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[Adam Blatner]

Dear Ann and all, 
    Thanks for the good words, and for those who didn't attend, Ann also presented some good exercises and modeling. So the variables involved are important and I want to emphasize them: 
    1.... moved toward persons attending your opening plenary address at the recent ASGPP meeting and asked them to share what they do with psychodrama.  
       Ann did likewise in her warm-up using some playback theatre techniques, and others. It carries Moreno's vision of the group not as a collection (as in a classroom) of passive listeners, but of co-participants. We need to promote these types of experiences even more. 
     2. ....You provided access for people to become more known, to identify something that greatly interested them, and invited connection at a moment in the conference when people were noticing the numbers and might have been wondering about whether or not they would ever get connected. 
       AB: The idea of doing some sociometric stuff at the outset of a conference is a good idea (for the conference planners and program designers) for just this reason. I've proposed that similar things happen at the drama therapy conference.

    3.  It corrected the notion that one person has the answers and opened consciousness to the collected picture of what is possible. (AB: yes---see number 1 above, not a classroom, but truly co-creating the event.

    4. The goal of developing group cohesion and raising group morale---and I hoped my talk achieved the former by doing the latter. 

      Warmly, Adam
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ann Hale 
  To: Adam Blatner ; list at grouptalkweb.org 
  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:24 AM
  Subject: Re: re-visioning sociometry


  Adam, it was very sociometric and attending to the sociodynamic effect, when you moved toward persons attending your opening plenary address at the recent ASGPP meeting and asked them to share what they do with psychodrama.  You provided access for people to become more known, to identify something that greatly interested them, and invited connection at a moment in the conference when people were noticing the numbers and might have been wondering about whether or not they would ever get connected.  It corrected the notion that one person has the answers and opened consciousness to the collected picture of what is possible.  Thank you.
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