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  • The Oppression of People Born and Raised in Maine

    The Oppression of People Born and Raised in Maine, by Dan Nickerson. To achieve the unity among us that we will need for our complete liberation, we will eventually have to clean up all the "little" oppressions which have become attached to the big ones. Please start thinking about counseling on and communicating to the rest of us the details of being a resident of Bethlehem, or the southern-most suburb of Tokyo, or Alaska, or being a native of the South Island, or Cuernavaca.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberationpages: 69 to 71

  • 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)

  • 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

  • My Picture of Young Adult Oppression and Liberation

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

  • The Intertwining of Racism and “Mental Health” Oppression

    The Intertwining of Racism and “Mental Health” Oppression by Janet Foner and others. "Mental health" oppression olds back the ending of racism.
    Published in: Present Time 129, October 2002, Liberation(Page 65-69)

  • Challenging My Internalized Oppression About Being Asian

    Challenging My Internalized Oppression About Being Asian, by Unyong Kim. Present Time No. 97, page 41. Asian internalized oppression causes one to act in a manner which invites others to overlook, marginalize, distrust, discount the contributions, struggles, and concerns of Asians. To break the cycle, the direction for Asian folks to take against the internalized oppression is to interact with others with the assumption “Of course they will want to be my ally; I just need to coach them about me and my group.”
    Published in: Present Time 97, October 1994

  • 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

  • Young Peoples Oppression and Goal Two

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

  • 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

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

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

  • School, Education, and Young People’s Oppression

    School, Education, and Young People’s Oppression, by Mari Piggott. All people are born wired to learn. We love to learn and try new things.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberationpages 53 to 54

  • Oppression

    Published in: RC Theory

  • 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)

  • The Connection Between Anti-Jewish Oppression and “Mental Health” Oppression

    The Connection Between Anti-Jewish Oppression and “Mental Health” Oppression by Phyllis Kessler. The Jewish “Mental Health” System Survivors’ Workshop, led by Janet Foner, helped me to understand some things about my distress that I had not fully understood before.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 73

  • Pornography, and Men's Internalized Oppression

    Pornography, and Men’s Internalized Oppression, by Michael Hartman. I’ve been working in my sessions to be able to feel fear—after years of conditioning to hide and obscure it.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberation(page 28)

  • European Help in Ending Internalized Oppression of USers

    European Help in Ending Internalized Oppression of USers, by Randy Austill. I attended the "Ending Classism/United States-er Liberation" workshop led by Rosie Brennan last February in Charlton, Massachusetts, USA. It was a wonderful workshop in all regards. I was particularly interested in the United States-ers Liberation part, since this theory was new to me (and since I am a USer). These are some of the ideas I brought home from the workshop
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(pages 21 to 22)

  • 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

  • Ending Silence About Oppression

    Ending Silence About Oppression, by Jevera Temsky. I am teaching a class on ending racism and classism. We have divided the class into segments on Asian liberation, Latino/a liberation, and black liberation. On Saturday we had the Latino/a liberation class, and I worked with two Latinas on the commitment to end racism.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(page 22)

  • Smashed by the Oppression and Fighting My Way Back

    Smashed by the Oppression and Fighting My Way Back, by Brenda Wastasecoot. We met at the Native teachers' and leaders' workshop in 1996. That was a wonderful time spent with you and the other Native leaders in RC.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: page 83)

  • 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

  • Every Oppression Is Based on Classist Oppression

    Every Oppression Is Based on Classist Oppression by Harvey Jackins. Every particular oppression needs to be revealed to the liberation movements that are organized against it as based on and connected to the overall classist oppression on which present societies operate.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation50

  • Classist Economic Oppression Grinding In

    Classist Economic Oppression Grinding In by, Pam Roby. There's a useful graph on page 36 of Time Magazine (November 6, 1995) that shows that the U.S. has the largest income gap between rich and poor of any major industrial nation. (It compares Sweden [lowest gap], Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, Ireland, and the U.S.-interestingly it omits Japan.)
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: page 78)

  • Economic Oppression and the Environment

    Economic Oppression and the Environment, by Dan Nickerson. At my workshops, I have not done a lot of direct work on the environment, though in talking about the "internal contradictions" of capitalism I talk about the exploitation of the environment and the genocide of the Indigenous people.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(Page 79)

