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March 6, 2022 Meeting Minutes

 

      JUNG SOCIETY OF ATLANTA BOARD MEETING (VIA ZOOM)       

       03/06/2022  TIME 1:10 PM – 4:16 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 and 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 and Volunteers

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

         Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing 

          Kristine Rudow: Secretary; Volunteers

          Karen Hebert: CEU Coordinator

        CJ  Johnson: Consulting IT Administrator

 

 

(Absent Nyambura, Karen)  

 

 OPENING REFLECTION

The board members shared silence for the suffering and the struggles of the Ukrainian people. 

 

PRESIDENT’S OPENING  

We need to work together to accomplish the upcoming April in-person event as well as planning for future upcoming hybrid events. Differentiating committee duties and inter-committee duties and clarifying our various roles could assist planning and implementation of future hybrid event via smoother inner-committee collaboration. (The speaker contact form Bill recently created is an example of this type of collaboration.)

 

Revision Of Proposed Agenda

 

The focus of today’s meeting will be on planning for March and April events, especially Lisa Marchiano’s weekend hybrid workshop in April.

Issues to cover include:  IT, website, ticketing, registration/ CEUs, as well as in-person onsite details.

 

Cathy will continue her formal Treasury report on the 2022 Budget in our next meeting. Today she will be participating in financial planning aspects of upcoming events as well as liaison with the Link and IT support.

 

 

PRESENTATION OF MINUTES

Kristine reported on the minutes for January 30 2022; Deb and Kristine made edits. Deborah made a motion for approval and Peggy seconded the motion. All board members approved the motion.

 

 

 PREPARATIONS FOR THE MITCH COHEN MARCH 26TH LECTURE

Deborah will reach out to Mitch to set time to help Liam make the video for Instagram. CJ stated 44 people have already signed up for the March event. Deb will introduce Mitch and ask that a member of the Program Committee do the introduction for the upcoming event.

Deb will be checking on why only allowing 1 CEU when Deborah asked for two for the March event.

 

PREPARATIONS FOR LISA MARCHINO APRIL 22ND-23ND LECTURE AND WORKSHOP

 

POLLING FOR TIME OF APRIL 23RD WORKSHOP

To help finalize the hours of the April 23 Saturday Workshop with Lisa Marchiano, a polling of the board via email was taken by Deb on Feb 20, 2022.

The choices to be voted upon were: 9:00 AM to 4:00PM, 9:30AM to 4:30 PM, 10:00AM to 5:00PM.

The results were: 7 votes for 9:30 – 4:30, and 5 votes for 10 – 5, with 1 abstention.

The Saturday hours of the workshop were set as: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM and confirmed by the group in the planning discussion.

 

REGISTRATION

CJ reported that the ticket structure was emailed out to board members and they are in a draft version right now. CJ will send Bill “a current members only list” for a Constant Contact email “advance notice” to go out on Friday March 18 letting members know they can be the first to register when tickets go on sale Monday March 21.  The Event page on the website will show when registration will open for the April program.

Bill will schedule the regular Constant Contact email notice (that goes out to the entire mailing list) to go out at the end of Mitch Cohen’s lecture. That will also be when the Facebook and Meetup events go up.

The end date for ticket sales will be April 11th. If there are any seats available after the April 11th ticket sales will then become separate registrations for the lecture and the workshop that will be purchased online.  There will be no ticket sales at the in-person events.

 

CEU’s

 

“Only in-person board members” receiving CEU’s need to register with a Zoom ticket so that they are not counted in the thirty ticket limit for in-person events.

 

There will be an option for separate participation in the lecture and workshop and to receive two CEUs for the friday lecture and five for the Saturday workshop. A total of seven CEU’s are available for those who sign up and participate in the full weekend.

Van will hand out and collect the Evaluation forms for CEU participants to be scanned to Karen and Karen will email out certificates after the workshop.

 

MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS

It was suggested that Lisa’s promotional videos be shown at the March meeting. Deborah is to send contact info to Liam for both Mitch and Lisa to prepare videos and will send Mitch, Liam’s contact information as well. Deborah stated Lisa will be sent a link to the AJS April event to post on her own website and possibly on This Jungian Life podcast.

Deborah will introduce Lisa Friday evening at the in-person event.

