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> Thanks Elaine for nudging the list into action on this.
> I fear the opportunity for a meaningful CP collective to form may have
> been stymied by the recent rush to get the BPS section inaugerated. If
> we seek to set the collective up the morning before the BPS section
> and with the intent of it being associated with the BPS section it
> could become ridden with problems that migth be desparately difficult
> to fix. I see three problems, to start with:
>
> 1) BPS members can attend both the morning session (CP collective) and
> the afternoon session (BPS setion) but non-BPS collective members can
> only attend the former. This will give a two tiered membership of the
> collective (section members and non section members).
> 2) the collective has been made impotent from the start (in relation
> to influencing the section). E.g., we have already seen on this list
> how a veto has been threatened to block any non-BPS CP list member
> influencing the BPS section. Whether or not the veto is used, it is
> there.
> 3) the collective might be drawn into the same rushed process that the
> section was drawn into and becomes, at the start, driven to meet the
> convenience of the BPS (meeting to be held at BPS venue in london
> which makes it harder for non-London based CP-ers to attend).
>
> I would like to see a collective established but my preference is for
> the collective to develop independently of the BPS section, perhaps
> even to the extent of collective members initially being for non-BPS
> members only (or at least non-BPS CP section members). This might
> allow the collective to become strong enough to find ways of resisting
> the conservative, mainstream voices that have already crept into the
> lsit from the direction of the BPS). A collective that intiailly
> barred BPS members might also be a way to create a counterbalance to
> the exclusion of non-BPS members of the collective from the BPS
> section. If and when a collective develops that achieves equivalent or
> more powers than the BPS section then I think we might then look to
> see in what ways we would and would not want the collective to
> influence the section and in what ways BPS section members may or may
> not be included in the collective.
>
> I would be happy to be involved in creating a non-BPS CP collective
> which does not aim first and foremost to promote the professional
> interests of Community Psychologists to counter a BPS CP section that
> does (for now at least) aim first and foremost to promote the
> professional interests of Community Psychologists.
>
> p
>
> Elaine Douglas wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> As you may know we have a meeting planned for the morning of 8th
>> October 2010 in London. This is not the inaugral meeting of the BPS
>> CP Section. The morning meeting takes place in the BPS offices in
>> London in advance of the Inaugral Meeting. As far as I am aware
>> there is no agenda for this meeting at the moment, nor to my
>> knowledge a clear idea of what we would like to achieve. Therefore,
>> I ask the following:-
>>
>> What would you like this meeting to achieve/initiate?
>>
>> What do you think should be discussed?
>>
>> Personally, I would like to discuss the suggestion of a CP
>> Cooperative, to identify who has the time and energy to drive the
>> suggestion forward, even if this is initially to identify what
>> appetite there is for the organisation, to pull together the work
>> that has already been done in this vein (ie, draft constitution),
>> how it may operate etc.
>> Over to you....... and please contribute even (perhaps especially!)
>> if you don't think you can attend.
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Elaine
>>
>>
>>
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