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  • How to Begin RC

    How to Begin “Re-evaluation Counseling,” by Harvey Jackins and others.
    Published in: Pamphlets

  • How to Begin RC in Spanish

    Published in: Environment -

  • Como empezar el "Proceso de Reevaluación"

    Como empezar el "Proceso de Reevaluación", por Harvey Jackins y otros. Si has escuchado acerca del Proceso de Reevaluación y de las ventajas que su utilización puede traer a tu vida, y estás impaciente por probarlo, lo que sigue a continuación puede ayudarte a comenzar con él.
    Published in: Spanish

  • Igbo How to Begin RC

    Published in: Igbo Translations

  • A Brief History of RC

    Published in: RC Theory

  • How RC Began in Japan

    How RC Began in Japan, Yuho Asaka. Beginnings of RC in Japan
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Teaching, Leading, Community Building Page 63-64

  • Fundamentals Teaching Guide I Readings

    Included here are those readings referenced in the Fundamentals Teaching Guide, Part I that are not included in the basic books referenced in the Guide (The Fundamentals Manual, The Human Side of Human Beings, The Human Situation, The RC Community Guidelines, Working Together to End Racism, How to Begin RC).
    Published in: Fundamentals Teaching Guide Readings

  • Changes to the Guidelines, 2013

    Changes to the Guidelines, 2013, by Re-evaluation Counseling Communities. Leaders of our RC Communities meet every four years at a World Conference to continue the development of the Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 32 to 41

  • I Just Want to Discharge

    I Just Want to Discharge, by Mesfin Taye. Twenty-four years ago, at the beginning of my RC experience, it was very hard for me to discharge. As a child I had been told not to cry when I was hurt or express whatever feelings I had in front of people.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Counseling Practice50

  • RC Policy and Psychiatric Drugs

    RC Policy and Psychiatric Drugs, by Janet Foner. Present Time 149, pages 75-80. Psychiatric drug use has become widespread worldwide. More people are contacting me and asking how to help people get off psychiatric drugs.
    Published in: Present Time 149, October 2007, Teaching(Leading, Community Building, Pages 75 to 80)

  • RC Policy and Psychiatric Drugs

    RC Policy and Psychiatric Drugs by Janet Foner. Recovery and Re-emergence 6, page 62. “Mental health” system survivors in RC classes are finding that they can now talk about the drugs they are taking and can set things up so that they can stop taking them—rather than feeling like they can’t bring up the subject.
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 6

  • Real Human Relationships

    Real Human Relationships, by Wendy Kloiber. I'm in law school, and this semester I have a class on the criminal justice system. I read Harvey's article on RC needing to begin to take on and take seriously the work of liberating "people marked for destruction." Most of the "clients" of the criminal justice system fall into that category.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, People Targeted for Destruction by Society: page 49

  • Postings from the IRP on COVID-19 and the RC Communities

    Postings from the IRP on COVID-19 and the RC Communities, beginning in March 2020, and sample Community Guidelines about their COVID practice.
    Published in: Postings from the IRP

  • Introductory Reading List

  • A “Going Public with RC” Workshop

    A “Going Public with RC” Workshop, by Cherie Brown. I recently led a “going public with RC” workshop. I wanted us to think about going public in bolder and more strategic ways.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing80

  • Following Up with Contacts Made at COP21

    Following Up with Contacts Made at COP21, Diane Shisk. Staying in good enough contact with people we meet at “going public” events like COP21* (and United to End Racism and No Limits events) has been one of our biggest struggles.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing16

  • Frequently Asked Questions about Re-evaluation Counseling

    Frequently Asked Questions about Re-evaluation Counseling
    Published in: RC Introduction

  • RC on the Internet: The RC Website

    RC on the Internet: The RC Website. There is a website for Re-evaluation Counseling at . At this site you will have easy access to a large amount of information about Re-evaluation Counseling.
    Published in: Present Time, RC on the Internetpage 86

  • RC on the Internet Present Time Pages

    There is a website for the Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) Community at . At this site you will have easy access to a large amount of information about RC, including the following:
    Published in: Present Time

  • Sustaining All Life at COP22

    Sustaining All Life at COP22, by Diane Shisk. In November 2016, a Sustaining All Life delegation participated in COP22, in Marrakech, Morocco. Our goal was to bring RC insights to the environmental/climate change movement.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing07

  • The Practical Work of Liberation Leaders

    Published in: RC Theory

  • M.1. The No-Socializing Policy

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • M.1. The No-Socializing Policy

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Re-evaluation Counseling Teacher Update

    Published in: Audio files

  • Literature on web

  • The Latin American Pre-World-Conference Conference September 19-21,1997

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • The East Asian Conference Held in Tokyo, Japan, May 2 to 5, 1997

    The East Asian Conference Held in Tokyo, Japan, May 2 to 5, 1997, by Shiom Morita. We had the RC Pre-World-Conference Conference for East Asia in Tokyo, Japan, on May 2 to 5. Seventy RC leaders came-seven from China, six from the Philippines, six from the United States, and fifty-one from Japan (from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south).
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Teaching(Leading, Community Building: page 42 to 45)

  • The First Hindu Liberation Workshop

    The First Hindu Liberation Workshop, by Anu Yadav.We had our first-ever Hindu liberation workshop! Azi Khalili, the International Liberation Reference Person for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People, led it as our ally.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • An Introduction to RC’s Thoughts on Liberation


    An Introduction to RC’s Thoughts on Liberation

    Published in: Present Time, Liberation64

  • "Normal" Patterns and RC Leaders

    “Normal” Patterns and RC Leaders, by Janet Foner. As we fully reclaim the discharge process, we go up against the irrational system/society. Being inundated with “mental health” oppression (MHO) is necessary for the system if it is to hold itself together. Society has to shut down discharge and make it seem bad and unthinkable.
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 7

  • Leadership

    Leadership, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 146, pages 53-56
    Published in: Present Time 146, January 2007

  • A Model of Young People's Work in RC

    A Model of Young People's Work in RC, by Alana and Nina Eichner. Present Time 160, July 2010, page 67. The class started with about ten young people, with an age range of nine to fifteen years, and no adult allies. Joel Nogic, the Regional Reference Person for one of the Boston Regions, led the class with an older young person assisting him. The class has always met about once a month, with a parent as the organizer.
    Published in: Present Time 160, July 2010, Liberation: pages 67-68

  • Allies to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People

    Allies to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People, by Sarah Taub. I am absolutely thrilled by the recent letters to the RC-list that bring up deafness, interpreting, and so on.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: page 66

  • Contents Igbo Translations

    Published in: Igbo Translations

  • How to Begin "Re-evaluation Counseling"

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Kit Me Cako Le-he Ki Lok

    Published in: Acholiluo

  • Acknowledgement of Country

    Acknowledgement of Country, by Rie Shiraishi. I want to share a wide-world practice, Acknowledgement of Country, that is becoming more common in Australian RC. Acknowledgment of Country is a way for non-Aboriginal people to show their respect for the Traditional Owners of the land on which a meeting or an event is being held.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:46

  • Mutliplied Awareness

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Powerlessness is a Fraud

    Powerlessness is a Fraud
    Published in: Present Time No. 24, July 1976

  • JINZI YA KUANZA HISIA YA KINSINGI (MASHAURIANO)

    Published in: Kiswahili

  • An Introduction to a Pre-World Conference

    An Introduction to a Pre-World Conference; Tim Jackins, at the West and Central USA Pre-World Conference, January 2013. Welcome to the first of the 2013 Pre-World Conferences. Thank you for doing whatever was required to get here.We’re all involved in this important project.
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice06

  • Reading RC Literature Again

    Reading RC Literature Again, Glen Johnson, Good morning, beloved Co-Counselors, brothers and sisters! It is a beautiful morning in western Massachusetts (USA). I am enjoying thinking of all of you, in all of the different time zones around the world—some of you just waking up, some having already had long days full of adventures and challenges.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Counseling Practice15

  • RC in Lira, Uganda

    RC in Lira, Uganda, by Atune Naume. The presentation on goal setting helped me set priorities for myself and see myself as a new person.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 60

  • Co-leading the Sustaining All Life Team in Morocco

    Co-leading the Sustaining All Life Team in Morocco, by Barbara Love. The workshops, forums, caucuses, fundamentals classes, support groups, listening projects, and one-on-one contacts all contributed to the success of the project. I write here about my experience co-leading the Sustaining All Life team.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing04

  • RC Progress in Korea

    RC Progress in Korea, by HyoSung Bidol. RC in Korea is progressing.Teaching RC here confirms once again that because RC theory is based on humanness, it is understood regardless of “cultural” differences.
    Published in: Present Time 130, January 2003, (Teaching, Leading, and Community Building Page 50)

  • A New Initiative on Ending Classism

    A New Initiative on Ending Classism, by Dan Nickerson. Increasingly on the RC e-mail discussion lists, people are recognizing that capitalism, our current version of the oppressive class society, is a limiting factor in social change.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Counseling Practice: pages 8 to 9

  • H.14. Outreach to All Groups Targeted by Oppression

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • H.14. Outreach to All Groups Targeted by Oppression

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • The First RC Muslim Workshop

    The First RC Muslim Workshop, multiple authors. These five articles are about the U.S. Muslim Leaders' Workshop, held in Parksville, New York, USA, in September 2014.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation23

  • United to End Racism (UER) at the Tule Lake Pilgrimage

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • No Socializing

    Published in: Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual

  • Ending Racism--Making it Happen

    Ending Racism--Making it Happen, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 128, pages 3-4. Deciding to end racism, working on the oppressor role and on internalized oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 128, Juli 2002

  • Slowing Down and Discharging

    Slowing Down and Discharging, by Isaac Zones. I grew up in RC and began as a teenager to teach friends how to Co-Counsel.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Counseling Practice09

  • The Discharge of Patterns of White Racism by White Co-Counselors

    Published in: Present Time 79, April 1990

  • An Exciting Time for Asian Liberation

    An Exciting Time for Asian Liberation, by Anonymous. I want to write about our Asian Leaders’ Workshop, led by Tim Jackins in California, USA, in August 2014. Over a hundred of us gathered on the University of California campus.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberationpage 64

  • Oppressed Groups Organizing and Leading Their Oppressors

    Oppressed Groups Organizing and Leading Their Oppressors, by Harvey Jackins. The campaign for women, with their relatively excellent state of organization in RC, to take the responsibility for organizing and leading a men’s movement of a comparable strength to theirs has begun. I think this must continue. It has made a good start.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation87

  • Itzulpenak euskarara

    Itzulpenak euskarara, Translations into Basque
    Published in: Translations Basque -

  • Counseling Practice

  • Online Publications

    Published in: Online Audio, Books, Pamphlets

  • Downloadable PDFs of RC Basic Books

    Published in: Fundamentals

  • United to End Racism

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • 中译文

    中译文, Translations into Chinese
    Published in: Chinese, /publication/translations/chinese/contents

  • Translations in Armenian

    Published in: Armenian

  • Julian Weissglass—International Communality Reference Person for Wide World Change

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • More about Sustaining All Life at COP23

    More about Sustaining All Life at COP23. The following reports were written while the Sustaining All Life (SAL) team was at COP23, in Bonn, Germany, last November [see previous article]. They were written by Violeta Vajda (from Hungary and England) and Davita Flowers-Shanklin and Brian Lavendel (from the United States), with help from the entire SAL team. They are reprinted from the RC e-mail discussion lists for leaders of wide world change and for leaders in the care of the environment.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing43

  • All Co-Counselors Are Wide World Changers

    All Co-Counselors Are Wide World Changers, by Julian Weissglass. In one sense, all Co-Counselors are engaged in wide world change. Every session helps us recover our intelligence and thus increases our ability to make the world better.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section67

  • Resources for use or for sale in UER RC Community gather-ins/workshops:

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • UER Activities in Latin America

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • An Interpreter's Perspective

    An Interpreter's Perspective, by Maj Rafferty. As an RCer who has interpreted inside and outside of the RC Community, I will address the issue of deaf RCers and sign language interpreters.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: pages 60 to 61

  • Anforderungen an NC Lehrer*innen

    Anforderungen an NC Lehrer*innen (Requirements of RC Teachers) Guideline G.2.
    Published in: German

  • A Suggestion for Parents

    A Suggestion for Parents, by Marya Axner. I spent some time this past weekend watching two RC DVDs: How Parents Can Counsel Their Children and Counseling the Very Young.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Counseling Practice07

  • RC and Ending Racism on Campus

    RC and Ending Racism on Campus by Ellie Brown. This is about a project to teach RC in the context of ending racism on our campus at West Chester University (WCU) in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. Preparation and practice: I’ve been teaching and leading in RC for about thirty years. In 2006, I began a tenure-track position in the Psychology Department at WCU.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:85

  • Death and Dying

    Death and Dying, by Pam Geyer. We become aware of death and dying as young people—when our pets or people we know or hear about die.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Counseling Practice(pages 16-17)

  • Hvordan Man Kommer I Gang Med “Genvurderings Vejledning”

    Published in: Danish

  • The Most Revolutionary Movement 
That Has Ever Come Along


    The Most Revolutionary Movement 
That Has Ever Come Along
, by Harvey Jackins. I was a revolutionary long before RC came along. I knew about the good works of Lenin, Marx, Mao, and the Paris Commune. Then something happened. I accidentally discovered RC...
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:23

  • The Nature of Leadership

    The Nature of Leadership, by Harvey Jackins, Present Time No. 37, pp 24-28. If two or more people are to do anything together effectively, at least one person must fill the key leadership functions. It's fine if more than one do, but at least one person must function as a leader if the group is going to succeed.
    Published in: Present Time 37, October 1979, Leading

  • Healing from War: What Are We Doing and Why?

    Healing From War: What Are We Doing and Why?, by Julian Weissglass. War is the most irrational societal action carried out by human beings. Fighting a war requires organizing enormous resources, convincing or coercing people to risk their lives to kill other human beings, and convincing others to support the war. If we do the emotional work in our sessions and take action in the wide world, we can help spread a vision of the possibility of a world without war. How sweet and fitting it will be for humans to end war.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: pages 51 to 56

  • Communicating about RC Outside the Communities


    Communicating about RC Outside the Communities
, by Victor Nicassio. Thanks for your e-mail reminder (reprinted below) about the Guidelines for communicating RC to people outside the RC Communities. I was wondering about the group e-mails I send to about thirty of the people I met in Morocco during the Sustaining All Life project at COP22 [the November 2016 United Nations climate talks]. 

    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:31

  • Language Liberation and the World Conference

    Language Liberation and the World Conference, by Xabi Odriozola and Shirley Thatcher. We worked together as allies to make the conference as inclusive as possible in terms of language.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberationpages 60 to 62

  • Activity in Central Europe

    Activity in Central Europe, by Molnar Gabriella. Three weeks ago I went to Slovenia to lead the first-ever introductory RC workshop there. It was organized by friends I met in Beijing. We held it in a community library.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: page 10

  • Helping People Work on Whether or Not to Have Children

    Helping People Work on Whether or Not to Have Children, Nancy Faulstich. Ways to work on this and some messages we've received
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 44-45

  • Goodness and Respect

    Goodness and Respect, by "David Nijinsky". It is also important for allies to remember how badly we have been hurt. Gay oppression is vicious and targets anyone and everyone who steps outside of the rigid and oppressive stereotypes attached to “male” and “female.” Our group has been particularly targeted and bullied, and abused physically and sexually.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • New Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities Coming Soon!

    New Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities Coming Soon! The Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities were updated this August at the 2017 World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing66

  • The African Pre-World Conference Conference

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Invite Them to Learn But Not While Working

    Invite Them to Learn But Not While Working, by Jo Saunders
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: page 61

  • Choosing a Goal for the RC Community

    Choosing a Goal for the RC Community, by Tim Jackins. We make a goal with a purpose. The purpose is to help us focus on a particular area of work in the next period. The most recent example of this is class. We live in class societies. They destroy people and now are destroying the environment.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section51

  • Hindu Heritage and Liberation

    Hindu Heritage and Liberation, by Amisha Patel. Several questions were recently posed to Co-Counselors of Hindu heritage on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of South, Central, and West Asian-heritage people. Here are three people’s responses.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation17

  • What We Are Trying to Do


    What We Are Trying to Do
 - We’ve been figuring things out for many years. It took us fifty to sixty years of discharging to uncover how isolated we’d been early in our lives—and how alone we still are.
    Published in: Present Time 208, July 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:07

  • Pamphlets

    Pamphlets. All prices are $2.00 (U.S.) except where indicated otherwise. 20% off price for 10 to 19 copies; 40% off for 20 or more copies (of one title). Postage and handling costs will be added. Order form on page 110.
    Published in: Present Time, Pamphletspages 100 to 101

  • RC Women’s Liberation—Then, and Now

    RC Women’s Liberation—Then, and Now, by Diane Balser. Re-evaluation Counseling began in the 1950s. In the 1960s and ’70s, the RC Communities came into existence and began to grow. RC liberation theory and practice developed simultaneously with wide-world liberation movements, most of which were based on revolutionary ideas.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberationpages 44 to 45

  • Table of Contents

    Introduction to the Guidelines For The Re-evaluation Counseling Communities Adopted at the August 9 - 14, 2022 World Conference Storrs, Connecticut, USA and modifications in 2020 for online events
    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • The Working Class, the World, and RC

    The Working Class, the World, and RC, by Harvey Jackins. A comprehensive discussion of class oppression and working class liberation.
    Published in: Benign Reality

  • The Working Class, the World, and RC

    Published in: Working for a Living 5

  • A New Goal on Care of the Environment

    A New Goal on Care of the Environment, by Tim Jackins. Here is the new goal on care of the environment adopted by the 2013 World Conference of the Re-Evaluation Counseling Communities
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Counseling Practicepages 3 to 4

  • A Great Day in Ivory Coast

    A Great Day in Ivory Coast, by Cyrille Zounon. The workshop started at 9:00 a.m. After introductions and a brief review of RC fundamentals and the Guidelines, people discharged on various themes, such as key events of their childhood, difficulties related to the social-political crisis since 2002, parent-child relationships, and commitment to Co-Counseling.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:75

  • Corean RC Fundraising

    Fundraising for Corean Liberation
    Published in: Foundation

  • RC, and Being an Activist

    RC, and Being an Activist, by Susanne Langer. Many years ago I read an article by Harvey Jackins, I think in Present Time, that said our re-emergence would benefit greatly if we would “walk on two legs”: engage in wide world change and also lead in RC. I could see that by doing both I would contradict early feelings of powerlessness, hopelessness, and discouragement
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • On Transition


    On Transition
 - First of all, I wish to express my gratitude and appreciation for the work you have done in being part of the leadership of the RC Community. Our Community has continued to develop well and grow throughout the past decades, including in the very challenging last couple of years. Thank you. 