 

IT – Reviewing January/February Events

 

CONNIE ZWEIG AND JEFFERY KIEHL PROGRAMS

Connie – 143 participants  32 CEU’s

Jeffery  –  80 participants 19 CEU’s

 

 

CJ suggested that a minimum of three participants be in a Zoom breakout room and that  future breakouts room participation should be “clearly advertised” to avoid the problems encountered during the January trial run. Lisa is planning to use breakout rooms Saturday afternoon both in person and Zoom participants. CJ is planning to have a meeting with Lisa to discuss hybrid aspects – the length time to be in breakout rooms and the amount of persons (three to four) to be in a room. Deborah will send information she has to CJ for Lisa’s description of the time needed for being in the breakout room.

 

CJ presented the logo with the adopted motto “Seeking A More Conscious Life “ to the board and committee members.  He will place it on the website when time allows.

 

 

 

CJ PREPARATIONS FOR APRIL HYBRID MEETING

 

CJ will come early (around 5:30 pm) with all the needed equipment for both Zoom and in-person participants on Friday April 22.  From his past church experiences, he has preplanned backups for any technical difficulty and for other problems that may occur due to limitations for his availability during the event. He has requested that we recognize that he has to prioritize where he is needed and will need assistance to deal with the more minor issues. Peggy will answer phones for any last minute calls regarding Zoom tickets and links. On Friday April 22nd  Zoom registration will close at 3 PM 

 

For the April program we need to add to the final reminder email if the in-person registration has been closed.

 

CJ suggested the confusion with the two-step registration procedure may need to be revisited after the April program due to last minute requests for link and/or video.  

On Friday April 22 Lisa will need to arrive at the Link by 6:30 PM for CJ to help her set up her presentation. For the Saturday workshop Lisa will need to arrive around 9 AM or before as per CJ’s request.

 

Bruce and Peggy will participate in the hybrid meeting via zoom and will text Cathy or Deb about any issues that may arise. Cathy or Nyambura will be prepared to deal with the in-person IT support issues that need to be addressed.

 

The in-person board members need to be aware of participants who need to use the elevator as well as the pathways to avoid accidents around the wiring in the main room

 

The parking around the Link – Cathy will find out more on the Saturday parking at the library.  There will be street parking near the far side of a house near the Link. We may want to consider Jay as a volunteer to help with parking.

 

CJ questioned if he should direct the timing around the schedule during Lisa’s presentation. Deborah will speak to Lisa as how she may want to address the timing.

 

For book sales CJ said there are 3 iPads that will be equipped with the Square app for Bill to use. Bill said he will have to separate Lisa’s books sales from AJS inventory. The terms of the sale of Lisa’s books still need to be determined. The Board agreed that asking for 10% of Lisa’s book profits for taxes was fair and Bill will finalize this arrangement with Lisa over the phone soon – in addition to the number of books she will bring for sale.

 

CJ will discuss with Lisa how her presentation screens will be advanced, but prefers to do this himself.  Lisa needs to bring her laptop regardless. 

 

ON SITE VOLUNTEER DUTIES LIST FOR APRIL 22-23 LECTURE AND WORKSHOP

 

1-Assisting CJ With Setup/Breakdown – Cathy

2-Bringing Sign – Cathy  

3-Generated Registration List for Check-in – CJ

4-CEU participant list  – CJ

                    

Check- In Registration – Kristine and Roger (help with safety patrol, and where needed)

CEU Sign In – Van

Name Tags – (Cathy bringing Stick-On’s) – Available on Check-In table

                            

Hospitality – Zee ( Nyambura assisting)  

Food to be placed outside near Book table  

Water, Coffee/Tea and Light snacks Fri. Night and Sat.

Cathy will bring Ice (Cathy and Zee to work out further details)

  

Book Sales – Bill (Deb Assisting): Book Signing?

  1- Small Book/Media Fire Sale (To be decided)

  2-Cathy will bring cash and work with Bill on Square)

  3-Get Details from Lisa on book sales, costs, she is bringing         books, and suggestions on dream books to sale)

  4-Have available Glossary Jungian Terms to sale

 

“Safety Patrol” – Need for Masks? (To be decided 2 wks before event)

         1-  Deb (CDC SIGN)

       2-Escort folks upstairs (some via elevator)  –  Deb & All  

          3- Assist seating – guiding folks around wires/cords – Deb & All

        4-Check availability of Masks, Hand Sanitizer, etc….

