IFO4
Loading...Every chapter is anchored to credentialed members. Twenty-five practitioners with active IFO4 standing in the metro is the floor. The room is the bar of the chapter, not the size of the email list.
Chapters run a year-round event calendar in public view. Quarterly working dinners, a regional clinic for a CFOR ring, and at least one open lecture per quarter. Show up or hand the gavel back.
Each chapter elects a chair, a vice, a secretariat, and a working group liaison. Terms are two years, staggered. Ratifications and minutes are public. The chapter is a federation outpost, not a private club.
Chapters carry the IFO4 mark only while they meet the standard. Lapse the calendar, lose the credentialed bar, or fall out of governance and the charter goes back to the federation. The standard is the brand.
The chapters working group reads every charter statement. The bar is deliberate. Chapters that meet it are extended the federation mark. Chapters that miss the bar are coached, not denied.
One charter window each year. Apply during enrollment, work the first calendar through the year, and receive the charter at the IFO4 Summit.
Charter applications open in the federation portal. The chapters working group screens for completeness.
Founding members meet the chapters working group. Charter statements are read. Conflicts of interest are declared.
Approved chapters set up governance, run the first event, and ship the first quarterly minutes. Federation provides the playbook and a chair coach.
Chapters that cleared the bar are issued an official charter at the IFO4 Summit. The charter is read in public. The mark is granted.
Roles persist. People rotate. Two-year terms, staggered, so the gavel never changes hands at the same time as the calendar.
Chapters that drift get coached. Chapters that ignore the standard get the gavel taken back. The mark is the federation. The chapter has to earn it every year.
No event for two consecutive quarters. Charter goes into review. One miss is a warning. Two is a freeze.
Credentialed member count drops below the floor for ninety days. The chair has thirty days to file a recovery plan.
No minutes filed for two consecutive quarters. The chapters working group steps in and reseats the gavel.
Substantiated finding by the federation ethics review. The charter is suspended pending the disciplinary process.
START THE APPLICATION
Five credentialed founders, a draft calendar, a charter statement. Send it in. The chapters working group reviews on the published cadence and the chair coach gets paired with the founders the same week.