Fundamentals Class Outline #1

Class 1 - Basic Human Nature and Listening

• Basic theory
• humanness
• intelligence--definition, how much, how it operates
• other inherent characteristics
• effects of unhealed hurts, sources of hurts, oppression
• recovery process
• Co-Counseling
• International RC Communities
• Some important words
• The postulates of RC
• The art of listening
• The art of being a client
• What to do in your first Co-Counseling session

Class 2 - Distress Recordings

• The nature of distress recordings, irrationality
• The three ways distress is encountered; accident, contagion, oppression; history of the oppressive society, classism
• The two effects of undischarged distress, restimulation and reduced function
• Intermittent vs. chronic patterns, how to recognize a pattern
• Short and long term effects of distress
• The distinction between the person and the pattern; importance as a contradiction to internalized oppression

Class 3 - Discharge

• The mechanisms of discharge, dramatization vs. discharge, basic order
• Patterns that interfere with discharge; control patterns; cultural patterns and pressures to conform
• The oppression of young people, parents, young adults, older adults, women, men, artists, and the oppression of the "mental health" system
• Family work; special time
• Sustained discharge, intensives
• Re-evaluation
• Re-emergence

Class 4 - Contradictions

• Contradictions to distress patterns
• The four things to do while being a counselor
• The counselor as bagpiper
• Contradicting patterns related to oppression; internalized oppression; oppressor patterns; example: racism and internalized racism

Class 5 - Simple Counseling Techniques

• Counseling techniques
• News and goods
• Attention out
• Balance of attention
• Spectrum of Techniques
• Rapid review of related experiences
• Early memories
• Occluded memories
• Asking questions
• Directions in and out of session
• Appreciation and self-appreciation
• Counseling on control patterns
• Identification checks
• Counseling on internalized oppression and oppressor patterns; example: anti-Jewish oppression; religion and Co-Counseling

Class 6 - Human Needs and Addictions

• Rational needs
• Frozen needs
• Addictions
• Counseling on physical well-being
• Counseling on learning
• Counseling on creativity
• Counseling on disabled people's oppression, ageism; oppressions that target particular distresses

Class 7 - Relationships and Sexuality

• Love and closeness between human beings
• Rational relationships
• A rational theory of sexuality
• How to counsel on distress related to sexuality
• Sexual identities
• Counseling on sexism, men's oppression, and the oppression of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender

Class 8 - Thinking, Logic, and Power

• Awareness
• Complete freedom of choice
• Complete power
• The logic of being completely logical, eliminating addictions
• Holding directions
• Complete appreciation of oneself
• Who's in charge
• The importance of long-range goals
• Wide-world change
• Commitment to re-emergence
• Frontier commitments
• Strategizing one's re-emergence, client's and counselor's notebooks

Class 9 - Reality

• Reality vs. pseudo-reality
• Counseling with attention away from the distress
• Role exchange technique
• The Reality Agreement
• The Understatement
• Educational change

Class 10 - The Oppressive Society

• The one-point program of Re-evaluation Counseling
• Oppression and economic exploitation
• History of the oppressive society
• Patterns related to oppression
• Forms of oppression

Class 11 - Liberation From Oppression

• Two kinds of patterns
• Discharging oppressor patterns
• Discharging internalized oppression
• Propositions for human liberation
• Wide-world change
• Educational change

Class 12 - The Re-evaluation Counseling Community

• The RC Community
• Theory and policy, The Guidelines
• Community Membership
• Leadership; building your own world community
• Literature
• Workshops, support groups, classes, etc.
• Re-evaluation Counseling Community Resources Incorporated and the Re-evaluation Foundation