Mission

Boughton Place is a nonprofit learning center that provides education, community and practical support for individuals and groups interested in developing transformative skills for sustainable living.

Vision

Boughton Place is a community-creating space used for meetings, gatherings, performances, celebrations, study circles, and training sessions that promote its mission. Its facilities include a 1,000 square foot theater and meeting space for large groups, a full kitchen and screened in porch for dining, sleeping facilities for 10, smaller group rooms, cultivated and landscaped grounds, off-street parking and office facilities. Special attention is given to promote the teaching of action methods that help individuals grow and function in relation to community and the earth, and to making these methods available to the public and the various constituencies that make use of Boughton Place. Prominent among these methods are psychodrama, sociodrama and sociometry.

Boughton Place preserves and maintains in active use the original psychodrama stage built by J.L. Moreno in 1936, originator of these methods. The Moreno stage is recognized as a vital symbol of the world wide psychodrama community, and thousands of psychodrama participants have attended events at Boughton place since its inception in 1986.

Boughton Place supports research and maintains an archive of materials specific to its history and mission. Boughton Place also rents facilities to the general public as a means to promote public awareness of its values and programs and to cover operating costs of the facility.

Objectives

Boughton Place will continue to support trainings in psychodrama, sociodrama, sociometry, and group therapy. It will continue to use action methods to enhance community dialogue and develop innovative group methods.

The theatre building and Moreno stage will be maintained and administered to provide a comfortable and useful setting for those who rent it.

Maintain celebrations associated with Boughton Place to tie our activities to the seasons of Earth and renew the shared sense of tradition that helps unite our constituencies into a community.

Boughton Place will promote an ecological focus, incorporating earth consciousness into group practices.

Boughton Place will maintain an archive of materials relating to its history, its locale, and to theoretical and historical material associated with the values it serves.

Values

A healthy society values the individual and seeks to provide everyone a role with dignity.

Healthy individuality is rooted in communities as our link to the world and to the planet.

We recognize ourselves as part of the biological community of the Earth.

We respect conflict as a necessary precondition for dialog and the search for peaceful and cooperative means to resolve problems.

We honor individual initiative, conscience, religious freedom and cultural diversity, and respect tradition and history as guides.

We seek to represent our diverse constituencies within our decision-making processes for the good of all, and trust the group process.