Psychodrama and Sociometry contribute significantly to the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of GroupSense online collaboration services. More than that, though, they provide the vision and inspiration for this work of increasing collaboration in social systems.
JL Moreno’s goal was the maximum spontaneous participation of every individual concerned in the groups in which they live.
This excerpt from Moreno’s writing is as applicable to work, learning and knowledge-sharing groups as to any:
“…we have to consider every individual in [their] concreteness and not as a symbol, and every relationship [they may] have…. we cannot gain a full knowledge unless every individual participates spontaneously in uncovering these relationships to the best of [their] ability. The problem is how to elicit from every [person their] maximum spontaneous participation. … how to motivate [people] so that they all will give repeatedly and regularly, not only at one time or another, their maximum spontaneous participation.”
Thanks for this quote to Sara Crane, President of the Canterbury Westaland Branch of the Australain New Zealand Psychodrama Association.
Sara tells me that this quote came from Jonathon Fox’s Essential Moreno – original source yet to be determined.