Author: CJ

Board

December 1, 2024-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date February 11, 2025

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

December 1, 2024, 1:30pm to 4:30pm

At The Link Counseling Center, in the library

Board Members:

Bill Bridges: President, Publicity and Marketing, Books & Media

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Vice President, Treasurer Committee (incoming Pres.)

Page Dickey: Secretary

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee, Com. Corner

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Hospitality

Kristine Rudow: Program Committee

Laura Knox: CEs

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing (incoming V.P.)

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

Geetha Naidu: Incoming Secretary

President’s Opening — Bill

A final faerie from Brian Froud’s Faeries’ Oracle. We’ll draw a card and find out which faerie will usher us into the new year.

Faerie that kisses Pixies.

The feeling of giving love makes us feel good.

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of August 2024 Minutes — Page

Zee made motion to accept minutes, Bill seconded them and it was accepted unanimously.

Treasury Report — Cathy

Roger reported funding was distributed to the two candidates that qualify so far. Both are very impressive. One is from West GA College. We gave $2,000 each.. We anticipate a third person qualifying early next year. We are targeting disbursement each September to coincide with the InterRegional’s academic cycle. Folks at the Memphis-Atlanta Inter regional are very thankful. Roger suggested 5% of our funds per year as a sustainable amount to give,

Discussed long dry spell of candidates so we want to ensure we’ll be able to financially support these two and possibly a third in the new year.

Cathy shared the opportunity to donate ARAS through Amazon. Bill offered to look into becoming a designated non profit for Amazon as well.

Total in checking account: 26,439.08

Also approx $65K in North GA Community Investment Account

Approval to give $100 donation to the Ethel Ware Church newsletter.

Last year donations: we gave $1000 to The Link, $500 to ARAS and $500 to Philemon.

Discussion about availability at The Link due to Gene Bridges health and loss of his wife. Confusion about the future due to road construction. This may impact programming. The Link is not wanting to offer us more than a 6 mos commitment at a time for events.

Laura now has a key and may become the contact person going forward. Laura offered to speak with Stewart and Janet about our need to build out for a year.

Roger recommended giving donation after the beginning of the next year.

All in favor to donate $1000 to The Link

$250 to ARAS and

$250 to Philemon.

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

Discussed raising CJ’s pay rate to match what he charges his other clients. Also, a year-end bonus. His income decreased this year because we had fewer events.
Roger proposed $50/hr for in person event work -bringing in equipment and holding the in person events. $40/hour for all other services ( Admin, Zoom)
Also unanimously voted to give CJ a $400 year end bonus.

CE Committee — Laura

Had some difficulty with Rich Ryan, but all is on track.

Karen Hebert will be introducing him.

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

See program spreadsheet in “Sheets” from Kristine.

Discussion about Saturday 3hr workshops still liking.

Zee shared that the PC offers each speaker a link to our website’s announcement of their program so the speaker can post to their website and mailing list.

Perhaps a Sunday workshop in the summer. We may not be able to finalize it until early in the next year due to The Link.

Page will get name of the local Enneagram community to explore whether we might be able to host a joint event or share speakers.

We need people to introduce:

Joanne Halverson – January – Black Madonna. Kristine volunteered to introduce her.

Judy Zappacoasta – February – Cathy volunteered to introduce her.

Renee Cunningham – March – Forgiveness – Laura volunteered to introduce.

James Hollis – April – Geetha volunteered to introduce him.

We’ll revisit introductions in the New Year.

Promotion and Marketing — Bill, Liam

Discuss a “task force” committee to figure out what we want to do with a simplified website redesign. Geetha volunteered to be a part of this committee. Page, Liam, Bill volunteered for this committee. (Geetha will send me her ideas. Running campaigns where people share their experience with our site. Will reach out to Liam for his input.
Linking a newsletter on the website was an idea for the website.
Be able to gift the cost of an event on our website so someone could invite family or friends.
There are some licensing limitations with current website.
Topic: How can we bring in new members now that we are not just strictly local (we have online attendees from all over)? Roger brought up possibility of having a non local membership. Possibly highlight more on the website about how many events you’ll get admission to free. Agreed to have CJ or the president verbalize the benefits of membership at each event. Marshid suggested perhaps a brief video to show the benefits. Bill suggested 20% off membership because it’s Carl Jung’s birthday.
Laura suggested replicating what this Occult bookshop in CO that offers asynchronous videos of programs they offered. Bill reminded us that the plug in is broken.

Books — Bill

With so few in person events, it doesn’t really make sense for us to sell anymore.

Once we sell what we have, we will stop. If we have presenters coming who want to sell their books, we’ll offer that.

Library — Cathy shared a book donated to us.

OCEAN BENEATH THE SEA by Morgan Wolfgang Lake

We had only one person come in since we advertised our library.

Cathy is waiting on The Link to clean out their closet to be able to get three shelves worth of books. Geetha will explore whether Lagrange college would like to accept donations from the library.

Community Corner — Van

We need a newsletter committee to produce the next newsletter. Last one was October 15, 2024.
Our website is not friendly. Instead of a Community Corner, perhaps we can focus on the Newsletter. Geetha volunteered to work with Bill on this. Cathy and Van also offered to support this committee.
Discussion of what we want to have in the newsletter. How to build a sense of community? Cathy offered a Jungian quote and an image which will draw younger generations in. Perhaps two new books. CJ was able to show that the last newsletter was read. Kristine suggested something about Halverson’s unique lifestyle.
Tips on how to deal with tension. Perhaps have an analyst come on to talk about their experiences.
Zodiac sign discussion. Or something connected to the time of year. Movie reviews, Jungian stuff seen out in the culture. Stephen King book that included the title of a non existent book with Jung in the title.
Perhaps have Karen Hebert write about sound therapy she’s using.
Have Laura write about dream work she’s doing.

Wrap Up

Next board meeting will be Sunday, Jan 26, 2024.

Maybe have the meeting first and then brunch and Escape Room.

CJ and Deb want to coordinate the Escape Room.

ADDENDUM TO 12/1/24 MINUTES

The election for the slate of officers nominated for the 2025 board was held 11/15 – 11/25 via email voting by the Society’s members. The results were as follows:

40 Yays and no Nays. The new board is:

Roger Rudow – President

6151 Forest Hills Dr

Peachtree Corners GA 30092

706-338-7720

Liam Gowan – Vice President

20 Terminus Place

Atlanta GA 30305

914-967-6357

Geetha Naidu – Secretary

902 North Park Lane

Milton, GA 30004

470-389-1035

Certified by –

____________________________ _________

Page Dickey Date

2024 Secretary

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April 7, 2024-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date February 11, 2025

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

April 7th 2024, 1:30pm to 4:30pm

At The House Next Door (at The Link Counseling Center)

Board Members:

Bill Bridges: President, Publicity and Marketing, Books & Media

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Vice President, Treasurer Committee

Page Dickey: Secretary

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee, Com. Corner

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Hospitality

Kristine Rudow: Program Committee VIA ZOOM

Laura Knox — CEs

ABSENT: Liam Gowan (Publicity and Marketing), Mahshid Irvani (Hospitality), Deborah Herberger (Pres. Emeritus)

President’s Opening — TBD

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of January 2024 Minutes — Page

Treasury Report — Cathy

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

CJ has asked Cathy to raise some issues for him.
Roger would like to talk about what we pay CJ

CE Committee — Laura

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

Let’s talk about the July program.

Promotion and Marketing — Bill, Liam

Books — Bill

Library — Cathy

Community Corner — Van, Deb

Wrap Up

We need to set the date for our next board meeting.

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January 28, 2024-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date February 5, 2025

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

January 28, 2024, 1:30pm to 5:00

At Cathy Shepherd’s place:

2896 Knob Hill Dr SE, Atlanta GA 30339

404-314-7518

Board Members:

Bill Bridges: President, Publicity and Marketing, Books & Media

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Vice President, Treasurer Committee

Page Dickey: Secretary

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee, Com. Corner

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Hospitality

Kristine Rudow: Program Committee

Deb Herberger: Pres. Emeritus, Writing and Editing Committee, Com. Corner

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

Karen Herbert: CE Committee (outgoing)

INCOMING MEMBER (yay!) — Laura Knox

ABSENT: Liam Gowan (Publicity and Marketing)

RESIGNED: Peggy Sorrels due to moving.

President’s Opening — The Faeries’ Oracle

Last year, we each drew a card from the Oracle d’OR deck, featuring the “noir” artworks of French Symbolist painter Odilon Redon. This year, I had originally planned to do a tarot reading with a related deck, but… synchronicities have changed my mind and focus. Instead, we will ask Brian Froud’s The Faeries’ Oracle for wisdom about the coming year for our society.