                    (Deb will Assist Jay)

            5-Overflow Parking Direction – Jay?

 

In person Microphone Passing; Fielding Zoom Audience Questions – Nyambura

                        

 Supplies Needed for Saturday Workshop – Cathy

        (Extra paper and pens only)

 

 

SPEAKER HOSPITALITY

Hotel still to be decided as Deborah investigates hotels.

Speaker will put all expenses on credit card and be reimbursed by one check at the end of the weekend.

 

Airport pick up and drop off (Roger and Kristine)

Friday dinner and to the Link      (Program Committee)

Back to hotel Friday night           (Program Committee or Roger) 

Saturday hotel to Link                  (Bill)

Saturday Lunch                             (Program Committee)

Saturday dinner to hotel       (Program Committee)

 

(Clean up by anyone available!)

 

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE PLANS:

 

EVENT SCHEDULE 2022

May 14th Sam Kimbles Zoom Lecture – Working with the Unseen  that Exist in Plain Sight

June  18th   Doug Tyler In-Person  Topic – Shadow of Technology

July   16th Susan Schwartz    Zoom  – Topic The Absent Fathers Effect on the Daughter

August TBD

September 16th/17th Joe Cambray   In-Person   Topic –TBD Format TBD

October 8th    Hollis  TBD

November 12th   John Gentile In-Person  (need provide hotel)

December  3rd  Mark Winborn Topic – Engaging Creatively

 

 

* Need to poll the board after the April program on lecture vs  workshop format

*Program committee to consider reversing how they seek permission on speaker contracts  for the recording of lectures.

 

 

 

DATE NEXT BOARD MEETING – JUNE 5TH

Time to be announced

 

MEETING ADJOURNED 4:16 PM

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Honoring Jutta von Buchholtz

 

We want to remember our friend and advisory board member who recently passed. She provided so many engaging lectures, workshops and ideas to our society. She was a native of Germany and came to the United States in the 1960s. Jutta von Buchholtz an L.P.C., received her Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Vanderbilt, TN; and her Diploma as a Jungian Analyst from the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich. She was a senior analyst for the IRSJA Memphis/Atlanta and New Orleans seminars. She was especially passionate about myths and fairy tales and how they affected our psyches. We encourage you to leave your memories of her, condolences and thoughts in the comments below. Jutta will be greatly missed by all of us at the Atlanta Jung Society.

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The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul

Listen To Podcast Here

Dr. Connie Zweig, Ph.D., retired Jungian-psychotherapist and author, joins us to discuss her new book, The Inner Work of Age. She extends her well-known work on shadow into midlife and beyond and provides a map for uncovering obstacles to aging consciously. The transition from Hero to Elder, or role to soul, begins with releasing the ego’s identification with doing and reorienting toward the transpersonal center that Jung called the Self.

As we let go of outworn personas and roles, harvest the wisdom of our long lives, and break free of unconscious shadows, the Elder’s gift of authenticity naturally emerges. In this way, individuation, the deeper dimension of age, can be expanded along with our expanding longevity. This renewed purpose is the hidden promise of late-life.

Here’s the dream we analyze:

“I was sitting at the front of a moving bus that was full of a friend’s family after a ceremony, maybe a wedding or a funeral. I was sitting facing backward so I could be part of the congregation. They announced they would shortly bring out my friend’s grandmother’s exhumed body for the dancing ritual. I wasn’t sure I’d have the guts to take part but wanted to wait until I saw her grandmother to make my decision. She was brought out in a sheer black veil, through which I could see her body had shriveled to a tiny frame, almost a skeleton but preserved as if she had been embalmed. Her family took turns joyously and carefully waltzing down the aisle of the bus with her, and everyone gazed upon the ritual with loving delight. I decided I would just watch this time. My friend was gently handed her grandmother’s corpse whilst sitting in her seat behind me. She held her in her lap and we had a conversation, during which my friend’s face and her grandmother’s became indistinguishable. My friend appeared both living and dead at the same time, her face hollowed and decomposed but animated and lively.”

Please listen to this podcast from our January speaker and leave your comments and ideas on this subject matter below.

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Your Winter Landscape

Elizabeth Valera, M.Div., LPC, CT

 

As I prepare for an upcoming expressive arts group on the theme of Winter, I have been contemplating various archetypal representations of Winter.

