Going Public - Commentary

Timing:

• Let's start it tonight!!
• Going public is a good thing at some point, but there were differences of opinion about whether now is the right time to do it.
• Time is right for this. We have the resources.
• We are ready to come out of the underground. World Conference on Women is the most recent and bold showing of RC to the public. Do more things like this.
• It is the right time.
• This is the right time to go public. It will be a contradiction to the internalized oppression of Chicanas/Chicanos and all people of color. We need to choose ILRP's who are non-USers.

Good Reasons Why:

• This will be fun-the big one on the roller coaster-whee!
• Don't forget that going public boldly is fun-relax, discharge your desperation; it's for you and your re-emergence.
• Large numbers of people should have access to RC information. We have no right to keep information from people
• Taking RC public will not be difficult if we remember exactly what it is we are taking public. We are taking RC theory and practice public. We are taking our system for raising human intelligence public. It is not difficult for most people today to object to the idea that human beings are good, intelligent, cooperative, and zesty unless they have been hurt, and that taking turns listening and discharging are useful. Most people want to believe our rational ideas are true.
• RC participation in Beijing Conference was a very successful sharing of RC theory with wide, world organizations. It is an excellent model for being bold and public with RC
• RC Communities are strong enough to withstand attacks.
• Not so radically different than what we already do; it's a "kick in the pants" to do it with integrity and give the whole package-all the theory, policy, etc. There is no rational reason to leave out any of what we've figured out.
• Ties in to the growth part-if we do this, then growth will come.
• This goal is a good idea, also a good direction or commitment.
• There is absolutely no reason for us not to take a hard public presence and openly share RC theory and practice everywhere.
• We are proud of RC. The idea of taking RC public is exciting and offers us an opportunity to demonstrate our courage, integrity and boldness.
• We get to: acknowledge how good RC is in our lives; be completely clear about our theory and practice; have courage and integrity so we can be open to public scrutiny
• A public presence is the only way we're going to reach the working class and people of color, internationally. Among these groups, there are people ready to step into leadership. There is more free attention than we think.
• RC is a tool to end capitalism and we should spread it widely in my lifetime.
• Women's Conference in Beijing served as one outstanding model of communicating RC along with building relationships-the RC women saw that as their successes with participants increased, RC women were better able to share the information with pride and confidence and boldness.
• When society collapses, it will be good to have already established ourselves publicly.
• This is giving credit where credit is due.
• If we're going to change the world, it makes sense to reach as many people as we can.
• Pushes us faster than otherwise. Asking us to take on leadership of the world, just like leadership of RC.
• Going public will be a helpful push to our cleaning up our sloppiness in language and require us to behave with greater integrity on many fronts.
• This could be very helpful. There used to be a notion that we weren't going to be public. Boldness is a contradiction to timid patterns. It's good when people client at us about RC. I'm the only person they know who's doing this.
• It is always good to add more intelligence to the pot! It is good to stretch people to be around those different from them. We need to balance making sure people are well grounded in RC with going out with bold initiatives.
• Test of our integrity. We need to think as we do it.
• We will make some mistakes but it is more important to put ourselves out there. To decide. To act.
• Going public gives us more opportunities to discharge on our integrity and courage.
• It is important to get the tool in the hands of as many people as possible.
• We are ready for this. We don't know what's going to happen. pursuing going public will move us all forward.
• It is a relief and very good to be able to go public. We can be proud of and emphasize the clarity of our theory and practice.
• The idea is very re-emergent for all of us.
• Deciding to do this gives people the opportunity to clean up our lives and anything in the organisation.
• This could make us a stronger organisation.
• Excitement about doing this goal which contradicts any timidity we might have.
• We hold the key information therefore, we need to share it widely; people are hungry for this information.
• This will take RC out of the "secret cult" association.
• Going public will mean we can do something about "mental health" oppression. This may help correct Community patterns.
• This goal would have us discharging on our own feelings about the organization of RC and discharging on being attacked which is a likely potential as we become more visible
• There is a war in this country that needs to be fought with correct thinking.
• Deciding to go public gives people the opportunity to clean up their lives and anything in the organization.
• We actually began this with Beijing. This is a very exiting and major historical shift. While we need to be realistic about the oppressive society's reactions to our initiatives, we are in position to make major change by going boldly and thoughtfully public.
• It would be great-we've been correctly doing this for a long time. We've been moving this well. Startles me, makes a lot of sense-so many take this as their own already.
• RC is a possible source for getting to correct thinking. Going public does not have to be about recruitment. We can use it to get people to think about things of concern.
• We want to remember that this is actually something that we have accomplished.
• I need to be more public about RC and issues that force not just me but my whole Community.
• This goal would have us discharging on our own feelings about the organization of RC and discharging on being attacked which is a likely potential as we become more visible.
• This goal seems a useful correction to the timidity of naturalizing RC.
• We are only trying to be who we already are. We have lost it and now are attempting to get it back.
• What we call RC is a name for people healing from hurts so they can think well and there isn't anyone on the planet who doesn't want to do that.
• If we get to do this together we will do great things.
• This will bring in people who don't have relationships with other RCers.
• Screening will continue to be important and new and creative ways of teaching RC will be developed.
• We agree with this goal: RC will be the voice of reason.
• It's like Superman swooping down and saying TADA! We're ready to go.
• People will follow good leaders, not just good policy.
• We need to continue to get close to people.
• Our current leadership is great.
• We have a world wide membership
• We have experts & speakers for a bureau
• It's a good idea. When things are going well in our lives and in RC it makes sense to go public with RC theory and practice and policy.
• The theory is clear; we know something. We can talk about it and discharge as we go.
• This will help people to not be secretive and spread RC more widely.
• There are many people who are not ready to counsel but who could benefit greatly by some good information on TV or in the newspaper.
• It will be fun and a continuation of what we already do in another form. It may take a few steps.
• Good goal
• It is basically correct to share RC in the wide world. It is incorrect not to do so because of patterns of timidity.
• This is about leading, inspiring, and organizing to eliminate every form of humans hurting humans: to do so in a united way, with strong support and very carefully.
• To trust each other, the possibility to trust everybody
• To speak out, feeling safe, no limitation.
• Naturalised RC is important and makes a big difference. When people see/feel the process they are very interested. Then they insist on getting more information.
• Sliding scale fees are useful for the wide world.
• This will all be helpful as we continue thinking about people targeted for destruction.
• Frees us to advertise
• We decided to accept the challenge of this goal and spent our time putting it into practice: six of the most brilliant, powerful women showed through just doing it how to assume a bold stance and openly share Re-evaluation Counseling theory and practice. Each of us took a turn. We noticed that by not paying attention to distress we discharged and were able to model RC elegantly. At the same time, as each woman took her turn the richness, boldness and originality of the presentations increased. We recommend this process for training people to lead and be close to each other.
• We will find a lot of support from unlikely places. People will be excited. This is part of what will help us through the hard stuff of being public.
• We will learn something by going public-deciding as a Community to not pay attention to our distress being in RC 24 hours a day
• New folks will be critical in making the leap to a broader, bolder RC (maybe the smartest of us are not yet in our ranks).
• The assumption behind the proposal is that there is one reality. This means we can take a stand on things. We can say, "This is true." We may have different visions of that reality but as we clearer our visions will get closer. Everybody has a part of the picture.
• People are waiting for others to enable them/assist them to think, and encourage them to act on their true integrity.
• Pieces of information such as the rational needs of human being and frozen needs, for example, are so profound that they have the impact to change lives. We would be stupid not to go public with ideas like that.

Difficulties:

• Challenging to introduce discharge
• When we have naturalized RC, people have often added where their ideas come from. Would be easier if there was a clear public reference point.
• Fear of going public is connected to "mental health" oppression. For example, if we have difficulty providing the complete picture of RC, to the ones closest to us-including such statements as we must end class oppression and on the other hand, owning class people are completely good"-how can we expect to go public on a wide scale?
• The habit of embarrassment over talking straight out about RC needs discharge. How about one day workshop on embarrassment?
• Timidity can be related to "mental health" oppression-discharge!
• The challenge seems to be something about competition between RC and religion.

