Dear All,

I have been off-line for a while, but wanted to give an update on the
International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI) thing.

IASI continues to develop successfully, as far as I am concerned. With
no carrot and no stick, there are still more than 100 SI practitioners
from many schools who think this is a timely idea, enough to join and
pay. This has brought us enough funds to continue the search for more
members, and to develop the procedures to support and communicate among
them. This will include more mailings, a minor ad campaign, and
meetings to develop procedures. The kind of consumer service that Reda
wants will have to wait a bit, until we are more formed, have more
members, and enough discussion to develop common positions and a voice.
But such things will become increasingly important. First comes some
self-recognition, in my humble opinion.

We are not well-formed - a few volunteers keep IASI going - and need
much help from anyone who wants to write, help the website, contribute
to newsletters, committees, all the usual stuff of nation- (oops)
organization-building. www.the IASI.org

We have formed an alliance of convenience with the ABMP, through which
we can offer good liability insurance. Moves are afoot to produce the
first 'Yearbook of Structural Integration', a collection of new
articles of interest to practitioners. Toward the end of this year we
hope to be able to provide a list of Continuing Ed courses, approved to
meet IASI standards,

The number 4000 is a sheer guesstimate (I think mine, but in any case
there ain't no hard numbers) of the number of SI practitioners. At the
center would be those who make their entire living from an SI practice
- in other words, a recipe-based protocol anchored in Rolf's concepts,
whether or not the recipe forms the entirety of practice - to those who
straddle SI and other approaches, out to the periphery where we find
those exposed to the recipe but not working by its lights, and on out
to the outer reaches where we find those who 'do some rolfing' in their
manual/massage practices.

Reaching beyond the easily-available lists - Rolf, Heller, KMI, Soma,
GSI, and a few others - is proving more problematic and time-consuming
than we had expected. Any help we can get in reaching Zen Therapists,
early graduates of other programs, Al Drucker's folks, IPSB graduates,
CORE graduates, and others who work in the SI field will be most
appreciated.

IASI, as with most other nascent professional organizations, is
offering a period of grandfathering during which established members of
the profession may join, needing only documentation of their training
in SI at a school we can recognize. This period will extend through
this year of 2003. As of 2004, there will be an evaluative process to
join IASI. This process is still under development, and I am loathe to
put out too much here, not for reasons of secrecy, but simply because
we are still considering a variety of methods to reach our widespread
and diverse population. But if you want to join without a exam /
testing / assessment process / extra palaver, do it in 2003.

Most of you should get a newsletter with updates on these and other
things before the end of June.
Thanks for listening.

Tom M