    Published in: Present Time PT 206, January 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:69

  • Recovering My Roots (and Building a Community) in the Philipines

    Recovering My Roots (and Building a Community) in the Philippines,by Teresa Enrico. My trip to the Philippines was the dream of a life-time. To get to go to the country of the birth of my father, meet family I had never met before, and learn so much about myself and about my father has always been one of my hopes.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Counseling Practice(pages 10 to 12)

  • Everywhere and Whenever Possible

    Everywhere and Whenever Possible, by Betsy Damon. I'm pleased to be able to write you an update on RC in Chengdu. My RC class is going well, with seventeen people. Everyone wants to bring friends and family, so I am planning another class.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: pages 84 to 85)

  • A Safe Environment for Learning to Lead

    A Safe Environment for Learning to Lead, from "Logical Thinking About a Future Society," by Harvey Jackins. The great problem before people everywhere in the wide world is lack of leadership. Everywhere people are eager to do something effective about their conditions, even where their patterned appearance and behavior give a different impression. People are frustrated and sometimes turn to destructive outlets out of their frustration, but in reality they are everywhere anxious to take constructive actions. Lack of leadership and lack of policy are the crucial problems—the lack of leadership with a correct policy.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 82

  • Information on Sexual Misconduct for the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Counseling About Breast Cancer

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • COVID policies

  • We Are the Heart of RC Women's Liberation

    We Are the Heart of RC Women's Liberation, by Pardis Pourahmad. six Muslim women gathered. It was a first in RC history.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 33

  • Outline: The Clarification and Generalization of the Fundamentals of Co-Counseling

    Published in: Present Time 61, October 1985

  • Stories of Hope and Courage

    Stories of hope and courage about climate change.
    Published in: Environment -

  • Recovering from a Bicycle Accident

    Recovering from a Bicycle Accident, by Emily Cunningham. I was in a serious bicycle accident. It landed me in my region’s trauma hospital for eleven days, took many months to actively recover from.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Counseling Practicepages 9 to 14

  • Solid Beginnings in Chile

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Proposed Goals 2022 World Conference

    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • Moving Working-Class Issues Forward in RC

    Moving Working-Class Issues Forward in RC; From a talk by Tim Jackins1 at a small working-class workshop in Seattle, Washington, USA, November 2014
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, No Section(03)

  • Many-Issue Leadership

    Many-Issue Leadership, by Marsha Saxton. I just returned from leading our twelfth annual International Disability Liberation and Allies Workshop, in Hebron, Connecticut, USA. We had nearly a hundred people, many of whom have returned for all or nearly all of these years.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: pages 57-58

  • Leadership

    Leadership, by Tim Jackins. Leadership in RC is different from leadership anywhere else. I think we understand what it means to lead.
    Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 27 to 28

  • Speaking Out About Fat Oppression and Liberation

    Speaking Out About Fat Oppression and Liberation, by Mel Cowell. It looks to me like many people have food addictions, but some become fat and others don't. It is fat people who are targeted, oppressed, and discriminated against.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: pages 17 to 20

  • Thinking about Humiliation

    Thinking about Humiliation by Jay Raymond. This is a report on what I’ve learned: about how to be a client who is determined to discharge humiliation, and how the world looks now that I have discharged some of it.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Counseling Practice19

  • Jan Yoshiwara—International Liberation Reference Person for Japanese and Okinawan Heritage People

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • Japanese Heritage People

    Japanese-Heritage People, by Jan Yoshiwara. Discharging on our significance and fighting for ourselves are key for our constituency. Ancient cultural conditioning to selflessly focus on the good of the group and our families, plus the message of capitalism that productivity and profit are more important than the person, have made us vulnerable to confusion about our inherent value as human beings.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section14

  • Resource Document for Unified Goal

    Published in: 2022 Goals of the RC Community

  • Bringing Working-Class People into RC

    Bringing Working-Class People into RC, by Tim Jackins. Tim Jackins answering a question at the Pennsylvania and New Jersey, USA, Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • Lorenzo Garcia— International Liberation Reference Person for Chicanos and Chicanas

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • Chicanos and Chicanas

    Chicanos and Chicanas, by Lorenzo Garcia. Chicanos/as are often referred to as a “minority population,” but this is not the case at all. We are part of the largest global-majority group in the United States.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section06

  • The Importance of RC Communities

    The Importance of RC Communities-A talk by Tim Jackins at the Pre-World Conference for South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 2001, Present Time No. 124, page 41. Why we need to build RC communities and how Tim did it.
    Published in: Present Time 124, Juli 2001

  • A Men’s Liberation Workshop for New Co-Counselors

    A Men’s Liberation Workshop for New Co-Counselors, by Dan Nickerson. I thought it would be good to organize the workshop so that men from the fundamentals classes could get together.
    Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 35

  • There Are No 'Good' Patterns

    There Are No 'Good' Patterns, by Randi Wolfe. I want to spend this evening's class talking about leadership, attacks, 'liberalism,' and why this kind of 'drastic' or 'harsh' intervention is sometimes necessary. I want to do this without disrespecting either of the people involved and without allowing the discussion to become gossip.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 52 to 56.)

  • Expanding the Frontiers of RC in Nigeria

    Expanding the Frontiers of RC in Nigeria by Onii Nwangwu. Thumbs-up1 to our Nigerian Re-evaluation Counseling Community, as it takes refreshing strides to expand the frontiers of RC.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:45

  • Persistant Attention to the Literature

    Persistent Attention to the Literature, by Harvey Jackins. From the beginning, the importance of reading the literature should be stressed. Every class meeting (and every meeting of any sort in the Community) should always have an ample stock of all RC literature on display.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Organizing In-Person Class and Area RC Workshops

    Reference Guide for Organizing Class and Area RC Workshops
    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Organizing Regional and International RC Workshops

    Organizing Regional and International RC Workshops
    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Style Sheet

    Published in: Editors -

  • A Healing from War Workshop in Kenya

    A Healing from War Workshop in Kenya, by Janet Kabue and others. I talked about the importance of relationships and inclusion and said that we can only “win” if we work together as a Community. To do that, we need to look at and discharge on the messages of division.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Area Reference Persons of the Global Majority

    Area Reference Persons of the Global Majority, by Maritza Arrastia. In March of this year, twenty-four RC leaders of the global majority, from all over the United States, gathered in Chicago (Illinois, USA). We were led by Alysia Tate, the Regional Reference Person for Illinois, and hosted by the Chicago and Suburbs #2 Area.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:23

  • Two Articles on the Understatement

    Two Article on Understatements, "The Intensive Use of 'Understatements'" and "Useful Understatements/Useful Procedures," by Harvey Jackins, An Unbounded Future, page 21. A detailed look at the origins and use of the long and short understatements
    Published in: Unbounded Future

  • The Intensive Use of "Understatements"

    Published in: Present Time 111, April 1998

  • Tim Jackins

    Letter, 2009

  • The Complete Appreciation of Oneself

    The Complete Appreciation of Oneself, by Steve Brown.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice

  • From the editor

    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000

  • Discussion Toward a Classless Society

    Discussion Towards a Classless Society, by Harvey Jackins. It seems clear that information about previous attempts to plan and establish a non-oppressive society are extremely valuable to us. The Paris Commune, the Russian October Revolution, and Chinese liberation must be studied and understood by us if we are to deal intelligently with the present world-wide collapse of our current societies.
    Published in: A Better World

  • RC Literature and Learning Re-evaluation Counseling

    RC Literature and Learning Re-evaluation Counseling by Tim Jackins
    Published in: Present Time 153, October 2008

  • New Contacts in Cuba

    New Contacts in Cuba by, Eneko Landaburu, M.D.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: page 70)

  • From the Editor

    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000

  • A Policy in the Making

    A Policy in the Making, by Harvey Jackins. The Upward Trend, pages 365 to 376. Should Gentile RCers, and Gentiles in general, be involved in the discussion and evolution of a correct policy for Jewish liberation, both inside and outside of RC?
    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • A Group Moving Forward Together

    A Group Moving Forward Together, Alysia Tate, What a wonderfully mixed group of twenty-four people attended the recent Area Reference Persons of the Global Majority Workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:25

  • The Empowerment of the Individual

    The Empowerment of the Individual, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time No. 46, pp 6-9. RC acts to strip the pseudo-reality from reality, rolls back the false reality which has occluded reality for almost all of us almost all out lives. The pseudo-reality has accumulated from the falsehoods, the invalidations, the pain, the unwarranted assumptions which have been presented to us as reality, assumptions such as that we are helpless.
    Published in: Present Time 46, January 1982

  • Subscriptions from RIP

    Subscriptions available from RIP, Rational Island Publishers

  • contents

    Published in: Climate Leaders - January 2023

  • Appreciating the RC Teacher Update CDs

    Appreciating the RC Teacher Update CDs, CDs of talks given by Tim Jackins at recent RC workshops.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:81

  • My Experience in RC

    My Experience in RC, by Wanjiku Kironyo. Wanjiku Kironyo, the Regional Reference Person for Northern Africa, shared her experience in RC in an interview with me at a recent workshop in Northern Uganda. I’m delighted to give more people a chance to get to know her, her thinking, and her work.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:57

  • Nederlandse vertalingen

    Vertalingen in het Nederlands/Translations into Dutch
    Published in: Dutch

  • From the Editor

    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996

  • An Israeli Workshop Focused on Ending Racism

    An Israeli Workshop Focused on Ending Racism, by Tami Shamir.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:21

  • Arabs Ending Divisions

    Arabs Ending Divisions by Amin Khoury (Victor Nicassio). Ruth Hartman and I led Shabbat at the West Coast North America Reference Persons' Workshop in January 2016. Below is the talk that I gave as an ally.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation:page 72

  • Beginning to Reclaim Our Bodies

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Photos Women's March January 2017

    Published in: Foundation Nolimits -

  • No Limits for Women, on the Day Women Shook the World

    No Limits for Women, on the Day Women Shook the World, by Diane Balser. On Saturday, January 21, we women shook the world. It is wonderful to read the reflections on the amazing, breathtaking marches that were held in the United States and countries throughout the world.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing11

  • Azi Khalili--ILRP for South, Central, and West-Asian Heritage People

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People

    South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People, by Azi Khalili. Climate change in South, Central, and West Asia is happening in the context of an already prolonged crisis that is due largely to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, the Palestinian territories, and Lebanon. They have ruined agricultural lands, contaminated soil, increased desertification, polluted water, destroyed wildlife habitat, and, of course, caused millions of civilian deaths as well as mass migrations.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section10

  • Prospects For RC

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Proposed Goals for the Communities, 1997

    Proposed Goals for the Communities, 1997, by Harvey Jackins. There will be a World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities this year. Ten preliminary conferences are being held in various parts of the world. Discussion is taking place at all these conferences towards updating the goals of Re-evaluation Counseling.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Contents(Front Section: page 3)

  • The Key Concepts and Insights of Re-evaluation Counseling to Date

    Published in: Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual

  • An Especially Important Meeting

    An Especially Important Meeting, by Susanne Langer. It was the second Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop in Poland, and the larger number of women from Central and Eastern Europe made it an especially impressive and important meeting—one that built stronger bridges between Eastern and Western women.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Addressing difficulties in Leadership

    Addressing difficulties in Leadership, by Diane Shisk. Re-evaluation Counseling is a great training ground for leaders.
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 63 to 64

  • Young People’s Work in RC

    Young People’s Work in RC, by Mari Piggott. Goal 2 of the RC Communities is that the Re-evaluation Counseling Community put new and increased efforts into making Re-evaluation Counseling and the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities accessible to young people. I am writing a series of articles about moving forward with that goal.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberation(pages 36 to 38)

  • Listening Projects about the Environment

    Listening Projects about the Environment, by Tim Jackins and Diane Shisk. Listening projects began as attempts to push us out of our isolation, as individuals and as an RC Community. They give us a chance to face our fears about listening to people who have different perspectives than we do and who might be “upset.” They also push us to think farther, and communicate our thinking to others.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changingpages 40 to 41

  • The Present Conditions and Tasks

    The Present Conditions and Tasks, by Tim Jackins. Society is collapsing, and it’s going to wear on everybody everywhere, including us. We are not going to change the fact of society collapsing around us.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing03

  • Give Up False Expectations and "Disappointment"

    Give Up False Expectations and "Disappointment," by Harvey Jackins. Discharging on frozen expectations and disappointments about RC. What RC is and What it isn't.
    Published in: Start Over Every Morning

  • The State of Black Liberation 2021

    The State of Black Liberation 2021, by Barbara Love. African-heritage people in the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities are gaining greater depth with the theory, practice, and tools of Re-evaluation Counseling (RC). We are seeing great strides forward in our individual re-emergence.
    Published in: Black Re-emergence 14

  • A Gather-in with the International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons

    A Gather-in with the International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons, by tim Jackins. Last June, in Seattle, Washington, USA, almost all the International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons talked about their work at a gather-in for the local RC Community. Below is an introduction to that evening, by Tim Jackins.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Health and Well-Being

    Health and Well-Being, by Pam Geyer. From a talk by Pam Geyer at a workshop in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in June, 2006
    Published in: Journals Well-Being 6

  • Working on Anti-Semitism during Lent

    Working on Anti-Semitism during Lent, by Steve Banbury.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Allies of Young People

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Immigrants and Children of Immigrants of the Global Majority

    Immigrants and Children of Immigrants of the Global Majority, by many. We began reclaiming the languages that had been stolen from us by introducing ourselves in our native languages. It was powerful.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation61

  • Middle-Class in "Classless" Israel

    Middle-Class in "Classless" Israel, by Miri Sager.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberationpage 63

  • Getting Better at Teaching

    Getting Better at Teaching, by HyoJung Bidol. Things are going well here in Korea. I am getting better at teaching Co-Counseling and even surprising myself with how well I’m doing it.
    Published in: Present Time 130, January 2003, (Teaching, Leading, Community Building Page 50)

  • ILRP for Care of the Environment

    International Commonality Reference Person for the Care of the Environment
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 64

  • Ending the Role of Male Humans as the Principal Agents of Oppression

    Ending the Role of Male Humans as the Principal Agents of Oppression, by Jay Raymond. As “principal agents” I mean that we take the lead: we command or dominate the organizations that oppress everyone, including ourselves.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Some Thoughts for Allies to Jews

    Some Thoughts for Allies to Jews, by Bruce Clezy. Here are some things Cherie Brown said at a recent Jews and Allies Workshop in Sydney (New South Wales, Australia):
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: page 71

  • Protestants

    Protestants, by Barbara Boring. As the current economic system collapses, oppression based on religious belief or heritage is on the rise. Protestantism began with a sectarian split, and its history ever since has been marked by factionalism.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section58

  • A Welcome to the RC Communities from Tim Jackins

  • Graduation Day

    Published in: Present Time 61, October 1985

  • A “Learning About the Guidelines” Class

    A “Learning About the Guidelines” Class by Andrea Blum. RC Teacher 28, page 77. I am leading a “learning about the Guidelines” class in my Community. It’s fun. I just led the second class tonight.
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Men Fighting for Themselves

    Men Fighting for Themselves by Tim Jackins. One of our goals is to figure out what being an ally really means. In my mind it means being committed to someone’s liberation to the extent that I do not forget that they are of central importance to me, no matter what my, or their, restimulations are. I get to decide to do that and throw in my life with them [commit my whole self to them], consider the work of liberating them to be just as important as the work I do to liberate myself.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation61

  • Becoming People's Intellectuals

    Becoming People's Intellectuals, by Harvey Jackins. The Benign Reality, page 541. The present isolation and segregation of intellectuals from working people, however, is ridiculous. We can find ways to end this isolation.
    Published in: Benign Reality

  • Use Assistants

    Use Assistants, by Harvey Jackins. The teacher of [an RC] class should plan on having one or two or more assistant teachers. These will be experienced Co-Counselors when they are available, but even in beginning a class in a new place, the teacher should choose assistants.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Ending Racism on Campus

    Ending Racism on Campus, by Ellie Brown. This summer and fall I led two RC fundamentals classes for people taking leadership to end racism on our campus.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation32

  • Janet Foner

    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Harvey Page 60

  • Guideline M.5. Training Resources

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Present Time 181, October 2015

    Present Time 181, October 2015
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015

  • People Leaving RC

    People Leaving RC, by Tim Jackins. People leave the RC Community for several different reasons. We want to be thoughtful about who comes into the Community.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 65

  • Common Goals For All Humans

    Common Goals for All Humans, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time 58, page 29. I have some wider generalizations that I want to present. This is the first time I'm talking about these. They come under the heading "perceiving reality accurately."
    Published in: Present Time 58, January 1985

  • A Fulfilling Working-Class Life

    A Fulfilling Working-Class Life by Victor George Nicassio. This letter is to bring you up-to-date on some of my progress over the past year.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: pages 66 to 68)

  • Translations in Japanese (PDF)

    Translations into Japanese
    Published in: Japanese

  • Moving Beyond the Iron Curtain

    Moving Beyond the Iron Curtain
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:44

  • The Six-Legged Table

    The Six-Legged Table, by Xabi Odriozola. It is not always easy to define RC. My definition has been changing over time. The more I make RC central in my life, the easier it is for me to provide an understandable definition of it for those who do not know about it. Sometimes I see RC as a big round table with six legs. One leg on its own cannot support the table.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:79(pages 79 to 81)

  • Excerpts from RC Journal OLDER AND BOLDER

    Published in: Older and Bolder

  • Info for webinar organizers

    Information for Zoom webinar organizers
    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Human Connection, and Sex

    Human Connection, and Sex by Tim Jackins. A description of the work on sex, gender, and human connection.
    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • Catholic Liberation Teaching Guide II

    Published in: Ftg2 Readings -

  • I Can Proceed with More Confidence

    I Can Proceed with More Confidence, by SaraLynne Thoreson. What would happen if we weren’t so concerned about our own existence? How many people would we be able to reach for?
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practicepage 18

  • Being Sensible About Class Divisions

    Being Sensible About Class Divisions, by Dan Nickerson. In this article, like to try to clarify what our several definitions of the term "Working Class" that we have used in RC are, so that we can use them with some clarity.
    Published in: Present Time 82, January 1991

  • Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation

    Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation, by Patxi Xabier Odriozola Ezeitza. Connection and linguistic liberation, in my role as a client.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016

  • Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation

    Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation, by Xabi Odriozola Ezeiza. Linguistic liberation is an essential tool in the effort to eliminate the other oppressions (racism, classism, genocide, sexism, young people’s oppression, and so on).
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation

  • Catholic Women Leading

    Catholic Women Leading by Ellie Hidalgo. Last week my coworker and I took turns leading Ash Wednesday services at our church. She and I each led three services (six total) in Spanish, and a male priest led two others. My preaching this year focused on God’s mercy and forgiveness and getting to start fresh.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpage 45

  • Re-evaluating the Cross

    Re-evaluating the Cross, by Ellie Hidalgo. I work at a church where we read Jesus’ words on a regular basis. It is interesting to see where his teachings have inspired great generosity and courage among our Catholic people and where they can get hooked on our distresses.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(page 64)

  • A Recent Introduction to RC

    A Recent Introduction to RC, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 152, April 2008, pages 3-10. Introductory talk about RC, Seattle.
    Published in: Present Time 152, July 2008

  • Close Friendships Between Women and Men

    Close Friendships Between Women and Men, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time No. 44, pp 14-16. A clearer understanding is beginning to emerge of the nature of the inherent relationships between women and men, the cultural distresses that get in the way of these natural relationships, and what can be done about removing the distresses through counseling.
    Published in: Present Time 44, July 1981

  • Building Community—by Combining Classes and Teaching Together

    Building Community—by Combining Classes and Teaching Together by Gwen Brown
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Articles by Harvey Jackins on Working-Class Liberation

    Published in: Working for a Living 8

  • What Are We Doing When We Teach RC?