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of Last Meeting’s Minutes — October 29, 2023 — Page

Treasury Report — Cathy

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

Topic for discussion: Should we continue to schedule Fri/Sat lecture/workshop combo events? Our Ulanov workshop-only event did well. The Boulder Colorado Friends of Jung are also questioning this format, since they’re seeing large drop-offs post-Covid. James Hollis says that everybody is having this same problem.

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

CE Committee — Karen

Let’s all welcome our newest board member, Laura Knox. She has volunteered to help with CEUs.

Promotion and Marketing — Bill

We should discuss publicity and how we can better get the word out. Should we form a publicity committee?
I have printed out 100 color flyers for our March event. Everybody: please take some of them to distribute to local businesses, libraries, etc.

Books — Bill

Library — Cathy

Community Corner — Van, Deb

We all need to discuss website redesign. Is our site too cluttered with menu items that nobody goes to? Should we hire someone to rework it to highlight the upcoming event and the Community Corner better? Perhaps consider migrating the Community Corner to Facebook, a social network better designed to host conversations? Websites traditionally used forum software to host conversations, but those require constant moderation and are usually inundated with spam.

Wrap Up

We need to set the date for our next board meeting.

Reward — Game Time!

Once we’re done with our business, let’s game! I will bring Once Upon a Time, a “storytelling card game that encourages creativity and collaborative play. Players create a story together using cards showing typical elements from fairytales — like Prince, Forest, or Fairy.” I’ll explain the rules as we play, but if you want a sneak peek, here is a PDF of the rules:

Rules PDF

And here is a 30-minute Youtube video of how it’s played, featuring Wil Wheaton (who played Ensign Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation):

Video: Playing Once Upon a Time

I’m curious how The Faeries’ Oracle we opened our meeting with will inform the game. If anyone “wins” the game before we break for dinner, we can then put on our Marie-Louis von Franz thinking-caps and analyze the fairytale we created through a Jungian lens.

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October 29, 2023-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date February 5, 2025

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

October 29, 1:30pm to 4:03

Board Members:

Bill Bridges: President, Publicity, and Marketing, Books & Media

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Affiliate Com Corner., Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Vice President, Treasurer Committee

Page Dickey: Secretary; CEU Continuing Education Committee

Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications, Library

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Prog. Committee, Affiliate Com. Corner, Hospitality

Kristine Rudow: Program Committee

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing

Deb Herberger: CEU Continuing Education Com, Pres. Emeritus

Karen Hebert: CEU Continuing Education Committee

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

ABSENT (Mahshid Irvani )

Vice President’s Opening

Roger offered a beautiful prayer:

“The Blessing of Angels” by John O’Donahue

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of Last Meeting’s Minutes -August 6, 2023 — Page

Roger moved to accept.

Deb Herberger seconded and there was a unanimous vote to accept them.

Treasury Report — Cathy – see attached

Ann Ulanov was highly attended. We made $4366 on the event and we made $562.93 from Pete Williams’ presentation.

Older speakers request a check to be written. Some speakers have lost their checks and Ann Ulanov gave an incorrect address. We would prefer to send thru bank. Checks take longer and Treas can’t confirm they have cashed it.

Cathy doesn’t see the contract – Zee just sent the address.

Cathy requested $599 instead of $600 so we don’t have to send a 1099.

Roger reported on the CD. Overall account is down due to market but still up for the year. Plan to renew CD again.

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

Cathy spoke with CJ who needs us to register for the rest of the year so we’ll know how many folks we’ll have in person. Hopefully, we won’t be crowded.

He is unavailable June 6th and June 8th because he is traveling. – Programing committee is aware of this and won’t schedule anything.

CE Committee — Deb, Page, Karen

We need to discuss a new way to handle CEs.

We will not need to apply for CEs in Dec, Jan or March.

There are inconsistencies in how each organization handles these.

Karen’s friend Laura Knox and fellow Pacifica Grad works at The Link and is interested in taking on the CE committee

We welcome Laura Knox to the CE committee.

We’re requesting it be announced at next meeting that we are needing more Board members – If anyone is interested in joining the CE committee, has technical expertise, who might be interested in hosting the Meet up for Post event discussions.

We talked about setting up on line CEs for the website for future on demand.

Could also look into Chiron to assist with this in the future.

Laura Knox will be at Pacifica in Nov. and unavailable, but she is available for Dec 2023 event. Karen offered to arrange an early dinner with her before the Dec 2023 to meet with board members.

Promotion and Marketing — Bill

Bill reported that FB, Meet up are put up each for each event and boosts them.

Liam tries to take pictures of the speakers and the event but if he’s unavailable, he asks that someone else take phone pictures and send them to him.

We have over 2,053 Instagram followers now.

Bill shared about how each time you boost something, fake/Spam account users come up.- Liam advised blocking them.

Books — Bill

Not getting new books up. We did sell all E-books from Pete Williams. Bill asked Cathy for another five (5) hard copy versions to have for the Book table.

We need to announce that we have books to sell.

Discussion of virtual events coming up so we won’t need to have their books available.

Still waiting on Kabbalah book recommendations from Mitch to send to Bill so he can put in a link. Also Mitch has a new book: MEN AND GRIEF. Deborah Huntley will ask for him to bring in signed copies to his December 2023 event.

Kristine brought up how the Washington Jung Society has a list of all their past events on it.

Library — Cathy, Peggy

No one has used it in the last 3mos. Reminder that there is a list of authors and books on the website.

Bill suggested we have it open for tours during the lunch break of our next Workshop event (Nov 11, 2023). Peggy offered to be available to do this next month.

Community Corner — Van, Deb

Suggested we always encourage folks at the end of each event to go to the Community Corner if they have comments, questions. Would it have more of an impact if the speaker actually requested attendees go to the Community Corner? If it’s just to like us or post an image – maybe go to Instagram instead.

Question of whether our crowd would use the Community Corner platform.

Social media may be better platform for discussion. Maybe CJ can put up more instruction on how to use it.

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee’s email(barbiegilman26@gmail.com), Kristine

Deborah Huntley reported they are working hard to get great speakers. They are trying to honor all our requests for

Presentation for Jan 27, 2024. His books SCRIBES OF SLEEP, – His SPIRITUALITY AND DREAMING book will be coming out in Dec 2023. Kelly Bulkley, Ph.D will be presenting Zoom event on Dream Journals – Dream Institute.

Feb 17, 2024: Jim Hollis will do a 3-4hr workshop like Ann Ulanov on a Saturday. He asked what he lectured about the last two times.

2021 – he spoke on “The Large Forms Rolling Beneath the Surface of our Lives” – lecture. In 2023 he lectured on “Necessary Fictions: Therapy as the Critique of ‘Stories’”. Bill shared about recent podcast James Hollis was on – Chasing Consciousness podcast Oct 14, 2023 – on the Shadow and how to integrate it.

Discussion of how nice it would be to have a list of past speakers, contracts. These lists are part of what needs to be on the archive. Roger, Kristine and Bill are working on setting a spreadsheet up on Google sheets. Kristine has done this for all events in the last year. Roger, Kristine and Bill agreed to expand this from past events as well to add to the Archive. Zoom background was awkward. Size comparison made him look really small. Perhaps bring this gently to his attention. Maybe offer CJ to him.

Mar 22, 2024: Robert Walter will be coming to us from Mexico City & Bradley Olson ( head of the Joseph Campbell Foundation) will be coming to us from AZ. This will be a conversation and not a lecture. It will be a Hybrid. Saturday will only be in person. We’ll be playing his board game around Myth. No Zoom for this event. It will take pretty much all day and then be able to give him feedback. We will be in groups of six(6). We will be creating a group Myth. Because we’re helping him. He is only asking for air fare. Will stay at Cathy’s one night and then a hotel near the airport. They will be going to Big Sur – Esalen to present after our event.

April will be Zoom. May – Hybrid. June, July, August will all be Zoom only.

Sept – Hybrid Lecture workshop.

Page is introducing Linda Carter Nov 2023. Roger is introducing Mitch Cohen in Dec. 2023

Bill agreed to introduce Kelly Bulkley in Jan 2024

Cathy will introduce Jim Hollis in Feb 2024.

Bill will be introducing Bob Walter and Bradley Olsen in March 2024

Wrap Up

We need to set the date for our next board meeting. Next one will be Sunday, Jan 28th, 2024 at Cathy’s house and then we will plan to go to dinner afterwards from a restaurant. 2:00pm-5:00pm

Kristine and Roger will look at perhaps sharing a chart for us. We need a birthdate for the Jung Society. Maybe a date of incorporation?