On Attacks:

• We were wildly successful in Beijing and we weren't attacked.
• Do we really want attack material spread more broadly? At this time, media will sensationalize. How do we deal with that? Are we ready to handle attacks?
• RC has been tested and has surmounted attacks.
• We can put ourselves out there as a powerful force: "If you mess with us, you've got a real fight on your hands."
• The attacks are already there, and so far, no one's died.
• Some people will love us, some will hate us. Get used to it.
• How would we go public if we weren't scared of attacks?
• Those going public should be skilled in handling attacks from places where RC is not respected.
• We need to handle other people's distresses easily and relaxedly.
• Common feelings: terrified to go public with RC; fears of attacks; it's excellent for those who want to do it.
• That as we do this, realize there will be attacks and we need to get over our timidity in handling attacks-and remember we've been doing it all along.
• If we avoid restimulation about the patterns and mistakes that have been misrepresented as RC, then we will have no problems explaining, and even defending RC theory and practice. Many people want these ideas openly presented as RC.
• Should be prepared and strategic about potential attacks.
• RC will be vulnerable to attacks as long as the word "counseling" restimulates "mental health" oppression. Because we don't get rich, there are no credentials, tests, medically "legitimate" procedures, attacks will come.
• The goal is a very good direction because we are currently very secretive about RC. People (we) need to discharge lots of feelings about possible attacks and learn (know) how to handle them well (if they happen).
• The main reason to naturalize RC is because of a history of attacks.
• The main problem is that many leaders like us have not taken responsibility for publicizing and answering questions about RC. Then the burden falls on those few who do.
• We think well about one another as committed members of this project-no attacks policy is of key importance. Going public will open our leaders to attack. We will back our leaders well.
• We will become more of a threat to establishment organizations. "Mental health" system, for instance. News media takes things out of context to make sensational headlines. We have to go cautiously. "Test market" to learn and grow and develop strategy. When the public sees heavy sessions, they need good information.
• Person with experience who works in "mental health" system, has been open about RC with "mental health" workers. Has made friends, has gathered their trust. Acknowledged the disagreement on drugs. Good relationships have backed her up.
• Web attacks are damaging
• No special classes on the anti-RC web site. Try to discharge about the info that is there. People need to be able to handle the attacks that are out there.
• What does public presence mean? If this means media, then Western countries will probably be most difficult. Greed patterns are entrenched here. Threats to government and owning class will bring attacks. So start with the developing countries, where greed patterns might not interfere so badly. Use Beijing test run as our guide.
• Attacks, attacks, work with children is especially difficult. Large, heavy attacks. Expense, time and resources. Defense committee needed to approve whatever goes on. Know where we are prone to attack or have been attacked.
• Train people on handling attacks-part of RC classes. We need to know how to defend ourselves anyway.
• Write pamphlet let on how to think about handling attacks.
• USers are a lot more worried about attacks than the Canadians.
• RC has correct policy on not answering attacks, but leaders become rigid and reactionary, leaders get scared and react. Leaders need to handle well how RC Community feels around attack material. We need to be counselors there.
• There will be a lot of correct information out there about RC to offset any attacks. Also, being open and proud about RC will contradict attacks.
• Discharging on our deepest fears will give more confidence and better able to handle attacks.
• We need to be able to welcome attacks.
• We are looking forward to making big mistakes and alienating whole states and provinces, then happily cleaning it up.
• Holding out unpopular ideas-good to be prepared, we can think strategically about attack handling.
• Strategize by preparing to handle attacks in areas where people are most likely to feel vulnerable.
• We know we will be attacked, but will be able to win over most of the attackers by sticking humanly to our guns.
• We need to grow in our ability to handle controversy.
• Some of the places we can expect attacks are: cult, personal attacks on leaders, not being "democratic," some of our policies such as the Gay policy, from corporations and agencies that will be threatened, i.e. "mental health" system, drug companies, as well as political organizations.
• We have unprecedented resources within our Communities (discharge/re-evaluation process, and a large, and smart membership) to handle attacks. This will allow us to defuse many attacks quickly as well as to recover quickly and keep going back smarter and stronger again and again until we have won people over to correct positions.
• Become more effective at deciding when and how to handle an attack and when to pay no attention to it.
• Some will be threatened-mental health, drug companies will seek a way to attack and destroy, to say nothing of the political.
• We need to figure out how to take on controversy. (At Beijing, we identified as members of the organization.) Scary, exciting, and necessary to be able to take positions. Yes, we'll get attacked. We know from experience that you gain attackers as allies if you stick to your guns. At least we have a process we can rely on.
• Work on feelings about being attacked.
• The more work we can do on attacks and building strong Communities, the better we can handle the challenges. Strength around policy in general is important.
• Are we ready as a community to take the crap that will be thrown at us (me)? We will be holding up contradictions and this will attract sessions and attacks. Can we afford not to be?
• Family work could be attacked. Really learn to develop allies. We will know who our allies are.
• Going public means discharging whatever it takes to be able to handle attacks. We have to prepare ourselves.
• Only thing that's stopping us is our own resistance (U.S.'s).
• As we go public we will be in a stronger position to handle attacks. Becoming more open will make RC look less like a cult from the outside.
• There will be attacks as we go public and we need to strategize about how to handle them. On the other hand, we have a growing circle of respect and are attractive, so going public isn't inherently dangerous.
• It's powerful to learn we can survive attacks.
• We will get attacked so we need to have many leaders, not just one.
• We're not ready because we are not ready for the attacks.
• Vulnerability to attack has dictated how much we shared publicly in the past.
• Concern about our response to wider community could open us up to attacks and lawsuits.
• The more open we are able to be about going public, the better we will be able to handle attacks
• It is more difficult when RC is not known and then attacked
• Let's have workshops on how to handle attacks.
• There will be many leaders to handle attacks, not just Harvey.
• We need to be ready for what comes at us, for example large volumes of people or various attacks.
• Going public will = more public attacks-we just need to discharge, handle them and get used to it.
• Attacks will come. We need a unified front.
• By going public we will be targeted for attacks by the pharmaceutical industry as people will rely on the tools or RC to heal themselves instead of going to the "mental health" system. We need to be prepared to handle attacks made "in the name of science."
• Have workshops in the communities on handling attacks.
• There is nothing to lose but our fear.

Things to consider first:

