Dear Depth Community,
A few weeks ago you received a message from Bonnie Bright, Founder of the Alliance, about exciting things happening on the Administrative Board, including the formation of several board committees. All of us on the board have been hard at work ensuring that the Alliance continues to be your best go-to resource for all-things Depth Psychology. Specifically, we are focused on producing even more compelling events and programs, designing affordable education options, improving overall member satisfaction, and creating partnerships with other quality organizations to increase our value to you.
Following are the board committees charged with overseeing this important work. If you are interested in offering your expertise and time by working on a specific committee, please let us know:
- Programs & Events Committee: Oversees the mix of services and offerings through the Alliance, including recommending to the board those initiatives that should be discontinued or new ones to be begun. Sets program and event priorities within the context of limited resources.
- Membership Experience Committee: Ensures a consistently high-quality member experience. Welcomes new members and moves about the different groups to support the member experience. May survey members for ways to improve the member experience. Informs the board of issues that detract from the member experience and suggestions for change. Works closely with other committees to shape the member experience—represents the member’s perspective in how offerings are designed and delivered. Oversees the evolution of the website and other software/hardware decisions that affect member satisfaction.
- Education Committee: Identifies and defines a unique educational niche for the Alliance and recommends program objectives and standards, suggested course topics, instructors, completion criteria, recruitment/compensation of faculty, marketing considerations, funding sources, and other details associated with such an undertaking.
- Outreach Committee: Develops strategic partnerships beyond Alliance members and recommends potential partner organizations. Gets the word out about what the Alliance offers; solicits organizations to join and post/promote their events, etc. Identifies publications, event producers and others who will offer discounts/specials for Alliance members.
- Transitional Executive Committee: Develops broad policies/procedures for the Alliance and oversees effective board operations, including coordination of committees. Sets monthly board meeting agenda. Conducts initial goal setting and priorities for approval of full board. Recruits new board members.
Volunteers Needed
We welcome help that both serves the Depth Psychology Alliance and taps into our members’ experience and passions.
If you are . . .
- Comfortable in an environment where we’re making it up as we go,
- Have some background in a field of depth psychology,
- Possess strong collaboration skills and a capacity for seeing many sides of an issue, and
- Enjoy strategizing with like-minded others on projects that help a quality organization grow and evolve . . .
. . . we’d like to hear from you!
Some of many tasks for which we are seeking volunteer help are
- developing a business plan
- assessing & completing the process of becoming a nonprofit corporation
- researching a more robust web platform or technology
- assessing the viability of producing a Depth Alliance conference.
- legal expertise and insights
- finance management and bookkeeping
For these tasks and decisions, we seek special expertise in business finance, non-profit management, event planning, and the law.
If you have questions about what’s moving and shaking on the Alliance Board, email me at james.r.newell@gmail.com. If you wish to be considered for one of our many volunteer opportunities, email Board Member Dorene Mahoney at dorene@stepwellconsulting.com.
Thanks to all of our members for your part in making Depth Psychology Alliance great!
James R. Newell
Vice Chair, Administrative Board
Depth Psychology Alliance
Replies
Good morning James - these are exciting growth and expansion times for DPA, the fields of depth, soul, matters of the heart-of-hearts. I responded by email to yourself and Dorene by private emails as provided, however, I wanted to post here to share with the community that I believe the more virtually vocal we participate, stand and work together the more likely potential for enhanced collective consciousness and expansion? Communication is suppose to be a key to success...and I pray and hope all the time, talents and efforts of our founder, Bonnie and DPA Board soon reveals, so we can all benefit and reap from our collective efforts, good works - catch that glimpse, envision and perhaps even sample and taste the abundance of the bountiful fruit contained within and amongst all of us within this non-locality, virtual community of likeminded souls. It is now possible to engage in a virtual hermitage, spiritual quest, desert experience supported in a tenderly cultivated cyberspace. This is how I view my past 3 years of my involvement within the DPA community. Much gratitude...Peace + Love Linda
Thank you for your words, Linda. So gratifiying and encouraging. Gratitude to you for all your work, dedication and the love you bring to it.
Eva