International Forum For Psychoanalytic Education Fall Board Meeting (Draft)

International Forum For Psychoanalytic Education

Fall Board Meeting (Draft)

November 5^th & 6^th, 2014

Kabuki Hotel

San Francisco, California

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast Garden Room

9:00 – 12 Noon Business Meeting, Room Garden A

The following voting and nonvoting members of the Board were present:
J. Vida

D. Maxwell

J. Swanson

R. Raubolt

S. Barish

J. Cuevas

K. Schwarzenbach

M. Molofsky

F. Silverberg

S. Spence

T. Archbald

M. Marquez

Following IFPE Members were also present:

O. Gozlan

P. Bennett

B. Brennan

E. Hill

J. Dias

Administrator: L. Ehrlich

1. 
   Farrell Silverberg, President of IFPE, called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone at the meeting.
   
2. 
   A review of the minutes took place with corrections. A Motion was made to approve the minutes. They were unanimously approved.
   
3. 
   Report from the President: Silverberg
   

a. Updates on Board Actions since last meeting

i. Pasadena 2016 conference date changed to October 27^th- 29^th.The Board meets on the 26^th and 27^th.

b. Recommendations for the future

c. Discussion of proposed ByLaws change separating Parliamentarian into two offices: 1. Parliamentarian and 2. Nominations and Elections Chair creating two presidentially appointed positions out of one. Whenever Farrell referred to the ByLaws for the present meeting, he realized that we need to amend the ByLaws. A discussion ensued.

i. Add language for allowing the flexibility of the election deliverable dates and deadlines.

A Motion was duly made and seconded that we amend Article 4, Section (A) (3) in the ByLaws:

ARTICLE IV(A)(3)

                  The officers and representatives of the Board shall be a President, a Past President, a Secretary, a Treasurer and eight ten Members-at-Large.
A Motion was duly made and seconded that one of the two newly created member at large positions for the 2105 election cycle only, shall serve for two years. The fourth highest number of votes shall serve a two year term. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously.

i. Jay has volunteered to look over the ByLaws.

A motion was duly made and seconded to amend the ByLaws:

ARTICLE IV(C)

                  4.  Nominations and Elections Committee.  This committee shall be comprised of a Nominations and Elections Chair who is the Parliamentarian and at least two members of IFPE appointed by the Chair.  In the event there is no Parliamentarian then the Chair shall be the Secretary.

It has been seconded and then passed unanimously.

Correct a typo in ByLaws.
Jay will tell the Membership Meeting what will be added to the ByLaws.

A Motion was duly made and seconded to amend the ByLaws:

ARTICLE VI(A)

                  Election results shall be tabulated by the [Nominations and Elections] Committee and mailed to the membership shall be notified in writing by September 15^th.

i. Farrell would like to have more people involved in the Committee planning of the next and future conferences.

4- Report from The Treasurer & Finance Committee: Marquez, Spence

Data and Outlook – Farrell would like to see a future report about the sustainability of our conference in terms of how much the hotels are charging as opposed to our not raising our fees. Tina suggested we look at the fact that we don’t make presenters become members and Farrell will bring that up at the Membership Meeting. Judy brings up that we asked people who are presenters at this conference to pay their fees when they accepted to present and surprisingly, they all accepted. Douglas brings up that we could raise the fees and make a possible monthly payment plan for the members. Preference will be given to members in the selection of the papers at the conference.

We broke for lunch at 12:10 p.m.

5- A Motion was duly made and seconded that preference will be given to proposals submitted by members. The motion was passed unanimously.

6- A Motion was duly made and seconded to discontinue the practice of extending into the following year new memberships at the time of the conference; a membership undertaken at any time during a calendar year applies only to that calendar year, beginning in January 1, 2015.

7- New Accountant Update

8- Report from Membership Chair: Schwarzenbach

1. 
   A discussion ensued about raising the membership dues and giving a discount for two years.
   

b- A Motion was duly made to increase the organizational dues to $195.00 for one year and $325.00 for two years.