• To go public with RC requires thinking about who you are going public to, and having a relationship with those people.
• In proclaiming RC, we need to remember to see that the lives we are living are consistent with what RC stands for-we need to "walk the talk."
• We, as leaders, in keeping with a commitment to integrity and courage should already be living, modeling and sharing this theory openly.
• Be publicly clear and specific that policy means draft policy
• Reading and working on this goal can be used as a direction for discharge on what gets in the way of starting now.
• Being public and being out of context does not make sense.
• People will need to discharge about talking to people about RC-introducing it fully
• We will need to be tighter on theory and guidelines, to be decisive.
• Add "playfully" or "joyfully" before public presence to keep a relaxed tone. The best salable features of Co-Counseling is that we aim for being relaxed and modeling that our lives are going well.
• Discharge before going public, not to be rushed/urgent. From now until the world conference, discharge on reclaiming the identity of being a representative of and supporter of Re-evaluation Counseling theory and practice.
• Keeping in mind the notion of not focusing on our distress; how we approach our publics will be important.
• Get to stop making assumptions about whether or not people want this information. Be more open.
• A short statement of what we stand for would be useful.
• The policy and resulting attacks reconsider the looseness of how RC is taught.
• The only difference between any one of us and a leader we admire, who's inspired us (i.e. Martin Luther King) is that they made a decision. If we can decide to discharge to the point of thinking that big-people will flock
• Need to push on our isolation. We'll (temporarily) have to feel very uncomfortable. Think about it on a bigger and bigger level.
• Need to discharge on (completely reclaiming) being open-hearted.
• Need to be careful and thoughtful in doing it. (Example: making a thoughtful connection with both parent (1st) and child (2nd).
• We need to end the "ancient habit" of respecting the millions of patterns there are in the world.
• Discharge on timidity or any other feelings that get in the way of allowing each of us to relaxedly and proudly uphold the project of RC with integrity.
• Clarify, through discharge, the difference between RC theory, policy, guidelines, and process, and decide to make the project and thinking our own.
• Important to express our deep pride in and respect for the organization.
• Middle class have had a free ride so far. Will need to fight like we are not used to. Will need to take the stand the poor and working class have faced all along.
• Being good at making friends will make this easier. Pretense will be a log-jam.
• Discharge about presentation and display integrity (more important when in the public eye).
• Need to be able to handle distortions as RC ideas put out publicly.
• We need to get past the awkwardness/embarrassment about what we do-Re-evaluation Counseling-and be proud of our accomplishments in order to take the next step of going public
• Important piece to counter shame/embarrassment in publicly talking about RC. Be proud of this thinking, the models. Always . . . thinking-refer him forward.
• "For reaching respect" we need to look at how much we respect what we are bringing to the table, to others, be truthful.
• We have to be far more comfortable in looking at our distress. RC deserves to withstand the scrutiny. Up the ante of being able to live a life of honesty and courage.
• Becomes critical that we are not sloppy if we go public.
• Work on terror, early sexual memories, correcting and protecting leaders, attacks, "mental health" oppression, attacks, classism, Gay oppression, homophobia, attacks around family work
• What get put out first is what you get known by. So it makes a difference what we present first and who is up front. Some of our leaders are so clear and ingratiating that people would look forward to coming up against them.
• There is secrecy about being in RC.
• It would be good to have examples of the "far-reaching respect" that RC has.
• If we make decisions and discharge thoroughly around caring, we will be able to care about our Communities fiercely and be able to come up with bold and thoughtful initiatives from the very big to the very small.
• We have to culturally translate RC to non-USers (rest of the world). In order to translate RC to other cultures we have to learn people's history so we can talk in a language they can understand.
• We will need to be watchful of capitalistic forces trying to take parts of RC, distort it and make money off it.
• Bold public presence initiative should be in communication with the Co-Counseling area, use referencing as a model in doing this.
• While each Co-Counselor should be encouraged to go public in their own backyard, when we are talking about larger initiatives the IRP and appropriate others need to plan or approve plans. No Limits for Woman in Beijing is a good model for future efforts.
• We can find good success when we communicate RC as a model of how human relationships can be, rather than how to fix being victimized.
• We should communicate RC as a method of human liberation rather than as a type of help or therapy for people.
• As we go public, we will all have to work harder to eliminate anti-Semitism and other oppressions and discharge on distresses that make us vulnerable to attacks.
• Consider a possible name change for our organization.
• The letters RC is often confused with Roman Catholicism, especially in England.
• It is necessary to present Co-Counseling not as therapy but as a set of tools for living a good life and making the world a better place.
• Our practice is not a prescription that must be followed rigidly. As we present Co-Counseling, we present clear theory well but the practice often gets distorted by our patterns.
• A bold presence means having the courage to be real, not rigid, arrogant or righteous.
• We will continue discharging in places RC theory is restimulating for us to talk about, so we can communicate our pride. We need to discharge/have the courage to move RC thinking out into the world. Be strategic re: ramifications, like presenting theory on psychotropic medicines to psychiatrists.
• People need to bring themselves with themselves when they model co-counseling. Show real honest caring-lose the pretense. Help each other model counseling by not colluding with each other's stuff.
• This goal will require that we share our lives more fully with more people. We will also need to present RC cleanly and in an appetizing way.
• We need to start slowly and be prepared with leadership to handle new people.
• Our group wanted to clarify that these public presentations of RC by individuals need to be approved by their ARPs first.
• We need to thing about the Indian folks and rural areas in Trinidad as we recruit black people. Counseling needs more black men, black people, and young people. Also need to think about teaching a class for three years. Need to recruit non-USers, people of color and young people to make RC attractive to non-USers and for perspective on U.S. struggles.
• We can't separate the growth from the depth. The guidelines mention double the communities every few years-but if you don't have roots, it is hard to grow. There should be more men than women, more people of color than white folks. The position in RC is not to recruit lesbians in general. We should put out information about RC as widely as possible.
• In the South, communities have grown in numbers but there hasn't been enough ongoing work to keep growing and expand. It will be necessary to work on Southern internalized oppression and liberation: feeling that Southerners are stupid or bad makes it hard to grow.
• The Asian community is growing rapidly. It is important to me to support Asians of the historically and currently colonized and oppressed nations such as Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines to lead the Asian RC community. In Boston, there is a growing Vietnamese immigrant community, as well as other Asian communities I could organize into fundamentals. Can we use the resource of the Co-Counseling in our community to teach and learn languages?
• There aren't many people in my geographic area counseling-mostly Gay and Lesbian and Bisexual counselors. It's our challenge to take bold initiative and challenge feelings regarding the community and the internalized oppression of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual folks. We need to focus on not recruiting Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual folks. Vermont seems like a colonized state-people come from the outside; we need to pay attention to the dairy farmers and rural folks. We've been focusing on getting close to relationships before taking big steps out.
• We need to debunk the myth that "the dangerous ones" are locked up in our criminal justice system and "mental health" systems. As a woman, and ex-inmate of the mental health system, I've needed to discharge my fear of being raped and murdered-a way we are terrorized to settle for limited lives to sexism-as I've brought other ex-inmates into RC.
• We need to think about who is our audience and what we are trying to accomplish.
• We need to discharge on a piece of integrity so that we can stand by our key leaders and not bolt.
• Each of the Communities needs to be involved in this.
• Need to make my own commitment to RC. "What the heck," I need to do it.
• Support goal. Need to do this to get ready for attacks.
• We need to develop fierce allies to assist with confusion and attacks related to being more public with RC. We need to share information widely and one result of this will be to develop allies even outside of the RC community.
• The interaction between unity and bold individual initiative is required to pull off this goal of going public.
• Some clarification is needed about how the current guidelines that no one besides a certified teacher can speak in the name of RC would apply to this goal
• We need to notice how well we've done and how much resource we have to offer.
• Leave it up to RCers in different countries to judge whether they can go public in terms of safety (e.g. Libya, Iran)
• At work it would be helpful to me if they had heard about Co-Counselling, helpful if the information was out there, but we need to pick strategic project, like Beijing, where we did a lot of thinking and planning.
• It is important for the good of RC and the wide world to see that what happens in the U.S. is happening all over with a variety of people. It is not just a white liberal U.S. thing.
• Need to be thoughtful about differences globally.
• It needs to look different if it goes public.
• Formalizing research done about RC theory could be helpful.
• The example of the preparation work that went into Beijing helps us to think about all that we have to do and how to use the Community to do this.
• We need to work out specific timetables and goals and in which particular projects and events there should be and RC presence.
• We need to discharge and regain whatever we need, to know that we are physically safe, in order to move "mental health" liberation forward and gain slack to counsel those stereotyped as violent or "out of control."
• I want us to define growth to mean more than just the number of beans we have. Growth needs to include depth and breadth.
• RC needs to both be an internal private process to benefit our lives, but it is life.
• We need to discharge so that we can be seen as having different ideas than the society at large. Not comfortable with the phrase that growth equals functioning. We can have lots of growth and not be functioning well.
• We need a group to think about how best to go public and about who in the Community would be appropriate to do that.
• We need to leave it up to RCers in different countries to judge whether they can safely go public at this time.
• Set the goal and be aware that some people will be ready to do this straight away and some people not.
• Discussion about what a public presence means
• If the policy comes from Seattle, there is a central control on what is being made public. These policy papers will be useful discussion pieces. An end-run around timidity.
• Call it Re-evaluation Process rather than Re-evaluation Counseling might solve some problems-it's a natural process.
• Need to do this as if it's our own. Present it as a liberation movement, not as a therapy. We need clear distinctions about who is in the Community and who is not, because the world needs the information and it forces us to discharge on stuff about our relationships with RC and the secretiveness about it.
• Timidity has inhibited the spread of RC to people who could and would use it well. However there is no assurance that going public will improve anything.
• Sensitivity to diverse communities is essential to translating how these various communities are either truly vulnerable or perceived to be vulnerable.
• Real rigor in our Communities will be necessary, i.e. integrity/courage/"blue pages."
• Undischarged oppressive patterns in the Communities really have to be cleaned up if we're going public so that it doesn't limit who we select to represent /RC's public image.
• We need to clean up a number of other distresses such as "mental system" oppression, classism, racism, etc. It will take a lot of resource. This especially relates to cleaning up any issues about going public and being considered "weird."
• Real discipline will be necessary for this goal and a blurring of public and private lives may have to occur.
• There is a fine line between being bold and reckless . . . there is different accountability when we represent as a group than when we represent ourselves as individuals.
• Individual people not being secret about being counselors. What will we have to discharge to do this? It would be useful to take the direction for discharge that anytime we share thinking based on RC, we would also identify that it comes from RC theory or policy.
• Review previous unsuccessful efforts about publicizing RC.
• We need to discharge embarrassment.
• We would need to allay fears that RC is a cult.
• We need to work towards going public, not the Oprah Winfrey show approach.
• As we go public we must expect what is a very irrational media. We need to develop media skills. There are interested questions and hostile questions.
• We need to take what we've learned from wide-world organisations like Patty Wipfler's
• We have to move ourselves to say that I am RC, not as something we do. We need to claim it as identity and life, not separate ourselves. We need to counsel on the "mental health" oppression fear of being locked up for teaching people RC.
• All of us would have to think together.
• RC could be really restimulating for Gay, Lesbian, bisexual communities.
• We need to fully claim who we are, and give up being acceptable to everybody. Many individuals are public about RC, but having to defend it on a public platform is something else.
• We need a group to think about how to think about going public within this and who in the community would be most appropriate to do that
• Think about where we need to discharge.
• We need a specific timetable, specific goals, and a choice of particular projects and events in which to introduce RC
• Use Beijing as an example of preparation work, what has to be done and how to use the community to do it.
• That as an organization we be strategic about where, how and when we go public, keeping in mind the intended goal of every public action that we take on behalf of RC.
• It would mean being counselor more, everyday, everywhere.
• Integrity and courage.
• Need more clearly written literature
• Need to prepare for a large influx of people coming into classes
