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- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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) - Being Open About Difficulties in Leadership
Being Open About Difficulties in Leadership, by Diane Shisk. some common distress recordings have interfered with us as leaders engaging with others in a meaningful and ongoing way
Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013, Teaching - Leadership
Leadership, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 146, pages 53-56
Published in: Present Time 146, January 2007 - 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) - 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) - Wide World Leadership
Wide World Leadership, by George Partlow. I attended the Veterans' and Allies' Workshop led by Julian Weissglass and Jim Driscoll this February in Phoenix (Arizona, USA).
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(Page 78) - My Leadership in Russian RC
My Leadership in Russian RC, by Venera Yamidanova. My introduction to RC goes back to the workshop on RC fundamentals conducted by Harvey Jackins, in 1990, in Leningrad (Russia). I remember my first experience of working in a demonstration. That workshop brought me to realize that Re-evaluation Counseling might be efficiently used in both my professional activity and my re-emergence.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 79 - Personal Leadership
Personal Leadership, by Harvey Jackins. From “Common Goals for All Humans” on page 45 of "The Rest of Our Lives". Effective organization consists of you and your ability to get other people to trust you, love you, listen to you, read what you offer them to read, and join with you on specific acts. That’s what it consists of. The close personal tie is the only thing that is durable enough for people to move very far on.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: page 47 - 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 - Women Thinking About, and Offering Leadership to, Men
Women Thinking About, and Offering Leadership to, Men, by Donna McDermot. At the Women's Liberation Workshop (January 1997) I convened a topic group, 'Women Leading Men's Liberation.' Here is some of what was said by the twelve women who participated.
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberationpage 25 - Achieving Meaningful Leadership Against Oppression
Achieving Meaningful Leadership Against Oppression, by Marsha Saxton. Last week, as part of a week-long focus by National Public Radio on disability issues, I had the chance to speak to almost two million people about my work on genetics, reproductive health, and disability issues. This was a privilege, a boon to my work, and also a boost to my own re-emergence.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Wide World Changing: pages 8 to 9 - 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) - Leadership
Published in: RC Theory
- Foundation Leadership
Published in: Foundation
- 什么是纠正(RC)领导者的最好途径?
Published in: Chinese
- Continuer à développer le leadership de la Co-écoute
Published in: French
- Leadership
Leadership, by Harvey Jackins. Leadership is necessary. Leadership is an inherent human characteristic.
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:38 - Ten Points of Leadership
Ten Points of Leadership, by Julian Weissglass. Here are Ten Points of Leadership, which I prepared many years ago for a poster at workshops. They are a summary of the parts of RC leadership theory that are most important to me.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing26 - 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 - Building Community and Backing the Leadership of Younger People and People of Color
Building Community and Backing the Leadership of Younger People and People of Color by Ellie Brown. RC Teacher 29, page 24. For several years we have brought together our Area’s younger people and people of color for Sunday classes. The classes all meet in the same house at the same time. I have been the primary teacher, assisted by other certified teachers, including Apryl Walker, my Alternate Area Reference Person, and Jessica Whitehead, a long-time supporter of our Area.
Published in: Teaching RC - In the Most Favorable Position for Evolving into Leadership
In the Most Favorable Position for Evolving into Leadership, Harvey Jackins. There is a great dearth of rational enough leaders and organizations in the wide world. Few leaders or organizations show signs of being either clear enough or determined enough to furnish adequate leadership in the present and future situations.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Counseling Practice55 - Leadership
Leadership, Harvey Jackins. Leadership is initiating proposals and actions, securing agreement within the acting group, keeping a long-range perspective, noticing the results and implications of present and immediate actions on long-range results and actions, modeling correct attitudes and behavior, and modeling courageous initiative.
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:27 - The Development of New Leadership
Published in: Teaching RC
- Individual Leadership
Individual Leadership
Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:74 - Joining Organizations and Supporting Working-Class Leadership
Joining Organizations and Supporting Working-Class Leadership, by Caroline New. In middle-class workshops, Seán Ruth1 has been talking about the need to organise effectively over the next twenty years in order to stop the worst effects of climate change and ensure that less oppressive societies emerge after the collapse of capitalism.
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing69 - Listening, Leadership, and Sisterhood
Listening, Leadership, and Sisterhood by María Lorena Cuéllar Barandiarán. I was a member of the No Limits for Women delegation at the non-governmental-organization Women’s Forum held this March in conjunction with the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Beijing+20, in New York, New York, USA. I still feel the excitement of the work we did together there.
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpage 39 - Following the Leadership of Native Peoples
Following the Leadership of Native Peoples, by Jack Manno. As soon as I heard about the People’s Climate March in New York City (New York, USA),1 I knew I wanted to be there.
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Wide World Changing59 - Taking Impromptu Leadership
Taking Impromptu Leadership, by Dan Nickerson. A white supremacist group recently distributed racist flyers in our town of seven thousand people in Maine (the whitest state in the United States). They targeted the neighborhood where our representative to the state legislature lives.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing21 - Taking Leadership on Climate Change
Taking Leadership on Climate Change, by Shelly Friedmann, "I wanted to give you an update on some exciting things I’ve figured out in my life since the care-of-the-environment talk you gave at the East Coast North America Leaders’ Workshop"
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpages42-43 - Disability Leadership
Disability Leadership, by Yuho Asaka. Describing her experience at the No Limits for Women project in Beijing.
Published in: Sisters 10 - Leadership Amongst People Targeted by Racism
Published in: Foundation
- Meta número dos y el liderazgo consiguiente
Meta número dos y el liderazgo consiguiente, por Tim Jackins. (Goal Number Two, and Following Leadership) La Meta Numero Dos dice: La Comunidad de Reevaluación y Co-escucha pondrá nuevos y crecientes esfuerzos para hacer que Reevaluación y Co-escucha y las Comunidades de Reevaluación y Co-escucha sean accesibles a los jóvenes.
Published in: Spanish - Ondersteuning van inheems leiderschap
We erkennen het bestaan van inheemse volkeren en ondersteunen hun leiderschap. Mensen over de hele wereld moeten alles doen wat nodig is om te herstellen van de gevolgen van alle vroegere en huidige genocidepolitiek ten opzichte van inheemse volkeren. Wij staan op tegen alle vormen van genocide in het heden en zetten ons in om daar een einde aan te maken. We verzetten ons tegen alles wat ons verhindert om te leren van het leiderschap van inheemse mensen. Wij ondersteunen en volgen hun leiderschap. Wij allen bezetten inheems land en verbruiken inheemse grondstoffen.
Published in: Dutch - Miracles, Connection, and Leadership
Miracles, Connection, and Leadership, by Wytske Visser. It’s a miracle that in two hundred and sixty-six days we grow from a tiny little egg and seed cell into a baby.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing17 - Leadership in the Collapsing Society
Leadership in the Collapsing Society, Harvey Jackins. Excerpted from pages 22 to 25 of the pamphlet The Enjoyment of Leadership, by Harvey Jackins. There is nothing holding the present oppressive society in place except misinformation, the existence of distress patterns on individuals within the society, and the distress patterns’ inertia within the society. There is nothing standing in the way of complete transformation of the society except distress patterns that can be challenged and discharged.
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:30 - 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 - Continuing to Develop RC Leadership
Continuing to Develop RC Leadership . In RC we believe that every human mind is capable of everything that every other human mind is capable of—that if there are differences in our intelligences, they are too small to be measured.
Published in: Present Time 207, April 2022, No Section03 - Following the Leadership of Indigenous People
Following the Leadership of Indigenous People, by Marian Fredal. Approximately eighty of us learned how we can use the discharge process to have big visions for, and take big steps toward, the survival of the earth. Marcie’s voice was strong, and she was brutally honest.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation59 - Take Leadership to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
Take Leadership to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, Julian Weissglass. Climate change and the threat of nuclear war are the two most important challenges facing humanity. In the early 1980s Harvey Jackins was concerned about nuclear war. He encouraged us to discharge on the phrase, “It won’t happen because . . . .“
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing55 - Using Music to Discharge toward Bigger Leadership
Using Music to Discharge toward Bigger Leadership, by Cameron Hubbe. I am a fifty-five year old woman and have been an activist since I was fourteen. I have activist strengths and struggles. I can care big, work hard, take initiative, and think collectively. But I also feel isolated and “different,” have difficulty resting and relaxing, have great feelings of urgency, and tend to want to think and act rather than feel.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Counseling Practice44 - A Man Takes Leadership on Women’s Liberation
A Man Takes Leadership on Women’s Liberation, by Goof Buijs. I was one of the male delegates participating in the No Limits for Women project in New York (New York, USA) last March.1 It was great to be there as a male ally and to work with a group of our strong RC women leaders.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:61 - D.1. STRUCTURE DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ – LEADERSHIP
D.1. STRUCTURE DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ – LEADERSHIP Toutes les personnes occupant un poste de leadership dans les Communautés de Réévaluation par la Co-écoute sont tenues de pratiquer régulièrement la Co-écoute, de se tenir au courant des développements de la théorie, de donner en exemple un engagement envers la libération des humains vis-à-vis de la détresse et de l’oppression, et chaque fois que cela est possible, d'assister à des ateliers ou des classes dirigés par d'autres formateurs ou formatrices.
Published in: French Guidelines - Taking Leadership to End Nuclear Weapons
Taking Leadership to End Nuclear Weapons, by Yuki Hashimoto. I raised my hand during the April Ending Classism Workshop in Kanagawa, Japan. I was taking action to end nuclear weapons by leading a topic table.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - Leaders and Leadership
Published in: The Human Situation
- E.1. Structure of the Community-Leadership
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- E.1. Structure of the Community-Leadership
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- Escuchar, Liderazgo, y Hermandad
Escuchar, Liderazgo, y Hermandad, Maria Lorena Cuellar Barandiaran. “No Límites para las Mujeres en Conferencia de Naciones Unidas. Beijing + 20. Nueva York. Estados Unidos. Marzo 2015. (RC “No Limits for Women” Delegation. Beijing + 20 UN Conference in New York. March 2015)
Published in: Spanish, Liberation - Escuchar, Liderazgo, y Hermandad
Escuchar, Liderazgo, y Hermandad by Maria Lorena Cuellar Barandiarran.Formé parte de la delegación “Sin límites para las mujeres,” en Foro de Mujeres, organización no gubernamental, este marzo conjunto con la Comisión de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Condición de Mujeres Beijing+20 en Nueva York, Nueva York, EEUU.
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpage 39 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.) - Goals Adopted at the 2017 World Conference
Goals Adopted at the 2017 World Conference: Young People and Young Adults, Ending Classism, Care of the Environment, Backing Indigenous Existence and Leadership
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:07 - Self-Estimation
Self-Estimation, by Tim Jackins. The purpose of self-estimation is to unite a group with its leadership. At the World Conference, it’s about the job that Diane Shisk and I each do.
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 25 - Upward Mobility and “Going Home”
Upward Mobility and “Going Home”, by Jerry Yoder. Those of us who were raised working class and/or poor and have been upwardly mobile can use the “privileges” we now have to get RC into the hands of direct production workers and to follow their leadership in making the world right.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation52 - 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 - High Expectations of RC Leaders and Their Relationships
High Expectations of RC Leaders and Their Relationships, by A-. About a year ago, the two of us (whom we'll call A- and B-) were suspended from leadership in the RC Communities. Difficulties that surfaced in our non-RC relationship had begun to intrude into our work as RCers, and we were acting contrary to RC theory and policy.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Counseling Practice: pages 25 to 26 - Re-emergence at the World Conference
Re-emergence at the World Conference, by Bafana Matsebula. The World Conference was attended by two hundred and thirty Co-Counselors from all over the world. I was fortunate enough to be invited, along with several fellow African leaders. The World Conference is an opportunity, every four years, for the leadership of our organisation to review the Guidelines, reflect on the past four years, set goals for the next four years, connect, get good sessions, and confirm the positions of the International Reference Person and the Alternate International Reference Person for the next four years.
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 19 - 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
- Young People’s Classes
Young People’s Classes by Ellie Brown. RC teacher 29, page 111. Many people ask me how to set up young people’s classes in their Regions. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from teaching classes for young people, it’s flexibility. There are, however, certain guidelines I follow when setting up a young people’s class. Here are the basics.
Published in: Teaching RC - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - The Knowledge and Power of Direct Production Workers
The Knowledge and Power of Direct Production Workers, by Dan Nickerson. It has always been encouraging and a contradiction to fears about classism for people to see the four of us working and thinking together and to see our closeness and support for each other’s leadership.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation37 - An Inspiring Picture of Single Womanhood
An Inspiring Picture of Single Womanhood by Claire Galpern. Being mainly single as a young and young adult woman has given me so much space to prioritize close female friends, wide world leadership, teaching RC, and my re-emergence. And single women have played a major role in my life.
Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation60 - The Necessity of Alliances
The Necessity of Alliances, Harvey Jackins. The achieving of allies is crucial for liberation leadership, because distress continually pulls us back toward isolation, back toward thinking it’s “us against the world,”
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing55 - 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 - To Struggle Successfully
To Struggle Successfully, by Harvey Jackins. Oppressed people must have leadership in order to struggle successfully for liberation.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberationpage 32 - Understating
Understating, by Debra Reich. I am a working-class, Catholic woman, only girl, youngest sibling, with a loud father and a silent mother. I have been using these identity groups in an understatement-type direction for why (of course) I take on leadership wherever I go.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: page 85 - Growth in Argentina
Growth in Argentina, by Ronnie Rafferty. There has been extraordinary growth this year, and we now have a fine group of committed leaders who played key roles in the workshop. I presented a popular version of Harvey's book The Enjoyment of Leadership.
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, TeachingPage 41 - 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) - 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 - An Introduction to Middle-Class Liberation
An Introduction to Middle-Class Liberation by Harvey Jackins. Out True Selves 1, pages 7-8. In each society so far a very important form of division which needs our attention, analysis, and a liberation program has been the division of a part of the working classes on the basis of the functions or roles assigned to them in the economy and culture. Some members of the working classes have always been rewarded, bribed, educated, conditioned, or enforced to play the role of the agents of the owning class in carrying out the functions involving management, culture, education, religion, and military leadership.
Published in: Our True Selves 1 - 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 - 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 - Thoughts on Being an Effective Ally to Women
Thoughts on Being an Effective Ally to Women, by John Kinsella. I participated in the conference with the Re-evaluation-Counseling-sponsored "No Limits For Women Project. It was exhilarating to be with so many powerful women and men from around the world, thinking about women's liberation issues and planning to improve the situation of women everywhere.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberationpages: 76 to 78 - French Translations
Traductions en Français (Translations into French)
Published in: French - 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 - 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 - 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 - How White People Enact Racism,
and Guidelines for Allies
How White People Enact Racism, and Guidelines for Allies
Published in: Present Time 201, October 2020, Liberation03 - Being "Regular" and Being a Leader
Being "Regular" and Being a Leader, by Teresa Enrico. Raised-poor girl realizes, “Hey, I am a leader!”
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages: 78 to 79 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 - List of Workshops
List of Workshops of the No Limits for Women Project at the Beijing NGO Forum.
Published in: Sisters 10 - White People Working to End White Racism and Genocide
White People Working to End White Racism and Genocide, by Dvora Slavin. Our central work and agreement as Co-Counselors is to re-emerge and recover our full humanness. Eliminating the oppressor recordings of white racism and genocide is key to this.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section21 - The Chronic Patterns of Classism
The Chronic Patterns of Classism, Harvey Jackins. As we try to Co-Counsel with each other well across our class divisions, we are detecting certain common chronic patterns attached to members of the same class.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation74 - 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) - Young Leaders at the Women’s March
Young Leaders at the Women’s March, by Betsy Hobkirk. I went to the Women’s March 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. I’d decided beforehand to support and follow the leadership of young women, in particular my Global Majority niece.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing30 - Stepping out of Terror, with Other Women
Stepping out of Terror, with Other Women, by anonymous. The women who organized the march modeled women of the global majority not waiting for anyone or anything to make things right for everyone. They took on the leadership role knowing that they would be leading a majority-white-women’s gathering, and they never accommodated. They also welcomed white women as their sisters throughout.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing13 - A Challenging and Exciting Time
A Challenging and Exciting Time, Diane Balser. I have been to most if not all of the RC World Conferences. This last one, in August 2017, was among the most fascinating. The level of leadership and intelligence at World Conferences is inspiring—in particular, when we put our minds toward a controversial issue, as we did at the last conference.
