<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Thank you Adam. So well stated. </div><div><br></div><div>We all possess a passion for Psychodrama and J. L.'s teachings and the world needs each and everyone of us. Building our sociometry is important. Our society is just made up of many individuals. No one person has all the answers or can do it alone. Only together can we help our intellectual properties grow. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373); "> Let us remember to role reverse. </span><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373); ">If this person would like to speak with me or become involved on a committee, I would be glad to make contact. </span><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br><br>Sent from Sue's Ipod<div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jul 9, 2009, at 4:20 PM, "Adam Blatner" <<a href="mailto:ablatner@verizon.net">ablatner@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I was corresponding with a colleague who had been
feeling somewhat disenchanted with ASGPP. And after I responded, I thought maybe
I'd share it with you all.</font><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I wrote: </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Is there any chance that I
can lure you back towards the ASGPP? </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> My reasoning is that while our professional
group may be as beset with organizational vulnerabilities as much as many other
professional societies, and indeed, what's going on in national politics, I
still think it's important to support it. It's not just the organization that
needs it, though certainly they do. It's because </font><font size="2" face="Arial">the tools developmed by Moreno are just substantially good things
that need to be refined and applied in the world.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> It's </font><font size="2" face="Arial">because the world needs all the help it can get in every way---that's
the focus of my passion---</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> And it
needs the dissemination of good tools (a secondary
passion-point)</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">
and the tools---the concepts and techniques---developed by Moreno and refined
further by several generations of other professionals in our field and
associated fields---just happen to be really useful. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> It seems to me
that only through united action will more folks in many different
fields, in and beyond therapy, find out about them, learn to use them.
</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font><font size="2" face="Arial"> People with training in
psychodrama kn</font><font size="2" face="Arial">ow stuff hardly anyone else in
the world knows! (Oh maybe only several thousand others scattered
around the world). But the larger world is facing big challenges, and it needs
to know how to utilize the powers of imagination, harness the practical
applications of play and drama in the service of consciousness raising, conflict
resolution, developing communications that are more meaningful, promoting
activities that add joy and a pay-off to doing the work.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I believe the World really needs this
stuff! </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I could go on
and offer a more cosmic, theological speculation and myth-building, but that
might lay it on a bit too thick. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> So that's why I put up with
imperfections. Let's try to work towards improving those imperfections, but
realize that what we're dealing with as our organizational and national
leaders are reasonably bright (but far from omniscient) people who have shown
some willingness to step up to the plate and take on the burdens of
leadership. They (our organizations' officers, including the organizations in
other countries) don't claim to know ahead of time just how to fix it all. The
do what they can, they improvise. It's not good enough. They need encouragement,
feedback, support, appreciation, and if you have any ideas on how exactly to do
it better, well, let 'em know. But realize that they don't know. Nor do our
political leaders.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I think of humanity as
very fragile, only barely emerging into near civilization, and that breaks down
easily. Only ten thousand or so years beyond cave-men (excuse the gendering),
only a couple of million years out of near-monkey-brains. I think of us as only
5-15% evolved into our potential. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I write this because there's a
prevalent tendency to project parental transferences on organizational leaders.
That transference says something like, "Here I am the victim of your decisions.
You better know what you're doing! I don't like a lot of the things you make me
do. I think you do know how to make it all better, but sometimes you are
thoughtless and uncaring and don't bother. So I get angry with you, openly on
occasion, passive-aggressive a lot." </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> What doesn't exist in the
parental transference: "Oh, my. You are loving and good but you really don't
know how to make things better. You haven't a clue. You really want to, but you
don't know; and I don't know; and I don't know who does know. You do some things
better than I do, you know some things I don't. But there's tons neither of us
know. Perhaps I should thank you for what you do give of yourself instead of
pouting and sulking in the hopes that my evident discontent will spur you to do
it right once and for all." </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">And my reading is that large numbers of seemingly
mature people still operate with unresolved parental transference.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Well, so much for that digression. I
hope this mild rant expresses my rah rah for the cause. (smile). </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I welcome modifications and comments. Warmly,
Adam</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></div>
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