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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear colleagues, especially those interested in
sociatry and sociometry, with an edge of philosophy thrown in. David Brooks
wrote a column recently that struck me. </FONT></DIV>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/opinion/22brooks.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/opinion/22brooks.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It's a way to re-appreciate the power of our ideas,
that economics, psychology, sociology, there are significant overlaps, because
when many of the products of the species are ideas rather than things, this
cultural-economic process shifts rather fundamentally.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> In this sense, what I'm claiming
that Moreno gave us wasn't just a package, but a bunch of tools that are in a
sense protocols, sets of instructions, what to do when... </FONT></DIV>
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They aren't rigid, but rather general and flexible, but they're important and
hardly appreciated: such as,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> If possible, allow people to choose their
work team based on their own mutual preferences... and other implications of
sociometry</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> If possible, get folks
discussing and use doubling and other ways of increasing imagination and safety
to keep the discussion even more personal and meaningful...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> ... stuff like that. Warmly,
ADam</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Adam Blatner, M.D.<BR> website: <A
href="http://www.blatner.com/adam/">www.blatner.com/adam/</A>
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