  • Complete Elimination of Oppression

    Elimination of Oppression, quote by Harvey Jackins. Attempts to end oppression are often or usually directed by the oppressive society and its agents into “reformist” channels
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberationpage 67

  • Liberation from Oppression

    Liberation from Oppression, by Harvey Jackins, Present Time No. 41, p 36. At two recent Teachers' and Leaders' Workshops, some new steps were taken in communicating about oppression. In each case a "panel" of members of oppressed groups addressed the workshop
    Published in: Present Time 41, October 1980, Liberation

  • The Benefits of Not Oppressing

    The Benefits of Not Oppressing, by Dennis Hicks. I think we can start thinking of how the oppressor actually benefits by giving up oppressive behavior and privilege. We might ask something like, "What will I gain by giving up privilege/oppressive behavior?" or conversely, "What have I given up or lost by accepting privilege/my oppressor role?"
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberation(Page: 64)

  • One Possible Way to Weaken Capitalist Oppression: Non-Acceptance of inheritance

    One Possible Way to Weaken Capitalist Oppression: Non-Acceptance of inheritance, by Petra Hirsch. After reading several good articles about the hurts owning-class people experience and the uncaring ways of our oppressive capitalist society, I realized that one way to stop this mad perpetuation of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is to not accept owning-class inheritance.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Wide World Changing(page 61.)

  • 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 Useful Format for Work on Class Oppression

    A Useful Format for Work on Class Oppression, by Dan Nickerson. The format begins with people introducing themselves and answering the following question: “What is your connection to the working class?”
    Published in: Present Time 105, October 1996, Liberation(pages 47 to 49)

  • 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

  • Some History About Oppression

    Some History About Oppression, by Brenda Wastasecoot. I wanted to follow up on my practicum at the Mental Health Center (on the Child and Adolescent Ward). Every time I leave the place I feel insane - that is, I feel unsure that I am okay.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: page 84

  • Interrupting All Oppressions and Patterns

    Interrupting All Oppressions and Patterns by, D. I am so looking forward to the day when we are all just "human beings" and do not have to identify any other way. You have done so much to set us on the right track. I hope one day to become as good a model of the inherent goodness of human beings as you are.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(pages 15 to 16)

  • Women Reach, Men Respond and Unite Against Oppression

    Women Reach, Men Respond and Unite Against Oppression, by Anne Marie Sorenson. I work at the only women's shelter for victims of domestic violence in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Actually it's the only one in the country.)
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Wide World Changing: page 9

  • Looking At How Oppression Is Enforced

    Looking At How Oppression Is Enforced by, Barbara Freeman. I had contact with the criminal justice system, via a family member, over a period of three to four years. I learnt many things during that time-about how the system functions, the harshness of that "secretive" world away from the eyes of society, the mistreatment of prisoners, the pressure on prison officers to conform to the oppressor role, and the lack of respect and dignity accorded to family members.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(page 13)

  • Challenging Anti-Jewish Oppression in the Church

    Challenging Anti-Jewish Oppression in the Church, by Bruce Clezy. A few weeks before Easter, I spoke to our priest about trying to do something different during Holy Week.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changing(page 79)

  • 阻止对年轻人的压迫行为

    Interrupting Young People's Oppression, by Margot Brinn, translated by Fan Xiyan. Present Time 161, October 2010, p. 42.
    Published in: Chinese

  • Le «terrain d’entraînement»pour toutes les autres oppressions

    Le «terrain d’entraînement» pour toutes les autres oppressions, by Harvey Jackins
    Published in: French, Liberation

  • Parenting, and Parents’ Oppression

    Parenting, and Parents’ Oppression, by Rob Vichnis. We are a new RC Region in New York City (USA). For the last year we have been building family work. I lead our Region’s parents, who make up about half the people in the Region.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Scots Oppression and COP26

    Published in: Our Work to End Racism

  • Penser et agir face à l’oppression

    Thinking and Acting in the Face of Oppression, by Jen Wexler
    Published in: French, Wide World Changing

  • The Role of Societal Oppressions on Human Connection

    Published in: Sexual Misconduct Resource Document

  • Conditioned to Oppress Each Other

    Conditioned to Oppress Each Other, by Harvey Jackins. One of the principal means used by capitalist societies to maintain their exploitation and oppression of people has been to secure the cooperation of different groups of people in oppressing each other. This has been done by installing and maintaining attitudes of racism, prejudice, sexism, and the oppression of young people between the different sections of the oppressed population.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section05

