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  • Rational mit "Gefrorenen Bedürfnissen" umgehen 

    Rational mit "Gefrorenen Bedürfnissen" umgehen, Charlotte Lowrey. Das Verständnis davon, dass wir "gefrorene" Bedürfnisse haben, war lange Zeit ein Teil der NC-Theorie, aber ich glaube, dass sie viel bedeutsamer sind, als wir angenommen haben. Vor kurzem begann ich zu mutmaßen, dass vieles von dem, was unser chronisches Material aufrecht erhält, von nicht entlasteten gefrorenen Bedürfnissen stammt.
    Published in: German, Counseling Practicept 84, p. 37

  • Close Meaningful Relationships with People, and the RC No-Socializing Policy

    Close Meaningful Relationships with People, and the RC No-Socializing Policy, by Chuck Esser. A blueprint for thinking about RC relationships and the "No-Socializing" Policy
    Published in: Present Time 142, January 2006, Counseling Practice(pages 23 to 27)

  • Eliminating Addictions From Our Lives

    Published in: Present Time 58, January 1985

  • 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 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

  • Cleaning Up Some Concepts

    Published in: Present Time 63, April 1986

  • Finally Grown Up

    Finally Grown Up, by Jean Turner. I now realise that I am a fully grown-up, independent human being, free to form close relationships all over the place.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Counseling Practice: page 17

  • 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 No-Socialising Guideline & and Young Adult Liberation

    The No-Socialising Guideline & and Young Adult Liberation, by Anna Van Heeswijk. Present Time No 161, October, 2010, pages 49-51
    Published in: Present Time 161, October 2010

  • Re-evaluation Counseling Online Fundamentals Class

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

  • A Wonderful Parents’ Workshop

    A Wonderful Parents’ Workshop, by Bess Herbert. We had the most wonderful parents’ workshop in England two weeks ago. Marya Axner, the International Liberation Reference Person for Parents, came over from the United States to lead it, and we were joined by parents from Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation63

  • People Targeted for Destruction

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

  • Opposing Irrational Policies Together


    Opposing Irrational Policies Together

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

  • "Mental Health" Oppression and Liberation

    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Overcoming Middle-Class Distress

    Overcoming Middle-Class Distress, by Holly Jorgenson. I attended the Middle-Class Liberation Workshop, led by Seán Ruth
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberationpage 55

  • Key Issues for Allies Ending the Oppression of Jews

    Key Issues for Allies Ending the Oppression of Jews, by Dorann van Heeswijk. Face fully our significance and the importance of reaching for increasing clarity about contemporary Jewish issues.
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013, Liberation(pages 51 to 52)

  • A Women’s and Men’s Workshop

    A Women’s and Men’s Workshop by Diane Balser. I believe it was a breakthrough in reshaping our relationships as RC women and men.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberationpages 61-62

  • Family Work: The Best Way to Understand RC

    Family Work: The Best Way to Understand RC, by several authors. The following are excerpts from some reports on an RC family workshop led by Louisa Flander, in Mebourne, Victoria, Australia, in January 2013.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Counseling Practice(pages 12 to 13)

  • 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)

  • 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

  • The Significance of Music

    The Significance of Music, by Heather Hay. Present Time 161, pages 15-17. Music is so much a part of benign reality. It’s one of the ways we remember how good it is to be alive, how exuberant we can be, how much we love to experiment and explore all kinds of different things.
    Published in: Present Time 161, October 2010, Liberation: pages 15-17

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lawyers

    Lawyers, by Marsha Hunter. From my perspective as a lawyer, the key issue for the world and for the RC Communities is the same: the growing economic divide, both locally and globally. Corporations and countries use laws to justify and solidify the economic, social, and environmental injustices underlying this divide. Our early isolation, feelings of powerlessness, and frozen needs for “more” permit us to accept oppression and environmental destruction.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section82

  • The Preponderance of the Evidence

    The Preponderance of the Evidence by Avi Gladstone. A number of years ago at a Regional RC workshop, we were encouraged to not let any of our Co-Counseling relationships evaporate due to challenges in the relationships but rather stay committed to moving the relationships forward. This has stayed with me, and I have thought about its implications.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Counseling Practice25

  • Changes Made In The Guidelines by The 1993 World Conference

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • 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)

  • Women, Men, War, and Sexism

    Women, Men, War, and Sexism, by Tami Shamir. Translated from Hebrew to English by Tami Shamir. I am a woman who has been surrounded by war (active or threatened) her entire life. I have been working on healing from war for the last nine years.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: page 59

