ACSB Community Calls

What the Board Accomplished '22-'23 & Looking Forward New Board Desires, May 2023

Board members share key accomplishments and how the Board spent it's time and energy this year. Highlights are CPD and Supervision, verifying all members on our directory, working on a more functional website with more member perks, member speakers at our monthly meetings, outreach, BIPOC scholarship success, and Ethics Committee advancements. Descriptions of board roles are shared, along with skill sets we are looking for. It is emphasized that each term's accomplishments are determined by the passion and interests of the particular board that coalesces each time. So bring your ideas and that will shape where we go! Any inquiries after watching can be directed to president@sexologicalbodyworkers.org

Community Call: Member shares on Profession Publicity, Personal Marketing & Alliances

In the October 19th, 2022 Community Meeting we discuss bringing more positive press to Sexological Bodywork, adding 101 basics to the site for family and friends to understand, and the desire for free business seminars on marketing for members.

We discuss the nuances of making required CPD affordable and a supervision requirment being contingent on the participation of senior practitioners.

The meeting begins with an embodiment practice that we invite you to join if you feel called. Any input you have after watching can be directed to info@sexologicalbodyworkers.org.

Community Meeting: Certification, History Transparency, Core Competencies and Supervision

At the September 2022 Community Meeting, the full Board and members discuss the whys around the ask to upload our certification to the website, and the direction we are headed into the future towards greater growth and accountability.

Community Meeting: Guided Solo Pleasure Exploration & Discussion on what we want to see from the ACSB this year

Dr. Phoebe Garland, new board member at large, guides the community in a pleasure practice. All is an invitation to give the self what the self is desiring to explore moment by moment. We invite you to use this replay as a moving pleasure meditation to return to!

The second half of the meeting is a community discussion on what you would like to see more of from the ACSB and what you are craving in connection to this profession. We are taking notes and will use this to guide us this year!

Year In Review & New Board Voted In

Outgoing Co-President Christiane Pelmas takes us through a review of last year's accomplishments: Ethics Summit, Revised Code of Ethics & Conduct, Grievance Council and form now live on the website, the creation and numbers behind our BIPOC Scholarship and many revamps to our website.

The Treasurer Report for fiscal year 2021, for the overlapping previous board and this board, is presented with time for questions. The five new board members running uncontested are voted in by those members who are present.

This chart breaks down expenses of the 2021 calendar year, across the service years of two different boards. This is the accounting reporting period the ACSB most recently finished.

All of the details of income and expenses are listed but the highlights are in bold. How much was spent, how much came in, how many BIPOC scholarships were paid and the end of the year balance.

The amount for Restorative Justice training is a bit misleading as participants paid the ACSB to attend and then the ACSB paid this money forward to the facilitator Elizabeth Clemants. $11,600 from 16 people passed through the ACSB from participants and onward to Elizabeth. The ACSB subsidized $400 to give a slight discount to a few participants who were currently serving on the Grievance Council and Ethics Committee. The regular rate was $800 a person, the discounted rate was $600

Community Call; What Does Serving on the Board entail?

Members gather with the board to express interest and hear about the ins and outs of what being on the Board entails.

Agenda for this new year can be set by this new board and elections are in May.

The group talks possibilities of what is still needed, holes seen after a very successful year where we can see how things may be even better.

 

Board position descriptions and an initial inquiry form can be found on the website here: https://sexologicalbodyworkers.org/join-the-new-board

Quaterly Board Update: Dec. ‘21

Three times a year the board will give a progress report. Here we report on the budget and where these funds go, the vision for our upcoming Ethics Summit, a public upgrade to our Code of Ethics, our BIPOC scholarship fundraising campaign, the collaborations we are initiating with certifying bodies worldwide and more! Community committee members also give the group updates on the Grievance Council and Membership.

 

Member Roundtable: Accessibility

This video captures the bulk of our first ACSB roundtable. We hear from community and board members on what would make our practices more accessible to ourselves and clients, how the ACSB can support us better in that, and what we envision for the future of sexological bodywork and our place in that future.

Have a listen to get percolating on your own answers to these questions. Talk amongst your peers. And send us your answers or feedback to acsb.secretary@gmail.com!

 
 

Quarterly Board Update

Board update time! 4 times a year the board will use this monthly meeting time to be transparent with what we are working on and make an invitation for you to get involved if something peaks your interest.

