TigerNews | FHE Executive Director Announcement

As we approach year's end, we are already reflecting back on 2007 and our challenges and accomplishments of the past year. The FHE Board of Directors added three new members in 2007, Dr. Nancy Thoennes, Mr. Arne van Roon and Mr. Bruce Gottlieb. Nancy Thoennes is a distinguished social policy researcher specializing in the areas of child custody and parental rights policy. She is a Colorado native and counts among her passions the Colorado Rockies baseball team, who recently competed in the Baseball World Series. Arne van Roon is originally from Holland, and now makes his home in Switzerland. Arne has a deep background in international business. He has also completed all three levels of SE® training, Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. He believes deeply in the FHE mission and wants to help SE® expand to an ever-larger audience. Bruce Gottlieb is the most recent addition to the Board. Bruce is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and has been a psychotherapist for over thirty years. He currently has a private practice in Boulder, Colorado, where he specializes in personal growth, trauma resolution and sports enhancement, having worked with professional and Olympic athletes for over twenty years.

Perhaps our most visible challenge and achievement was the first annual SE® conference, October 24-26 in Berkeley, CA. We are pleased and proud of the entire FHE team - board, staff, faculty, and many, many volunteers - for this accomplishment. Our time in Berkeley truly was the science and art of SE® meeting and talking the same language. See the link on the FHE website for conference photos, highlights, and a place where you can order CDs and DVDs from the conference sessions.

The FHE Board and Staff continue to focus on honing our mission and how we implement that mission. Our desire is to create a healthy, efficient and effective infrastructure within which our SE® trainings can flourish. We are excited that our upcoming FHE faculty meeting (January 2008) is taking shape as a true "learning community". With our new manuals - and lest we forget, let us extend HUGE kudos to Kathy Kain and her curriculum committee for this achievement - we are now perfectly poised to really review our curriculum. Now we can ask the questions of ourselves and others - does the Beginning year curriculum match the desired outcomes for that year? We can ask the same questions related to our Intermediate and Advanced years. It is our hope that we will receive widespread feedback on our new manual so that we can continue to refine and improve this tool.

Dr. Laurie Leitch’s has provided a research update for the newsletter and the website. Please take a minute to check out the many, many exciting developments happening in the SE® research arena.

In closing, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season. We look forward to being in dialogue and relationship with you in 2008.

Warmly,

Deanne Lederer,
FHE Board Chair

Jane Hansberry, Ph.D.
FHE Executive Director