  • Outline Online Class Updated

    Published in: Fundamentals

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #1

    Published in: Teaching -

  • The Intensive Use of "Understatements"

    Published in: Present Time 111, April 1998

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #3

    Published in: Teaching -

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Long-Standing Men's Support Group

    A Long-Standing Men's Support Group, Mike Reichart. How to keep a men's support group vital and effective
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 35-37

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #5

    Published in: Teaching -

  • 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

  • 中译文

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

  • Parents

    Parents, by Marya Axner. In many places schools are getting much harder for children, and for parents. There is less flexibility, and children are expected to work longer hours and produce more. They have little time to play and be close.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section39

  • Teachers and Leaders Gather in Nigeria

    Teachers and Leaders Gather in Nigeria, by Chinwe Obichukwu. Chioma Okonkwo, the Area Reference Person for Lagos, Nigeria, led the workshop with lots of humour. It was never boring.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:28

  • Activism and the No-Socializing Policy

    Activism and the No-Socializing Policy, Diane Shisk. The RC Communities have always encouraged RCers to participate in wide world organizations that have rational policies. Harvey Jackins framed this for leaders as “having one foot in the RC Communities and one foot in the wide world, and leading effectively in both.” We have many understandings and tools in RC that can help wide world organizations be even more effective.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing83

  • 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

  • Veterans Are "Targeted"

    Veterans Are "Targeted", by Tom Washa. We all knew that being in the armed services was a dangerous situation. Every one of us was raised poor or working class.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, People Targeted for Destruction by Society: page 50

  • Counseling on Early Sexual Memories

    Published in: Pamphlets

  • Relationships

    Published in: RC Theory

  • Marsha Hunter—International Liberation Reference Person for Lawyers

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

  • My Picture of Young Adult Oppression and Liberation

    My Picture of Young Adult Oppression and Liberation, by Ellie Brown. I am writing now to share with all of you my current picture of young adult oppression and liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 159, April 2010, Liberation(pages 37 to 39)

  • The First RC Workshop for European Native People

    The First RC Workshop for European Native People, by Frank van Tej van Wieskes. Marcie outlined the situation for Indigenous people and said that it wouldn’t work to claim Indigenous heritage to avoid working on being white. All identities need to be worked on.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation48

  • Owning-Class Divestment

    Owning-Class Divestment by Multiple. Dear owning-class Co-Counsellors, I am facing a crux (fork in the road, challenge, mountain to climb). I want to figure out how to move us owning-class Co-Counsellors out of a stuck place. We are people born and trained into privilege, entitlement, control, and a form of material security. Some of us have access to real wealth—millions.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation60

  • Some of changes to the Guidelines

    Some of the Changes to the Guidelines, adopted at the 2017 World Conference.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:10

  • 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

  • Acting From a "Moment of Clarity"

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • What We Think We Know That Would Be Good for the Rest of the World to Understand

    What We Think We Know That Would Be Good for the Rest of the World to Understand, by Harvey Jackins. Inherent human nature, distress patterns, and discharge.
    Published in: Present Time 106, January 1997, Counseling Practicepages 3 to 8

  • Mothers' Liberation

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • "Techniques"

    List of techniques: broad and general, more specific, working on oppression, specific.
    Published in: Present Time 106, January 1997

  • Speculating About What Completely Rational Sexuality Would Be Like For Humans

    Published in: Present Time 88, July 1992

  • Techniques

    Techniques, by Harvey Jackins, Katie Kauffman, Diane Shisk. Techniques in Re-evaluation Counseling are general summaries of what has been found to be helpful or workable in the past experience of other Co-Counselors.
    Published in: Present Time 106, January 1997, Counseling Practice(pages 17-18)

  • Being Rational About "Ritual Abuse"

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Wide World Change is Possible

    Wide World Change is Possible, by Julian Weissglass. Present Time 100, page 58. I have recently been appointed RC International Liberation Reference Person for Wide World Change (WWC). This is an awesome responsibility, and I am committed to doing an effective job. I have been discharging on the decision a lot!
    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Organising to End Class Oppression

    Organising to End Class Oppression, by Caroline New. Seán Ruth* and I led a middle-class workshop for six RC Regions.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing59

  • Young People and Information about Sex

    Young People and Information about Sex, by Anonymous. I’ve been considering the idea that young people will ask questions “when they are ready” and that we then give “age-appropriate responses.” However, I think we also need to take into account that everyone is bombarded by the objectification of females (and young males) and by the highly profitable sex and related industries. The media broadcast confusing, distressed messages about sex, closeness, isolation, individualism, greed, and addictions.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Counseling Practice10

