http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919
I want to take a photo of one of Moreno’s maps – to contrast.
Zeitgeist
Have been listening to the audios and thinking about the sociodrama workshop I will be conducting at the Auckland Psychodrama Conference 2011 on the Zeitgeist. “Listening to the Spirit of the Times.”
Who shall survive and all of JL Moreno’s work looks to a future. Sociometry is the science of the future.
As I became socially and politically conscious, the future loomed large. “We shall overcome”, “Times are a changing” the counter-culture loomed large and it drove me forward (in the ’70s) into a utopian future that crashed both psychologically and socially.
Psychodrama arrived just at that moment in my life in in 1979. It filled my “me generation” needs as well as the counter-cultural needs. It was able to offer repair needed from the pain of the 70s but hooured the visions of the 60s.
And psychodrama did indeed flourish in the eighties in Australia and NZ. I think because Max and Lynnette Clayton of course but also because of the zeitgeist.
Psychodrama offered better social tools than yuppies and better psychological ones than traditional therapy.
Leadership in a Networked World
Leadership in a Networked World http://peggyholman.com/leadership-in-a-networked-world/
Making sense of psyche – ref John Locke
The quote from Locke below describes an idea I have long held. I did not know till today that John Locke had it 100s of years ago. It is relevant to me as I work with the psyche, or spirit as he calls it, as the main stuff of my day to day work. The psyche is, in his words, “abstruse”, and there is no way to talk of it other than through forms that reflect ultimately “sensible ideas” ie idea that relate to things we can experience with our senses.
Hence we use dramatic terms like Oedipus complex, and geographical terms like depression. Talk of the psyche is form of poetry and metaphor to describe the inner side of action, make sense of action.
Locke ECHU BOOK III Chapter I Of Words or Language in General:
Psychodrama open day
Building community
Deepening relationships
Increasing spontaneity in a busy world
Discovering new ways of being and doing
Coming to Life
A day of experiencing Psychodrama
Moreno Institute East
Linking here as the whole site is worth exploring:
Moreno Institute East – Biographies:
New research out of the University of Vienna by Dr. Robert Waldl shows the enormous influence that Dr. Moreno’s theory of the Encounter (Invitations to an Encounter, 1914) had on the development of Martin Buber’s I-Thou philosophy, and Buber’s influence on philosophy, theology, and psychology. Dr. Moreno’s wife Zerka Moreno writes, “While it is true that Buber broadened the idea of the Encounter, he did not create the instruments for it to occur.” Moreno…produced the various instruments we now use for facilitating the human encounter, sociometry, group psychotherapy, psychodrama, and sociodrama” (Zerka Moreno, Psychodrama Network News, Winter 2007).
Five Instruments of Psychodrama
The five instruments:
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- Stage
- Audience
- Director
- Protagonist
- Auxiliary Egos
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Word documents on this available here.
Five elements of Spontaneity
Five elements of Spontaneity:
- Adequacy
- Creativity
- Vitality
- Originality
- Flexibility
From J. L. Moreno (But where?)
Bibliography of the Work of J. L. Moreno
Bibliography of the Work of J. L. Moreno (Published 1986 in Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry, 39, 95-128.) Compiled by A. Paul Hare
The Four Universals
I was looking for stuff on the four universals of Moreno, but found this instead, bought it.
“Mind-bending. . . . [Greene] is both a gifted theoretical physicist and a graceful popularizer [with] virtuoso explanatory skills.” —The Oregonian “Brian Greene is the new Hawking, only better.” — The Times (London)
Greene, Brian. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Kindle Edition) by Brian Greene (Author) 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (238 customer reviews)