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Thorsten Geck of Hamburg, Germany, began his career in human resources almost 20 years ago and now works as an organizational consultant and management coach for companies and non-governmental organizations. In the early 1990s he discovered transactional analysis and in 2003 took his CTA exam. Since 2006 he has been a PTSTA in the organizational field. He views transactional analysis as a powerful theory with many tools and maps for explaining what is going on in organizations and believes in improving professionalism by empowering awareness of making decisions in the best interests of individuals and organizations. He writes, “We transactional analysts demonstrate our strengths, values, and engage-ment for working with and within organizations and reflect this in the culture of our community. We work to establish responsibility, clear structures, and powerful roles. I want to bring these qualities to the future of our community and work on the board as the representative for Europe. I un-derstand that as a trustee, my role would be to communicate the needs of members of the TA community to the board of trustees and then organizational decisions back to our worldwide association. I am ready to facilitate organizational processes to reach our common goal of ‘walking the talk’ of transactional analysis: awareness, spontaneity, and closeness.”
| Milly De Micheli of Genoa, Italy, is a TSTA (education), a psychotherapist in private practice, director of a TA train-ing institute that offers courses in TA counseling and humanistic approaches, and the author of several articles on TA published in Italy. She writes, “I am proud of being an ITAA member and have seen how enriching it is to meet people from different cultures and to exchange experiences in using, teaching, and sharing TA. For many years I attended TA conferences and trainers’ meetings worldwide and acted as a CTA and TSTA examiner in many countries. This gave me a meaningful experience in comparing ways of training, and I have appreciated the high level of competence and creativity in using TA. I am interested in serving the ITAA as a trustee and connecting with people in various European countries. This will be facilitated by my knowledge of the German, French, Eng-lish, and Italian languages, which will help me liaise with people of many different backgrounds. Recently I served the ITAA as a member of the task force for revising the TA 101 course. This was a stimulating experience because the task force was comprised of individuals from many cultures, and the experience of negotiating and sharing opinions in such a worldwide community was rewarding and will be useful to me as a trustee. I look forward to many more opportunities to engage with others to elicit their ideas. Together we can help our organization to grow and to benefit people in many ways.
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ITAA Election Campaign Guidelines
Preamble
These guidelines are intended to assist in maintaining a spirit of collegiality and essential fairness in all ITAA elections and to keep the amount of campaigning and electioneering for trustee positions within established procedures.
Endorsement of Candidates
- Individual members may endorse candidates for elected positions within the ITAA provided that such endorsement makes clear that it represents the personal view of the endorser. If such per-sonal endorsements are made by individuals holding an elected, appointed, or honored position within the ITAA, such individuals may not mention their position within the organization as part of the endorsement.
- ITAA resources may not be used for the purpose of supporting any one candidate over another.
- The electioneering use of newsletter or journal advertisements is prohibited.
- The association’s newsletter may be used to report the candidacy of members and election re-sults provided that the report is included as a news article and all candidates for a nominated position are represented.
- The staff of the ITAA are to refrain from electioneering in any form, including making personal statements regarding the qualifications of any candidate.
Campaign Statements
Candidates may make written statements to appear in the ITAA printed election booklet. Such statements will be confined to a discussion of issues facing transactional analysis and the ITAA as well as a personal biographical sketch. Statements made by nominees for president-elect may not exceed 500 words; for other officers and members of the board of trustees, statements may not ex-ceed 250 words.
Campaign Spending and Membership Appeal
- Mass mailings on the part of a candidate for elected position or on behalf of that candidate by other individuals or organizations is prohibited. While it is appropriate for nominees to elected posi-tions within the ITAA to communicate their platforms and qualifications to the membership, mass mailings are deemed inappropriate because they create the possibility of unfair economic advan-tage for some nominees.
- Individual personal letters or phone calls to friends and colleagues are appropriate.
- Form letters or “Dear Colleague”-type letters sent by an individual or a group of individuals to a group of persons on a mailing list are not acceptable practice.
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| Amendments to Bylaws.
If the amendments are passed this will mean that the Chair of T&CC (training and Certification Council) will cease to be the VP Training and Certification and becoming an ex-officio member of the Board (in the same way as the President of EATA is an ex-officio member). In addition we would remove the post VP Internet.
The reasons that we have for suggesting these changes are:
- The VP Internet has been unfilled for a number of years. It is clear that co-ordination of Internet services needs to be done by a professional in close liaison with key BOT members. Plans for this are proposed. As a result we would hope to have a new and improved website begin to be available in 2010.
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The T&CC is an independent organisation to ITAA. There is no reciprocal strategic role that an ITAA BOT member holds on the Training and Certification Council, and so it seems logical that this role is also non-voting. The ITAA is an elected body and the T&CC is not, therefore this VP role is an anomaly on the BOT.
Current Bylaw
E. Article 4: Board of Trustees
2. Number of Trustees:
The Board of Trustees shall consist of not less than nine (9), nor more than twenty (20) Trustees, with the exact number of Trustees to be determined by the Board from time to time. The Board shall be composed of three classes of Trustees: (a) corporate officers, as described in Paragraph F1. below, (b) “at large” Trustees, and (c) Affiliate Association representatives. Regardless of the class in which a Trustee belongs, no Trustee shall serve more than two successive terms as a member of the Board. Other than the foregoing classifications, the rights, obligations, and duties of all Trustees shall be identical, and shall be the rights, obligations, and duties assigned to “directors” of California nonprofit corporations, as specified by the California Corporations Code. A quorum of the Board shall be determined not by reference to the total authorized directors, but rather by reference to the total number of Trustees then in office.
New Bylaw
2. Number of Trustees
The Board of Trustees shall consist of not less than nine (9), nor more than twenty (20) Trustees, with the exact number of Trustees to be determined by the Board from time to time. The Board shall be composed of three classes of Trustees: (a) corporate officers, as described in Paragraph F1. below, (b) “at large” Trustees, and (c) Affiliate Association representatives. One of the Affiliate Association representatives will be appointed by the Board on the joint recommendation of the Chairs of the Training and Certification Council, Training Standards committee and the Board of Certification. Regardless of the class in which a Trustee belongs, no Trustee shall serve more than two successive terms as a member of the Board. Other than the foregoing classifications, the rights, obligations, and duties of all Trustees shall be identical, and shall be the rights, obligations, and duties assigned to “directors” of California nonprofit corporations, as specified by the California Corporations Code. A quorum of the Board shall be determined not by reference to the total authorized directors, but rather by reference to the total number of Trustees then in office.
This change in bylaw will also influence a bylaw to be found under F Article 5:
F Article 5: Officers and Executive Committee
1. Officers The officers of the Association shall be elected by all the voting members of the Association and shall be the President, the President-Elect, Past President, three (3) Vice Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and other officers as the Board of Trustees may determine.
Additionally, the Vice President Training and Certification Council will be appointed by the Board on the joint recommendation of the Chairs of the Training and Certification Council Training Standards committee and the Board of Certification.
New proposed Bylaw
1. Officers The officers of the Association shall be elected by all the voting members of the Association and shall be the President, the President-Elect, Past President, three (3) Vice Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and other officers as the Board of Trustees may determine.
Second paragraph omitted.
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