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:27 - No Limits for Women—Beijing Plus 20
No Limits for Women—Beijing Plus 20, by Rational Island Publishers. Excerpts from seven No Limits for Women Beijing Plus 20 workshops are now on DVD—an excellent resource for classes, support groups, and workshops: Women and Men in Partnership to End Sexism and Male Domination—led by Diane Balser and Rudy Nickens Women Ending Racism—led by Diane Balser and Barbara Love Young Women Ending Sexism with Young Men as Allies—led by Emily Bloch Women Ending Sexual Violence toward Women with Men as Allies—two workshops, one led by Diane Balser and the other by Azi Khalili Men Ending Sexism and Male Domination—led by Rudy Nickens Women and Leadership—led by Azi Khalili
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section72 - Developing New Leaders
Developing New Leaders, by Harvey Jackins Developing new leaders is a crucial function of leadership. . . . Everybody’s wild to do something significant; everybody’s wild to be a successful leader.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing15 - Reach for the Great Majority—the Working Class
Reach for the Great Majority—the Working Class, by Harvey Jackins. I don’t know what it’s like in the Netherlands, but in U.S. cities, the classes and support groups that our largely middle-class leadership has organized are too difficult for working-class people to come to.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:40 - The Under-Thirty-Five Workshop in Japan
The Under-Thirty-Five Workshop in Japan, by Janet Kabue. In April 2016 I attended the Under-Thirty-Five Workshop in Japan. With the support of the Japanese RC Community and the leadership of Emily Bloch (the International Liberation Reference Person for Young Adults), we had a great weekend.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation63 - Quote
Quote, by Harvey Jackins. Lead the world. It is waiting for your leadership.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing53 - Power, and Effective Policies
Power, and Effective Policies. Quote by Harvey Jackins. The reclaiming of power is at the heart of our re-emergence. . . . [This] means reaching for influence in existing organizations. It means furnishing effective leadership and encouragement to the people around us.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changingpage 42 - The Africa Pre-World Conference
The Africa Pre-World Conference by Chioma Okonkwo The 2013 Africa Pre-World Conference took place in Nairobi, Kenya, May 2 to 5, under the able leadership of Tim Jackins, Diane Shisk, and a team of other leaders from Africa and the United States.
Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:35 - Taking Initiative in an RC Relationship
Taking Initiative in an RC Relationship, by Anonymous. I was happy I got to have a mini-session with you at the workshop, and I want to share how much I appreciated what you had to say and give to us. I know I am not alone in this, but I feel like you were talking directly to me. The struggles in our Region and my struggles with some of the leadership have felt personal. For some time they have felt like my personal failing, or the fault of the other person—and like if he or she would simply die, the problem would cease to exist.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 78 to 79 - Counseling on Integrity and Courage
Counseling on Integrity and Courage, By Marsha Hunter. Thought about the demonstration at the July leadership conference in Seattle on "What's an area where you're not quite honest with yourself? Where do you excuse yourself for not acting?"
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Counseling Practice(Page 38) - "Once Upon a Time"
"Once Upon a Time" by, Deborah Robinson. During my last session at the New England Leadership Workshop with Harvey back in December, my Co-Counselor suggested using a generalized understatement: "It sometimes happens that someone forgets how good she is."
Published in: Present Time 107, April 1997, Counseling Practice(page 19) - A Doctor with Initiative
A Doctor with Initiative by, David Musnick. My fundamentals class is going really well. I have thirteen people, including two people of color and five doctors. I am happy to be taking more leadership roles in my life.
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: page 77) - Who Is Responsible? (five articles)
Who Is Responsible?, by multiple authors. Five articles taken from a discussion on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders in the care of the environment.
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Counseling Practice12 - Preparing for a Politics of Meaning Movement
Preparing for a Politics of Meaning Movement, by Cherie R. Brown. Jewish tradition teaches that Jews had to wander in the desert for forty years until they were ready as a people to move from enslavement to freedom. It will be that challenging for people to move from living a politics of materialism to living a politics of meaning.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: pages 12 to 13 - 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) - Excerpts from Reports from the Beijing Women’s conference - Present Time October 1995
Excerpts from Reports from the Beijing Women’s conference - Present Time October 1995. Edited reports.
Published in: Present Time 101, October 1995 - A Thinking About Goal 2
Thinking about Goal 2, by Emily Bloch. Present Time 159, April 2010, page 23 to 24. Specifically, the goal 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 159, April 2010, Liberation(pages 23 to 24) - The Next Stage of Middle-Class Liberation
The Next Stage of Middle-Class Liberation, by Sean Ruth. RC middle-class liberation work has until now dealt mainly with middle-class internalized oppression.
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation: pages 52 to 54 - 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) - Previously Adopted Goals
Goals for the RC Communities, current
Published in: Guidelines - Raised Poor Draft Policy Statement
Raised Poor Draft Policy Statement, by Gwen Brown
Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements - 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 - Goals and Policies
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- 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 - What Are the Needs of Leaders?
What Are the Needs of Leaders?, by Harvey Jackins. They need a chance to report on what they’ve been doing, with the attention of their interested peers. That’s point one on the Wygelian agenda.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Wide World Changing(page 69 to 70) - Recruiting
Published in: Kind, Friendly Universe
- 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 - - Contents Spanish Translations
Translations into Español (Translations into Spanish)
Published in: Spanish - 2022 Goals of the RC Community
Goals for the RC Community.
Published in: 2022 Goals of the RC Community - 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 - Italian Translations
Traduzioni in Italiano (Translations into Italian)
Published in: Italian - Racism, Genocide, and the Environment
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 - 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 - Young Adults
Young Adults, by Emily Bloch. Capitalism has become less stable. Even more than before, it cannot assure people’s safety and security. More of us young adults are realizing that we have to make major changes if we want to thrive in the future.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section37 - A Faculty Union on Strike
A Faculty Union on Strike, by Ellie Brown. I’ve been thinking of you and keeping you close to my heart these past days, as my faculty union went on strike for the first time in our thirty-five-year history. I’m pleased to report that the strike ended with a tentative contract after just three days.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing23 - 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 - Pride in Being Working-Class
Pride in Being Working-Class, by Esti Cohen. This support group consists of all women. It's important for women to be identified with the working-class liberation movement, as well as men, because women have been doing the work of the world for a long time, too.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: page 54 - 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 - Care of the Environment, and RC
Care of the Environment, and RC, by Wytske Visser. A new RC goal for care of the environment (COE) was adopted at the World Conference of the RC Communities in August 2013.
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changingpage 65 to 66 - Why Middle-Class People Should Work On How Bad Things Were
Why Middle-Class People Should Work On How Bad Things Were, by Caroline New. Our True Selves No. 2, pages 28-29.
Published in: Our True Selves 2 - Prospects For RC
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- No Limits Photos at CSW59
Published in: No Limits Photos
- Report on an RC Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya 27th February to 1st March, 1998
Report on an RC Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya 27th February to 1st March, 1998, by Melphy Sakupwanya. Wanjiku Kironyo, the Area Reference Person for Kenya, had expressed concern at the African leaders' meeting in South Africa about the lack of sustainability of RC in Kenya.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 33 to 34 - Learning to Change the Way I Lead
Learning to Change the Way I Lead, by Gina Kellogg. I have been wanting to share some things I learned at the most recent workshop I led for our Region. It was a general workshop on reclaiming power, which I lead yearly.
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Counseling Practice(page 13) - 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 - Building a People of Color Community
Building a People of Color Community by Victor Nicassio RC Teacher 28, page 97. Harvey proposed many years ago that each one of us can build a world community around ourselves. When I first heard it I decided that as a person of Arab heritage I wanted to build a community that was at least half people of color-—something that I hadn’t seen before in RC.
Published in: Teaching RC - A Workshop in Rwanda
A Workshop in Rwanda, by Wanjiku Kironyo. I led an RC workshop in Kigali, Rwanda, in August 2013.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 59 - Teaching About Leading
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- Fundamentals Class Outline #4
Published in: Teaching -
- Table of Contents
Guidelines For The Re-evaluation Counseling Communities Adopted at the August 9 - 14, 2022 World Conference Storrs, Connecticut, USA
Published in: Guidelines 2022 - Important Articles by Harvey Jackins
Published in: Important Articles by Harvey Jackins
- 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 - Organizing Regional and International RC Workshops
Organizing Regional and International RC Workshops
Published in: Workshops Guidelines - Teaching RC
Published in: Teaching RC
- Ending White Racism
Ending White Racism , by Dvora Slavin. I don’t think there could be a better time than now to be doing the work to end white racism. So many things are more visible.
Published in: Present Time 203, April 2021, Liberation39 - Present Time 171, April 2013
Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013
- 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 - 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 - Community Building in Northern Uganda
Community Building in Northern Uganda by Alfred Oryem. I wish I could turn back the clock and write this report with the same enthusiasm I felt at the workshop, but I can’t. Our joyous moments were quickly turned into mourning a day after the workshop by the brutal murder of one of our members, John Brown Odongkara, the brother of Naume Atunu, the Alternate Area Reference Person for Gulu, Uganda. Even so, I must write a report on the young adults’ and leaders’ workshop, led by Wanjiku Kironyo, in Gulu.
Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:73 - The “Wallpaper” of Middle-Class Distresses
The “Wallpaper” of Middle-Class Distresses by Leslie Kausch. I’ve noticed some unaware middle-class distress being rehearsed unchallenged in RC. This makes it harder for others to take up space and be at the center of our project. I’ve seen people of many class backgrounds rehearse it, which makes me think that people can pick up middle-class material even if they weren’t raised (or don’t feel) middle class.
Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation59 - White Allies at the Muslim Workshop
White Allies at the Muslim Workshop, Ginnie Herbert and Katrina Wild. We were two of four white allies who attended the workshop for Muslims led by Azi Khalili, with assistance from Nazish Riaz [see previous four articles]. The other participants were all People of the Global Majority.
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation69 - Actively Taking RC into the Wide World
Actively Taking RC into the Wide World. The following are excerpts from postings—on the RC e-mail discussion lists for leaders of wide world change and leaders of Jews—by people who attended the Actively Taking RC into the Wide World Workshop led by Tim Jackins, in New York, USA, this June.
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing74 - Middle-Class People and the Ending of Class Oppression
Middle-Class People and the Ending of Class Oppression, by Seán Ruth. The system has been able to “recover” for those at the top and continue on only by a massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top, from those least well off [least prosperous] to those most well off.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section31 - 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 - Let’s Reject Division and Use Our Collective Power
Let’s Reject Division and Use Our Collective Power, by Caroline New. An International RC conference for middle-class leaders took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in June 2016. It was led by Seán Ruth, the International Liberation Reference Person for Middle-Class People and organised by Karen Wishart. Its aim was to build a group of organised international middle-class leaders, from all constituencies, committed to working together to end class oppression.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation66 - Human Liberation Requires Full Female Participation
Human Liberation Requires Full Female Participation, by A—. My son is five years old. He is very interested in the jobs people do.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing61 - United to End Racism and Care of the Environment
United to End Racism and Care of the Environment, by Diane Shisk. At the 2013 World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, I gathered a group to discuss the possibility of a United to End Racism project for taking RC, and especially our work on eliminating racism, into the environmental movement.
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing58 - A Student Project on Climate Change
A Student Project on Climate Change by Nancy Faulstich. I recently organized a contest in which local high school students were invited to submit videos, three to ten minutes in length, showing the seriousness of the situation humankind is facing due to climate change but also leaving viewers hopeful about working toward solutions.
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpages 50-51 - We Need to Regain Our Connection
We Need to Regain Our Connection, by Goof Buijs, I attended the Care of the Environment Workshop led by Wytske Visser in the Basque Country.
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:27 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Across the Monolingual Divide
Across the Monolingual Divide, by Carol Rose and Xabi Odriozola Ezeiza Recently I’ve been teaching an RC fundamentals class in Chicago, Illinois, USA, that includes people who know English but not Spanish, and people who know Spanish but not English.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberation(page 23) - 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 - 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 - “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 - A Worldwide Educational Change Leaders' Meeting
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 Growth of RC -- Discussions from the 1993 World Conference
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 - The Benign Reality
The Benign Reality, Katie Kaufman. Summary of the book The Benign Reality
Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Teaching, Leading, Community Building Page 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 - Report on the 1997 World Conference
Report on the 1997 World Conference, by Diane Shisk.
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998, (World Conference: pages 3 to 4) - Introducing a New International Leader for the Environment
Introducing a New International Leader for the Environment, by Wytske Visser. You may have heard that I am the International Liberation Reference Person for the Care of the Environment. I never expected to be chosen and was very surprised to get a telephone call from Harvey.
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Wide World Changing(pages 60 to 61.) - International Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Workshop
Report from a International Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Workshop, by H.M.
Published in: Present Time 101, October 1995, Contents(Pages 45 to 50) - Draft Program for Working-Class Unity
Draft Program for Working-Class Unity, from "Working for a Living" No.4 Nothing of economic value has ever been produced without human labor. Only our labor can create economic wealth.
Published in: Working for a Living 4 - 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 - 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 - Black Liberation and Community Development for this Millennium
Black Liberation and Community Development for this Millennium, by Barbara Love. Black Re-emergence No. 11, pages 5 to 8. BLCD has made a huge difference, both in the capacity of the RC Communities to provide a place of safety for black people and in the capacity of black people to successfully negotiate the RC Communities. Through BLCD, we have put some stuffing in the revolving door of black people coming into and immediately leaving RC.
Published in: Black Re-emergence 11 - Gay Oppression and Racism
Gay Oppression and Racism, by "Lula Mays". a topic group on the intersection of Gay oppression and racism—
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: pages: 23 to 24 - INTERNALIZED RACISM
Published in: Black Reemergence 2
- My History in RC
My History in RC
Published in: Present Time 212, July 2023, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:45 - Translations in Japanese (PDF)
Translations into Japanese
Published in: Japanese - Organizing In-Person Class and Area RC Workshops
Reference Guide for Organizing Class and Area RC Workshops
Published in: Workshops Guidelines - All Commitments
All commitments
Published in: Commitments - Allow Ourselves Time to Grow
Published in: The Human Situation
- First Draft of a Manifesto on Jewish Liberation
First Draft of a Manifesto on Jewish Liberation, by Harvey Jackins. The Upward Trend, pages 359 to 364. Jews are human beings, precisely and in every respect.
Published in: The Upward Trend - "Mental Health" Oppression and Liberation
Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements
- The Elements of Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation
The Elements of Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation, by Harvey Jackins. The basic theory of oppression and liberation. 1975
Published in: The Upward Trend - Young People and Young Adults at the World Conference
Young People and Young Adults at the World Conference, by Mari Piggot. The 2013 World Conference was a super-intense and amazing experience for me. It was so cool to be there with that many experienced RCers from all over the world.
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, TeachingTeaching, Leading, Community Building: page 24 - Sustaining All Life at COP27
Sustaining All Life at COP27 COP27 [the twenty-seventh United Nations conference on climate change] ended with a historic “loss and damage” agreement. This means that in the next twelve months there will be funding for countries facing the worst climate impacts.
Published in: Present Time 210, January 2023, No Section03 - 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 - 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 - Janet Kabue—Our Next International Commonality
Reference Person for Care of the Environment
Janet Kabue—Our Next International Commonality Reference Person for Care of the Environment - A few months ago, Janet Kabue, the Area Reference Person for Nairobi, Kenya, became my apprentice as International Commonality Reference Person (ICRP) for Care of the Environment.
Published in: Present Time PT 206, January 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:70 - Attacks, the RC Community,
and Working to Build a Rational Society
Attacks, the RC Community, and Working to Build a Rational Society
Published in: Present Time 204, July 2021, No Section05 - Present Time No. 112 July 1998
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998
- Sample Solicitation Letters
Published in: Foundation
- Organizing to Have a Decisive Impact
Organizing to Have a Decisive Impact
Published in: Present Time 200, July 2020, Wide World Changing43 - 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 - Come and Join Us at a Sunrise Center Workshop!
Come and Join Us at a Sunrise Center Workshop! by Joan MacKenzie. One important project initiated by RCers is the Sunrise Center Project. It is aimed at giving people the resources they need to gain freedom from psychiatric drugs. It is not part of the RC Community, but it is very important.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice10 - An Area Reference Persons’ Workshop
An Area Reference Persons’ Workshop, by M'Lis Bartlett and John Carroll. ...it was a treat to discharge with other Area Reference Persons and people leading unorganized areas.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:18 - Organizing Domestic Workers
Organizing Domestic Workers, by anonymous. Domestic workers are people who are employed (and sometimes live) in private homes and work primarily as cleaners, nannies, and eldercare workers.
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Wide World Changing53 - The Situation Is Favorable
The Situation Is Favorable by Harvey Jackins. The world situation is very difficult for large numbers of people in every country in the world. The increasing collapse of the society is imposing intense hardships upon them.
Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing77 - A Garage Sale for BLCD
A Garage Sale for BLCD, by Cindy Dimmitt. I led an effort in Chicago (Illinois, USA) to raise money for the Black Liberation and Community Development Workshop (BLCD). A young adult, Anne Watanabe, assisted me and inspired me every step of the way with her enthusiasm for this project.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:64 - Building and Rebuilding in Northern Uganda
Building and Rebuilding in Northern Uganda, by Alfred Oryem. Since the 1990s, RC in Northern Uganda has come a long way. It all began with Mrs. Rebecca Abitimo Odongkara (Mama Abitimo, as we call her)—a woman of great passion, with a huge heart. In times of political unrest and violent change of governments, her motherland became unsafe for her, and she found her way to the United States.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:57 - 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 - 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 - Diane Balser—International Liberation Reference Person for Women
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Joanne Bray—International Liberation Reference Person for Catholics
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Heather Hay — International Liberation Reference Person for Musicians Liberation
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Mari Piggott—International Liberation Reference Person for Young People
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Teresa Enrico—International Liberation Reference Person for Pilipinos/as and Pacific Islanders
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Commitments for Care-of-the-Environment Activists
Commitments for Care-of-the-Environment Activists, Multiple. From the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders in the care of the environment Diane Shisk (the Alternate International Reference Person for the RC Communities) suggested that I think about a commitment for care-of-the-environment activists. What popped into my mind right away was this: Always remember to do the work in close connection with all fellow humans.