• As we get more public, we will have to be rigorous because the light of the public eye will show up any inconsistencies in the presentation of our theory and practice.
• All USers need to work on U.S. distresses which are related to the U.S. role of imperialism in the world.
• We will have to discharge mental health oppression, activist's oppression, and fears around religious cults.
• As we make RC more public, we need to have worked on "mental health" oppression issues.
• RCers need to do more work on discharging racism. Also, it would be helpful if we change language to make it more accessible to everyone. For example, the phrase, "This is early," isn't easily understandable to people who are new to RC concepts.
• Our "culture"-"jargon"-could be cleared up by going mainstream. The effect on the organization might be helpful. Because of expected attacks, we need to store up internally around policy on attacks.
• A majority of Native people are lucky to graduate from 8th grade. Editing needed for the literature.
• In order to accomplish this goal we would need to reexamine our previous assumptions about infiltrating organizations.
• Encourage the exercise of flexible thinking regarding what to go public with and how to go public with.
• Need to understand what it means-"not a democracy"-we would get rapped soundly by the public on that. Beijing was the closest to military I've been-there are times you have to put the good of the group and the whole ahead of everything.
• Distinction between going public with your thinking and from a base of RC.
• Difference between recruiting maybe put in Guidelines near gossip page.
• It's important to get information out. Going public individually. We should all be doing. As an organization, need to select what will find acceptance-for instance the Gay Policy will surely be attacked.
• If we get behind this goal we will need to have wide network of really close connections with other leaders to see how this is going.
• In order to pull this off RCers are going to have to start thinking about themselves primarily as RCers.
• Life would be a lot easier in a lot of ways if it was more public. The public's feelings about cults and factions would be a concern.
• Clearly, we all want to be doing this and if not we need to be discharging on our "mental health" oppression.
• What gets put out first is what you get known by. It also depends on who's standing in front. Some would be so ingratiating and clear that people would look foolish coming against them.
• The oppression theory is right on target. Need to be discharging "mental health" stuff, so discharge piece needs to be put forth. The more confident one is the easier to do this.
• Beijing was a good model for boldly and thoughtfully taking RC public. There was a lot of work that went into it. People strategized a lot in advance. We can work in groups to make it go well world wide.
• If we go public, then we have to be confident in all areas. And we have to look like we're acting with complete integrity to be prepared for attacks. Be "out" as an RCer.
• Trying to be public-we're going to have to "walk the talk." We have to make sure about things and no matter what the policy and theory of RC is. We have to think about who gets to take this on; people have to work on religion stuff. Make it more public-means we may not want to take everything on. Many feelings aren't turning people down.
• Work on cult stuff. Be tough about what we're doing
• This cannot be a substitute for people's relationships.
• Going public will only work if we continue to make one-on-one relationships with people.
• Some clarification between unity and bold individual initiative is required to pull off this goal of going pubic.
• As an organization, be strategic about where, how and when we go public. Keeping in mind the intended goal of every public action that we take on behalf of RC.
• We need to do the work about disagreements.
• We well have to be even more vigorous with our theory and practice because the light of the pubic eye will show up any inconsistencies.
• We well have to discharge distress such as "mental health" oppression, activists' oppression and fears around cults and religions.
• RC is a policy for all human beings to do whatever we need to do to get rid of the embarrassment and shame of talking about anything that really matters to us when there is a disagreement. The trust, safety discharge between people of color and white people need to be moved, we need to work on the fear of attack of being public because that's what scares us.
• We need to pay close attention to the language we use with those people unfamiliar with RC-avoid jargon and other words that are likely to be misunderstood. Speak simply, clearly and directly.
• It will be good to learn from the experiments and experiences we've done to date.
• We need to pay close attention to organizational issues associated with how we communicate to the public. Want to make sure the information is neither watered down nor inconsistent.
• We need to face our fears of rejection and humiliation and make a decision to be more visible.
• We agree that a growing Community is a healthy Community. At the same time, we need to work on keeping people active and connected to the Community. We want to eliminate attitudes or behaviors that give the impression that we RCers don't have anything to learn from others. We must allow to come forward our claims that re-emergence is a natural process, about which we have lots to learn from other constituencies.
• In making this commitment to growth, let us be clear that our motivation is that we want and need each other rather than some capitalistic notion of growth and creativity.
• Get good on dealing with "mental health" system oppression.
• For possibility of law suits, have in mind disclaimers, etc.
• Mustn't be naive about privacy, wiretaps, or people coming in with an agenda of disrupting us. Must take seriously the transition from fundamentals to membership.
• Must stay accountable to the people we bring in to RC, and not just toss them into the Community.
• We can't wait until we feel ready. Must come up with clear correct ways to handle attacks. We need a way to have support and backing to speak for RC.
• Really have to be close. All the constituencies getting close, learning each other's stories. That way we're united and members of that constituency can respond when someone is attacked.
• We need: 1. policies; 2. strategies; 3. resources.
• Commitment to go boldly public-being very up front about what we are about
• It never seems like it is the right time to carry out a revolutionary idea. We are ready. However, we need to sharpen our understanding and counseling about attacks before we go public.
• The Co-Counseling Community should be thoughtful on how to get the tools into everyone's hands.
• We need guidelines, such as: 1) Criteria for spokespersons for RC. Well connected leaders who are not marginalized. Leaders will discharge as they learn to decisively handle attacks and controversy; 2) Assessing the resources of the Community to handle the implications i.e., numbers, quality of classes, attacks, etc.; 3) Distinguish between making information available, and opening the door to our Communities. For example, teaching taking turns listening. 4) Task forces locally to internationally, connected thru the Internet, to respond to current events, or take on long term projects providing resource and information.
• Don't work in isolation, teams, support
• Figure out fundraising-to allow us to do more of this (going public) because a lack of money can be a hindrance to people being able to put out correct thinking and policy.
• Do more counseling on money.
• We have a system of reference people to check out our thinking. How well we use this resource will make a difference in how well things go as we go public.
• Must be able to answer attacks
• Each Community is unique and different, and therefore may be able to handle issues at different levels. If an established Community does something (bold, big initiative) smaller, younger, newer Communities nearby may need to be able to handle it, too.
• In China, we decided to be counselors, not clients, when going public. This is essential. If not, attacks will come fast and furious.
• We will need a guideline to go with the goal, to frame it and to know what are limits are.
• Complete freedom to express differences of opinion on any question is a necessary preliminary to reaching enlightened and accurate positions. This freedom is not to be confused with the acceptance or tolerance of irrational positions for the sake of greed, or maintaining past traditions, or of maintaining oppression.
• We think this reads better in reverse (this is a joke). It's obviously scary so we ought to do it. It's correct. It changes the face of the workplace. A bold public presence, that's the core. Lots of fear-but this is for us and not an obligation. We need to strategize about how to do this. New ways to describe things in different terms than what RC uses. We need to be really thoughtful about people. Many get restimulated by our terminology and theory. Discharge "mental health" oppression. Teach our friends fundamentals instead of sending them to others. Get over fear if not doing it right. Take it to senior citizen centers and homes. Think about how to go into the schools on gender violence and set up support and discharge for them-not just "educate." Not necessarily do more things, but be more open and direct about it. Be willing to discharge openly in front of people (agree to client as leader). Have people who we listen well to listen to us. No more one sided. Take the risk. HARVEY LEARNED TO COUNSEL FROM SOMEONE JUST DECIDING TO CLIENT. Leaders need to client good for the Community.
• We need to have the approval of RC leadership when disseminating information to the public about RC.
• Don't doubt the important things we have to offer.
• In order to support this effort: Get and keep our RC communities in good shape; Have ways to share information on successes and challenges. Maybe an information coordinator, or a journal; Be prepared to be attacked-counsel on this; Create some standard material to use for some forms of public presentations; Make sure we do not bring a flood of white middle class people into our RC Communities; The places where we have connections with others are the best places to go public.
• To spread out RC you need to have a strong Community around you.
• The "second world" will need strong support from the "first world" to realize this goal.
• We should not be careless about who speaks for RC.
• This is a call to reach correct policy inside the community, to decide which positions do or do not result from distress, where our lines are drawn, and then to act as a Community on those issues, actively supporting each other to act in our chosen fields.
• It will have to be implemented taking into consideration right timing conditions for different countries, Communities, and constituencies.
• More effective to demonstrate RC rather than write/talk about it.
• Important to sort out legal aspects of the organisation in different countries.
• It's important to set the priorities of groups which we want to be given RC tools. For example, young people and their parents that we can access them through counselors, who are school teachers (works well in Russia, Estonia).
• That bold and public is also personal: that communication of important ideas is personal even as it becomes bold and public.
• The person who presents RC to the public should be carefully chosen. He/she needs a firm knowledge about RC and not mix it with anything else.
• To openly share RC we need to be self-confident and clear that we want to do it for ourselves.
• The theory has to go with the practice. And modeling cannot be separate from the theory.
• It is necessary to share thoughts, but how to do it so it does not look like an elite or a weird group of people.
• Differences between Regions have to be considered also. What's good for a big city may not be appropriate for a small village Community.
• "Mental health" oppression is a big piece of what stops us from doing this. Spreading "mental health" liberation theory and counseling people well will be important.
• We need to be strategic about who we go after and how we do it. Strategic planning amounts to thinking about the actions we'll take, the discharge we need to do and the issues we predict we may have to handle.
• Many of us panic about the thought of sharing RC publicly, but actually we'll be doing much of it with the connections we already have or are building. We have to model Co-Counseling in our lives more consistently.
• Many of us have set up our lives in ways that are separated into RC and non-RC that are unnecessary. We'll need to discharge as we integrate what we know into all parts of our lives.
• We need guidelines such as: 1. criteria for spokespersons for RC. Well-connected leaders who are not marginalized. Leaders will discharge as they learn to decisively handle attacks and controversy; 2. Assessing the resources of the Community to handle the implications, i.e., numbers, quality of classes, attacks, etc.; 3. Distinguish between making information available and opening the door to our Communities, i.e., teaching taking turns listening; 4. Task forces locally to internationally, connected thru the Internet, to respond to current events, or take on long term projects providing resource and information.
• We need to be bold, starting with small practicalities, for example, stating clearly why we don't smoke or drink or socialise. We need to learn to deal with the inevitable backlash of being public. We need to expect to restimulate all the things that keep oppressions in place. We need to be smart about protecting ourselves, whether it's pseudonyms or the group claiming the material written by any single member.
• In being proud of ourselves, we need to be proud of our lifestyles, especially those that may not be approved of by society.
• We need to become expert in contradicting the cultural distresses which afford a false high value and respect to academic qualifications and we need to discharge any vestiges of internalised oppression about RC thinking and practice not being as valuable. We need to notice our own significance.
• We need the freedom to choose our opinion. This is not the same as irrational traditions. We need many opinions so that we get the range of things that we can work on in order to find a rationality. This doesn't mean we should be liberal when people are being oppressive.
• Challenge cultural patterns and not accept them simply because they are a tradition. We should not be scared or hold back or tolerate. This means we have to challenge people's vision of what is reality. It makes sense to make space for people to voice their opinions but doesn't mean we accept poor policy or proposals.
• The key message is that this is a project for people learning to lead in their own lives and in the world, and is not a "resource for getting help."
• There should be a distinction between the idea of just feeling better through RC, which suggests personal growth movements and alternative lifestyles, and liberation, which is central to RC theory on changing the world.
• Out of fear, we tend to underestimate people's ability to distinguish between patterns and the real person inside.
• The key thing for people is contact and attention.
• Build a network of people being public with RC and publicise the respect in which RC is held. Then build on these.
• We recommend not showing the practice of RC before sharing the thinking. Only share the practice if there is real interest.
• We may need to change some of the ways we do things-not the principles-but for example, whether sessions can be interrupted by our children, or whether we hold sessions in public places.