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August 6, 2023-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date February 5, 2025

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

August 6, 1pm to 4:30pm – at the Link

Board Members:

Bill Bridges: President, Publicity, and Marketing, Books & Media

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Affiliate Com., Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Vice President, Treasurer Committee

Page Dickey: Secretary; CEU Continuing Education Committee

Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications, Library

Bruce Selvage: Affiliate Com., Writing and Editing Com.

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Affiliate Com.

Kristine Rudow: Program Committee

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing

Deb Herberger: CEU Continuing Education Com, Pres. Emeritus

Karen Hebert: CEU Continuing Education Committee

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

ABSENT (Deborah Huntley, Bruce Selvage, Karen Hebert, Mahshid Irvani )

PRESIDENTS OPENING REMARKS

Tarot cards drawn to see where we are so far this year as a group.

President’s Opening

Happy 148th birthday, Carl Jung! (July 26) Forever Jung!

Bill presented the results of a tarot reading that he drew the morning of the meeting.

Three major arcana – Major transformation coming. Being called to the body, the image. Sun, Tower – fire signs, -playfulness, center

High Priestess – the Kore Archetype -Triple Goddess, The Mystery, Duality, most water of water, Very unconscious right now. So much is still to be revealed. We need to be adaptable, talking to others, and surveying. HP – transcending consciousness, allowing yourself to be taken up. More going with the flow, veiled. Highest initiation – images, higher than thoughts. Movement of awareness filters out from the person to the collective. Tikkun – restoration of the broken world. Go back to the image.

Getting a different perspective on the Jung society – inter generational perspective. We’re moving from thinking to feeling, from doing to being.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE MINUTES

May 2023 meeting – edits made by Deb and Cathy.

Roger moved to accept, Cathy seconded it.

All agreed, none opposed. May Minutes were Unanimously Accepted

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of Last Meeting’s Minutes — Page

Treasury Report — Cathy

Presented costs, profit from June and July

Roger presented no change in checking account from Jan-July – breaking even – $28,000. We’re ahead $6000 for the year up to July. We bought a CD at 4.6% – $17,000. It’s easier to move money now. Still looking into having 10yrs records.

Discussion on taxes. CJ has access to Stripe. CPA has Quickbooks.

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

CJ is already getting booked for next year. Has the third weekend held for us.

Is requesting any different dates as soon as possible.

CE Committee — Deb, Page

Thank you to VAn for building solid relationship.

Still getting used to learning to submit.

Seeking assistance with CEU committee in the future.

Promotion and Marketing — Bill

Publicity discussion: Anybody got any good ideas for how we can promote our events better?

Liam with help from Mashid is posting on Instagram.

We’re back on the Church mail list.

Cathy is speaking with Steve Buser from Chiron about getting us on there.

FB – Bill – can’t really tell how much the FB boosts are working. Bill may ask CJ about whether he can track that – And to figure out how to poll attendees about what their interest is for future events. – Maybe post one during the break.

Bill is working with another group on how best to promote events – Decaturish. Kristine shared about what is coming out in Peachtree Corners newsletter.

Cathy – would like to access the universities. GA State, Emory – Whitehall, Film festivals, Cinafest

Gaming community? –

New documentary about Dungeons and Dragons – connection to mythology and gaming. Younger people are interested in this world. Perhaps getting Will from Myths Salon from Pacifica – maybe get him as a speaker.

Cathy sent link to the president of the Nashville group and Nashville President sent it out to her members. Cathy sent invitation out to all who attended the original gun violence presentation. Twenty-eight participants (28) attended the Gun Presentation after event discussion from CO, TN, WA. Nashville, Boulder Jung Societies. They plan to meet again Are looking to find a symbol/ image that will speak to each of us on a local level.

Roger -Not just for youth. – worth remembering it’s the second half of life when people are more open to archetypal language. Mythology and Joseph Campbell

Books — Bill – Asked about whether Mitch Cohen (Dec) might have a book he’d like to have on hand for this in person event.

Perhaps some Kabbalah books.

Library — Cathy, Peggy –

Two speakers donated . Deborah explained it’s part of the contract.

Sherry King – A Process Spirituality

Jenny Yates- Jung on Death and Immortality.

Suggested having CJ maybe include a one line – ticker tape sign about new books whenever we send out an email about presentations.

Community Corner — Van, Deb

Asking for creative ideas in local communities to address gun violence post discussion. Started thinking about how to get people to send images on the Community Corner. Maybe have them send via text or email.

Gun violence, climate change – hot topics. Perhaps create excitement.

Perhaps social media may be easier.

Bill will perhaps talk to CJ about how to make Community Corner more accessible.

Most folks go only to the Events page on our website.

Maybe talk with John who built the initial website.

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

October – Pete Wlliams, November- Linda Carter , December – Mitch

All will be Hybrid events – on-line and in person.

Next year’s programs: Let’s discuss.

Introductions:

Van to introduce Ann Ulanov-Sept

Cathy available to introduce Pete Williams – October (He was introduced by on-line participant.

Page to introduce Linda Carter- November

Who will introduce Mitch?

Roger brought up whether we want to switch in person to zoom events.

Cathy to talk with CJ about how easy that would be to switch. – Sound might be better if it’s on ZOOM.

Deborah from Prog Comm will ask Pete.

Bill will not be able to make Ann Ulanov – September event. Roger agreed to act as host in Bill’s absence.

August and September are ZOOM only.

Will see whether September – Saturday Zoom event is well attended.

Kristine suggested experimenting with shorter workshops on Saturday. It is a challenge to be online and to host in person events.

Wanting to re-examine whether we want to do so many lecture +workshops events.

Maybe do one in person per quarter. – Maybe doing two or three in person only vs. more. Discussion about whether speaker needs to do lecture + workshop. Maybe focus on Jan and Feb – as zooms only

Request to have Program Committee members feel out what speakers are available for March and April (lecture workshop for one of these) – We don’t want to hold Program Committee up. Maybe see who is available for in person in the spring.

So far 3 are zooms only.

No in person for Jan, Feb – Consider zoom only for June-August – since people are on vacation.

Asking for in person body work, dream interpretation presentations.

Other societies have Meet ups for books. They also offer classes.

Last year – Cathy reported they had a class with the Sarasota Society.

Cathy and Bill will talk about what other Jung societies are doing and what we might be able to copy (and not). Presidents spoke about trend to be able to send out basic Jungian concepts. Perhaps we can get perennial content that we can continue to rent on our website. Apparently licensing issues.
Let’s avoid scheduling successive in-person meetings (one right after another). Consider only one in-person per quarter?
We’d like to make the recording of Pete’s intro to Jung (Oct) talk available full-time to members. Have we cleared this with Pete? – yes Cathy and Deborah cleared it with him.

Wrap Up

How is everybody’s Oracle D’Or card ripening?

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May 7, 2023-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date February 5, 2025

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

May 7 2023, 1pm to 4:04

Location: Jung Library at The Link (downstairs)

President’s Opening — Bill

Results of an I Ching reading: Hexagram 50 (The Caldron), which changes into 28 (Preponderance of the Great)

Presentation and Acceptance of January, 2023 Minutes — Page

Committee Reports

Treasury Report — Cathy

Treasury – no April Link rent of $250 due to elevator outage – discussion about how to manage all the parts better. CJ can not register in present until the break. Reviewed the way we register. Roger to check the CEUs, IPADS at the front door.

Roger suggested we consider moving some money to a money market account which is paying 5%. ** On June 16 the board voted unanimously to adopt the following – The Finance Committee moved that we move $18,000 to a Wells Fargo CD currently paying 4.75%. The board voted unanimously to approve.**

The investment fund is now up 6% YTD so we have 3yrs operating expenses when combining it and our checking account funds.

Attendance numbers: They’ve been dropping. Let’s brainstorm theories on why and what we might be able to do about it.
Trying to figure out how to decide about reminders for in person events. Normally 4 reminders sent. Discussion about making it too easy to skip it. Perhaps talking it up of how positive and different it is to be in person. Kristine brought up possibility of Liam making videos with members to advertise.
Deborah Huntley offered to do email to the Council of Churches again because she believes we did get some folks. Bill agreed to send out an announcement
Cathy created motion, Kristine seconded – action item – Bill to send out the notice
Review of why this might be changing.

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ).

CJ needs a microphone for the acoustic guitar. Will need for Sheri to speak with CJ. Perhaps we can ask her to bring it- she may already have one.

CJ in need of a liaison – Cathy was too busy due to all the chaos.

Questions about the mike – CJ needs it in the stand. Board voted to put mike at the back of the room.

CJ will ask speakers how they want the seating.

CJ can not register walk ins until the break.

