INTERNATIONAL BREATHWORK FOUNDATION

Annual General Meeting – GIC 2002 – IBF Business Report

INTERNATIONAL BREATHWORK FOUNDATION

Annual General Meeting – GIC 2002 – IBF Business Report

During the Global Inspiration Conference 2002, which took place in Venezuela, Isla

Margarita, IBF held its Annual General Meeting from June 28 till July 5. Friday June 28 - Pre-conference meeting: Board of Directors The IBF Board of Directors met for three hours in the afternoon to share about the past year, to get and give acknowledgement and to decide on the logistics of business procedures during the AGM. Saturday June 29 - Pre-conference meeting: National Co-ordinators and Board of Directors The IBF National Co-ordinators and Board of Directors met to share about their work in the past year. They clarified the agenda for the AGM and chose focalisers for the different working group topics to be addressed during the conference. Sunday June 30 – No IBF business Monday July 1 - AGM - Task Force reports President’s report – by Tilke Platteel-Deur (see page 5). Treasurer’s report – by Veronique Batter read by Marga Parellada (see page 7). National Co-ordinators reports – 18 countries were represented. Presentation of GIC 2003- to be held in Australia from June 27 to July 4, 2003 – by Nemi Nath Brigitte Martin Powell for the United Kingdom and Liina Lugus for Estonia presented nominations by potential organisers for the hosting of GIC 2004. Tuesday July 2 – AGM - Working groups The AGM facilitator team for GIC 2002 (Wilfired Ehrmann, Carol Lampman, Steven La Plant, Ted Riskin, Lars Mygind) was presented to the General Assembly and given official sanction to facilitate the AGM. The IBF business agenda was communicated to the assembly, who then divided into working groups for discussion and formulation of proposals for voting. Wednesday July 3 & Friday July 5 - AGM - Voting Brigitte Martin Powell for the UK and Liina Lugus for Estonia presented their country for the hosting of GIC 2004. Estonia won the vote! GIC 2004 is going to take place in Estonia from July 3 till July 10. Proposals for voting were presented and voted. The following proposals were passed – CONSTITUTION BOX Constitutional issues may come into effect as soon as they are voted through by the AGM. If a constitutional issue is re-confirmed by a consecutive AGM it will become part of the IBF constitution and can thereafter only be changed by two consecutive AGM’s.

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The International Breathwork Foundation vision is to be a global inspiration for evolution, healing and aliveness.

As a heart- and person-centred organisation, the IBF strives to acknowledge,

understand and respond to the needs of its members. REFERENDUM BOX 1. Handling Proposals during the AGM

AGM Team - One Chairperson (Orchestrates Proceedings) - One Vice-Chairperson (Assists) - One Turn Caller (Order of Speakers gallery) - Two minute takers (rotating) - Board Writer - Agenda Co-ordinator

Agenda before the conference

Proposals should be submitted in writing to IBF up to 2 weeks before the conference. Agenda during the conference

Proposals for the same or similar issue/s should be "bundled" into separate categories or issues. If possible, people with similar proposals should be asked to join forces and to formulate one proposal between them. The AGM Team regarding a) "importance" b) "complexity" c) "clarity" d) "feasibility" should make an evaluation of each proposal. · "Importance" should determine where on the agenda they are placed. The more "important" the higher up. · "Complexity" should determine the time frame to allocate for the issue in question. The more complex the more time. · "Clarity" should determine how advanced or ready for the AGM voting the proposal is. If a proposal is very unclear it should be made clear to the proposer, who will be given the chance to improve on the proposal and present a new version no later than 1 week before the conference. If no clearer version is proposed, the proposal should be given low priority on the agenda, given that it has been suggested that it needs more work. · "Feasibility" should determine priority along similar lines as "Clarity". A proposal that is very unrealistic should be given low priority given that it has been suggested that it needs more work. Agenda during the AGM

· The NC pre-conference meeting will be held as it is now - but will mainly deal with issues concerning NC's working life between conferences. NC's will be given a chance to give feedback on what they regard as important issues for the AGM. · The proposals that were submitted 2 weeks before the conference should be presented to the AGM by the AGM Team in a clear but short summary on the first AGM meeting and also be made available on the GIC notice board during the conference. Additional proposals can be

