Dear Annie,
'Organisational membership' was discussed but no decision recorded in the minutes. A sub-committee, composed of Jose Ornelas, Terri Mannarini and Serdar Degirmencioglu.
Jose's email address is: [log in to unmask]
Terri's email address is below
Serdar's email address is: [log in to unmask]
The emerging consensus seemed likely to be that organisations should be able to join at the same rates at individual members (free for community groups with no income . . . etc) but such membership would only provide one vote at a general assembly (the key decision making body in theory).
As I said before this matter is really still to be settled but rather than just waiting I would suggest you set the pace by making enquiries re how - if your SW groups wants to join - but remember the more members the more votes you have and many of your members would - I imagine and hope - be able to ECPA members with a fee of zero euro.
Serdar (Turkey) is a very hard working and committed member of ECPA and could be relied upon to follow up enquiries especially proactively and swiftly.
Re the hard work you referred to: I should have said that Jim Orford as the last Co-ordinator of ENCP did a massive amount of work in making the setting up ECPA possible. Jim did not want to stand for the ECPA President position and is not listed in the minutes as a member of an ECPA working group.
David
David Fryer
Community Psychology Group
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
+44 (0) 1786 467650 (tel)
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From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annie Mitchell
Sent: 30 September 2005 10:16 am
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The European Community Psychology Association
Hi David ( and all)
Thanks for thoughtful presentation to us of the issues, and for the
incredible hard amount of work that goes into this sort of development.
We have a meeting next Friday of the Southwest Community Psychology network
( our theme: social exclusion/ inclusion). Our network is totally informal
and comprises community members all walks of life - could we be affiliated
in some way, or would we need to join individually ? What is the practical
next step we would need to take as individuals or collectively to get
involved?
Thanks
Annie-
--On 30 September 2005 10:12 +0100 David Fryer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Dawn,
>
> Great questions - thanks.
>
> You do not need to have psychology credentials (undergraduate or
> postgraduate) to be a member of ECPA - ECPA members are very explicit
> that we want to be accessible to / inclusive of people from other
> disciplines and from no disciplines, including people who have done no
> tertiary study; also to / of other professionals than psychologists
> and non-professionals including community activists. We explicitly
> reject the idea that only credentialed psychologists have the relevant
> skills and expertise.
>
> You also do not need to come from 'Europe' (in either the EU sense or
> a wider sense) to be a member of ECPA. People from all over the world
> (and beyond if any apply!) are welcome. However, ECPA is in its very
> early stages. Decisions could not legitimately be made for ECPA by
> ENCP and until ECPA had members it could not have a General Assembly
> or an Executive Committee (Board) or President. So at the first
> General Assembly people attending from outside Europe (USA and South
> Africa) were welcomed as members and able to vote in the election for
> ECPA President but an informal agreement was reached that it would not
> be appropriate for non Europeans to be members of the first Executive
> committee, one of whose first tasks once appointed was to make some
> recommendations to the next General Assembly re membership. A working
> group is currently looking into organisational membership. There are
> issues to work out here.
>
> To be a member of ECPA you DO have to subscribe to the set of values
> and assumptions given below, pay the relevant fee (or non fee if
> unwaged) and be accepted by the General Assembly. The meaning in
> practice of the latter requirement has still to be worked out. It is
> required by the founding Constitution imposed by Belgian law. We
> envisaged that there might be organisations that might express a wish
> to join which members would feel were not appropriate and there would
> need to be some process of 'approval'.
>
> I want to say I feel a little conflict in relaying this information
> because I am purposely highlighting the positive potential of a ECPA
> which is but a few days old. Even on day 1 in Naples I personally had
> concerns as to whether the potential would become actuality. We all
> know that what happens in practice in many organisations is often very
> different from what should happen according to the constitutions and
> decisions legitimately taken. The ground rules for ECPA seem to me to
> offer opportunities to construct a progressive community psychological
> association consistent with progressive community psychology values.
> However what actually happens will depend on how many members there
> are, how vigilant they are of their constitutional and other rights
> and how hard they work for a progressive association. For those sort
> of reasons I would like to see a mass membership in ECPA of people
> from a variety of walks of life who wish to collaborate in progressive
> thinking and action in relation to the aims values and objectives of
> the ECPA, with which I am pretty much in agreement.
>
> I hope this message steers a line between being naively optimistic and
> cynically pessimistic. There are also good reasons for critical
> reflection on the development but I am purposely not doing that here
> and now in this forum.
>
> David
>
> David Fryer
> Community Psychology Group
> University of Stirling
> FK9 4LA
> Scotland
> +44 (0) 1786 467650 (tel)
> +44 (0) 1786 467641 (fax)
> [log in to unmask]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dawn
> Darlaston-Jones
> Sent: 29 September 2005 11:01 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The European Community Psychology Association
>
>
> Hi David and othe CP colleagues
> this is a great development and huge congratulations to all involved.
> My question as a non-European CP is can international member join - if
> so how and what fees are associated with this. also I would like to
> enquire about institutional affiliation and whether mebers need to
> have formal postgraduate training in aproved CP programmes in order to
> join?