Various Ways to go public:

• Take our literature and go to the local library
• Bringing RC out in existing organizations that use it
• Saying what we do in RC at public meetings
• Building organizations that use RC, but may not call it that (e.g. NCBI)
• Look at "marketing" RC
• Set up separate organizations to provide information on RC with no RCers
• More public research on discharge to help spread the word
• Show how deeply we care about people
• Each of us can go public as an individual and bring what we believe-RC-with us.
• If it is presented as a tool, people can choose to use it or not, then it's harder to attack. Hard to attack a tool.
• Take more public stands. We can take public stands on issues that highlight our theory and help to make it more public (for example, corporal punishment in schools)
• Picking issues that will highlight our theory to the general public that many people could get behind such as violence and children-this would be eagerly received. Lots of RCers could talk about it because it would be basic RC theory.
• Setting a long range goal (for example, a five year plan) to get our Community in shape for being public with RC.
• Use Bulletin Boards
• Going public means taking what we know an d shouting about it.
• Show what a good time we have and what we know, so that it looks attractive and people want some.
• Use public access TV to teach counseling
• Use TV cartoons to make RC theory easily available to children.
• Writing letters to the editor may be a good place to start our public presence
• Be effective speakers and presenters so that it becomes part of the culture.
• Having public talks, having an RC resource center for outreach. A place for people to take a class or buy literature.
• Having written plans for ourselves individually, and as an organization.
• Think about places we would want to openly share RC as a resource. For example, NOW conference, women's basketball coaches association. We could have a lot of influence similar to what happened in Beijing.
• We want to write articles (in local papers, regularly, to become a "household word"), talk about it at work, do workshops at wide world conferences, classes in community centers
• Put our literature everywhere
• Lots and lots of classes in every kind of clinic, etc.
• Help colleges develop RC courses for students and teachers.
• In any situation, risk showing what we know.
• Discharge as we go, make discharge more a part of daily life.
• Going public doesn't necessarily mean being on TV or radio. It can mean just making it (RC) a part of your life, being open about it.
• Implement the process, thinking, and policy broadly such as politicians running on an RC platform, using the theory and process in the prison systems, to have RC's correct thinking about young people be institutionalized in the practice and policy of child care centers and schools at all levels.
• Take RC from the margins or sidelines of our lives and make it central. Especially by figuring out how to get funding to implement RC widely in every part of our lives to discharge on greed, to determine a rational wage.
• The world needs this information-we can take it to schools, neighborhoods, co-workers, keeping in mind the importance of building relationships.
• License plates
• Bumper stickers: "I do RC and live a great life!"
• Business cards
• Literature tables
• RC should have pub info person who could write stuff for public and distribute it-What do we want our image to be? Description of who we are.
• Have bold public presence without inviting everyone into Community. Anti-nuclear activists, many were RCers. Now, say publicly RC is behind this. Discharge our timidity.
• Can present RC not as just another fad.
• It's important to present RC theory tailored to people's class background-the information will challenge people. We need to present it well, and be prepared to defend it.
• Being a representative of RC means it should reflect on how you live, it's all the time, like in Beijing.
• Consider doing research to demonstrate the effectiveness of what we know.
• Remembering how precious RC is to us will help us communicate it.
• Make contact with others in the world who are taking stands and thinking well about action in the collapsing society.
• Remember that what we think and do counts.
• Use conference participation as way to be public
• Think about how other avenues (e.g. pop culture) to make RC accessible to various classes.
• Make RC film. A mini series.
• Patty on Oprah and a national holiday-"play day" (where a day is dedicated to children choosing and adults going along)
• Spreading RC one-to-one still works, we need to build on that.
• We can go public by openly talking about RC and communicating it as a tool for liberation through: our workplace, health care system, our neighborhoods, local government, church, tribal council, schools, social service organizations
• Start more wide-world organizations focusing on liberation groups or issues
• Some ideas for public work included: night school classes (coping strategies for the 90s)
• Our own TV show, "RC-TV"
• Take it into workplace and unions to support workers
• Provide seminars at the workplace based on latest fads, i.e. teamwork
• People interested in diversity-offer our liberation theory.
• We have absolutely everything to be proud of. Do it with confidence, knowing people are hungry for it. Model it without embarrassment; be open about RC everywhere because it is a major part of our lives. We have to model being completely infatuated with RC, not half-hearted in our efforts.
• Take RC into schools, to students and teachers.
• Openly recruit teachers and other people of influence.
• Re-emergent art such as billboards (You ARE good), note cards, bumper stickers, murals.
• Put information in community centers, public places, using the model of "How to Start RC." Put literature in bookstores.
• Do classes for parents
• Have all your friends over and tell them about it.
• Selecting Present Time articles for general publication
• Put an article in your neighborhood newsletter, followed by a public intro lecture.
• We're in agreement that a "bold, public presence" means at least sharing RC with other personal and professional contacts in a completely proud, relaxed, bold way.
• We can simply be honest with each person we use our RC knowledge with-telling them it is RC
• Bring it in to work and family-identify source as RC. Mostly that will be good.
• Writing-can write local articles about what RC is doing for local papers.
• Workshops at conferences, articles-should be very common. Use media, public television shows, a lot of writing, a lot more reaching my friends, "You have to know about this." There is hope!
• I could do support groups for parents at the clinics I work at, classes for teens and also the residents.
• Answer questions about what you are doing. Be more open. Would like to teach Co-Counseling to clients.
• Leave literature around.
• Stop making assumptions about people and their reception.
• Use what we do in wide world as our forum
• Claim this as part of who we are, e.g., put it in our resumés
• Prepare a packet of information for Co-Counselors in the U.S. to fight legislative restrictions on Co-Counseling
• Keep writing and talking about our experiences
• Organizations need to be public about their RC basis.
• There are many levels of going public from the local to the global. What if every RCer decided to go public in our lives right now?
• Let us commission each other to take RC theory and practice into the wide world in new and diverse non-RC organizations.
• We want to make RC attractive to people who know us; we need to have appealing lives that they can see. We must show the importance and centrality of RC to us without dramatizing overwork and desperation.
• People are attracted to us when our lives are going well and we are open and human about sharing ourselves and how precious RC is to us.
• Theater groups to get the word out.
• Building community internally: Exhort individuals to take re-emergence seriously.
• Bring in outside resources: Bring in targeted experts in RC to support groups in particular Areas; Bring in people from Areas in which policies are working well; Hold "community building" weekend workshops for Areas.
• Each Region could have an RC listing in the yellow pages.
• Each certified teacher should build their own Community with goal of becoming their own Area.
• Set concrete goals on how to spread theory to others.
• Network with other counseling groups and build bridges (12-step programs, etc.).
• Some swell concrete ideas were: . . . reality, talk shows on radio and TV.
• Spread RC insights through local and international communities.
• Each RCer establish one relationship a year outside their comfortable identity group.
• RC Communities and naturalised forms of RC are a very strong system because when you teach naturalised RC you take personal responsibility for all present and then you go back to the Community, which is the best place where you can discharge everything. Many people started well in the wide world but collapsed without discharging and support.
• We need to think about who we to go after and then strategize with people about how to do it. It will look different for getting information to people who work in a factory than for people who teach in a university, and different still for people who reach out to parents of the disability community.
• Think tanks or institutes
• Wide world evenings on parenting.
• Supermarket tabloid, or magazine for the wide world. "He cried his eyes out and found love." Writing for the public at large.
• Focus on getting RC ideas out-the Communities will grow.
• Challenge ourselves to communicate ideas and policies that may very well bring controversy or surface distress and listen a lot.
• Be visible, model, live a meaningful life, then discharge your internalized oppression and other stuff that makes us erase ourselves.
• Having RC literature available. Examples of what people have done successfully would be good to share.
• The brochure of RC Foundation is an excellent document for taking RC public.
• Making one-to-one relationships is still the basis of our community building, going public can support this.
• We want to start with the vision that one day, just walking down the street, you will be able to grab anyone for a session.
• We have to go out, try things and get actual experience, rather than waiting until we have everything figured out. The worst that can happen is that we might fail at what we're trying to do.
• We need to be on the lookout for potential RC leaders and invite them in. We can run for office on a platform of honesty and integrity. Our personal honesty and integrity will be scrutinized when we run for office, so we need to discharge our fear of attacks and "mental health" oppression first.
• Re: the Black community, it raises the issues in Goal #6: More Black people are tuned into radio and t.v. than literature. However, the media reinforces classism: put RC out in the media, it will get twisted. We lose control of the message. The Internet is a good idea.
• Include all constituencies by figuring out new and effective ways to offer the full program of RC, both individually and collectively as in Beijing.
• Take this as permission to talk to people about what you know from counseling
• Willing to imagine going public at work.
• Putting our ideas into language that is clean, short and in plain language.
• Bringing RC to organizations and bringing people to RC from that organization
• Developing team of people who are specifically thinking about going public-an ILRP for this topic
• Teach RC to our family and stretch our idea of who gets to be that important to us.
• Using the Internet . . . one screen snappy items.
• Take a stand, put out RC policy, not necessarily grow communities. If you call it RC, people will self select themselves in.
• Learning from the model of the No Limits for Women Project at the Beijing Women's Conference, organize similar presences at other gatherings of key sectors of the population. Begin at the level of local areas and regions. For instance, in the United States, we could organize such presences at state and national conventions of the NAACP, AFL-CIO, school teachers, etc.
• Attention Maryland and Virginia regions: AFL-CIO working women workshop first weekend in September. It could be possible to have an RC presence there. Contact Sunni Morgan.
• Maybe a good idea to have a RC phone number.
• People are attracted to people whose lives are going well.
• Individualized RCers are encouraged to "adopt" a non-RC leader, keeping in frequent communication with him or her, offering praise and thanks for her or his good work, setting up occasions to listen well to the leader, and praising her or him to others. Start with a leader close to home such as a union officer, school teacher or principal, town council person, leader in your religious institution, etc.
• Publish world wide select articles from Present Time.
• Different RC Communities, Area or liberation groups, can think about whether they want to take on project of spreading information about RC. For example, a group of Co-Counselors did a playday as childcare at non-RC conference.
• Make a public presence with RC like at No Limits for Women conference and Beijing Conference.
• We can start now by ending our tradition of silence about describing our involvement in counseling. We have many opportunities to teach counseling and can think of creative methods to introduce RC around us. We need to discharge our feelings about going public-for example terror, invisibility, and commitment to a US-based organization.
• Use Guidelines to set tone of classes-a bold tone. Look at where we enjoy being bold.
• Taking a stand with the idea that you can still discharge about it. Getting scared can't stop us from taking a stand. In Parents magazine, there was a short story of interrupting a mother's abuse by the person playing a game with the young person. She got their attention out. These stories really move people to think about how they act.
• Have fundamentals teachers meet regularly to review policy and guidelines
• In addition to learning how to naturalize our ideas, we need to become more comfortable using the sharp language of our theory with wider audiences. We need to seek places where public issues are being discussed and offer our RC perspective. We can get ourselves into positions of influence with policy makers or become public officials.
• RC is built on one on one relationships. More individuals and groups of people would come forward. I run into articles without the name of the organization attached to it. Attach RC to self and articles.
• This is about how to grow the Communities. Beijing was a phenomenal public thing. At my non-RC conference, what could I as an RCer bring there? I can talk to women about what I know. We all need to discharge "mental health" oppression. This is what makes it hard to talk about RC. We need to try buying a radio station; re-emergent music, programming, advertisers or fundraising. Be in shape to counsel people we think need more attention than others.
