Dear Sangha!
The European office for the Kwan Um Zen School in Europe has one vision: To serve the Kwan Um School of Zen
Sanghas in Europe, Russia and Israel. By establishing a central place for questions, ideas, and problems we hope
to offer greater clarity and make our together Sangha lives easier, more fruitful and to share greater delight in our
Dharma practice.
The office is composed of dedicated Sangha members whose great wish it is to really help the
Kwan Um Zen School in Europe, Russia and Israel. We are there for you! Call us, email us, send us letters, and
communicate with us in the way most natural for you. We will do our very best to help.
— Jo Potter, JDPSN
(Abbot, KUSZ Europe)
TEAM OF THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL OFFICE
The members of the office have been working to form a strong central place to help the Sanghas. The fruits of
this work are appearing now. You can find the job description of each team member below. If you feel you
would like to assist any of these team members, please write us. We are always excited to
have participation from each of you. Just bring a very great willingness to work long and happy hours.
People working on this team understand that our Sangha is precious and should be protected and cared for.
Jo Potter, JDPSN
— Abbot for KUSZ Europe
Contact: jo.potter4x27
googlemail.com
Job Description
Hi! My job is to be there for you. It means being a bridge from the KUSZ European teachers to the European Sangha
members - back and forth. I head the team working in the European office which is based in the Berlin Zen
Centre. I work with the members of the KUSZE office on projects such as the European wide publicity of our
school, start up packages for new groups, tour organization for our wonderful Head Teachers around Europe,
financial requirements for a sound European Sangha, research and brainstorming for more effective communication between
all of us. I also connect with the global Kwan Um Zen Sangha in order to facilitate information flow from
the KUSZ Sanghas in Europe to the USA and to Asia and to coordinate shared global projects such as the WWSF 2011
conference. I am available to any questions or ideas on the European level.
Biography
Jo PSN has been with the KUZ School for the last 17 years. She works out of the Berlin Zen Center in Germany. She
received Inka in May 2008. She is a nutritional consultant and other than Zen her interests are animal rights
and protection of our earth. She works with Animals Angels and runs a restaurant on a horse ranch near to Berlin
as well as working with her life partner Sush in Berlin.
Katka Grofova
— Office Manager for KUSZ Europe
Contact: office
kwanumeurope.org
Job Description
Hi! My job is to help the office run smoothly and effectively, to create a stable support for the office team and
the entire European Kwan Um Sangha. That means the following:
- Assisting our Abbess, Jo Potter JDPSN
- Co-ordinating meetings of the European Office Team
- Managing the office@kwanumeurope.org account
- Staying in touch with all european Kwan Um Zen centers and groups
- Keeping the Sangha informed about the most important issues
- Taking care of PR documents for KUSZE, including the website layout or blog administration
- Administrating the Virtual Sangha network
I live at the Won Kwang Sa Temple, Hungary and travel regularly to Berlin to work with Jo Potter, JDPSN. You can
contact me for any kind of support. If I cannot help, I will always find somebody in our team who can!
Koen Vermeulen
— Finance of KUSZ Europe
Contact: koen
kwanumeurope.org
Job Description
My job is to help the abbess to plan our income and expenses so that we don't spend more than we have. Each time we
receive or spend some money I update our accounting books. This allows tax controllers to do their job. The abbess
and other people from the Sangha also use it to keep an eye on our spending. Every quarter I prepare a report for
the Sangha which shows how much money we collected and how much we spent. We compare that with the plans we had.
When needed, I help to adjust our budget for the next quarters.
Peter Voke
— Webmaster for KUSZ Europe
Contact: webmaster
kwanumeurope.org
Job Description
The KUSZE webmaster looks after the website at
www.kwanumeurope.org,
making sure that information on our teachers, centers, groups and coming retreats is up-to-date and accurate.
The
news items about YMJJs and short kidos —
any short retreat led by one teacher — can now be posted by Zen groups (after booking the teacher for the
retreat) through the online
Retreat News System,
but I make sure information about other retreats, Sangha Weekends,
kidos and Kyol Ches, is all published too. I'm responsible for the database system behind the website, the
retreat news system, Latest News, and the websites we host for the
Barcelona,
Vienna and
London Zen Centers.
If you need help with using any of these, or to
contribute translations
of dharma talks and articles, first contact me and I will always try to respond quickly.
COMMUNICATION CHANNELS IN OUR SANGHA
General questions, requests, complaints should be sent to the KUSZE office at office@kwanumeurope.org.
Please address your questions to the appropriate member of the KUSZE office according to their jobs. Please
feel free to write directly to the European Abbot Jo Potter about any topic.
Teaching and practice in the local Sangha: Student > Guiding Teacher > European Head Teacher
Personal questions on practice: Student > any KUSZ teacher
Local Sangha administrative issues: Student > Abbot > National Abbot > Guiding Teacher
European Sangha administrative issues: Student > European Abbot Office > EU Head Teacher
REPORTS FROM SANGHA & TEACHERS MEETINGS
Report archive of the meetings of the Teachers' Group and KUSZE Sangha Meetings:
Teachers’ Meeting / Warsaw, September 2010
250kB PDF file
Sanghas' Reports / Warsaw, September 2010
4.8MB PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Won Kwang Sa, April 2010
440kB PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Warsaw, September 2009
1.6MB PDF file
Sangha Meeting / Warsaw, September 2009
2.9MB PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Berlin, May 2009
1MB PDF file
Sangha Meeting / Berlin, May 2009
1.2MB PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Berlin, May 2008
25kb PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Warsaw, September 2007
63kb PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Paris, April 2007
72kb PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Warsaw, September 2006
46kb PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Paris, April 2006
56kb PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Warsaw, September 2005
46kb PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Warsaw, September 2004
45kb PDF file
Teachers’ Meeting / Paris, April 2004
31kb PDF file
