Affording Ourselves (cont'd)

Currently we pay Marilyn Beech, as Executive Director, $25/hr for 16 hours of work a week, adding up to $20,800/year. Part of what we want to fund this coming year is another staff person to help Marilyn with the administrative load. For the last two years we've had about 4 hours a week of administrative help at $10/hr. We would like to raise that position to 20 hours/week, still at $10/hr., adding up to $10,800/year. The ability of an organization to complete projects and bring membership services on line depends on having expert staff with enough hours.

We want to make sure that we can continue bringing you the high quality Yearbook of Structural Integration, bi-annual Symposiums, regional meetings, quality CE workshops, marketing materials, information and help with legislation and licensing issues. We have nearly completed the redevelopment of our website, have plans to use the website for downloadable marketing DVD's, make the website interactive – both visual and audio, and create MP3 files of SI presentations among other exciting new developments.

We have plans to get articles and advertisements written and placed

in publications and magazines throughout the world. Getting the message: "Is your practitioner a member of IASI?" out in the world will help both the profession and member's practices. We are also working on a legislative database for the website where our members can find the current licensing laws in their country, state or province, whether legislation is currently being developed and how they can be involved in exemption, licensing or registration for Structural Integration in their area. We will be directing attention to having board members from all of our member regions: New Zealand/Australia, Japan, Europe, Brazil/Latin America and contacts in each of the areas for member services.

We would like to see Structural Integration explode into the marketplace in the next five years, and with your help we can make it happen. We have accomplished an amazing amount in four short years and we can accomplish this much again. Your money, enthusiasm, good wishes and volunteer time have gotten us this far – hang in there with us and together we'll make Structural Integration an unmistakable and sought after profession!

Licensing, registration and exemption are three of the options we can pursue as IASI members and Board representatives. We need to have a local person in each state and country who can gather information and work with us on law and legislation issues as they arise at the local level. If you are able to spend a little time on this, please email Libby Eason or 404-315-0099 (Eastern Time Zone).

It appears that the American Medical Association is preparing to launch an effort to suppress complementary healthcare practices. We need to continue efforts to stay in touch with local laws, and pursue licensure

for ourselves as a distinct profession, with established standards and ethics.

Our goal with law and legislation is to have licensure for Structural Integration in every state, province and country where there are practitioners. This is a mammoth effort, one that will require persistent, consistent effort over a long period of time. But each local effort, every contribution of a few hours, has an impact over the long haul.

In the interim, we are attempting to get exemption language (and possibly inclusion language) in the states where massage therapy licensing is in process. This will give SI practitioners the freedom to practice without restrictions imposed by other groups.

The 2006 Hellerwork Conference
Evolution/Intuition with Joseph Heller and Carolyn Conger
13 – 15 October in Las Vegas, NV
$375, open to the entire SI community; 18 Type 1 CE credits
Registration: Contact the Hellerwork International Office at 714-873-6131To book rooms at the Tuscany Hotel Las Vegas call 877-887-2261 and tell them you are with the Hellerwork Conference #1174ZZ

This is a wonderful opportunity to share a remarkable day with Joseph Heller as he offers this workshop for the first time. This is a wonderful opportunity to share a remarkable

day with Joseph Heller as he offers this workshop for the first time. "Movement educates the body even more than touch. A combination of the two is the most powerful. We will explore taking the work out of the massage model and off the table in order to establish movement as the context of Hellerwork" — Joseph Heller.

Carolyn Conger will be exploring the state of being that allows us to sense our work at a much deeper level. Intuition, as applied to SI, can take us in directions that would never have been revealed through traditional seeing. When a practitioner departs from the recipe in order to find a way in there is a profound healing.