 

As part of my ‘research’ I rewatched The Rise of the Guardians in which Jack Frost is depicted as a playful and mischievous sprite.  It’s such a great reminder about the power of fun and play to overcome fear.  Personally, the movie brought to my mind the excitement of those rare snow days growing up in the Atlanta area.

 

When I moved up to Boston for graduate school, I got a different taste of Winter. I suppose it was Old Man Winter, more dangerous and severe.  Preparations had to be made and thankfully a kind mentor helped me to find a real Winter coat.  Although it was much colder and the sun went down even earlier, the city was prepared for snow and ice—I simply had to learn to step over the big drifts to get onto the city bus.   On the other hand, while “snowpocalypse” here in Atlanta was laughable to those from colder climates, it was truly difficult and dangerous for those stuck in the ice and unable to get home.  Winter is a trickster, I think.

 

Of course, it is a warm Winter, right now. Which brings up concerns related to climate change and the loss of ecosystems that depend on cold temperatures. If we humans were to slow down and ‘hibernate’ even just for the Winter months would some of the planetary damage be reversed?

 

I am also interested in other depictions of Winter. For example, The Snow Queen, The Matchstick Girl, Yuki Onna and even Hestia, Goddess of the Hearth: so necessary for cooking throughout the year, but especially in the Winter.

 

Maybe I am most drawn to the Snow Queen. There is something that rings so true about those dangerous shards of mirror that can pierce our hearts and eyes causing a distorted and hopeless view of life, leaving us more susceptible to becoming frozen in the Snow Queen’s palace.

 

I know there are so many tales and archetypes related to Winter.

 

I’m curious, which figures inhabit your Winter landscape?

 

Photo Response Submission by Deb Herberger

Title: Crescent Moon Rising Over Bare Trees

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Violence in Fairy Tales by Donald Kalsched, Ph.D.

Dr. Kalsched’s lecture with us revolved around the theme written below. Please share your thoughts on the ATL Jung Society’s most recent lecture in the comment section on this page.

Today, the violence in Fairy Tales seems mild — even quaint — in comparison with a profusion of terrifying films, horror videos on TV, video games that specialize in killing, and the mind-numbing violence of actual mass-killings in our schools, synagogues and churches. It is as though violence has jumped the tracks — breaking free of its origins in human “stories” — and becoming something truly demonic, senseless, meaningless, and traumatic.  We are losing the ability to talk about it.  It has become “speechless horror.”

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We Have Lost Two Great Poets

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James Hollis invites us to read a poem written by a good friend of his, Stephen Dunn. Stephen was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Stephen was a close friend of Hollis’ for half a century. He died on his 82nd birthday in June.

John and Mary

John and Mary had never met. They were like two humming birds who also had never met.

From a Freshman’s Short Story

They were like gazelles who occupied different grassy plains,

running in different directions, from different lions.

They were like postal clerks, in different zip codes,

with different vacation time,

their bosses adamant and clock-driven.

How could they be together?

They were like two people who couldn’t get together.

John was a Sufi with a love of the dervish,

Mary of course was a Christian with a curfew.

They were like two dolphins in the immensity

of the Atlantic, one playful,

the other stuck in a tuna net —

two absolutely different childhoods!

There was simply no hope for them.

They would never speak in person.

When they ran across that windswept field

toward each other, they were like two frightened trains,

one having left Seattle at 6:36 p.m.

at an unknown speed, the other delayed

in Topeka for repairs.

The math indicated that they’d embrace

in another world, if at all, like parallel lines.

Or merely appear kindred and close, like stars.

We lost another giant of a poet this month: Robert Bly, dead at 94. Robert Bly is well known to many of us Jungians, for his poetry (He wrote 50 books of poetry), his unique way of reading each line, sometimes twice (accompanied by a sitar in the background), his exploration of the deeper meanings of fairy tales in uncovering the roots of gender roles. Bill Moyers said of Bly that he “changed the way poetry is read and heard in the US.” His book, Iron John, gave rise to the Men’s Movement in the 1990s, an opportunity for men to gather in circles, participate in drumming, ritual, and to share personal stories, with the goal of fathering one another and themselves. Bly traveled the country with James Hillman, Michael Mead, and other Jungian notables, reaching multiples of men in such life-altering situations. Besides his own poetry, Bly translated poetry from other countries, introducing new avenues of culture and art here. One of his last poems, “Keeping Our Small Boat Afloat,” captured his feelings about growing older, nearing the end, and his recurring theme of forgiveness.