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submitted no later than midnight on the day before the voting is scheduled to take place (see “decision-making process”). · This short and compact presentation of the proposals should include a time frame for each proposal to be dealt with by the AGM. This time frame should include presentation, discussion and voting and may not later be exceeded. This information should also be presented on the notice board. · On day 1 of the AGM, which is the second day of the Conference the BD, the IC and the NC's will give their reports. Next years GIC will be presented and the countries proposing to be voted as host country for the year following that will be nominated · On day 2 of the AGM, which is the third day of the conference the working groups will start their work on the proposed topics and will come up with "ready for voting" proposals. · On day 3 of the AGM, which is the fourth day of the conference, voting on the different proposals takes place according to the decided agenda. · On day 4 of the AGM, which is the fifth day of the conference the re-election and election of the IBF task force will take place. The host country for GIC two years ahead will be voted. . On day 5 of the AGM, which is the sixth day of the conference, voting on the different proposals takes place if necessary.

Agenda after the AGM · Proposals that were not dealt with during the AGM will be presented in the newsletter following the conference [or in the conference report]. 2. GIC Manual Under Finance (p. 8), add a calculation example for the budget. Under Venue, paragraph 1 (page 6), remove the word “maximum” IBF will supply the 2 previous years’ GIC balance sheets to any person interested in

organising a GIC in their country. The GIC budget has to be discussed in detail with the IBF president and the

treasurer before finalising the conference fee and the lodging price. E.g. the exact cost of the venue, how high is the % put on top of the lodging costs etc.

In order to avoid mistakes, omissions or incongruencies affecting the image of the IBF, the text of the GIC brochure will be presented to the IBF Board of Directors for approval before the brochure is designed.

If by chance, members of the Board of Directors are part of the GIC organisation team, IBF will not pay 50% of their lodging, as is the case with all other BD members, as the GIC organiser already covers this expense.

The atmosphere and the spirit of GIC require that workshops and/or sessions be offered as a service. They will not be charged for. However, products such as books, etc. may be sold.

The conference and lodging fees are waived for the retired President for the next GIC immediately following their retirement.

The GIC organiser MUST provide the following documents and details with the final GIC financial report to the treasurer:

1. Detail of the participants (just names) and what they have paid as registration fee 2. Indicate in this list the non-IBF members

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3. Indicate any conference participants who became IBF members during the conference. Expenses for IBF: 4. Food/lodging for the IBF team: list exactly what is paid per person (including the number of nights). 5. Include tickets or invoices for any other expenses (example: photocopies, etc...) that should be paid by IBF and therefore deducted from the total royalties.

3. Finances We recognize and hold dearly the IBF principles of heart-centered empowerment,

service, abundance, responsibility and consciousness. Therefore: Out of gratitude and recognition for the years of selfless service and committed vision which Judee Gee gave for 3 years as President, and out of gratitude and recognition for the devotion, love and courage which Judee has demonstrated by attending GIC 2002, the IBF would like to give her a small token of our appreciation by paying for her lodging and conference fees for GIC 2002 in Venezuela.

In all official IBF documents, the words “Eastern Bloc Countries” are changed to “economically weak countries.”

If IBF’s finances allow it, the BD is allowed to reduce the annual membership fee and the GIC participation fee for economically weak countries, which is half of the normal fee. The Task Force will keep an eye on the economic developments in those countries to decide if this measure is still necessary taking into account the economical indicators and the NC’s reports.

IBF asks their members in economically weak countries to consider very carefully and out of their own integrity if they really and truthfully are in need of the reduced IBF annual membership fee and the GIC participation fee.

The conference and lodging fees are waived for the retired President for the next GIC immediately following their retirement.

The people on the Task Force receive a waiver on annual membership fee as individual only. I.e. If a member of the task force represents an organisation for which he/she usually pays the price of an organisational membership, then he/she gets a waiver corresponding to the price of the individual membership. The organisation then pays the difference (50 USD/Euro or 25 USD/Euro for eastern countries).

4. National Co-ordinators In the event of a National Co-ordinator not doing the minimum tasks of the job, i.e.

following up on membership renewal, and contact with the Treasurer and Board of Directors regarding finances and membership information, the General Assembly empowers the Board of Directors to find a replacement NC or deal directly with the membership of that country. This step will only be taken after all reasonable attempts have been made to work with the current National Co-ordinator.

