NOTES FROM THE PRESIDENT
Julie H. Linden, PhD
Dear Members,
Thank you for renewing your membership. Both the individual members and our Constituent Societies have shown their support for ISH with timely responses to our membership drive. Our ISH administrator, Gail Cunningham, is working as quickly as she can to see that profiles are updated (you can do this, too), and to see that the 2015 ISH Certificates of Membership are e-mailed. Gail wants to remind you that keeping your journal subscriptions on time, depends on your prompt renewals, so if you have not done so already, go the website and renew your membership.
Election results are in. We know you have been eagerly awaiting the news. The Chair of the Nominations and Election Committee, Camillo Loriedo, MD, has reported the audited results. Congratulations to our 2015-2018 newly elected officers: Bernhard Trenkle, Dipl. Psych, who will become President-Elect and Mark Jensen, PhD, who will serve another term as secretary/treasurer. We are lucky to have these two experienced officers who have served ISH for some time. And thank you to all of the members for casting their votes- we had a very good turnout at the polls.
The Board of Directors has made its decision to move forward with the 2018 congress bid from the Quebec Hypnosis Society (QHS), who will host the 21st Congress in Montreal. This was a difficult decision because both of our bids were very strong, but the Board believed it was time to cross the ocean. ISH is sensitive to the expense of travel and will explore with the QHS all options to make the congress and travel arrangements more affordable for students and those with B country membership.
New with this president’s note, is the MEMBERS’ SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR FOREIGN CONGRESSES – read our travel tips and consider sending us one of your travel stories- we just might post it!