    What Are We Doing When We Teach RC?, by Xabi Odriozola. When we teach RC, we are accelerating our own development and evolution.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:41

  • The Uncovering of Reality

    The Uncovering of Reality, by Harvey Jackins. The Benign Reality, page 157. In a very useful sense, RC, the theory and practice of it, is an uncovering of reality. We have been looking at it from this viewpoint for a couple of years now and the approach has been valuable and productive.
    Published in: Benign Reality

  • Eliciting Thinking, Proposing Solutions

    Eliciting Thinking, Proposing Solutions by Harvey Jackins. reprinted from "The Benign Reality,pages 281-283, the nature of leadership
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Counseling Practice09

  • Good Ideas Catch On

    Good Ideas Catch On, by Jenny Sazama. Last night I walked into a meeting of my mother’s climate organizing group, and one of the committees announced it was going to start training people more widely on how to do listening stations.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing53

  • How to begin United to End Racism (UER) Counseling Sessions

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • A Full Life for Every Family Member

    A Full Life for Every Family Member, by Randi Wolfe. What follows is an update on my wide world work in going public with RC around parents' liberation, some insights I've been having as client, and some thinking I've been doing about RC parents' liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: pages 75 to 80

  • Reclaiming Our Minds and Sharing Our Thinking

    Reclaiming Our Minds and Sharing Our Thinking, by Cynthia Johnston. One of my goals is to be able to problem-solve and come up with fresh solutions to each new situation that I am confronted with.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 30

  • The Alternate International Reference Person


    The Alternate International Reference Person
. I became the International Reference Person (IRP) in July of 1999. One of my first steps was to ask Diane Shisk to become the Alternate International Reference Person (AIRP)—the position that I had held for many years until then. She seemed surprised but agreed. 

    Published in: Present Time 209, October 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:05

  • Sustaining All Life, in Israel

    Sustaining All Life, in Israel, by Naomi Raz. Two Sustaining All Life1 activities took place in Israel over the past month.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing61

  • A Class on "The Co-Counseling Relationship"

    A Class on “The Co-Counseling Relationship”, by Adekunle Akinola. An RC class was held in November in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. The topic was “The Co-Counseling Relationship” (Topic 8 in the Fundamentals Teaching Guide and Class Outline for Pioneer RC Communities, Part I). I emphasized the efficacy of weekly and longer sessions if we want to discharge hurtful experiences and distress patterns so that we can re-emerge.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:68

  • Steps in the Application Process

    Published in: Fundamentals

  • An Ally at the LGBQT Thirty-Five and Under Workshop

    An Ally at the LGBQT Thirty-Five and Under Workshop, by "Jane Addams". “Jeanne D’Arc” (the International Liberation Reference Person for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, and Transgender People) and “David Nijinsky” (the Assistant International Liberation Reference Person for these constituencies) led a groundbreaking workshop this year near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. About seventy LGBQT Co-Counselors age thirty-five and under attended.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Word Gets Around

    Word Gets Around, by Dan Nickerson. I recently got a call from a working-class/poor woman who grew up in Lewiston, Maine, USA. She is a graduate student, and after five years of struggle in higher education she was finally beginning to be able to think about the impact of the class issues on her life in academia.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: page 76)

  • Gail Mandella

    Published in: Present Time 118, January 2000

  • How to Teach Beginning Co-Counseling in Jerusalem (or Anywhere Else)

    How to Teach Beginning Co-Counseling in Jerusalem (or Anywhere Else) by, Naomi Raz. PT#105 page 28.
    Published in: Present Time 103, April 1996, TeachingLeading and Community Buildingpage 28

  • Re-evaluation Counseling Online Fundamentals Class

    Online RC classes and Self-study RC classes are available.
    Published in: Fundamentals

  • India’s First International Women’s Liberation Workshop

    India’s First International Women’s Liberation Workshop, by Diane Balser. I went over parts of the RC women’s liberation draft policy statement. I emphasized the section on not comparing oppressions. Comparing and “grading” the sexism in different countries and societies does not lead to more effective work against sexism.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberation(pages 28 to 29)

  • Recent U.S. Events, and Opportunities for Change


    Recent U.S. Events, and Opportunities for Change
, by Tim Jackins. Events in the United States continue to illuminate the difficulties our societies are having in sustaining themselves. The inequities and injustices are increasingly visible. They have always been used to support the economic system and the many levels of governments in this country, but the pretense that the system works for people is sounding increasingly hollow. 

    Published in: Present Time 203, April 2021, Wide World Changing73

  • Sustaining All Life at COP23, in Bonn, Germany

    Sustaining All Life at COP23, in Bonn, Germany, Teresa Enrico and Wytske Visser. In November 2017, a Sustaining All Life (SAL) delegation of twenty-four RCers plus nine volunteers went to Bonn, Germany, for the United Nations climate change conference called COP23 (COP stands for Conference of the Parties). It was organized by the Fiji Islands.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing39

  • The Challenge of Opening a New Frontier

    The Challenge of Opening a New Frontier by Harvey Jackins. RCers can teach the interruption of the rehearsals of internalized oppression and self-condemnation. The communication of the basic knowledge of Re-evaluation Counseling theory in simple language is a task that we have to think about more and more carefully.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Contentspage 8 to 9

  • From the Editor Present Time No. 104 (Vol. 28 No. 3)

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Discharging on Health-Related Issues


    Discharging on Health-Related Issues
 -In this article I suggest ways to discharge on health-related issues. I’ve found that most RCers wait until they are ill or injured to discharge on them. My fervent wish is that every workshop put some attention on our health!

    Published in: Present Time PT 206, January 2022, Counseling Practice21

  • Reports from Melphy

    Reports from Melphy, by Melphy Sakupwanya. AN RC WORKSHOP IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, MAY 28 TO JUNE 3, 1997. AN RC WORKSHOP IN KAMPALA, UGANDA, JUNE 3 TO 6, 1997
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: pages 72 to 73.)

  • Young Biennial Age Group Leaders Needed and Available

    Young Biennial Age Group Leaders Needed and Available, by Richard and Tori Lodge. One of the discussions at this workshop was about how many of our Communities struggle with the transition between family work (where young people are expected to be primarily client and not listen to much theory) and "regular" RC formats.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Biennial Age Group Leaders: page 92

  • Vertaler zijn: een geheugensteuntje voor mijzelf als vertaler

    Voordat ik begin met vertalen zal ik bedenken dat ik ideeën ga doorgeven die het leven van mensen zullen veranderen, alleen al door het stukje tekst dat ik zometeen ga vertalen. Ik zal mijzelf er aan herinneren dat ik belangrijk ben en dat mijn vertaling belangrijk is. Ik zal mij ook de volgende dingen voor de geest houden:
    Published in: Dutch

  • An Important Clarification

    An Important Clarification, by Harvey Jackins. One of the incidental, but important, results of the Liberation Workshops was the clarification of Co-Counseling between people coming from different sides of relationships which are oppressive in our society; Co-Counseling between blacks and whites, between women and men, between Latinos and Anglos, between adults and children.
    Published in: Present Time 19, April 1975, Counseling Practice

  • Our Ongoing Goals

    Our Ongoing Goals, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 139, page 20. Making ending racism, community accessibility to young people and the environmental goal your personal goals.
    Published in: Present Time 139, April 2005

  • “Mental Health” Liberation For Everybody

    “Mental Health” Liberation For Everybody by Janet Foner. Recovery and Re-emergence 5, pages 80-82.
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 5

  • "Mental Health" Oppression and Liberation

    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Responding to the Anti-Muslim Attack in New Zealand

    Responding to the Anti-Muslim Attack in New Zealand, by Aly Halpert. When Muslim people showed up powerfully as allies to Jews in the wake of the Pittsburgh shooting, it was an important and moving contradiction to internalized Jewish isolation. Remembering that helped me to choose to work on this anti-Muslim attack.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • My Goals for Elders

    My Goals for Elders, by Pam Geyer. Short-Term and Intermediate Goals, Longer-Range Goals, and For All the Time.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberationpage 39

  • Beginning to Implement 
the Unified Goal on the Climate


    Beginning to Implement 
the Unified Goal on the Climate
 Reaching the understanding that our continued existence is at stake [at risk] has been a big step. Acting on this understanding will be an even bigger undertaking. Much of the world does not yet realize or act on it. Part of our role will be to communicate with and engage others from the perspective of this understanding.

    Published in: Present Time 210, January 2023, No Section10

  • Acting on a Courageous Decision

    Acting on a Courageous Decision, by Lisa Drake. I have been working since 1995 on the Lynn Community Charter School project. I have been leading in the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) since 1993 and have been in RC since 1995.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Wide World Changing(pages 68 to 69.)

  • Learning from Workshops in Northern Uganda

    Learning from Workshops in Northern Uganda, by Pamela Haines. Chuck Esser and I recently led several workshops in Northern Uganda. I’d like to share some of what I learned.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:27

  • Draft Policy on Artists' Liberation

    Draft Policy for Artists' Liberation, by Harvey Jackins
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Way of Accessing and Simplifying Reality

    Way of Accessing and Simplifying Reality, by Mark Wilsey. I first started using the short understatement in July, 1997. I learned how to use it from Eddie Green, who had just returned from the West Coast North American Pre-World-Conference Conference.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: Experience with the Understatement: pages 29 to 31

  • A New Beginning

    A New Beginning, by Anne White. Using a women and physical power workshop to reclaim using her ability to be physical and play.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation55

  • Making RC Accessible to Young People

    Making RC Accessible to Young People by Mari Piggott found on page 44 of the January 2015 issue of Present Time. This is the third of three articles about moving Goal 21 forward in Re-evaluation Counseling. Goal 2 is “that the Re-evaluation Counseling Community put new and increased efforts into making Re-evaluation Counseling and the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities accessible to young people.”
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation(page 44)

  • Teaching How to Teach RC (part 2)

    Teaching How to Teach RC by Frank van den Heuvel
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Interviewing Prospective Students for Fundamentals Classes

    Interviewing Prospective Students for Fundamentals Classes by Ayana Raquel Morse
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Empezar a poner en práctica el objetivo unificado sobre el clima

    Published in: Spanish

  • Teaching as a Window

    Teaching as a Window, by Sue Yoshiwara. I want to share a little about how my first fundamentals class is going. I was terrified to begin with, but I did it anyway.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 42

  • From the Editor

    Published in: Present Time 106, January 1997

  • Next Steps with COVID

    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • RC and COVID-19

    RC and the coronavirus, COVID-19
    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • Getting RC Ideas Out Widely,
While Also Building the RC Community


    Getting RC Ideas Out Widely,
While Also Building the RC Community, by Tim Jackins. 
 One is to get out to everyone the basic ideas. ("Life goes better if you listen to each other.") The other is to build the RC Community in depth.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:17

  • Chicano and Mexican Men’s Sexism

    Chicano and Mexican Men’s Sexism, by Sparky Griego. Chicano and Mexican men’s sexism is not easy to think about. And it’s especially difficult to find places where we can discharge about it.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation63

  • A Leaders’ Class on the Guidelines

    A Leaders’ Class on the Guidelines
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:70

  • Echo From the Dublin Conference

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Gynecological Teaching Associates

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Clay Houses, Sweden, and South Africa

    Clay Houses, Sweden, and South Africa, by Tessa Abramowitz. I want to tell you a little of what has been happening since I met you in Israel. I returned to Sweden filled with new courage and energy, inspired by the conference, by the many new friendships, and by yours and Cherie's leadership.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: pages 75 to 76)

  • Organizing in the Middle Americas

    Organizing in the Middle Americas by, Laura Aguilar. After some talks and conferences I've been giving at the university, I might get an interesting job there, plus they promoted me to work (naturalizing RC in "Education for Democracy" courses) next year in at least ten of the main high schools and colleges in Morelos.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: page 73)

  • What I've Figured Out about Enjoying My Life

    What I've Figured Out about Enjoying My Life, by Timna Raz. As a young adult, I’ve been thinking a lot about building my life to be the way I want it and about going for my dreams—about how to enjoy life, which I think is a revolutionary thing to do.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Counseling Practice(page 10)

  • Recruiting

    Published in: Kind, Friendly Universe

  • Start Over Every Morning

    Start Over Every Morning, by Harvey Jackins. The actual situation may sometimes be very difficult, threatening, or even deadly, but it can be faced and, almost always, coped with well if it is seen for what it is.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Counseling Practice

  • More Outlines for Teaching about Climate Change

    Outlines by Russ Vernon-Jones, Marya Axner for teaching classes on the climate emergency.
    Published in: Environment -

  • Excerpts from the RC journal MEN

    Published in: Men

  • Clarifying and Summarizing

    Clarifying and Summarizing, by Harvey Jackins. I want to review the remarkable clarification of the fundamentals of counseling that has taken place in the recent period. As advanced concepts have broken through, they have illuminated what we'd been doing previously, so that we can now better summarize the fundamentals of RC. RC Teacher 21, p 64
    Published in: Present Time 21, October 1975, Counseling Practice

  • Jewish Liberation Is Everybody’s Concern

    Jewish Liberation Is Everybody’s Concern, by Harvey Jackins. The Upward Trend, pages 377 to 399. We have much work to do in that direction, but the commitment to Jewish liberation has been made on behalf of the entire RC Community.
    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • Jewish Liberation Is Everybody's Concern

    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • West Asians and Asian Identity

    West Asians and Asian Identity, by Victor George Nicassio. The Asian continent is extremely diverse, extending from Turkey in the west to Japan in the east, from Sri Lanka in the south to Siberia in the north, and including a variety of cultures and peoples.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberationpages 21 to 22

  • Film: "Long Night's Journey Into Day"

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • BLCD News Flash!

    BLCD News Flash!, by Barbara Love. News Flash: BLCD has many feet—walking and running. News Flash: BLCD has wings—has been seen flying high, sharing support, sprouting liberation!
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:39

  • "SPIRITUALISM" IN RC? NO!