Page 8 of By Laws. Under National Co-ordinator, substitute number 3 wording for: Be email literate and to be able to download and print documents.

NC’s must have been a member of the IBF for at least one year and have attended one GIC.

The Board of Directors is entitled to propose exceptions to the minimum requirements to become a new NC

5. Newsletter

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The IBF Newsletter will be produced on Internet as well as in hard copy. Those IBF members who have Internet access may receive the Newsletter via email. All other IBF members will still receive a hard copy. All members will - as always- receive “the breathwork magazine” in their preferred language, in hard copy.

Organisational members who want to receive an extra Newsletter & “Breathe” for the use of their representative member, pay US$ 25 or Euro 25 extra.

6. Website Existing website bylaws are cancelled and the Vice President of Website is fully

endorsed to create the contents of the website in co-operation with the Board of Directors.

7. Miscellaneous The Board of Directors is encouraged to create appropriate IBF administrative

procedure manuals. Apart from the translation of the newsletter and all IBF materials, it is proposed that a

collection of selected articles either written in French or translated into French and called “Les Cahiers du Souffle” be published, once a year, under the umbrella of the IBF. This project will have its own financial autonomy.

Thursday July 4 - Elections Election and re-election of IBF Task Force officers was held. Board of Directors – President – Tilke Platteel-Deur (Holland) Vice-Presidents – Treasurer – Véronique Batter (Belgium) NC’s Coach – Clare Gabriel (UK) Newsletter Editor – Robin Lawley (Italy) Directory & Distribution – Robert Moore (UK) Website – Armando Aguilar (Spain) Public Relations & Marketing – Viola Edward (Venezuela) Vice-President at Large – Marga Parellada (Spain) Integrity Committee – Wilfried Ehrmann (Austria) Nemi Nath (Australia) Jessica Dibb (USA) National Co-ordinators – Argentina Gabriel de Luca Australia Denise Burgess Austria Wilfried Ehrmann Belgium Manuel Atienza Vizarro Canada Tamara Penn Denmark Lars Mygind Ecuador Jose Luis Ziritt Estonia Tuuli Viljar France Mary T. Prewitt Germany Tilke Plateel-Deur Ireland Catherine Dowling

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Israel Hagit Ben Shahar Italy Indalecia Ziritt Netherlands Arie van der Craats New Zealand Nemi Nath Poland Ewa Foley Russia Andrei Zakharevich Spain Natividad Jimenez Sweden Inga-Lill Valfridsson Switzerland Urs Baumgartner UK Brigitte Martin-Powell Ukraine Lyubov Umanets USA Steven La Plant Venezuela Teresa Egaña NOTE This document is the official report of IBF General Assembly decisions voted in during GIC 2002. If there are any objections by those who were present during the voting procedures, please submit objections in writing to the IBF President no later than 30/10/2002. Objections received will be followed by a process of clarification. If no objections are received by the date indicated, the report will be filed as approved by all present at the General Assembly GIC 2002 and the changes will be worked into the IBF By-Laws.

President’s Report

Dear IBF Friends,

I have felt and I still feel very honoured by your trust in me. The first year of my presidency has past like in a wink. I have felt grateful and sometimes frustrated for the work you all have assigned me to do for IBF. Sometimes the hours behind my computer were endless. Other times it was just bliss to contact the others on the team. To feel that the work is being done together in the most beautiful way that you can imagine is very rewarding.

First of all I want to thank our Admin Team -the Task Force- for working together with me and getting a lot of things done. We had -most of the time- a good a well-established communication between us. We worked, we shared, we cried, we laughed and worked some more, and all of that together online. We worked at home, mostly alone and produced the stuff that miraculously materialises in your mailbox.

What exactly did we do? And how did we do it? I will tell you at random.

1. A book has been produced. We -as Task Force- did not do the immense work around the book. The book team did. Gunnel, Vivienne, Judee, Cathy and Carol, -whom did I forget?- thank you all for a lot of work and condolences to you for a lot of frustration. Nevertheless, the book has been published, we have suffered for it, we have had differences around it and it showed the tendency to become another saga.

