Our Second IASI Symposium

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Breakout session leaders include:

• Dan Bienenfeld (Hellerwork instructor),
• Mary Bond (RMI, author),
• Annie Duggan (Duggan French Method),
• Kevin Frank & Caryn McHose (Godard/Continuum)
• Chris Fredricks (PT, author, KMI),
• Gil Hedley (Anatomist),
• Liz Gaggini (SI Instructor/workshop provider)
• George Kousaleos (CORE instructor),
• Marcia Nolte (Soma instructor),
• Robert Schleip (Rolfing instructor, fascial researcher)
• Laura Servid (Aston Patterner),
• Marvin Solit (D.O., early student of Ida Rolf)

The Symposium will also include a movement panel discussion with our keynote speakers, time to meet with the IASI Board,

time to meet with the IASI Board, special topic lunch meetings, social events, and time for making new connections and catching up with old ones.

If all goes as planned during the next 10 months, this upcoming Symposium will also be the site of another major turning point in the SI profession the unveiling of our SI Certification Exam! We will be administering our first proctored exams at this Symposium. With this event we put ourselves squarely into the world of acknowledged professions, and will have the basics in place to stabilize SI as a profession in its own right. We are very excited to have both the first FRC and the Certification Exam to present to you in the same year – two major, "life-changing" events for the SI profession.

Visit our Events page on our web site and sign up for the Symposium. The first Symposium was overbooked, so don't wait too long!

The IASI Board with its 5 new members, met for two days in Denver this September to set our goals for the next five years, articulate a vision for our future, and create order out of the proliferation of projects that continually arise. Buddy Frank has stepped into the office of President of the Board, Michael Kastris is now Vice President, and Michelle Voigt is Treasurer and Financial Advisor. Marilyn Beech was voted in as the first Executive Director of IASI and has accepted that position.

The Board Directors are as follows:

• Buddy Frank, President, Chair of Marketing
• Michael Kastris, Vice President, Chair of Meetings & Events
• Michelle Voigt, Treasurer, Chair of Finance
• Libby Eason, Chair of Law & Legislation
• Liz Gaggini, Chair of the Certification Exam Committee
• Scott Gauthier, Chair of Continuing Education
• Patricia Kemper, Chair of Membership Services
• Kathleen Strauch, Chair of Ethics Committee

We started the board meeting with a look at the big picture: our overall vision for IASI and a 5-year vision for what we would like to see happen. Our overall wish for the profession is:

• to protect the truth of SI, the full skill-set which includes somatic presence, transformation, ease, peace and freedom from pain; to bring Somatic Presence into the culture;
• help IASI members gain prosperity, education and visibility; and
• keep the work alive by promoting it publicly and professionally.

In five years we would like to see:

• Structural Integration be a household word;

• we'd like to have 80% of the SI practitioners be IASI members;
• have practice development materials, classes and coaches for our members;
• align necessary CE's with other regulatory groups;
• see an end to the 'weekend wonder' training programs;
• be conducting research projects with at least 50% participation;
• have consistent and reciprocal licensing in the States and International regulatory bodies;
• be free of needing other certifying agencies such as NCBTMB; and
• have SI be a part of the worldwide professional health care community.

The rest of the Board meeting was spent on the immediate picture: the Certification Exam development (scheduled for completion in Oct. 2007!); the new CE program; legislation issues around the country; membership services and retention; the upcoming Symposium; a proposed regional meeting in Brazil next June; and an effective and inexpensive marketing plan from Buddy.

As ever, this is a totally volunteer, working Board. These projects are accomplished at the expense of a 'normal' life. We are looking for volunteers to join in with these projects which will get them moving along more quickly and take some of the load off the Board members:

• Continuing Education program development,
• marketing,
• an editorial board for the Yearbook,
• membership services, and
• legislation (we need one rep for each state, province or member country).

If you can help on one of these committees please email us or call the IASI office at 1-877-THE-IASI.