  • French Translations

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Talking about Oppression First

    Talking about Oppression First, Anonymous, When my ex-wife found pornography sites on our fifteen-year-old son’s phone, she said, “Yikes! What do we do now?!” I had tried to talk with him about porn a year before, but—as is usual with “difficult” topics—he hadn’t contributed anything at all, so it hadn’t gone too well.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Counseling Practice07

  • The Gambia Introductory Workshop


    The Gambia Introductory Workshop
, by Janet Kabue. The Gambia Introductory Workshop took place in March 2017 at the Kinta Kunteh Roots Camp in Albreda, The Gambia. In the 1600s this village was used as a port to transport Gambians who had been captured to be sold into slavery. 

    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:23

  • Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation

    Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation, by Xabi Odriozola Ezeitza. My people are Indigenous people. Our language is one of the oldest in the world. When I use my language instead of English, people often tell me that I look like another person.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation71

  • Generating New Ones

    Generating New Ones, by Amy Tai. It was good to meet you at the last Regional leaders' workshop. I wanted to share with you how incredible I have been finding the understatement.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: Experience with the Understatement: page 31

  • More Specific RC Techniques

    Published in: Techniques

  • Eliminating "Identities"

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • "Nature" Not "Native"

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #4

    Published in: Teaching -

  • Discharging Patterns of Domination


    Discharging Patterns of Domination
. by Tim Jackins. Domination is connected to our relationships. If I’m not connected with other people, and they’re not connected with me, and we live in an oppressive society, how does that affect our ability to relate to each other?
    Published in: Present Time 203, April 2021, Counseling Practice06

  • All of Us Can Lead

    All of Us Can Lead, by Tim Jackins. Distresses get attached to anything called leadership. We live in an oppressive society. We are supposed to do what we are told, and leaders generally do what they want for themselves, for their own reasons. Little thought is given to who we are, what we want, or what we think.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section79

  • Loud Sessions

    Loud Sessions, by Tim Jackins. Loud sessions can be really useful. Most of us were made to be quiet. All societies try to keep things as quiet and smooth as possible as they creep their way to destruction.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice(page 17)

  • 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

  • On the Middle East

    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • Humans Acquire Distress Patterns From Being Hurt

    Published in: RC Theory

  • 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

  • Confronting Sugar and Overeating Addictions

    Confronting Sugar and Overeating Addictions, by Nancy Lemon. It was very easy for me to give up most of my addictions - to alcohol, marijuana, and caffeine - seven and a half years ago when I became an assistant RC teacher. It took a great deal more thinking, counseling, deciding, and direction-holding to give up the last one, which was to overeating in general, and to sugar in particular.
    Published in: Present Time 61, October 1985

  • Men and Women—Confusion, and Trying

    Men and Women—Confusion, and Trying by Tim Jackins. From a talk by Tim Jackins at the Women and Men Leaders’ Workshop, in Washington, D.C., USA, October 2017. We’re in this interesting struggle—all of us, men and women—because of the way society has inflicted damage on all of us and pushed us apart and confused us about each other. And we are confused. We men are confused about women.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation44

  • Fighting Fully for Each Other

    Fighting Fully for Each Other, by Tim Jackins. This is another description of the early battle we each have. What I want to look at this time is how our early hurts keep us separated.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Counseling Practice49

  • The Recovery Process

    Published in: RC Theory

  • Care of the Environment

    Care of the Environment, by Wytske Visser. The destructive, irrational functioning of our society is damaging to everyone. As Co-Counselors we can discharge on racism, genocide, classism, and all the oppressions as we decide to care for the environment. We can take the current opportunity to work together to end environmental degradation as a step toward fundamentally changing oppressive policies.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section33

  • 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

  • Alcohol - My Story

    Alcohol - My Story by Wanda Salya. I myself decided that I was an alcoholic. I was never diagnosed or treated for alcoholism, although when I began Co-Counseling the discharge around the pattern of powerlessness came rolling off with great relief.
    Published in: Present Time 48, July 1982, Counseling Practice(page 28)

  • 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

  • The Recovery Process

    Published in: The Human Side of Human Beings

  • The Source of Damage

    Published in: The Human Side of Human Beings

  • Parents, Hope, and the Environment

    Parents, Hope, and the Environment, by Marya Axner. I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, which is about the need to address the unworkability of our economic system in order to address global warming. As I’ve read it, I’ve thought about our role as parents.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 32

