Minutes of the PHANA Council Teleconference
June 17, 2004, 7- 9 pm

Present:  Sahra Aschenbach; Roddy Duchesne (Recorder); Jan Rigsby (Chair); Dottie Titus.

Not Present:  Carol Hunt; Cynthia Schwartzberg. 

1.   Principal Decisions

A.      We chose two possible dates/times for our next Council teleconference.  Roddy will contact absent members to complete the scheduling process (Section 3).

B.      Roddy will draft a new PHANA mission statement and circulate it as a draft to Council (Section 5).

C.      We approved the minutes of the August 22 Council meeting for internal Council purposes.  Roddy will prepare and circulate for Council approval a summary version for posting on the PHANA website (Section 6).

D.      Dottie will advise Council how best to promote PTH, including the best way of implementing a system that notifies PHANA members of new postings to the PTH database (Section 7).

E.      Dottie will provide Council with information she collects with respect to professional liability insurance (Section 8).

2.   Round of Sharing

This was the Council’s first teleconference and effectively its first meeting since August 22.  We felt the need to connect and devoted the first hour of the teleconference to personal sharing. 

3.   Possible Dates/Times for our Next Teleconference

We selected the following dates/times, to be confirmed when we can establish what works for the Council members who were not present:

First Choice: September 20, 7-9 pm Eastern Time

Second Choice: September 27, 7-9 pm Eastern Time

4.   The International Pathwork Foundation

Roddy reported what he knew concerning recent developments, in particular that in the week of June 7 – at Tom’s request – Amanda authorized Tom to obtain legal advice concerning how the Foundation can transition to new arrangements.  This development gives hope that energy can start to flow into revitalizing the Foundation’s Board and its important functions and work.

5.   North American Pathwork Association (NAPA) and Council (NAPAC) 

Sahra reported on NAPA/NAPAC work.  The creation of the NAPA Formation Team (NFT) was initiated by North American Pathwork leaders at their November 2003 meeting in Philadelphia which followed on from their August 2003 Leadership Meeting at the Sevenoaks Center and an earlier April 2003 meeting in Philadelphia.  The NFT includes representatives of 3 Regions (California, MAP, NYRP) and 3 Chapters (Canada, Georgia, Vermont).  Sahra represents VT and Roddy represents Canada.  The NFT first met in February of this year and has done much work since that first meeting.  The team will shortly circulate invitations to all North American Regions, Chapters, and Groups to join NAPA.  PHANA will also receive an invitation.  The letters of invitation will include a first year NAPA/NAPAC budget, with proposed first-year contributions from each entity that joins.  Joining is voluntary.  The proposed first-year contribution for PHANA and other small entities without HTP or PTP/PWS programs is $100.

NAPA/NAPAC will take over some of the roles in PHANA’s original mission statement, which was approved in 2000.  In particular, NAPA will take over what the original mission identified as PHANA’s "overall mission," namely “To foster communication, cooperation and mutual understanding between and within all Pathwork Regions, Chapters and Groups.”  

Roddy will draft a new PHANA mission statement and circulate it to Council for approval.  Following this approval, it will be necessary to discuss PHANA’s mission with NAPAC and HAG.  The main purpose of this discussion will be to agree which roles each body will undertake and to identify shared roles.  A Code of Conduct for Pathwork Helpers is an example of an item in which all three bodies have an interest.

6.   Minutes of the August 22 Council Meeting 

We noted that the section numbering in Draft 3 of the August 22 minutes needs to be corrected – there are two section 2s.  With this correction, we approved the minutes for internal PHANA Council purposes. 

We noted that the minutes are very full (over 7 pages in 10 point typeface).  Roddy will prepare and circulate for Council approval a shorter, edited version for posting on the PHANA website.

7.   Pathwork Teachers Helper (PTH) Service

The use of the PTH service and the number of documents submitted for entry into the PTH database have both been less than we had hoped.  There are currently 28 PTH users, and the PTH database currently includes 88 documents.  Sahra suggested that the emails of all PHANA members be put in a list-serve-like system and used to notify members of each new posting to PTH.

We agreed that this idea has merit and we had a preliminary discussion concerning how best to make existing documents available to members.  Dottie will advise how best to implement this idea.

8.   Possible Future Services

There was not sufficient time for a discussion of other future possibilities.  However, Dottie undertook to provide Council with information on professional liability insurance.  A possible future PHANA service is to provide PHANA members with information on professional liability insurance, preferably at rates a little better than they could obtain by applying as non-members of PHANA.