Keeping Our Small Boat Afloat

So many blessings have been given to us

during the first distribution of light, that we are

admired in a thousand galaxies for our grief.

Don’t expect us to appreciate creation or to

avoid mistakes. Each of us is a latecomer

to the earth, picking up wood for the fire.

Every night another beam of light slips out

from the oyster’s closed eye. So don’t give up hope

that the door of mercy may still be open.

It’s hard to grasp how much generosity

is involved in letting us go on breathing,

when we contribute nothing valuable but our grief.

Each of us deserves to be forgiven, if only for

our persistence in keeping our small boat afloat,

when so many have gone down in the storm.

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August 8, 2021-Meeting Minutes

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      JUNG SOCIETY OF ATLANTA BOARD MEETING (VIA ZOOM)

                         8/8/2021 TIME 1:30 PM – 4:46 PM

 

Deb Herberger: President, Incoming Communications

Nyambura Kihato: Vice President, Program Committee

Cathy Shepherd:Treasurer, Website Committee, President Emeritus

Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications and Library                                            

Bruce Selvage: Website, Publicity and Marketing

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee 

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, Website and Volunteers 

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

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

Kristine Rudow: Secretary

Karen Hebert: CEU Coordinator     

Guest Attendee: IT Administrator, CJ Johnson

 

Absent: Liam Gowan

 

OPENING REFLECTION

Deb wanted to encourage activities and ideas that we may consider to spark vitality both within our community and our board.

CJ presented board members with a questionnaire on sharing our dreams on the speakers we are eager to see and invite in 2022. Numerous interesting ideas were shared by many of the members, Deb encouraged all board members to continue sharing thoughts and ideas with one another online.

 

OPENING REMARKS 

Zee reported on the restaurant search for the board dinner and the difficulty finding reasonably priced and accommodating restaurants. Howell’s Kitchen may be a possible option. With the Covid variant being a concern, a poll was taken and all members were comfortable with meeting in an outdoor environment. The date of September 26th between 12:00-2:00 is being considered to meet for lunch.

 

JERRY WRIGHT EVENT UPDATE

It was decided that due Covid variant spread, his return from African and CJ’s schedule discrepancy for 25th September that a Zoom meeting was the best way to proceed forward. Bill will work on getting books ordered for this event sent back to Chiron. Cathy made a motion to keep Jerry Wright on Sept 18th, changing the event from hybrid  to a Zoom  event. Van seconded the motion and all board members approved the motion.

 

PRESENTATION OF MINUTES BOARD MEETING 5/23/21

Kristine reported that Deb made changes to the original minutes.  A motion for approval was made by Zee and Deborah seconded the motion. All board members approved the motion.

 

TREASURY COMMITTEE

Cathy and Roger established an account with and transferred all Vanguard funds to the North Georgia Community Foundation.  The C J Jung Fund Resolution 1 (Attachment A) was sent to the board members to review before the board meeting and was discussed further at the meeting. This establishes the parameters for our fund with the foundation. Cathy moved to accept and Deborah seconded the motion. The board voted to accept resolution 1 from the North Georgia Community Foundation; the vote was unanimous.

 

INITIAL NGCF STATEMENT – Separate Email

 

PROFIT AND LOSS – Cathy presented our current profit and loss statement from our CPA. We reviewed  event attendance, CEU attendance and profits. Cathy gave attendance and profit info from recent collaboration with the Sarasota Jung Society.  

 

CEU’S PROGRAM EVAL FORMAT

Karen and CJ – CEU’S events for 2021

Karen’s experience with EVAL has been a success and the survey CJ created is making things more manageable and adjustments will come as needed.  Van’s work in this area has been a huge benefit.

Consider advertising with GA. Society of Clinical Social Workers in hopes to bring in new social worker attendees.

Karen mentioned if we move in the direction to do recorded CEU’S she would need support help.

Offering CEU’S in 2022 for all lecturers is no problem.

Nyambura is archiving CEU evaluations for the Program Committee folder.

 

CJ is helping collect CEU dues and reports the process is working much better, 

but it is a work in progress and will continue moving forward with it.

IT REPORT – CJ

(Collaborating with other Committees: Websites, Programs, Treasury, Marketing)

There has been much success with processing last minute registrations and less streaming issues during lectures. Using Zoom poll questions to collect evaluations for CEU’s has helped Karen to simplify her responsibilities and link committees together for more proficient communications with one another.