    Published in: Present Time 59, April 1985

  • Eliminating Addictions From Our Lives

    Published in: Present Time 58, January 1985

  • Care of the Environment - (Nine Articles)

    Care of the Environment - (Nine Articles). On the following nine pages are thoughts from several International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons about their constituencies and care of the environment.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Wide World Changing(page 73 to 81)

  • United to End Racism, at a Synagogue

    United to End Racism, at a Synagogue, by Billy Yalowitz. Regional Jewish leaders’ group led a United to End Racism event at local synagogue.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing44

  • The Environment Is Also "Targeted for Destruction"

    The Environment Is Also "Targeted for Destruction", by Libby Roderick.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: page 3

  • Money, Financial Inequality, and RC

    Money, Financial Inequality, and RC, by “George Bailey." Below are some observations about money and financial inequality and their impact on us in the RC Community. Also included are some thoughts about how we can take charge to move forward even within an oppressive economic system.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 83 to 84

  • White Protestant Women


    White Protestant Women
, by Beth Edmonds. White Protestant women have been set up as the standard by which all women are judged in this oppressive society.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation81

  • It's Time to Play a Big Role

    It's Time to Play a Big Role, by Madeleine Para. I am so pleased with the new emphasis in the RC Community on care of the environment. It is hopeful to see RCers putting their minds to work on the interesting question of how to enlist other humans in the great challenge of moving modern human societies into sustainable practices.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(Pages 75 to 76)

  • Honest Work on Oppressor Material

    Honest Work on Oppressor Material, by Dvora Slavin. For a while I have been working on what I call my “justified material.”1 I took a big whack at it last weekend at an eliminating-white-racism workshop with a small group of white leaders I’d been working with for several years.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Counseling Practice(page 14)

  • Draft Program for Young People's Liberation

    Published in: Young and Powerful

  • Workshops

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Visible as an Asian at the Atlanta Women’s March

    Visible as an Asian at the Atlanta Women’s March, by Cornelia Cho. I’m writing despite the distress recordings that tell me to stay silent. My identities—I am a child of immigrants who survived colonization and war, a woman of Corean (Korean) heritage who grew up surrounded by white people, and a USer living in the South—tell me to be quiet and not speak up.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing16

  • Transcript of webinar

    Transcript to webinar for Allies to Diaspora and Israeli Jews
    Published in: Liberation Israel_Gaza_War

  • Enthusiasm Leading to Success

    Enthusiasm Leading to Success, by Torill Enger Karlsen. My life now in the beginning of 1998 is going quite well. I am in general in a better mood than I was in 1997.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 35 to 36

  • Excerpts from RC Journal THE CARING PARENT

    Published in: The Caring Parent

  • Something We Can Do

    Something We Can Do, by Tim Jackins. at the West Coast Canada and United States Reference Persons’ Workshop, January 2014. So what can we do about the environment, in our still somewhat timid, ill-informed state? Probably the best thing we can do is listen. We can ask everybody for their thinking about the environment and how it’s changing, and listen.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: pages 39 to 40

  • Present Time 174, January 2014

    Present Time 174, January 2014 - Table of Contents
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014

  • Reaching More People with RC

    Reaching More People with RC, by Diane Shisk. Building solid RC Communities continues to be our central work. It requires, at a minimum, that people do the following...
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:33

  • Preparing to Play a Key Role in Transforming Society

    Preparing to Play a Key Role in Transforming Society, by Irene Shen, Jenny Sazama, Eric Braxton, Diane Shisk. From the earliest days of Re-evaluation Counseling, RCers have worked toward transforming society along with transforming people. Through our experience in the RC Communities and in the wider world, we have come to understand that no individual can be free of distress unless we transform society into a rational one.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing11

  • Perspectives from an RC Elder

    Perspectives from an RC Elder, by Anne Mackie. The following is a response from an RC elder
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: pages 34 to 35

  • Counseling Leaders on DVD

    Published in: Audio files

  • How I Led My First RC Class

    How I Led My First RC Class, by Aliyah Omoefe Ejeh. I am nine years old, a basic-six student. I live in Okota, Lagos. Starting a young people’s RC class was not easy.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:77

  • Choosing Love

    Choosing Love, by Wytske Visser.
    Published in: Sustaining All Life

  • Deaf and Hearing Impaired People

    Published in: Present Time 106, January 1997, (Information Coordinators: pages 87 to 90)

  • Getting Moving on Disability Liberation

    Getting Moving on Disability Liberation, by Marsha Saxton. The worldwide movement of disability human rights is a powerful, connected community of effective advocates. It is one of the most innovative and effective movements for liberation in the history of the world.
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • Being Rational About "Ritual Abuse"

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • The Growth of RC -- Discussions from the 1993 World Conference

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Officiële richtlijnen voor het vertalen van de theorie en literatuur van het Herwaarderingscounselen

    Officiële richtlijnen voor het vertalen van de theorie en literatuur van het Herwaarderingscounselen: De theorie van het Herwaarderingscounselen is op zichzelf een belangrijke ondersteuning bij onze wederopbloei. Als we de principes van de theorie goed integreren in ons denken, zijn we beter in staat om met succes te handelen, zowel binnen als buiten het counselen.
    Published in: Dutch

  • Technological Devices at Workshops?

    Technological Devices at Workshops?, by Julian Weissglass and Mari Piggott. What do you think about participants’ use of technology at workshops?
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:82

  • Applying What We Know About Human Beings in Our Teaching and Leading

    Applying What We Know About Human Beings in Our Teaching and Leading, by Nicky Gonzalez Yuen. I've been thinking a lot lately about how we can most effectively teach the information we have in the RC Communities and thereby train powerful leaders.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 40 to 41

  • Reviewing the Dismal Side of Men's Lives

    Reviewing the Dismal Side of Men's Lives, by Hidetake Ishimaru (Abno).
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(page 27)

  • Supporting and Cherishing Each Other

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Men and "Rage"

    Men and "Rage", Chris Austill. What Chris has learned in counseling men on rage.
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Counseling PracticePage 12-13

  • Comment débuter "la Réévaluation par la Co-écoute"

    Published in: French

  • My Story of Healing from Concussions

    A couple of years ago, I healed completely from a series of concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). The following is the story of what happened, and what I learned.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Counseling Practice

  • Following the Lead of Indigenous People

    Following the Lead of Indigenous People, by Marcie Rendon. I have been thinking about This Changes Everything.1 In the book, Naomi Klein says that “Indigenous land and treaty rights have proved a major barrier for the extractive industries in many of the key Blockadia2 struggles.”
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing15

  • Women and “the Middle East”

    Women and “the Middle East”, by Stephanie Abraham. I had the great fortune of attending a recent Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop in Los Angeles, California, USA. Our bold leader, Diane Balser,1 led a class on women and “the Middle East.” She asked me to speak briefly on the topic, and this is what I said:
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation42

  • Topic Groups

    Published in: Implementing the Unified Goal on Climate 2022

  • Irish-Heritage USers

    Irish-Heritage USers, A beginning Perspective and and Invitation, by Rita Davern. My job as Information Coordinator for Irish-Heritage USers is to collect and share counseling directions and insights as we Irish-heritage USers claim this identity.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation(pages 40 to 41)

  • New to RC and from a Catholic Heritage

    New to RC and from a Catholic Heritage, by Joanne Bray. If you are new to RC and have a Catholic heritage, you have an important story to tell. It is unique to you as a person of Catholic heritage.
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • Immigrants of the Global Majority

    Immigrants of the Global Majority, by Cheng Imm Tan, Lynne May Lim, Jeff Lau, Duey Kol, Nanu Hazarika, Victor Yang, Pilar Carrillo, Carro Hu Hua. I led, and Chau Ly organized, an Immigrants and Children of Immigrants of the Global Majority Workshop, in December 2017, in Massachusetts, USA. Thirty-five immigrants and children of immigrants attended.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • Joanne Bray—International Liberation Reference Person for Catholics

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • Catholics

    Catholics, by Joanne Bray. Two thousand years ago, a courageous Jewish peasant living in a brutally occupied land led a people’s liberation movement seeking a universal (“catholic”) embrace of humanity. The Roman Empire saw his principled, pro-human stands as a threat and executed him for treason.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, Liberation

  • Priorities for Translation

    Published in: Translations

  • Nigerian RC Is Growing

    Nigerian RC Is Growing, by Marshall Ifeanyi. Re-evaluation Counseling started in Nigeria in the year 2002. Circumstances prevented its quick growth, and now only a handful of pioneer Nigerian RCers are still leading RC Communities or teaching RC.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:43

  • Daily Reports from COP22

    Daily Reports from COP22, by Susanne Langer, anonymous, and Mary Toutonghi. The following reports were written by the Sustaining All Life report team as COP22 progressed from November 10 to November 16, 2016. Every night or morning we look at our schedule and plan our teams for each event.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing11

  • O.2. Handling Disagreement, Criticism, and Upset

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • תרגומים לעברית

    תרגומים לעברית, Translations into Hebrew
    Published in: Hebrew

  • Teaching About Leading

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • You Can Start Your Own World Community

    You Can Start Your Own World Community, by Harvey Jackins, Rest of Our Lives, page 531. Instructions for how to build your own world community.
    Published in: Rest of Our Lives

  • Opposing Irrational Policies Together


    Opposing Irrational Policies Together

    Published in: Present Time 202, January 2021, No Section03

  • Marsha Saxton—International Liberation Reference Person for People with Disabilities

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • People with Disabilities

    People with Disabilities, by Marsha Saxton. I am particularly proud of the international disabled women’s movement. It has created a strong network of leaders who are writing, convening conferences, and generating services across borders. Their priorities are issues of poverty, abuse, health care, unemployment, and reproductive rights.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section59

  • Building an RC Community with People of Color at the Center

    Building an RC Community with People of Color at the Center by Alysia Tate
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Present Tense - Teaching - People New to RC

    Published in: Teaching -

  • Catholic Women and the Policy

    Published in: Sisters 12

  • The Human Male Intro

    Introduction to The Human Male, by Harvey Jackins
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • From the Editor

    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997

  • Emails to all registered

    Published in: ILRP/ICRP Workshop

  • My Purpose in Life

    My Purpose in Life by Minnie Almader. What if I had discovered Co-Counseling while I was a young adult in college? Over thirty years ago I was awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Arizona (USA). I was a young adult woman of color beginning a journey of isolation, hard work, financial stress, and cultural shock.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:79

  • How to Start Family Work

    How to Start Family Work, by Patty Wipfler. Starting family work in a Co-Counseling Community involves a number of related kinds of counseling work and skills. First of all, people leading family work have to be very firmly grounded in Co-Counseling policies and practice. They have to have fully internalized the theory.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: pages 7 to 32

  • Allow Ourselves Time to Grow

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Regulating Electronic Payments

    U.S. Income Taxes and Electronic Payment Transfers (e.g. PayPal, Venmo)
    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • An Emergency, and New Opportunities

    An Emergency, and New Opportunities, by Tim Jackins. People have figured out how to live together in many different ways. And it has turned out [happened]—probably due to the division of labor and some other things—that more people have survived when larger groups have lived together. So we have tended to clump up and form societies.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Building Our Areas with Native and Indigenous People and Global Majority People at the Center

    Published in: Our Work to End Racism

  • Climate Change and RC

    Climate Change and RC, by Tim Jackins and Diane Shisk. I’m trying to think about what else we can do to engage more Co-Counselors on the issue of climate change. Everywhere I lead on the topic, when I give a picture of the actual state of things, many RCers are shocked that we are in such a bad situation.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing05

  • A Learning Experience for West Europeans

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Climate Moments

    Climate moments for your RC classes, by Russ Vernon-Jones
    Published in: Environment -

  • Language Liberation, and Individual Re-emergence

    Language Liberation, and Individual Re-emergence, by Xabi Odriozola. Present Time No.170, pages 35-38. There will come a time when you will need to express yourself in front of people who are different from you but who like you because they have been told about you or have been influenced by your modeling of a logical human and by how you use RC. Very likely you will need to be familiar with some words in languages you do not yet know.
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013, Liberation

  • Looking Forward to the European Social Forum

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • People Targeted for Destruction

    People Targeted for Destruction by Veronica LaCrue
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberationpages 6972

  • III. Avoiding National Structures

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Using RC in My Work as a Performance Artist

    Using RC in My Work as a Performance Artist, by Dan Kwong. I've worked as a solo performance artist for twenty-four years. I use personal stories to talk about liberation issues. A lot of my performances have to do with shedding light on identity issues, especially internalized oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(page 83)

  • UER Activities in Europe

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Hope, Connection, and Support-My African Methodist Episcopal Heritage

    Hope, Connection, and Support-My African Methodist Eposcopal Heritage, by Marion Ouphouet. Recently, after a Co-Counselor asked me specific questions about my religious beliefs and they seemed difficult to put into words, I decided to actively counsel on my Christian upbringing. The beginning for me was to claim my religious heritage, of which I am proud, and be publicly pleased and acknowledging of it.
    Published in: Present Time 137, October 2004, Liberation(pages 39 to 40)

  • Native Liberation, Colonization, and Genocide

    Native Liberation, Colonization, and Genocide, by Teresa Enrico. Present Time 159, page 27 to 28. I think of colonization as the taking over and the taking of a people—their land, their culture, their language, and all of the other resources they have, including the people themselves (attempting to get their minds)—and ultimately the “genociding” of the people if they get in the way of the conquest.
    Published in: Present Time 159, April 2010, Liberationpages 27 to 28

  • Additional Reports On "Reality Agreement" Counseling

    Published in: Present Time 95, April 1994

  • Resources for UER

    UER resources: Working Together to End Racism, new t-shirt
    Published in: Present Time

  • Female First

    Female First, by Diane Balser. A key direction I’ve been giving at women’s workshops is “female first.”
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation69

  • Let’s Really Reach for the Working Class

    Let’s Really Reach for the Working Class, by Harvey Jackins. I propose that every Community or fledgling Community move directly and promptly to establish a regular monthly one-day workshop for working-class people.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Getting Off Antidepressants

    Getting Off Antidepressants, Anonymous, I am in the last few days of getting off the antidepressants I have been on for the past four years. In the middle of the night one night, I woke up with the memory of why I was prescribed them. It wasn’t depression or anxiety. It was anger.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Counseling Practice12

  • Leveraging Our Likes and Dislikes in the RC Community

    Leveraging Our Likes and Dislikes in the RC Community by Theophus "Thee" Smith. “People say we really like each other in RC!” That’s the way Tim Jackins began one of his opening talks at the Pre-World Conference I attended this spring. Then he said something that will remain one of my permanent takeaways [resulting impressions].
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Counseling Practice39

  • "Special Time"

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Donald Trump and the Working Class

    Donald Trump and the Working Class, by Dan Nickerson. White liberal middle-class USers are the dominant group in the RC Community, and it is important that their fears not dominate our thinking and our perspective on social change.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing65

  • A Chance to Heal from War

    A Chance to Heal from War by Alfred Orem. I had never been outside my country, Uganda, except on rare occasions. Then came an invitation to attend the Healing from War Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. The reception at the airport was heartwarming.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing77

  • About Changes in the Guidelines


    About the Changes in the Guidelines
. Every four years at the World Conference, members of the RC Communities review the Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities and change them as needed to address new conditions in society; to address developments in RC theory, practice, and organization; and to clarify Guidelines that have been confusing or incomplete.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:09

  • Building Indigenous RC in Australia

    Building Indigenous RC in Australia, Rie Shiriashi. Marcie was subsequently invited to return to Australia to help with allies-to-Indigenous-people work. We needed her knowledge about working on oppressor patterns and healing the hurts of colonialism.
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice03

  • A Letter to Joanne Bray, RC International Liberation Reference Person for Catholics

    A Letter to Joanne Bray, RC International Liberation Reference Person for Catholics, by Maggie Washa. Off and on I have been doing a lot of thinking about being Catholic or raised-Catholic. It has become clear to me that my liberation is from the Catholic Church forever.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(pages 30 to 31)

  • Working on Oppressor Material

    Working on Oppressor Material by Karl Lam on page 47 of the January 2015 issue of Present Time. At an Allies to Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals Workshop in April 2013, “Jeanne D’Arc”1 talked about oppressor material2 and how to work on it. I used what she said to lead two different groups at that workshop and later a number of Community classes, topic groups, and workshops. The following is what I understood from her, and what I learnt from doing this work.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation(page 47)

  • Tackling Family Relationships

    Tackling Family Relationships, Matthias Wentzlaff-Eggbert. Running a support group at a family visit.
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Counseling Practicepage 15

  • Our Goal Is to Plant 
a Thousand Trees


    Our Goal Is to Plant 
a Thousand Trees
, by Phil Rose. I think planting trees and other green things is one of the great solutions to climate change.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing46

  • The Rational Needs of Human Beings

    The Rational Needs of Human Beings, by Harvey Jackins. There is a great deal we don't know about rational relationships between humans as yet because the phenomenon of human irrationality has interfered with and obscured this area.
    Published in: RC Theory

  • The Rational Needs of Human Beings

    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • Young Peoples Oppression and Goal Two

    Young Peoples Oppression and Goal Two, by Jessica Whitehead. I think the next several years will be a crucial time for young people and Co-Counseling. Young people have the opportunity to play a bigger role in the RC Communities than ever before, especially in light of World Conference Goal Number Two: making RC more accessible to young people.
    Published in: Present Time 129, October 2002, LiberationPage 63

  • Sustaining All Life, in Paris

    Sustaining All Life, in Paris, by Brian. In late November and early December 2015, fifty Co-Counselors—twenty-five delegates and twenty-five volunteers—did a Sustaining All Life1 project in Paris, France. They shared RC tools and what we’ve learned in RC about the connection between oppression and the environment with activists gathering in Paris during the COP21, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing07

  • Farsi Translations

    Translations into Farsi
    Published in: Translations Farsi -

  • Climate Change and RC

    Climate Change and RC, by Diane Shisk. Bill McKibben has written an important new article: “Recalculating the Climate Math” (New Republic, September 22, 2016). It says that to have a fifty-fifty chance of keeping the global temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees (the target set at COP21, the United Nations climate talks in Paris, France, last year), we can release only about 353 gigatons more CO2 into the atmosphere.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing16

  • Raising Funds for BLCD

    Raising Funds for BLCD, by Christine Sheppard. Last year two of us, a white Jewish woman and a white Gentile woman, each organized an event to raise funds for the 2014 RC Black Liberation and Community Development Workshop (BLCD) in England.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing27

  • 2022 Goals of the RC Community

    Goals for the RC Community.
    Published in: 2022 Goals of the RC Community

  • A New Requirement for RC Teachers

    A New Requirement for RC Teachers, by Tim Jackins. From a talk by Tim Jackins at the Women and Men Leaders’ Workshop, led by Diane Balser and Tim Jackins, in Washington, D.C., USA, October 2017. We had our World Conference not so long ago. One thing we always do at World Conferences is modify the Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities. We do this for several reasons: to correct past mistakes, to clarify our intentions, to demonstrate our progress, and to respond to changing conditions in society.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:55

  • Guide for Online: Breakout Rooms

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Another Look at Relationships

    Another Look at Relationships, by Tim Jackins. What is rational to expect from our relationships?
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Counseling Practice(pages 3 to 4)

  • "Away From Distress" Doesn't Mean Repressing Discharge

    "Away From Distress" Doesn't Mean Repressing Discharge, by Sue Lemon. Letter to Harvey with his response.
    Published in: Present Time 62, January 1986

  • Experienced Leader Becomes New Editor

    Experienced Leader Becomes New Editor, by Susal Stebbins. I want you to know that I have taken on the job of editor of the Wide World Changing journal, that I am beginning to work on the next edition, and I want you all along on this amazing adventure!
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Wide World Changing: page 14

  • Relationships

    Relationships, by Tim Jackins. We have a powerful and useful theory in Re-evaluation Counseling. Using RC well and building RC Communities depend on relationships. We need to work on our upsets.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Counseling Practicepage 3 to 5

  • Present Time No. 94 January 1994

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • My Experience as a Hearing-Impaired Person

    My Experience as a Hearing-Impaired Person, by Chris O'Mahony. I want to add some of my thoughts to the discussion about the use of interpreters and personal assistants at workshops.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: pages 64 to 65

  • Teaching RC on a College Campus

    Teaching RC on a College Campus ; (Part Two) By Phyllis Bronstein
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:38

  • An Adult Male Workshop in Nigeria

    An Adult Male Workshop in Nigeria by multiple
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:46

  • Ending Racism Toward Asians

    Ending Racism Toward Asians, by Cheng Imm Tan. I am seeing more clearly the racism directed at Asians in the United States, and how Asians internalize it.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberationpages 58-60

  • Nationalism, Patriotism, National Pride, and National Liberation

    Nationalism, Patriotism, National Pride, and National Liberation, by Harvey Jackins. It is time to begin to think about nationalism. Nationalism patterns have played a role in certain recent attempts to disrupt the Community. They will also require handling for any future rational society to come into being.
    Published in: A Better World, A Better Worldpages 29 to 53

  • Capitalism

    Capitalism, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 166, January 2012. Many of us are not simply opposed to capitalism continuing forever. Rather, we are against the exploitation of anyone by anybody, by any system. The system we have exploits people, so we’re opposed to it.
    Published in: Present Time 166, January 2012, Wide World Changing: pages 67-68.

