Dear Ursula,
Both Paul Duckett and I were members for many years of ENCP (European
Network of Community Psychology) but ENCP has now been 'wound up'. Both
Paul and I argued for and worked towards the founding of ECPA (European
CP Association) and attended the founding General Assembly of ECPA and
the first Executive Committee / Board of ECPA. I decided to serve on the
Executive Committee of ECPA. It would be best for Paul to say what his
position is rather than me.
So, in brief, both Paul and I will be present at the UK Newcastle
conference and can tell anyone interested more information about ECPA.
I am also intending to update people re progress towards setting up a
BPS CP section in writing via a handout at the conference and via this
list.
I am afraid I cannot give you any info re travel within Newcastle and
expect others will answer that. However given the conference team will
be very busy, maybe even too busy to read this list, it may be best to
ask Kay Worswick (Community Team Learning Disability, Benton House, 136
Sandyford Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1QE Telephone: 0191 2106868 --
Fax: 0191 2106879) on [log in to unmask] or Jan Bostock (Community
Psychologist Northumberland Care NHS Trust/Urban Services
Manager,Psychological Services Directorate, Newcastle, North Tyneside
and Northumberland Mental Health NHS Trust, 1-2 West Farm House, West
Farm Court, Station Road, Cramlington. NE23 1AX Tel 01670 396130 Fax
01670396144) on [log in to unmask]
Best wishes
David
David Fryer
Community Psychology Group
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
+44 (0) 1786 467650 (tel)
+44 (0) 1786 467641 (fax)
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-----Original Message-----
From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ursula Troche
Sent: 03 October 2005 9:37 am
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The European Comm. / train
Dear David and all,
thanks for the interesting information. I have just
sent them a mail. Will they have any rep. of ENCP
attending 'our' Newcastle conference - which would be
a perfect opp. to network?
Now a different question, which i asked before. Re.
the Newcastle conference: how do I get from the
railway station to the conference venue?
thanks, Ursula
--- David Fryer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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)
> +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 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]
>
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