On Being and Becoming
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Struggling to put in a link and eventually Walter discovered that by putting a name highlighting and clicking link the dialogue box appeared and the link could then be inserted. Why did this struggle ocurr? Walter usually works with HTML and so was unfamiliar with the visual screen and the faded “link” button!
For example a word document for trainees final weekend with sparkles and wordart title: here it is
Setting up a Blog with the intent to place writing I have done and will do is a challenge. Walter thank you for revising and developing the site. I am getting a strong feel for its workability. I will continue to explore. With your being away for a while when you return I should be bubbling with possibilities.
A group of psychodrama trainees, a colleague and I recently explored Jacob Moreno’s Canon of Creativity. During the weekend the question came what is a “canon”. It is a rule or law. A law by decree a gathering together of religious rules, principles and precepts can be called a canon. The canon may however be a natural and repeated pattern of events or phenomena that are able to be recognized and expected because of their consistency. The relationship of warm up, spontaneity, creativity and conserve are seen by Moreno as a canon that can be described and pictured.
I have been on my site several times today and wandered in and out of the rooms of my house in the sky. Some of my movement has been frustratingly and painfully delayed becase my security insists on checking every turn of a page for “phishing”! I visited the security centre to make my blog friendly. I could not pursuade my Microsoft programme to add my own blog to approved sites. Its dialogue insited that ONLY https websites were trutworthy enough!
A clue from Moreno
4 Components & 2 Interactive Factors
The first clue is about there being thinking, feeling and action in every and any role.
Second in the graphic that follows there are three additional factors alongside and essential to a concept that role has thinking, feeling and action. They are that:
a. values arise from interactions of thinking and feeling;
b. every enactment of role is influenced by and in part limited by context;
c. every enactment of role has consequences that can be imagined in advance – though are never absolutely predictable.
Click for Larger ImageFour components and two interactive factors of role
Spontaneity is the freedom to be each of us ourselves. To be freer and freer to be who I am or you are and for us to become who we really can be.
I want to be truly myself. Spontaneity is the factor in us that releases that freedom. Healthy spontaneity is mindfully directed and ethically controlled. It is lovingly gifted to the health of the whole human community. The planet’s interest is served and we are co-creators of the cosmos. A dynamic holistic system where we each are a particular and unique self with our own way of being is never able to be separated or absolutely isolated.
Here is a paper first produced September 2004 for Trainees working with Role Dynamics. Only to be copied with permission and acknowledgment. It is a work in progress with revisions and additions on going. Words highlighted in italics are to keep myself conscious of J & Z Moreno. Words in common use within ANZPA Inc. communities are underlined.
Walter Logeman who has been guiding me into the world of blogging and web pages on
Word Press sent me this poem to lead me into the how to post or page an article or
document.
You will see that I posted a comment on his posting and I copy it here after the poem.
Freedom to act in new ways (Word)
Freedom to Act in New Ways co-authored with Charmaine McVae is an article for the Australian Psychologist’s December 2007 edition.
The article presents a spontaneity-creativity-mindfulness approach to psychological counselling where the client makes new choices and develops new ways of being him or her self in settings that have challenged and defeated previously. The client’s warm up and activation as a competent experimenter is the key. The potent art of the psychodramatist is to coach in such a way that the client’s spontaneity is heightened which increases mindfulness and freedom to be who they are inside more openly and fully. The playful companion coach has as their task to promote creativity in the main one the client taking charge.
Becoming Jane: Appreciating her being and becoming through explorations of role
This article was submitted to 2007 ANZPA Journal and published with a small unintended alteration as the result of an addition of graphics. Here in its original form. The use of the words ”coping gestalt” rather than “coping role”were carefully chosen as Don explained in ANZPA’s online “Socio”.
Becoming Jane pdf