This is about the semantics of the word, drama. Its root is simply that which is done, enacted. My background in psychodrama makes this relevant, because of late I have begun to question the way the word drama has come to be understood. It seems to carry a meaning of excess, of histrionics.<\/p>\n
Recently I received a spam announcement for someone who seeks to \u201cuse effective strategies to identify and eliminate workplace drama\u201d and does this by identifying \u201cthe different types of drama roles as well as how to eliminate them. Indeed, she (the spammer) writes about the program\u2019s noting \u201cthe three Most Common Drama Drives – And How to Squash Them.\u201d<\/p>\n
This little ad reinforced in my mind the idea that it\u2019s time to drop drama from the name of the work I\u2019m doing, and instead use the term \u201caction exploration.\u201d It\u2019s funny, though, how a perfectly respectable term in one era become stigmatized or otherwise drifts in a later era. But language does this kind of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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