• As we go more public we may want to consider developing guidelines for what may be presented as Re-evaluation Counseling on television and radio. We may also want to consider guidelines for who are the official representatives of Reevaluation Counseling. We will want to be able to market our publications more widely, and adapt some as needed to reach new constituencies.
• That the Beijing No Limits For Women Project be used as a model of deliberate, well-organized project of going public.
• Have a Community look at these goals occasionally.
• Go do it. Meet with others about recruiting-what's gone well, what are the problems. Share with each other answers to commonly asked questions and specific ideas on how we have shared RC in the wide world.
• Remember there are people who like RC and respect it: how can they be helpful?
• We can use the theory to respond to public policy around the world.
• Use the contacts we have outside of RC to target places where we can most immediately go public.
• Some people thought we should prepare ourselves to position RC in relation to other liberation and life-promoting organizations in the world. Some people did not agree with this.
• Some people say we should prepare ourselves to explain how to position RC in relation to liberation/life-promoting organisations. Others thought that RC should not be positioned in this way.
• We need to get out there with the basic theory (i.e., all people are good).
• The Beijing conference was a great model for what is possible. The List could be the book to go really public with.
• Share that what we are talking about is RC, not just share the theory.
• Put out all the theory and be proud of it. It is a unique feature of RC because it is evolving. Keep one foot in RC and one foot in other organizations as a way of having greater public presence. We need to be thoughtful about how we put out family theory.
• With enough discharge, we will be able to disseminate RC.
• RC Public Relations dept. that oversees print, advertisements, media, radio-to be decided only by Community-need guidance. Neat dept. that puts out videos with concrete examples.
• Develop allies.
• Run for public office-not be isolated
• Organize my neighborhood
• Meeting people to work on fear of attacks.
• People are attracted to us when we show our humanness and how precious RC is to us.
• Get in touch with Nelson Mandela.
• Take into Black churches and mainstream training and other large black organizations. Black women's organizations-use it already.
• Market publications
• End tradition of silence about RC (classes, workshops, etc.)
• RC be a presence whenever progressive groups are congregating.
• Where there are public issues being discussed RC can have a presence-theory on RC stationary.
• I would like to see us recruit specific groups: i.e., classroom teachers. Communities need to have more slack around schools. Many of us just want to fit in. We have to discharge so that we can be comfortable having different ideas about things than everyone else. Dialogues with people don't have to distance people but bring us together.
• Giving RC to a lot of people so they can have information so they can defend as when attacks come. Not necessarily getting them into RC Communities.
• Policies-share (women's stuff and Patty's literature) write on issues such as the death penalty and the right to die.
• Position papers are for broader consumption. Figuring out what would be attractive to African Americans and other people of color-develop materials and formats accordingly.
• Develop creative methods, based upon our individual fields of introducing RC ("mini" rooms).
• Get RCers into positions to influence the policy makers/policies.
• Running for public office.
• Running for office is a good idea.
• Political office
• Use relaxed pride in communicating the ideas.
• Make a list of organizations and people you are going to take RC to with a timetable for making it happen.
• Taking on a lot of stuff about people's misunderstanding about our work.
• Use contacts we have outside RC to target places to where we can go immediately public
• Some of the things that need to go out first are what we know about leadership, Jewish liberation, children, etc.
• The Web would be a good place to test out public reaction. ILRP should help develop more links to and from other sites.
• Lightness in our bold public presence.
• Write a book of how RC has changed our lives.
• "Let's just go for it" I've sold communist newspapers on street corners. This looks easy.
• We can watch the wide world groups we are involved in to see which pieces of theory are needed and present them as people are ready for them. Discharge may not be the first thing we want to explain. Spreading theory in this way will mean expanding the number of groups we are in contact with. Find out where the people we want are and go there.
• Get fundamentals to people.
• Get the information on radio programs where you can talk.
• Hold support groups when you're ready to take it public.
• Do a class on cable.
• While one to one or small groups are probably still be the best way to spread RC, it would be interesting to try going on Oprah or handing out literature on street corners just to see what happens.
• RCers must not talk too much. Listening is important.
• The "second world" people in RC could speak of their experience and communicate it to the rest of the world.
• Taking pride in RC this will mean discharging ridicule and humiliation.
• Trusting RC enough to adopt it without limits.
• When we introduce RC to people, first we should tell them what we've gained from it and then we must reassure them that we accept them as they are without trying to fix/change them. It's possible to do it, if we show them that we see how good they are already.
• People tend to believe us when they recognise that we are in good shape. For that we need to take good care and to think well about ourselves. For that we have five directions: - Remember who I really am as an individual and who we really are as a Community; - Not functioning on the top of our distresses; - To take good care about our body and our rational needs; - Not pretending and not accepting pretense; - Always pick the right things to do and not what is convenient, because when we pick this way we gain more for ourselves and the world environment.
• The way we live is the best example of RC for others.
• It's important to select and translate basic RC literature and make it available at bookshops for everyone.
• We need to reach people who have influence on others.
• It can be a correct policy to advertise, talk on radio, publish and sell books. Harvey doing the talk show circuit. However, it should not be insisted upon as a guideline.
• Stationery, cards, bumper stickers, postcards, t-shirts, quotations at end of e-mail letters)
• Sharing our personal commitment and that not for money.
• Eliminating naturalizing RC-use the tools and call it by it by the name. No portion of RC knowledge should be taught without calling it by its name.
• Translating and using literature.
• Utilizing media to disseminate information and advertising.
• Put out all the good things we offer: A model of really caring about each other; The value of developing and putting out correct policies.
• RC liaison to wide-world work to make connection to RC Community.
• Spreading to teachers and students in the school.
• Spreading by helping people who struggle to give up addictions.
• Inviting newcomers to big workshops.
• Using present organisations (like student unions).
• Encourage everybody to tell life story wherever we go.
• First make friends, then invite them to RC.
• You should not push or rush people. It makes them run away. Then you have to discharge about hopelessness.
• We will need to have some standing in our communities in order to be credible as we offer people this theory. Practice-rigorous, deliberate, good practice-is extremely important in all of this. Literature that is more accessible would also be helpful. Present time has been a "Techie" magazine. This is important, but we need different tools, such as the materials coming out of the Parents Leadership Institute, in order to spread this information easily and widely.
• Trust the process-it works!
• Our own stories will be our credentials.
• Build resources and structure simultaneously or before. We can use the Wygelian format. Counselors who are good at working with the media or other designated people can be media contacts. We can have city-wide coordinators for communicating RC publicly.
• There are already models of sharing information widely that we can learn from. The way that the Steps to Mediation are adapted to groups from pre-school to college are a good example. There are people in RC who are trained in developing curricula and public education materials who may be good people to consult.
• We can start putting specific publications in public places, public libraries, etc. We can place No Limits pamphlets in women's organizations. We can write similar materials on RC policy and get them into newsletters and other community outlets. If we're going to potentially have many more people trying to reach us, we need to build a better network of local contacts. We need a better screening process for fundamentals.
• Signs in laundromats, etc.
• RC courses at community colleges, high schools
• Offer technical information to churches, agencies
• Testify before the legislature on issues
• Use a model project
• Learn how to write letters, have samples, prototypes
• Put policy forward: What is RC?, liberation, best thinking.
• Submit to magazines
• Workshops on public speaking
• We don't want to dismiss people because of their patterns
• Frame things from principles
• Have credible and respected people putting out our theory.
• Write another book about our influence at Beijing.
• Write so that raised poor and working class people can easily understand.
• Use NCBI, No Limits Groups as a part of RC theory currently in the world.
• Dress up as a giant Bucky Badger at the University of Wisconsin football games distributing notices of open introductory lectures.
• We discussed the idea of making a clear distinction between being a member of the RC community and just taking an RC class. This way the rigors of our current policies and the privileges of attending regional workshops and taking on leadership are reserved for people in the community. We could offer RC classes for large numbers of people who would only agree to confidentiality and to no socializing and abstinence from mind altering substances in proximity to counseling only for the duration of the class.
• We should begin to go public in RC communities where there's a large enough and clear enough community to handle what comes. Let's work on the public sector who are doing the damage of oppressing people who are targeted for destruction by society.
• Going after people who are not represented-e.g., Native men
• What's worked is to be relaxed and have connections with people.
• School presentations
• Commercials on T.V. saying "you're good"
• Presentations at battered women's shelters
• Putting literature in WIC and welfare offices, workplaces, religious organizations, family ,and friends.
• A possible first step would be to get the RC "no gossip, no criticism" policy implemented in these organizations.
• We suggest advertising sliding scale "RC type" and RC workshops open to the public.
• Build communities based on relationships-existing and new-but also get information on RC out in a broader way for people we may never meet to use in THEIR existing relationships
• Identify 'experts' on certain topics in the Communities.
• Pick projects to focus outreach efforts on-like Beijing.
• In outreach emphasize that RC is a tool for improving our thinking and our lives, not for feeling better
• Present RC as RC in organizations we're already in. Wygelian leaders as experts on presenting RC theory in their constituencies.
• Offer organizational forms-support group, mini-sessions, discussion groups as a way of introducing RC.
• Organize support groups wherever we're in a group of people.
• Appreciate, appreciate, appreciate.
• Build wide world support groups and offer RC to the members
• It's not useful to build relationships that are conditional on people accepting RC. Build relationships and OFFER RC.
• Instead of saying "how are you" always ask a question that elicits thinking.
• Be relaxedly "out" with RC.
• Start close to home-at home-in neighborhood, workplace.
• Public policy dialog
• Use selected advertising methods.
• Boldly put RC into the world around you and into the work places that you have access to
• Stop naturalizing and call it what it is RC.
• Talk openly about how we do what we do.
• Discharge feelings of timidity and confusion so that we don't take this public as well.
• Be proud and pleased about your association with RC.
• Prepare literature that will be appropriate and easy to understand for people outside counseling. Make the language more accessible. Remove jargon.
• Seek funding applications from arts councils and official bodies.
• Use women's networks to teach RC.
• Giving people the opportunity to think is crucial-simply asking them questions and listening to the answers.
• RC practise to be shared to enable people to get to their own correct thinking, rather than us having the answers.
• Be flexible and creative in devising methods of communicating RC information to diverse groups. For example, prerecorded telephone information line on RC with local contacts.
• The article by Elis Carlstršm is an available summary of the work that people who want to accelerate the goals of RC need to do.
• Things that are based on RC theory should acknowledge that, e.g. "This book is the application of the theory and practice of RC to the situation of . . . ."
• Show what a good time we have and what we know, so that it looks attractive and people want some.
• Use the literature, leave it in the toilet, frame quotes/commitments and hang them around the walls of your home/office.
• All people are longing to share the stories of their life.
• Have a worldwide policy and response to deal with issues of the day: e.g., political, ethical. Consider resources we need to put this in place.
• Use existing support groups and such structures to involve non-leaders on relevant issues-take part in applying the theory.
• We could write RC songs, and spread the word in other creative ways.
• We could design a computer screen-saver with theory/policies on it.
• It is a good idea to make sub-organisations like No Limits for Women.
• Find places where people want to change things, e.g., politics, ecology and peace movements, etc. and teach/share theory there. /Focus our attention and effort on the areas most likely to accept and use the information.
• Collaborate with other groups that stand for liberation.
• Be creative about how information is passed on. Different cultures require different approaches and different media. Use everyday language.
• People take in information from people they love and people who love them. Tell them we know something that is helpful for ourselves and tell them about it in a way that makes sense to them. We need to stick in with them and listen to their response. We need to know that we know something that will make a big difference to others' lives.
• Incorporate RC into things like personal development classes in schools and further education.