CE Committee — Deb, Page

Questions for the board:

Do we want to implement CJ’s suggestion of using a QR-code online system?
Do we want to change the price for 2 CEUs? We need a representative from the committee to be named who will be present at each event.
Whatever we can do to streamline communication.
Voted to send all CEU Zoom certificates after the event via email. In Person? Will provide those at the time of event. Best to do it the same way each time.
Recommend Perk of Membership announcement on advertisement to decrease cost of CEU

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

It has been suggested that a committee member needs to be in charge of the speaker and be present at an event to manage.
Question for the speaker ahead of time: How do we want seating to be arranged? CJ will ask the speaker how they want it set up.
PC will ask Sheri Kling if she’d like to go to dinner.
PC asking about what to charge for Ann Ulanov – 3hr workshop on A new Projection only on Sat. $60, non member, $50 member, $20 student – Board voted to approve this amount.
Cathy agreed to introduction for Slater
Kristine to introduce Safron Rossi
Will ask Karen Hebert to introduce Ann Ulanov – Will request intro for the rest of them. (Unfortunately, Karen is not available.)
Requesting speakers will let us know before the event how they would like to arrange the setting.

Promotion and Marketing — Bill, Liam

Bill is posting on FB – did not realize Liam was not posting on FB and will start posting that. Liam is posting on Instagram – has 1700 followers.

Discussed posting Dr,. Slater – gun violence event on Neighborhood groups.

Books — Bill

How do we want to handle speaker’s books going forward? We don’t want to get stuck with overstock. Can we ask speakers to bring books that we will sell for them?
Bill requested speakers bring their own books. Discussion ensued about our intention to phase out selling books. Our goal is to stop ordering books and selling them. Plan to offer where they can buy it on line

Library — Cathy, Peggy

Discussion of how to get more people involved. Peggy suggested offering to bring people a book to borrow if they want to check one out. Peggy agreed to be present at Sheri Kling June 17th event offering tours of the Library.

Community Corner — Van, Deb, Bruce

Maybe include the way to access this during the Library tour.

Discussion ensued about how little websites are accessed because it’s not social media.

May want to try it again after the Gun Violence event.

Deb & Cathy will talk about repeating formal Zoom discussion after the Gun Violence event since it was so successful with Rebecca & I’s event.

Wrap Up

Next board meeting set for

Sunday August 6,2023

1-4pm at The Link

Board

January 29, 2023-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date February 5, 2025

JUNG SOCIETY OF ATLANTA BOARD MEETING (VIA ZOOM)

DATE Jan 29, 2023 TIME 1-5:08pm

Board Members:

Bill Bridges: President, Publicity, and Marketing, Books & Media

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Affiliate Com., Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Vice President, Treasurer Committee

Page Dickey: Secretary; CEU Continuing Education Committee

Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications, Library

Bruce Selvage: Affiliate Com., Writing and Editing Com.

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Affiliate Com.

Kristine Rudow: Program Committee

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing

Deb Herberger: CEU Continuing Education Com, Pres. Emeritus

Karen Hebert: CEU Continuing Education Committee

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

ABSENT (Deborah Huntley, Bruce Selvage, Karen Hebert, Mahshid Irvani )

Visitor:

CJ Johnson, IT Administrator, Incoming Communications came to the board meeting for discussion of IT issues.

PRESIDENTS OPENING REMARKS

All members present drew a card from Oracle d’OR to see where we might be going this year as a group.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE MINUTES

December 4, 2022 – edits made by Deb and Cathy.

Roger moved to accept, Cathy seconded it.

All agreed, none opposed. December Minutes were Unanimously Accepted

Topics: See Attached Agenda

CJ visited for IT/Incoming Communications issues:

Discussion ensued about whether to keep Vonage telephone line. It is just a voice message. It creates an email and CJ shared that everyone seems to leave a VM and then also send an email so work is duplicated. CJ- If we are keeping it, most efficient is for CJ respond and then direct it to Peggy.

Deb-What percentage of members are Luddites?

Cathy – we don’t get regular mail anymore. Cost for Vonage is $29-$38. There are a couple people/Luddites who just call Cathy.

Page suggested Google Voice mail which has free option with VM that is also sent to owner of tel# by email.

Bill/CJ agreed to explore this option.

Page moved to cancel Vonage, Liam seconded it, Vote to cancel Vonage was passed unanimously.

( 2/3/23: Roger spoke with the Secretary of State’s office and a phone is not required for a nonprofit or corporation.)

Clean up, IT set up & IT break down for in person programs –

CJ brought up maybe we could have a set plan for the physical moving of the chairs. CJ seeking to take down the AV equipment on his own. Better for him to manage it to avoid any mishaps. CJ uses his one cart to the elevator, 1.5hrs to set it up and 45-60 min to take everything down. Awkwardness around how to help him.

CJ agreed to focus on the cords at the front first as he breaks everything down so volunteers can get the chairs back up without interfering with CJ.

Bill recommending as part of the planning for each event, we designate two volunteers ahead of time to help set up and to help break down as part of the planning for each event.

CJ will need to decide what if anything others can do for him. Roger suggested CJ will think about whether he can train anyone.

CJ stated he will focus on streamlining the process, maybe get bigger boxes.

Page – At what point do we need to consider expanding into a media team. CJ – spoke about how there are different times – at the very beginning of the event and at the end when there are a lot of things going on simultaneously. How best can you take the experiences of what’s going on in the room and bring it to the online audience?

CJ noted how many people bag out of coming in person at the last minute and request ZOOM invite instead. Maybe solution is to raise the in person cap from 35-40.

Zee inquired about how to explain it’s an “either or” attendance – Zoom link comes after.

Deb – inquired about whether members of the CE committee could be trained to take over some of the ZOOM and in person duties.

CJ shared about the hand holding that has to go on for the CE, the break, all the ins and outs of the Hybrid events.

CJ left meeting after IT issues & Incoming Communication issues were discussed and before Treasurer’s Report.

Treasury Committee Report: See hand out

Cathy shared three page break down of events, and monthly operating costs. For example: We don’t make money from in-person events especially when speakers have to travel. Travel costs of the speaker significantly decreases the amount we make.

Approximately $600/mo of fixed costs – sometimes more if there is a 2 day workshop.

$7904.31 profit this year. Noted that before ZOOM we didn’t make this kind of money.

267 memberships – majority renew at the beginning of the year. New members randomly join throughout the year. Number of new memberships seem to come by level of interest in speakers. For example: At Hollis event we had more non members than members. 162 registered for Hollis, 113 on live Zoom meeting and some of those then join.

Discussed whether to continue sending info to the GA Council of Churches – she would like to stop this $100 expense.

Liam suggested we’re not just targeting GA anymore.

Roger – moved to drop it and Cathy seconded it, The decision to drop the GA Council of Churches expense was Unanimously accepted.

Cathy brought up this is the time of year to donate to the Link

– Roger suggested $500/yr.

Cathy moved to do this and Roger seconded it. The decision to donate $500/yr to the Link was Unanimously accepted.

Deb inquired about whether we want to make a donation to Philemon. Last year we did it in Hollis’s honor and when Jutta Von Buchholtz died. Bill inquired about whether we might gain access to something by making a donation. Cathy to check and report back.

Cathy -We need someplace to store our digital financial records (Articles of incorporation, bylaws, financial statements Get Roger to send all the things we need to include for storage)

– Our CPA recommended Box which costs $300/yr. Fidelity offers Vault. Roger to look into whether N GA offers anything comparable at lower cost.

Cathy did speak to ARAS and they are interested in taking some of our tapes into their Jungian library. They want to just start with ten – Woodman, Bly, ones with Jung on them. Cathy asking for help in looking through these to determine which ones. Bill offered to help. The board agreed to send ARAS 10 and see what they accept from us.

ARAS offers $25 memberships (instead of $100) if you’re a Jung Society member.

Cathy offered to send specific info needed after events that might help us decide whether we want to do more in person or online meetings.

Cathy needs to know what kind of info/data we want after each event.

Bill and Zee agreed that data right after the program would be helpful. It was suggested Treasurer send out a document that could be added to/edited and which includes the past events as well. Maybe later put it into a Google Doc.

CE Committee

– After Karen resigned, Page, Deb and Karen met to discuss establishing a committee to spread out the burden of applying for CEUs. It was noted that the number of events with CEUs we offer increased this past year. Also, having more advance notice decreases stress of CE applications.

It takes 4 weeks to apply and learn whether CEUs are in place. Registration occurs 4 weeks in advance so new timeframe of 8 weeks requested to avoid having to refund CEU registration money in case CEUS don’t go through.

Deb shared about the energy of the committee and their ideas about how to make CEUs even more revenue generating by including Asynchronous events on our website. As a result, Deb suggested all members of the CE committee receive CEUs free per year.

Cathy shared about the history of the organization not offering compensation.