  • The Continuum of Parent Leadership

    The Continuum of Parent Leadership, by Patty Wipfler. Present Time 148, page 37to 39. Parenting is first and foremost a long-term commitment to nurture at least one young person through his or her formative and vulnerable early years. It’s both an intimate relationship and a job we parents pour our energy into for decades.
    Published in: Present Time 148, July 2007, Liberation(pages 37 to 39)

  • More About Commitments

    More About Commitments, by Kathy Dancingsun. Present Time No. 34, p33. I want to share with you how my commitment is coming along - it was to give up the hopelessness, with implications being that I would commit myself to accepting that RC theory also applies to me; to ending Jewish oppression; and to finishing my Ph.D.
    Published in: Present Time 34, January 1979

  • An Invitation to Fathers

    An Invitation to Fathers
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberation83

  • Taking Leadership and Inviting People to Connect

    Taking Leadership and Inviting People to Connect, by Zoe Cohen. After the U.S. presidential election, I decided to take on leadership of social justice work at my reconstructionist synagogue in West Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA). I’m now co-chairing a new Committee for Justice and Action along with another person who is not a Co-Counselor.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing25

  • A Secure and Sustainable Future for All

    A Secure and Sustainable Future for All, by Dan Nickerson. Seán Ruth, the International Liberation Reference Person for Middle-Class People, has challenged the middle class to give up its fears around “comfort and security.”
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changing(page 82)

  • Starting a New RC Community

    Starting a New RC Community, by Tim Jackins. You don’t need a lot of people quickly. You need two, three, four people who decide it is going to be an important part of their life, who have sessions with each other consistently, and who go off to a workshop together in some established Community where they all get to move forward together using that resource.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:83

  • From a Working-Class Jewish Female

    From a Working-Class Jewish Female by Joell Hochman. The combination of being raised in a mixed working- and middle-class Jewish home, facing heavy male domination and anti-Jewish oppression as a young female, and my particular early hurts has made it extremely difficult for me to have a voice. I can’t help but notice that I am not alone in this.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 58

  • A Catholic Liberation Workshop in The Netherlands

    A Catholic Liberation Workshop in The Netherlands, by Rini Pijnenburg.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: page 59

  • A Page or Two in the Life of a Scientist

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • How Do We Change the World?

    How Do We Change the World?, Tim Jackins. At the World Conference 
of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, August 2017
. We start with our minds. We work to remove the distress recordings that have made it difficult for us to see the world clearly and interact rationally. We want every mind free of the impediment of old distress.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, No Section03

  • Literature in Languages Other Than English

    Literature in Languages Other Than English. The important job of translating RC literature is done by volunteers. Truus Jansen is the Rational Island Publishers Translation Coordinator.
    Published in: Present Time, Literature In Other Languagespages 94 to 98

  • The First Palestinian Workshop for Healing the Hurts of Racism

    The First Palestinian Workshop for Healing the Hurts of Racism, Noha Hijab. Workshop on eliminating racism for Palestinian and White Ashkenazi Israeli Co-Counselors
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Teaching, Leading, Community Building Page 70

  • Continuing an Ever-More-Needed Initiative and The New Climate Initiative

    The New Climate Initiative
 - The RC Communities update their goals every four years at the World Conference. We first adopted a goal about the environment in 2001 and have had a goal on the environment ever since. 

    Published in: Present Time PT 206, January 2022, Wide World Changing03

  • Disability Assistance at Workshops

    Disability Assistance at Workshops, by Marsha Saxton. Present Time 167, pages 33-40. Many people with the need for disability and health-related assistance attend RC weekend workshops.
    Published in: Present Time 167, April 2012, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 33-40

  • Bringing in Our Closest People

    Bringing in Our Closest People by Sharon Peters. RC Teacher 29, Page 95.
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • A Draft Policy for Care of the Environment

    A Draft Policy for Care of the Environment. The following Draft Policy for Care of the Environment builds on the work we have done in the RC Communities since the World Conference adopted the first care of the environment goal in 2001. Since then, we have published the pamphlet Sustaining All Life, the journal also called Sustaining All Life, and the article “Why We Prioritize Addressing Climate Change” as well as other articles.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing61

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #3

    Published in: Teaching -

  • How Connected Can Humans Be?


    How Connected Can Humans Be?
 We need to find out how connected humans can be. Because of undischarged distresses, no one has yet had the opportunity or been in shape [in a condition] to push very far in that direction. We are trying to do something that has never happened before. 

    Published in: Present Time 210, January 2023, Counseling Practice17

  • New UER t-shirt

    UER t-shirt ad
    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Starting Re-emergence "at Home"

    Starting Re-emergence "at Home", by Cynthia (Bird) Johnson. I wanted to write to you and tell you what I've been up to because I am feeling proud these days. I am so persistent about sharing RC and making my world around me better bit by bit.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: pages 14 to 15

  • Asia and Me?

    Asia and Me?, by Molnar Gabriella. Noraini Kassim of Malaysia, Li Mei Ge of China, and Subbarra-man of India were the first Asian RCers I ever met. In fact they were the first Asian people I ever met, since there were no Asian communities in my country.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(pages 23 to 24)

  • "We Are in This Jewish Liberation Project Together"

    "We Are in This Jewish Liberation Project Together", by Cherie Brown. I am heartbroken, as I know you are, by the shooting at the synagogue today on Shabbat [the Jewish Sabbath] in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA).
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • No Attacks Within RC!

    No Attacks Within RC! by Tim Jackins. Throughout the years of RC, every so often, there have been attacks on the leadership of the Community. These attacks have taken various forms.
    Published in: Present Time 81, October 1990

  • The Baobab Area—for People of Color

    The Baobab Area—for People of Color. RC Teacher 29, page 26.
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Math Students Learn to “Think and Listen”

    Math Students Learn to “Think and Listen”, by anonymous. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, and his first days in office, has been overwhelming. I have been struggling to figure out how I should respond.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing33

  • Going Forward Together

    Going Forward Together From a talk by Tim Jackins at the World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, August 2017. We have accomplished admirable things. We have fought our way out of distress a long, long way. We have a good picture of reality, and we could function successfully on it for the rest of our lives. Our abilities to be aware of each other and the world are unparalleled. And yet we know there’s much more to do.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Counseling Practice03

  • Continuing Speculation About Rational Sexuality

    Continuing Speculation About Rational Sexuality, by anon. Collection of responses to Harvey's article.
    Published in: Present Time 89, October 1992

  • Taking Stock of Ourselves

    Taking Stock of Ourselves, by Harvey Jackins. Any time there is communication between the writer of words and the reader of words, we both play an active role within a larger reality of which we are, at least somewhat, aware.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: Lead Article: pages 3 to 4

  • Tackling Classism Together

    Tackling Classism Together by many contributors, found on pages 34 to 36 of the January 2015 issue of Present Time. In my leaders’ meetings, I’ve noticed that a lot of us feel like we don’t have any more time or money for RC, regardless of how much time or money we actually have. So when I led our Regional workshop this fall, I was thinking about other things we could try to get more attention in this area.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation(page 34)

  • Do You Have a Middle-Class Client?

    Do You Have a Middle-Class Client?, by Jean Fisher. Middle-class patterns develop in response to the hurts of the class system. Remember that chronic patterns look to those of us inside them as the normal state of being.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(page 37)

  • Self study while waiting for a local class to begin

    Published in: Fundamentals

  • The Question Before Us

    The Question Before Us, by Harvey Jackins. The “capitalist” societies in the West, although on the brink of final collapse, have persisted until now. Such societies have emerged precariously in the underdeveloped countries and are also near collapse everywhere there (with their problems exacerbated by their domination, through “economic imperialism,” by the advanced “capitalist” countries).
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:86

  • The Collapse of Capitalist Societies


    The Collapse of Capitalist Societies
 - The “capitalist” societies in the West, although on the brink of final collapse, have persisted until now. Such societies have emerged precariously in the underdeveloped countries and are also near collapse everywhere there (with their problems exacerbated by their being dominated through “economic imperialism” by the advanced “capitalist” countries).

    Published in: Present Time 208, July 2022, The Transformation of Society

  • More on the Owning-Class Jews Workshop

    More on the Owning-Class Jews Workshop, by Diana Lieb. Almost two weeks have passed since the Owning-Class Jews Workshop. There have been ten report-backs on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of Jews but only two on the discussion list for leaders of owning-class people. I posted to the Jewish list, but some good old terror came up about posting to the owning-class list. Writing now on this list, I am more than a bit terrified to be this visible to y’all as an owning-class Jew. But I will act against the distress and do it anyway.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: page 75 to 76

  • How We Got Started

    Published in: Environment -

  • Unified Goal on Climate

    Published in: Environment -

  • Trying Something New on Yom Kippur

    Trying Something New on Yom Kippur, By Cherie Brown. I titled my workshop, "Healing from Hopelessness and Discouragement in These Challenging Times."
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:29

  • ILRPs Working Together to End Classism

    ILRPs Working Together to End Classism, by Dan Nickerson. The RC International Liberation Reference Persons (ILRPs) for class have led three large workshops together in North America and continental Europe, as well as two additional workshops led by two or three of us.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • French Translations

    Traductions en Français (Translations into French)
    Published in: French

  • Excerpts From the RC Journal OUR ASIAN INHERITANCE

    Published in: Our Asian Inheritance

  • What Has Been Your Experience of Being a Catholic?

    What Has Been Your Experience of Being a Catholic? by Ellie Tetterton Hidalgo. This is an invitation to all Catholics (raised, practicing, and former) in Co-Counseling to write for a new Catholic journal which we are planning to start. Help us get a more complete picture of who we are as Catholics and what our particular strengths and struggles look like.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(page 17)

  • Enjoying and Working with RC Structure

    Enjoying and Working with RC Structure, by Janet Foner. We cannot achieve “mental health” liberation without the RC Community: RC theory and practice, and the actual people. RC Community members have many years’ experience using the discharge process and working out difficulties. This is invaluable, and not duplicated anywhere.
    Published in: Present Time 147, April 2007

  • Planting Five Hundred Trees in a Catholic Parish


    Planting Five Hundred Trees in a Catholic Parish
, by "Marbropa". I have been a member of my local Parish Council for about two years. Three months ago, I saw an opportunity to take action on the environment and at the same time help build the Parish community.

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing45

  • Thinking About Thinking

    Thinking About Thinking, by Harvey Jackins, Present Time No.40, pp33-42. The actual practice of Re-evaluation Counseling tends to open up new and valuable viewpoints on many subjects.The main factor obscuring reality for us has been the accumulation of distress patterns, so it is not surprising that participation in undoing distress patterns allows some valuable glimpses into the thinking process.
    Published in: Present Time 40, July 1980

  • Recent emails posted to Climate Coordinators

    Recently posted emails to climate-coordinators@list.rc.org
    Published in: Environment -

  • Contents Spanish Translations

    Translations into Español (Translations into Spanish)
    Published in: Spanish

  • Sexual Misconduct Resource Doc

    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • A Young People’s and Young Adults’ Strategic Plan

    A Young People’s and Young Adults’ Strategic Plan. The following is a draft of a Young People’s and Young Adults’ Strategic Plan, written by a group of young and young adult leaders. It is to go along with the new goal about young people and young adults adopted at the 2017 World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation48

  • From Early Workshops: Harvey Talking and Answering Questions About Basic RC Theory

    From Early Workshops:Harvey Talking and Answering Questions About Basic RC Theory, Harvey Jackins.
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Counseling Practice(pg 3)

  • Sexual Misconduct Guideline M.5. Resource Document

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Coming Back from Exile


    Coming Back from Exile
, by Tim Jackins. We exist at a very interesting time. The irrationalities of our societies are about to destroy the societies. And the destructive policies are being carried out by people who are governed by their restimulations. 

    Published in: Present Time 201, October 2020, Counseling Practice39

  • Complete Re-emergence?

    Complete Re-emergence by, Margaret Pevec and Harvey Jackins. I'd like to share some confusion about the RC idea of "complete re-emergence." Actually, what you keep re-stating in your letter is based on the fact that anything in the past cannot be changed, that is, that if complete re-emergence were possible it would already have happened in the past, and this is not true. The past is completely determined, but the moment of present time divides it from the future sharply and clearly.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: page 82 to 83)

  • Class Outlines for Teaching on COE

    Class Outlines for Teaching on COE, first nine, by Diane Shisk
    Published in: Environment -

  • Being More Thoughtful with “News and Goods”

    Being More Thoughtful with “News and Goods.”, by Dan Nickerson. We could improve how we use “news and goods” at the beginning of classes and workshops.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Counseling Practice09

  • Teens, Drugs, Oppression, and Setting Limits - (Eleven Articles)

    The following eleven articles are from a discussion on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of parents. Teens, Drugs, Oppression, and Setting Limits, by "Jane Roe" Some Thoughts about Teens and Drugs, by Marya Axner "Almost No Room to Be Themselves", by Anonymous Continuing to Discharge, by Anonymous "Our Strange and Surprising Agreement", by Anonymous What I've Learned about Young People and Drugs, by Fredrik Eklof "Every Issue I Have with Him Is My Issue", by Anonymous An RC Class on Alcohol, by Marcie Rendon Younger People as Allies?, by Anonymous My Experience, and Some Useful Questions, by "Alice" We Can Figure This Out Together, by Marya Axner
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Counseling Practicepages 23 to 35

  • A Look Back: International Black Men's Liberation Work

    A Look Back: International Black Men's Liberation Work, by Rudy Nickens. Black Re-emergence No. 11, pages 9-11. Participation by Black men in the International Re-evaluation Counseling Communities continues to make progress. A key to the growth and development of black men in RC is the consistency of opportunities for us to meet, think, strategize, and discharge about our lives.
    Published in: Black Re-emergence 11

  • Prioritizing Climate Change

    Why the RC Communities are Prioritizing Addressing Climate Change, by Diane Shisk. Distress recordings are the biggest obstacle to solving all of society’s problems. Therefore, because of what we know as RCers, we can play a pivotal role in solving the problems facing humanity. Climate change is one of the problems.
    Published in: Environment -

  • Important Email Archive

    Published in: Environment -

  • Leading and Having Influence as a Working-Class Person

    Leading and Having Influence as a Working-Class Person, by Victor Nicassio. “My work has given me a taste of the power and hope of organizing.”

    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:22

  • United to End Racism at Tule Lake

    United to End Racism at Tule Lake, by Alix Mariko Webb.From 1942 to 1946, the U.S. government interned a hundred and twenty thousand U.S. residents of Japanese ancestry in ten concentration camps. Tule Lake Camp was where some of the Japanese Americans considered “most dangerous” were sent. This year we are doing the fourth United to End Racism (UER) project connected to the pilgrimage.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing62

  • A Wonderful Women's Group in Greece

    A Wonderful Women's Group in Greece, by Maria Andreoulaki. In spring 2012 we invited Milena to teach a perinatal education course for doulas in Athens (Greece).
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Counseling Practice(pages 10 to 11)

  • Call for a Draft Program for Rational Wide World Changing

    Call for a Draft Program for Rational Wide World Changing, by Harvey Jackins. Wide World Changing No. 2, pages 18-20.
    Published in: Wide World Changing 2

  • Next Steps

    Next Steps, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 126, page 20. Next steps for the work we're undertaking.
    Published in: Present Time 126, January 2002

  • Taking Our Place: A Draft Middle-Class Liberation Policy

    Taking Our Place: A Draft Middle-Class Liberation Policy. Our True Selves No. 2, pages 5-22.
    Published in: Our True Selves 2

  • Parenting as the Road to Leadership Skills

    Parenting as the Road to Leadership Skills, by Patty Wipfler. It can improve our perspective to think of ourselves as leaders of our families. Consider your situation. You, the parent, are a member of a small band of people who care about each other. You are fortunate enough to have the tools of counseling which unlock the mystery of your own irrationalities and point the way toward healing for yourself, your allies, and your children.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Contents(pages 3 to 7)

  • Getting and Staying Present

    Getting and Staying Present, by Janet Foner. Janet Foner expands on her longstanding “Five-Point Program for Getting Present and Staying That Way” (found in Recovery and Re-emergence No. 5, p. 36) How can we use RC to get present? Perhaps more important, how can getting present assist us to better use RC? I got involved in RC in 1973. For me, an ex-inmate, RC theory and the RC Community were a contradiction to my “mental health” history.
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 7

  • Women Leading Men's Liberation

    Women Leading Men's Liberation by, Christine Marie. In March, 1996, eleven men from all over Alaska attended our Region's first annual Men's Liberation Workshop. The events leading up to that workshop, the workshop itself, and the changes and insights resulting from it make an interesting story.
    Published in: Present Time 105, October 1996, Contents(pages 3 to 9)

  • Ending My Timidity About Presenting RC

    Ending My Timidity About Presenting RC, by Randi Wolfe. I've been working on an RC-based wide-world project over the past four years and I've recently begun to "go public" with it. The content of the program is straight RC, focusing as much on parents as on children.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: pages 23 to 25

  • No Limits, at Beijing+20

    No Limits, at Beijing+20 "The following are some reports on the No Limits for Women project at the non-governmental-organization Women’s Forum held in conjunction with the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Beijing+20, in New York, New York, USA, March 2015."
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpages35-38

  • Bringing RC to the U.S. Social Forum

    Bringing RC to the U.S. Social Forum; reports from a group of Co-Counselors who did a UER, No Limits for Women and Sustaining All Life project at the recent U.S. Social Forum.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015