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing60 - 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 - Översättningar som efterlyses
Translations into Swedish
Published in: Swedish - A Special Workshop
A Special Workshop , by Marilyn Robb. It sometimes happens that a group of brilliant, committed educational-change leaders figure out how to be together and not let anything stand in the way—even when the leader cannot get to the workshop site.
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:29 - Jews
Jews, by Cherie Brown. In RC Jewish liberation work, we claim proudly that Jews are members of every race and have been citizens of many nations. Some of us may wish for a simple definition of “good guys” and “bad guys,” but anti-Jewish oppression requires a more complex analysis.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section53 - Pacific Islander and Pilipino/a-Heritage People
Pacific Islander and Pilipino/a-Heritage People, Teresa Enrico. Indigenous people have occupied islands in the Pacific for tens of thousands of years. Each group has a unique culture, language, and way of surviving. Each island has a rich and complex history.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section11 - Women
Women, by Diane Balser. Our collapsing society is having a tremendous effect on all groups, especially on women and on working people, poor people, and people targeted by racism, genocide, and colonialism—groups that women are a significant percentage of.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section73 - Musicians
Musicians, by Heather Hay. All of us can reclaim ourselves as musicians. We can reclaim making music as part of our creative humanness and use music to meet the challenges facing humanity. When musicians bring beauty into an increasingly “mechanized” world, it is revolutionary.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section47 - Young People
Young People, by Mari Piggott. It is hard to say what issue facing the world is not a key issue for young people. Young people are part of every constituency (except the other constituencies related to age). Therefore, every major world issue affects us, or will soon.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section36 - Present Time 175, April 2014
Table of Contents for Present Time 175, April 2014
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014 - A Great Opportunity to Gather as Women
A Great Opportunity to Gather as Women, by Brook Broughton. Last Sunday afternoon I held a women’s gathering at my house. I had been planning to do it since right after the U.S. presidential election, when I’d gone to several all-women’s gatherings and seen the need to share the tool of RC.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:80 - An Overview of No Limits for Women
An Overview of No Limits for Women, Diane Balser. No Limits for Women is an international organization of women (with men as allies) dedicated to eliminating sexism throughout the world. Using the tools of Re-evaluation Counseling, No Limits offers a system of ongoing mutual support in which women can help free each other from the emotional harm done by sexism.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing20 - Recovering and Reclaiming Our Roots
Recovering and Reclaiming Our Roots, Juan Manuel Feito Guerrero. I ask that we consider committing ourselves to the following personal work for the next two years. It will give all of us—Indigenous people, People of the Global Majority, and white people—a foundation for and a bigger perspective on our work in Sustaining All Life.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Counseling Practice56 - Decide to Lead
Decide to Lead, by Margie Doyle Papadopoulou. Last Saturday I met with my continuing RC class. I have told them that I have decided to see them all as leaders, regardless of how they define themselves.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing26 - Some of RC’s Contributions to Social Change
Some of RC’s Contributions to Social Change, from Logical Thinking About a Future Society, by Harvey Jackins. The theory of Re-evaluation Counseling has made and will continue to make important contributions to the theory and practice of social change.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing37 - Talking About Oppressor Material Outside of RC
Talking about Oppressor Material, Outside of RC, Karl Lam. At a non-RC conference for activists, Alima Adams and I led a one-and-a-half-hour workshop called “Perspectives and Tools for Overcoming Divisions within Progressive Movements.”
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016 - Highlights and Challenges at COP21
Highlights and Challenges at COP21; The following twelve articles are about the Sustaining All Life project at the recent United Nations climate talks in Paris, France.
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing70 - Making Good Use of Pope Francis’s Visit
Making Good Use of Pope Francis’s Visit, by Ellie Hidalgo. Many U.S. Catholic churches involved in community organizing with poor and working-class people have used Pope Francis’s visit as an opportunity to gather, listen to what the Pope has to say, and listen to one another.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing23 - 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 - A Successful Protest
A Successful Protest, by Randy Smith. Report of a protest involving an oil exploration vessel in Portland.
Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing43 - Young People and Care of the Environment
Young People and Care of the Environment, by Mari Piggott. I talked about the dual and contradictory messages that young people’s oppression gives us on this topic.
Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:15 - We Need Them and They Need Us
We Need Them and They Need Us, Bob Gomez, I recently attended the first-ever Area Reference Persons of the Global Majority Workshop.
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:24 - Working on the “New Initiative on Ending Classism”
Working on the “New Initiative on Ending Classism”
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation:page 68 - No Limits, at the Beijing +20 Women’s Forum
No Limits, at the Beijing +20 Women’s Forum, by Diane Balser. Twenty years ago, a delegation of three hundred RC women (and a few men) attended the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, in Beijing, China. We came away with a new understanding of global women’s oppression and liberation.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, ContentsCounseling PracticePages 3 to 4 - Calling on All Catholic Women of the Global Majority
Calling on All Catholic Women of the Global Majority by Bo-Young Lim. The women at the recent Catholic women’s workshop led by Joanne Bray were of different class backgrounds, ages, sexual identities, races, and ethnicities.
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberationpage 51 - 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) - Leading and Learning in El Salvador
Leading and Learning in El Salvador, by Victor Nicassio. The RC gatherings were the first events of their kind I had led outside of southern California. They were good for my re-emergence. I would like to go back and see if I can continue to be a useful ally. Doing working-class work in a Latin American context is also helpful to me in my Community building in Los Angeles.
Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:85(page 85) - 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) - Really Thinking about RC
Really Thinking about RC by Karl Lam. As one way of increasing our ability to think freshly, I’ve been suggesting to Co-Counsellors in my Region1 that we learn to thoughtfully question everything we think and do, including what we think and do in RC.
Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Counseling Practicepages 7-9 - White Working-Class Women and Anti-Jewish Oppression
White Working-Class Women and Anti-Jewish Oppression
Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:53 - Enthusiasm in Turkey
Enthusiasm in Turkey, by Asli, sema, Nurdan, Feyza, Bilge, Dave, Saime, Hayrunisa. Reviewing and practicing the theory of Co-Counseling filled us with positive feelings during the weekend. There was an introductory meeting attended by new people where we refreshed our knowledge of RC.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: page 57 - RC Early Sexual Memories Workshop Notes/Reminders/Helpful Hints for Support Group Leaders (and all other counselors)
Published in: Present Time 84, July 1991
- Graduation Day
Published in: Present Time 61, October 1985
- Present Time No. 108 July 1997
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997
- People Targeted for Destruction
People Targeted for Destruction by Veronica LaCrue
Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberationpages 6972 - My Efforts to Transform the Economic System
My Efforts to Transform the Economic System, by E—. The following is what I’ve done to direct my mind and my life toward transforming the economic system. Really, I’ve devoted my life to this.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: pages 61 to 63 - The Good and the Great in Art
The Good and the Great in Art, by Harvey Jackins. The Benign Reality, pages 97 to 112. The oppressive society communicates to all of us a certain set of attitudes, or pseudo-theory, about art and artists. These attitudes and descriptions, reiterated in the media and schools, are often accepted for lack of any thoughtful alternative explanation of the role of art and artists.
Published in: Benign Reality - Eliminating "Segregation" Vigorously and Concretely
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Some Thoughts About RCers Attending Wide-World Activities Led by Co-Counselors
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Ronnie Rafferty
Published in: Present Time 119, April 2000
- 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 - Polly Allen
Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Harvey Page 55
- Ongoing Work with Young People
Ongoing Work with Young People, by Jenny Sazama. Description of the project of working with young people called the Resource Center for Youth and Their Allies.
Published in: Present Time 106, January 1997, Wide World Changingpages 46 to 48 - Broad Growth in Oregon
Broad Growth in Oregon, by Teresa Enrico. Things are going well here in Portland. My Area is rapidly moving toward dividing. I suspect we will be ready to do so in the early fall, or at the latest by the end of the year.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 43 to 44 - A Fresh Look at Men and Women
A Fresh Look at Men and Women, by Linda Oxley. I've just returned from the Australian RC Men's Workshop led by Paul Whyte. Before the workshop, I had feelings that I was not a good ally to men.
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(pages 35 to 37) - RC Belongs to the Working Class
RC Belongs to the Working Class, by Yael Savage. What is true for all other types of oppression is also true for working-class oppression-that it is better to work on the oppression with other members of the oppressed group before working on it with people outside the group.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, (From the Mail: page 81) - The West Coast USA Asian Liberation Workshop
The West Coast USA Asian Liberation Workshop, by Leslie Ishii. Jan introduced the idea of having close relationships with people of our own heritage. We discussed and discharged about: building a liberation movement for ourselves, being visible leaders, and attacks and criticism.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberation(page 67) - 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) - 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) - Discharging Male Oppression
Discharging Male Oppression by, Julian Weissglass. Over the past few weeks I have been counseling on male oppression using the role exchange method. It is amazing what is coming up-events that I was vaguely aware of but had never counseled on rigorously before.
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: page 76) - 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) - 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) - Women's Liberation and Environmental Transformation
Women's Liberation and Environmental Transformation, by Irene HongPing Shen & Diane Balser. Women are naturally the champions of an environmentally safe world. However, few people automatically make the connection between women’s liberation and environmental transformation. Land and other natural resources have been turned into commodities and property to be owned and used for profit.
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changing(pages 80 to 81) - 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) - 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) - 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 Baobab Area—for People of Color
The Baobab Area—for People of Color. RC Teacher 29, page 26.
Published in: Teaching RC - A Call to Action on Climate Change
A Call to Action on Climate Change, by Madeleine Para. "...our thinking and must receive concentrated attention in this current period regardless of how little we feel ready to deal with it” and that “it is plain at this point that we will solve all other problems, given our present state of emergence, if we are permitted enough time to do so.
Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012, Wide World Changing: page 75 - Building a Co-Counseling Community in Ivory Coast
Building a Co-Counseling Community in Ivory Coast, by Cyrille Zounon. I came to Togo as a refugee that April. Two weeks after I arrived, I met Missigbe and RC Togo.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 58 - Batir une Communautte de Co-ecoute en Cote dIvoire
Batir une Communaute de Co-ecoute en Cote d'Ivoire, (A Co-counseling Community in Ivory Coast) by Cyrille Zounon. Je me suis retrouvé au Togo comme réfugié en avril de cette année-là. Deux semaines après, je rencontrais Missigbe et la RC-Togo.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 57 - A Session Every Time I’m Restimulated
A Session Every Time I’m Restimulated, by "Henry Church." As a leader, I know I am scared, but sometimes I can’t feel my fear or remember to work on it.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: pages 13 to 14 - Ending Classism
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- The African Pre-World Conference Conference
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- The Internalized Oppression of Latin American Catholics
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- The Joys of Organizing and Leading Small Workshops
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- The Latin American Conference from the Mexican Point of View
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- The Latin American Pre-World-Conference Conference September 19-21,1997
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- Counseling on Early Sexual Memories
Published in: Pamphlets
- Topics to Cover in Fundamentals Class
Published in: Teaching -
- Workshops
Published in: Workshops Guidelines
- Nederlandse vertalingen
Vertalingen in het Nederlands/Translations into Dutch
Published in: Dutch - Re-evaluation Counseling Online Fundamentals Class
Online RC classes and Self-study RC classes are available.
Published in: Fundamentals - RC Theory
Published in: RC Theory
- EWR Workshop List
A renewed effort for Eliminating White Racism.
Published in: Workshops Guidelines - The Re-evaluation Foundation
Published in: Foundation
- RC List Servers
Published in: Lists -
- 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 - Now Available! 2022 Guidelines
Now Available! The 2022 Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities
Published in: Present Time - Jobs for Participants at RC Workshops
Published in: Workshops Guidelines
- An Empowering Experience
An Empowering Experience, by Tami Shamir. Attending the World Conference was an empowering experience. I want to share three gifts (out of the many) this experience brought to me
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 22 to 23 - Parents and the Climate Crisis
By Marya Axner, RC International Liberation Reference Person for Parents
Published in: Present Time, Wide World Changing84 - The Human Situation
Published in: The Human Situation
- 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 - Handling Oppressive Behavior in RC
Handling Oppressive Behavior in RC, Diane Shisk. At the 2017 World Conference and again in 2022 we strengthened our Guideline on “Handling Disagreement, Criticism, and Upset” to make it clear that it should also be used for handling the acting out of oppressor distress. We have a strong culture in RC of not acting out distress recordings at one another, of treating each other well, of acting as allies to one another against all forms of oppression.
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:32 - Resources on COE work
Published in: Environment -
- 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 - Priorities for Translation
Published in: Translations
- Being Alternate International Reference Person as Me
Being Alternate International Reference Person as Me . Hello! Kamusta! Osiyo! Wĩmwega! ¡Hola! Aloha! Habari! Bonjour! Hafa Adai! I am pleased to meet you, extend my hand and smile, and offer you a warm hug (or an elbow or a foot, as we have done in COVID). I would love to know how you would like to be greeted—from where you are, your people.
Published in: Present Time 209, October 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:05 - Summary of and Context for
the Sexual Misconduct Guideline
Summary of and Context for the Sexual Misconduct Guideline. Guideline M.5., Handling Oppressor Patterns, Including Sexual Misconduct, and Addressing Mistakes, Disagreements, and Criticism, was adopted by the RC World Conference in August 2022.
Published in: Present Time 209, October 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:07 - 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 - People under
Age Thirty-Five,
and Classism
People under Age Thirty-Five, and Classism - I am interested in the thinking of people under age thirty-five about classism. I attend both middle-class and working-class workshops—and I don’t see a lot of us!
Published in: Present Time 208, July 2022, Liberation36 - A New Goal on the Climate
to Help Us Move Forward Rapidly
A New Goal on the Climate to Help Us Move Forward Rapidly - This is the year of the World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities—a time when we think about the Goals for the RC Community. We can keep the following in mind as we consider our Goals:
Published in: Present Time 208, July 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:09 - Thinking About Transgender People
Thinking about Transgender People, by Jeanne d'Arc
Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012 - Ending Capitalism
Ending Capitalism . “Breaking out of capitalist society is necessary, not only for the improvement of human living and thinking, but for human survival.” Harvey Jackins, Logical Thinking About a Future Society (1990), page 13.
Published in: Present Time 207, April 2022, Wide World Changing41 - Parents and the Climate Crisis
Parents and the Climate Crisis - Successfully dealing with the climate crisis is at the front and center for parents. The reason is clear: Their children’s and grandchildren’s futures depend on it!
Published in: Present Time, Publications - Pleased to Be Moving Toward Becoming International Commonality Reference Person for Care of the Environment
Pleased to Be Moving Toward Becoming International Commonality Reference Person for Care of the Environment - In 2015, I attended my first International Care of the Environment Workshop. It was led by Wytske Visser and took place in Donostia-San Sebastián in the Basque Country.
Published in: Present Time PT 206, January 2022, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:71 - Jews and Care of the Environment
Jews and Care of the Environment, by JG. Cherie invited us to consider that as a people who have survived genocide and have always had to be ready to leave any land we live on (at least in our distress recordings), we may not be able to work to save the land because we haven’t decided that we belong there.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing25 - Responding to the Continuing
Development of the COVID Pandemic
Responding to the Continuing Development of the COVID Pandemic
Published in: Present Time 204, July 2021, No Section03 - 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 - United to End Racism
Published in: United to End Racism
- “I Choose to Live My Life to the Fullest”
“I Choose to Live My Life to the Fullest,” by B. I had occasion to lose many loved ones during the second wave of COVID-19, and I almost lost my wife due to a head-on collision with a truck whilst she was coming back from one of the funerals. At one point I lost two aunts and two brothers all within the space of four weeks.
Published in: Present Time 203, April 2021, Counseling Practice03 - Outline Online Class Updated
Published in: Fundamentals
- Op meer dan één vlak
Om effectief over een groep na te denken, moet dat op ten minste drie vlakken gebeuren. Ten eerste moeten we over de groep als geheel nadenken. Een groep mensen is een andere eenheid dan ieder individu afzonderlijk. Een groep bestaat uit de mensen van die groep, maar functioneert volgens andere wetten dan een individu. We hebben hier het nodige over geleerd. We hebben geleerd hoe we een goede bijeenkomst kunnen houden, hoe we een goede discussie kunnen voeren, hoe we ervoor kunnen zorgen dat iedereen aan het woord komt. We hebben geleerd om te streven naar consensus in plaats van besluiten te nemen op basis van ‘de meeste stemmen gelden’. Er valt natuurlijk nog meer te leren. Er moet over een groep als groep nagedacht worden.
Published in: Dutch - More Than One Dimension
More Than One Dimension
Published in: Present Time 201, October 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:64 - 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 - “Sound Bites” on the Climate Crisis
“Sound Bites” on the Climate Crisis , by Marcie Rendon. Starting in 2019 I was asked by a local radio station, KRSM 98.9 FM, if I would be willing to record one-minute sound bites for the station to air.
Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing60 - Music as a Powerful Tool
Music as a Powerful Tool, by Heather Hay. Along with my friend and fellow musician Rosemary, I decided to organize a musical flash mob* on the day before the September 2019 Climate Strike, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to bring people’s attention to the strike.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing77 - Persisting with a Correct Policy
Persisting with a Correct Policy, by Jacqui Gibson-Clark. My daughter attended a Catholic school. Somehow, when I was reviewing the school, I missed the fact that it had a Sioux mascot. [The Sioux are a large group of Indigenous tribes originally from what is now the north-central part of the United States.]
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing69 - “I Want This Nonsense of Oppressions to End”
“I Want This Nonsense of Oppressions to End” , by "Betty Boothroyd". I hardly want to talk about the multitude of ways that male domination has affected me. It feels like talking about it is rude, too much, disgusting, attention seeking—all the things I’ve been told to make me shut up [be quiet] about it. I feel like I will be killed if I open up. I think many raised-poor women can barely look at or tell their stories.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation55 - Some Directions for Allies to Large Women
Some Directions for Allies to Large Women, by Jackie Kane. The RC Large Women’s Health Project will be celebrating its fifteenth year this spring.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation41 - “This Workshop Was My Dream Come True”
“This Workshop Was My Dream Come True”, by Nikki Stewart. I live at the intersection of fat oppression and women’s oppression. But as I stepped out on behalf of my liberation, things in my life that had seemed intractable moved.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation39 - 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 - Teaching RC in a Time of Collapse
Teaching RC in a Time of Collapse , by Diane Shisk. I am very happy to have the tools of RC, to be part of this big Community of people who are fighting for a better world from a base of connection and liberation, and to have the internal resource to push hard for what I think is right.
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:19 - Fundraising for the Re-evaluation Foundation
Fundraising for the Re-evaluation Foundation. Examples of successful projects and things to try. And what not to do.
Published in: Foundation - An E-mail List for Protestant Liberation
An E-mail List for Protestant Liberation by Barbara Boring. I am writing to let you know about a new RC e-mail discussion list for Protestant liberation. This is an important time for those of us who are Protestant to share with each other what we’re figuring out about activism, discharging our chronic distresses, and more.
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation51 - Present Time 178, January 2015
Present Time 178, January 2015 - Table of Contents
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015 - 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 - Becoming Warriors for Climate and Economic Justice
Becoming Warriors for Climate and Economic Justice by Dave Ratzlow. Diane Shisk (the Alternate International Reference Person for the RC Communities) led a Care of the Environment and Eliminating Classism Workshop this May in Warwick, New York, USA. It was a spirited workshop, inspiring us to overcome what gets in our way of being warriors for climate and economic justice.
Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing75 - 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 - 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 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 - Being a Leader of Women
Being a Leader of Women, by Anonymous. I have been working on “gender.” I am a heterosexual female partnered with a man and am raising a three-year-old daughter. I am around a lot of people who identify as Transgender and genderqueer. The Trans liberation movement is quite visible in many parts of my life. I’ve had to figure out how to talk to my daughter about all that she is encountering around gender.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation86 - Continuing to Expand My Work (Bonus—My Life Gets Better!)
Continuing to Expand My Work (Bonus—My Life Gets Better!), by Nancy Faulstich. Things are moving ahead well. One idea has led to another. One person has led me to another person. It’s lovely to see how the slow process of building relationships has led to tangible results.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing25 - Immigrants of the Global Majority
Immigrants of the Global Majority, by Maya Rege-Colt. Barely a month after the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, about forty immigrants and children of immigrants of the Global Majority gathered for a workshop I led in Charlton, Massachusetts, USA. It is always good for immigrants and children of immigrants to be together and discharge—and it was particularly timely and necessary at this particular time.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation75 - South, Central, and West Asian Men
South, Central, and West Asian Men, by Bishu Chattopadhyay. The recent South, Central, and West Asian Men’s Workshop in New York City (New York, USA) was the first of its kind. Azi Khalili (the International Liberation Reference Person for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People) led the workshop. Ten or so men participated, including two of us who attended online from Los Angeles (California, USA).
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation80 - Two Women’s Workshops in Russia
Two Women’s Workshops in Russia, by Susanne Langer. In December 2017 I led two women’s workshops in Russia—one for non-RC women and one for RC women in Anna Skvortsova’s Region. Anna Skvortsova is the Regional Reference Person for Russia. She and I have developed a close and important relationship over the years. Both of us have worked at bringing the tools of RC to the wide world.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:62 - White Working-Class RCers and Allies
White Working-Class RCers and Allies, by Anne-Claire Broughton. I am a white, middle-class, Protestant Southerner and an RC teacher in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Our developing RC Area has been predominantly middle and owning class and until recently all white. After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I noticed that some of the working-class Co-Counselors in the Area were having a hard time. I proposed to three of them that we have a class for white working-class people and allies.
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation81 - Sexual Exploitation and the New Guideline
Sexual Exploitation and the New Guideline by Anna van Heeswijk. At the recent Western European Leaders’ Workshop in the Netherlands, Susanne Langer, Eva Amundsdotter, Leah Thorn, and I led an early-morning topic group on sexual exploitation and the addition to the Requirements of RC Teachers (Guideline D.2.)
Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:77 - Julian Weissglass—International Communality Reference Person for Wide World Change
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Joanie Parker—International Liberation Reference Person for Union Activists
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Janet Foner— International Liberation Reference Person for “Mental Health” Liberation
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Jan Yoshiwara—International Liberation Reference Person for Japanese and Okinawan Heritage People
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- 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 - Using Discharge to Heal from a Concussion
Using Discharge to Heal from a Concussion
Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice - 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 - Introduction to the 2017 Guidelines
Introduction to the 2017 Guidelines
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:29 - The 2017 Guidelines
The 2017 Guidelines
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:28 - A New DVD:No Limits for Women—Beijing Plus 20
No Limits for Women—Beijing Plus 20
Published in: Present Time, No Section48 - A Good Experience with Civil Disobedience
A Good Experience with Civil Disobedience, Russ Vernon-Jones. Recently my partner, Lydia, and I chose to be arrested as part of a group doing civil disobedience to stop the building of a new fracked-gas pipeline. We blocked an access road to part of Otis State Forest, in Massachusetts, USA, which temporarily stopped the construction company from moving equipment and materials to the site where it planned to cut down beautiful old trees.
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing59 - Building a New Community in Italy
Building a New Community in Italy, Caroline New. The latest phase of building a new RC Community in Italy (mostly in the north) has been going on [happening] for ten years now, led by Emmy Rainwalker, a USer of Italian heritage. Emmy has been leading workshops at least once a year as well as referencing the Community. We now have an accredited Italian teacher, Gianna Beltrame
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:34 - “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 - 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 - 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 - Less Violence
Less Violence, by Wytske Visser & Rod Mitchell. Last week I found a paper based on a book by Steven Pinker called The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. It said that humankind is moving toward ending war and violence worldwide.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing46 - Palestine and Israel, and U.S. Allies
Palestine and Israel, and U.S. Allies by Lior Vered. I am an Israeli Mizrahi Jew currently living in the United States. Time and time again [repeatedly], I have seen USer patterns get in the way of thinking about the war and occupation in my home country. I decided to write a list of directions for U.S. allies who are trying to think about Israelis and Palestinians:
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing71 - Leading in RC and in the Wide World
Leading in RC and in the Wide World by Harvey Jackins. Re-evaluation Counseling leaders are encouraged to lead within the Re-evaluation Counseling Community [and] at the same time to lead in the wide world.
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing73 - 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 - Teaching Each Other in a Community Class
Teaching Each Other in a Community Class , by Karl Lam. I have organised a project in which each person teaches a class on the fundamentals of RC to everyone else in the Community. The purpose is to give people experience in teaching fundamentals, so we become more able to help RC grow.
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:27 - “Together We Can Stop This Senseless Destruction”
“Together We Can Stop This Senseless Destruction” by "Henry Church". I’ve decided to write to you about something that has been on my mind, about how my family has been used to scare you into cooperating with the oppressive society. It takes a lot to terrify people into conforming to a society based on exploitation and disregard for human life. Human beings are so full of fight [so eager to fight] that you have to either do horrible things to them or make them witness horrible things in order to keep them in line [make them conform].
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation57 - Add for Middle Class pamphlet
Ending Class Oppression: A Draft Liberation Policy for Middle-Class People
Published in: Present Time, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:22 - Changing the World from Bologna
Changing the World from Bologna by, anonymous. I have been discharging fear for four months . . . I am a scared man . . . sono un uomo terrorizzato. I understood that I was by myself for the first time at elementary school. I was scared of the other children. In that period my mother started working again, so she was less available than before.
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, From the Mail: page 72 - United to End Racism
About UER
Published in: United to End Racism - 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 - 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 - 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 - Union Activists
Union Activists, by Joanie Parker. Because workers are engaged in the direct production of goods and services essential to the economy, the unions that represent them have the most leverage to bring about social change. Unions have used their power not only to influence workplace issues but also to elect progressive political leaders and advocate for immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, accessible housing, health care, care of the environment, and more.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section66 - “Mental Health” Liberation
“Mental Health” Liberation, by Janet Foner. Our ability to handle the current crises and build a new society is intimately tied to overcoming the harshness of “mental health” oppression. The enforced holding back of discharge, the terror installed by the oppression, and the pressure to be “normal” make it hard to think about the big changes that need to be made.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section60 - Korean-Heritage People
Korean-Heritage People, by Teresa Enrico. Hong Ik In Gan—to live for the benefit/betterment of all humankind. Centuries ago Korea’s first kingdom was founded on this principle, and it has shaped our people’s development for over five thousand years.
Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section17 - 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 - United to End Racism (UER) at the White Privilege Conferences (WPC)
Published in: United to End Racism
- United to End Racism (UER) at the Tule Lake Pilgrimage
Published in: United to End Racism
- Appreciation for Black Re-emergence
Appreciation for Black Re-emergence, by Brian Lavendel. Sometimes I like to sit with a piece of inspiring reading while I eat a breakfast of toast and tea. Today I had the good fortune of reaching for a copy of Black Re-emergence No. 12, copies of which had been made available to us at our Regional workshop last month—led, I might add, by LG Shanklin-Flowers, one of our organization’s African-heritage Regional Reference Persons.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Liberation62 - “Good for Business”
“Good for Business,” by Caroline New. Diane Balser [the International Liberation Reference Person for Women] has said that when the misogyny in the U.S. presidential campaign became even more open, it was “good for business”—the business of women’s liberation. I think the same applies generally. Although the election result will lead to bad, oppressive things in the short term, the game isn’t over.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing42 - Men Must Stand against Male Domination
Men Must Stand against Male Domination, by Chris Austill. The U.S. presidential election has brought into public view the intense sexism and male domination that pervade our society. It is important for men to take a stand against them.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing44 - Sharing My Thinking on How to Build a Movement
Sharing My Thinking on How to Build a Movement, by Bo-Young Lim. All year since the Sustaining All Life project at COP21 in Paris (France), I’ve been thinking about how to bring RC tools to wide world activists. Recently a leader in my monetary reform activist group asked me to share my thinking on how a movement is built.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing31 - Teaching RC to High School Students
Teaching RC to High School Students, by Mary Pearson. patterns and the importance of being listened to well. Students came to me with problems they were having, and I had many opportunities to listen to both boys and girls crying.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing32 - When “Normal” Ends
When “Normal” Ends, by Betsy Ames. With the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, I keep going back to the question, “Who will lead when ‘normal’ ends?” A lot of illusions are being stripped away for a lot of us right now. “Normal” is ending.
Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing36 - An RC Class for Nigerian Nuns
An RC Class for Nigerian Nuns, by Kingsley Ibekwe. I am excited to report on the first RC class at the Mission Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Convent School Ugwuoba, near Awka, Nigeria, on 29 October, 2016. A team of six RC teachers from the Enugu, Awka, and Unizik Communities arrived a few minutes past noon and met the young nuns, who were happy and eager to meet us.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:82 - A Wonderful Young People’s Workshop
A Wonderful Young People’s Workshop, by Brian Lavendel. Last night we had a young adults’ class at our home, and my daughter Lea joined us for the first few minutes. I can’t recall her ever being as vocal and engaged in an RC group!
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:83 - Bringing Raised-Poor and Working-Class People into RC
Bringing Raised-Poor and Working-Class People into RC, by Randy Karr. I am so glad I attended the Working Together to End Classism Workshop (in November 2016, in Maryland, USA), led by the four wonderful International Liberation Reference Persons for class liberation. Dan Nickerson led the overall workshop with a focus on implementing the New Initiative on Ending Classism that can be found in the July 2014 Present Time.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:76 - I Finally Understand My People
I Finally Understand My People, by Sheila Fairon. Marcie Rendon, the International Liberation Reference Person for Native Americans, came to Ireland to do a workshop. I believe the intention was to identify Indigenous communities beyond those already recognised in our International RC Community.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation53 - 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 - Standing with Standing Rock
Standing with Standing Rock, by J—. I am a sixty-six-year-old white Ashkenazi Jewish woman with lots of Indigenous and Global Majority nieces and nephews. I just spent six days in North Dakota, standing with the Standing Rock Nation at Sacred Stone Camp.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing18 - The Consequences of a New Spanish President
The Consequences of a New Spanish President, by Juan Manuel Feito Guerrero. Last week a new president took office in Spain. He and his organization have an ideology that comes from the Franco dictatorship and Nazism, and his party and some supporters still defend this.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing33 - Trying New Things
Trying New Things, by Bo-Young Lim. So much has happened since I saw you at the Eastern Canada Workshop in May and then again at the Asian Liberation Workshop in August. For some time you have encouraged us to try stuff, try new stuff, try stuff we’re not sure we’ll succeed at, try stuff with others, try and try again.
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing22 - A Bold Elder is a Superhero
A Bold Elder Is a Superhero, by Amy Kalisher. The leader of my Area elders’ support group asked for my thinking about how care of the environment ties logically to the issues of elders.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing - A Glimpse Outside of Male Domination
A Glimpse Outside of Male Domination, by Jay Raymond. I was one of nineteen men who attended the Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation84 - Attacks
Attacks; Tim Jackins and others at a leaders’ workshop in Warwick, New York, USA, December 2015
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing:32 - A Week in El Salvador
A Week in El Salvador, by Victor Nicassio. I got back to Los Angeles (California, USA) last night after a week of RC in El Salvador. Things went even better than they did last year.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:47 - 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 - Jews and the Oppressed/Oppressor Dynamic
Jews and the Oppressed/Oppressor Dynamic, by Cherie Brown. For us Jews, understanding our oppressed/oppressor dynamic is a key to working on all of our Jewish material (distress), including that related to racism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation67 - A Latina Liberation Workshop
A Latina Liberation Workshop, by Maritza Arrastia. Fifty Latinas came together in January 2016 for the East Coast USA Latina Liberation Workshop.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:77 - Black Re-emergence No. 12
Black Re-emergence No. 12. The new issue of Black Re-emergence (Black Re-emergence No. 12) celebrates thirty years of Black Liberation and Community Development (BLCD) Workshops.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation24 - Listening and Organizing on Campus
Listening and Organizing on Campus, by Ellie Brown. U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke on my campus at West Chester University yesterday.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing64 - Logical Thinking about a Future Society
Logical Thinking about a Future Society, by Harvey Jackins. Today, almost everything about capitalist society is unworkable.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing56 - “One of the Best Workshops I’ve Been To”
“One of the Best Workshops I’ve Been To” by Shani Fletcher. Black Gentiles and Jews Workshop. It was held in Maryland, USA, and was led by Barbara Love and Cherie Brown.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation24 - Put the Person First
Put the Person First, Chen Pingjun and Barbara Love. I might have chosen not to stay in RC, due to restimulations, if I hadn’t been one of the few pioneers in spreading RC in China.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:74 - The Work for White People
The Work for White People, by Elizabeth Saunders. At the Eliminating Racism in the Environmental Movement Workshop,* my role was to talk directly to the white people about working on our racism.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing51 - 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 - Ending Racism, and Divisions among Native People
Ending Racism, and Divisions among Native People, by Shelley Macy. Encouraged by things Marcie Rendon3 and Barbara Boring4 have said, I looked at how I had been targeted by racism to some extent but how for generations genocide had been the primary oppression aimed at my family.
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:45 - Middle-Class Liberation and the Intersection of Racism and Classism
Middle-Class Liberation and the Intersection of Racism and Classism, by JeeYeun Lee. That made me think about what it would look like to put people of the global majority and ending racism at the center of middle-class liberation work.
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation21 - Middle-Class Workshops in Australia
Middle-Class Workshops in Australia, by Mag Merrilees. Because both workshops included people from different class backgrounds, we had the opportunity to show more of ourselves across class “barriers.”
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation20 - Remembering Goal Number One in RC
Remembering Goal Number One in RC, by "Gregory Peck." This RC goal is a vital part of a more comprehensive strategy, ultimately aimed at eliminating all oppressions.
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation15 - Sessions on Climate Change, and Becoming More Aware
Sessions on Climate Change, and Becoming More Aware, by Wytske Visser. Where I live, in Fryslân, the Netherlands, we had the warmest month of December ever.