I am glad that the book is there. There is a lot of good material in it. Where did the difficulties come from? What has happened that it does not sell as well as we had hoped? It may be because of the printing errors or the whole issue with the very critical review that Joy published on her web site, or because there was some strange spell on this book, I do not know for sure. What I know is that it does not sell well, and I want to ask you all to do anything you can to get it promoted in your own country. Please buy some and sell them to your students or your clients. It is worth it.

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Gerd Lange took over the bulk of the books and is selling them in the UK.

It has been mainly Gunnel and Carol who have been dealing with this. Good work.

2. The web site has been designed and is in the stage of being built Armando, you have done a mammoth task. Thank you. Armando will tell you in short about it. Tomorrow, Armando will take enough time to explain to all IBF members how it works and how IBF members can get access to the data bank. We will be able to change our own data and the NC’s will be able to work on the data of the members in their country.

3. The new brochure is designed and done. It is here and I think it is a good product to show IBF to the world. And to show how proud we are to be part of this wonderful, warm and inspiring organisation. Thank you dear Robert.

4. The small directory has been printed twice. It has been a lot of work and I have been speaking with Robert about the fact that we need someone paid to do it next time because it has been too much work for Robert alone. Him distributing the newsletter and producing “Breathe”. Thank you Robert. We are looking for someone that is good, accurate, reliable and able to type the directory into a computer. This same person will then be taking care of giving it into the databank on the website. Am I correct, Armando?

5. The newsletter has been produced and delivered. Yes, we know it has been late twice. We apologise for that. Nevertheless, we were pleased with the content and the way it looks. Finally, the last one you all got before GIC, was on schedule. Robin, you did a very good job. Thanks a lot.

6. The making contact with the NC's has been handled in a very beautiful way. Clare has been the most amazing letter writer. However, we sometimes got a little bit desperate about some of our NC's because they have difficulties staying in regular contact with us. I do hope that this little problem will stop existing after this GIC and after we shared our feelings about it.

7. Because of these difficulties, we started to work on an information manual for NC’s. I began to work starting from a letter that Clare wrote to the NC’s and worked from there.. Veronique has amended it very thoroughly so now we can offer a new NC -and the old ones of course- a map with everything they need to know and do.

8. During her presidency, Judee has produced two major documents: The “GIC Organiser’s Manual”, the “IBF By-Laws”. She also made the beginning for the “Task Force Manual”. Thank you Judee for all the many hours of work - now I know- that are in there. And I thank you as well for your sisterly and collegial telephone advice in my hours of confusion.

9. The Task Force Manual -as I got it from Judee- was the beginning of a manual where the different tasks for the people working on the team have been described. It has grown into four more pages and we are happy with its clarity. It looks rather complete to me the way it is now and it might keep growing into more perfection. It is not a matter for voting. We -all the people on the Task Force- all described as precisely as possible the task we do for IBF during the year, and in between GIC’s.

10. Marga has been tipping me on my fingers when I made a mistake, had my data mixed up and she has been a good support person all over. Moreover, she has pinpointed me on a “fat an nicely hidden” contra transference. Great colleague. Thank you.

11. Viola has organised GIC 2002 and she did a marvellous job. Thank you Viola. She has been able to bring it back to so-called normal IBF prices.

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Did I forget something? It does not seem to be all that much but when I look at the hours spent in front of my computer, and at all the hours you all -my very dear and honoured team- worked your ……. off ......... Chapeau! What I would like to see for the future of IBF during the next year is that:

• We will get closer to an established vision for IBF.

• We will begin to plan to put this vision into action and actually promote IBF more in the world.

• We will have an operational and beautiful website.

• We produce the "big" directory on the website.

• We breathe and enjoy the work in our beautiful profession.

• We shine increasingly as conscious human beings and keep spreading more and more consciousness on this planet.

With love to you all,

Tilke Platteel-Deur

Personal word from the treasurer Dear friends from IBF, While you are all connecting in this beautiful Venezuelan island, I am here at home preparing to give birth to our second child. So that’s why I could not be physically with you this year, but I definitely am very much connected with you all. I have come to the end of the first year as IBF treasurer. It was a big challenge throughout the year, but also a big pleasure to be so involved and connected to the organisation. Challenge to understand all the particularities for each country or for IBF as a whole, to keep track of the information, to handle tons of emails, to try to solve the internet access for the bank, etc… I would like to stay as treasurer for the coming year, as next year will be for me the opportunity to harvest the investment of this year, solve difficulties encountered and have time for possible new creations that could improve the financial management from IBF. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my husband who helped me greatly with his expertise in the field, his suggestions and his assistance in creating the treasury report for this year. I send you all love, success and light. See you next year… Our whole family will be in Australia.

