International Sociometry Training Network

April 12-14, 2010 in Philadelphia: Integration of Choices and Action

This workshop will be co-led by Ann E. Hale, MA, TEP and Donna Little, MSW, TEP. The schedule is Monday, Apr. 12, noon-7pm, Tues., April 13, noon -7pm and Wed., Apr. 14, 9am-1pm. The workshop is schedule to precede the annual meeting of the ASGPP, meeting in Philadelphia, April 15-19, 2010. See www.asgpp.org

This workshop will be devoted to an exploration of yourself in the community with others, with the possibility of understanding ways you connect, detach and integrate with the body (your actions) your mind (your beliefs) and your spirit (your open heart connection to the universe and beyond). Daniel Siegel writes that we are wired to be in connection. Moreno and others have given us the tools we may use to explore: Psychodrama, Playback Theater; walking the Canon of Creativity; walking the Harmonic-Conflictual or the Sociometric Cycles (Hale); experiencing the Dynamic Therapy Process (Little/Lyon) enacting the Diamond of Opposites (Carlson-Sabelli & Sabelli); or, participating in Systemic Family Constellation. 18 hours training credit toward national certification.

August 8-13, 2010 A Master Class in Building and Sustaining Community

This residential training workshop will be co-lead by Donna Little, MSW, TEP and Ann E. Hale, MA, TEP. The workshop will focus on sociometry and healing as it particularly encompasses the dynamics of community, Our goal is to share as a micro-community all the ways we have discovered which support belonging in groups and organizations of all kinds. We begin with ourselves, enriching our connections, then accepting challenges which look at our various styles and behaviors which create "moments of difficulty" in a system. The master class is open to persons already familiar with sociometric practice. The workshop will take place in a cottage on Stoney Lake near Peterborough, Ontario. Travel from Toronto International Airport may be able to be arranged for persons out of country.

Nov 5-7, 2010 Sociometry and the Dynamics of Healing

Donna Little, MSW, TEP and Ann E. Hale, M.A., TEP will co-lead this intensive residential training workshop held at Am Kolel Sanctuary and Renewal Center, in Beallsville, Maryland (16 miles west of the junction of I-270 in Rockville, MD) Close airports are Dulles International and Baltimore International. The workshop begins at noon on Friday, November 5 with lunch and ends at 4:00pm on Sunday, March 7. Accommodation, three lunches, two breakfasts and two dinners are included in the fee. Dietary requests are invited.

New article: Content Section: The Wise Brain and Moreno's Canon of Creativity

The paper presented March 26, 2009 at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, St. Louis MO, is now posted on this website under the Contents section. Scroll down to the title: The Wise Brain and Moreno's Canon of Creativity to locate and print the article.

Psychodrama and Drama Therapy books: new website

People who want to check out availability of titles in the field of psychodrama and drama therapy may want to go online to: http://www.newpaltzbooks.com/psychodrama-and-drama-therapy-c-22.html

Sociometry Questions: The Next Set

Practitioner Question:
Describe the way you will introduce the cultural atom to your personal growth group.

Trainer Question:
Discuss with your trainees ways sociometric exercises and methodology can be adapted for use in cultures which have norms which affect face to face interaction, eye contact, revealing choices in public and/or in private, etc. Also, include ways you adapt disclosure of sociometric data based on cultures which place great importance on "face" (as in "saving face") .

Answers will be suggested October 18, 2008 and edited by Ann E. Hale, M.A., TEP based on responses from online interactions with people on the sociometryquestions yahoo group, the socionoetic yahoo group and the listserve Grouptalk.

Trainer Question, August 10-September 10, 2008

Trainer:
Design a training exercise to teach students about being authentic in their interpersonal relationships. An answer is suggested by Ann E. Hale, M.A.,TEP with references to Dorothy Satten, PhD, LMFT, TEP and Leif Dag Blomqvist, TEP.

Practitioner Question, August 10-Sept 10, 2008

Practitioner:
You are preparing to introduce some basic sociometry in your groups. What sort of supplies are you gathering together? How will you use these supplies? An answer supplied by Ann E. Hale, M.A., TEP

Liz White author of article on the sociometric test

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

Sociometry Texts available from Toronto Centre for Psychodrama and Sociometry