I became a member of IAJS before I became active in the organization. I was moved to become more active once I attended the Cape Town conference in 2008 where I was strongly welcomed not only by those who were old timers but also by others new to IAJS conferences. I loved the international stage and presences of people from many countries. Those attending were coming for a variety of reasons and were not only academics but were also students, therapists, psychoanalysts, clergy, artists, farmers interested in Jung, educators and so on. I look forward to other conferences now but also the online seminars and ongoing discussion forum that reflect a variety of multi-disciplinary approaches that support and/or critique the theory and practices of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis in general.