Don'ts:

• Do not act from an urgent place. Grow organically, like a tree.
• Take the whole of RC not just pieces.
• No advertising, talk shows, etc. The media will sabotage it.
• It is inappropriate and damaging, RC is a very ethnocentric organisation, culturally (US) biased so it would be unwise to do this.
• ÔNaturalizing' RC does not get people moving on their chronic material. Putting RC out there in its pure form enables people to make agreements to do this, give up addictive habits, etc. Beijing seems to be a good example of this.
• Don't be harsh.
• Let's not hold back because we're scared. We just have to try things, discharge, then go try again.

Supporting Each Other:

• We can do it in twosomes and threesomes-we don't have to do it alone.
• As we do this, we need to remember we are not alone-that we are in this together and we need to support each other.
• We all individually get to figure out who we want to reach out to and why-there are no substitutes for building relationships with each other.
• This is something we should do as a team, not alone. It will be more fun and we will look like the proud, committed group that we are.
• We get to come together as a group to know how to present RC to public.
• Closeness is essential to boldness.
• We need to work on our close relationships of family/friends/co-workers in order to be able to handle rejection of others; process and organization we are so committed to.
• We would have to come together as a group to decide how to get our info out.

Community building:

• Growing community is different from sharing information about counseling, but they work together
• Publicizing RC does not necessarily mean anyone can join the community

One-point Program

• In keeping with the one-point program, this goal should to be binding on all community members, nor perhaps on those people that have not arrived at these positions by their own thinking.
• Relate to one-point program, and not focusing on our distress. So how we approach this will effect how we think people will react.
• What does the one point program of RC mean for public positions RC will take?

Questions:

• How will it be decided who can represent RC publicly?
• How will we decide what information is RC theory to be presented as such publicly and what information is useful info in RC that hasn't been agreed upon as theory and should not be presented as RC theory publicly?
• What role will Regional Reference Person play in deciding how RC will be public in her/his part of the world
• Does this goal conflict with the idea that one-to-one is the best way to communicate this theory?
• If we go public, how do we screen?
• How do we match the resources we have to the response we might get? Clarify that RC is not a public service organization with unlimited resources.
• In going public with RC, what happens to the money charged at events? Ten percent to P.C.?
• One thing that very few movements think about it what to do when you're successful. What will you do with 250 new fundamentals students in Seattle?
• What is the real information about repression?
• How do we reach the people we want to become leaders to make the tools available to widening communities of people?
• Many more people will be coming into RC-do we take all of them in classes? Do we screen? Maybe we'll teach people in ways other than classes.
• Will there be any guidance for who can speak publicly about RC? Will people need to get any kind of permission to say, do an interview with the media?
• Question about copyrights-people using our name, excerpts from literature, etc.
• How can we be strategic and thoughtful about going public? Perhaps test or experiment with certain organizations, more "open" ones first.
• We need clarification on how much further the "bold, public presence" goes. For example, does it mean, just the above, or does it mean having a 1-800 number for people to find out about Co-Counseling. And/or does it mean being public like we were in Beijing, and/or does it mean preparing a video to show on national TV?
• Not clear about what going public means. I share on my job and people get it. The literature is already out there. Others have borrowed from it. What we know about human nature is true, and we need to stand behind it-anything less is giving up on people.
• Where are we going to be public? Who's going to be up front?
• Seems premature-are we ready to assume a bold, public presence?
• How do we assist communities with less resource to grow? How do we share resource to form strong communities in other places?
• What about the Gay policy?
• How to extend the work in which we are currently engaged?
• How does RC go public and remain true to its methodology?
• What bold initiatives have we taken?
• A question: Who "approves" these actions?
• Who "approves" public representation of RC?
• Language wound off . . . "as representatives of." What's wrong with telling people the truth? "If I die, I don't want to have butt on my breath." (?)
• What does it mean? What will flow from this? How will we monitor it?
• Does this goal open the door to different levels of screening, i.e. do we re-examine our criteria for who we have in the community and in classes?
• Does this goal shift the focus from one-to-one being the most effective communication, if more public forums are used to spread the tool?
• Beijing was a great experiment-now my family is aware, has seen the literature-we have put our feet on the road-How will we get about it is the question.
• How do we stand behind policy?
• As we take public stands on a range of issues, does this shift the one-point program away from individuals discharging to political organizing, and what level of consensus will this require?
• I was involved in SDS-grew too fast and collapsed. Doing an open gathering, how much resource can you pull together? It's possible, not Ôthe' source of resource.
• We have several questions about this proposed goal: Who will go public? Key leaders? Teachers? Everyone? Where will we go public? Will there be PSAs and other prepared statements? Political endorsements? People running for office on the RC platform? Will we develop an RC curriculum for schools?
• We get to think about how to deal with lots of people inquiring about us who may not have the level of free attention we have expected and looked for. Should we get excellent at screening? Devote more attention to getting them up to speed early?
• We would also like to see the reasons for the goals so the meaning would be clearer.
• One concern that was raised was the "dilution factor." What happens if we spread too fast and lose the safeguards of screening, certifying teacher's etc.? Important pieces of theory can get lost this way! Look what happened to Christianity! It started with some great ideas but many of them got confused or lost. On the other hand, Christianity didn't have discharge or many of the other tools RC has for keeping our thinking intact. Nonetheless, spreading at a rate that does not jeopardize quality will be important.
• Who should be doing public relations work?
• Who has the authority to speak for the Community?
• Do we want to experiment with phasing in or go full out?
• Who are the speakers representing? Who are the members?
• What are the qualifications of the speakers?
• Open the doors completely to advertising?
• What about conservatives? Right wingers?
• What about the blue pages?
• We want to know who would be allowed to speak as representatives of RC.