  • 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

  • Toward a New Goal on Care of the Environment

    Toward a New Goal on Care of the Environment, by Tim Jackins. All the indications are that the way the world is developing demands changes in humans’ treatment of the environment.
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013, Counseling Practicepages 3 to 7

  • 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

  • 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

  • Not Settling for Small Gains

    Not Settling for Small Gains; 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 Practice09

  • 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

  • Openly Challenging Our Racism


    Openly Challenging Our Racism
. We’ve worked on racism for decades now, with good effect. I think we can be pleased that we have done this work consistently for this long. I don’t think anybody needs to be dissatisfied with themselves about it.
    Published in: Present Time 211, April 2023, Liberation33

  • The Roots of Unfounded Expectations

    The Roots of Unfounded Expectations
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:59

  • 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

  • Community Building

    Community Building, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 158, pages 59-61. Why we build RC Communities, and some insights into them.
    Published in: Present Time 158, January 2010

  • Draft Program to Eliminate Sexism

    Draft Program to Eliminate Sexism, by Diane Balser. Programs are distinct from policies—they are the specific actions that flow from policies. In the draft below, we have selected six institutions in which women are primary “targets” of oppression and three important “mechanisms” of sexist oppression.
    Published in: Sisters 12

  • 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

  • Israeli and Diaspora Jews Reaching for Each Other

    Israeli and Diaspora Jews Reaching for Each Other, by Dan Alter. As I listened to Diaspora Jews from outside the United States, I understood that USers have a particular piece of work to do. I called a topic group for USers. We worked on where we attach frozen hopes, longings, and disappointments to Israel. Also, the United States is the owning class of the world and plays one of the most destructive roles.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation57

  • The Counseling Relationship

    The Counseling Relationship, by Tim Jackins. The counseling relationship is gigantic. You actually get to have each other fully. You get to care with all your heart about each other for the rest of your life.
    Published in: Present Time 123, April 2001, Counseling Practice

  • The First Step Is to Get in Motion

    The First Step Is to Get in Motion. From a talk by Tim Jackins1 at the West Coast North America Reference Persons’ Workshop, January 2015
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Counseling Practice03

  • About “Going Public” with RC

    About “Going Public” with RC, by Tim Jackins. I think that for most of us, the struggle is to stop being secretive. Many of us haven’t told anybody that we do Co-Counseling. (laughter) We’ve kept it a secret.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:69

  • Everyone’s Mind Is Whole, Precious, and Completely Capable

    Everyone’s Mind Is Whole, Precious, and Completely Capable, by "Bobby Tamara." Writing this article is a key part of reclaiming my mind for myself. “Mental health” oppression has told me that there is something wrong with my mind and that sharing my experience is dangerous.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation60

  • 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

  • Holding a Direction

    Holding a Direction, poem by Harvey Jackins. Each one I’ve ever known wears despair Somewhere about him, wrestling with it daily
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Counseling Practice11

  • 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

  • Understanding the Guidelines

    Understanding the Guidelines, by Tim Jackins. A talk by Tim Jackins at the Australia and New Zealand Pre-World Conference, April 2013.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 31 to 32

  • Guidelines for Middle-Class Co-Counselors in Thinking About Working-Class People

    Guidelines for Middle-Class Co-Counselors in Thinking About Working-Class People, by Wijnand Vosse. When talking about working-class and middle-class people, I mainly refer to the patterns that people from these different class groups carry.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: pages 54 to 55

  • 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)

  • Putting Forth a Larger Perspective

    Putting Forth a Larger Perspective, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 149, October 2007, pages 21-22. Sometime since we started RC, or before, those of us here got a picture in our minds that big changes could be made, that people could have human lives, that things could move forward toward something that would work well and not just be an attempt to avoid the worst of things—that society could actually be changed.
    Published in: Present Time 149, October 2007, Wide World Changing(pages 21 to 22)

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Community Building

    Community Building by Tim Jackins. RC Teacher 29, page 3. When you have the ideas of RC, you have a powerful tool. When you have a Co-Counselor you have an even more powerful tool. Then, as you build more people around you and have three or four Co-Counselors, it works better.
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • 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

  • The Recovery Process

    Chapter 18 of The Human Side of Human Beings, by Harvey Jackins
    Published in: RC Theory

  • Close, Caring Contact

    Published in: Present Time 129, October 2002

  • The Nature of Theory

    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • Money, Greed, and Capitalism

    Money, Greed, and Capitalism, by Mike Markovits. According to the Guidelines of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, RC teachers are required to examine and discharge on patterns of greed and the irrational use of money. Greed, and confusion and powerlessness about money, are prevalent under our current economic system. The Guidelines emphasize the importance of reclaiming our full rationality and power in regards to money.
    Published in: Present Time 138, January 2005