Writer’s Corner is set up for comments and also gives opportunity to present images that CJ or Bill will post. There is much potential for new development and also a need to ask engaging questions. Consider possibly adding a reminder on the Constant Contact recording email that goes out and in the Zoom Chat to bring attention to the Writer’s Corner.

CJ’s successes include connecting with speakers to aid in any issues or questions that may arise and with giving participants the opportunity for personal conversations with speakers. He makes himself available to lecturers the day before and of the lecture to help in creating professional and polished presentations for our lectures.  

Google has accepted us as non-profit and as a result we have received a free Google Workspace account that allows us email capability.

 

SPECIAL EVENTS PROPOSALS

Zee gave more details on The Philosophy of Myth and Archetypes and that it is a 7-week on demand course. Advertising for the Jung Platform led to a discussion on the difference between Special Event Collaborations versus advertising on the website for a Course event.  Zee, Bruce and Cathy are forming a new committee -the name yet to be determined – and will plan to meet to develop the parameters for creating an advertising structure for Course events and Collaborative Special events. Peggy reminded the board that guidelines were developed in the past and will try locating the guidelines.

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE – (2021-22 Plans and Preparations)

The options available for speaker contracts were discussed for a more efficient access to all board members versus access only to the Program Committee members. CJ suggested archiving them as we do the minutes for all members to access.

Deborah suggested moving forward to make available the Program Committees archives for convenient access by all committee members when needed.

Deborah made a motion that the Programs Committee archive contents on the website with CJ’s help, Deb seconded, and all board members approved the motion.

Cathy volunteered to introduce Jerry Wright

Van volunteered introduce Donald Kalshed

Still need volunteers to introduce Jerry Ruhl and James Hollis

Connie Zweig PhD is on the schedule for a 2-hour interactive Zoom workshop for Jan. 2022

Nyambura sent a list to all members for possible speakers 2022 and suggested that members add any ideas and to place a topic, theme and/or book written by the speaker next to the name.

In-person versus Zoom meeting formats for 2022 to be determined later.

Local speakers may be considered for in-person events and Zoom lectures for out of town lecturers and bigger named speakers, with the Society not having to provide travel and expenses.

The limitations of the Link when planning larger in-person events may need to be reevaluated in the future.

The Covid variant will be a deciding factor in how we move forward.

The new (Special Affiliates) committee will decide on advertising of the Hollis film.

 

Nomination Committee – Bill, Cathy and Peggy agreed to be on the committee.

 

BOOKS AND MEDIA

Bill plans to inventory, hopefully in September. Deb offered to help with inventory.

 

Website

Bill will be available to post Program Committee information and registrations as well as Constant Contact reminders on the website.

Most urgent need is for CJ to change the registration for the September event and to cancel and refund 2 members that registered for the in-person meeting.

 

Social Media

Liam waiting to do promo videos for both Jean Lacourt and Jerry Wright until he hears back from them.

Liam as administrator can post FB videos etc on his own.

Nyambura commented that in the future URL/Contracts would be handled by Programs Committee members. Bill or CJ would be capable of posting essays or other special postings on the site.  

  

UPCOMING AGENDA

Research for storage and organization on Google –

for Program Committee and Minutes,etc.

New Committee update ( Special Affiliates or final name)

Library review Peggy and Cathy.

Media Tapes, VCR’S other archival material  

 

NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING 

October 10 2021 1:00 – 4:00 PM

 

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May 23, 2021-Meeting Minutes

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JUNG SOCIETY OF ATLANTA BOARD MEETING (VIA ZOOM)

                     5/23/2021 TIME 2:10 PM – 5:03 PM

 

                   

       

Deb Herberger: President, Incoming Communications, Treasury Committee

Nyambura Kihato: Vice President, Program Committee

Cathy Shepherd:Treasurer and President Emeritus

Roger Rudow: Treasury Committee

Peggy Sorrells: Incoming Communications and Library                       

Bruce Selvage: Writer’s Corner, Collaborative Events

Van Waddy: Writing and Editing Committee

Deborah Huntley: Program Committee 

Barbara (Zee) Gilman: Program Committee, and Volunteers 

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

Liam Gowan: Publicity and Marketing

Mahshid Irvani: Hospitality

Kristine Rudow: Secretary 

CJ Johnson – IT Administrator

Absent:  Bill Bridges, Mahshid Irvani

 

OPENING REFLECTION – Deb comments on how well committees are working, and emphasized the need for communication within and between committees, staying with the image of working as a mandala and the need to continue with the flow of this concept. We will consider the idea of coming together to discuss in-person events and do something fun to celebrate our accomplishments.

