About RC Workshops

The first Re-evaluation Counseling workshop (Buck Creek 1) was a two-week-long residential workshop in a remote mountain location. The profound effects upon the attendees of this and subsequent workshops have led to thousands of later workshops being held under a great variety of conditions, of a great variety of lengths, and with groups of attendees sometimes limited to particular backgrounds, experiences, professions, oppressions, or length of experience in Re-evaluation Counseling, and at other times having only the commonality of doing Co-Counseling or being interested in learning more about Co-Counseling.

Some workshops are as short as four hours and merge in function with classes. The Community Guidelines set a limit for the basic fees charged by workshop leaders, based in part on the degree of leadership they have attained in the Community, in order to prevent financial motivations from tending to distort the function of the leadership. Only one fee is allowed for a leader at a workshop, and assistants (other than the organizer) whom the leader chooses to employ must be paid out of the leader's own fee. Most of the work of organizing the workshop is on a voluntary basis, and only one paid organizer is allowed, whose basic fee is set at one fourth of the fee of the leader.

The price of the workshop is set by consultation between the workshop leader and the local leaders. It is planned so it can contribute to the International Outreach Fund and subsidize the publication of Re-evaluation Counseling literature, as well as contribute to the functioning of the International Community through an assessment of ten percent of the gross cost of the workshop to be paid to the Community Service Fund of Re-evaluation Counseling Community Resources Inc. for the servicing of the International Offices and towards International Outreach.

Workshops for her or his own students can be initiated by any accredited teacher of Re-evaluation Counseling. Workshops which draw from more than one teacher's students must have approval of the Area Reference Person where an Area Reference Person is functioning. Workshops that draw from more than one Area must have approval of the Regional Reference Persons involved (if there is a Regional Reference Person), and any other workshops must have the approval of the International Reference Person. Attendees at workshops beyond the class level should have the approval of their Area Reference Person for attendance or, if from a class outside an organized Area, the approval of the teacher of the class.

Workshops will tend to include lectures on theory by the leader, Co-Counseling sessions, support groups, topic groups, question answering, organized exercise, creativity and performance, and a great variety of demonstrations of counseling practice.

Rules and guidelines for organizing and leading workshops are furnished by the Community to organizers and leaders.

Except for class workshops, the approval of a Reference Person (Area, Regional, International) is needed for a person to attend a Re-evaluation Counseling workshop.