TREASURY REPORT

INDEX I INTRODUCTION 9

I.1 ACHIEVEMENTS....................................................................................................... 9

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I.2 DIFFICULTIES/WHAT WAS NOT YET ACHIEVED .......................................... 9

I.2.1. Access to IBF bank in Holland............................................................................ 9

I.2.2. Lack of contact or answers with some NCs remains a problem ...................... 9

I.2.3. GIC 2001 finances were provided more than 6 months after GIC................ 10 II MEMBERSHIPS 2001-2002 10 III IBF FINANCES REPORT 11

III.1 CASH FLOW.......................................................................................................... 11

III.2 BALANCE 2001-2002 ............................................................................................ 14 IV CONCLUSION AND FUTURE 14

IV.1 Summary ................................................................................................................. 14

IV.2 « Budget » for year 2002-2003............................................................................... 14

IV.3 Estimation of the cost of newsletter and directory per member........................ 15

IV.4 FUTURE PLANS ................................................................................................... 15 By Véronique Batter 25 June 2001 With full gratitude to Manuel Atienza for his help and support

INTRODUCTION ACHIEVEMENTS

All financial movements are recorded in a database using Microsoft Money 98. This program is especially designed to manage of finances and is very simple to use. It also allows creating summary reports as those presented in this report.

Financial guidelines were created for the National Coordinators (“NCs”) and treasury reports adapted to the introduction of the euros. Membership database was maintained by the treasurer and newsletter distributor for all the addresses and information necessary for the directory. Databases were compared twice during the year and less than 5% discrepancies were found.

I.1 DIFFICULTIES/WHAT WAS NOT YET ACHIEVED Are listed here the difficulties encountered. Based on these problems, some proposals

will be presented during the conference. Access to IBF bank in Holland

We were not able to finalise the access to the bank from Internet. This was due to difficulties in understanding and solving the different administrative requirements for allowing the treasurer to have access to the bank services and also due to the fact that the computer program was not available in English. Three alternative banks were looked at, but either they do not provide the services we need or are not available in The Netherlands (including Citibank) which is a necessary condition as the organisation is only registered in that country.

Lack of contact or answers with some NCs remains a problem NCs are supposed to send a treasury report each 3 months with the financial movements they have had. This report is the only way for the treasurer to keep track of the IBF money available in each country. This report should also help the NCs to manage its own finances and list of members on a regular basis. The report normally takes less than half an hour to be filled in. And if no transaction happened, a simple

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email is sufficient. Despite of this, several NCs have not informed the treasurer about the evolution of the financial situation in their country (sometimes last contact was in October 2001 despite several reminders).

GIC 2001 finances were provided more than 6 months after GIC Report was sent with lack of information necessary to justify all revenues and expenses. As a result, some discrepancies have been found recently when the GIC financial report was compared with data sent by the former GIC organiser.

MEMBERSHIPS 2001-2002

Table 1. Total Membership 2001-2002 by country1

Country Total number Number of organisations

New members

Did not renew

Spain 35 6 15 (1 org) 6 (1 org.) (a) USA 31 2 19 21 (b) Venezuela 28 4 6 2 France 23 2 4 4 UK 20 3 5 (1 org) 3 Netherlands 9 2 1 0 Australia 8 2 5 (1 org) 1 Austria 8 2 0 0 Italy 6 1 0 1 (c) Poland 6 1 0 0 Sweden 6 2 1 2 Belgium 5 0 0 1 Ireland 5 0 0 0 Switzerland 5 0 0 0 Canada 4 1 3 (1 org) 1 Ukraine 4 0 0 1 Argentina 3 1 2 (1 org) 0 Mexico 3 0 0 0 (d) Russia 3 0 2 0 (c) United Arab Emirates 3 2 3 (2 org.) 1 (d) Bolivia 1 0 0 0 (c) Denmark 1 0 1 2 (d) Estonia 1 0 0 0 (d) Israel 1 0 0 0 (c) Ecuador 0 0 0 0 (e)

1 There are 11 persons NOT presented in this table because not in order of payment. However, they are

part of the list of persons that normally receive newsletters (5 in USA, 2 in Ukraine, 2 in Germany, 1 in Estonia, and 1 in Australia). Investigation will be pursued and retrospective payment will be asked if needed.