 

OPENING REMARKS  

The April lecture Jung Society Members participated in a poll for In-person meetings that had a positive result but will also require a re-poll to see where things stand in the summer.

Liam shared the positive response to his reaching out through social media and Bill will report on the results of FB efforts in our August board meeting.

 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM MEETING 3/23/21 – Kristine reported that changes were made to the original minutes by Deb, Deborah and Cathy.  A motion for approval was made by Cathy and Van seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all the board members.

 

CEU’S – Deb presenting for Karen

Decision made that Deb, CJ and Karen will meet June 1 to discuss how to create a smoother process for post event evaluations  by using a post lecture  poll format.  A possible idea is to form a breakout room for those who have requested CEU’s to meet up at the end of the lecture in order to complete the poll. Then CJ will email the results to Karen, which will create a more efficient way to complete the eval and certificate process. Another advantage for use of this time is to question non-ceu members on other matters such as responses to the presentation with invitation to blog on the Writer’s Corner to share their perceptions and images.

Do we want to request CEU’S from the 3 major entities and to make a request for each entity each time? Need be revisited after Cathy’s report for registered CEU’S in previous events to evaluate.

Deborah stated every speaker has committed to CEU’S until the end of 2021 and that all contracts have gone out except for Donald Kalshed. 

The contract states we have 6 weeks to get out the information as per Karen. It was decided to send out information as soon as it is received from the speakers to Karen and to Bill.

Karen will attend the next board meeting to participate in a discussion about possibilities

for CE lectures and workshops in 2022 which will have to be reexamined for possible in-person, hybrid, and some continued virtual. She will also discuss other aspects of the CE application-through- delivery process and how it can continue to be made as efficient as possible.

 

TREASURY COMMITTEE

North Georgia Community Foundation (NGCF)

Cathy stated she worked 4 1/2 months to access our Vanguard account. Even though Vanguard offers non-profit accounts, the minimum requirement is $100,000. The most difficult drawbacks of continuing with Vanguard is transferring access to new board members every 2 years, having a regular contact individual, and having access to a physical location when needed. After much research she discovered from other Jung Societies about the existence of community foundations for nonprofits.  Roger researched the North Georgia Community Foundation and its investment fund open to non-profits. This vehicle offered a less difficult transition for new board members, an office location and customer service for personal assistance to help with our account and a very strong and stable investing strategy.  The cost for participation in the fund is 1% a year – considered to be quite attractive given the benefits. Also donations could be made directly to us and other possible benefits that may be of future interest to us as a non-profit organization.  The Treasury Committee recommended that the board vote to make the change to NGCF.

 

Deborah made the motion to transfer investment funds from our Vanguard account into North Georgia Community Foundation and Deb Herberger– Jung Society President, Cathy Shepherd – Jung Society Treasurer and Roger Rudow – to be designated as authorized signers for the account.  Nyambura seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all the board members.

 

TREASURER’S REPORT

Cathy hired a new CPA Jan Fishbeck who will work with Quickbooks at $50 per hour. She has worked as CFO for two previous companies. She has set up our Quickbooks account up to April.

 

Well Fargo Account      $9,817.90

Vanguard Account     $58,636.88

 

Assets  (Accounting For Stored Items, Election, Library for Insurance Purposes)

Cathy and Deb have collected assets from the church including the wagon, the sign, The Red Book, art equipment, and the books and equipment. Bill has the ‘for sale’ books and CJ has received all the electronics of the Jung Societies along with the laptops and is checking their working order and has categorized them. Zee has the coffee maker and water urn. We will distribute other unneeded items to charity. Cathy has received help from 2 library sciences graduates and the 3 of them have gone through all books in  the library and relabeled a lot of the books and CJ will be bringing this update online and a projected value for insurance purposes will be done. CJ is planning a short video of a visual of the library including instructions on how to check out books in the future.

 

Cathy reported on event attendance and CEU purchases. She questioned re CEU’S: do we apply for all 3? It was group consensus ( without a vote) that when we offer CEUs for an event , that we offer for all 3 licensing boards. 

