Policies for 1994 - 1998

As reaffirmed and modified by the World Conference, November, 1993, Aptos, California, USA

• Eliminate nuclear, bacteriological, and chemical weapons from the world.
• Establish a "unity of all humans" mentality as a dominant political thought in the majority of countries.
• Establish R.C. Communities with effective leadership in every country of the world.
• Translate and publish all R.C. theory in every language which has more than ten million speakers.
• Upgrade our communications facilities with computer networks, facsimile machines, long-distance telephone conferencing, and expanded publishing facilities.
• Centralize editing and decision-making for publication activities.
• Establish organization and leadership for all ages of people based on biennial groupings by years of birth.
• Establish mutual respect and support between all age groupings.
• Establish numerical domination of R.C. membership and leadership by working-class R.C.ers.
• Establish a racism-free cadre of white R.C.ers to model and lead the elimination of racism for whites everywhere.
• Bring people of color into active leadership positions at all levels of leadership in R.C.
• Achieve an actual "no-limits" mentality and operating attitude for all women R.C.ers.

As added at the World Conference of November, 1993, Aptos, California, USA:

• Establish a norm or average growth rate for the number of R.C.ers and the number of Areas of doubling at least every two years, and make persistent GROWTH a characteristic of all Community organizations.
• Actually require the teaching of a fundamentals class, at least every year, for an R.C. teacher to retain certification.
• Achieve the selling of bundles of PRESENT TIME or equivalent signing up of subscribers for PRESENT TIME or key available translations, as a taken-for-granted activity of every R.C. leader. Achieve the circulation and sale of liberation journals by R.C. teachers, support group leaders, City-wide Coordinators and Wygelian leaders' meetings.
• Reference People need to be bold in encouraging new teachers to teach and in issuing credentials.
• Promote the full use of written information. Establish "literature advocates" in each Area whose job is to encourage full access to and use of written information, including assisting people to eliminate the hurts related to reading.

Policy on Attacks

As reaffirmed and modified at the World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, November, 1993, Aptos, California, USA

• Attacks on any member or leader are not attempts at correcting mistakes but rather dramatizations of distress. These are not acceptable behaviors within the R.C. Community. In this context, an "attack" may be either an organized attempt to disrupt the functioning of the Community or any smearing of an individual. These are dramatizations of distress patterns, and while an underlying motivation may be to attract attention and ask for counseling help with the distress, this is not a workable procedure and is not acceptable behavior.
• It is the job of all members of the R.C. Community to interrupt such attacks: this includes the interruption of gossip. In preparation, it is every member's job to counsel on whatever fears obstruct his or her ability to do so.
• Counseling resource should be offered to those participating in such attacks only on the condition of first ceasing the attacks and apologizing for having participated in the attacks.

Policy on Criticism and Gossip

As adopted at the November, 1993, World Conference, Aptos, California,USA

In an effort to have a climate in R.C. that does not encourage gossip or attacks and allows for the legitimate correcting of mistakes and the interruption of patterns:

• Any Co-Counselor who has an issue with a Co-Counseling leader's behavior, shall communicate the criticism directly to that person and seek a resolution, and not express such criticisms to anyone else inside or outside of R.C.
• If not resolved satisfactorily, or if confronting the person is too difficult, the criticism shall then be expressed to the Reference Person within whose jurisdiction both the criticizer and the object of the criticism function.
• Criticisms, whether they arise from other R.C.ers or from attacks coming from outside the R.C. Community, shall not be circulated to other R.C.ers, neither as gossip nor in the guise of rehearsing upsets as a client in one's sessions.
• If the issues of the criticizer have not been resolved with the appeal to the Reference Person, they then shall be taken to the next level of Reference Person but not spread through the Community.
• If the issue of the criticizer is not resolved with appeals to the higher level of Reference Person, and if the criticizer continues to disrupt the R.C. Community, then that person should resign or be dropped from Re-evaluation Counseling. The important good work being carried on among Co-Counselors cannot tolerate disruption by continued attacks.