Associations
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Retirement2008: I have recently become 60 years of age and intend to retire largely from the 'political' aspects of my life in the field of psychotherapy. That bit has all been mostly very rewarding (though also very stressful at times) and I can only hope that I have given as much as I have received. I have travelled a lot (possibly too much); met some wonderful people; had some great meals with friends in a variety of European cities; got angry; striven hard; corrected drafts and texts of documents; and achieved (perhaps) a little. Enough already! EABPCourtenay Young is also accredited by the European Association of Body-Psychotherapy
(EABP). He has been on the EABP Ethics Committee (1993-1995),
EABP General Secretary for 6 years (1995-2001), Vice-President, (2001-2002)
and President of EABP (2002-2006). He helped establish 'The
FORUM of Body-Psychotherapy Organisations'; the EABP Training Standards;
the Scientific Validity of Body-Psychotherapy; the 'Council of National
Associations'; the new Membership Criteria and Guidelines; the EABP
website; and the EABP Bibliography of Body-Psychotherapy. EAPCourtenay represented EABP at the European Associatiion of Psychotherapy
(EAP) meetings for about 12 years until July 2007 and was on the Governing Board of the EAP, the Training
Standards Committee, and helped draft the European Certficate for
Psychotherapy (ECP) document and amendments to the EAP Constitution. He was also Co-Chairperson
of the Ethical Guidelines Committee for 5 years from 1999-2004
and established the EAP Statement of Ethical Principles. He
has been awarded the ECP. He was elected as Co-Chairperson of the European Training Standards Committee (ETSC); now just working with a mandate to write the EAP document on the "Core Competencies" of Psychotherapy. He is also the Deputy Editor of the International Journal for Psychotherapy. USABPCourtenay is a founder member of the United States Association
for Body Psychotherapy, is on the Academic Council, wrote a regular
column in their Newsletter "From Across The Pond" and has attended nearly every USABP
Conference to date (Beveley, MA, 1996; Boulder, CO, 1998; Berkeley, CA, 2000; Baltimore, PA, 2002; Tuscon, AZ, 2005). BPSFor several years (2004-9), Courtenay has also been a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS). MAMHFor 7 years, (1993-2000) Courtenay was a Director of the Moray
Association for Mental Health Co. Ltd. and helped found this charitable
company and set up the administrative and financial structures
to run six projects in Morayshire involving over 200 people with
mental health issues. NFACourtenay was also involved with setting up the New Findhorn Association
(NFA) and helped to write the "Common Ground" statement of values; set up some
of the Member Organisations; and the membership database; and also
the original NFA website. |