Some things in the works are: An Ethics Summit, an in-person skillshare for sexological bodyworkers, quarterly special speakers with funds going towards our growing BIPOC scholarship, monthly peer supervision off to a good start, and the ACSB committees continue to make progress on building communication between schools and amongst members.

Members of the new board present the 4 committees ACSB members can join now!

  • Ethics & Grievance Committee (which includes the continued work on revising our current Code of Conduct & Ethics, refining the Grievance Process, and potentially serving on the Grievance Council to help explore and address potential ruptures in our community that represent breaches in our Code of Conduct & Ethics)

  • Networking & Events Committee (which includes scheduling for our monthly Community Meetings, all Continued Education programming, and our 'ACSB Summit', as well as many other wonderful things)

  • Professional Collaboration Committee (which includes continuing the work of bridge-building between the ACSB and other SB certifying Schools, and other SSE/SB Professional Organizations, as well as helping support practitioners to build their networking language as we work in our own areas to continue to establish respect and awareness within the larger healthcare field)

  • Membership Committee (which includes our continued work to invite an ever-more diverse CSB practitioner population into our fold, to support YOU in your hard work and find more creative, inclusive and dynamic ways to serve YOU!)

 

Community Call Notes

6/16/2021

In attendance: Christiane, Ailsa, Hazel-Grace, Emily, Madalaine, Kian

Cassie, Pamela, Wendy, Steve, Sara

Embodiment: Emily

Christiane: overview of where we are at right now, Asana, google drive, structures

Ailsa: 4 committees down from 10

Ethics (Steve chair) (chair needed for Grievance council)

Networking & Events

Professional Collaborations

Membership

Steve speaks on Ethics committee: How can we serve each other when someone comes forward with harm? We’re healers, we can all benefit from the spirit of healing and not punishment

Next steps: forming grievance council of those who took training, need people to comb over code of conduct/ethics

Will most likely rerun restorative justice training

(Sara expresses interest, current csb student and not yet an ACSB member)

Networking & Events: Expanding voices/collaborations, outreach, inviting speakers, maybe organizing community building and skill sharing events for us? 

(Hazel-Grace may be a part of this, Pamela and Cassie express interest)

Kian speaks on Professional Collaborations: Sharing richness of different regions and learning from each other

Christiane- different lineages being taught that we do not all have access to

Support and nurture the institutes, increase diversity

Students coming in to know which school is best for them and why 

Pamela- talks about honoring origins of sex bod and basic 5 pillars: gloved, one-way touch, sound, breath, movement 

Ailsa- clarifies that “task does not have to be completed in one year”

Membership: How to meet more of our needs, get more involved

Continuing education, supervision, making this a place that is a hub to bring us together and support what we are facing globally

Ailsa and Emily speak to diversity

(Emily may be a part of this, Wendy expresses interest)

  1. Steve asks about membership drive and the BIPOC scholarship

  2. Christiane breaks down how membership dues get allotted and that the board will have to decide on whatever we hear from members the priorities are

  3. volunteer to run the Instagram account?

  4. 18 people voted for board. Our numbers of involvement should be larger

Getting involved here as family is support for those who practice illegally. Something here for everyone, and we need you. 

  1. Cassie asks about time commitment 

Ailsa- that will be up to each volunteer and the committees as a whole; committee chair will attend quarterly meetings and present what is being worked on to the Board including generating minutes to keep the Board updated

  1. Sara asks about a chatroom space where we could talk with one another (she will think about a platform for this)

  2. Steve asks about drop-in supervision and happy to step in to host this month

  3. Ailsa- trying to collaborate meetings with SSEA

ACSB Candidate Call for 2021 Board Elections

Co-President Candidates:

Christiane Pelmas & Ailsa Keppie running as co-Presidents

Vice-President Canadidate:

Madalaine Munro

Secretary Candidate:

Emily Royce

Board Member at Large Candidates:

Kian de la Cour

Tim Weaver

Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates

Elizabeth Wood


 

ACSB Community Call, Reflections on your practice, 1/20/21

ACSB Vice President, Steve Oskard, hosts the community call on diving deeper into your work and where you want to grow.

ACSB AGM, Board Election, 5/20/20

Nominated:

President: Dolly Josette Vice-President: Steve Oskard Secretary: Caitlin K. Roberts Treasurer: James Vinod Board Member at Large: Pamela Madsen Board Member at Large: Sher Snow Board Member at Large: Kian de la Cour