  • Editorial Skills

    Published in: Editors -

  • A Rational Theory of Sexuality

    A Rational Theory of Sexuality, by Harvey Jackins. Almost everything that any one of us has assumed to be natural or inherent in the area of our sexuality is recorded distress patterns.
    Published in: Present Time 29, October 1977, Present Time No.29: pages 65 to 71

  • Beginnings in Swaziland

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Possessors Of Vast Treasures

    Possessors Of Vast Treasures, by Harvey Jackins.
    Published in: Present Time 53, October 1983

  • The Totally Benign Reality

    The Totally Benign Reality, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time No.40, pp 3-6. So, I challenge or invite each of you to liberate humanity from its only real serious handicap, its vulnerability to irrationality, its susceptibility to the imposition of the distress pattern.
    Published in: Present Time 40, July 1980

  • Counseling on Early Sexual Memories

    Published in: Pamphlets

  • Bringing Men Into RC

    Bringing Men Into RC by Tim Jackins. RC Teacher 30, page 84. Now the question is—looking at what happens to men, and knowing that men can get here (because we did)—how can we make it more possible for guys?
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Jobs for Participants at RC Workshops

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Bringing Our Strengths as RCers to the Movement to Stop Climate Change

    Bringing Our Strengths as RCers to the Movement to Stop Climate Change by Diane Shisk. One of the things Harvey Jackins said that has always been important to me is that RC gives everyone the chance to have a meaningful life. All of us can use our tools to make profound changes in the lives of many individuals and, if we stretch, in our society. And now the advent of global climate change gives us an even bigger chance to make a significant impact.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing10

  • Confidentiality, the Internet, and Our Pseudonym Policy

    Confidentiality, the Internet, and Our Pseudonym Policy, by Tim Jackins. Here at the 2013 World Conference, in addition to the work we do on our Guidelines and goals, we have the chance to talk about other issues.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Becoming a Womens Liberation Activist—My Story

    Becoming a Women's Liberation Activist;My Story, by young adult leader. Sisters No. 12, pages 16-21. In doing work on sexism as a young woman and young adult woman, for me what has stood out as a major hurt and confusion for our generation has been not having a wide-world women’s liberation movement actively exposing sexism and taking a stand against it.
    Published in: Sisters 12

  • A New Step for the RC Communities

    A New Step for the RC Communities, by Diane Balser. The 2013 World Conference agreed to an additional requirement for being certified as an RC teacher: RC teachers are now expected to take a stand against pornography and make a commitment to discharge the related distresses. This is an important step forward for the RC Community. It can also have an impact on the larger society.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 27 to 29

  • Draft Policy for Care of the Environment

    Draft policy on care of the environment
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Zo gebruik je Zoom om HC klassen of workshops te leiden

    Zorg ervoor dat jij, de leider, ergens zit met een mooie achtergrond en zonder licht van achteren, en met goed licht op je gezicht. Spreek langzaam en duidelijk. Als je een bijeenkomst leidt op Zoom voor een grotere groep, raden we je sterk aan om iemand anders de techniek van de Zoombijeenkomst te laten doen, inclusief het opzetten van de ‘breakout rooms’, zodat jij je kan richten op het leiden van de bijeenkomst. Zie de lijst met voorgestelde taken onderaan dit bericht.
    Published in: Dutch

  • COP28 emails sent out

    Published in: Environment -

  • Transcript of The Basics of RC Women’s Liberation webinar, June 2020

    Published in: Foundation Nolimits -

  • Environmental Illness - A Proposed Policy

    Environmental Illness - A Proposed Policy, by Marsh Saxton. Well Being No.6, pages 25 to 29. People with Environmental Illness need good counseling. This will enable them to ask for assistance and accommodations without alienating others. Allies also need good counseling, so that they can think clearly about the issues, take action where appropriate, and offer effective and sometimes non-permissive counseling for people with EI.
    Published in: Journals Well-Being 6

  • The Fundamentals of Co-Counseling

    The Fundamentals of Co-Counseling; From a report by Harvey Jackins to the 1979 World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Counseling Practice:33

  • Changes in the Guidelines of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities Adopted by the 1997 World Conference

    Changes in the Guidelines of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities Adopted by the 1997 World Conference.
    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998, (Guidelines Revisions: pages 10 to 17)

  • Living a Life of Integrity (eight articles)

    Living a Life of Integrity, by Cherie Brown. Given that capitalism and imperialism are still operating, how do we, as Jews, live a principled life, a life of integrity, outside of upward mobility, assimilation, and racism?
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 37 to 42

  • I Want You All to be Leaders

    I Want You All to be Leaders by Tim Jackins. RC Teacher 29, page 37.We in RC know a set of powerful things. Knowing and using these things make it possible for people to have their own minds again. Our work is to get them out to everyone in the world.
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Draft Policy on Care of the Environment

    Published in: Environment -

  • The totally Benign Reality

    The Benign Reality, a book by Harvey Jackins, The following is the first chapter of the book
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Counseling Practice

  • Helping When Someone Is Helpless

    Helping When Someone Is Helpless. This is a report on what I’ve learned: about how to be a client who is determined to discharge humiliation, and how the world looks now that I have discharged some of it.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Counseling Practice21

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #4

    Published in: Teaching -

  • How I Found a Good Partner, Why He's Good for Me, and What I Learned Along the Way

    How I Found a Good Partner, Why He's Good for Me, and What I Learned Along the Way, by Jennifer Helbraun Abramson. I was forty-years-old when I married for the first time two summers ago. This long-awaited event was the result of many years of discharge, goal-setting, and a long, challenging search.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: pages 5 to 10

  • The Sunrise Center Project - 2017

    The Sunrise Center Project—2017, by Janet Foner. As of 2017, the Sunrise Center Project is alive and well. In 2003, an RC doctor and I talked about creating a center where physicians could learn that they need not prescribe psychiatric drugs and instead could use the RC process to help people.
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 7

  • Using Zoom for RC Events

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Connection, Language Liberation, and the Native Basque People

    Connection, Language Liberation, and the Native Basque People, by Xabi Odriozola Ezeiza. Being a Native person not only means staying on the same land for a long, long time; it’s also something more complex, closely tied to the relationship with Mother Earth and the Universe.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation24

  • Care of the Environment and Ending Racism

    Care of the Environment and Ending Racism, by Dan Iacovella. I’ve concluded that care of the environment needs to be one of my highest priorities. If we don’t stop climate change, we won’t have a functional earth to enjoy, and working on all the oppressions will become irrelevant.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing

  • We Need to Show What’s Possible


    We Need to Show What’s Possible
. We all know that we have work to do to keep our climate livable for us and many other forms of life. The effect of centuries of humans not thinking well enough is showing clearly.
    Published in: Present Time 211, April 2023, No Section03

  • Thinking About Transgender People

    Thinking about Transgender People, by Jeanne d'Arc
    Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012

  • A Workshop Talk in New York

    A Workshop Talk in New York, by Sean Ruth. Our True Selves No. 2, pages 32-34.
    Published in: Our True Selves 2

  • INTERNALIZED RACISM

    Published in: Black Reemergence 2

  • Naturalizing RC at a Music Camp

    Naturalizing RC at a Music Camp by Jennifer Kreger. I love to share information that improves people’s lives and shifts our culture in a positive direction. So it was exciting for me to teach naturalized RC at a music camp this year.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing86

  • A Successful Class — Contributing Factors

    A Successful Class—Contributing Factors by Tony Smith. RC Teacher 29, page 60. I recently received two great appreciations for my ongoing class. A workshop leader said how much easier it was for her to lead when there were participants who were well discharged. Also, someone at the workshop who was in my ongoing class thanked me for preparing them so well for the workshop.
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • The Ubuntu Pairing System


    The Ubuntu Pairing System
 - Current and past wars, racism, genocide, imperialism, and colonialism have led to unequal Internet access throughout the world.
    Published in: Present Time 208, July 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:12

  • Challenging Sexism as a Catholic Female

    Published in: Present Time 156, April 2009

  • Four Ways to Work on Racism

    Four Ways to Work on Racism by Cherie Brown. The following is from a Rosh Hashanah [Jewish New Year] Dvar Torah [sermon] about racism given by Cherie Brown (the International Liberation Reference Person for Jews) at her synagogue on September 21, 2017. The growing list of issues we face today is overwhelming. White supremacists shouting racist and anti-Semitic chants. Devastating floods in Texas (USA), India, and Bangladesh; hurricanes in the Caribbean, and in Florida and Puerto Rico (USA)—not to mention [and of course] all the contributing factors from climate change.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing05

  • “Taking This Chance Changed My Life”

    “Taking This Chance Changed My Life”, Eurhi Jones. I am mixed-heritage Korean and Welsh, a USer, and the mother of two daughters. When my children were very young, my efforts to change the world were close to home. My partner and I threw ourselves into raising our children with RC family work and building strong connections with our RC and non-RC communities.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing54

  • Caring Openly for Each Other

    Caring Openly for Each Other, by Tim Jackins. There are no limits to how much we can care and show that we care in any relationship, including the Co-Counseling one. There is no rational need to be distant, and yet we are still carefully distant.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section44

  • Guidelines for People of the Global Majority Attending RC Workshops

    Guidelines for People of the Global Majority Attending RC Workshops; Barbara Love, the International Liberation Reference Person for African-Heritage People;reprinted from Black Re-emergence No.12
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation59

  • Paying Attention to People Who Haven't Been Thought About

    Paying Attention to People Who Haven't Been Thought About, by Dave Abramson. I have been wanting to write to you for some time now to discuss your ideas regarding people "targeted for destruction." First, I am really pleased that these various groups of people that you describe are becoming the focus of RC attention. I am fairly new to Co-Counseling (less than two years), and I see great potential in it for myself and others.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, People Targeted for Destruction by Society: pages 48 to 49

  • Efficient Co-Counseling

    Published in: Present Time 70, January 1988

  • Mexicans Discharging on Genocide, Reclaiming Indigenous Identity

    Mexicans Discharging on Genocide, Reclaiming Indigenous Identity by Iliria Hernández Unzueta. After attending an RC workshop for Indigenous people raised in other identities, I now understand more about genocide and the distress recordings that I and other Mexican RCers have been trying to discharge.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013

  • Getting Out RC Ideas

    Getting Out RC Ideas, by Tim Jackins. Answering questions at the Re-evaluation Counseling Community Resources staff workshop, December 2013.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: page 66

  • Raised Poor Draft Policy Statement

    Raised Poor Draft Policy Statement, by Gwen Brown
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • ENGLISH: Invitation to World Conference

    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • Draft Program for Native Liberation

    Draft Liberation Policy for Indigenous People, by Marcie Rendon. This draft policy is a liberation policy to reclaim ourselves and our languages, to re-examine and reclaim the best of Indigenous thinking, and to reconnect with our land base.
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Sexism Has Got to Go!

    Sexism Has Got to Go!, by Tokumbo Bodunde. I am so, so thrilled about yesterday’s Women’s March in Washington, D.C. (USA)! I got to march with the No Limits for Women delegation.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing12

  • Leveraging Our Projects; Fighting for Z-

    Leveraging Our Projects; Fighting for Z—, anonymous. As I have gained more experience in RC, I have become increasingly aware of the limits of our resource at this moment in history.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Making Bigger Changes

    Making Bigger Changes; Tim Jackins, at the Southwest USA Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop, November 2015. You are the high point so far in the development of complexity in the universe. That’s you. You get up and you feel horrible every morning—and you are the best there is!
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing03

  • The Large Women and Female Allies Workshop

    The Large Women and Female Allies Workshop, by Betsy Ames. It was great to be with almost a hundred women who are actively thinking about how to stand against sexism, reclaim their minds, and take charge of their health.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation79

  • Who Will Bring the Straws?

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Effects of Co-Counseling on Learning and Teaching

    Effects of Co-Counseling on Learning and Teaching by several authors. Classroom 8, pages 69-73. Learning is naturally exciting and enjoyable.
    Published in: Classroom 8

  • E.2. Structure of the Community-Liberation

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Middle-Class People Facing Reality and Changing Their Role

    Middle-Class People Facing Reality and Changing Their Role by Caroline New. I started doing middle-class liberation work twenty-five years ago. For many years most of us who did it were white Protestant English Gentiles. At this workshop there were seven people targeted by racism, seven Jews, nine LGBTQ people (as far as I knew), and several people with disabilities. I think there are two reasons for this change: (1) the work we have done makes it safer for people from oppressed groups to decide to do the work, and (2) the work we have done makes middle-class Co-Counsellors able to show themselves more, so we can see our diversity.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpages 46-49

  • Creating a “Culture of Caring”

    Creating a “Culture of Caring”, Bo-Young Lim. It’s hopeful and liberating (both for ourselves and for those around us) when we can be openly loving, zestful, and connected, and act with integrity and courage, from a solid grounded core within. It’s when we show ourselves and show how much we care in an authentic way that people are reminded of what’s possible. It’s what everyone wants to do but dares not to. When someone dares, people are moved.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing49

  • Sexism, Pornography, and War

    Sexism, Pornography, and War; From a talk by Tim Jackins at the European Men’s Workshop in the Netherlands, November 2015
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation53

  • RC vs. the Flu

    RC vs. the Flu, by Tony Switzer. "Tiny viruses have no power of their own at all. They are capable of mounting an attack on my body, but their main power comes from restimulation of past incidents in which my life was in danger or I felt my life was in danger. That is not the case currently."
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Counseling Practicepage 45

  • Approaching a Major Turning Point

    Approaching a Major Turning Point, by Harvey Jackins
    Published in: Present Time 53, October 1983

  • No Limits, The Liberation of Women

    Published in: Foundation Nolimits -

  • Finishing an Unfinished Battle

    Finishing an Unfinished Battle, by Tim Jackins. Fighting for ourselves, resolving old hurts.
    Published in: Present Time 165, October 2011, Counseling Practice(pages 3 to 5)

  • Discharging Chinese Internalized Oppression

    Discharging Chinese Internalized Oppression, by Francie Chew. Our Asian Inheritance No. 7, pages 58 to 60. I want to explore how Chinese internalized oppression affects our lives as Chinese living in the United States. Its original source is the oppression that came from outside or that came at our families or someone earlier in our culture.
    Published in: Our Asian Inheritance 7

  • Determinedly Going "Public"

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • German Translations

    Übersetzungen ins Deutsche, Translations into German
    Published in: German

  • E.2. Structure of the Community-Liberation

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • Journals

    Journals. Older issues contain important information not found in newer ones. We encourage you to read all issues.
    Published in: Present Time, Journalspages 102 to 104

  • Een nieuwe stap voor de HC-gemeenschap

    Op de wereldconferentie van 2013 is een extra voorwaarde voor het verkrijgen van een certificaat als HC-leraar afgesproken: Van HC-leraren wordt nu verwacht dat ze stelling nemen tegen pornografie en zich inzetten voor het ontladen van de daarmee samenhangende pijnpatronen. Dit is een belangrijke stap voorwaarts voor de HC-gemeenschap. Het kan ook een impact hebben op de gehele samenleving.
    Published in: Dutch

  • COE Teaching Guide II

    Care of the Environment, from the Fundamentals Teaching Guide, Part II
    Published in: Ftg2 Readings -

  • We Have the Resources to Recover from Everything

    We Have the Resources to Recover from Everything; From a talk by Tim Jackins at the East Coast North America Leaders’ Workshop, in Warwick, New York, USA, December 2014
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practice03

  • Changing the World for Generations to Come

    Changing the World for Generations to Come, by Marya Axner. Excerpts from a letter that Marya Axner, the International Liberation Reference Person for Parents, recently wrote to her constituency
    Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012, Liberation(pages 5 to 51)

  • Reaching Many People’s Minds

    Reaching Many People’s Minds, by Tim Jackins. We are coming into a period with battles that none of us have seen before. I think it would be helpful for us to have a goal.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Counseling Practice03

  • Not Limiting My Closeness, with Any Humans

    Not Limiting My Closeness, with Any Humans, Present Time 194. I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s in the Midwest USA in a Protestant working-class family. There was no mention of “sexual identity.” What was considered normal was that a man and a woman would marry in a Christian church and be committed to raising a family. I didn’t see or learn about any other options.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019

  • Non-Gay Men Working onGay Oppression and Male Domination

    Non-Gay Men Working onGay Oppression and Male Domination by "David Nijinsky". I recently met with a small group of men who are leading RC men’s workshops. The meeting was a follow-up to an article I wrote in Present Time about successfully including Gay, Bisexual, and Queer men in RC men’s work. I had already done some work with non-Gay men on this topic, and I wanted to do some more with men who were leading men.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation53

  • Catholic, on Our Own Terms

    Catholic, on Our Own Terms, by Roslyn Cassidy. Joanne Bray, the International Liberation Reference Person for Catholics, led an excellent workshop for our constituency, in England. We were encouraged to discharge on everything associated with being Catholic—based on our experience of external or internalized oppression within our country of origin—while looking at the Catholic identity.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation80

  • The People’s Climate March

    The People’s Climate March, by Dorothy Marcy. I had received a couple of e-mails about the People’s Climate March in New York (New York, USA) before I received the link to the movie Disruption from Diane.1 In our town, a group of people were raising funds to send two tour buses of people to the event, but it wasn’t clear to me what the big picture was until I watched the movie.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Wide World Changing57

  • About RC

    Re-evaluation Counseling is a process whereby people of all ages and of all backgrounds can learn how to exchange effective help with each other in order to free themselves from the effects of past distress experiences.

  • Dreaming Big for Your Life

    Dreaming Big for Your Life
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Counseling Practicepage 11

  • Disabled People and Working-Class Liberation

    Disabled People and Working-Class Liberation, by Marsha Saxton. Your question is “What would working-class liberation for all people look like if it were led by your people?” I like your (and Harvey’s) challenge to explore working-class liberation by our constituencies. But I suggest that the frame of your question may be too limiting to get some of us started. I need to just begin to explore the issues.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: pages 44 to 45

  • I Have To Leave Now!