Karen is on the agenda for the next board meeting to discuss the process of deciding which events to offer CE in 2022,and in what format (lecture, workshop, collaborative)? 

Stats for past meetings:

Susan Olson         101 registered   61 members   12 CEUs

Kathleen Wiley  80 registered   54 members 13 CEUs

Lionel Corbet         93 registered    45 members   21 CEUs

Cathy to investigate direct payment by the bank for sending out payments to the speakers due to mail issues. Cathy also mentioned that with all the changes to the treasury and its committee, we might be able to look at the possibility of going back to the treasurer as an elected board member in the future.

 

INTERREGIONAL COLLABORATIVE EVENTS

*Sarasota Jung Society

A proposal has been made to do a joint venture with Sarasota Jung Society for a 70/30 % cut of the profits minus expenses. We would place the advertisement on our Constant Contact list and post on our website. For each registration that comes through our website or our Constant Contact list, we would get 30% of the $45 fee for the 2 night event (7/27/21 and 7/29/21). If Jean Raffa generates the referrals, the split is 15% Atlanta & 15% Sarasota Jung Societies –  minus the expenses.

  

Motion made by Deborah to promote the Sarasota collaborative event and to advertise it on our website and Constant Contact for a 70/30 cut of fees and Cathy seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all the board members.

 

* “The Philosophy of Myth and Archetypes” – (A 7- week on-demand course for possible collaborative event)

(See ‘Zee’s attachments) for the details of the course and the contract involved if we co-sponsor and advertise it. Atlanta Jung Society is being offered 40% cut of the profits

The Board agreed that we would explore this more closely, as well as other opportunities of this kind, for promotional benefits as well as generating more revenue for the society. Discussion on all probabilities including advertising for other programs, recognizing what our limits and goals would be, how we want to post upcoming advertising programs and guidelines within which we choose to collaborate. We will revisit this at a future meeting.

Bruce and Deb talked of working together on the incoming opportunities for collaborative advertising through our website.

Deb made a motion to accept Zee’s proposal to investigate the details of co-sponsoring “The Philosophy of Myth and Archetypes” and to bring it back to the board via email  for approval.

 Nyambura seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all board members.

 

PROGRAMS COMMITTEE

Changes made 2021 Schedule                   Introducing                                              

6/19/21  Jutta von Buchholtz                       Susan

7/17/21   Steve Buser                                Pete or Deb?

8/ 21/21  Jeanne Lacourt                  Deb?

9/18/21   Jerry Wright                                    Cathy

10/17/21 Jerry Ruhl

11/6/21   James Hollis

12/4/21   Donald Kalshed

 

*Poll For In-Person Meeting In September Will Be Conducted Before June    

  Lecture

 

PUBLICITY   Social Media Liam

Liam’s Instagram postings of Red Book and other Jung quotes are attracting a lot of attention and interest. He is posting our lectures the week of the event and seeing progress with people connecting to this platform.

With FB the ad revenue spent $40 and reached 4004 people and 73 responses to the event. No way to track what has led to direct sales but $40 investment for the amount of people reached seems very positive. More monitoring needs to be done and Bill will have more information about the publicity for FB at the next Board meeting.

Liam plans to do more collaboration with Bill to help when needed Liam has been working with speakers to assist with promotional videos and will send the information to Bill, who will determine if it is ready to put on the website. Liam communicates how he produces online images to bring speaker topics into fruition.

 

WRITERS CORNER – Van, Bruce, Deb

Van has posted a written review of James Hollis’ new book “Prisms”.

Need Ideas on how to generate more blogging to Writers Corner as well as reflecting on and determining what direction the Writers Corner might take?

 

INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS – Peggy, Deb

Peggy found the multiple  Zoom Links CJ is sending for our lectures to be very helpful.

 

UPCOMING AGENDA  

CJ and IT Issues  

CEU’S –  Karen  

Programs – Preparations for Hybrid Events 

(Bill) Website;  also discuss what do With Old Tapes and Movies

Library –  Website Video?

Zoho- Cathy 

Other Collaboration Opportunities?

 

NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING 

August 8 1:30 – 4:30

 

Social Board Dinner

July 11 5:00 at Rumi’s Kitchen in Alpharetta

 

Meeting Adjourned – 5:03 PM

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