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing53 - Applying RC in My Life
Applying RC in My Life, by Jane Lucy Wambui Gachihi. I love RC very much. Maybe because of that, in everything that I do I bring the tool of RC.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:59 - Counseling U.S. Jews on Events in Israel and Palestine
Counseling U.S. Jews on Events in Israel and Palestine, by Dan Alter. Recently my Regional Jewish leaders’ group spent some time discharging on the recent outbreak of violence in Jerusalem (Israel) and surrounds. As I counseled the five of us, a general issue became clear.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:55 - 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 - Highlights from the October Kenya Workshop
Highlights from the October Kenya Workshop, by Urbain Bamama. A teachers’ and leaders’ workshop took place in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2015. It was organized by Wanjiku Kironyo and her committee and led by Barbara Love, assisted by Fela Barclift.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:47 - Knowing Each Other More Fully
Knowing Each Other More Fully, by Tim Jackins. A lot of experienced RCers use only Co-Counseling to build their relationships. Their knowledge of each other is based only on their sessions.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Counseling Practice40 - 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 - Responding to Recent Events in Israel
Responding to Recent Events in Israel, by Tami Shamir. Thank you, all who have written on this list about recent events in Israel.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing25 - Already Thinking More Clearly
Already Thinking More Clearly, by Sarah Harre. When I got there, I felt alone and feared it had been a mistake to come.
Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation79 - 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 - The Importance of Discharging Fear
The Importance of Discharging Fear, by Diane Shisk. Being active in the environmental and climate justice movements has made me more aware of the importance of discharging consistently on fear and discouragement.
Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Counseling Practice05 - A New Factor in Human Affairs
A New Factor in Human Affairs by Harvey Jackins. By thoughtful organizing, we can in the future deliberately guard large numbers of new human beings from exposure to distress.
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changing:page 43 - 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 - International Liberation Reference Person for African-Heritage People
International Liberation Reference Person for African-Heritage People
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation61 - Jewish “Mental Health” System Survivors
Jewish “Mental Health” System Survivors by Marci Stern. The recent Jewish “Mental Health” System Survivors’ Workshop in Pennsylvania, USA, led by Janet Foner,* was not only a delightful experience for me but also another turning point for both Jewish liberation and “mental health” liberation.
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation73 - Working on Early Sexual Memories
Working on Early Sexual Memories
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practicepages 19-20 - A Successful Men's Class
A Successful Men's Class, by Dennis Wollersheim, Steven Costello, Bartley McGowan, Bruce Clezy, Tony Smith. The following are some reflections on a men’s class led by Tony Smith, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberationpage 54 - Climate Change, and Ideas for Action
Climate Change, and Ideas for Action, by John Braxton. In this article I have attempted to summarize some of the best thinking about climate change done by environmental scientists and social change activists. I have also included my own ideas, and proposals for action.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 36 to 40 - Creating Alternatives to Capitalism
Creating Alternatives to Capitalism, by "Factory Worker". At a recent workshop, I reminded people of something that Harvey Jackins had pointed out. He said that the new system always develops within the existing system.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changingpage 48 to 49 - Creative Care of the Environment at Workshops
Creative Care of the Environment at Workshops, by Suvan Geer. The care-of-the-environment job includes organizing people to conserve energy and water, recycle, compost, minimize use of disposable products, and so on.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 83 - “It Will Need to Be the Women”
“It Will Need to Be the Women,” by Marcie Rendon. This morning I am thinking of the African-heritage mothers who fear for their children’s lives here in the United States. I am thinking about the Black mothers of sons shot down in the streets of the United States.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: page 53 - Revisiting Family Work
Revisiting Family Work, by Alysia Tate. Family Work is the application of Re-evaluation Counseling to the particular situations of young people, and families with young children. It entails young people and adults interacting in ways that allow the young people to show and be themselves and not be dominated by the adults.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Counseling Practicepage 7 - Teaching RC to Climate Activists
Teaching RC to Climate Activists, by Jim Driscoll. In February 2014, in Los Angeles (California, USA), I helped train three dozen climate activists as they prepared to walk across the United States, from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to call attention to the threat of climate change. The training included a basic RC introductory lecture, topic-group discussions, Wygelian leaders’ meetings, and an hour on racism (all but two of the marchers were white). I ended it with a panel of two local environmental justice leaders and a marcher of the global majority.
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 34 - “Today Is My Thirty-First Birthday”
“Today Is My Thirty-First Birthday,” by Nat Lippert. Today is my thirty-first birthday, which means that I’m no longer a young adult in Co-Counseling. Somehow the outside world doesn’t seem to understand why I care so much about my thirty-first birthday!
Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: page 68 - 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 - “It Revealed Myself to Me”
“It Revealed Myself to Me”, by S.J. Shashikala (Shashi). In July 2014 there was a women’s workshop in India led by Diane Balser1 and organised by Niti Dandekar.2 Along with Indian women, a few Iranian women and a woman from Sweden took part.3 Having people from different countries and working together on women’s issues strengthened our sisterhood.
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation32 - 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) - Moving Forward by Discharging Old Disappointments and Defeats
Moving Forward by Discharging Old Disappointments and Defeats by many contributors, found in the 2015 January issue of Present Time. The following are some reflections on a recent teachers’ and leaders’ workshop, led by Lousia Flander, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Wide World Changing(page 79) - 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) - Perhaps We Could Do Something Big
Perhaps We Could Do Something Big, by John Braxton. Uniting the Labor Movement, the Peace Movement, and the Climate Justice Movement,
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Wide World Changingpage 66 - 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) - What to Think About as We Set Up Our Lives
What to Think About as We Set Up Our Lives, by Tim Jackins and Jamie Irwin. During open questions at the International Young People’s Workshop in January 2014, I asked Tim1 if he would share his thoughts about what makes sense for us to think about as we set up our lives, in general and in terms of our role in RC. I recorded what he said and summarized it below. Following that is some of my own thinking.
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:75 - When in War—Play!
When in War—Play!, by Tal Mizrahi. I can now better distinguish between what needs to be done about the present situation in Israel and what is to grieve over.
Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Counseling Practice15 - 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 - An Unworkable Situation
An Unworkable Situation, by Lotahn Raz. The past weeks have brought to the fore several things that have been true for a while but hidden. The first is that the current situation is completely unworkable and cannot continue for long.
Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing(pages 50 to 52) - “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 - 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) - Not Just a Fundraiser
Not Just a Fundraiser, by Jan Yoshiwara. Since 2009, United to End Racism (UER) has sent a team of eight to twelve Japanese, Okinawan, and ally RCers to the biannual Tule Lake Pilgrimage to teach RC anti-oppression theory and the basics of RC, including how people can listen to each other. In June 2014, the Olympia (Washington, USA) RC Community participated in a Tule Lake UER fundraiser, sponsored by the Olympia Japanese American Citizens League (JACL).
Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing(67 to 68) - The Critical Turning Point
The Critical Turning Point, by Harvey Jackins. There are critical points in history, but they cannot be predicted. What will be the critical point in our intriguing and tense situation? We don’t know, but it will occur.
Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing(64) - “We Are Growing Forward”
“We Are Growing Forward”, by Marlene Melfor. After five days at the Black Liberation and Community Development (BLCD) Workshop (in July–August in Birmingham, England), I thought, “This was the best BLCD ever!”
Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberation(page 31) - 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 - 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) - Deciding to Be an Area Reference Person
Deciding to Be an Area Reference Person
Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:42 - From a Gay Asian Man
From a Gay Asian Man by "Masayoshi". The following are my insights, as a Gay man of the global majority, as I try to embrace work on discharging oppressor material:
Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberationpage 65 - “Our Liberation Is Intertwined”
“Our Liberation Is Intertwined” by multiple
Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberation81 - 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 - From an Israeli Jew of Eastern European Heritage
From an Israeli Jew of Eastern European Heritage
Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:47 - Present Time 168, July 2012
Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012
- Present Time 176, July 2014
Present Time 176, July 2014 - Table of Contents
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014 - Working-Class Solidarity in Practice
Working-Class Solidarity in Practice, by Jane Hyslop. Both of my parents did factory work most of their lives, and the classism told us we were disposable and not worth much. Somewhere I always knew this was wrong.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, From the Mail: page 86 - Our Artist-Activists Move North
Our Artist-Activists Move North, by Bill Horne. I've been most effective as a leader in my work with an artists' rights organization. It's the closest thing we have to a visual artists' union in Canada, and a couple of years ago I joined the board of the British Columbia affiliate.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, From the Mail: page 85 - Important Job Open
Important Job Open, by Julian Weissglass.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: page 60 - Powerful and Optimistic
Powerful and Optimistic, by Ruth Howald. Leading has challenged a pile of chronic distress. I have discharged and now I see and feel things differently. I feel much more powerful and optimistic.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: page 57 - Re-evaluation Counseling and the Settlers
Re-evaluation Counseling and the Settlers, by Esti Cohen.
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: pages: 55 to 56 - "Special Time" and the "Blue Pages"
"Special Time" and the "Blue Pages", by Jerry Yoder. The question is: "Does it make sense for a Co-Counselor to set up a special time relationship with a young person whose parent is a Co-Counselor?" The answer is: It depends. You are going to have to think about it and probably have a few sessions on it. Here are my thoughts:
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Counseling Practicepages 37 to 39 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - The Working Class Needs a Clear Voice in Parliament
The Working Class Needs a Clear Voice in Parliament, by "Confident Noble".
Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: page 4 - 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 - The Concrete Work Of Eliminating Your Racism
Published in: Present Time 88, July 1992
- Commitments Related to National or Cultural Heritage
Published in: Commitments
- 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 - 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 - A Listening Project at Unizik
A Listening Project at Unizik, by Kingsley Ibekwe. Seven of us participated in the first listening project organized by the Unizik RC Community, led by Professors Anayo and Chineze. When the university had their new intake matriculation, we were there listening to the young adults fully expressing their beautiful minds.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 75 - An Important Milestone
An Important Milestone, by S.J. Shashikala (Shashi). Last November I had the opportunity of a lifetime to take part in the International Young Adult Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop. It was a memorable and important milestone in my life.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 76 to 77 - Contemporary Women's Issues Workshop (3 articles)
Contemporary Women's Issues Workshop (3 articles), by different authors. The following three articles are about the Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop led by Diane Balser, the International Liberation Reference Person for Women, in London, England, November 28 to December 1, 2013.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberation(page 36 to 37) - Health, Living, Dying, and “the H—Gang”
Health, Living, Dying, and "The H Gang", by Romilly Gregory. H— was a lively, determined, smart, feisty woman who died in January 2012. She was thirty-one and had been in RC since her teens.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Counseling Practice(pages 5 to 7) - 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 - Regaining Perspective on Old Distress Recordings
Regaining Perspective on Old Distress Recordings, by Tibor Bessko I knew, from my first session, that this was what I had been missing my whole life—a group of people who would listen to each other through tears, fears, and laughter, about important matters of the heart.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Counseling Practice(page 18) - War, the Oppressive Society, and the Working Class
War, the Oppressive Society, and the Working Class, by Harvey Jackins. From the July 1986 Peace and Disarmament Activists’ Workshop
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: page 64 - Eliminating White Racism, in Melbourne, Australia
Eliminating White Racism, in Melbourne, Australia, by Anne Barton. In 1901 Australia was founded as an explicitly white nation.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberationpages 47 to 49 - Science, RC, and Care of the Environment
Science, RC, and Care of the Environment, by Randy Smith. At the August 2013 International Care of the Environment Leaders’ Conference, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a group of us met in a topic group called Scientists in Care of the Environment. We were from different backgrounds and experiences, but we all agreed that science has to be part of the discussion in care-of-the-environment work and the development of a care-of-the-environment draft policy.
Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changingpage 60 - Proud to Be Part of This Project
Proud to Be Part of This Project, by Goof Buijs. Thank you for inviting me to the 2013 World Conference, the first one that I could attend. I am proud to be part of this project and organization and of making it the most decisive influence in the world. Re-evaluation Counseling, in my view, is the most advanced and smartest way of getting and staying organised.
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 26 - 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 - 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 - Deep Connections in Korea
Deep Connections in Korea, by Kyoungho Koa, in Our Asian Inheritance No. 7, page 77.
Published in: Our Asian Inheritance 7 - The Complete Goodness of Reality
Published in: Present Time 96, July 1994
- Liberation and Educational Change
Liberation and Educational Change by Julian Weissglass. Present Time 93, pages13-15. No group’s liberation will succeed unless schools become a force for liberation. Achieving a just society requires that schools be transformed.
Published in: Present Time 93, October 1993 - Two Excellences of Arab Culture
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Listen Up, Everybody!
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- And Some Added Emphasis
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Beginnings in Swaziland
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Threading My Way Through Confusing Oppressions
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Approaching a Major Turning Point
Approaching a Major Turning Point, by Harvey Jackins
Published in: Present Time 53, October 1983 - Being Rational About "Ritual Abuse"
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Supporting and Cherishing Each Other
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Recovering a Relationship
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- A Learning Experience for West Europeans
Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994
- Intuition, Logic and Women
Intuition, Logic and Women, by Harvey Jackins.
Published in: Present Time 50, January 1983 - Ellie Putnam
Published in: Present Time 119, April 2000
- S.M.
Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999
- Gail Mandella
Published in: Present Time 118, January 2000
- 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 - Pam Roby—International Liberation Reference Person for College and University Faculty
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Ed Rejuney
Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Harvey Page 61-62
- Wytske Visser
Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Harvey Page 57
- Disabled People's Liberation in RC
Disabled People's Liberation in RC, Chris O'Mahony. Description of disabled people's liberation in English RC
Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPages 48-49 - 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 - "Ancient Goddesses" Intervene
"Ancient Goddesses" Intervene, by Francie Chew. Thank you for your support of us Asian leaders and the particularly tender way you support me. We had eighteen people at the Asian Early Sexual Memories (ESM) Workshop, including Joan Karp and David Jernigan, who each led brilliantly and put out a lot of refreshing thinking and counseling.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: page 85 - The Challenges and Rewards of Being an Ally to Men
The Challenges and Rewards of Being an Ally to Men, Pamela Haines. Building up our muscles to understand look at men's oppression
Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 41-42 - What Was Valuable to Me
What Was Valuable to Me, by Carolyne Singer. I just came home from the Northern California and Nevada, USA Teachers' and Leaders' Workshop. I want to expand on what was of value to me.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: page 83 - The Joy of the World
The Joy of the World, by Brian Smeaton. "Ta athas an domhain orm" - that's Irish for "the joy of the world is on me." I am delighted to tell you how much the fact of our natural human connection means to me.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: page 82 - 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 Small Special Group at a Big Workshop
A Small Special Group at a Big Workshop, by Randi Wolfe. I'm fresh back from Julian Weissglass' Wide World Change Workshop. It was truly incredible!
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 44 - 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 - Abusers and "Liberals" Are Both Harmful
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996
- Informe del Taller Regional para Instructores, Ayudantes y Líderesdel Estado Español
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996
- Report on the Official United Nations Women's Conference in Beijing
Report on the Official United Nations Women's Conference in Beijing, By Melphy Sakupwanya. I insisted on registering under "Re-evaluation Counseling," which raised a lot of eyebrows as I was easily accepted in my old role and organisation. This gave me an opportunity to put RC on the map in government circles. (The list had to be vetted by the Cabinet and approved by the President.)
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, ContentsMore Reports on Beijing: Pages 31 and 32 - Working Back to Inclusion of Everybody: The Details
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996
- The Clearest Thinking I Have Experienced
The Clearest Thinking I Have Experienced, by Lana Marée. After reading the April Present Time, in which Harvey and Catherine Land discussed the understatement, I felt really excited.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: Experience with the Understatement: page 32 - Discussion on Goal Two-Going Public with RC
Discussion on Goal Two-Going Public with RC. Discussions on the proposed goals for RC for the next period took place at the ten conferences preceding the World Conference and at the World Conference itself.
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998, (World Conference: page 9) - 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 - Being Real About Integrity in the Ozarks
Being Real About Integrity in the Ozarks, by Deb Eisenmann. Last year I was the organizer/leader of the Ozark Area Community Congress (OACC). It is a volunteer job.
Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Wide World Changing: page 11 - 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) - 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) - 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) - Men's Support Group (Led by a Woman)
Men's Support Group (Led by a Woman), by Tony Smith. Since October 1995, I have been in the men's support group led by Louisa. It has changed my life so significantly that I want to encourage all men in our Community to put their re-emergence first and get themselves into a support group led by a woman!
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(page 26) - All Lawyers Are Good People Or 'No More Shark Jokes'
All Lawyers Are Good People Or 'No More Shark Jokes,' by Nancy Lemon. This is a talk I gave at two Northern California RC Lawyers' Workshops, in 1992 and 1997: Point 1: Lawyers get bashed a lot in this society. We don't deserve it. All lawyers are good people.
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(pages 38 to 39) - 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) - A Senior Chinese Leader Reports
A Senior Chinese Leader Reports, by Li Mei Ge. I am writing to you about our valuable experiences at the East Asian Pre-World-Conference Conference in Japan and our thinking about near-future plans.
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Teaching(Leading, Community Building: page 46) - No Limits, The Liberation of Women
Published in: Foundation Nolimits -
- 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 a Different Culture
Learning From a Different Culture, by Bruce Danford. I have just spent four-plus years in Tokyo, Japan. It was a wonderful experience.
Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: page 78) - 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) - Why We Have an RC Community
Why We Have an RC Community, by Tim Jackins. There’s a second function that’s also important and that only became clear later: we need the Community for people who are already Co-Counseling. It’s not enough to simply know Co-Counseling and have a Co-Counselor.
Published in: Present Time 142, January 2006, Teaching(Teaching, Leading, and Community Building: page 72) - From Fear to Exhilaration: Finding Male Allies in Prison
From Fear to Exhilaration: Finding Male Allies in Prison, by Karen DeLaney
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(page 12) - Building Men into the Center of RC
Building Men into the Center of RC, by Ed Rejuney. He said that showing ourselves is the key issue for men these days: to not wait for the conditions to be right to let people see us fully as ourselves. This means showing our embarrassments, fears, etc.
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(page 20) - Surrounded by People of Goodwill
Surrounded by People of Goodwill, by Gwen Brown. I wanted to believe that we were really all one people and that we all wanted pretty much the same thing-to live and learn and love and work cooperatively with one another. In China, I came closer to seeing that vision become a reality than I've ever experienced.
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (More Reports on Beijing: pages 26 to 27) - A Massive, Successful Project
A Massive, Successful Project, by Diane Balser. From August 30 through September 8, 1995, approximately 300 delegates attended the NGO Forum on Women, near Beijing, China. Some attended representing wide-world organizations. Others officially represented No Limits for Women, a women’s liberation project of Re-evaluation Counseling.
Published in: Present Time 101, October 1995, Contents(Pages 20 and 21) - Commitment and Enthusiasm in Togo
Commitment and Enthusiasm in Togo, by Wanjiku Kironyo. In February 2014 I led a workshop in Togo. On the first day we had a women's group in which we discussed the oppression of women on the African continent.
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Teaching(page 69) - The U.S. Climate Movement, and People of the Global Majority
the U.S. Climate Movement, and People of the Global Majority, by Jim Driscoll. The following are some of the initiatives I have taken as a climate activist: I have been setting up support groups for climate activists who are people of the global majority (PGM).
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(page 77) - An Extraordinary Organization
An Extraordinary Organization, by Vicky Grosser. It struck me recently what an exraordinary organization the Re-evaluation Counselling Community is: the Guidelines, the structure, and the immense amount of work that goes into planning how it operates.
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(Page 74) - The First Manzini Workshop
The First Manzini Workshop, by Boy Mabuya and Thembi Mhlanga. In December 2013, the Manzini RC group (in Swaziland) successfully held its first workshop. It focused mainly on the ongoing support and growth of those already Co-Counseling.
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Teaching(Page 74) - Give Them Next Steps
Give Them Next Steps, by Harvey Jackins. RC disarmament work gained momentum after the 1979 RC World Conference. Large numbers of Co-Counselors got into the work, and large numbers of peace workers joined RC. Something fine has happened as a result of this.
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(page 81) - An Australian Young People's and Young Adult's Workshop
An Australian Young People's and Young Adult's Workshop, by Laura Waddell. In April I led a workshop near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for eight young adults, two young people, and four allies. The youngest young person was sixteen, and the eldest young adult was thirty.
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(pages 52 to 53) - Thoughts After a Protest Rally
Thoughts After a Protest Rally, by Marcie Rendon. Last night I went with my eleven-, thirteen-, and seventeen-year-old grandchildren to a rally in downtown Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA). The rally was calling for justice in the black community following the murder of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his murderer.
Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changing(page 83) - Harvey Jackins
Harvey Jackins, by Tim Jackins. My father's death is a great and sad loss.
Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999, Teaching(pages 37 to 38) - Excerpted Comments from and About the World-Wide Conference of Jewish RC Leaders
Excerpted Comments from and About the World-Wide Conference of Jewish Leaders, multiple authors. Various comments from the Jewish leaders present about the profound contradiction that the Conference provided.
Published in: Present Time 106, January 1997, Liberation(pages 9 to 11) - White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating Racism
White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating Racism, by Dvora Slavin. This March we had the second North America White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating Racism Workshop.
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation: page 43 - Young Adults Take Charge
Young Adults Take Charge, by Melanie Uhlmann. I started RC when I was twenty-one, and I am turning thirty next year. So far all my experiences as a Co-Counselor have been as a young adult.
Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 67 to 69 - 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) - 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 - Musicians Liberation
Musicians’ Liberation, by Phyllis Beardsley. Present Time 153, October 2008, page 48. I have just arrived home after a powerful weekend workshop on musicians’ liberation. It was held near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was led by Heather Hay, the International Liberation Reference Person for Musicians.
Published in: Present Time 153, October 2008, Liberation: page 48 - Mission Statement for No Limits for Women
No Limits for Women Mission Statement, by Diane Balser. No Limits for Women is an International organization of women (and men who are allies to women) dedicated to eliminating sexism throughout the world. Ending sexism will profoundly and positively impact human progress as a whole.
Published in: Foundation Nolimits - - 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 - All Lawyers Are Good People; Or, No More Shark Jokes!
All Lawyers Are Good People; Or, No More Shark Jokes! by Nancy Lemon. Present Time 90, pages 51-53. Lawyers get bashed a lot in this society. We don’t deserve it. All lawyers are good people.
Published in: Present Time 90, January 1993 - Recent Insights on Fat Oppression and Women
Recent Insights on Fat Oppression and Women, by Nikki Stewart. Sisters No. 11 page 24. I had the pleasure of leading a day-long Workshop for Large Women and also an evening Gather-in for Allies to Large Women.
Published in: Sisters 11 - 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 - Eliminating Arrogance
Eliminating Arrogance, by Jo Saunders. Coming Home No. 1, page 26.
Published in: Coming Home - Revised Draft Statement on Southern Oppression the USA
Revised Draft Statement on Southern Oppression the USA, by Ben Green. Present TIme 59, April 1985, page 41. Although individual southerners may be as different from each other as they are from non-southerners, there are both positive values and distress patterns in southern culture which contribute to a unique, distinctive experience for southerners.
Published in: Present Time 59, April 1985 - Swedish Translations
Published in: Swedish
- “Year of the Area”
“Year of the Area” by Dvora Slavin. RC Teacher 29, page 19. When I first became Regional Reference Person (RRP), I decided the key thing was to build relationships with my Area Reference People (ARPs). This included regular Co-Counseling sessions, monthly meetings, and establishing relationships with folks from their Areas.
Published in: Teaching RC - A Native Leader Talks About Screening
A Native Leader Talks About Screening by Marcia Rendon. Working for a Living No. 8, page 24. In screening people to teach I look for people who are recognized as leaders by their Native communities. Who do people listen to? Show up for?
Published in: Teaching RC - Building Black RC in Arkansas
Building Black RC in Arkansas by Dorothy Marcy. RC Teacher 29, page 6. For a few years now I have been leading two projects for black folk in our Community. The first one is my black women’s support group, which developed gradually as I made many false starts before finally getting it going. I kept trying because I needed the group for my own re-emergence.
Published in: Teaching RC - The Encouragement to Have Big Lives
The Encouragement to Have Big Lives by Tim Jackins. RC Teacher 28, page 62.
Published in: Teaching RC - Teaching How to Teach RC (part 2)
Teaching How to Teach RC by Frank van den Heuvel
Published in: Teaching RC - Teaching How to Teach RC (part 1)
Teaching How to Teach RC by Margo Hittleman
Published in: Teaching RC - My Thirty-Something Story of Reproductive Health
My Thirty-Something Story of Reproductive Health, by anonymous. I had no idea how quickly, once I got married, the pressure would hit to become a mother.
Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012, Counseling Practice: pages 16 to 18 - 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 - 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) - 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 - Putting an End to War
Putting an End to War, by Naomi Raz. War is not in our genes—we need to be carefully trained in order to go out and kill other people.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Wide World Changing(page 82) - Counterrevolution Due to Persistence of Patterns
Counterrevolution Due to Persistence of Patterns, by Harvey Jackins. Harvey Jackins, at the July 1986 Peace and Disarmament Activists’ Workshop
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Wide World Changing(page 69) - I'm Proud of Us
I'm Proud of Us, by Fela Barclift. The still undischarged effects of internalized racism cause me to struggle when I want to share my thoughts
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 21 - Our Choice
Our Choice, by Harvey Jackins. We have a very real choice between, on the one hand, a future Garden of Eden for our children and, on the other, the complete destruction of all complex life.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Wide World Changing(page 83) - Racism, Genocide, Colonialism, and Care of the Environment
Racism, Genocide, Colonialism, and Care of the Environment, by Russ Vernon-Jones. Any attempt to address the environment as separate from these issues will be severely limited.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Wide World Changing(page 84) - Sliding Scales and Integrity
Sliding Scales and Integrity, by Dan Nickerson. It is difficult to think about differences in wealth and income and about the economic inequality of our world.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 62 to 63 - Language Liberation at the World Conference
Language Liberation at the World Conference, by Shirley Thatcher. Interpreting was done in front of the conference in at least twenty different languages
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: pages 25 to 26 - More than an RC Slogan
More than an RC Slogan, by Josephine Grimes. Demonstrations on relationships between people of the global majority and white people included people of the two groups making commitments to each other.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 22 - Moving Forward in Nigeria
Moving Forward in Nigeria, by Kingsley chimedu Ibekwe. The recent workshops in Unizik, Abagana, and Awka (Nigeria) were the outcome of many years’ work—work that was begun by Melphy Sakupwanya about eight years ago.
Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 61 - Counseling About Breast Cancer
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- Determinedly Going "Public"
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- Inspired Sharing
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- "Mental Health" Liberation Is for Everyone
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- Reaching People in Big City Schools
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- Who Will Bring the Straws?
Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998
- About form letter soliciting funds for UER
Published in: United to End Racism
- Commitments Related to Vocation
Published in: Commitments
- ENSEÑANDO RC
Published in: Teaching -
- Excerpts from RC Journal THE CARING PARENT
Published in: The Caring Parent
- Excerpts from the RC journal WORKING FOR A LIVING
Published in: Working for a Living 4
- From the Editor
Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996
- Fundamentals Class Outline #1
Published in: Teaching -
- Fundamentals Class Outline #3
Published in: Teaching -
- Guidelines For The Use Of Web Sites For Members Of The Re-Evaluation Counseling Communities
Published in: Guidelines
- Looking Forward to the European Social Forum
Published in: United to End Racism
- Propositions About Human Liberation
Published in: The Upward Trend
- Teaching RC on a College Campus
Teaching RC on a College Campus by Phyllis Bronstein
Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013 - The On-going Forever Class
Published in: Teaching -
- The Rational Needs of Human Beings
Published in: The Upward Trend
- UER Activities in the United States 2001-2004
Published in: United to End Racism
- UER at "Movement Beyond Borders," May 1-4, 2003
Published in: United to End Racism
- United to End Racism (UER) at the "Movement Beyond Borders," May 1-4, 2003
Published in: United to End Racism
- Selected Projects of the Re-evaluation Foundation
Published in: Foundation
- How to Apply for Grants
Published in: Foundation
- About the Re-evaluation Foundation
Published in: Foundation
- An Introduction to the Work of United to End Racism
Published in: United to End Racism
- NGO Forum CSW60 Workshops
No Limits for Women Proposal for Participation in Beijing Plus Twenty
Published in: Foundation Nolimits - - Community Guidelines
Published in: Guidelines
- Glossary
Published in: Guidelines
- 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 - Barbara Love—Liberation Reference Person for African Heritage People
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- 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 - No Limits Video at CSW59
Published in: No Limits Photos
- 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.
- 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 - D.2. STRUCTURE DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ – LIBÉRATION
D.2. STRUCTURE DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ – LIBÉRATION Inclusion La Communauté de Co-écoute fera un effort conscient et délibéré pour inclure dans les organes d’organisation et de leadership des Co-écoutant-e-s issu-e-s des couches populaires:
Published in: French Guidelines - Follow Young People's Lead
Follow Young People’s Leadership, by Jenny Sazama. We are living in incredibly exciting and interesting times. Not long ago, the United Nations came out with a report that said we have twelve years to turn the climate situation around or we’re looking at the possible extinction of the human race.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation - Leaders within Each Group
Leaders within Each Group, by Harvey Jackins. It is essential that each group be able to put forward its own leaders. Women can have excellent male allies, but women must lead women. Whites cannot be the leaders of Blacks, although they can be excellent allies to them. To develop enough leadership to preserve the world safely will require developing leaders in every group of the oppressed.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - A Call to Unity: Standing Together for Climate Action
A Call to Unity: Standing Together for Climate Action, by Diane Shisk and Barbara Love. As Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism prepared for our presence at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, we learned about some criticisms and attacks starting within the climate movement. Our leadership team came together to think and discharge about it and decided that a clear statement was needed—both to guide our own thinking and actions and to share with others who are struggling with these issues. Here is what we wrote:
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Wide World Changing - Parents and Climate Change
Parents and Climate Change, by Cath Potter. I talked about our unique position as parents. We have the opportunity to communicate clearly and truthfully to young people about climate change. We can follow their leadership on it as they grow into teenagers and young adults.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - Supporting Other Women
Supporting Other Women, by Lee Koh. One of the most important but also the hardest parts of women’s work is supporting other women—supporting them to get what they want and supporting their leadership. To do that we need to support ourselves at the same time, and put ourselves out there.
Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation - The Doctrine of Discovery
The Doctrine of Discovery, by Cecelia Sosa-Patterson. Catholicism took our culture, matriarchal leadership, spirituality.
Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation - Tim Jackins
"Leadership", Present Time No. 146, January 2007.
- 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 - The Practical Work of Liberation Leaders
Published in: RC Theory
- Sixty Considerations
Published in: Our Work to End Racism
- Draft Program on Climate Change
Draft Program on Climate Change for the RC Community
Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements - 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 - Implementing Goal One
Published in: Our Work to End Racism
- Young Adult Leaders in Southern Africa
Young Adult Leaders in Southern Africa, by Nolwazi Dlamini. In December 2018 we had our first Southern Africa International Young Adult Leaders’ Workshop. Participants ranged in age from eighteen to thirty-five.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - E.2. Structure of the Community-Liberation
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Transcript of webinar
Transcript to webinar for Allies to Diaspora and Israeli Jews
Published in: Liberation Israel_Gaza_War - Renewed Effort for Eliminating Racism
Published in: Workshops Guidelines
- E.2. Structure of the Community-Liberation
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- Getting Ready to Lead BLCD
Getting Ready to Lead BLCD, by Alysia Tate. Black Re-emergence No. 12. I have been an RC leader for many years. I have been active in the RC Community, having sessions and attending workshops, for more than twenty years. I have taught classes and am a Regional Reference Person. Even with all of the sessions I have had about how racism and internalized racism affect me, it has been surprising to notice how much more work I must do as I prepare to lead a Regional BLCD in 2016.
Published in: Black Re-emergence 12 - Glossary
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- A Brief History of RC
Published in: RC Theory
- Comprehensive Glossary
Comprehensive Glossary of RC Terms
Published in: Comprehensive Glossary of RC Terms - Sentence About Unified Goal Implementation
Published in: Environment -
- Glossary
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- How We Got Started
Published in: Environment -
- Proposed Goals 2022 World Conference
Published in: World Conference 2022
- Liberation Theory
Articles on RC liberation theory, organized by type of oppression.
- Native Americans Protecting the Earth: Resources
Published in: Environment -
- The Key Concepts and Insights of Re-evaluation Counseling to Date
Published in: Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual
- E.11. Developing New Reference Persons
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Reports from Climate Coordinators
Published in: Environment -
- Short version Draft Program on Climate Change
Short version, draft program on climate change
Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements - Addressing Sexual Misconduct: Frequently Asked Questions
Published in: Guidelines
- E.6. Functions of the Area Reference Person
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Optional Groups Descriptions
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Published in: World Conference 2022 - Community Building
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- Doelstellingen van de HC-gemeenschap (2017)
Ons doel is om een eind te maken aan het klassisme Daarvoor moeten wij, de leden van de HC-gemeenschap, onszelf ertoe verbinden het volgende te doen om een rationele maatschappij, die vrij is van uitbuiting, naderbij te brengen
Published in: Dutch - Tim explique le Guide
Tim explique le Guide, Tim Jackins. Nous disposons du Guide pour nous aider à bâtir une Communauté de Co-écoute. Il est d’un grand secours, et bâtir une Communauté de Co-écoute est encore difficile.
Published in: French, Teaching, Leading, Community BuildingPT 172, p. 31 - Reporting on COP28 from Climate Justice sources
Published in: Environment -
- Monthly Meeting Report
Published in: Environment -
- Articles by Harvey Jackins on Working-Class Liberation
Published in: Working for a Living 8
- Challenging Sexism as a Catholic Female
Published in: Present Time 156, April 2009
- Outline: United States and Climate Change
Published in: Environment -
- Sexual Misconduct Guideline M.5. Resource Document
Published in: Guidelines
- Proposed revision short draft program climate
Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements
- Éliminer le racisme blanc
Published in: French
- G.1. Workshops-Overview
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- E.10. Regional Reference Person
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- ILRP Activities on COE
Postings by ILRPS about COE work with their constituencies.
