Do you find that your professional body really supports your work or is it more that it constantly undermines what you´re trying to do? Im a herbalist and it feels like my professional body is trying to destroy herbalism as a profession rather than supporting it, and my wife, who is a Yoga teacher, has experienced the same thing with her organisations.
      Answer1:there are many professional body types with a variety of missions.if there is one in your profession that is not doing "it" for you, whatever "it" is, then the obvious and right thing to do is to start a new one that will.this is as easy to start as creation an internet mailing list of interested people and maybe a basic web site so people can learn about the list.not much harder is to move people to a social network - there are many easy to create ones, and from there becoming a proper 501c3 or whatever might follow.