by Bonnie Humiston, IFF Secretary
(from the IFF Newsletter, 1999)
The IFF had been asked to consider either using the current logo owned by the Swiss Guild, or creating a new IFF logo. The IFF has also been asked to help support the guilds in paying the Swiss Guild for use of the logo, or to acquire the logo outright from the Swiss (which they would consider doing). If the IFF had the logo, it would have to be protected in all countries; this would add a level of bureaucracy that the IFF can't manage or afford at this time.
This issue actually had a low priority for participants at this Assembly and was not listed in the wishes that led to the formation of working groups. Discussion time was given for this later in the General Assembly, however, and through the use of the Appreciative Inquiry process the following wishes were identified.
There was general agreement to do nothing different right now and to look for a less expensive process. This may eventually lead to using the current logo in a new way or making a new logo. The IFF Board and the Swiss Guild representatives will discuss this further in the future.
Logo Wishes:
- Easier, less expensive process
- Wait until inner unification has occurred
- A paper written on the situation so we don’t have to repeat discussion
- New international logo
- Find something fast and cheap to get on
- Use current logo in a new way
- Less protection as a Feldenkrais practitioner
- An international context of logos presented and voted on by whole community
- Use existing logo and clarify ownership
- That we can agree on the existing logo
- Further the inner communication
- Find out expiration date on current logo
- Consider if logo is equivalent to values of the Method.