sociodrama thread

[Adam Blatner]

Hello, all, I agree. What intrigues me is what will come out in the process of doubling. I'm trying to bring into clarity the underlying assumptions, identifying the unspoken myths or biases in our culture. 
      Folks offer several levels of expressions (see my paper, Five Levels of Disclosure)  http://www.blatner.com/adam/psyntbk/fivelevelsawareness.html   -- and one of the advantages of sociodrama is that it can help us see more clearly what the subtle variety of assumptions, injunctions, beliefs and other ideas are operating at the preconscious level. Getting these articulated then allows us to collectively re-evaluate them, keep what is worth keeping, refine them, discard some elements, make finer distinctions, etc.  I see this as one of our collective challenges.  (For that reason, I see there being some value in recording the key underlying assumptions or attitudes associated with various issues.)   Oh, yes, also I'd like to have a paper about this supplementing the chapters in my recent anthology-- 
        giving students in education, psychotherapy, theatre arts more to chew on, perhaps luring them toward taking training in psychodrama and sociodrama...


          I hope this whole approach will catch on!  

         Warmly  Adam 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ann Hale 
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  Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 6:08 PM
  Subject: sociodrama thread


  Dear Peter Parkinson, Peter Howie and Adam,
      I have always thought that sociodrama, rather than jsut psychodrama for open sessions would have more potential for connecting and community building.  I have always wanted to leave a movie theater and walk into a sociodrama session where the universal, collective themes of the recent drama could be explored in situ.  One of the huge draws of Playback Theater for me is the healing power of the aesthetic, the courage of the risk taking actors and tellers, and the pure necessity of groups of people wanting to feel the powerful connection of their intersecting stories.
      I doubt that tribes who used dance and story to explain lifes mysteries worried about "informed consent" for their gatherings.  What we have now, rather than neighborhoods and tribes, are captured audiences to the world stage, and media purveyors, rather than wise men.
      I like the idea of return to the community to explore what is going on, how I feel about it, and to get plugged into the power that I have to act and contribute to solutions.  I wish you great success making this happen, or to continue. Lets write some more about it. I need the nudge to do something locally where I live. Ann Hale


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