The on-line class materials are the result of decades of work by a large number of people. The information they contain is invaluable and represents some of the best thinking of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities. We therefore require that you treat this material with a good amount of care. Please make sure that the password you are given is kept in your hands only.
If you are an RC teacher, you are welcome to copy selected articles for your class, but wholesale copying of the class materials is not allowed.
To gain access to the on-line class materials, we require that you have a subscription to Present Time and that you have purchased the book "The List." The application therefore includes the purchase of these. The order form allows you to specify if you already have done that, in which case you are given a discount. Alternatively, you may re-sell or give the extra copies to a friend.
Active participation in this class will require a high level of commitment in terms of time and effort on your part. The following is required for a successful completion of the class.
To complete the On-line Re-evaluation Counseling Fundamentals Class you must have a partner who is committed to completing the class with you. The class is not easy to complete, so it is important that you both are willing and determined to put in the required effort. The potential gains you stand to receive from the class are well worth such an effort.
The Co-Counseling partner you choose can be anyone. While it certainly is possible (and very rewarding) to Co-Counsel with a committed partner or parent, it may be easier to attempt the class with a friend.
When a regular Fundamentals Class is taught, the teacher presents the reading materials to the class, usually during the first part of a class meeting. Because this class is on-line, you will have to read the articles yourself.
Each lesson will contain a list of reading materials that must be fully understood before you move on to the next class. These materials are divided into two groups:
The primary articles are essential for your understanding of the ideas presented in the lesson. You should take great care in reading these articles and in making sure that you have grasped their content.
The secondary articles are listed as an aid in understanding the primary articles. These articles often contain commentary from the Re-evaluation Counseling Community at the time when the basic ideas being presented were developed. They are therefore valuable in providing you with a deeper understanding of the topic.
Some of the references are to sections of a book, "The List". This book is not available on-line, but must be purchased from Rational Island Publishers.
The following printed publications (including "The List" are required for participation in the on-line class:
The place where you and your partner meet for your sessions should be private and with as few distractions as manageable. If you are a parent, for example, you may need to arrange for child care during your sessions, or your sessions are likely to be disrupted too often for you to concentrate well on the class materials and on your partner.
The effort required of you to become an efficient Co-Counselor is not small. To complete the class, you will need to meet regularly with your partner. A weekly meeting is preferable, although you could meet every two weeks, if necessary. If you meet less often than every two weeks, you will find it much more difficult to complete the class.
Each meeting (called a session) session should be scheduled to last 3 hours, of which 1 hour will be devoted to presentations and discussions, and the remaining 2 hours are for practicing what you have learned. You are likely to find it necessary to meet two or more times to complete a single lesson. Since there are altogether 12 lessons, you should count on 12-20 sessions to complete the on-line class.
One of the best ways to learn a topic is to try to explain it to someone else. When you meet, one of you will therefore make a short presentation of some of the main topics for the class.
In a regular class, presentations are usually done by the teacher or the assistant, but it will actually be more beneficial to you to do that yourself. It does require, however, that you are prepared before you and your partner meet. In other words, you must be willing to put in the time that is required to read the materials.
Another reason why this step is important is that many of the ideas that you are about to be exposed to are hard to grasp because they negate much of what you have learned elsewhere and now take for granted. Just reading this material is therefore not sufficient for a good understanding of these ideas.
You will often find that the primary articles for a lesson contain more material than you can reasonably cover in one session. That is fine. You may use as many sessions as you find necessary to fully cover the ideas presented in the primary reading material for the lesson. You may then optionally use additional sessions, if you like, to go through the follow-up materials.
Only when both of you and the on-line teacher are in agreement that you have understood the ideas in the primary reading material, should you proceed to the next class.
Each time you and your partner meet, you will spend a good amount of time (usually 2 hours total) practicing the ideas that are the topic of the lesson. While each lesson will contain suggestions for what to talk about during these sessions, it is not required that you follow those suggestions. However, it is important that you follow the instructions for how to conduct the sessions. In other words, the How is important, but the What is only a suggestion.
The session is the core activity in this class. You will not learn Re-evaluation Counseling without a lot of sessions where you and your Co-Counseling partner take turns paying attention to each other.
Much of the success of a class depends on the level and quality of the interaction between the student and the teacher. You are therefore encouraged and required to stay in close contact with your on-line teacher (this will be your responsibility, not that of the teacher).
After each session, please write down any questions, comments and/or concerns you may have about the session in particular or the lesson in general. Send them (via email) to your on-line teacher, who will try to clarify.
If the answer to your question is the topic of a subsequent class, the on-line teacher may decide to let you take that class out of sequence or ask that you wait for that particular class. In most cases, however, you can expect an immediate response to your questions, as they most likely are on the topic of the lesson you are working with.
Please don't let shyness get in your way of asking a lot of questions. This interaction is essential.
In most cases you and your Co-Counseling partner can work together on both the feedback and the response from the teacher. However, in some situations you may prefer to contact the teacher separately. Either way, make sure that you keep in touch.
To join RC you will be required to agree to two simple rules of conduct, the Confidentiality Rule and the No-Socializing Rule. The Confidentiality Rule states that everything that a client tells you during a session is completely confidential between you and that person, and must not be referred to afterwards in any way without the clients' agreement. The No-Socializing Rule states that you will not attempt to set up relationships other than the Co-Counseling relationship with people whom you meet through Re-evaluation Counseling. Both of these rules are designed to improve the safety of our relationships.
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