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Welcome to ISTN!
The International Sociometry Training Network founded in 2005 by Ann E. Hale is intended to direct people to publications, research, training activities and to persons knowledgable in the application of sociometric methods to such complex issues as resettlement of refugees, formation of communities and neighborhoods, transition from poor to high functioning group interaction, morale building, and greater, more productive use of resources and energies.
The field of sociometry began with J. L. Moreno, MD, whose vision involves a philsophy and methodologies encompassing the expanding world of small groups until the whole of humankind is identified as interconnected, belonging and contributing. Moreno believed that freedom in its broadest sense is possible if people have the information and skills they need to negotiate their world. In his remarkable text Who Shall Survive? Foundations of Sociometry, Group Psychotherapy and Sociodrama (1934,1953,1978) Moreno referred to techniques of freedom with specific focus on interpersonal and intergroup choice-making.
- Sociometry is both a quantitative and qualitative study of interpersoanl choice-making activity examining choices people make for other persons with whom to interact, share time and space, energy and states of consciousness.
- Sociometrists assist groups in becoming aware of the impact their choices have on one another, assist in the sharpening of interpersonal perception, in learning to recognize and intervene in patterns which contribute to group dynamics, role accessibility, act hunger, isolation, burnout, impasse and disentegration.
- Sociometrists work with groups to identify its strengths and resources, its role repertoire, styles for managing conflict, and ways to have the emotions, personal history, attitudes and injunctions be part of the solutions and growth as members of a network.
Once a month answers to sociometry questions are posted on this site. The questions are designed to assist individuals who are studying for certification as practitioners or trainers in the field of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. To join this group and receive the occasional email, please enter your email address and click the Join Now button:
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Ann Hale and Donna Little to Conduct Workshop at Hudson Valley Psychodrama Insti
Sociometry
|  A workshop, entitled Healing Our Interpersoanl Connections will be held beginning 10am, Thursday, July 24 - 1:00pm, Monday, July 28, 2008.
This residential training focuses on friendship, family, and work
connections, the depth of these connections and the level of well-being
participants experience in all their important relationships.
Enactments, such as psychodrama, family constellations explorations and
playback theater will be available for intensively examining the
dynamics which pose moments of difficulty. Short group centered
sociometric explorations will allow group members to build on and
strengthen their interpersonal relationships in the training
group. Participants will receive up to 40 training credit which
may be directed toward certification by the American Board of Examiners
in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. Group
sessions will tend to run from 10am until 6:00pm each day except the
last day which ends at 1:00pm.
Tuition: $650, does not include accomodation or meals. Payable to Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute
Location: Boughton Place, Highland, NY
Registration: http://www.hvpi.net for information on travel to Boughton Place and accomodation suggestions.
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Trainer Question, November 2007
Questions and Answers
|  Trainer question
Lost, vacant and missing roles are sometimes due to death within the
social atom. Describe the warmup you will use to this topic and
how you will train your students to work with the issue using pen and
paper and action. An answer suggested by Ann E. Hale, M.A., TEP
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Practitioner question, November, 2007
Questions and Answers
| Practitioner question
A Mother and a Father have difficulty agreeing on their parenting of
their eleven year old son. They want to explore these differences
before he hits his teenage years. Describe how you would use the
role diagram as one of the instruments for clarifying both the roles
and their feelings about one another as parents. An answer suggested by
Ann E. Hale.
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ASGPP 67th Annual meeting in 2009
Sociometry
| The American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama will hold
its annual meeting in St. Louis, March 26 - 30, 2009. Save these
dates and contact http://www.asgpp.com for more information about the
program which includes workshops and papers on sociometry, action
methods, dreamwork, psychodrama with various populations, mindfulness,
etc.
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Liz White author of article on the sociometric test
Sociometry
| Elizabeth White, M.A., TEP is author of "From Blunt Instrument to
Courageous Conversations: Reflections on the Sociometric Test"
which appears in the 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychodrama and Sociodrama,
Vol.22, no 1, pp. 55-62. The article delves into her two main
reservations about the sociometric test: (1) "It takes far too long in
its entirety; and (2) It is a blunt instrument, lacking the richness of
nuance, ambivalence and possibility." The email
address for Liz White is:
lizwhiteinaction@rogers.com
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New Workbook for Personal Village by Marv Thomas
Sociometry
| In 2004 Marv Thomas published Personal Village: How to Have People in Your Life by Choice, Not Chance
through Milestone Books, Seattle, WA. Now he has produced a
workbook which features "six steps to build your personal community" .
The workbook is an excellent resource for persons working with
resettlement, persons undergoing a move of household, and for persons
wanting to feel more a part of a community. To check them out go to
Marv Thomas' website http://www.personalvillage.com The publisher
address is: Lakeridge Press, P.O. Box 27645, Seattle, WA
98165-2645 Telephone inquiries: 206-364-9494
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New DVD on Playback Theater
Sociometry
| Anonymous writes "A live performance of Playback Theater is the subject of a DVD produced
by the School of PLayback Theater. There are also subtitles in Japanese
and Spanish. The cost is $45USD and includes postage and handling. To
inquire go to playbackschool@hvi.net or call 845-255-8163.
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