IFF Update 2007 #4: Call for Annual General Assembly Agenda Items

Dear Colleagues,

Members are invited to send in agenda items to be included in the IFF 2007 Annual General Assembly before 31 March 2007. Please apply the following section of the IFF Representatives Manual when you prepare an agenda item:

2.6 Placing Items on the Agenda of the IFF Assembly.

2.6.1 Agenda items for the IFF Assembly should be sent to the IFF Secretary by the last day of March in every year.

2.6.2 Any item of concern or interest to IFF member organisations may be brought to the Assembly.

Some items may be the appropriate for IFF to take action on as an organisation
Some items may be appropriate to be referred to some or all member organisations for further discussion and bringing back to the IFF Assembly
Some items may be appropriate to be referred to some or all member organisations for their consideration and possible action
Some items may fall outside the IFF's and member organisations' spheres of action, but be of interest and value to be discussed by member organisations. Please consider these different functions when writing and putting forward your organisation's proposed agenda items.

2.6.3 It might be most appropriate to put an item on the Agenda for the IFF Assembly as a definite proposal or as a topic for discussion, depending upon the nature of the issues involved and the intentions of your organisation.

2.6.4 Agenda items submitted by constituent member groups for the Assembly Agenda must be accompanied by written background or discussion paper on the item, to be circulated with the Agenda in the Pre-Assembly mailing. This allows other members time to consider the item and form an opinion should it proceed to a motion and be voted upon in the Assembly. As the Assembly meets only once per year this helps to facilitate the process of decision making.

2.6.5 Agenda items and proposals from members or the Board may be sent by the Assembly to small groups of the whole assembly or a working group or groups for further discussion and/or refinement. These groups will then make reports and recommendations back to the Assembly.

2.6.6 Proposals requiring the commitment of IFF funds need to be considered by the Board, which will make a report and recommendations to the Assembly.

Please send any proposal to iffsecretary@feldenkrais-method.org   

Thanks,

Helena Gezelius

IFF Secretary