Published in: Environment - - Sexual Misconduct Resource Doc
Published in: World Conference 2022
- A Welcome to the RC Communities from Tim Jackins
- RC and the Transformation of Society: An Introduction to Wide World Change
Published in: Liberation for New to RC
- Middle-Class People and Ending Classism
Middle-Class People and Ending Classism, by Seán Ruth. In a class system, the bulk of the wealth that the system produces goes to a small group who own and control the entities that people work for. This group is the owning class. The class system has two ways of ensuring that working people agree to this specific way of distributing wealth.
Published in: Liberation for New to RC - Climate Activists' Panel Transcript March 2019
Published in: Environment -
- The Older Women's Workshop
The Older Women’s Workshop, by Ellie Putnam & Diane Balser.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation - 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 - Emily Bloch--International Liberation Reference Person for Young Adults
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- GLOSSAIRE du Guide pour les Communautes de Reevaluation par la Co-ecoute
GLOSSAIRE Le terme "accessibilité" recouvre les dispositions physiques et pratiques qui permettent aux personnes atteintes d'invalidité de participer à un évènement de la manière la plus inclusive possible, et ce raisonnablement étant donné les circonstances.
Published in: French Guidelines - D.10. PERSONNE DE RÉFÉRENCE RÉGIONALE
D.10. PERSONNE DE RÉFÉRENCE RÉGIONALE Nomination de la Personne de Référence Régionale La PRI peut nommer une personne en tant que PRR dans une région géographique, ethnique ou linguistiqueIII, après avoir consulté les dirigeant-e-s de cette Région. Pour être nommée PRR, un-e dirigeant-e doit :
Published in: French Guidelines - 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 - - Present Time 180, July 2015
Present Time 180, July 2015
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015 - Featured Recent PT Articles
Published in: Present Time
- Regional Workshop 2024
Published in: Regional Workshop 2024
- Featured Recent PT Articles
- Class Outlines for Teaching on COE
Class Outlines for Teaching on COE, first nine, by Diane Shisk
Published in: Environment - - Unified Goal on Climate
Published in: Environment -
- Important Email Archive
Published in: Environment -
- 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 - A.4. The Membership of the Community
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- A.4. The Membership of the Community
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Stories of Hope and Courage
Stories of hope and courage about climate change.
Published in: Environment - - The Importance of Harvey Jackins
Published in: Audio files
- Mid Atlantic Teachers and Leaders
Published in: Mid-Atlantic Teachers and Leaders 2023
- E.13. Group Responsibility for a Leader's Re-emergence
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- E.5. Formation of an Area and Selection of an Area Reference Person
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- E.9. Growth of New Areas from Existing Areas
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- White People Born After 1969
Published in: World Conference 2022
- Projet de programme sur le changement climatique pour les Communautés de Co-écoute
Published in: French
- 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 - 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 - Climate Change Draft Program for the RC Communities
Climate Change Draft Program for the RC Communities (short version), A vast accumulation of data clearly indicates that, to avoid catastrophic consequences, we must act quickly to stop global temperatures from rising more than 1.5°C by 2030. ...we will need a coordinated global effort to reduce inequities and create a rational economy—one that allows everyone to have a good life while living lightly on the Earth.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing - A Hopeful Climate Change Initiative: a Green New Deal
A Hopeful Climate Change Initiative: a Green New Deal, by Jess Liborio. On December 10, 2018, thousands of people met with key U.S. legislators to ask and demand that they support the creation of a committee that would draft legislation for the Green New Deal (a large U.S. governmental response to climate change, economic inequality, and racism).
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing - Draft Program for Working-Class Unity
Draft Program for Working-Class Unity, by Harvey Jackins. Written by Harvey Jackins and reprinted from pages 3 to 4 of Working for a Living No. 4
Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation - Being Ready to Help Guide the Collapsing Society
Being Ready to Help Guide the Collapsing Society, by Tim JackinsMy version of the goals of the RC Community is to get this set of tools in everybody’s hands.
Published in: Present Time 162, January 2011, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - Seán Ruth-International Liberation Reference Person for Middle-Class People
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Present Time 187, April 2017
Present Time No. 187, (Vol 49, No. 2) April 2017
Published in: Present Time, April 2017 - "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 - D.11. DIRIGEANT-E-S DES GROUPES DE LIBÉRATION, DES GROUPES DE MÉTIER ET D'INTÉRÊT COMMUN
D.11. DIRIGEANT-E-S DES GROUPES DE LIBÉRATION, DES GROUPES DE MÉTIER ET D'INTÉRÊT COMMUN Nomination par la Personne de Référence Internationale Lorsqu’il existe dans la Communauté un nombre substantiel de Co-écoutant-e-s qui mènent une lutte de libération commune, ou qui ont un métier ou un intérêt commun, la PRI peut nommer une PRIL ou une Personne de Référence Internationale de Commonalité
Published in: French Guidelines - No Need to Lead in Isolation
No Need to Lead in Isolation, by Rachel Nobel. I have just finished leading a people of the global majority workshop, in southern California (USA).
Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015 - Re-evaluation Counseling Teacher Update
Published in: Audio files
- COORDINATEURS DE CLIMAT
Published in: Environment -
- Podding
Published in: LGBTQ Workshop for People Raised Female 2024
- COP28 emails sent out
Published in: Environment -
- Recent emails posted to Climate Coordinators
Recently posted emails to climate-coordinators@list.rc.org
Published in: Environment - - “What Can We Do as Allies?”
“What Can We Do as Allies?” It wasn’t until Africans attended a Healing from War and Genocide Workshop, that I led in Poland, that I started scanning memories of what I had heard about Africa when I was growing up. I had done considerable (but not enough) discharging on my racism, but I had not discharged on my oppressor recordings and ignorance about Africa.
Published in: Present Time 213, October 2023, No Section77 - Workshop Notes
Published in: White People Facing and Healing from the Genocide of the Native Peoples in the current US2023
- Pods Guidance
Published in: Eagles Workshop Webpage
- Black African Liberation and Community Development
Published in: Our Work to End Racism
- Building Our Areas with Native and Indigenous People and Global Majority People at the Center
Published in: Our Work to End Racism
- Catholic Women and the Policy
Published in: Sisters 12
- Draft Policy for Care of the Environment
Draft policy on care of the environment
Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements - Objectif Unifié sur le Climat
Published in: French
- Outline: Young People at the Forefront of the Climate Change Movement
Published in: Environment -
- SAL at the New York Climate Summit
Published in: Environment -
- Articles supporting the Guidelines
Articles Supporting Our Understanding of the RC Community Guidelines.
Published in: Guidelines - G.1. Workshops-Overview
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- M.1. The No-Socializing Policy
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- J.8. Use of Pseudonyms/Anonymity by Authors
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- M.1. The No-Socializing Policy
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- J.8. Use of Pseudonyms/Anonymity by Authors
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- E.12. Unpaid Work in Service of the Community
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Job Descriptions for Zoom Workshops
Published in: Workshops Guidelines
- E.8. Struggling Areas
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- G.6. International Workshops
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- G.5. Regional Workshops
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- C.3. Structure of RC Classes
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Draft Policy on Care of the Environment
Published in: Environment -
- Optional Groups Schedule
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Published in: World Conference 2022 - M.1. Co-Counseling Relationships (2017 Guidelines)
Published in: Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual
- RC and COVID-19
RC and the coronavirus, COVID-19
Published in: IRP Perspectives - Present Time 182 TOC
Present Time 182, January 2016
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016 - Overview of Jewish Liberation
Overview of Jewish Liberation, by Cherie Brown. Jews are a people who have been on the planet for more than two thousand years. Jews belong to all races. We are brilliant, feisty. We lead beyond our numbers in many liberation struggles.
Published in: Liberation for New to RC - SAL workshops, forums, and handouts
Sustaining All Life workshops, forums, listening projects, handouts and more
Published in: Environment - - Young People Are Brilliant and Powerful
Young People Are Brilliant and Powerful, by Mari Piggott. This is what’s true about young people: Young people are brilliant. Young people are powerful. Young people know how the world needs to be.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation - A Powerful Organizing Team
A Powerful Organizing Team, by Violeta Vajda. A group of primarily Central and Eastern European women formed an organizing team for the Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop in Warsaw, Poland.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation - Climate Change, Capitalism, Movement Building, and RC
Climate Change, Capitalism, Movement Building, and RC, by Eric Braxton.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing - Present Time 190, January 2017
Present Time No. 190 (Vol 51, No. 1) January 2018
Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018 - Climate Change Updates
Climate Change Updates. Regular update on state of the environment
Published in: Environment - - Cherie Brown-International Liberation Reference Person for Jews
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- NOTES: I. LES GROUPES DE DIRIGEANT-E-S, II. AUTO-ÉVALUATION, III. ÉVITER LES STRUCTURES NATIONALES, IV. PROCESSUS DE DÉCISION
I. LES GROUPES DE DIRIGEANT-E-S, II. AUTO-ÉVALUATION, III. ÉVITER LES STRUCTURES NATIONALES, IV. PROCESSUS DE DÉCISION, V. UNIS POUR ÉLIMINER LE RACISME, VI. FORMULAIRES
Published in: French Guidelines - D.9. DÉVELOPPEMENT DE NOUVEAUX SECTEURS À PARTIR DE SECTEURS EXISTANTS
D.9. DÉVELOPPEMENT DE NOUVEAUX SECTEURS À PARTIR DE SECTEURS EXISTANTS Nouveaux Secteurs Les personnes qui introduisent la Co-écoute dans des localités proches d'un Secteur existant travailleront avec ce Secteur et avec la PRS pour faire démarrer les activités.
Published in: French Guidelines - D.6. FONCTIONS DE LA PERSONNE DE RÉFÉRENCE DE SECTEUR
D.6. FONCTIONS DE LA PERSONNE DE RÉFÉRENCE DE SECTEUR Responsabilités de la Personne de Référence de Secteur Toutes les personnes dirigeantes, y compris la PRS et de fait tout-e Co-écoutant-e, sont encouragées à prendre l'entière responsabilité d'absolument tout.
Published in: French Guidelines - D.5. FORMATION D’UN SECTEUR ET CHOIX DE LA PERSONNE DE RÉFÉRENCE DE SECTEUR
D.5. FORMATION D’UN SECTEUR ET CHOIX DE LA PERSONNE DE RÉFÉRENCE DE SECTEUR Formation d'un Secteur En consultation avec la PRR (ou la PRI s’il n’existe pas de PRR), les groupes de dirigeant-e-s appelleront à la tenue d’une réunion des Co-écoutant-e-s en activité pour former un "Secteur" et proposer une PRS, lorsque toutes les conditions suivantes sont réunies :
Published in: French Guidelines - 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 - Bâtir une Communauté de Co-écoute en Côte d'Ivoire
Bâtir une Communauté de Co-écoute en Côte d'Ivoire, Cyrille Zounon. La Côte d’Ivoire, un charmant pays de vingt-deux millions d’habitants, a connu la guerre à la suite d’une crise post-électorale en 2011. Je me suis retrouvé au Togo comme réfugié en avril de cette année-là. Deux semaines après, je rencontrais Missigbe1 et la RC-Togo.
Published in: French, Teaching, Leading, Community BuildingPT 174, p. 57 - Die wichtige Bedeutung der Befreiungsarbeit der Mittelklasse
Die wichtige Bedeutung der Befreiungsarbeit der Mittelklasse, Sean Ruth. In der Vergangenheit haben einige Leute „Mittelklasse“-Unterstützungsgruppen geleitet, weil sie tief im Herzen wussten, dass es wichtig ist, obwohl sie kaum Theorie zur Verfügung hatten warum es so ist. Sie haben dies getan, obwohl es hart war, aber sie konnten nicht erkennen, ob das, was sie da tun, überhaupt einen Unterschied machen würde.
Published in: German - Fundamentals Teaching Guide II Readings
Fundamentals Teaching Guide II Readings
Published in: Ftg2 Readings - - Present Time 183, April 2016
Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016
- Table of Contents for print version
Present Time 180, July 2015, Table of Contents for print version
Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015 - Young People and Family Work
Young People and Family Work Projects of the Re-evaluation Foundation
Published in: Foundation - Harvey Jackins
The Human Situation, p. 224
- Support for RCers engaged in U.S. elections
US Election Support Project
Published in: Support for RCers engaged in U.S. elections - Farsi Translations
Translations into Farsi
Published in: Translations Farsi - - Itzulpenak euskarara
Itzulpenak euskarara, Translations into Basque
Published in: Translations Basque - - Sustaining All Life Handouts
Sustaining All Life Handouts
Published in: Environment - - Info for webinar organizers
Information for Zoom webinar organizers
Published in: Workshops Guidelines - Climate Moments
Climate moments for your RC classes, by Russ Vernon-Jones
Published in: Environment - - D.2. Requirements of RC Teachers
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Email 1
Published in: West Coast Leaders 2024
- Zoom Job Descriptions
Published in: West Coast Leaders 2024
- Mon histoire dans la Co-écoute
Published in: French
- About Electronic Mailing Lists
Published in: Lists -
- The Climate Crisis in Africa
The Climate Crisis in Africa. Welcome. Our societies use oppression to maintain themselves. We need to end all oppression to free humans from irrationality and thereby end the threat to our climate.
Published in: Present Time 213, October 2023, No Section23 - contents
Published in: BALCD Caribbean 2023
- Photos from NYC Climate Week 2023
Published in: Environment Nyccw_Photo_Gallery
- Important information NYC CW
Published in: Environment -
- Flyer en français
Published in: Bringing our full selves to wide world liberation work 2023
- SAL/UER at March to End Fossil Fuels
Published in: Environment -
- The Hands Project (March to End Fossil Fuels)
Published in: Environment -
- March Information
Published in: Environment -
- Emails to all registered
Published in: ILRP/ICRP Workshop
- contents
Published in: North America Pan Asian Workshop 2023
- Erin Huang-Schaffer—ILRP for Young Adults
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- SAL/UER Past Events
Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism events archives
Published in: Environment - - Colonization & Racism in Africa
Published in: Environment -
- Training for RC Teachers
Published in: Guidelines
- Sustaining All Life à la COP27
Published in: French
- All Topics Related to Money for Regional & International On-line Workshops
Published in: Workshops Guidelines
- A.3. The One-Point Program of the RC Community
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- A.3. The One-Point Program of the RC Community
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- Articles on Racism
Published in: Articles About Racism
- Dimentsio bat baino gehiago
Taldea eraginkorra izan dadin, gutxienez hiru dimentsiotan jardun behar du. Lehenik eta behin, taldea entitate gisa pentsatu behar dugu. Gizatalde baten entitatea eta gizabanakoarenak desberdina dira. Gizakiez osatuta dago, baina ez du funtzionatzen gizabanakoek dituzten arauen arabera, ezberdina da.
Published in: Translations Basque -, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - M.5. Part A Handling Oppressor Patterns and Addressing Mistakes, Disagreements, and Criticism
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- M.5. Part A Handling Oppressor Patterns and Addressing Mistakes, Disagreements, and Criticism
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- M.5. Part B Addressing Sexual Misconduct in the RC Community
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- M.5. Part B Addressing Sexual Misconduct in the RC Community
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- More Outlines for Teaching about Climate Change
Outlines by Russ Vernon-Jones, Marya Axner for teaching classes on the climate emergency.
Published in: Environment - - Mutliplied Awareness
Published in: The Human Situation
- Native Americans Protecting the Earth, Water and Sky
Published in: Environment -
- Pas qu’une seule dimension
Pour qu’une réflexion concernant le groupe soit efficace, il faut qu’elle opère dans au moins trois dimensions. Premièrement, on doit penser au groupe en tant qu’entité. Un groupe de gens est une entité différente des individus eux-mêmes. Il est composé des êtres humains qui en sont membres, mais il fonctionne selon des lois différentes de celles suivies par les individus.
Published in: French, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - Powerlessness is a Fraud
Powerlessness is a Fraud
Published in: Present Time No. 24, July 1976 - Report to the 2017 World Conference
Report to the 2017 World Conference, by Janet Foner. Our ability to handle the current crises and build a new society is intimately tied to overcoming the harshness of “mental health” oppression. The enforced holding back of discharge, the terror installed by the oppression, and the pressure to be “normal” make it hard to think about the big changes that need to be made.
Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 7 - Table of Contents
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019
- Talking to a Young Person about Sex and Pornography
Talking to a Young Person about Sex and Pornography, by anonymous. I am writing this with help from my son. He is sitting right next to me. He is eleven. This is a little about what we have done together on the topic of sex and pornography.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Counseling Practice - Unified Goal Webinar Transcript
Published in: Environment -
- Editorial Skills
Published in: Editors -
- Jeunes personnes, activisme et changement climatique
Published in: French
- Enseigner la Co-écoute en période d’effondrement
Published in: French
- "Je choisis de vivre pleinement ma vie"
Published in: French
- H.3. Regional and Area Classes, Support Groups, and Playdays, and Area Gather-ins
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- G.2. Interpreting at Workshops
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- D.2. Requirements of RC Teachers
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- D.4. Maintaining the Uniqueness and Consistency of RC Theory
Published in: Guidelines Introduction
- V. Projects Aimed Outside the RC Community
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- II. Self-Estimation
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- I. Leaders' Groups
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- M.4. One-Way Counseling
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- H.3. Regional and Area Classes, Support Groups, and Playdays, and Area Gather-ins
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- G.9. Conferences
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- E.7. Area Membership Meetings
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- E.4. Structure of the Community-Organizing Locally
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- E.3. Structure of the Community-International Reference Person, Alternate International Reference Person
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Optional Groups Schedule
Published in: Climate Leaders January 2023 Optional Groups
- Перевод на русский язык, Translations into Russian
Перевод на русский язык, Translations into Russian
Published in: Russian - Les personnes de moins de trente-cinq ans et le classisme
Published in: French
- Seguir desarrollando el liderazgo en RC
Published in: Spanish
- Éliminer le capitalisme
Published in: French
- EBko Lidergoa garatzen jarraitzea
Published in: Translations Basque -
- Norske oversettelser
Norske oversettelser (Translations into Norsk/Norwegian)
Published in: Norwegian - Photos Women's March January 2017
Published in: Foundation Nolimits -
- IV. Reaching Decision
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- G.10. Cooperative Workshops
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- G.2. Interpreting at Workshops
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- D.4. Maintaining the Uniqueness and Consistency of RC Theory
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- C.4. Fundamentals Classes
Published in: Guidelines 2022
- Summary and Context for Guideline M.5.
