EUROTAS CONSTITUTION

Article 1. Name and Address

The name of the association is the European Transpersonal Association (EUROTAS). Its address shall be that of its President and/or other Board Members as needed.

Article II. Definition and Purpose

EUROTAS is a non-political, non-religious, non-profit, multi-disciplinary organisation, composed of European transpersonal associations who join together to pursue the following primary purposes:

1. To provide a context oriented toward reconciling the viewpoints of various disciplines, including science, spirituality, philosophy and art, such as to promote a holistic transformation of the human being in body, mind, soul and spirit.

2. To develop theoretical and applied research in the different areas of interest of the transpersonal perspective: transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy, creativity and learning ability, meditation and spiritual traditions, consciousness and its non-ordinary states, particularly the ones leading to the experience of the non-dual and unitive consciousness as described by mystics and traditional wisdom.

3. To help establish a network of organisations throughout Europe in the transpersonal field

4. To facilitate and promote communication among researchers, members of EUROTAS, and other interested groups and individuals, through conferences, seminars newsletter and other publications.

5. To facilitate inter-country projects on promotion of education, research and service.

6. To promote relations and co-operation with other groups and organisations, such as the International Transpersonal Association and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology in the USA, and the many other representatives of the transpersonal movement throughout the world.

7. To encourage the application of the transpersonal perspective and conceptual framework to education, the economy, ecology, politics, art and other areas of human life and society.

At its heart EUROTAS aims to stimulate the development of the "new science of consciousness" based on inner experiences and transformations, able to integrate different traditions, and to disseminate principles and methods for developing wisdom and perception of the unity of life and of the Sacred which underlies all. The "new science of consciousness" is based on love for humanity and reverence for life: its goal is a socially engaged spirituality, serving the purpose of planetary well being. Implicit in all this is the search for ways to transcend national boundaries

Article III. Membership

EUROTAS is composed of formally established transpersonal associations or federations with legal identity in Europe, called Members. Any European transpersonal association not yet represented in EUROTAS can apply to join as a Member. Other European organisations interested in the transpersonal movement can be invited to become Friends of EUROTAS in the Network with no voting rights.

Article IV. Organs

The organs of EUROTAS are:

1. The Delegate Council, composed of two delegates for each Member, appointed in writing by their corresponding association. Council meetings may be open to representatives of Friends of EUROTAS in the Network, with no voting rights.

2. The Board is composed of at least a President, a Vice President and a Treasurer, with a minimum of 3 members and a maximum of 6, elected by the Delegate Council.

Article V.

This Constitution can be amended by the Delegate Council with a two-third majority vote in an official meeting convened by the Board.

28 May 2003