Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Strahan, and I became the co-executive directors until September, 2008 when we
hired a new Executive Director. In dividing up the responsibilities, each of us agreed
to care for an area and with the intense focus on specific areas, we discovered many
possibilities for adjustments. Particular appreciation goes to Chie who took up the
care of our facility (low-fee clinic, bookstore, library, lecture room and administrative
offices). Working with a contractor, she completed the renovations and arranged to
have our broken city sidewalk repaired, a job the city told us that we might be on the
list for them to provide the repairs in about ten years or so.
Our new Executive Director, Christophe Le Mouel, Ph.D. comes to us from Paris with a
Ph.D. in Quantum Physics and a graduate degree in Computer Science. He is
interested in the relationship between physics and the psyche and has lectured in
Spain, Australia, and at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles on synchronicity and
the relationship between physics and Jungian Psychology. Currently, he is building a
gorgeous new website for us, starting with the data base and we are looking forward
to being able to eventually putting our bookstore on-line, along with the capability of
registering on-line for our public programs and allowing people to download lectures.
Christophe began his tenure with us as a volunteer while he was waiting for his Work
Permit to stay in the USA and was hired as our Public Programs Coordinator last
September. In that role, working closely with the Chair of Public Programs, Wendy
Wyman, who arranges the program, he was able to greatly reduce the cost of our
brochure while at the same time, increasing its attractiveness and appeal. Using
focused e-mail advertising with a monthly newsletter and well-placed flyers, he
greatly increased our attendance at lectures and Saturday workshops. Another change
in governance resulted when he was promoted to Executive Director in that we
eliminated the position of Public Programs Coordinator, which allows us to achieve a
major cost saving in these economically perilous times. Wendy and Christophe will
continue to work together in developing and supervising public programs and we have
hired two assistants, one who serves as events host when we actually host a program
and another who assists with marketing and outreach 10-15 hours a week, seeing to
the layout, publication and mailing of our brochure each quarter.
A major accomplishment this year has been to obtain APA (American Psychological
Association) Continuing Education Approval for our training program and for public
programs. Wendy, with the assistance of our Training Director, Connie Crosby, made
Herculean efforts to develop objectives and learning assessments for every seminar
and workshop that we offer. A sad note was that we gave up our CME approval to
provide Continuing Education for physicians, which we have carried since our
inception. However, with the current emphasis in medicine on evidence based
treatment models we are no longer able to meet the Continuing Education
Requirements set forth by the Board of Medical Quality Control.
Both our Public Programs and our Training Program continue to flourish. We offer a
full spectrum of lectures and workshops every quarter and we have accepted four new
candidates into the analyst-training-program this year. Our low-fee clinic is also
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