Published in: Guidelines
- YPYA
Published in: World Conference 2022
- Satellite Workshop Guidance
Published in: Satellite Guidelines
- Letter from Tim, Diane, Dvora
Published in: West Coast Pre-World 2022
- One-Way Counseling in the RC Community
Published in: RC Theory
- test
Published in: test
- Present Time 186, January 2017
Present Time No. 186, (Vol 49, No. 1) January 2017
Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017 - Benign Reality Available Again
Published in: Present Time
- The Owning-Class and Ending Classism
The Owning Class and Ending Classism, by Jo Saunders. The tiered system of class that is capitalism has the poor and working class creating the wealth, the middle class “managing“ to keep the system functioning and cooperative, and the owning class at the top of the tier taking and hoarding the bulk of the wealth. To train and condition human beings to collude with, and agree to, such a deeply wrongful system takes a multitude of divisions and hurts and much misinformation.
Published in: Liberation for New to RC - 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 - 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 - Responding to the COVID Pandemic
Published in: IRP Perspectives
- Present Time 191, April 2018
Present Time 191, April 2018
Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018 - 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 - Continuing to Move Forward in this Time of Collapse
Published in: IRP Perspectives
- Transcript of The Basics of RC Women’s Liberation webinar, June 2020
Published in: Foundation Nolimits -
- Confidence in Full Recovery, with Discharge
Confidence in Full Recovery, with Discharge, by Marsha Saxton. A couple of years ago, I developed a persistent rash over several months—itchy red patches on my hands and eyelids, near my mouth, and on my torso, and legs. My doctor insisted it was poison oak, which didn’t make sense to me, based on what I felt and what I read about rashes on the Internet.
Published in: Journals Well-Being 6 - Important CDs and DVDs
Published in: Present Time
- Outline: Jews & Climate Justice: Building a United Front
Published in: Environment -
- Outline: Women, Climate Emergency and the Economy
Published in: Environment -
- SAL COP 25 Santiago, Chile December 2019
Published in: Environment -
- Table of Contents, Present Time 198, January 2020
Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Contents
- 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 - Working to End Classism, as a Workshop Organizer
Working to End Classism, as a Workshop Organizer, by Jerry Ann Yoder. I was raised working class and am currently owning class, and I recently organized a large RC workshop. It was a wonderful opportunity to grow personally and to use the class privilege of time I now have to support some very important work.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - “My Job Is to Remind You of the Struggle”
“My Job Is to Remind You of the Struggle”, by Diane Balser. We have done a lot—in teaching RC and supporting magnificent women globally. And a key piece of our work is on climate change and sexism, male domination, and sexual exploitation.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation - Fully Including People with Disabilities
Fully Including People with Disabilities, by Marsha Saxton. The reality is that fully including people with disabilities benefits everyone. For example, it’s a strong contradiction to everyone’s isolation.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation - Native Liberation Is Strong and Growing Well
Native Liberation Is Strong and Growing Well, by Marcie Rendon. Native liberation is strong and growing well—partly due to our hosting a series of small workshops for folks with particular Native identities—Native men, Native women, owning-class Natives, Natives with Black heritage, Cherokee people, Native Chicanas/os—and a workshop for discharging on money.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation - Pakikinigang Magkapwa - Listening Together to Build RC
Pakikinigang Magkapwa - Listening Together to Build RC, by Teresa Enrico and Ana Liza (AL) Caballes. Building RC in the Islands of the Pacific continues! Two of us returned to the Philippines in May of this year—following up on last year’s trip, when six of us went. (See July 2018 Present Time.)
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - Negative Feelings about the Environmental Movement
Negative Feelings about the Environmental Movement, by Diane Shisk. The history of racism and classism in the environmental movement is a main source of people’s negative feelings. The U.S. environmental movement has its roots in the conservation movement, which was founded by owning-class white men who wanted to preserve beautiful places and species for their own benefit.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Wide World Changing - An Update: Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism
An Update: Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism, by Diane Shisk. Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism (SAL and UER) have a full schedule this fall. (2019)
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Wide World Changing - We Must Discharge, Then Decide to Act
We Must Discharge, Then Decide to Act, by Lorenzo Garcia.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Wide World Changing - Kia Ora (Greetings)
Kia Ora (Greetings) by Hemaima Wiremu. I continue to enjoy working at the Maori university teaching Rongoa Maori (Maori philosophies and customary medical practices). I like sharing a big office with both Maori people and people from South Pacific nations. They keep things real about climate change and the submergence of their homelands.
Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Wide World Changing - Ad for Black Re-emergence No. 13
Ad for Black Re-emergence No. 13
Published in: Present Time - 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 - The Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop in Poland
The Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop in Poland, by Maja Borkowska. The workshop gave me hope, as I could see how many women were actively opposing the oppressions and supporting other women to do that.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation - 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 - A Local Event in Support of Muslims
A Local Event in Support of Muslims, by Paul Trudeau. On the day of the attacks on the mosques in New Zealand, I enlisted a friend for support and organized a public event for the following day, in our local park, called “Solidarity with Muslims in the Wake of the Christchurch Mosque Attacks.”
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing - Being an Ally to Muslim Teenagers
Being an Ally to Muslim Teenagers, by Gwen Pollack. I do many things. Some are small, such as being sure to have candy without gelatin (something not generally eaten by Muslims) as prizes for games. When our school has a fashion show, I show film clips of the International Modest Fashion and Design Festival, which features women in Muslim attire.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing - Bravery and Climate Change
Bravery and Climate Change, by Emily Cunningham. I gave a speech at my company, one of the most powerful companies in the world, calling on our chief executive officer (CEO) to address the climate crisis on the scale and urgency it requires.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing - Direct Production Workers in Japan
Direct Production Workers in Japan, Dan Nickerson. A workshop in Tokyo, Japan, ended with a panel of twenty Japanese and Taiwanese direct production workers. Occupations included food service worker, retail check-out clerk, hairdresser, carpenter, custodian, caregiver for young and disabled people, street traffic guard, and nurse.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation - Public Education - A Good Place to Start
Public Education—a Good Place to Start, by Jenny Berry. As society continues to collapse, the people hardest hit are People of the Global Majority, working-class folks, women, and children. The public schools are very vulnerable to the current situation—they have less resource for children, teachers, and everyone who works with them.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing - Sharing RC at a Gathering of Global Feminists
Sharing RC at a Gathering of Global Feminists, by Azi Khalili. The United Nations Committee on the Status of Women holds a yearly two-week meeting in New York City, USA, to discuss the situation of women and girls and agree on next steps for eliminating discrimination and violence against women and “leveling the playing field.”
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing - The First Workshop for Direct Service Workers
The First Workshop for Direct Production Workers, by Dan Nickerson. The workshop was a first step in organizing direct production workers across the RC Communities.
Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation - Allies in Ending Fat Oppression
Allies in Ending Fat Oppression, by Nikki Stewart. I’ve been thinking about what it would look like to have solid allies as a large woman. And I’ve realized that until I feel aspiring allies’ passion and determination to end fat oppression, it will be hard to use them fully as client.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation - Climate Change Workshops in Nigeria
Climate Change Workshops in Nigeria, by Janet Kabue. This January I led three workshops in Nigeria on climate change. The workshops were in Lagos and Abuja and Enugu.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - My Journey Home
My Journey Home, by Alfred Oryem. RC family work has found a special place in my heart. Each time I get involved, I discover many hurts, some of which I have never worked on, and the results are so rewarding.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - 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 - Resolving the Question of Adding to Our One-Point Program
Resolving the Question of Adding to Our One-Point Program, by Diane Shisk. In recent years I have done a lot of work, inside and outside RC, on climate change. I have learned a lot about it: the science, the impacts on people and the environment, and the global political situation.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing - The National Women's March - Steps Forward for All of Us
The National Women's March - Steps Forward for All of Us, by Diane Balser. Women took big steps forward on many fronts at the U.S. National Women’s March, in January 2019.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing - The Human Male Intro
Introduction to The Human Male, by Harvey Jackins
Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements - Preparing for an Early Sexual Memories Workshop
Preparing for an Early Sexual Memories Workshop, by Julie Santall, Chynthia Johnston. Recently our local RC Area held an Early Sexual Memories Workshop. I had finished teaching my fundamentals student for twenty-four weeks, and she was interested in attending.
Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice - More from Rational Island Publishers
Published in: Present Time
- "A Fantastic Parents' Workshop
“A Fantastic Parents’ Workshop”, by Bess Herbert. I loved the opportunity to be with other parents and for a short time have space and permission to focus on this most significant project—parenting.
Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation - "Channeling" Harvey on Climate Change
"Channeling" Harvey on Climate Change, by Diane Shisk. From skit done for the staff of Re-evaluation Counseling Community Resources.
Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing - "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 - Flexibility at Healing from War Workshops
Flexibility at Healing from War Workshops, by Yohai Ben Ami. In October 2018 I attended a Healing from War Workshop in Poland. Some seventy Co-Counselors attended, from Oceania (Australia, New Zealand); Asia (Japan, Israel); Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Swaziland, South Sudan); Europe (Poland, Hungary, the Basque country, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom); Russia; and the Americas (El Salvador, the United States).
Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building - Growing Up Poor, and Classism in RC
Growing Up Poor, and Classism in RC, by Vivian MacClurg. I lived in poverty from my infancy well into my twenties and after that was often a paycheck away from being poor. Now as I’m growing older, with my work slowing down and without a pension, I am faced with how to not end up poor once again.
Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation - 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 - The Environment and "Mental Health" Oppression
The Environment and "Mental Health" Oppression, by Janet Foner. The following are some thoughts about how “mental health” oppression can hold us back from responding to the environmental crisis:
Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing - Climate change in Nigeria
Climate change in Akwa, Nigeria
Published in: Our Stories of Climate Change - Wytske Visser—International Commonality Reference Person for Care of the Environment
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Teresa Enrico—International Liberation Reference Person for Pilipinos/as and Pacific Islanders
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- Azi Khalili--ILRP for South, Central, and West-Asian Heritage People
Published in: International Liberation and Commonality Reference Persons Tell About Their Work
- New pamphlets ad 2017
Published in: Present Time
- The 2017 Guidelines
Published in: Present Time
- Over Twenty Years of Early Sexual Memories Workshops
Published in: Present Time 116, July 1999
- The Need for Policy
The Need for Policy, by Joan Karp. Much of our theory and policy goes against the many patterned assumptions of the various societies, cultures, and sub-cultures. It often takes time, study, discharge, and re-evaluation to expose the full extent of these patterned assumptions. However, fully understanding and participating in RC depends on it.
Published in: Present Time 29, October 1977 - Draft Policy on Artists' Liberation
Draft Policy for Artists' Liberation, by Harvey Jackins
Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements - Black Re-emergence No. 12
Ad for Black Re-emergence No. 12
Published in: Present Time - Anforderungen an NC Lehrer*innen
Anforderungen an NC Lehrer*innen (Requirements of RC Teachers) Guideline G.2.
Published in: German - H.2. CLASSES, GROUPES DE SOUTIEN, JOURNÉES DE JEU ET ASSEMBLÉES DE SECTEUR
H.2. CLASSES, GROUPES DE SOUTIEN, JOURNÉES DE JEU ET ASSEMBLÉES DE SECTEUR Contributions au Fonds d'Extension des Secteurs et au Fonds de Service Communautaire Les formateurs-formatrices de Co-écoute incluront dans le calcul de leurs honoraires, en tant que dépense de base de la classe, une participation équivalente à 25% du revenu brut, avant toute déduction d’autres dépenses, au Fonds d’Extension des Secteurs et au Fonds de Service Communautaire de Re-evaluation Counseling Community Resources, Inc. (RCCR)
Published in: French Guidelines - Present Time 189, October 2017
Present Time 189, October 2017. Table of Contents.
Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017 - N. RELATIONS ENTRE MEMBRES – LE PRINCIPE DE NON-SOCIALISATION N.1. LES RELATIONS DE CO-ÉCOUTE
N. RELATIONS ENTRE MEMBRES – LE PRINCIPE DE NON-SOCIALISATION64 N.1. LES RELATIONS DE CO-ÉCOUTE Nous tenons pour acquis que la relation de Co-écoute est une occasion unique pour progresser vers la totale réémergence des enregistrements de détresse.
Published in: French Guidelines - G.2. CRITÈRES POUR LES FORMATEURS-FORMATRICES DE CO-ÉCOUTE
G.2. CRITÈRES POUR LES FORMATEURS-FORMATRICES DE CO-ÉCOUTE Expérience et connaissances Les personnes posant leur candidature pour enseigner la Co-écoute auront, si possible :
Published in: French Guidelines - F.8. CONFÉRENCES
F.8. CONFÉRENCES Conférences Préparatoires et Conférence Mondiale Au moins une fois tous les quatre ans, une Conférence Préparatoire à la Conférence Mondiale est organisée sur chaque continent avec la participation des représentant-e-s des Régions et des groupes de libération ou d'intérêt commun du continent, de la PRI, de la Personne de Référence Internationale Suppléante (PRIS), et de personnes invitées pour représenter des groupes spécifiques de Co-écoutant-e-s.
Published in: French Guidelines - F.5. ATELIERS INTERNATIONAUX
F.5. ATELIERS INTERNATIONAUX Les ateliers organisés au niveau International ont pour objectif de favoriser la formation de futur-e-s formateurs-formatrices ou dirigeant-e-s pour chaque section de la population.
Published in: French Guidelines - F.4. ATELIERS RÉGIONAUX
F.4. ATELIERS RÉGIONAUX Les ateliers Régionaux sont des ateliers rassemblant des Co-écoutant-e-s appartenant à deux Secteurs ou plus. Lorsque ces ateliers ne sont pas dirigés par la PRR, ils devront avoir l'autorisation préalable de la PRI.
Published in: French Guidelines - F.1. ATELIERS – GÉNÉRALITÉS
F.1. ATELIERS – GÉNÉRALITÉS Des ateliers pour chaque niveau Des ateliers de Réévaluation par la Co-écoute sont organisés aux niveaux de la classe, du Secteur, de la Région, et aux niveaux multi-Régional et International.
Published in: French Guidelines - D.8. SECTEURS EN DIFFICULTÉ
D.8. SECTEURS EN DIFFICULTÉ Secteurs en difficulté Si la croissance et le développement d'un Secteur se sont interrompus, une action doit entreprise. La PRS et la PRSS, en consultation avec leur PRR, convoqueront une réunion des membres du Secteur.
Published in: French Guidelines - D.7. RÉUNIONS DES MEMBRES DU SECTEUR
D.7. RÉUNIONS DES MEMBRES DU SECTEUR Des réunions des membres du Secteur se tiendront au moins deux fois par an pour examiner et trouver un consensus sur les politiques à suivre, les programmes et les orientations à long terme.
Published in: French Guidelines - C.4. CLASSES EN LIGNE
C.4. CLASSES EN LIGNE Lorsqu’il est impossible ou difficile dans la pratique pour un-e Co-écoutant-e d’assister à une classe, les personnes formatrices peuvent proposer aux apprenant-e-s de participer à une classe en ligne ou par téléphone.
Published in: French Guidelines - Publications Addressing Racism
Published in: Present Time
- Planifier notre développement
Planifier notre développement, Tim Jackins. Nous voulons davantage de gens dans nos Communautés. Mon père1 dirait qu'il faut faire plus de classes de base. Le fait d'attirer de nouvelles personnes peut dépendre de l'ancienneté de la Communauté.
Published in: French, Teaching, Leading, Community BuildingPT 167, p. 19 - Important RC Resources
Important RC Resources: A New DVD: No Limits for Women and The List
Published in: Present Time - No Limits DVD and Pamphlet
Published in: Present Time
- A Victory Against Fear
A Victory Against Fear, by several. The forty-five of us who attended the Nairobi (Kenya) Young Adults’ Workshop in August 2015 considered it a victory—a victory against the fear of meeting and leading during war.
Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016 - Appreciations of Present Time
Appreciations of Present Time, No. 176
Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014 - 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 - Reports from No Limits in Beijing 1995
Reports from the No Limits for Women delegation to the UN Forum on Women, at the Conference on the Status of Women in Beijing, 1995
Published in: Foundation Nolimits - - Harvey Jackins
The Reclaiming of Power, p. 227
- Harvey Jackins
The Upward Trend, p. 102