RMHCPA will be offering a a workshop on Using Poetry to Facilitate Healing and Growth on Friday, February 28, 2020, in Colorado Springs. The workshop will be followed by a book release celebration for A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters that Nourish the Soul (Poetry, Healing, and Growth Series) edited by Michael Moats, Derrick Sebree, Jr., Gina Subia Belton, and Louis Hoffman. All nine books from the Poetry, Healing, and Growth series will be available for purchase at the event. For more information, visit the event page at: https://rmhcpa.org/using-poetry-to-facilitate-healing-and-growth-workshop/
Month: January 2020
Membership Renewal & Organization Updates
RMHCPA Members,
It is time for members to renew memberships. If you joined before October 2019 and have not renewed your membership for 2020, we encourage you to do so soon. Our online store to renew memberships was temporary down for several days; however, it is now up and functioning again (https://rmhcpa.org/join/).
I also wanted to mention a number of exciting updates:
Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association Institutional Review Board (IRB)
RMHCPA now has an officially registered Institutional Review Board (IRB). We are pleased to welcome Heather Miller as our new IRB chair. Dr. Miller has many years of experience chairing and serving on IRBs and also has contributed to the scholarly literature relevant to institutional review boards and research ethics. We are grateful to have her as our IRB Chair! Dr. Miller is in the process of establishing our policies and procedures for the IRB and preparing the new members of the IRB committee to begin reviews. RMHCPA members will be able to utilize the IRB at a substantially reduced rate. As independent IRBs tend to be expensive, this is an important new membership benefit. We will have more information available on our website in the coming months. If you have questions for the IRB, you can contact Dr. Miller at [email protected].
Two New RMHCPA Institutes
RMHCPA has officially established two new institutes:
- Rocky Mountain Existential and Humanistic Institute
- Rocky Mountain Transpersonal Institute
These two new institutes will provide the organizational structure to establish our existential and humanistic archives and library as well as our transpersonal psychology archives and library. Additionally, we are finalizing a process to recognize important scholars and luminaries in existential, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology through these institutes and make their scholarship available in our archives. We will be providing more information about this in the coming months.
RMHCPA Fundraising and Grant Writing
The RMHCPA board is shifting its focus to fundraising and grant writing with hopes to raise enough money for a downpayment on purchasing a building by the end of 2020. We had a successful start to fundraising last year, but we still have a ways to go to meet our goal. The building will house the archives as well as therapy clinic that will house therapists and counselors in private practice. We will also form a training clinic that offers low fee therapy services to the community of Colorado Springs. We are planning a few fundraisers in Colorado Springs, Denver, and Boulder over the next several months. If you are interested in getting involved with supporting these efforts, please send an email to [email protected].
Conclusion
Last year was an exciting year for RMHCPA. We are looking forward to an exciting 2020 as well. Please remember to renew your membership soon to be part of the growing vision of RMHCPA!
Louis Hoffman, PhDExecutive DirectorRocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association