PNN. A goodly number  
of items seem not to have gotten through in the last year. If the  
item was considered and not put in, might it be appropriate that I  
get an email declining that submission?"  -Adam Blatner

while excellent subject for Group-Talk, can go in a Forum discussion  
called Psychodrama Network News
>
>       ONE LAST THING ABOUT FORUM REGISTRATION:

On the ASGPP hompage, there is a narrow band of links
across the center and bottom of the screen.
One of the links in tiny letter is "FORUM".
  Click on it.
Then under ASGPP FORUM in the upper right hand corner
you will see another band of links, and one says "Register."
Click on "Register."
Complete the registration process, and here is where it gets a little  
interesting.
You have the opportunity to create a new persona, an identity that is  
not necessarily use your "actual" name.  This isn't to hide your  
"true" self, but to mix up the tele and connections a little, to let  
a new Forum identity emerge,
like I have done with "i.b.morenean."
I found this helpful somehow in my role of connector, initiator and  
inviter
to the ASGPP global community Forums.
Just a thought as you choose a username.
Then you submit and you are finished.
And you have just begun.


>  "you're not even an official, but you've been fun! You've been  
> enthusiastic and supportive and clearly saying, "Hey, kids, here's  
> a new playground! Let's explore it!"
>       Now let's try to get our representatives over here." -ab
>
I am just trying to help the organization, and to explore (all of)  
"our" playground.  exactly.
   And at least getting some of the ASGP leadership to talk with us.   
Some are already in the Forums now, and I hope this grows.

> "what is needed is the activity of talking stuff up, chatter. This  
> is part of the role of an effective host. See paper on my website  
> on sociometry 3, about the host or hostess role)." -ab

Thanks Adam!  I looked on your website at Sociometry 3 and although  
the article is very impressive, I did not find the Hostess info.
I did find it in "Sociometry 2" though, if others are looking for it.

Chattering onward,

amb (Adam Marshall Barcroft)



Original Message from Adam Blatner:

Another point I've raised. I don't feel much support from the powers  
that be, the executive committee. I have raised this point repeatedly  
and have been responded to with.... silence, no acknowledgment.
          Unless we have any sense that our elected representatives  
are listening, have any degree of transparency about what they are  
thinking and are planning and doing; unless we get responses to  
emails, acknowledgment; reciprocity;
         the tele plummets.

       Better to get a response that (it is hoped) civilly disagrees  
than nothing at all. The message is "You are below my even bothering  
to respond to you. I don't even read your emails." That may not be  
so, but that's what gets communicated.

    For years I have been writing and getting painfully little in  
response. John Rasberry has been pretty good so far. But I've  
suggested that every member of the executive council visit either  
grouptalk or the forum once a week, or once every two weeks, three  
weeks?  and respond, let us know they are noticing, that what we say  
gets heard and thought about, discussed.

     I don't know most of their email addresses and I get the strong  
sense they don't want me to know.
      I don't know what present re-shuffled committees they are on,  
what their delegated responsibilities, and I don't know if they want  
me to know.
         But I would like to know who is doing what, so that I don't  
have to send every question through the president.

   I don't know that what I send will go into the PNN. A goodly  
number of items seem not to have gotten through in the last year. If  
the item was considered and not put in, might it be appropriate that  
I get an email declining that submission?

        So this forum game is intriguing: Some folks have put in some  
work on it.
              It is clear that at least five and maybe ten messages  
should go out from different people in the ASGPP leadership:
      Inviting people
         explaining the benefits
           explaining how to do it
              being readily available for coaching via email
                   and offering reinforcement for anyone who's tried.

     you're not even an official, but you've been fun! You've been  
enthusiastic and supportive and clearly saying, "Hey, kids, here's a  
new playground! Let's explore it!"
       Now let's try to get our representatives over here.
           (I know, some are involved, but what is needed is the  
activity of talking stuff up, chatter. This is part of the role of an  
effective host. See paper on my website on sociometry 3, about the  
host or hostess role).

Warmly, Adam



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