1.   PHANA MEMBERSHIP & FINANCIAL POSITION

On October 10, PHANA membership was 44 Helpers + 4 Apprentice Helpers = 48 members.  This was 70% of the membership number (69) that PHANA budgeted to attract by April 30, 2003 , i.e. by the end of PHANA’s first year of operation.

Membership fees and donations stood at $5390, or 83% of the $6525 that PHANA budgeted to receive by the end of its first year of operation.

2.   PHANA Council

As of October 10, Council membership was as follows:  Sahra Aschenbach ( Vermont ), Roddy Duchesne ( Canada ), Jan Rigsby ( Australia and California ), Judith Saly ( New York ), Lisa Schumacher ( California ), Cynthia Schwartzberg ( Georgia ), Alegria Barbara Strauss (Mid-Atlantic), Dottie Titus ( Minnesota ).  In addition, Council has been and continues to be assisted by Lorraine Marino ( Philadelphia ), providing liaison with “The 50/50 Work©”.

3.   PHANA/FOUNDATION AGREEMENT

Appendix 1 is a proposed agreement for signature by the Pathwork President and the PHANA Coordinator.

4.   ONGOING PROJECTS

Helper Training Meeting

Appendix 2 is an outline proposal for this Meeting.  A major purpose of the meeting will be to achieve wide agreement concerning how far, how fast, and how to proceed with respect to cooperation relating to Helper training, including the development and agreement of guidelines for Helper training programs.

The proposal includes two suggestions of particular interest to the Foundation: (1) That the Pathwork President attend, perhaps opening and closing the proceedings; (2) That the Foundation contribute to the travel and accommodation costs of the meeting.

Register of Pathwork Helpers/PHANA Membership

The Register of Pathwork Helpers is accessible on the PHANA web site (www.phana.org).  The web site also includes information on PHANA, and selected materials on Helpership.

As noted in Section 1 above, PHANA has some way to go to meet its 2002-2003 membership and financial targets.  The Coordinator’s summer/fall round of Regional visits was designed in part to boost PHANA visibility in the Regions, hopefully helping to attract members.

Within the next month, it is proposed to send out invitations to join PHANA to all qualified people who have not yet responded to the first round of invitations.

Council has always mounted its reports on the PHANA web site.  Following the submission and acceptance of the present report, Council proposes to mount the present report and to circulate an email to members drawing their attention to the report on the PHANA web site. 

Pathwork Teachers Helper Project

85% of respondents to the 1999 survey of Helpers identified: “sharing exercises and strategies for teaching, workshops and programs” as a service that they wished PHANA to provide.  Commencing operation sometime within calendar 2003, the Pathwork Teachers Helper Project (PTH) project will foster the sharing of teaching materials using a combination of the PHANA and Foundation web sites.  The PTH project is a cooperative venture involving PHANA and the Pathwork Press.  Dottie Titus, assisted by Jan Rigsby, leads the PHANA portion of the project.  Tom Hubbard leads the Press portion.

Email Communication

PHANA Council is experimenting with new email communication arrangements with the intention of improving security of Council communications, and of improving control over the distribution of Council email messages.

5.   UPCOMING PROJECTS

Council is investigating the feasibility of the following:

Web and Desktop Publishing Services for PHANA Members

85% of respondents to the 1999 survey of Pathwork Helpers expressed the wish that PHANA provide publicity services, helping members to publicize their practices and events.

Council will shortly be considering a proposal for services to be offered by a contractor to PHANA members at special member prices, with PHANA receiving a percentage of fees paid.  The proposed services include web page creation (probably with links from the Register of Pathwork Helpers to the pages created using this service), web site creation, and desktop publishing services.  Desktop publishing services include the development of logos, and layouts for business cards, letterheads, and envelopes.

Extension of PHANA Membership Guidelines

PHANA membership has so far been restricted to Helpers and Apprentice Helpers who (among other criteria) have been recognized at some time by a US Pathwork Region.  Council proposes to create guidelines and procedures to extend possible PHANA membership.

An early step is to enable recognition of adequately qualified people who have not previously been recognized by a Pathwork Region, for example individual 50/50 Helpers who wish to join PHANA and who meet all PHANA membership requirements ¾ after doing additional work in individual cases, if necessary.

Extension of Pathwork Teachers Helper Project

Council wishes to distribute materials to members on a fee-for-service basis, for example by distributing materials on CD.  High interest materials include QAs and a computer-readable version of Michael Bratnick’s Cross-Reference Index to the Pathwork Lectures.  Suitable copyright statements and/or conditions of sale will be used to enable the present texts to be distinguished clearly from later, more fully edited texts that may be produced at some time in the future.  

Code of Conduct

Sahra Aschenbach is working to develop a draft Code of Conduct that would (following adoption) be included in the criteria for acceptance into PHANA and for inclusion in the Register of Pathwork Helpers.

A draft Code may also be presented in a discussion paper to be considered by senior teachers/leaders at a Helper Training Meeting in 2003.  Senior teachers/leaders may be invited to consider adopting the Code and including it in the curricula of their Helper training programs.  This portion of Helper training curricula might extend to related practical matters such as Helper/Worker contracts, boundaries for individual and group work, and liability insurance.