  • 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

  • An Oppressed Group Must Move in Two Directions

    An Oppressed Group Must Move in Two Directions, by Harvey Jackins. It must strive for unity within its own group around a clear-cut program of goals and action. 2. The group must consistently seek unity and mutual support with every other oppressed group, no matter how difficult this task may seem at first.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section15

  • Challenging Age-Related Oppression

    Challenging Age-Related Oppression, by Barb Molanus and Brooke Greenwood. Both young people (ages zero to twenty) and young adults (ages twenty-one to thirty) face oppression because of their age, but their oppressions are different.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation78

  • Protestants Ending Anti-Jewish Oppression

    Protestants Ending Anti-Jewish Oppression, by Joy Kroeger-Mappes. It is our job as Gentiles and allies to Jews to end anti-Jewish oppression, because it is our problem.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation83

  • Refuse to Be Oppressed

    Refuse to Be Oppressed, by Harvey Jackins. Refuse to agree to be oppressed. . . . Sometimes it will be smart to pretend to accept the oppression temporarily until you can find a way to get away from it, but don’t ever accept it in your own mind.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation49

  • The Oppression and Liberation of Teachers

    The Oppression and Liberation of Teachers, by Russ Vernon-Jones. Classroom No. 9, page 43.
    Published in: Classroom 9

  • 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

  • "Mental Health" Oppression and Liberation

    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • 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

  • The Oppression Of Classism

    Published in: Present Time 59, April 1985

  • Owning-Class Oppression: Why and How

    Owning-Class Oppression: Why and How, by Jo Saunders. Coming Home No. 1, page 5.
    Published in: Coming Home

  • Racism and “Mental Health” Oppression

    Racism and “Mental Health” Oppression, by Janet Foner. Society defines “normal” people as those who have dominant roles in society—who are white, Protestant, USers, male, owning or middle class. These people’s behaviors are the “standard” for how “normal” people are supposed to act, which sets things up so that people targeted by racism are seen as “other,” “strange,” or “crazy.”
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation56

  • 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

  • Organising to End Class Oppression

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

  • Young Jews Challenging Internalized Oppression

    Young Jews Challenging Internalized Oppression, by Alana Eichner. This past July I attended the Young Jews Workshop led by Emily Bloch and Cherie Brown.1 Emily started the workshop by challenging us to have an accurate picture of our significance as young and young adult Jews at the center of both Jewish liberation and the RC Community.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation42

  • Confronting a Very Old Oppression

    Confronting a Very Old Oppression, by Nikki Berry. I led a topic group on women and our bodies and another on sex and sexism. I was struck with how much we blame ourselves for the hurts we show as a result of sexism.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Liberation62

  • Liberation From "Mental Health" Oppression

    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 5

  • “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

  • Changing the Oppressive Society

    Changing the Oppressive Society, by Tim Jackins. I was wondering how the work of eliminating classism is going in the RC Communities.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing17

  • Moving Against Language Oppression

    Moving Against Language Oppression
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Wide World Changing:84

  • Disability Oppression and Liberation

    Disability Oppression and Liberation by David Ruebain. I want to think about disability oppression and liberation, particularly from the perspective of a person born with a noticeable impairment in England in the early 1960s. It sometimes surprises allies to hear that many of us who are disabled take pride in our identity.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 53-55

  • Origins of Oppression

    The Origins of Oppression and the Discipline of Hope by Brian Smeaton and Dan Nickerson. Why is there oppression? Where does oppression—classism, racism, sexism, and so on—come from? Why do so many people use violence against one another? Why do we kill and get killed in war? Why do a small number of people control most of the resources?
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Wide World Changingpages 69 to 70

  • Oppressed Groups Organizing and Leading Their Oppressors

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

  • The Internalized Oppression of Latin American Catholics

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • The “Mental Health” System 
Supports All Oppressions 


    The “Mental Health” System 
Supports All Oppressions, by Harvey Jackins. The “mental health” system functions not for “mental health” but as an overhanging, overwhelming threat against people who rebel against any oppression. “Mental health” oppression is the “stop sign” for all liberation movements.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation56