9- Reports from Other/Wise Uncut: Silverberg, Vida

1. 
   The last papers from last year will be published by December 2014.
   
2. 
   Judy and Farrell states that we not publish papers that are incomprehensible, are prejudicial and are using plagiarism. People will be informed whether their papers will be selected for publication.
   

10- Committee Reports

1. 
   Mentorship: Hill
   
2. 
   Social Responsibility: Raubolt
   
3. 
   Trauma: Cuevas
   
4. 
   Gender, Sexuality & Psychoanalysis: Gozlan
   
5. 
   Spirituality: Bennett
   
6. 
   Ethics: Molofsky
   
7. 
   International Outreach: Marquez
   
8. 
   Social Media Advisory: Maxwell
   

11- Preliminary Conference Report: Compiled by Judith E. Vida

1. 
   Stewart would like to talk to a statistician to help develop a simple design to improve the grid in future conferences.
   
2. 
   Program Committee
   
3. 
   Content
   
4. 
   Registration numbers: participants, non-participants
   
5. 
   Awards
   
6. 
   Food & Wine
   
7. 
   A/V
   
8. 
   Meeting Rooms
   
9. 
   Show/Tell and Pricing of the IFPE souvenir book/tote bags and the bookmarks arranged by Lois. Discussion on pricing of the bag.
   
10. 
    Survey
    
11. 
    Significantly revised procedures and materials (A/V, registration due, recommendations for future conferences-A/V ruling acceptance
    
12. 
    Report on Experiment in “ conference by committee” and recommendations for future divisions of conference functions.
    
13. 
    Expectations for IFPE awardees and experiment “ in absentia
    

The meeting was adjourned at 4:48 pm.

The Meeting on November 6, 2014 began at 9:10 a.m. with welcoming remarks by Farrell.

1. 
   Lois reported that her hours have increased by five to ten hours per week. Lois talked about the bags and what a good promotional item they are for IFPE. A Motion was duly made and seconded that we ask for a donation of $10.00 and they receive a IFPE book bag as premium. There were two nays and nine yehs. The Motion was passed.
   
2. 
   Nominations and Elections Committee
   

1-Jay gives the nomination and election report.

C- Conference 2015 - Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia

1. 
   Theme: Vulnerability and Its Discontents
   
2. 
   Oren will prepare a draft for the call for the conference.
   
3. 
   Douglas will be in charge of the visuals for the conference. Chloe Piene is an artist to be considered.
   
4. 
   Divisions of labor : Phillip Bennett will do liaison for PSPP. Bracha Ettinger is a suggested artist by Katherine Schwarzenbach. Farrell suggested a South African artist. Rachael and Tina will be in charge of the moderators. Merle volunteered to edit all the materials. Food and Beverage will be Sara and maybe Ruth, and A/V will be Manuel. For Pasadena, the Calendar Czar will be Larry. It is suggested that Erica Hill and Manuel talk together about the A/V.
   
5. 
   Loewald & Distinguished Educators. Deborah Britzman is receiving the Loewald Award. The DE’s are Paul Zelevansky and Giselle Galdi.
   

D- Conference 2016 – The Westin, Pasadena

1. 
   Co-Chair’s, Katherine will be the floating Co-Chair with Johanna.
   
2. 
   Judith recommends Skin as a theme for Pasadena. Judith recommends Largo Mar location for 2017. Billy, Rachel and Merle volunteer to write the Skin call.
   
3. 
   Judy suggests Derald Wing Sue, and Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People for Loewald Awards. Merle suggests Kevin Young, a poet, The Grey Album. Paula Shatsky has good resources about Skin. Susie Orbach is suggested by Tina. Douglas suggests Alison Bechdel for a Loewald Award for Largo Mar.
   
4. 
   A Motion is duly made and seconded that we meet at Largo Mar for November 7-12, 2017. The Motion has passed unanimously.
   
5. 
   We are considering Vancouver, Canada for 2018.
   
6. 
   A Motion was duly made and seconded that we give the Loewald Award to Alison Bechdel in 2017. The Motion was passed unanimously.
   
7. 
   Other/Wise - Richard volunteers to help with new criteria and Jay and Merle will be on the reformation team.
   

The meeting was adjourned at 11:45 am.

Respectfully yours,
Sara Lavner

Secretary