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Germany 0 0 0 2 (e) New Zealand 0 0 0 0 (e)

TOTAL 219 31 67 (5 org) 25 (1 org)

(a) Two recent new members are not yet included in the NC treasury report but have been added in this table. (b) Detailed information on renewals for year 2001-2002 was not provided by the previous NC. Because of a misunderstanding between previous and new NC, many members were not asked to renew year 2001-02 membership. This is why we have 21 members that did not renew. (c) No information from the NC since October 2001. (d) No NC in that country. (e) NC is located in another country. IBF FINANCES REPORT

All data are provided in US dollars. Unless indicated, the exchange rate in this report is 1 euro for 0.97 US dollars (official rate as of June 24, 2002). Limitations to the data are: - Incomplete expenses concerning the brochures

- Discrepancies in GIC 2001 financial report still need to be solved

- NC financial status is missing in some countries (although since there are no new members, there is likely to be any movement).

- Incomplete information on the status of the book Spirit of Breathwork

CASH FLOW Please note that the cash flow reports all movements between last treasury report

presented at GIC 2001 (June 2001) and June 15th 2002, independently of whether some of the movements may correspond to concepts that belongs to a time before or after the 2001-2002 period. For example, reimbursement of membership fee for the task force is usually related to the year 2000-2001. Another example is the renewals for year 2002-2003.

Table 2. Revenues by concept and related time period

Concept < June 2001 June 2001-June 2002

After June 2002

Total

Membership Ind.2 241,98 12.489,17 390,00 13.121,15Membership Org.3 -165,75 3.335,13 292,50 3.461,88GIC 2001 royalties4 9.119,00 9.119,00 Donations to IBF5 934,59 934,59"Spirit of breathwork" sales6

437,00 696.50 1.133,50

Miscellaneous 113,25 113,25Differences in currency exchange

52,27 52,27

2 5 individual members for year 2001-2002 have paid already before June 1st, 2001 and are not included

in this cash flow report. 3 1 organisation for year 2001-2002 has paid already before June 1st, 2001 and is not included in this cash

flow report. 4 Pending on additional verification of the accounting. 5 Includes mostly the 10% fee that is entitled to the NC. 6 Incomplete information.

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Bank interest 88,08 88,08TOTAL 513,23 26.827,99 682,50 28.023,72

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Table 3. Expenses by concept and related time period

Concept < June 2001 June 2001-June 2002

After June 2002 Total

10% NCs 21,41 1.400,76 68.25 1.490,4215 % Translation 15,00 879,09 894,09Newsletters 1.307,90 2.680,20 3.988,10Magazine Breathe 2.099,59 2.099,59Magazine Atman 207,37 65,05 272,42Magazine Respiracion 88,22 982,84 1.071,06Directory 422,14 301,96 724,09Brochure7 121,02 121,02Expenses GIC 20018 3.320,13 3.320,13Website Connection 637,54 637,54Website Construction9 1.827,40 4.649,56 6.476,96Difference in currency exchange 14,86 14,86

Bank charges 350,45 350,45TOTAL 3.889,44 17.503,05 68,25 21.460,73 Table 4. Statement of Account

Statement of Account US$ US$

ABN-AMRO US$ June/2002 9.321,77 ABN-AMRO US$ June/2001 2.652,67

ABN-AMRO € June/2002 2.687,26 ABN-AMRO € June/200110 4.955,43

Cash NCs June/2002 5.488,37 Cash NCs June/200111 2.182,14

Expenses 21.460,73 Income 28.023,72

Difference in currency exchange12 1.144,17

TOTAL 38.958,13 TOTAL 38.958,13

7 Incomplete information. 8 Pending on additional verification of the accounting. Some discrepancies were found in food and

lodging of IBF officers. 9 Amount for time before June 2001 corresponds to the initial website created/maintained from Belgium. 10 Change rate of June 2001. 11 Ibid. 11. 12 Difference exchange rates between June 2001 and June 2002.