  • Internalized Oppression

    Internalized Oppression, Harvey Jackins. Our success in combatting oppression and its results was greatly increased when we began to recognize the operation of internalized oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation64

  • The “Training Ground” for All Other Oppressions

    The “Training Ground” for All Other Oppressions, Harvey Jackins. The oppression of young people by adults is the “training ground” for all other oppressions.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation74

  • Looking at Gay Oppression and Internalized Sexism between LGBTQF and Heterosexual Women

    Looking at Gay Oppression and Internalized Sexism between LGBTQF and Heterosexual Women by "Susan Wong". I helped organize a workshop called Ending Gay Oppression and Internalized Sexism between LGBTQF [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Formerly] and Heterosexual Women. It was led by “Jeanne D’Arc” (the International Liberation Reference Person for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, and Transgender People) and Diane Balser (the International Liberation Reference Person for Women).
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation54

  • I Have a “Mental Health” Oppression Story

    I Have a “Mental Health” Oppression Story by Lori Leifer. I attended the Jewish “Mental Health” System Survivors’ Workshop, led by Janet Foner, and got the opportunity to work squarely on my “mental health” oppression story for an entire weekend.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 74

  • The Oppression of Regional or National Groups

    The Oppression of Regional or National Groups
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation42

  • To End Racism We Must End Anti-Jewish Oppression

    To End Racism We Must End Anti-Jewish Oppression by JG. I am a Han Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish Co-Counselor in the United States. My RC Region (Idaho, Montana, and parts of Washington, USA) recently held two simultaneous workshops—one for People of the Global Majority and Natives raised Native and another for white people (including Natives raised white).
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:75

  • Non-Gay Men Working onGay Oppression and Male Domination

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

  • Speaking Out on Facebook about Anti-Jewish Oppression

    Speaking Out on Facebook about Anti-Jewish Oppression by Sarah Goodman. The Parkland shooting [the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, USA] had a big impact on people here in Canada. And learning of the layers that weren’t being mentioned in the media, such as the school’s significant Jewish population and the anti-Jewish nature of a speech by the CEO [Chief Executive Officer] of the NRA [National Rifle Association] made me feel scared and quiet.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing16

  • Don’t Accept Oppression

    Don’t Accept Oppression, by Harvey Jackins. Refuse to agree to be oppressed.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation32

  • 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

  • Care-of-the-Environment Activists Ending All Oppression

    Care-of-the-Environment Activists Ending All Oppression by Wytske Visser. A group of international RC care-of-the-environment leaders met on Skype. I asked them to answer a question that could be useful for any group. The question goes like this: If we are going to end all oppression, then what can be the role of ______ (in this case, care-of-the-environment activists)?
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing71

  • No Unimportant Oppression

    No Unimportant Oppression, by Harvey Jackins. I think it is necessary for us to communicate, and reiterate over and over, that there is no unimportant oppression, that everyone needs every ally they can get, that we must be glad to throw our support behind every group, no matter how small or unpopular, if they are actually seeking liberation, and that we’ll be glad to include their proposals and demands in the general program.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation70

  • Talking about Oppression First

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

  • The Effects of Oppressive Societies

    The Effects of the Oppressive Societies, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No.131, page 23. Feeling bad about ourselves and feeling hopeless
    Published in: Present Time 131, April 2004

  • Protecting the Climate Movement
from Anti-Jewish Oppression


    Protecting the Climate Movement
from Anti-Jewish Oppression
, by Billy Yalowitzz. I was a member of the RC Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism (SAL/UER) delegation to the New York (USA) Climate Summit (NYCS) in September 2019. I led the RC Jewish constituency and a workshop called “Jews and Climate Justice—Building a United Front.” 