Much discussion ensued about what the difference between paying for volunteer efforts vs. compensation by eliminating costs and what precedent offering free CEUs/year might start.

Bill shared as President that he is not opposed to compensation for volunteers who are wanting it for their efforts like free membership, books at reduced rates, etc.

Cathy motioned to pay CEU costs for the one person applying for the CEUs (instead of all three CE committee members), Van seconded it. The decision to make CEU cost free for the person applying for CEUs passed save one abstention.

Program Committee

– Zee presented save the dates for upcoming events. See Handout.

Discussion ensued about how much advance notice we need to be able to put on a workshop. It was suggested 3-4mos in advance.

Zee shared about different dynamics at play in lining up speakers and letting lecturers decide when they can offer CEUs.

Discussion about when to have workshops. Having more local speakers, time of year may factor in as people travel in the summer so maybe schedule less popular events in the summer. With Zoom events, this wouldn’t matter anymore.

Wanting to space out the workshops.

Working on plugging in Jenny Yates –

How many in person lectures do we want? There is a case to be made that we get to know people, gain volunteers even if it costs money.

Suggested one per quarter – or 3 times a year

This year we’ll take what we can.

Our goal is to have six(6) events/year in person. Bill suggested other kinds of gatherings like a post event discussion, Watch parties to incentivize people coming.

Saffron Rossi – prefer to have her offer a lecture only, suggest one on how Jung became involved in Astrology. Jung and Astrology maybe.

Discussion ensued about whether we could create the Soul Night as outlined by Kristine for the Washington Jung Society.

Members suggested we practice one with just the board before opening it up to the public in December.

Introductions for upcoming Speakers:

Deb volunteered to introduce Catherine

Bill volunteered to introduce Rebecca and Ipek

Liam volunteered to introduce Tina Stromstead.

Bill brought up possibility of having weekly classes on Jungian Concepts. Recordings of some of those classes could then be made available year round on the website. Perhaps for a small fee?

Bill talked about hosting a zoom session after the presentation – Bill wanting to know who would like to host a discussion. Maybe Karen Hebert?

Marketing

-Liam reported he is working on getting recordings of next speaker in timely manner to have on line. Bill suggested to Liam – Boosting of an event – Will email it to Liam to target other areas, before each event for different parts of the country.

Books

– Bill suggested a spring cleaning sale again in April/May like the last one in Dec 2022.

Library

– Peggy called or emailed people with outstanding books that need to be returned. Cathy was there to put books back. They found three people who still have their checked out books.

Community Corner

– Still trying to generate discussion. What other ways can we generate discussion? Wondering about FB and Instagram. Seeking guidance from Bill and Liam. Liam suggested a FB group for discussion. We’d love to hear what you thought about it. Invite them to Atlanta Jung Society FB.

Liam’s posting from the Red Book got more feedback.

Liam suggesting Modern Man quotes again. Bill will offer some quotes. Liam requested to be prompted after Feb 10th.

Next Board Meeting will be May 7, 2023. Will aim for an in person meeting at The Link. Cathy offered her home again if Link is not available.

Meeting adjourned at 1/29/23 at 5:08pm

Board

December 4, 2022-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date February 5, 2025

JUNG SOCIETY OF ATLANTA BOARD MEETING (VIA ZOOM)

12/04/2022 Time 2:12 PM – 4:31 PM

Deb Herberger: President, Incoming Communications

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Affiliate Com., Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Treasurer Committee

Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications, Library

Bruce Selvage: Affiliate Com., Writing and Editing Com.

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Affiliate Committee, Volunteer Committee

Bill Bridges: Website, Publicity, and Marketing, Books & Media

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing

Kristine Rudow: Secretary; Volunteer Committee

Karen Hebert: CEU Coordinator

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

ABSENT (Mahshid, Peggy, and Karen)

PRESIDENT’S OPENING REMARKS

Deb introduced Page Dickey, as the upcoming secretary and she was welcomed by our president, board members and committee members. Deb stated that Page may get CJ to help her navigate the archives and Google Docs in preparation for her secretarial position.

Closing the year, preparing for 2023, Deb brought questions for consideration for 2023.

Do new guidelines need to be established to honor speaker and IT contracts, while also being able to modify program formats if health, safety or other issues should arise closer to time of the event. Can we honor CJ’s contract which calls for giving him at least 6 mos notice on event scheduling?
For in-person events is there a need to offer more available seating options,

as well as comfortable seating? Should we reconsider the limitations of our seating? Could The Link offer a bigger room?

Program committee is requesting in this meeting that the board vote on and decide how many In-person events, both lecture only and lecture / workshop will be held in 2023.
Continuing education: Deb proposed the idea of forming a CEU Committee instead of one person being overburdened with the role of CE Coordinator. There is a member who has agreed to meet with Karen Herbert and Deb Herberger to discuss further the possibility of forming a CE Committee.

Will we continue to offer CEUs at every event? The plan will be for the Program Committee with the Speakers and the CEU Committee will all have input into which events will offer CE.

Deb will inform Bill and the board of further development of the CEU proposal.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE MINUTES

Kristine reported on the minutes for 08/14/200 2022 and for the Membership Business Meeting during the 11/11/2022 program . Deb and Cathy made edits to the 8/14/2022 minutes and Deb and Kristine made edits to the 11/11/2022 Membership Business Meeting. Deb made a motion for approval and Cathy seconded the motion. All board members approved the motion.

TREASURY REPORT

Cathy reported on the Chambray lecture and workshop – See the last pages of the minutes for details. Please note this recap is for the lecture/workshop (November 11th and 12th) and does not include regular monthly operating expenses. Cathy stated we broke even with this program. ( Cathy mentioned The Link was interested in a future collaboration with Joe Cambray). The end of year treasury report will be presented in the upcoming board meeting. Roger stated that our investment funds have improved with the market recoveries and that our savings account is roughly down 15% for the year. He will continue to monitor the account.

2022 PROGRAMS

Cathy stated by the end of October we had income of $24,000.00 on programs with costs roughly at $20,000.00. For more details please look back at previous minutes. There will be an end of year report coming with the last program totals included. She also states that Zoom and cheap rent charged by The Link help to keep us in the black.

Cathy reported that programs offered with CEUs are the most well attended.

With the January program Connie Zweig being the biggest and the November program Joe Chambray workshop being the smallest. The June Matthew Stelzner program had the most drop offs and the July Susan Schwartz program had the most complaints primarily for lacking in substance.

IT AND ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT – Cathy for CJ

(Please see the last pages of the minutes for details of 2022 Programs. )

For the December program CJ requested that board members planning to attend and “do not” need CEUs to just email him. And if you need CEUs for in-person meetings, then you need to register for them; and, if you are doing Zoom, you will need to register.

PLANNING FOR MARK WINBORN EVENT DECEMBER 17, 2022

Mark’s flight arrives Friday night and leaves Sunday morning 8 AM. Mark was agreeable with using Uber or Lyft upon his arrival and his return. He will provide receipts for reimbursement for his costs including only one night at the hotel. Volunteers are in place for the Winborn program. Bill agreed to do books.

Bill will follow up on the Jung T-shirts sale which MItch is providing. Mitch has requested that emails be sent to all society members with pictures of the shirts and with Mitch’s email address. And from there all direct sales will be handled by Mitch. Atlanta Jung Society will receive a donation from the sales.

Bill also suggested we take the opportunity to move books at a discounted rate during this program. Deb and Cathy mentioned having crates of CDs, DVDs, and other items they could give away with the sale of books.

CJ prefers that we not participate in helping him with the breakdown of his equipment at the end of in-person programs unless asked.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Deborah stated the January-March programs will be presented on Zoom due concerns over health issues. The Program Committee needs a decision on in-person meetings. Deborah stated that doing workshops on Zoom was a long time for someone to be on computer – even for a half of a day, but would relook at the idea if board and committee members felt that option important.

At the Chambray program Linda Carter showed interest in doing a lecture workshop possibly in April or May. She is an international speaker as well as a nurse practitioner. The topic that was discussed for a program she could present was on The Red Book which she has had experience lecturing on in training seminars.

Cathy stated we are not getting the in-person numbers we hoped and suggested that we consider two lecture workshops with a third presentation in the format of a class or panel discussion. Bill added having a conversation between two speakers as a program possibility. Cathy stated she may help with these types of programs. She also suggested we offer classes on basic Jung concepts that would bring more meaning to membership in understanding our more advanced speakers. Pete may be interested in doing a class? Stuart Smith may be interested in doing in-person programs such as a movie night. But movie night programs might be difficult on Zoom. Deb suggested the possibility of doing movie night in summer and Cathy brought up the concerns that our numbers would be low for movie night in-person only events. It was suggested that a link be sent for the movie to be viewed prior to the program discussion as a possibility. Deb thought winter would be a good time to present class(es). Bill suggested we also be more flexible offering in-person events.

