Dear Colleagues

[Edward Schreiber]

Dear Colleagues,

For some years now I have made comments, sometimes expressing my  
discomfort with the world and my concern for addressing the world in  
a new way and fully rooted in our method.

I have struggled with trying to find the right documents in which  
Moreno's social vision, the sociatric meaning of his method, and the  
full measure of his vision, documents in which Moreno's sociatric  
theories might be teased out into a form all their own; attempting to  
find anything that reflects a Morenean point of view.  For me that  
means finding formulas by which his view can be understood in simple  
terms: as sociatric instruments. We see the movement forward  
everywhere in a new wave of Morenean technology for the 21st  
Century:in Jacob's book, Tian, Kate, Adam, the work in the British  
and Australian centers.  I remember a series of email exchanges here  
from Australia in which Moreno was being called a revolutionary of  
creativity.  I liked that a lot!

We are finishing a major phase of this research, and we can feel  
fairly certain that we have found a few documents we believe will  
prove some light on our way forward with sociatry, if that is what we  
wish do do. For example, one document describes us as "world  
therapists" and darn, that is how I see our work.

I am not so comfortable talking about this informally.  I prefer a  
presentation within an informal setting.  So I am inviting you to  
come to Rowe to meet Derrick Jensen and to share in our unfolding of  
sociatry.   This is a long unfolding, done with all of us together,  
who want to cooperate to find a solution to the world crisis - our  
solution - sociometry - group structures - internal and hidden  
structures operating below the level of the formal organizational  
structures - impacting all of humanity and the earth itself.  For me  
it is an honor to work with Derrick, who is the philosopher poet of  
the environmental movement.  He is difficult, be warned!  Derrick is  
uncompromising in showing a mirror of the world that is difficult to  
see.  It is the mirror of the natural world showing itself, in his  
poetry and his prose.  His work is that of a master story teller, a  
stand up comic, a performance artist and an author. He has been  
called one of the "100 Truth Tellers of America".

When psychodrama combines with environmentalism, this can happen:   
the world can talk to us through surplus reality. The polar bears can  
join us in our room and on the stage! The oceans can speak to us, as  
can the rivers, streams, fading forests, dying seas. And so can hope  
talk to us.

Welcome 2008 as we approach 2012, for whatever that may mean or not  
mean.  What we do know so far is that ABC News reported the science  
from Indonesian Conference on Global Climate Change reporting  
nationally that if 2007 summer is any indication of things to come,  
there may no l ice in the summer in the Arctic by 2012.  What else do  
we know?  We know for sure: that we don't know the implications of no  
ice and what that will be for the entire ecology of the earth.  This  
much we know:  we don't know but there are some projections of  
droughts, flooding from rising seas, more extreme changes.  Every  
time scientists offer a projection based upon computer readouts, the  
projections soon prove to be false because, and this is the issue,  
things seem to be happening more quickly than the computer  
projections suggest.  I know, I know, some of our friends will call  
me an urgent alarmist.  Well, it seems kind of urgent to me and I  
hear some element of alarm.  After all, what might happen if more  
bees die off?  Moreno's understanding of the forces of society seem,  
well, critical. Moreno's theories about sociatry can be helpful for  
the whole of mankind. Sounds like so much fun.

We will be sharing this in San Antonio and at the Grenada Conference  
in May. Time to share.
Best,
Ed