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing37

  • Contradicting Young Adults’ Internalized Oppression

    Contradicting Young Adults’ Internalized Oppression by Amy Calandrella. At the East Coast North America Pre-World Conference, Emily Bloch, the International Liberation Reference Person for Young Adults, asked all of us young adults to lead or organize a one-day workshop for young adults in our Region before the end of the year. Three of us decided to work on ours together. It was awesome!
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation51

  • Early Distresses, Oppression, and Sleep

    Early Distresses, Oppression, and Sleep, by Ayana Morse. Most young children don’t reliably get the chance to sleep when they are tired, to wake up and be close to people when they are ready to be awake, to be as energetic and lively as they would like to be when they are awake, to cry when they need to, or to wrestle and laugh when things get too scary to relax.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice05

  • Violence, and the Oppression of Men

    Violence, and the Oppression of Men by Ken Sazama
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberation82

  • Commitments Against Oppression

    Published in: Commitments

  • Steps Toward Liberation of Any Oppressed Group

    Steps Toward Liberation for Any Oppressed Group, by Harvey Jackins. The Rest of Our Lives, page 41.
    Published in: Rest of Our Lives

  • It's Time to Defy "Mental Health" Oppression

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Threading My Way Through Confusing Oppressions

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Helping My Dad Discharge Oppressive Attitudes

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Sexism in African American Communities and Black Women’s Oppression in the World

    Sexism in African American Communities and Black Women’s Oppression in the World, by Nikki Stewart. I write now and always as female first—as it was the first major identity and oppression imposed on me at birth.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation42

  • When the Pattern of Oppression Is Restimulated

    When the Pattern of Oppression Is Restimulated, by Harvey Jackins. The installed pattern of oppression leads to one or both of two results when the distress pattern is restimulated.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section28

  • What Oppression Is

    What Oppression Is, by Harvey Jackins. If one person is beating the other with a stick, both are degraded by the act. But there is a huge difference between the different ends of the stick.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section19

  • Experiencing Fat Oppression 
“from Both Sides”


    Experiencing Fat Oppression 
“from Both Sides”
, by Anonymous. I attended the North American Female Allies to Large Women Workshop led by Teresa Enrico in September 2019.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation77

  • The Effects of Sexism and Men’s Oppression on Parenting

    The Effects of Sexism and Men’s Oppression on Parenting , by Keith Charlton. Just over two years ago my wife, L—, died. We had been in a close, committed relationship for forty years and had co-parented five children.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation33

  • Thinking and Acting in the Face of Oppression

    Thinking and Acting in the Face of Oppression, by Jen Wexler. The city of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, issued a permit for a “right-wing free-speech” group to hold a rally in August of 2017. A much larger group of about forty thousand people gathered as a counter protest to the racist ideology of white supremacy advocated by many of the rally speakers.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing32

  • Ode to the ending of oppression by a white Protestant woman (a sonnet)

    Ode to the ending of oppression by a white Protestant woman (a sonnet), by Sarah Harre.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation68

  • Distress Recordings and Oppression

    Distress Recordings and Oppression, by Harvey Jackins. Oppression and exploitation take many forms in our society. A powerful, technically advanced nation oppresses and exploits weaker nations.
    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

  • The Oppressions of Women and Men

    The Oppressions of Women and Men, by Harvey Jackins. The battle of women and their allies against sexist oppression has been the most widespread and the most hopeful of people’s struggles in the last decades.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 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

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

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

  • An Oppression That's Aimed at Everyone

    An Oppression That’s Aimed at Everyone, by "Jeanne D'Arc". In this era, Gay oppression is aimed at absolutely everyone—to make everyone smaller and more careful, tucked in [restrained], and well behaved. It has affected every single one of you. And, then, of course, it’s aimed at LGBQT folks.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Racism and "Mental Health" Oppression

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

  • The Final End of Oppression

    The Final End of Oppression, by Harvey Jackins. The final end of social oppression will be dependent on ending the domination of humans by distress patterns.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Men’s Oppression—and Supporting Women

    Men’s Oppression—and Supporting Women, by Randy Smith. There is no better time for men, both inside and outside of RC, to support women in their struggle against sexist oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Why Oppressive Societies Continue

    Why Oppressive Societies Continue. by Tim Jackins. Oppressive societies can continue to exist because they hurt every person so badly—so badly that almost everyone feels like he or she would not survive one more blow. People are afraid to move for fear that there would be one more, and that that would be the end.
    Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012, Wide World Changing

  • H.13. EXTENSION À TOUS LES GROUPES VISÉS PAR L’OPPRESSION

    H.13. EXTENSION À TOUS LES GROUPES VISÉS PAR L’OPPRESSION Chaque Secteur s'attachera à étendre la Co-écoute à tous les groupes sous-représentés dans sa localité et à tous les groupes visés par l’oppression.
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • Raised-Poor Oppression, and Belonging in a Jewish Community