Deb added to Bill’s comment on the need for flexibility doing in-person programs based on type programs being presented, the speaker’s choice, and locality of the speaker. Deborah stated also that The Link’s availability as well as other factors also had to be considered and Deborah asked the board and committee members to vote on this issue of being flexible for programs and all members approved with a yes vote.

Roger stated the need to add social time to our in-person events to build the community. Page added that people do come early and Bill suggested providing a light brown bag or catered food option to draw people to come early.

Cathy added that Pete is considering a lecture to begin to spark interest in classes. Another idea to consider getting other Jung Societies to collaborate? Bill brought up the idea of offering recordings of the classes to be made available online.

Deborah stated the only program for 2023 is March with Tina Stromstead as speaker, but had nothing else confirmed. The Program Committee needed to know more information about how the board and committee members wanted to move forward setting up the programs for 2023. The upcoming program projected dates are January 21st, February 18th and March 18th. These dates need to be finalized as soon as possible so CJ can add to his calendar. Cathy stated she needed to get lecture workshop dates for April or May on The Link’s calendar.

Cathy made a motion for two lecture workshops after the winter and a third lecture workshop, panel or class to be determined. The motion was second by Deborah. All board members approved.

There was conversion about speaker possibilities for 2023 and which events will offer CE. Cathrine Meeks has a new book on racial healing and may be a candidate for a future program or possible panel member.

Another lecture possibility – book writer Matthew Quick (Silver Linings Playbook).

Deborah agreed to contact CJ when dates are confirmed for programs.

BOOKS

Bill will bring extra books to the December 17th program for a holiday sale and anyone else who has anything to bring to the holiday sale.

Bill will consider a summer book sale depending how well the December book sale goes.

He’ll get with Mitch as stated above for the sale of t-shirts.

MARKETING AND PROMOTION

Bill stated as soon he can get the January program dates he will set up the Constant Contact greetings, FaceBook and the Meetup. He will need to get the information early and will be unable to attend the January 21st program.

*Note that to present the February event info at the January 21st event he will need to get all the information ahead of time for the February lecture. Someone will need to give introductory remarks for the president on the January 21st program. If necessary, Bill stated he will do a pre-recorded statement for the program in January. (Subsequently, Roger volunteered to do the intro.)

WEBSITE COMMUNICATIONS

How to get interest in the Website Community Corner? Per Cathy, CJ has commented that no one looks at anything but the home and event pages. Bill stated that FaceBook is a better place for this type of conversation starter, but is uncertain how many of our people are on Facebook. That a commenting platform is better than having to send out emails. Liam also commented on the possibility of community building on Instagram through the sharing of Images.

What will be needed to bring this conversation forward in 2023?

INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS

Deb states that Peggy is still answering the Jung phone line. Vonage will need to be transferred to Bill as president. Bill will need to work with CJ on changing the email to his. Bill said fine as long as someone is answering incoming calls. Deb asked the question if the board felt having a phone line is still necessary. And offered that people still call, especially close to a meeting. There is a need to confirm if Peggy is willing to continue on the Incoming Communications – specifically with the task of answering the Jung Phone Line.

UPCOMING BOARD MEETING SCHEDULE

January 29th Time 1PM – 5PM

ADJOURNMENT

4:31 PM

Costs for Cambray Workshop

Rent: $495

CEUs: $260.00

CJ in person cost: $208.

CJ admin costs for event: $396

Speaker fee $1500.

Speaker hotel/ meals; $403.60, (excludes post workshop meal)

Speaker airfare: $708.17

Food $25 – Mashid donated most of the food.

Books: $81.85

Did not include our regular operating costs per month Zoom, facebook, computer costs etc

Total Expenses $4077.62

Income Cambray Workshop

Books: $217.80

CEUs $450

Program income; $3070

New memberships: $220

Total Income : $3957.78

Current Operating Balance in Wells Fargo acct.: $23,682.90

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2022 PROGRAMS

January: C Zweig, 143 registered 73 members ,66 non- members, 4 students. 121 signed on, 32 CEUs

Feb: J Kiehl, 80 registered 57 members, 23 non- members, no students 62 people on , 19 CEUs

Mar: Mitch, 111 registered 70 members, 38 non -members, 3 students 18 CEUs

*Apr: Workshop Lisa M: 95 total for both days, 54 members, 39 non- members, 2 students 32 CEUs

Friday: 28 on zoom, 24 in person, Sat: 28 on zoom, 21 in person

May: S Kimbles: 84 registered 60 members, 19 non-members 5 students 15 CEUs

Jun: M Stelzner: 84 registered 46 members, 30 non members 8 students 51 signed on, no CEUs

July: Susan 109 registered 65 members, 36 non members, 8 students, 74 signed on 25 CEUs

Aug: D Tyler 116 registered 72 members ,44 non- members, 6 students 80 signed on 31 CEUs

*Sept; J Gentile: 111 registered 65 members, 43 non- members, 3 students, in person 23, on zoom 46 No CEUs

Oct: T Cheetham: 87 registered 62 members, 19 non members 6 students 46 signed on

*Nov: Workshop Cambray 58 total for both days 39 members, 12 non- members, 7 students 18 CEUs

Friday 53 registered total 16 in person ( plus 9 board members) 24 on zoom

Saturday 34 registered 14 on zoom , 11 in person plus board members

Board

August 14, 2022-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date August 19, 2022

JUNG SOCIETY OF ATLANTA BOARD MEETING (VIA ZOOM)

08/14/2022 TIME 02:08 PM – 04:01 PM

Deb Herberger: President, Incoming Communications

Nyambura Kihato: Vice President, Program Committee

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Affiliate Com., Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Treasurer Committee

Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications, Library

Bruce Selvage: Affiliate Com., Writing and Editing Com.

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Affiliate Committee, Volunteer Committee

Bill Bridges: Website,Publicity, and Marketing, Books & Media

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing

Kristine Rudow: Secretary; Volunteer Committee

Karen Hebert: CEU Coordinator

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

ABSENT (Bruce, Zee, Liam, Karen)

OPENING REMARKS

Nyambura presided over the August board meeting substituting for Deb. Opening remarks began with expression of concern for Deb and family. She called the meeting to order with the acceptance of the minutes.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE MINUTES

Kristine reported on the minutes for June 05, 2022. Deb and Cathy made edits to the minutes and Van made a motion for approval and Roger seconded the motion. All board members approved the motion.

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT AND IT REPORT

Deb sent out an email on August 8 with CJ’s finalized contract for the board to look over and e-vote before the August 14 meeting.The contract was approved by eight board and committee members.

CJ reported to this date that the Doug Tyler event had 47 people signed up for Zoom and 8 people have signed up in–person, not including board members. We have 7 board members who have volunteered to help for the in-person program and CJ anticipated a total 12 volunteers bringing the total attendance to 20 people for the in-person event, with only 8 persons so far in reserved tickets. The overall gross amount of tickets sold so far for Doug’s event was $720.00. The statistics of Lisa’s in-person event on Friday showed that 10 people signed up within 10 days of the event, and total attendance for the Friday lecture ended up with 24 people in attendance. He also commented that he usually has a few people switch from in-person to Zoom, but the people have to reach out to him personally, making the process not so easy. This will also help to determine how many people the committee members need to set up for. He thought it would be a good idea to send out reminders to the in-person ticket holders, prompting them to confirm their attendance to the in-person meeting, adding the advantages of using the library and ability to buy books and to state we look forward to seeing them. He stated that people will be able to register up to 5:00 PM on the day of the lecture.

It was decided that Bill will send out reminders both Friday August 19 and a final reminder sent out on Friday August 26th. Cathy suggested adding to the reminders that books are available for sale. Roger commented that it is good to keep the in-person lectures moving forward in hopes of getting people to return back to these events.

Doug has suggested the decision of mask wearing be considered at the time of lecture.

CJ reported on the registration of the last few lectures, Susan Swartz 109 – Matthew Stelzner 84 – Sam Kimbels 84 – Lisa Marchino 89 for the Friday lecture.

The present active members total 166 and are paid up into 2023.

The membership parameters have been changed from a calendar year to the date a member signs up. An automated notice will be sent out 5 days before the membership due date and a notice sent out when membership fees are overdue.

Roger asked if there was a monitoring report for how the website is used. CJ commented he has set up Google Analytics to moderate websites and to look at the traffic. He found people overwhelmingly land on the homepage, with the second most visited is the events tab on the website, with the average viewing time being less than 2 minutes. There is a drastic decrease with all the other pages on the website. Regular members bypass the homepage and go directly to the events page they have bookmarked. Links from other social media take people right to the event page. CJ will check into the areas people are coming from and said he would email out his findings. Bill stated that would help to target regions for ads on Facebook.

