How do You want to be remembered?

Sat Apr 19 22:11:21 CDT 2008

What a terrific idea. Perhaps if more people would share this information we would get more proposals in for various conferences. I will surely look at presenting at the ACA conference next year, Thanks,
Rebecca
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  From: Connie Miller 
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  Ok as a spinoff on your idea, maybe a better idea relating to this Rebecca would be to have each one of us be a liason to an outside group.  For instance, I would deliver news from the  American Counseling Association to all.  For instance their call for proposals is due June 2 for the conference next year in Charlotte.  The website is www.counseling.org.  Each state has an organization with separate meetings-they are a large organization. Are their any other voluteers? Connie
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   Dear Connie,
        I don't think the two ideas are exclusive of one another..why can't we do both? Honor where we came from, and explore where we are going. Right now there is energy around honoring the people who led us to where we are, partially because of all the deaths we have experienced the last few years. Those of us who have been part of the ASGPP for 20, 30 years or more are losing beloved trainers and psychodramatic family members. Younger members have expresses curiosity about who these 'names' are and the influence they have had on what we do today. Let's not discourage people who have energy for this. I think our elders want to be remembered for exactly what you say you'd like to be remembered for, for their work to help in healing and transforming. But once they are gone, who will remember if we don't? 
          Why not form another subcommittee who takes a look at how we can expand action methods . Connie, Adam, do you want to spearhead that? Put it out over grouptalk and see if there are some folks who are energized around that.
        Rebecca
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          From: Connie Miller 
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          Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:48 PM
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                 I agree with you Ann in that we do not have to make ourselves a distinct body...Anzpa had a great way to honor their ancestors.
                The more we make ourselves separate from others the more we will become isolated as a unit.

                Adam gave his keynote speech "Re-envisioning Psychodrama" recently at our conference. He spoke about expanding psychodrama in many different ways.  I was not at our conference but at the ACA conference in Hawaii presenting Souldrama and career development where there were 3500 attendees.  Again, it looked like I was the only psychodramatist promoting psychodrama and I asked myself, how come? 

                 Many of you are speaking of forming a committee to honor our ancestors and I am concerned that unless we expand the Moreno's knowledge of psychodrama and action methods, there will be few of us left to honor our ancestors.  Many of us have worked hard over the years to develop our own creative methods to expand psychodrama and action methods for the purpose of seeing others heal.  Perhaps the energy that goes into a committee to honor our ancestors could be best used instead in forming a committee "Expanding Psychodrama and Action Method"  so that we can all bring our new methods,, our ancestors methods and Morenos idea to other organizations. 

                 I am fully respectful of honoring our ancestors and I am fast becoming one,  however if I were to be honored, it would be to have the work that I developed over the years spread to others to used for the greater good of mankind to help them heal and transform their consciousness. If we want to survive, first we must spread our ideas to others to help others transform.

                 How we will survive will be by spreading our work for the greater good of mankind.This is how I would like my work remembered. How would you want to be honored?

                I will share a story that happened last week that made me remember that we are all one.

                Here is an incident that occurred Thursday that to me shows the power of souldrama and action methods.  I thought I would share it with you 


                I was was teaching action techniques and Souldrama to a staff in a residential rehab facility yesterday for drugs and alcohol.For this purpose I come twice a month and work with a group of 45-50 patients.  Yesterday they were all male and were there anywhere for 1-28 days. We were all strangers. I had 2 hours to work with the group.  After warming up the group to find a central issue using action methods for 15 minutes, the group chose the protagonist.  ( If anyone wants more details about this procedure let me know)   

                The group was to go through the first door of faith and surrender.  The man who was chosen by the group to work, Bob, at first did not want to do the work but asked to read a letter to the group the night before.He read that 13 years ago his son at age 13 had shot himself in the head and he has had no purpose since that time. He could not figure why his son did that.  He had never spoken about this tragedy until yesterday,.As the drama progressed he choose people to play the role of his son in heaven, himself, his old punishing God and his new loving God that he had forgotten over the past 13 years. There were many role reversals and tears and his son (Bob in his sons role) told him he did not want his life to have no meaning so that he would like his father to remember him by helping other young people who were about to take their life.  Yesterday there were about 8 teenagers in the group which was very unusual.  In the end, Bob felt a new and different connection with his son and decided to keep his memory alive by helping young people and by being a mentor.  He also decided to offer equine therapy to them  as he is an accomplished rider. The group went on after meeting God and ended with the serentnity prayer.


                In the sharing process, which came after the drama, people deroll and share.Prior to the sharing no one knows anything about the other person and they just choose a person to play the role..Bob knew none of them.  Here is where I see God work in a group and soul in action....


                The man who played his son happened to love to ride horses as a hobby and said he would help Bob.

                The man who played the role of himself remembered his father being murdered when he was 13 and was crying.

                The man Bob chose to play his old God lost his father when he was 13 and was crying

                The man who played the role of the new God had attempted suicide the same way when he was 13 and never told anyone.  The saftey on the gun was on and it did not work.  He thought how it would have affected his family.

                The rest of the group had similar incidences or were thinking of suicide and shared how Bob helped them.

                What were the chances of this happening in a group?  It was not my directing but the group itself as they chose the protagonist. and players that played a role 

                To me this is the wonder of the group is connection of soul  which seems to be  the individualized expression of spirit...... Soul is differentiated---deeply unconscious, the basic coming together of temperament, abilities, interests, sociometric resonances, etc. (Blatner 2008) This was a magical drama and the group chose the protagonist and learned to surrender to each other.Also as the group helped each other to heal, this was not only limited to their ancestors or transgenerational work but to the group itself. God and the group work as the therapeutic agent within the group... the director is the servant, The group will remember and honor the work..this is what matters.

                 Connie
               

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