>
> I apologise for the bararge of questions :)
> Dawn
>
> ________________________________________
>
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> Lecturer
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> University of Notre Dame
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Fryer <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:51 am
> Subject: The European Community Psychology Association
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Paul (Duckett) and I were at the meeting when the European Network of
>> Community Psychology was wound up and where the European Community
>> Psychology Association was formally launched. I wrote a short account
>> of this for SCRA (The Community Psychologist) and thought that many
>> who read this list would be interested to hear of the development so
>> I am pasting some edited bits in below.
>>
>> Health warning: this is a 'stripped down' account of some bare
>> essentials derived from minutes of the relevant meetings and the
>> Constitution. There is a lot more which could be said and plenty of
>> scope for critical processing. If anyone wants to discuss such issues
>> (outside the arranged sessions) at next week's Newcastle conference,
>> Paul and I could give fuller versions about both processes and
>> outcomes. Whatever view one takes of it, the launch of the ECPA will
>> probably make important differences to the European context within
>> which UK community psychology will develop over the next few years,
>> providing opportunities and risks.
>>
>> Here are some key points:
>>
>> * The European Community Psychology Association was formally launched
>> on 17th September 2005
>>
>> * The European Community Psychology Association has developed out of,
>> but is different from, the European Network of Community Psychology,
>> which formally ceased operations as an organization at the same time
>> as the European Community Psychology Association was established
>>
>> * The European Network of Community Psychology (ENCP) was formed in
>> Rome in 1995. Biennial Congresses of the European Network of
>> Community Psychology have been held in Italy, Portugal, Norway, Spain
>> and Germany. In the years between biennials, smaller European Network
>> of Community Psychology meetings have been held in Austria, Scotland,
>> Italy and Belgium. ENCP did this with no central funding and almost
>> no bureaucracy and was a small group operating, fundamentally, on the
>> basis of shared enthusiasm, mutuality and friendship
>>
>> * Some ENCP members thought it essential to expand and to increase
>> transparency, accountability and participatory democratic process in
>> the future
>>
>> * The decision was taken to found a new European Community Psychology
>> Association as a legal entity under Belgian law
>>
>> * The European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) is an
>> international non-profit organization whose official seat is in
>> Brussels
>> * ECPA has a Constitution which stipulates that all members of the
>> association compose the 'general assembly' which is required to meet
>> at least twice a year at a suitable location in Europe and is
>> authorized to appoint, dismiss and approve of the work and plans of
>> the 'Executive Committee' (which manages the association's affairs
>> and represents it), decide on applications for membership, amend the
>> constitution etc
>>
>> * Anybody may join the European Community Psychology Association as
>> long as s/he supports the goals and principles (objectives) of the
>> Association, pays the required membership fee and is accepted as a
>> member by the General Assembly
>>
>> * The Constitution lists the objectives of the European Community
>> Psychology as:
>>
>> to promote:
>>
>> "awareness of education, training and research, as well as practical
>> applications, of community psychology in the general body of
>> psychology;
>>
>> critical debate of key issues in community psychology and related
>> issues;
>>
>> progressive influence of community psychology on practice and policy;
>>
>> personal health, human development and social justice;
>>
>> dismantling of disabling societal barriers and psychologically
>> damaging contexts and practices;
>>
>> solidarity, collaboration and mutual respect between community
>> psychologists and marginalized, disempowered and oppressed people;
>>
>> Social change to nurture and sustain psychological, collective and
>> physical well-being."
>>
>> The membership fee agreed at the first general assembly is: No fee
>> for members not in receipt of wages; 25 euro for members on low
>> incomes; 50 euro for other members (note that the discussion on this
>> list about the need for differential conference rates was influential
>> in the ECPA fee discussion)
>>
>> * The ECPA treasurer is Terri Mannarini
>> ([log in to unmask]) to whom requests to join the Association
>> must be made in writing at: Dipartimento di Scienze Pedagogiche,
>> Psicologiche e Didattiche, Università degli Studi di Lecce, via
>> Stampacchia, 45 73100, Lecce - IT, Italy (fax 0039 0832
>> 305819)
>> * The General Assembly elected Jose Ornelas of Lisbon, Portugal as
>> the first President of the Association
>>
>> * Sub-committees were set up to work towards the establishment of a
>> European Journal of Community Psychology (sub-committee coordinated
>> by David Fryer with Jarg Bergold of Berlin and Alipio Sanchez of
>> Spain) and to develop a European postgraduate programme in community
>> psychology (sub-committee co-ordinated by Jose Ornelas). Other sub
>> committees are developing other initiatives.
>>
>> * The European Community Psychology Association currently includes
>> members from: Austria; Belgium; England; Germany; Greece; Italy;
>> Norway; Poland; Portugal; Scotland; Spain; and Turkey as well as some
>> from outside Europe.
>>
>> I hope the above is of interest
>>
>> David
>>
>> David Fryer
>>
>> Community Psychology Group
>>
>> University of Stirling
>>
>> FK9 4LA
>>
>> Scotland
>>
>> +44 (0) 1786 467650 (tel)
>>
>> +44 (0) 1786 467641 (fax)
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
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