CJ commented that what will be different in the upcoming hybrid meeting will be a designated mike stand that stays on for asking questions to the speakers.

PREPARATIONS FOR DOUG TYLER EVENT

Cathy will bring the adhesive name tags. Roger and Kristine will help with check in. Jay will be available where needed.

SPEAKER TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT

Deb suggested 30 cents per mile that includes gas, plus other expenses.

A decision was made to move forward with a 30 cents per mile reimbursement for speakers. Cathy stated the need to get actual mileage driven to issue the reimbursement. Deborah commented they will send Doug and Mark an email that we will reimburse at 30 cents a mile and for them to keep up with mileage for the treasurer. The contracts will reflect the new rate in the future and the existing program speakers will be notified by email of the change to 30 cents per mile rate as the new reimbursement rate.

Nayambura made a motion to accept the 30 cent mile reimbursement for gas for speakers that are coming from out of town. Deborah seconded the motion and all members approved the motion.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Deborah reported on changes to the upcoming programs. Tom Cheetham and John Gentile will not be offering CEU’s and this will be noted in our emails and on the website.

Joe Chambray updated his title to Synchronicity, Complexity and the Psychoid Imagination and his workshop Recovering Wonder and Re-Enchanting the World.

Doug will be introduced by Pete Williams and Tom Cheetham will be introduced by Roger. Cathy states Rene LaStrange will help with speaker introductions depending on her availability. Cathy said she has other names for people who are available to introduce speakers. All remaining 2022 programs except for Tom Cheetham will be hybrid.

TREASURY COMMITTEE REPORT

Cathy presented the YTD financial results through July. She noted that one check for CEU expenses was not yet included since it just went out, but all other expenses are essentially up to date in total. She also pointed out that income from membership dues receipts have increased due to the new system of not keying memberships to the calendar year end. Folks now register for a full year at a time regardless of when they sign up. Through July in total we have a gain of almost $4700 versus only $2200 last year. However, our investment fund is still down considerably for the year but has recovered somewhat in the last month or so. Roger estimated it has also improved so far in August due to the market continuing to comeback.

After discussion of the issues involved with on site sign up and membership renewal at hybrid meetings, it was generally decided that we need to ask CJ to look into and advise of the most efficient way to handle these using our iPads and Square.

Deb made a motion that membership fees remain as they are for 2022 and be reviewed in 2023. Roger seconded the motion and all members approved the motion.

The full financial report will be sent in a separate email at the same time the minutes are shared with board members.

REGISTRATION AND WEBSITE

Bill stated Google Docs is working well between him and the Program Committee; and he has the Constant Contact set up until September. He will be preparing social media materials for Tom Cheetham as soon as it has been received and reviewed by the program committee.

Deb will check with CDC on mask mandates for the Doug Tyler in-person event.

Bill will update posts for mask mandate on social media.

MARKETING PROMOTION

Liam sent video from Big Sky Montana and said that all went well with the video for Doug’s lecture. He requested any suggestion the group may have to offer and he wants to explore approved sources for Jungian quotes. Bill suggested a book on Jung quotes that he will share with Liam.

Tom Cheetham, John Gentile and Joe Chambray all agreed to do promo videos.

LIBRARY

Deb questioned the continued use of the library video during lecture breaks and idea of using music instead. Nyambura expressed the video as being a very vital offering to membership as a perk. Roger suggested some speakers may want to use music and Bill brought up the copyright issues of broadcasting music. That it will be safer to use public domain music.

Peggy said most books have been reclaimed. The unillustrated Red Book has yet to be reclaimed and a discussion whether to replace the book back to the library and to allow it to be checked out.

HOSPITALITY

Mashid states she has plenty of what she needs for hospitality, but reminds the board she has limited storage space and will determine the needs for hospitality by the program attendance.

VOLUNTEERS

Kristine remarked the volunteers committee needs time to see the future of the in-person programs before we can determine the needs for volunteers.

AGENDA ITEMS

(CJ) need to explore archiving for treasury and minute etc.

(CJ) to look at simplifying registration for non-members and payment at the door.

Review of the membership fees will be reviewed and updated in 2023.

Luncheon for Joe Chambray and wife is planned for Saturday November 12 at 2:30 to include all board and committee members.

UPCOMING BOARD MEETING SCHEDULE

December 4th 2:00-4:00 PM

ADJOURNMENT

4:01 PM

Board

June 5, 2022-Meeting Minutes

Post author By CJ
Post date June 20, 2022

JUNG SOCIETY OF ATLANTA BOARD MEETING (VIA ZOOM)

06/05/2022 TIME 1:13 PM – PM 4:24

Deb Herberger: President, Incoming Communications

Nyambura Kihato: Vice President, Program Committee

Cathy Shepherd: Treasurer, Affiliate Com., Pres. Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Treasurer Committee

Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications, Library

Bruce Selvage: Affiliate Com., Writing and Editing Com.

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Affiliate Committee, Volunteer Committee

Bill Bridges: Website,Publicity, and Marketing, Books & Media

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing

Kristine Rudow: Secretary; Volunteer Committee

Karen Hebert: CEU Coordinator

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

ABSENT (Nyambura, Karen, Mahshid)

CJ Johnson: IT Consultant, Administrative Assistant)

OPENING REFLECTION:

Deb opened a circle for us to share in silence for the board to reflect our concerns, hopes and gratitude. Thanks expressed for Dr Hollis for all his support and gifts he has given to JS Society, with hope for his continued healing.

PRESIDENT’S OPENING REMARKS:

Mahshid would be rejoining our board and continue to work on the hospitality committee .

ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES

Kristine reported on the minutes for March 06, 2022. Deb and Nyambura made edits and Cathy made a motion for approval and Zee seconded the motion. All board members approved the motion.

TREASURY COMMITTEE REPORT:

Deb – CJ has been contracting with Atlanta Jung Society for 2 years at an agreed rate for all duties at $20/hr. CJ was first recruited by Cathy when she was serving as President, to assist with Zoom IT. In 2021, CJ ’s duties expanded into Administrative Assistant, working to problem-solve with various board, committee and society members. At present our attendance numbers have grown and we have now begun to offer hybrid events. Cathy has continued to be CJ’s liaison with the board, a natural affiliation as part of her duties as Treasurer. However, the Treasury Committee has recently identified the need to review CJ’s contract agreement and is now proposing the following for approval Board approval:

* That CJ’s official liaison as administrative assistant and IT consultant / contractor now be with the entire Treasury Committee who will report back to the board as is deemed necessary.

* That CJ’s consulting rates be increased from $20 per hour to the following:

Administration – $24 hourly

Zoom IT – $28 hourly

Hybrid IT – $32 hourly

Deb commented that the treasury committee is in the process of finalizing a written agreement with CJ. CJ has created a listing of all of his duties and his equipment that he supplies for the virtual and hybrid meetings. (This 3 page list is on Google Docs for review. )

Deb made a motion that the board agreed to fees below, distinguishing Administrative and IT Duties:

1-General Administrative Duties – with board and committee members, as well as pre and post duties for events, and on- site setup and breakdown for hybrid events – $24 per hour

2- Zoom – $28 per hour (managing the Zoom only meetings)

3- Hybrid – $32 per hour (management of 2 rooms of participants and use of his own equipment)

Deb reiterated the motion that the board accept the Treasury Committee as CJ’s official liaison- both as administrative assistant and IT consultant / contractor. The Treasury Committee will report back to the board as necessary for changes, periodic reviews of the contract, etc…

Deborah seconded the motion. All board members present approved the motion.

*Cathy suggested that we recognize CJ is working for other Jung societies now and we need to prepare schedules for upcoming programs ahead of time.

TREASURY REPORTS

Cathy presented the expenses and income for the first hybrid meeting with Lisa Marchiano:

Expenses $4,501.30

Total Income $6,085.00

Net Income $1,583.70

(Detailed financial report sent in separate email.)

Cathy then presented a Budget of Expenses For Programs: (July – December)

Total $10,980.00

(Detailed financial report sent in separate email.)

She then reviewed our Income statement for the first 5 months of the year (Jan – May):

Total Income $14,845

Total Expenses $9,002

Net Income $5,843

Investments – Roger reported on the drop in our NCGF investment account paralleling the general drop in the stock and bond markets. Through 5/31 our balance has declined $9,157.

TRANSPORTATION ALLOWANCES AND SPEAKER EXPENSES

When board and committee members are transporting speakers to and from the airport it was decided to change from a $50 reimbursement allowance to $60 for a round trip. It was decided to revisit this if gas prices go over $5.

