Friday Lunchtime Reading Group, 28 August 2015

Lunchtime Reading Group

On the last Friday of the month from 12.45 to 1.45 p.m. This group is designed to suit those with an hour to spare at lunchtime. Budding writers, trainees and practitioners are welcome! We will discuss psychodrama works; DVD’s and literature and other related material. A moderator who will send the material, or give it out at the previous meeting for reading or viewing, will lead the discussion.

Tapping into our Spontaneity and Creativity  

Moderator: Di Kearney

For this month's reading group there are two very different but complementary readings offered. The intention is to discuss and to (re­) experience in a variety of "ways of knowing" the vitality and potency and potential within the ideas. Tapping into our spontaneity and liberating creativity in our individual subjective existences is critical to the evolution of human life on earth, and perhaps our survival, as individuals and groups. 

In Who Shall Survive, Book iv, titled, "Construction and Reconstruction of a Community", Dr. J. L. Moreno wrote: 

If we should decide to develop a spontaneous­ creative universe to replace the one in which we live­ and in which spontaneity is 
arbitrary and incidental­ the spontaneity of one individual will
 stimulate the spontaneity of the other and the quantitative result
 will be the opposite of what we have at present . The spontaneity 
of the group will increase with its size and with the number of interactions of its members. In our present world order (1934 italics ours) the 
spontaneity quotient of the total of mankind is practically inert 
as for instance the League of Nations and the United Nations
Organization have illustrated. 
The spontaneity of mankind in such a future world order will multiply in direct proportion to the number of its groups and
the numbers of interactions between them . It will be so enormous that the power of man, the exercise of his collective energy will surpass everything we have ever dreamed."
 
(Moreno 1934, pp. 546­-547)

The second reading is a series of (incomplete) quotations from Warren Lett's book "An inquiry into making sense of our lives", (Warren Lett Rebus Press, Eltham, Australia, 2011), from the Glossary of the Miecat Form of Inquiry. (Miecat is an anagram for the Melbourne institute for Expressive and Creative Forms of Inquiry.) 

Fee: $10.00 per session includes freshly brewed coffee and selection of teas. BYO lunch. 

Enquiries and RSVP: (text or phone only) Di Kearney on 0416 067 551 (for full reference material and quotes)

Dates: 27 Feb, 27 Mar, (no April), 29 May, 26 Jun, 31 Jul, 28 Aug, 25 Sep, 30 Oct. & 27 Nov.