2nd Annual Report
April 30, 2004
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CURRENT SERVICES AND ROLES
¨ Register of Pathwork Helpers
This Register is mounted on the PHANA website. It is open to all qualified Pathwork Helpers and Apprentices, whether they practice in the traditional way or not, and whether they are currently working with workers or not. Non-traditional ways of practicing Pathwork Helpership include using Pathwork Helper consciousness in many fields, such as work in education, health care, commerce, industry, government, prisons, etc. Please click here for more information.
¨ Pathwork Teacher’s Helper Service
This is a cooperative PHANA/Pathwork Press service that assists Pathwork Helpers, Apprentices, teachers and study group leaders to share Pathwork teaching materials. The service runs on the Foundation web site and is free to PHANA members. For a limited introductory period running until September 30, 2004, the service is offered free of charge worldwide. Please click here for more information.
¨ PHANA Web Site
As already noted, this carries the Register of Pathwork Helpers. In addition, the web site provides information on PHANA and Pathwork Helpership. Information on PHANA includes PHANA’s Council, history, mission, services, minutes, and all reports to the Foundation plus the PHANA/Foundation agreement. Helpership information includes a public listing of all recognized Helper Training Programs and Pathwork Transformation/Pathwork Studies programs in North America.
¨ Web/desktop Services
These are services to help members wanting to publicize their practices and events via the World-Wide Web and/or to create logos, business cards, and letterheads. Please click here for more information.
ONGOING AND PLANNED FUTURE INITIATIVES¨ The creation of a North American Pathwork Council
The creation of a North American Pathwork Council involving Regions, Chapters, and Groups is very important for PHANA. A number of areas important to PHANA (e.g. training and Helper conduct guidelines) need discussion, decisions, and action at the Region/Chapter level – particularly with the Foundation now taking a less active role in these areas.
PHANA wrote the original proposals for a North American Pathwork Council (NAPAC), organized the August 2003 meeting of Regions and Chapters to discuss this proposal, and is very actively contributing towards ongoing work to set up NAPAC. Two members of PHANA Council are on the six-person NAPAC Formation Team.
¨ Helpers Advisory Group (HAG)
PHANA works in close cooperation with HAG. In the first two months of 2004, PHANA and HAG created a recognition procedure for new Helper trainings in North America and used the procedure to recognize the Vermont HDP which will start in Fall 2004. Three members of PHANA Council are also members of HAG.
¨ Code of Conduct
PHANA Council is in the process of bringing forward a proposed Code of Conduct for Pathwork Helpers and Apprentice Helpers. PHANA Council will shortly be submitting its proposal to HAG with a view to ensuring adequate alignment between what PHANA adopts and what North American Helper training programs teach in relation to conduct and ethics.
¨ Web Site Upgrade
PHANA is in the process of transferring its web site to a new host. This will improve the site’s visibility on the web, lift the space limitations applying to its present host, and enable PHANA to offer new services and to implement new features.
¨ Opening PHANA Membership to Trainees
PHANA Council proposes to open PHANA membership to Helper trainees within the next 12 months.
POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL NEW SERVICES AND INITIATIVES
We invite you to send in your requests and suggestions. Below are ideas that PHANA Council already has on its list for discussion. These are additional to initiatives already noted above: (a) Mounting on the PHANA web site – in cooperation with NAPAC – a North American Pathwork calendar of events; (b) A PHANA membership survey to obtain feedback from members concerning its present and possible future services and initiatives; (c) A Helpers Conference in summer 2005, i.e. in a year in which there is no International Conference; (d) Professional liability insurance for members; (e) Health insurance for members; (f) An information package telling the recipient how to receive credit card payments.
Do you have additional requests and/or suggestions? How can we better serve you? Please send your requests/suggestion to Roddy Duchesne, whose email and other contact details are footnoted below. [1]
MEMBERSHIP & FINANCIALS
April 30, 2004 marked the completion of PHANA’s second year of operation.[2]
Membership. As of April 30, 2004, PHANA had 50 members (45 Helpers; 5 Apprentice Helpers). This was 17% lower than a year earlier when PHANA had 60 members (57 Helpers; 3 Apprentice Helpers).
Prior to the start of Year 2, PHANA Council anticipated that it would be hard to retain all the Helpers who joined in Year 1 (May 1, 2002 - April 30, 2003). To avoid a revenue shortfall, it raised the Year 2 membership fee for Helpers to $110 from $100.[3] No further increases are envisaged. Council also decreased the Apprentice Helper membership fee to $60 from $75.
In April 2004, three states accounted for approximately 58% of PHANA membership: Virginia 25%; California 18%; New York 15%. The breakdown at the end of April 2003 was New York 27%; California 22%; Virginia 18%.
Revenue. Revenue increased from $7040 in Year 1 to $7290 in Year 2, an increase of 4%. The increase was due primarily to an increase in donations. These increased more than 70% (from $815 to $1410). A further important factor was the already noted increase in membership rates for Helpers.
Expenditure. Official Year 1 expenditures totaled $5934, leaving a cash balance of $1106 on April 30, 2003. The principal expenditure item was the Coordinator’s $5000 honorarium.
Actual Year 1 expenditures were greater than the figures recorded in PHANA accounts and totaled $8181. The $2247 difference between this and the official figure was provided on a pro bono basis and not charged to PHANA books. The $2247 was the cost of the Coordinator’s visits to each Region to help establish PHANA following its launch in March 2002. While expensive, these visits proved extremely worthwhile. The Coordinator paid $1497 of the $2247; the remaining $750 was donated by Council members and Pathwork Regions.
Accounting is in process for Year 2 expenditures.
PHANA COUNCIL
The work outlined above was/is done by the PHANA Council, which had the following membership in April, 2004:
Canada: Roddy Duchesne (Council Coordinator),2 Georgia: Cynthia Schwartzberg, Mid-Atlantic: Carol Hunt, Minnesota: Dottie Titus, Vermont: Sahra Aschenbach.
Council has been and continues to be significantly assisted by Donna Gray (New York); Lorraine Marino (Philadelphia), providing liaison with the “The 50/50 Work©”; and Jan Rigsby (Australia), Councilor at large.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information please visit the PHANA website: www.phana.org
Email: roddy.duchesne@sympatico.ca, Tel: 416-925-6613; Fax: 416-923-7923. Mailing address: 400 Walmer Road, Apt. 509, Toronto, Ontario M5P 2X7, Canada.
While May 1, 2002 was the official start of PHANA as an association with members, PHANA Council has been in existence since June 1999, when it started work in preparation for the launch of PHANA.
The figure of $110 is the rounded average of all responses to a question posed by the 1999-2000 survey of 85 US and Canadian Helpers and Counselors. The question asked respondents to indicate the maximum acceptable annual membership dues for Helpers. No further increases are envisaged.