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Continued from page 23 It really helped to process my pain with my wife Linda and let myself feel my pain. This is
what we teach our patients, and it of course applies to us as well. We all need people who love us to connect with
and process our pain.
To practice with an open heart and with compassion, requires equanimity. I remind myself that the paths my pa-
tients find themselves on are their paths. It is as it must and can only be. And along with terrible trauma and tragedy,
there is also love, joy, forgiveness, compassion, and the miracle of healing. All of it is necessary. All of it is part of the
hidden perfection of all that is, including our heartbreak.
May we all support each other in practicing and living wholeheartedly with an open heart and in bearing ours and
our patients’ heartbreak.
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I Rogers, C.R. Client-Centered Therapy. 1951. New York. Houghton Mifflin.
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APA BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING

Saturday, July 16 – Sunday, July 17, 2022

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SUMMARY of APA ADMINISTRATION HIGHLIGHTS

The information below constitutes an unofficial record of highlights of the meeting and is subject to change. Meeting minutes
are not official until approved by the BOT at its next meeting.

November 2022 Assembly:

Action Paper Deadline September 15

It can sometimes be frustrating dealing with bureaucracy, particularly these days, when it's hard to avoid a cynical
perspective on institutions and leadership.

How does one go about changing something as large as organized psychiatry? How can you leverage the re-
sources of the APA to improve the care that you deliver or to address problems that are causing burnout and
stress?

As one of your APA assembly representatives, I would like to suggest that each of you has the opportunity to in-
fluence the organization's priorities by working with one of your APA assembly representatives to develop an Ac-
tion Paper to be submitted for debate and discussion at the fall APA Assembly Meeting.
Over the last ten years there has been a significant change in the way that Action Papers are treated in the APA
and they are now sometimes the start of big institutional changes.

For example, the APA has significantly changed the priority it gives to addressing the impact of climate change on
mental health as the result of a series of three action papers put forward by Robin Cooper and your NCPS APA
delegation.
Right now we are looking for problems that need to be addressed by the APA. We will then shape those concerns
into an Action Paper which will be discussed in our council (and hopefully endorsed by NCPS). Meanwhile, we
will seek endorsement and review by other district branches and components of the APA. A final Action Paper
will be submitted to the APA for a staff cost analysis and then it will be discussed in November at the Assembly

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