thread: 2005-09-02 : Meg on Ritual
On 2005-09-03, Marco wrote:
As someone who is interested in psychodrama, I think the dichotomy of *safe* vs. *strong* is perhaps a false one. One of the tenants of psychodrama (for real therapeutic deeply felt roleplay) is that it has to be, in some ways, 'safe' to be useful (i.e. people will not continue with it if they are brutalized without some sense of closure and some sense of communal safty).
I think the kind of 'safe' you are *talking* about is more like "no one really gets *real*—so it's safe" but in more useful terms, for this to work (something I am, in fact, very interested in) there needs to be certain things done to ensure that when someone is really the hell real in their roleplaying experience it isn't a justifiable excuse for dumping on other people.
I believe a lot of exciting work could be done in this area. I, myself, am interested in seeing it done, working on it, and experiencing it.
I think what the process *needs* is more of the right kind of safty.
-Marco