    I Have to Leave Now, by Cherie Brown. Many Jewish leaders have been calling me about, taking a session on, or acting out intense feelings of needing to leave something now! It could be a relationship, the place where they live, their work or organizational commitments, or RC leadership. I often have these feelings myself. For me they are usually attached to my non-RC work. I experience them as an overwhelming feeling that what is going on[1] is unbearable and that “I have to leave now!”
    Published in: Ruah Hadashah 11

  • Reviewing the Basics of Co-Counseling

    Reviewing the Basics of Co-Counseling, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 135, page 3. The basics if RC: we're good, we get hurt, when we're listened to we can show what we couldn't show, and we can more and more tell we're fine just the way we are.
    Published in: Present Time 135, April 2004

  • Maine Men's Daylong 2023

    Published in: Men's Daylong 2023

  • An Introduction to the Work of United to End Racism

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • The Importance of Harvey Jackins

    Published in: Audio files

  • Language Liberation

    Language Liberation, by Xabi Odriozola. In our RC Communities, we will not achieve complete human liberation if we do not include language liberation. Until we take care of the language needs of all members of our Communities, we are missing a piece of the liberation puzzle.
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • Revisiting My Childhood

    Revisiting My Childhood by Alfred Oryem. My name is Alfred Oryem. I am a grown-up now. But serious hurts happened to me during my childhood—hurts that almost altered my destiny. They became part of my life, and consciously or not I learned to accept them as a norm in society.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Counseling Practice23

  • South, Central, and West Asians

    South, Central, and West Asians, by Azi Khalili, the International Liberation Reference Person for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People. We South, Central, and West (SCW) Asian people are by nature good, smart, loving, lovable, creative, zestful, kind, and powerful.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation17

  • The Upward Trend at Work: Building a Cooperative Society

    The Upward Trend at Work: Building a Cooperative Society, by Chuck Barone. The institutions of capitalism and the patterns they are based on have evolved over several centuries. They began among European people in the 1600s and spread from there to much of the world, until today we have “global capitalism.”
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing40

  • Working on Violence

    Working on Violence , by Rachel Winters. I am a white Protestant working-class USer, born and raised in the southern part of the United States. I am also the Area Reference Person for a small Community in North Carolina, USA. The following is my experience with working on violence at an Area workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:50

  • With a Clear Goal, Things Can Change

    With a Clear Goal, Things Can Change, by Terry Day. In April 2015 we had a Wide World Change Workshop here in England, led by Julian Weissglass,...Eighty-five percent of the people were working class and/or people of the global majority and/or Irish, Scottish, Welsh, or Cornish and/or young people and/or Jewish.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:11

  • A Liberation Workshop for Owning-Class Jews

    A Liberation Workshop for Owning-Class Jews, by Cherie Brown. From January 29 to February 1, 2015, Jo Saunders, the International Liberation Reference Person for Owning-Class People, and I led a workshop for sixty-four owning-class Jews from the United States, Canada, and England.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberationpage 73 to 74

  • We Get to Win

    We Get to Win; From a talk by Lorenzo Garcia, the International Liberation Reference Person for Chicanos/as, at a Latino/a workshop in New York, USA, December 2012
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:40

  • Ed Rejuney

    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Harvey Page 61-62

  • Importance in a Young Adult Life

    Importance in a Young Adult Life, Bess Herbert. What's really important in a young adult's life
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 43

  • Don't Pass Me that Donut: I'm Sweet Enough!

    Don't Pass Me that Donut: I'm Sweet Enough!, by Johnny Lee Lenhart. We had a great raised-poor weekend workshop last March at the Prindle Pond Conference Center in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, USA. Among the highlights: Gwen Brown (the RC International Liberation Reference Person for Raised Poor People) showed us what it meant to hang in there with our clients.•
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Counseling Practice: pages 18 to 19

  • Sexism and Racism

    Sexism and Racism, by Diane Balser. The Fourth Draft Policy on Women’s Liberation is a policy for the present situation. Although it stems from our earlier policy, it reflects our current relationship to the major changes that have happened for women in the intervening twenty years. A critical part of the policy has to do with race.
    Published in: Sisters 12

  • Figuring Out Fighting for Ourselves

    Figuring Out Fighting for Ourselves, by Diane Shisk. Present Time No.169, pages 3-6. Each of us needs to discharge to where we actually know we’re worth fighting for, so it’s not just a direction.
    Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012, Counseling Practice(pages 3 to 6)

  • On Being the Counselor

    On Being the Counselor, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 123, page 7. Feeling good about yourself, being close, and discharging yourself.
    Published in: Present Time 123, April 2001

  • Women and Men Moving Together Against Sexism

    Women and Men Moving Together Against Sexism, by Diane Shisk. Sisters No. 12, page 103. Steve Thompson (one of my Co-Counselors and a men’s leader) and I recently led a three-day workshop for women and men in my Region (the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi, in the South of the United States). The first two days we led separate women’s and men’s workshops. The third day everyone came together to work on being allies to one another.
    Published in: Sisters 12

  • RC Theory

    Published in: RC Theory

  • Job Descriptions for Zoom Workshops

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • ILRP Activities on COE

    Postings by ILRPS about COE work with their constituencies.
    Published in: Environment -

  • Basic Understandings from the Work on Women’s Liberation

    Basic Understandings from the Work on Women’s Liberation, by Diane Balser. Since the RC Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop in the United States in June 2012, we have put together some of the basic understandings that have come from the work done thus far on women freeing themselves from sexism and male domination.
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013, Liberationpages 45 to 47

  • A Class on COVID-19


    A Class on COVID-19
, by Kathleen Hamilton. On March 3 I led an RC class on the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. [Editor’s note: This was before the virus was established in Texas (USA). A class wouldn’t meet now that the virus is established there.]

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:31

  • Finding Ways to Make Things Go Better

    Finding Ways to Make Things Go Better, by Caroline New. During the last two weeks, I made two trips to join Extinction Rebellion (XR) in London (England). [Extinction Rebellion is a movement that uses nonviolent resistance to protest climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.]
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • An Open Letter to All Artists and Allies

    An Open Letter to All Artists and Allies. by, John Fehringer. As a young person, I fully embraced the experiment and discovery brought about by drawing, making art, and storytelling. As an adult with a successful practice and business in fine art, I have often been asked the question, “When did you start drawing?”
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • An Evening on Black Liberation for Everyone

    An Evening on Black Liberation for Everyone by Randy Karr. Last month New York City (New York, USA) Co-Counselors held an event to raise money for scholarships to the Black Liberation and Community Development Workshop (BLCD). Fela Barclift, the Regional Reference Person for Brooklyn North, led the event and I organized it.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation46

  • Marilyn Robb—International Commonality Reference Person for Educational Change

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • Racism and "Mental Health" Oppression

    Racism and “Mental Health” Oppression, by various. After the 2014 “Mental Health” Leaders’ Conference a series of conference calls on racism and MHO with key PGM MHL leaders resulted in these reports about that work.
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 7

  • Översättningar som efterlyses

    Translations into Swedish
    Published in: Swedish

  • Immigrants of the Global Majority

    Immigrants of the Global Majority. In October of 2015, thirty-eight RC immigrants of the global majority gathered near Boston, Massachusetts, USA, to work on ending the effects of immigrant oppression. For immigrants of color to get together is a triumph and a contradiction to racism and immigrant oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation45

  • Working Together to End Classism

    Working Together to End Classism, by Carla Macchello. This March I had the privilege of attending a Working Together to End Classism Workshop led by Gwen Brown, the International Liberation Reference Person for People Raised Poor. Her leadership on a difficult and usually “heavy” topic was outstanding on so many levels.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:69

  • Working-Class Voices in the Environmental Movement

    Working-Class Voices in the Environmental Movement, by Dan Nickerson. Why are there not more working-class people at care-of-the-environment workshops? We must have the voices of working-class people in the environmental movement.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing19

  • The Usefulness of Counseling White People on Racism

    The Usefulness of Counseling White People on Racism, by Shani Fletcher. I’m a biracial Black woman from the United States, and I’ve been in RC for sixteen years. Over the last couple of years, I’ve done some experimenting with counseling white people I’m close to on racism. It’s been useful for me and for them. I’ve even found it fun and inspiring!
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: page 56 to 58

  • We Can Eliminate Poverty and Save Our Beautiful World

    We Can Eliminate Poverty and Save Our Beautiful World, by Gwen Brown. Most of the world’s people are poor, and poverty interferes with and diminishes poor people’s lives. For that reason alone, we should all be interested in the elimination of poverty.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changingpage 69

  • A Good Visit Home to Bharat

    A Good Visit Home to Bharat, by Sharad Kelkar. We were able to appreciate the deep love we have for each other and accept that each one of us is different and needs to lead his/her own life. We were able to understand that we don't hurt each other intentionally and that when we feel hurt by the actions of others, we need to look within and search for older patterns being restimulated. It is not hopeless
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: page 58

  • All Women Are Beautiful

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Marked Tree, Arkansas

    Marked Tree, Arkansas, Dorothy Marcy. A RC workshop in Marked Tree, Arkansas
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building Page 67

  • Giving Up Leadership and Starting Over

    Giving Up Leadership and Starting Over, by Ellie Putnam. I thought I'd update you on my activities since I moved to the Pacific Northwest, almost a year and a half ago. It's been good and hard and definitely re-emergent.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: page 82)

  • The Intelligence, Strength, Endurance, Goodness,  and Significance of Working-Class People Everywhere

    The Intelligence, Strength, Endurance, Goodness,  and Significance of Working-Class People Everywhere, by Dan Nickerson. This article is about the importance of the Working-Class Commitment. I think the Commitment is one of the most important pieces ever written for working-class people. Harvey Jackins* first used it in counseling me in about 1984. I assume he created it.
    Published in: Working for a Living 8

  • Care of the Environment and Indigenous Liberation Intertwined

    Care of the Environment and Indigenous Liberation Intertwined, by Alison Ehara-Brown. I have been involved for some time now with the Idle No More solidarity movement here in northern California (USA).
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changing(pages 69 to 70)

  • The Impact of Play

    The Impact of Play by Sharon Wolf
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • Being an Ally

    Being an Ally, by Harvey Jackins, The Kind, Friendly Universe, p. 185. For any group to progress in its liberation from oppression it is necessary that it (1) formulate a correct, workable, program of liberation, (2) unite its members around that program, and (3) win allies for the group’s liberation among individuals and organizations who are outside the group itself.
    Published in: Kind, Friendly Universe

  • The Teacher of Re-evaluation Counseling - A New Kind of Communicator

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Rational Island Publishers Books

    Books available at Rational Island Publishers.
    Published in: Present Time, Bookspages 92 to 93

  • Disability as a Class Theme

    Disability as a Class Theme by, Laurie Summers. One of my wide world tasks is to encourage people, especially in science, to address disability in conversations about diversity and inclusion.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Highlights from the Working Together to End Classism Workshop

    Highlights from the Working Together to End Classism Workshop, by Linda Wärmenhed, Maryam Vardeh Navandi, Maria Antrea. I was at the Working Together to End Classism Workshop in Denmark, in November 2018, led by Dan Nickerson, Gwen Brown, Seán Ruth, and Jo Saunders. It was wonderful to be with so many others with working-class backgrounds, and wonderful that we were in the majority.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Exactly What Is Co-Counseling?

    Exactly What Is Co-Counseling? By Harvey Jackins (February 1988), from pages 52 to 55 of “Open Question Evening in Copenhagen,” in Start Over Every Morning. Question: I might be the only one here who doesn’t know, but I’d still like to know exactly what is Co-Counseling. What is the theory? What is it all about? Harvey Jackins: Well, I have written several long books trying to tell people what RC is. So it will be a little hard to tell it all in three minutes. It is a continually changing and growing theory. It is a better and better approximation of the real nature of human beings and how they can really be helpful to each other.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Counseling Practice27

  • What Will You March For?

    What Will You March For?, by many. Women all over the world will be marching this weekend for women’s liberation. Please consider sharing your response to one or all of these questions (even a few sentences would be wonderful for us to read): As a female of your constituency, what will you march for?
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing27

  • Emily Feinstein—International Liberation Reference Person for Visual Artists

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • Visual Artists

    Visual Artists, by Emily Feinstein. Oppressive societies, built on fears for survival and accumulated distress, have profoundly interfered with our creative intelligence and sense of what’s possible. They have made our original boundless curiosity and imagination harder to reach and at times completely obscured.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section50

  • Frisian Liberation

    Frisian Liberation, by Wytske Visser. In July 2016, Marcie Rendon, the International Liberation Reference Person for Native Americans, came to Fryslân to lead a workshop on Frisian liberation. Ten of us worked on our history, language, oppression and internalized oppression, survival, assimilation, and more.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation50

  • Challenging Anti-Black Racism

    Challenging Anti-Black Racism, by Alysia Tate. Here in my city, Chicago (Illinois, USA), protesters, large numbers of them Black people, are marching and demonstrating every day against racism in our criminal justice system.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing51

  • Connecting Racism and Care of the Environment

    Connecting Racism and Care of the Environment, by Alysia Tate. For years it was very difficult for me to see how care of the environment was my issue. In the United States, white people are usually shown as the key leaders of environmental work, so it felt like a “white people’s issue.”
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing13

  • Working on Early Sexual Memories

    Working on Early Sexual Memories
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practicepages 19-20

  • Connection and Liberation

    Connection, Disconnection, Reconnection, and Liberation by Xabi Odriozola on pages 7 to 11 in the January 2015 issue of Present Time. From talks given by Xabi Odriozola1 at a series of workshops on the East Coast of the United States, in summer 2014
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Counseling Practice(page 7)

  • Creating a Clear Vision for Our Liberation as We Eliminate Racism

    Creating a Clear Vision for Our Liberation as We Eliminate Racism, by Gregory Lipscomb. This article is inspired by the People of the Global Majority Workshop 2014 led by the amazing Barbara Love, International Liberation Reference Person for People of African Heritage in RC.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation30

  • Real Power Lies in the Ability to Discharge

    Real Power Lies in the Ability to Discharge, by Frank van den Heuvel. I have noticed that people are uneasy around her deep discharge. In summary, we are afraid to notice, feel, and discharge how bad we feel and how bad we feel about ourselves.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice(page 7)

  • This Year’s Pilgrimage

    This Year’s Pilgrimage, by Jan yoshiwara, Loise yoshishige, Sue Yoshiwara, Mike Ishii, Betsy Hasegawa, Karen Young, Mary Ruth Gross, Aliz Mariko Webb.Here a few reflections on this year’s Tule Lake Pilgrimage, from the 2014 United to End Racism (UER) team.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing65

  • “Our Liberation Is Intertwined”

    “Our Liberation Is Intertwined” by multiple
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberation81

  • Elders’ Liberation Is for Everyone

    Elders’ Liberation Is for Everyone by Pam Geyer. Elders’ oppression is systemic in our cultures. It’s true that in some cultures elders are respected. However, the oppression is still there; it just shows itself differently.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberationpage 73

  • Why We Have Goals

    Why We Have Goals, by Tim Jackins.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community, Building

  • Teaching at Many Levels

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • The Chronic Patterns of Classism

    The Chronic Patterns of Classism, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time 87, page 32. The fundamental oppression in our society is the economic exploitation by the society of the people who work, for the supposed benefit of the people who own the means of production.
    Published in: Present Time 87, April 1992

  • The Reclaiming of Power

    The Reclaiming of Power, by Harvey Jackins. The overall reality of the world situation in which we live and function, if we face it clearly, calls urgently for at least some, and eventually, all human beings to not only recover their intelligence but to reclaim their power also.
    Published in: Present Time 52, July 1983, Present Time No.52: pages 3 to 7

  • Big, Difficult, and Terrifying, But Still "Just Feelings"

    Big, Difficult, and Terrifying, But Still "Just Feelings", Anne Marie Piche. Relaxed and caring listening for getting off psychiatric drugs.
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Counseling PracticePage 14

  • Informe del Taller Regional para Instructores, Ayudantes y Líderesdel Estado Español

    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996

  • An Israeli RCer in New Zealand

    An Israeli RCer in New Zealand, Varda. Letter about Harvey
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, (From the Mail Page 84)

  • Overcoming Early Defeats and Discouragements

    Overcoming Early Defeats and Discouragements, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 162, page 3.
    Published in: Present Time 162, January 2011

  • Connection

    Connection, by Tim Jackins. We start out looking for a deep personal connection with others. The absence of this connection leaves us feeling alone until we discharge it.
    Published in: Present Time 134, January 2004, Counseling Practice(pages 3 to 5)

  • Intelligent Care of the Environment

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Parents of Teenagers and Policy

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • The Human as "Artist"

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • The Reclaiming of Power

    Published in: The Reclaiming of Power

  • Zoom Hosts & Tech Leads Briefing

    Published in: Environment -

  • Theory and Policy

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Thoughts in Support of the Draft Policy on Care of the Environment

    Thoughts in Support of the Draft Policy on Care of the Environment The following are some thoughts in support of the new Draft Policy on Care of the Environment, which was published in the October 2017 Present Time. They are from the committee that wrote the policy.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing50

  • Unified Goal Webinar Transcript

    Published in: Environment -

  • contents

    Published in: All Parents of LBGTQ+ Young People (No. Amer.) 2023

  • Satellite Workshop Guidance

    Published in: Satellite Guidelines

  • Preparing to Play a Larger Role


    Preparing to Play a Larger Role
 - This is one of those rare times in human history when existing conditions are dictating that society must change. It isn’t simply that some people want this. The objective conditions are making it necessary that big changes happen. 

    Published in: Present Time PT 206, January 2022, Counseling Practice19

  • Leaders' Guide to Zoom

    Using Zoom to lead classes and workshops
    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Chicano Liberation

    Chicano Liberation, by Lorenzo Garcia
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • Death and Dying, Life and Living

    Death and Dying, Life and Living, by Joan Karp. Often, people who have lost a loved one never recover from the loss, never think it is possible to recover from such a loss. However, with enough discharge you can recover and flourish after the deaths of loved ones.
    Published in: Present Time 137, October 2004, Counseling Practice

  • Day Five at COP25


    Day Five at COP25
, by Patricia Ibarra. Below is a report on what the Sustaining All Life team did on their fifth day at COP25 [the United Nations climate conference held in December 2019 in Madrid, Spain]. You can read other reports on pages 61 to 64 of the January 2020 Present Time or at .

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing40

  • Being an Ally

    Being and Ally, by Harvey Jackins. For any group to progress in its liberation from oppression it is necessary that it (1) formulate a correct, workable program of liberation, (2) unite its members around that program, and (3) win allies for the group’s liberation among individuals and organizations who are outside the group itself.
    Published in: Present Time 91, April 1993, Liberation

  • Can We Move Now?

