Global Warming Group

[Edward Schreiber]

Hi Regina,
Great, thanks for doing this – essential work of our time.   I have  
had a few go-arounds with this, so can share it here with you.
Recently in Granada, earlier Conference Center and at Starseed  
Healing Sanctuary I did similar work.  I've used the theme, "Facing
the World, Facing Our Selves, Facing Each Other" to design  
appropriate action structures, such as locagrams, to choose which  
"Facing"
you are most drawn toward.  There in that sociometric doubles (in  
small groups) were found to stabilize limbic-physiology.  I then  
presented
sociatric structures drawn from WSS, Future of Man's World,  
Sociometry and the Cultural Order, and some other material from  
Moreno.  In
that I've taken "sociatric structures" which to me are the global  
sociometric structures in operation and - organizing the human  
experience.  These
are the sociodynamic  effect and the social organic unity of  
humanity.  Often the sociometric work I do with groups allows us to  
see the sociatric
structures of humankind appear in small groups, as though the small  
group is like a 'fractal' of human civilization at this time.   
Clearly the sociodynamic effect is in some way related to the  
collapse of the environment.  ARE YOU AWARE THAT SCIENTISTS ARE NOW  
SAYING THAT THERE MAY BE NO ICE IN THE ARCTIC THIS SUMMER?  The  
projections, just 2 years ago was that unstopped carbon into the  
environment would cause the Arctic to be ice free by 2040.  Now the  
Associated Press is reporting this may happen - this year - and this  
is very serious for humanity.  So the time for human evolution has  
arrived - and I'm reading Tolle's "A New Earth" and finding great  
strength and practices in that book to guide my work with Moreno.   
Essentially it seems that role reversal is a key - just the  
transformational aspect of role reversal (and a stabilizing double  
sociometrically in one's social atom) seems essential to help human  
beings to awaken.  Which is what it is all about.  We are so caught  
up into our mind, we must awaken as Tolle urges to the indwelling  
nature of life within each of us.  This to me is an expression of the  
Encounter Symbol.  The two arcs meet at the center - and create an  
image of how the method works:  embodying the awakened consciousness  
of life in the body and in the group.  When I have shown the  
sociodynamic effect in the sociometry and have shown the group how to  
reverse it, whatever comes next sociometrically indicates another  
underlying structure below the sociodynamic effect, which is in  
Moreno's view, the social-organic unity.  The unity of life beyond  
ego.  So - that's what I'm doing with all this:  helping to awaken  
the awakening in myself, and sharing that with others who are  
interested.
Much thanks, I extend myself in collaboration in any way I am able.    
Best,   Ed
On Jul 2, 2008, at 12:10 PM, REGINA SEWELL wrote:

> I've been asked to run a short action oriented group (5 sessions,  
> 2.5 hours each or 6 2 hour sessions) exploring global warming (or  
> global climate change) issues for Simply Living, a local community  
> group interested in simplicity, sustainability and healthy living.   
> I have some basic ideas and am working with a counselor on the  
> programing committee who is into ecopsychology and will probably be  
> using Joanna Macy's "Coming Back to Life" as a framework.... And I  
> would love input from the greater psychodrama community.  So please  
> forward your suggestions, thoughts, and ideas about specific  
> exercises and techniques, frameworks, and/or suggested readings.
>
> The goals of the group are to create a safe container in which  
> participants can explore and express their feelings about the short  
> and long term impact of global warming, discover or reconnect with  
> their power relating to the possibility of making a difference,  
> connect with a sense of optimistic possibility and generate ideas  
> about things they can and will actually do differently to respond  
> to global warming.
>
> Thanks,
> regina sewell, Ph.D.
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