    Raised-Poor Oppression, and Belonging in a Jewish Community, by Marci Stern. For much of my adult life I have been searching for a way to “belong” to a Jewish community. It became clear to me that this was not “my failing,” that classism plays out [is acted out] within Jewish communities.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • An Oppression That Divides and Confuses

    An Oppression That Divides and Confuses, by Cherie Brown. Jews are a people that have been on the planet for two thousand years. We belong to all races. We are brilliant, feisty, and sometimes terrified, and lead beyond our numbers in many liberation struggles.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Building Unity Now: Standing for Humans and Opposing All Oppressions

    Building Unity Now: Standing for Humans and Opposing All Oppressions, by Barbara Love, Azi Khalili and Cherie Brown. We are three International Liberation Reference People who want to emphasize our commitment to the following: liberation from all distress, opportunity for all, and communities characterized by justice. We have come together to express our commitment to unity and to take (and encourage everyone to take) a public stand against any forces that try to manipulate and divide us.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing

  • El Campo De Entrenamiento Para Todas Las Opresiones

    El Campo De Entrenamiento Para Todas Las Opresiones, Spanish translation of The Training Ground for All Other Oppressions, Harvey Jackins
    Published in: Spanish, Liberation

  • "Mental Health" Oppression and Liberation

    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019

  • Commitments Against Oppression

    Published in: Our Work to End Racism

  • Pensar y actuar frente a la opresión

    Thinking and Acting in the Face of Oppression, by Jen Wexler
    Published in: Spanish, Wide World Changing

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

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

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

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Das Ende der Unterdrückung von Müttern planen

    Published in: German, PT 80, p. 21

  • Draft Program to Eliminate Sexism

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

  • “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

  • More “Myself”

    More “Myself” by Anonymous. It was an honor to attend the Ending Gay Oppression and Internalized Sexism between LGBTQF [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Formerly] and Heterosexual Women Workshop [see previous article]. I loved being part of a powerful group of women looking at the intersection of sexism and Gay oppression and the effects of those oppressions (and the other oppressions that intersect with them) on all women’s lives.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation55

  • I Am Very Hopeful

    I Am Very Hopeful, by Anne Helgedagsrud, I have wanted to write to this list ever since the Care of the Environment Workshop in the Basque Country in February.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:28

  • “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

  • 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

  • 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

  • RC’s Commitment to LGBTQ+ Liberation

    RC’s Commitment to LGBTQ+ Liberation, by Tim Jackins. Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) has always taken a strong stance against every form of oppression, including the oppression of LGBTQ+ people. From its earliest years, RC has supported workshops, classes, support groups, and publications that highlight the significance of LGBTQ+ people and how important it is for everyone to combat and undo the oppression of LGBTQ+ people.
    Published in: Present Time 205, October 2021

  • Teaching RC to My Young Adult Friends

    Teaching RC to My Young Adult Friends by Jessica Whitehead. RC Teacher 29, page 83. Several years ago I decided to teach an RC fundamentals class for my friends. I wanted to bring discharge and an understanding of distress, oppression, and internalized oppression to the people I cared most about. Re-evaluation Counseling has made my life better in countless ways, and I knew it could play that role for my friends as well.
    Published in: Teaching RC

  • 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

  • Reclaiming Complete Pride and Power as U.S. Catholics

    Reclaiming Complete Pride and Power as U.S. Catholics, by Joanne Bray. Present Time No. 71, pages 40 to 42. We deserve to be in touch with the wonderful aspects of our culture and realize this pride is no way a defense of the oppressive patterns that have attached themselves to the institution. We need to understand that any message from the outside that denies our essential goodness as Catholics is oppressive.
    Published in: Present Time 71, April 1988

  • 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

  • Ending the Mistreatment of Children

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

  • A Fabulous, Forward-Moving Workshop

    A Fabulous, Forward-Moving Workshop, by Eric Lessinger. “Mental health” oppression and anti-Jewish oppression intersect.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation29

  • Guidelines for Allies to Teens

    Guidelines for Allies to Teens by Chuck Esser. Teens in Co-Counseling need allies of all ages to help make RC work well for them. We adults who are building relationships with teens, particularly two-way Co-Counseling relationships, need to remember that we are doing it in societies in which young people are oppressed, with adults acting as the agents of the oppression, and that many young people have few experiences of being taken seriously, listened to, and respected by adults.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Counseling Practice35

  • College and University Faculty

    College and University Faculty, by Ellie Brown. As college and university faculty, our lot is tied to the rest of humankind. Our issues are those facing the entire planet and include classism, racism, sexism, young people’s and other oppressions, environmental degradation, wars, and genocide. We are set up to produce ideas and workers that serve the class hierarchy.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section83

  • Frisian Liberation

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

  • Really Listen to Us!