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BALANCE 2001-2002 Please note that the balance report only includes incomes and expenses related to the exercise 2001-2002, independently of the date of the transaction.

BALANCE JUNE 2001 - JUNE 2002

INCOME EXPENSES Concept US$ Concept US$

Membership Individual13 13.025,17 10% NCs 1.400,76 Membership Organisation14 3.481,38 15 % Translation 879,09 GIC 2001 royalties15 9.358,00 Newsletter 2.680,20 Donations to IBF 934,59 Magazine Breathe16 2.188,92 "Spirit of breathwork" sales17 2.692,85 Magazine Atman 65,05 Miscellaneous 113,25 Magazine Respiracion 982.84 Difference in currency exch. 52,27 Directory 301,96 Bank Interest 88,08 Brochure18 1.621,02 Expenses GIC 200119 3.972,13

Website Connection 637,54 Website Construction20 11.609,56 "Spirit of breathwork" 21 1.100,22 Difference in currency exch. 14.86 Bank charges 350,45

TOTAL 29.745,59 TOTAL 27.804,60 PROFIT 1.940,99

CONCLUSION AND FUTURE Summary

• A total of 219 members including 31 organisations were part of IBF this year. • Major incomes in the year 2001-2002 are the IBF membership (16.506 US$) followed

by GIC royalties (9.385 US$). From GIC royalties, 3.300 US$ corresponds to the membership of 33 persons that became member during the conference.

• Major expenses in the year 2001-2002 is the website construction (11.610 US$).

« Budget » for year 2002-2003

Creating a budget depends on many variables, such as decisions taken at GIC, estimation of members next year, GIC 2002 royalties, changes in expenses that will occur with the new website system and its services (it may have an impact on newsletter and directory costs for example). Instead of a budget, let see what is likely to happen if we keep similar figures for the main incomes and the standard expenses.

13 48,50 US$ added for too new Spanish members and 487,50 US$ also added for 5 membership paid

before June 2001 (2 from UK, 2 from Switzerland and 1 from Belgium). 14 146,25 US$ added for a Netherlands membership organisation paid before June 2001. 15 239 US$ added as correction pending of confirmation from GIC 2001 organiser. 16 89,33 US$ added pending of payment. 17 1.996,35 US$ added pending of confirmation. 18 1.500,00 US$ added pending of payment. 19 652,00 US$ added pending of devolution. 20 6.960 US$ added pending of payment. 21 Pending of confirmation.

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• Money available as of June 15 in bank and NCs accounts: 17.497 US$ Pending payments (brochure, website, Breathe and GIC adjustments): 9.201 US$

Resulting in a balance of money available for next year: 8.296 US$ Given that the website construction is a one time only expense, and if we estimate that figures for standard incomes and expenses will be similar to those obtained this year, IBF will probably have a benefit next year of 10.000-14.000 US$. Even if those numbers are very rough, it gives an idea about the money that we can expect to have next year. It may help to support new proposals and investments that will be decided during GIC 2002.

Estimation of the cost of newsletter and directory per member

We consider that expenses in newsletter, magazine and directory costs add up to around 6.300 US$. Considering 219 members and organisations, the cost per member would then be around 30 US$ per member.

FUTURE PLANS

Direct access for treasurer to the bank accounts via Internet.

It seems reasonable to pursue our connection with the ABN AMRO bank, since the bank confirms its project to finalise the English version of the access-by-Internet package by December 2002. In addition, the bank confirmed the possibility to have a service of payment on-line through the website.

In practice, the Treasurer will meet with the ABN AMRO bank and the President of IBF to finalise all pending issues such that, by next fall, the account can then be managed by the treasurer directly.

Include payment of membership on-line in the website.

This will be investigated through ABN AMRO in the coming weeks, as this service has been confirmed by the bank to be available.

Better communication with NCs concerning financial matters.

Project of including a «training» session in next conference to help people with their task (for example filling a treasury report) and answer questions/concerns.

Implement a system to better control all finances.

This can apply in particular to GIC royalties and « The Spirit of Breathwork » sales and expenses.