The International Re-evaluation Counseling Community

There is a substantial group of Co-Counselors who have organized themselves into what we call a "Community" or "Communities" of Re-evaluation Counseling. We in this group have decided that the information, the fellowship, the goals, and the apparently unending possibilities involved in working together with other people to use Co-Counseling and to advance the theory and practice are worth a persisting effort.

To become a member of the Co-Counseling Communities it is necessary (see The Guidelines) that you not only participate in activities but that you make a contribution, that you share in the many, many facets of work and activity that the Communities sponsor. There are several dozen publications, for example, with special readerships and constituencies. There are workshops and support groups and leadership roles and publications for people of different ethnic backgrounds, different national backgrounds. There are special workshops for people who seek liberation from particular oppressions, such as those of racism or sexism or classism.

There are special relationships in the Community, and competent leaders, for women and young people and men and college professors and black people and many other groups. There are support groups for people who share similar interests and backgrounds. These come together and use Re-evaluation Counseling in special ways to solve problems connected with their backgrounds, their oppressions, their professions, or their interests. There are "Information Coordinators." These are individual Co-Counselors who undertake to be information centers for Co-Counselors of a particular background, experience, or profession.

These activities, workshops, publications, support groups, and leaders' meetings are situations in which the mastering of Re-Evaluation Counseling and the use of it for personal advancement and re-emergence can be pursued intensively. To participate in them it is simply necessary that one help support and carry out these activities to the extent possible in one's living situation.