Dear Madame President, dear Young BPW,

Please find attached the Young BPW Newsletter for June, and I ask you to distribute this mail among all your young members. Please note, that all your input is welcome for the next editions – don’t hesitate to send me in your papers or mails!

 

The BPW Europe Congress in Stockholm is just over and I must admit, that I am fully overwhelmed by the experiences. Thanks a lot to Ewa Fallenius for everything you have done for Young BPW.

 

For those who attended, you will remember the wonderful Girls Night Out, Eva and Maria did prepare perfectly – it was nice to stay at Marias Galerie and later in the Theatre. Also the Young BPW Breakfast with PriceWaterhouseCooper brought us all a very good insight into the Swedish Social Systems. Must I explain that we can be a bit jealous, because this system seems to equalize well known differences in parenthood which we find throughout Europe?! The Young BPW Workshop was about our experiences and questions with Young BPW in our Clubs and Federations – interesting discussions arose and I think that everyone could take out of this workshop what she was looking for (if not – contact me). Interesting ideas were born and let us see what will happen!

 

Further we distributed the second Young BPW Guide with the topic: Integration of and Communication with new (younger) member. This Guideline also is the collected experience of Young BPW with new members in their Clubs – a wonderful paper which may contain good ideas and tipps for youI have copies for every Federation and Association. If you didn’t pick up your map, I will send everything to you.

 

Last but not least, I said Good-bye to the ECC. From now on I am only acting within “my” International Young BPW Committee as Young BPW Representative for Europe. Amélie Leclercq as elected member of ECC takes care for the topic Young BPW within the ECC and she will be my partner in the ECC. Thank you ECC for always helping me and I am looking forward to a fruitful cooperation with Amélie! The attached photo is the new and the old ECC Board.

 

 

 

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BPW Turkey:

Wonderful – BPW Turkey is running. We are very happy and I was glad to get to know Arzu, the founder and President of BPW Turkey – an amazing women! See the attached Email for details

 

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BPW Austria:

The IDP-Training is also a relevant tool within the international theme. Michaela Muschitz-Fink, Vice-President of BPW Austria, wrote for us about the IDP-Training. In April Michaela joined the Facitlitator-Training in the USA,  and now she works in a group to have the Roll-out of this profound training in Europe. The attached article informs you about details.

 

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Young BPW Germany:

 

During the DACH-Meeting, the BP W Meeting of the German speaking countries end of August I will offer Workshops about acquisition-strategies of new members – I you would like to attend, please register under www.bpw-germany.de

 

Later in the year in September, all german speaking Young BPW from Europe are invited to join the german Young BPW Weekend. There will be a Seminar-weekend about Leadership in Volunteers Organisation – an amazing topic which perfectly fits to the international theme. Find details attached to this Mail, Number 2

 

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Young BPW International: Australia

I will not miss to send you this Email from Anna Rasalingam:

The International Women's Development Agency, based in Melbourne, Australia, which I have been volunteering for as a Board Director, is currently planning the Women's Eye on Peace II Photography Exhibition.  The exhibition calls for entries from professional and amateur female photographers from around the globe.  All entries must respond to this question: How do you see peace [Details attached]

 

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Outside News:

Attached you further find information about interesting seminaries where you may want to take part.

 

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Dates for the Diary:

15. – 17.09.06:     Young BPW Germany: Weekend in Bonn/Germany

25. – 27.08.06:     DACH-Meeting: Meeting of Austrian, German and Swiss BPW in Friedrichshafen/Germany
www.bpw-germany.de

May 2007:            5^th International Young BPW Meeting, Seoul, South Korea

 

 

This newsletter is issued on a monthly basis only to presidents and/or national Young BPW Representatives, so the next edition is planned for July 2006. To subscribe or unsubscribe from this mailing list, viktoria.balensiefen@youngbpw-europe.org and put "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" only in the body of the message.