Cathy made the motion for the $50 gas allowance to increase to $60. Deborah seconded the motion. All board members approved the motion.

For speakers driving to present programs Cathy is to investigate a new mileage rate and present at a later board meeting.

It has been determined that the program committee will continue to set up hotels for speakers.

Meals for speakers will continue to be reimbursed with a received receipt from the speakers.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE June – December 2022 Programs

June 11 – Matthew Stelzner – Zoom – Page Dickey introduce – No CEU’s

July 9 – Susan Schwartz – Zoom – Mitch Cohen introduce –

Ceu’s

August 27 – Doug Tyler – Hybrid Meeting – Lecture Only

introduction TBD – CEU’s

September 24 – John Gentile – Hybrid Meeting – Lecture Only – No CEU’s

October 15 – Tom Cheetham – Zoom Meeting – CEU’s

November 11th and 12th Joe Cambray – Hybrid Lecture and Workshop – CEU’s

(Time Schedule for this workshop was determined by vote from the board and was decided by 6/3 vote for 9:30AM – 2PM. The board will take the speaker and his wife to lunch after the workshop. The restaurant is still to be determined.)

December 17 – Mark Winborn – Hybrid Meeting – Lecture only – CEU’s

The 2023 lecture schedule – Tina Stromstead is the only scheduled participant for the month of March and will be a Zoom meeting.

PLANNING HYBRID LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

Deborah presented the question if we wanted to do most meetings hybrid unless the speaker requests a Zoom meeting? Deb added the idea of having a lighter hybrid schedule in summer months due to volunteers and members traveling.

Deborah presented the question to the board if we wanted to agree to 4 lectures/workshops a year, dates determined by the Link’s availability. Cathy suggested that we wait until we see how the shorter version workshop works out to make the decision about the length of the Sat Workshop format. Deborah suggested that we consult the speakers regarding the ideal length of time for the material to be covered, and the amount of time needed for audience participation, etc.

Cathy suggested we also poll our member on timeline of workshops. Kristine suggested timeline be based on the material and the presenters’ needs, and to move forward as we go. Deb commented on importance of allowing time and format for creative material with audience participation when the speaker is requesting. Deborah suggested let the decision be made by the speaker and how they want to present. She also felt Joe Cambray material deserved a whole day. She will ask when she sends out the contract about the form his workshop would take.

Deb suggested a study group or joint opportunity with other Jung societies be taken into consideration. Deborah stated she is open to others exploring such possibilities,but the program committee cannot take on more work than they already have.

Deb noted that CJ is asking about archiving events that are now kept only for one month. Question posed by Deb – should the original of each lecture continue to be archived on the website? This was affirmed by board consensus with the reminder that these archives are available to Board Members only. Kristine brought up Atlanta Astrological Society on allowing members only into recordings and the space cost of storing lectures. There was a brief discussion about the possible sale of lecture videos. Cathy stated we need take in consideration that speakers who are usually speaking on other platforms giving the same lecture they present at our society may not want us to sell their lectures, and that we need specific approval of each speaker to sell the lecture. Deb recommended that CJ explore these topics with us in our next board meeting (particularly the issue of website storage space).

Peggy asked for comparison of previous 2022 figures for attendance.

Cathy reported:

January – May lectures and workshop. Connie Zweig 143

Jeffery Kiehl 80

Mitch Cohen 62

Sam Kimbell 84

Lisa Marchiano 95 (both lecture and workshop)

VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE (Zee, Kristine, Deb)

Kristine presented the “7 tips to recruit more volunteers to your nonprofit”. A copy was sent out to all board and committee members prior the board meeting. The overall idea was to help us have a conversation on how we could use more volunteers and the ways volunteers may help move us forward?

Suggestions offered began with offering flexible time lines for shorter commitments and clearly stated expectations needed from the volunteer. Need to specify details of skills needed and to match them with a volunteer profile. Offering support and training where needed as well as creating a strong commitment to the Jung Society mission.

By using our tools on social media we could take our current volunteers and interview them on social media to talk about highlights of they’re experiences as volunteers and the mission that our society brings to the public.

Liam expressed interest in helping to present members and volunteers on our social media platform.

One of the tips reminded us to ask our friends and anyone that might be a possible recruit to join us in our mission.

Look for platforms that allow us to post our volunteer opportunities. Need to remember to describe volunteer positions by time commitment, skills required and include the impact and importance of the volunteer’s role in the Jung Society.

Zee has 2 potential volunteers, Page Dickey who will be introducing Michael Selzner for our June program and someone(“Surrender”)

may possibly help with name tags for in-person events.

Kristine brought up the idea of using more volunteers to help the program committee by defining and documenting the specific duties of the program committee to see where possibly part time volunteers may be useful.

Deb suggested we return to this idea in the future that all committees and individuals define the specific duties of their positions and identify the time routinely required to tend these duties. Deb mentioned that documenting time spent by volunteers is very important for grant purposes.

Other Volunteer Activities

Mitch Cohen proposal to sell t-shirts for Jung Society. He is covering all costs involved in the design and production of the shirts and will handle the sales at in person events. Deb is to underline with Mitch the importance of keeping t-shirt sales separate from book sales for tax and other purposes, when she tells him of the board’s approval to move forward with his independent t-shirt production and sales. Mitch will return a % of the profits made to the AJS as a donation.

Design suggestions were made:

Use of the AJS Phoenix logo

Use of the AJS Motto “Seeking A More Conscious Life (Together)”

Possible use of Jung’s quote: “The privilege of a lifetime is to

become who you really are”.

Liam asked about the possibility of expanding into online t-shirt sales in the future and offered to seek the assistance of a colleague if we are interested. Deb said she would mention this idea to Mitch for future consideration.

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Deb proposed the creation of a “Nomination Search Committee” to begin identifying members who may be willing to serve on the slate of AJS officers for 2023. This “Search Committee” will be presented to the membership for acceptance as the 2022 Nominating Committee at the September Business Meeting. One member from the previous nominating committee must return to serve. After some discussion, Cathy agreed to serve on this year’s committee, and to orient Kristine, who also agreed to serve on the committee.One additional nominating committee member is needed.

UPCOMING BOARD MEETING

August 14, 2022

Will be held at The Link from 2:00 to 5:00pm

Includes dinner following for everyone at a yet- to- be- determined location.

Proposed Agenda: Reports from all Committees, including

CJ and what is needed to prepare for the August 27 Doug Tyler Hybrid Lecture event.

Meeting adjourned 4:24 PM

December 1, 2024, 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Board Members:

President’s Opening — Bill

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of August 2024 Minutes — Page

Treasury Report — Cathy

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

CE Committee — Laura

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

Promotion and Marketing — Bill, Liam

Books — Bill

Library — Cathy shared a book donated to us.

Community Corner — Van

Other Topics

Wrap Up

April 7th 2024, 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Board Members:

President’s Opening — TBD

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of January 2024 Minutes — Page

Treasury Report — Cathy

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

CE Committee — Laura

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

Promotion and Marketing — Bill, Liam

Books — Bill

Library — Cathy

Community Corner — Van, Deb

Other Topics

Wrap Up

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

January 28, 2024, 1:30pm to 5:00

Board Members:

President’s Opening — The Faeries’ Oracle

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of Last Meeting’s Minutes — October 29, 2023 — Page

Treasury Report — Cathy

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

CE Committee — Karen

Promotion and Marketing — Bill

Books — Bill

Library — Cathy

Community Corner — Van, Deb

Other Topics

Wrap Up

Reward — Game Time!

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

October 29, 1:30pm to 4:03

Vice President’s Opening

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of Last Meeting’s Minutes -August 6, 2023 — Page

Treasury Report — Cathy – see attached

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

CE Committee — Deb, Page, Karen

Promotion and Marketing — Bill

Books — Bill

Library — Cathy, Peggy

Community Corner — Van, Deb

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee’s email(barbiegilman26@gmail.com), Kristine

Other Topics

Wrap Up

Executive Board Meeting Agenda

August 6, 1pm to 4:30pm – at the Link

President’s Opening

Committee Reports

Presentation and Acceptance of Last Meeting’s Minutes — Page

Treasury Report — Cathy

IT/Admin Report — Cathy (for CJ)

CE Committee — Deb, Page

Promotion and Marketing — Bill

Books — Bill – Asked about whether Mitch Cohen (Dec) might have a book he’d like to have on hand for this in person event.

Library — Cathy, Peggy –

Community Corner — Van, Deb

Program Committee Report — Deborah, Zee, Kristine

Other Topics

Wrap Up

May 7 2023, 1pm to 4:04

President’s Opening — Bill

Presentation and Acceptance of January, 2023 Minutes — Page