We've done it, It Is Happening:

• There have been many successes already, such as the No Limits for Women project around the world and at the Women's Conference near Beijing.
• Comes out of Beijing experience. 200 women made difference in 38,000 (a good thing to do and be proud of). This is an organizational more than an individual issue.
• There are people in RC who know about getting this info across in the world. We can learn a lot from them about this. For example, the teachers in Santa Cruz who got a grant from the state.
• Cherie Brown is one of many, many leaders doing this thoughtfully and correctly using good policy, courage and integrity.
• RC has already gone public: pamphlets exist, Web page, No Limits for Women, RC classes exist in universities, NCBI
• We are actually more visible then we think we are. Lots of people have heard of RC. Black women's health project, NCBI, Parents' Leadership Institute, the Resource Center for Young People and their Allies are all sturdy organizations.
• I am public! People did introductory lectures at library-this is implying that we do things like this.
• I went to Beijing with a public presence. Many women went and said they would start RC in their home communities. For every 300 people with overall interest, only 100 will probably do it. I need to discharge discouragement about not getting everyone. We need to discharge on the policies so that we don't give out "our" individual versions of the policies. I can talk with everyone, but everyone must make a decision to just jump in.
• It is useful to remember that we already have done some of this work. We successfully wrote statements about women's issues and distributed them in Beijing, and some individuals have naturalized RC for use in the wide world in writing and on TV.
• We have experience with publicly spreading RC both in Beijing and the Internet; we need more experiments similar to Beijing.
• Had these ideas quite a while ago-so taking goal seriously
• Models for going boldly public: The Beijing Women's Conference and the Winnipeg Native Community.
• We have already done this work. We are not a fly-by-night organization.
• We've made flyers for local organisations inviting people to a fundamentals class.
• We've gone out to meet people in marketplaces, talking and listening to them.
• TV in Sweden
• Mexican conference.
• We've used RC in dancing and body work.
• In some of the newer Communities (Africa?), RC was founded on a public basis.

Consequences:

• The outcome will be a lot more closeness everywhere. It will require closeness and it will create closeness. We (RC) know(s) how to create closeness.
• We need to share experiences as we go public so we can learn.
• This will train more of us to be spokespersons.
• Implications-will take to different place. My life would be more honest, different quality.
• Going public will up the ante of our being able to live a life of honesty, integrity and courage and our attention off distance, each of us toward faster re-emergence.

Other Thoughts:

• Let's go public!
• " for all human beings . . ." is an essential phrase in the policy.
• Love the wording-"A potential source of correct thinking"
• RC's comin' out! (sung to Diana Ross' "I'm Comin' Out")/We want the world to know what we've got to show! So tell your boss and Joe!/We're comin' out!/
• So, let your love shine like we're splitting time! (sung to Let your Love Shine)/Let your theory grow with the more we know!
• Let's take our time, do it right . . . we can do it boldly! (sung to Take Your Time, Do It Right)
• We felt that this might well be the key goal of all of the goals.
• Proposal of an alternative goal: If we have alienated a large portion of people who have been exposed to RC, maybe we should consider going after them-if we have enough manpower to do so. These people rejected by RC have been dying to come back but we don't care.
• As representatives and supporters of Re-evaluation Counseling theory and practice, to assume a bold, public presence, openly sharing RC as a possible source of correct thinking and correct policy for all human beings. To rely in doing this on the increasing clarity of our theory, on the growing confidence possessed by our leadership, and on the largely-unpublicized but far-reaching respect in which RC is held.
• About the actual goal, the second statement isn't a goal, it is background. Do we want it in there?
• Don't be defensive about these goals.
• The word possible is less offensive.
• "Far reaching" and "unpublicized" seem like a contradiction of terms
• Since counseling is such an important part of our lives, God forbid we should ever: talk about it, defend it, or show anything about them
• We can imagine great fund-raising ideas based on this goal.
• Our policies are attempts at solutions to serious problems in society. Publicly building ourselves as a home will give us a head start with every new contact and may also incur more attacks than our communities can handle.
• Openly sharing RC as a possible source for re-emergence rather than correct thinking
• Goals are all connected; we need all of them to do this one well-to push us to think more about where we are going.
• The word "correct" sounds dogmatic, defensive.
• At RC leaders workshops and conferences, we can hold classes on how the structure of RC can feel restimulating due to issues of classism.
• It is suggested to change "correct thinking" to "good thinking."
• Continual Growth ("Continual development" might be more helpful).
• (The purpose of the goals are to encourage thinking.)
• Proposed changes in language to be more consistent with the other goals: To assume, as representatives of and supporters of Re-evaluation Counseling theory and practice, a bold, public presence, openly sharing RC as a possible source of correct thinking and policy for all human beings. To base this on the increasing clarity of our theory, the growing confidence possessed by our leadership, and the largely unpublicized but far-reaching respect in which RC is held.
• Take out "largely unpublished but far reaching respect." Instead something like: "the experiences that we have by sharing our thoughts have made a difference not just for individuals but also for laws, etc."

Spanish/Espaniol

• En los lugares donde ya hay comunidades de RC, promover la naturalización. Que en cada lugar se naturalize dando prioridad a la naturalización del grupo poblacional que mas pueda propagar las ideas de RC. Que en cada lugar se utilize los medias de comunicación (radio, T.V. periodicas, conferencias, boletines, avisos parroquíales, etc) que tengan major cobertura.
• En los lugares donde hasta el momento hay más naturalización que RC se reafirme la teoría fundamental, la estructura y las políticas de la comunidad RC.
• Buscar constantemente el desahogo, buscando llegar a la clarificación para que la propuesta dada a la pública sea aceptada.
• Ser audaces y aprovechar cada espacio para dar a conocer que es co-escucharnos.
• Reafirmar las comunidades de RC.
• Tomar en cuenta la situación actual política en que estamos estableciendo el coescucha para tener presencia pública y al mismo tiempo garantizar la seguridad de nuestra organización.
• Fomentar, apoyar, proteger y corregir nuestro líderazgo para asegurar que puedan seguir adelante haciendo uso de los recursos a que cuenta la comunidad internacional.
• Usar el lenguaje adecuado de acuerdo a las circunstancias y a las gentes a las que les estamos haciendo llegar este recurso.
• Buscar y aprovechar alianzas con personas o instituciones de influencia o peso social.
• Diferenciar nuestros niveles de trabajo. Lo que es nuestra comunidad y fuera de ella.
• Recordar la importancia de no mezclar otras practicas y teorías con RC para no confundirnos.
• Sistematizar las experiencias de la gente que hace uso de la teoría fuera de la comunidad.
• La comunicación de lo que hacemos es la base de lo que se va hacer y a dar el modelo a seguir en lo más inmediato. Algo importante es nuestro modelaje y como ha incidido en nuestra vida. Esto permitirá incidir en lo más inmediato de RC hasta otros sectores más diversos y marginales.
• La comunidad de México inició desde principios a promoverlo en la difusión pública logrando llegar muchos líderes hacer trabajos con sectores muy amplios hasta de miles de personas y por años.
• Sectores importantes son la educación: la Universidad, y otros instituciones de la sociedad, como los religiosos, gobierno, ONGS, y otros.
• Medios: Para la amplia difusión utilizar todos los medios que permitan el alcalce de todos sectores de la vida social.
• Desahogar el patrón que nos ha marcado historicamente como víctimas del colonialismo e imperialismo. La realidad es que no lo somos.
• Eliminar los patrones de irracionalidad cultural de Latinoamérica a fin de que los principios y práctica de RC sean universales.
• Mantener nuestras inteligencias libres para distinguir nuevas opresiones que nos dividan.
• Estamos de acuerdo como comunidad en hacernos publicos. El hacerlo depende de cada persona de como lo transmite. Y como lo sostiene (mantiene).
• Al alentar a líderes a asumir presencia publica es importante que exista además una red de apoyo y contención para ellos: medios de comunicación, medio escrito, influencia en medias oficiales y en programas educacionales, grupo de los educatores, grupo de los niños.