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Thank you for your participation in the XV IFTA World Congress!
The XV IFTA World Congress, in collaboration with the FFF in Iceland, was a great success. The scientific program was wonderful, our plenary and sub plenary speakers were fantastic and the workshops and brief presentations amazing! We will be posting the presentations on our web site soon, so don't despair if you couldn't make it to Iceland, or if you could not take all the notes you wanted to.
The weather gods were good to us, the weather remained beautiful throughout the congress. Right afterwards it started to rain but then warmed and was 15¨ c. for awhile but now it is just freezing. So we were very lucky, even for our boat trip to the island of Videy for our Congress dinner. The weather was good and the sea calm. Videy was a wonderful place to celebrate. It has a long and fascinating history, and many wonderful works of art. Yoko Ono was in Videy the day after us, and she raised a peace column on the island in memory of John Lennon. Imagine!
Thank you all for coming to Iceland and for making the XV IFTA Congress a wonderful and memorable experience both professionally and personally. Thank you Helga (Thordardottir, President of the FFF) and the FFF for a successful collaboration. Thank you Ruth (Casabinaca Co Chair) for your support, Arlene Vetere and Bill Nichols for all your help and hard work. Thank you Vigdds Finnbogadottir for your patronage. Thank you Reykjavik and the Ministry of Health and Social Security for your support, Spron, Visa and the Landsbank. Thank you Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir for allowing us to enjoy your incrediblly beautiful sculptures. Thank you our Nordic colleagues, Hans Chr Michaelsen, Jan-Christer Wahlbeck and Eija-Liisa Rautiainen for all your support, STOK in Denmark, SPY in Finland, the NFFT in Norway and the Jacobs Foundation for helping us to sponsor colleagues to the Congress. Thank you EAP for holding the October meeting in Iceland so that the EAP Board could participate in the congress. Thank you Aylin, Pinar and others at ODS and Linda and others at Atlantik for your work. Thank you members of the IFTA Board and the Executive Comm. for your support and work. Thank you IFTA for bringing together colleagues from all over that devote themselves to working together for the children and families of the world, for economic and social justice, respect for human rights and democracy, gender equality, respect for cultural diversity and peace and non-violence in our world.
Thank you all and god bless.
Toby Sigrún Herman,
President International Family Therapy Association
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