  • Including Gay and Bisexual Men in Men’s Work in RC

    Including Gay and Bisexual Men in Men’s Work in RC, by “David Njinsky”. Gay and Bisexual men are men. We were born male, and most of us were treated as males from the time we were born (and sometimes before), even if we didn’t feel fully male.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation71

  • The Decision to Have (or Not Have) Children

    The Decision to Have (or Not Have) Children, by Anne Koplinka-Loehr. At the Middle-Class Women’s Workshop last February, a woman suggested counseling for a year about not having children, then for a year about having children, before making any decisions. I decided that I would do this.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation82

  • M.1. The No-Socializing Policy

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • M.1. The No-Socializing Policy

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • No Socializing

    Published in: Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual

  • 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

  • Traditional Chinese

    Published in: Traditional Chinese

  • Marya Axner--ILRP for Parents

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

  • 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

  • Sexual Misconduct Guideline M.5. Resource Document

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Sexual Misconduct Resource Doc

    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • Comprehensive Glossary

    Comprehensive Glossary of RC Terms
    Published in: Comprehensive Glossary of RC Terms

  • Glossary of terms for those new to RC

    Glossary of Terms for People New to RC
    Published in: Comprehensive Glossary of RC Terms

  • The 2019 Ghana Teachers' and Leaders' Workshop

    The 2019 Ghana Teachers' and Leaders' Workshop, by Gare Lawson, Ekua Forson, Richard Nunoo. The 2019 Ghana Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop, led by Chioma Okonkwo, was indeed a great workshop. The leader took me through the process of re-emergence in a way that I hadn’t experienced before. Other high points were the classes on climate change and on healing from war.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Relationships Have to Be Thought About

    Relationships Have to Be Thought About, by Tim Jackins. To develop a relationship, we all have things to work on and move forward. We enter every relationship fighting old confusions. Often we are either pulling away from the relationship or lunging for it, and we can be suspicious of both.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice

  • An Outstanding Week of RC

    An Outstanding Week of RC, by Kingsley Ibekwe. We took RC and information about the environment to our local community. We also held a one-day workshop for RC Community members.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Kenyan Youth Recovering from Difficult Lives

    Kenyan Youth Recovering from Difficult Lives, by Janet Wambui Kabue. I led a workshop for young adults and young people outside of Nairobi city (Kenya). Most of the participants had been in RC for over five years and live in Mathare Valley slum and its environs.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Over Twenty Years of Early Sexual Memories Workshops

    Published in: Present Time 116, July 1999

  • 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

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Rest of Our Lives, p. 198

  • 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

  • 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

  • What I Learned at the Allies to Natives Workshop

    What I Learned at the Allies to Natives Workshop, by Joann Bray. The following is some of what I learned at the Allies to Natives Workshop
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • Wytske Visser—International Commonality Reference Person for Care of the Environment

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

  • The No Socializing Policy Applies to All Groups

    The No Socializing Policy Applies to All Groups, by Tim Jackins. The no-socializing policy has been needed everywhere we’ve had Co-Counseling—with every nationality, every racial group, and every economic class. It needs to be counseled on and thought about so that it can be understood and used—it shouldn’t be applied without thought.
    Published in: Fundamentals Teaching Guide Readings

  • Openly Challenging Our Racism

    Published in: Articles About Racism

  • ILRP Activities on COE

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

  • Sex

    Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012

  • 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

  • Climate Change Updates

    Climate Change Updates. Regular update on state of the environment
    Published in: Environment -

  • Summary of Current Science on Climate Change

    Summary of Current Science on Climate Change, by Diane Shisk. A detailed survey and summary of current peer reviewed articles on the science of climate change, with citations, done in June 2018 and updated every couple of months.
    Published in: Environment -

  • Affection, Love, and Sex

    Published in: Present Time 162, January 2011

  • 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

  • COE Teaching Guide II

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

  • Completing an Early Triumph

    Completing an Early Triumph, Tim Jackins. My picture of it is that just about every child—and this means you—arrived thinking there would be somebody to meet. They’d been inside hearing about life through the wall, and they thought they were coming out to people, to creatures like them, who would be just as interested in life as they were and would look right at them.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Counseling Practice

  • 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

  • "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

  • D.2. Requirements of RC Teachers

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • The Distinctive Characteristics of Re-evaluation Counseling

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • D.2. Requirements of RC Teachers

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction


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