 We
are very pleased to inform you that the undersigned
national Shiatsu Federations of France, Germany, Italy
and Switzerland have given birth to the International
Shiatsu Network (ISN).
The ISN was officially founded on 27th september 2003
in a very friendly and cooperative spirit. The fast
development of shiatsu and ongoing changes in the legal
conditions for the profession gave the impulse to found
the new network. The main goal of the ISN is to be a
platform for the information exchange and for cooperation
between national associations of all over the world.
The ISN
acts as an instrument of the associations and can
not take any decisions without the approval of the
national committees. As the tasks are distributed
among the representatives, the network operates at
very low costs for its members.
The Network
will coordinate and provide documents of the various
international associations, like papers on the legal
situations, curricula, definitions, Code of ethics,
quality standards and so on.
The International
Shiatsu Network aims to support the legal recognition
of shiatsu and to represent the interests of its members.
It will be a platform for common projects on a voluntary
basis, too.
The founding
members of the ISN formulated a commitment, in which
the basic principles of the network are documented.
Other associations which are interested to get more
informations or wish to join the ISN can contact one
of the formal representatives (Please see in the Home
Page: “Informations”).
ISN - INTERNATIONAL
SHIATSU NETWORK
The International Shiatsu Network (ISN) is an international
association of national Shiatsu federations.
The
goals of the International Shiatsu Network ISN and
its members are
• to spread, organize and represent Shiatsu
internationally,
• to exchange cultural, historical, political
and didactic experiences connected with Shiatsu,
• to support each other by consequent informations,
documents and addresses,
• to discuss and pursue common interests.
The
ISN acts on behalf of the associations. All decisions
in the ISN are taken unanimously and with the explicite
approval of the national committees.
Projects
pursued in the ISN's name are the expression of the
will of all the associations. They are achieved on
a voluntary basis by the participating members.
The
individual resources and means of the associations,
all stemming from different national cultures, form
the organizational and economic basis of the International
Shiatsu Network.
The
ISN is a non-party, non-profit making organization.It
has been set up by the following national Shiatsu
federations, which acutally represent around 6'000
shiatsu practitionners, the majority of the professional
practitionners in Europe. It is open for further members.
Fédération
Francaise Shiatsu Traditionel (French Shiatsu Federation)
Federazione Italiana Shiatsu (Italian Shiatsu Federation
of Practitioners)
Federazione Nazionale Scuole di Shiatsu (Italian Federation
of Shiatsu Schools)
Gesellschaft für Shiatsu Deutschland (German
Shiatsu Federation)
Shiatsu Gesellschaft Schweiz (Swiss Shiatsu Association)
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