Very shortly, by the end of October at the latest, IASI will unveil a smashing new website. We have had a designer and website development group working on this for the past two months and feel that we now have an exciting and informative website capable of promoting our work to the world. We will look forward to your comments. Check out the site at http://www.theiasi.org or http://www.structuralintegration.org to see the new site as soon as it's up. We will send an email announcement to our members who've given us email permission as soon as the new site is on-line.

We will also be changing the look and name of our newsletters. The next issue will have a very different look and be called "SInews".

We are looking for an editorial committee to help us develop this newsletter and if you are interested please contact Marilyn via email or call her at the IASI office at 1-877-843-4274.

Aready Here! Scott Gauthier and Michael Kastris are currently setting up an email forum for IASI members. If you have an email address on file with IASI you will have received an email notification and invitation to join. If you've changed your email since you joined IASI, please send us your current email address so that we can get you updated and added to the list. This is a great opportunity to build community across school lines, discuss topics of Structural Integration with others, get help from your peers with problems that clients present, make new friends and network.

This past August in Denver a remarkable event took place. Fourteen faculty from eight of the SI schools met for two days to talk about curriculum, hours, differences, similarities, the SI Certification Exam, rumors about each other, common concerns, and our visions for the future of SI and for the teaching of SI.

In attendance were:

• Ed Maupin (IPSB)
• Chuck Carpenter (SOITSI)
• David Davis & Nilce Silveira (GSI)
• Karen Bolesky & Marcia Nolte (Soma)
• Jon Martine, Thomas Walker & Jim Jones (RISI)
• Lauren Christman & Larry Phipps (KMI)
• Shirley Norwood & Dan Bienenfeld (Hellerwork)
• Liz Stewart (SKT)

Liz Gaggini, Buddy Frank & Marilyn Beech attended from the IASI Board, with Michael Murphy Chairing the event and keeping everyone on track even as the track shifted and morphed.

We started with questions from the group to each school representative, one school at a time, so that we could distill out the differences between us. What started as a hunt for major differences turned into a slow understanding that a lot of what we knew about each other was based on some very old rumors. The RISI really does teach the 10-series. The Hellerworkers do dialogue, but do not rigidly conform to certain questions for each session. Soma actually teaches work on fascia not nervous system. etc., etc. Jim Jones eventually made the comment that, "We're not as different as we thought we were… We seem to all have come from a different mix, but have come together in all of it, becoming more similar than different."

A list of common concerns developed during the first day and we broke into groups to brainstorm the problems and solutions. Assessment was a common problem–how to tell when someone is ready to learn SI,

how to tell when you've got a student that needs to be asked to leave, how to tell whether students have assimilated enough to graduate. Some schools reported using written evaluations on skills and behaviors, some had a hands-on testing procedure, all used one-on-one conferences between student and faculty. Some good ideas were passed around giving the faculty new ways to deal with these issues.

Another group worked with scope of practice/SI definitions with the idea that we cannot market ourselves without being articulate about our work. One of the necessities of the times is that we will have to have one definition for legislation, and another for ourselves and the public. As an initial foray they came up with: "Structural Integration is an educational process whose goal is to create optimal function in gravity. The means to approach this are with touch, movement and awareness in an educational process to facilitate optimal function in gravity. An SI program needs to include all 6 elements: touch, movement, awareness, education, gravity, integration, and all within the context of the 10-series process."

Marketing SI was a key topic. Ways to have the schools and IASI work together for common benefit were discovered; creating informational DVD's for members; marketing the exam both to Structural Integrators and to other professionals. We found an ongoing struggle about identification around different school brands, having SI known more by one school name. This may resolve when we get the exam finished and more cohesion around the core of what we do. IASI can present SI to the public, then the branding around schools will not be so intense. Collective identification around SI needs to be promoted within schools.

The licensing and legislation group had few members, but as is usually the case, drew the most discussion: "no one wants to discuss legislation until it's suddenly a problem". As it seems to becoming a problem for many of us this group waded into