    Can We Move Now? by Tim Jackins. Human beings have been a very successful species of animal. After early brushes with extinction, we have used our ability to think—and with it we have gathered an ever-increasing store of knowledge that we have passed on to each new generation and that each new generation has added to.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing03

  • Counseling on Menstrual Cramps

    Counseling on Menstrual Cramps by Marian Michaels. I have had menstrual cramps for the past ten years. They began less than a year after I first got my period and became more intense over time. Two years after they started, I began using over-the-counter painkillers, usually ibuprofen, every month.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Counseling Practice31

  • Pushing for Change

    Pushing for Change from a talk by Tim Jackins at the Actively Getting RC into the World Workshop, in California, USA, March 2018. The following is my analysis of the present situation: Our increasing and spreading rationality as RCers, even if we accelerate it, is not alone going to be sufficient to stop the destruction of the environment. The rates of change are too disparate. The destruction is happening fast, and undoing decades of accumulated distress is not a fast process. It isn’t that we’ve failed; it’s just not a fast process.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing03

  • My Personal Connection to Care of the Environment

    My Personal Connection to Care of the Environment by John McKiernan. Following a care of the environment workshop led by Wytske Visser (the International Commonality Reference Person for the Care of the Environment), in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in October 2016, some people shared their thoughts about their personal connection to care of the environment:
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing67

  • Educational Change

    Educational Change, by Marilyn Robb. The educational-change constituency is everyone, because at the heart of educational change is reclaiming our intelligence and joy for learning. No matter what kind of school or education system we’ve experienced, none of us have escaped hurts that interfere with our intelligence and capacity to learn.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, Liberation

  • The Class Nature of War

    The Class Nature of War, by Harvey Jackins. I want to add some perspective to our discussions and discharge about the Second World War. I’m very pleased that the German RCers here began to face their own history and terrors and discharge their hurts, including their guilts.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing28

  • Bringing Fathers Together

    Bringing Fathers Together, by Sandy Wilder. I was working as a community development facilitator in a project that aimed to bring families together and connect them with school and community services; the goal was to help prepare children to achieve at school. The project was based in a primary school with a diverse, largely migrant and refugee population and mostly attracted mothers. Fathers would sometimes turn up, but they never sustained their involvement.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 47 to 48

  • Giving Up Individualism, Taking Responsibility

    Giving Up Individualism, Taking Responsibility, by Rowan White, Hanna Jenkin, Victoria Kemp, Kelsey Dalton, Lisa Rasmussen, Stphen Costello, Cynthia Johnston, Christine Marnane, Tony Smith, Dennis Wollersheim and Yehudit Koadlow. The following are reflections on an Eliminating White Racism Workshop, led by Anne Barton, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: pages 66 to 67

  • “I Just Organized My First Workshop”

    “I Just Organized My First Workshop”, by Nneka Inniss. My experience in organizing this workshop opened my mind to the possibility that other people’s struggles to connect with me may not have anything to do with me at all. While oppressive things do occur in the present, the moments when I feel oppressed are usually when I take other people’s distress personally.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:73

  • Re-evaluation Counseling

    Brief description of RC from back cover of Present Time.
    Published in: Present Time, Back Coverpage 128

  • A Workshop for Women in Their Forties

    A Workshop for Women in Their Forties. by Jenny Sazama. we talked about how much we had done and what substantial women we had become.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberationpage 56

  • Pam Roby—International Liberation Reference Person for College and University Faculty

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • Stepping Outside of Both Ends of an Oppressor Pattern

    Stepping Outside of Both Ends of an Oppressor Pattern, Nancy Wygant. Humility and arrogance are opposite ends of the same pattern
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 50

  • Greetings from Éire!

    Greetings from Éire! by A-. My name is A-, and I am a young person of sixteen. So much is happening right now in my life.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: page 53

  • Reaching a Great Insight in the Middle of a Tough Life

    Reaching a Great Insight in the Middle of a Tough Life, by Joyce Terwilliger. The following is excerpted from one of his recent letters to me. No matter how messed up life is in here, it's still life, and I'll cherish every moment of it, whether good or bad.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (People Targeted for Destruction: page 71)

  • Men and Health

    Men and Health, by Tim Jackins. Part of male conditioning in our society is being expected to absorb physical damage and be quiet about it. We men work ourselves to death, wear ourselves out, and take a sort of reactive pride in being able to work past any sensible limit.
    Published in: Journals Well-Being 6

  • You Have to Make Up Your Mind

    You Have to Make Up Your Mind, by Tim Jackins. Because of the lack of understanding of who young people are at the beginning of their lives, we all end up plotting our own course.
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013, Counseling Practice: pages 15 to 16

  • Adding Co-Counseling to Existing Relationships

    Adding Co-Counseling to Existing Relationships, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 122, p. 38. Things to think about when teaching friends RC.
    Published in: Present Time 122, January 2001

  • "Attention Away from Distress" on a Marathon Scale

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • The Minute of Silence

    The Minute of Silence is a Minute of Liberation and Revolution, by Xabi Odriozola
    Published in: Translations

  • Moving Forward in Confusing Times


    Moving Forward in Confusing Times

    Published in: Present Time 212, July 2023, No Section03

  • Building an Organizing Team

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Guide pour les Communautés de Réévaluation par la Co-écoute Adopté par la Conférence Mondiale 2013

    Guide pour les Communautés de Réévaluation par la Co-écoute Adopté par la Conférence Mondiale des 7-11 Août 2013 Storrs, Connecticut, USA
    Published in: French

  • The Way We Develop

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Elder Liberation

    Elder Liberation, by Jerry Yoder. Elders are creative, strong, energetic, loving, intelligent, cooperative, and fun-loving. We have spent decades working on behalf of our loved ones, humanity as a whole, and all life. We are committed to building a world in which all life flourishes. We have amassed a tremendous amount of much needed knowledge, experience, and perspective.
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • Outline: Jews & Climate Justice: Building a United Front

    Published in: Environment -

  • Middle-Class People of the Global Majority

    Middle-Class People of the Global Majority, by Anon, JeeYeun Lee, Elizabeth Rossow, Shagufta Husen, Jackie Kane, Sandra Jackson, Hao-Li, Cornelia Cho. A group of People of the Global Majority did a go-around at a recent U.S. middle-class workshop. This is some of what we shared.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • The Negative Results of Class Societies

    The Negative Results of Class Societies, by Harvey Jackins. There have been deeply negative results of class societies from the beginning. One such result is the degradation of the lives of the great majority of the population to a sub-human, oppressed status.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • A Draft Policy for Hindu Liberation

    A Draft Policy for Hindu Liberation by Multiple. The following draft policy statement for Hindu liberation was written by Hindu-heritage Co-Counselors with support from Azi Khalili, the International Liberation Reference Person for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation39

  • Смерть и умирание

    Death and Dying, Life and Living, Смерть и умирание, Жизнь и проживание, by Joan Karp. Для начала, я бы хотела заметить, что у всех у нас много общего – мы все живы. Это будет отличной целью для нас всех, хотя бы раз в день переставать быть занятыми жизнью и замечать, что мы живы. Это всегда сложно – уделять внимание тому, насколько это примечательно, помимо случаев с особыми обстоятельствами. Это было бы здорово.
    Published in: Russian, Counseling Practice

  • No Longer Afraid of Facing These Feelings

    No Longer Afraid of Facing These Feelings, Mary (Pearson) Klausen. I have been married and divorced twice and have had a series of relationships, from age fifteen to fifty, in which one would end and the next would begin. Eight years ago I realized that I needed to not be in a relationship and to work on the early trauma and abuses that had set me up for believing that I was nothing if I was not in one.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation86

  • T-shirts and Hankie

    Ad for t-shirts and hankie
    Published in: Present Time

  • Ending the Mistreatment of Children

    Ending the Mistreatment of Children, by Bess Herbert, with Tina Foulkes and Elinor Milne. As a young person in RC, it was clear to me that ending the oppression and mistreatment of children is key to ending oppressive societies. A modest reduction in the mistreatment of young people has a big effect on how much they can resist and think about other oppressions as they go through the rest of their lives, and on how big and full their lives can be.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing87

  • Eighteen Ways to Make Your Counseling Go Better

    Eighteen Ways to Make Your Counseling Go Better, by Will (McNaughten) Loving. The counseling insights that had been most important to me as both counselor and client.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Counseling Practice06

  • There Has to Be a Place

    There Has to Be a Place, by Tim Jackins. There has to be a place in RC (and outside, too, as we do better work) where we make it safe enough that people can look at the distresses they feel so bad about that they hide them.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Counseling Practicepage 8

  • Toward Liberation Through Connection

    Toward Liberation Through Connection, A transcription by Nancy Wygant of a class led by Xabi Odriozola. The more connected we are, the less we accept oppression and the harder it is for us to be manipulated into oppressing others.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberation(pages 25 to 26)

  • Cherie Brown in Jerusalem

    Cherie Brown in Jerusalem, by Naomi Raz. Recently twenty-five Jerusalem (Israel) Co-Counselors gathered for an evening with Cherie Brown. We were invited to “face the unfaceable,” to feel and discharge “impossible” things—things that stop us.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation73

  • Allies to Large Women

    Published in: Present Time 144, July 2006

  • Such a Good Model

    Such a Good Model, by Laura Boytz. Last summer I attended your Creativity Workshop at Walker Creek Ranch in Northern California, USA. Of all the RC workshops I've attended, that one had the greatest impact on my life.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: page 81

  • Opening of the 1997 World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities

    Opening of the 1997 World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, by Harvey Jackins. There are 142 delegates present at this World Conference. We have here a good sampling of the thinking that has been going on in the ninety-three countries in which there are RC activities.
    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998, (World Conference pages 5 to 6)

  • Clear and Explicit Leadership

    Clear and Explicit Leadership by, Eric Lessinger. RC is explicitly not a political action organization, but it is most useful in encouraging people to think and act on important political questions. This organization has continued to thrive and grow over the last twenty-five years, while many others I've been part of have fallen by the wayside.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the mail: page 76)

  • Working on Commitment

    Working on Commitment, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time No. 34, p30. The use in counseling of making an important commitment seems so far to be very effective and powerful, only in part because of the commitment itself, but even more so because of the opportunities it affords for effective counseling.
    Published in: Present Time 34, January 1979, Counseling Practice

  • Preparing for the Transformation of Society

    Preparing for the Transformation of Society, by Tim Jackins. The economic system is collapsing. The fact that this is coming out in the open is just fine.
    Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012, Wide World Changing: pages 73 to 74

  • Facing and Organizing to End Classism and Class Oppression

    Facing and Organizing to End Classism and Class Oppression, by Sean Ruth. I’ve been thinking about three different processes that we sometimes confuse with one another: class oppression, classism, and internalised oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012, Liberation(pages 48 to 49)

  • Menselijk contact - en seks

    Menselijk contact en seks door Tim Jackins. Een beschrijving van het werk aan seks, geslacht en menselijk contact. Vertaald door Bas Hurkmans en Frank van den Heuvel.
    Published in: Dutch

  • Pam Geyer— International Liberation Reference Person for Elders

    Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work

  • Commitment

    Commitment, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time 31, page 34. The use of commitments in RC.
    Published in: Present Time 31, April 1978, Counseling Practice

  • COP28 Delegation Page

    Published in: Environment -

  • SAL/UER at March to End Fossil Fuels

    Published in: Environment -

  • contents

    Published in: Women Deciding Whether or not to Raise Young People 2023

  • Main Page for Climate Emergency & Collapsing Capitalism Workshop 2023

    Published in: Climate Emergency & Collapsing Capitalism 2023

  • aetest1

    Published in: salartauction

  • Inviting New Friends to Co-Counseling

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Artists and the Environment

    Published in: Arts and the Environment 2023

  • Ideas for Supporting Wide World Work on Climate Change

    Ideas for Supporting Wide World Work on Climate Change, by Nancy Faulstich.
    Published in: Environment -

  • Imagine a World without Violence against Women


    Imagine a World without Violence against Women

    Published in: Present Time 204, July 2021, Liberation28

  • Bevrijding van Ouderen

    Deel 1: Wie noemen we ouderen? Wat is waar over ouderen? Deel 2: De onderdrukking van ouderen en hoe die wordt aangeleerd, geïnternaliseerd en in stand gehouden Deel 3: Bevrijding van ouderen Deel 4: De onderdrukking van ouderen op het snijvlak van andere vormen van onderdrukking Afnemende gezondheid, invaliditeit, sterven en dood Deel 5: Hoe te counselen naar ouderenbevrijding, voor ouderen en bondgenoten Deel 6: De krachten van verschillende generaties bundelen Voordelen van HC voor ouderen Dit is onze tijd
    Published in: Dutch

  • We Are a Sisterhood

    We Are a Sisterhood, by Barbara Harwood. Females from Israel, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England (along with a small group of male allies) attended the Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop in England in November 2019 led by Diane Balser (International Liberation Reference Person for Women).
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation79

  • Interactive Art at 
a Listening Project


    Interactive Art at 
a Listening Project
, by Eurhi Jones. The Sustaining All Life art team at the Climate Summit [the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September 2019 in New York City, USA] found interactive art to be a wonderful way to do a listening project.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing54

  • Addressing Climate Change, in the United States and Africa

    Addressing Climate Change, in the United States and Africa, by Wanjiku Kironyo & Jan Froehlich. Recently in Gulu, Uganda, we had two workshops—one for women and the other for teachers and leaders—that brought together people from South Sudan; Northern Uganda; and Kampala, Uganda.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • My Labor Seder

    My Labor Seder, by Marya Axner. In this Seder we tell the story of the Jewish people—their coming out of slavery and fighting their way to liberation—and we draw parallels with present-day work campaigns and struggles for liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Being “White” and of Mixed Heritage

    Being “White” and of Mixed Heritage, by Johanna Ghattas. I have a light-skinned Palestinian parent and a white Swedish parent—and have a “white” skin. From the age of three I grew up with only my white parent and her family. I have always had a little contact with my Palestinian parent, and in my late teens I lived with him and his family in Egypt for eight important months.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Men Are Good, and Men Make Mistakes

    Men Are Good, and Men Make Mistakes, by John Schmieding. It is difficult to face how common sexual assault has been and continues to be in our society. It can seem like the problem is too big and that there is nothing we can do beyond avoiding such behavior ourselves. I think the truth is that there is more we can do as men, and that we are being asked in this historical moment to do much more.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Supporting Youth to Take Action on Climate Change

    Supporting Youth to Take Action on Climate Change, by Brian lavendel. Recently I learned of an initiative to support high school students in taking action on climate change.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Being a Queer Single Woman in My Early Thirties

    Being a Queer Single Woman in My Early Thirties, by "taylor swift". I do have close friends who play partner-type roles in my life, and my life has a lot of closeness and connection in it. But I still find it challenging to build a life as a single woman in a world built around romantic partnerships.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating White Racism

    White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating White Racism, by Dvora Slavin. Our goal was to deepen our relationships and resist separation (“I’m out of here”) and to build enough safety and caring that we could face and discharge racism.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • Let's See What We Can Do Now

    Let’s See What We Can Do Now, by Tim Jackins. The killings in the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, show the continued emergence of irrational, destructive behavior caused by the hurts and oppressions of our societies.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Younger People at Tule Lake

    Younger People at Tule Lake by Multiple. This year at the Tule Lake Pilgrimage [see previous article], the United to End Racism (UER) team put together a subgroup to focus on young people and young adults. The group was comprised of Becca Asaki, Kenso Michisaki, Avery Osajima, and Ashley Uyeda.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing79

  • Building Alliances between Muslims and People of Other Religious Traditions

    Building Alliances between Muslims and People of Other Religious Traditions, Amin Khoury (Victor Nicassio). The following are notes from a talk I gave at a topic group at the Muslim Liberation Workshop [see previous three articles]. The group was on building alliances between Muslims and people of other religious traditions.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation68

  • Thoughts in Support of the Draft Policy on Care of the Environment

    Thoughts in Support of the Draft Policy on Care of the Environment, by Wytske Visser and others. The following are some thoughts, from the committee that wrote the draft policy, in support of the new Draft Policy on Care of the Environment.
    Published in: Environment -

  • Family Work Structures

    Published in: The Caring Parent

  • Appreciating Present Time

    Appreciating Present Time.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, No Section85

  • Countering a Child’s Fears with Physical Play

    Countering a Child’s Fears with Physical Play, by Patty Wipfler. Physical play is one of the most powerful tools you have in countering a child’s fears.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Counseling Practicepages 27 to 30

  • The Effective Use of Literature

    The power of our literature and encouraging the full use of it. By Harvey Jackins
    Published in: Start Over Every Morning

  • Helping My Dad Discharge Oppressive Attitudes

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Climb Through the Fear

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Acting From a "Moment of Clarity"

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Reaching for Women and Men

    Reaching for Women and Men, by Tim Jackins. I’ve talked about how sexism makes you feel bad about yourselves. That comes in from the outside. It’s not your creation.
    Published in: Present Time 136, July 2004, Liberation(pages 31 to 32)

  • The Need for a "Care Movement"

    The Need for a "Care Movement", E--. We need a broad-based "care movement"
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Wide World Changing(Page 75)

  • Shabbat

    Shabbat, by Tim Jackins. Tonight we are going to celebrate Shabbat. It is a Jewish tradition that happens every week.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Teaching(page 65)

  • More about the White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating Racism Workshop

    More About the White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating Racism Workshop, by Cherie Brown and others. The Workshop offered a huge contradiction to isolation and urgency.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation: page 47 to 48

  • Discharging Colonial Oppressor Distresses

    Discharging Colonial Oppressor Distresses, by Caroline New. Before a middle-class workshop here in Bristol (England), I led a couple of gatherings on discharging anti-Irish oppressor material.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation: pages 41 to 42

  • Parents’ Leadership and Liberation

    Parents’ Leadership and Liberation, by Patty Wipfler. Present Time 125, page 53. The leadership parents do at home is important, revolutionary, life-changing leadership. Without this work, human beings will not be in shape to change other things in society.
    Published in: Present Time 125, October 2001

  • Böcker & häften på svenska

    Published in: Swedish

  • MITEN ALOITTAA "UUDELLEEN-ARVOTTAVA PARI-KESKUSTELU"

    Published in: Finnish

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