    Really Listen to Us!, by "Emma Peel." “Jeanne D’Arc’s” explanation—at the recent Eliminating Gay Oppression and Internalized Oppression for All Women Workshop, in New York, USA—of the limited ways that heterosexual women listen to us LGBQF+ women; the limitations of using a “frame” when listening to usRecognising that as a white woman I listen in limited ways to women targeted by racism.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation68

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

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

  • 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

  • Suggestions for Allies to People with Disabilities

    Suggestions for Allies to People with Disabilities by Marsha Saxton. Allies have important roles to play in the participation and liberation of people with disabilities: Allies can give good counseling to contradict disability internalized oppression. To do this, they need to get close to disabled people so that they can understand their lives and how the oppression works.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation58

  • Female, Jewish, and Middle-Class

    Female, Jewish, and Middle-Class, by Diane Balser. We put class and female oppression at the heart of the workshop, and each group of us worked from where we had experienced these two oppressions.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation78

  • Southern Liberation

    Southern Liberation, by Barbara Love. Excerpts from Barbara Love’s talks at the Southern Liberation Workshop she led in January 2006. While historical confusions have been draped around us, they have never been true of us. By confusions, I mean the efforts of an oppressive society to establish patterns of subordination and domination and to secure our collusion with these patterns.
    Published in: Present Time 147, April 2007, Liberation(pages 18 to 23)

  • Grateful for RC

    Grateful for RC, Marsha Saxton. Shortly after the election, I offered my university students some RC-influenced perspectives. I told them that our internalized oppression can minimize our sense of power, that we have a choice about whether to succumb to feeling victimized and immobilized, and that the confusions and ill-preparedness that led to the election outcome are not our fault, that they were decades in coming and preceded by millennia of oppressive history.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing42

  • Elders’ Liberation Is for Everyone

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

  • 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

  • Elders

    Elders, by Pam Geyer. Elder oppression begins early in our lives and continues as the years tick by—through our thirties, forties, and fifties—so by the time we are sixty, most of us have internalized it.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section38

  • Language Liberation in Southern Africa

    Language Liberation in Southern Africa, by Margaret Green. At topic-group time, despite my wearing a good number of oppressor roles, I suggested a group on language oppression and liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:39

  • The Challenge of Opening a New Frontier

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

  • Jewish Elders—Not Expendable

    Jewish Elders—Not Expendable by Eileen Nemzer. I recently attended the Jewish Elders’ Workshop led by Cherie Brown and Pam Geyer [see article on page 53]. It was transformative for me. Cherie pointed out that the oppression of Jews and the oppression of elders have devastating messages in common: “You are expendable.” “You are no longer valued or wanted.” “If you are lucky, and careful to not be too big, you may be tolerated.”
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation54

  • The U.S. Presidential Election

    The U.S. Presidential Election, by Tim Jackins. The result of the recent presidential election in the United States was not what many of us had hoped for or expected. The person elected is someone who has been willing to openly act on his oppressive distress recordings of racism, sexism, and other oppressions.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing28

  • Toward Liberation Through Connection

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

  • “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

  • Protestants

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Draft Women's Policy Statement

    DRAFT WOMEN’S POLICY STATEMENT, Number Four.
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • 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

  • Key Issues for Elders, and Future Elders

    Key Issues for Elders, and Future Elders, by Pam Geyer. The author lays out key issues - health, elder oppression and enlisting allies.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation53

  • 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

  • The Working Class, the World, and RC

    Published in: Working for a Living 5

  • Nothing Less Than Complete Respect

    Nothing Less Than Complete Respect, by Harvey Jackins. In working with teenagers, the internalized oppression (that takes place with every group that has been oppressed) was so heavy that we were looking for a way of interrupting it. . . . We asked them to make a promise to each other, and the wording is, “I solemnly promise that, from this moment on, I will never again treat any young person, including myself, with anything less than complete respect.”
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing67

  • Insights into Jewish Liberation

    Insights into Jewish Liberation, by Sharon Wolf. Anti-Jewish oppression makes us think that we are safer if we assimilate. Adding Jewish content to our lives contradicts that part of the oppression and can be important to our re-emergence.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation(page 52)

  • Jewish Liberation Is Everybody’s Concern

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

  • Jewish Liberation Is Everybody's Concern

    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • No Limits, The Liberation of Women

    Published in: Foundation Nolimits -

  • Raised Poor Draft Policy Statement

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

  • The Influence of Male Domination and Sexism on Language

    The Influence of Male Domination and Sexism on Language by Patxi Xabier Odriozola Ezeitza. For a long time in RC we have thought and discharged about how the oppressive system we live in has influenced different aspects of our daily lives. So far we have not found any signs that the distresses human beings carry are inherent to them or intrinsic to the nature of the human species.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation46

  • Chinese-Heritage People

    Chinese-Heritage People, by Francie Chew. As Chinese-heritage people, we seek to free all of humanity from want and oppression and to care for our environment so that our planet can sustain all species, including our own. We want all of humanity to be able to pursue happiness, which Harvey Jackins said had been well defined as “overcoming of obstacles on the way to a goal of one’s own choosing.”
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section16

  • Combatting Firefighter Fatalities

    Combatting Firefighter Fatalities, Jeanne Bulla. More fatalities a result of working-class men's oppression
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 40

  • Basic RC Theory Is "Mental Health" Liberation Theory

    Basic RC Theory Is "Mental Health" Liberation Theory, by Janet Foner. Present Time No.170, page 48. One way basic RC theory contradicts “mental health” oppression is with the assumption that all humans are intelligent by nature.
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013, Liberation

  • INTERNALIZED RACISM

    Published in: Black Reemergence 2

  • Basic Understandings from the Work on Women’s Liberation

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

  • 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

  • A Draft Program for Young Adult Liberation

    A Draft Program for Young Adult Liberation, by Ayana Morse. Young adulthood is the transition period between youth and adulthood. In Co-Counseling we define young adults as between the ages of twenty-one and thirty.
    Published in: Present Time 111, April 1998

  • 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

  • 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

  • Visual Artists

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

  • Facing and Discharging on Sexism

    Facing and Discharging on Sexism, by Erin Mansell. I am a raised-working-class woman. The biggest battle for me as I lead is to reach my mind and fight the messages in my head that tell me that I’m doing it wrong, that what I said or did was stupid, and that I don’t know what I’m doing. Sexism, male domination, and class oppression smashed me, particularly as a teenage girl.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation50

  • The Widespread Effects of Neocolonialism

    The Widespread Effects of Neocolonialism, by Teresa Enrico. In RC we often talk about capitalism, a system in which the majority of people work and produce for the profit and “benefit” of a few. We understand that in the current period, class oppression (classism) is driven by capitalism.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changing: pages 67 to 68

  • Young People and RC

    Young People and 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.”
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberationpages 49 to 51

  • Leading “Mental Health” Liberation


    Leading “Mental Health” Liberation
, by Janet Foner. From a talk by Janet Foner, who was the International Liberation 
Reference Person for “Mental Health” Liberation,
at a workshop in New Hampshire, USA, in November 2015

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Counseling Practice13

  • Janet Foner— International Liberation Reference Person for “Mental Health” Liberation

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Counseling on Early Sexual Memories

    Published in: Pamphlets

  • “My Takeaway Was Pure Joy”

    “My Takeaway Was Pure Joy”, by Anne McAndrew. This workshop brought into focus the many ways that large women’s oppression impacts my life. I realized how many health and appearance-related decisions I make each day and hour, and the huge amount of time I spend pressing against the oppression internally.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation43

  • 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

  • Thinking About Transgender People

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ending Racism--Making it Happen

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

  • 2022 Goals of the RC Community

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

  • Possessors Of Vast Treasures

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

  • All Commitments

    All commitments
    Published in: Commitments

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Raised Working-Class Woman Thinks About the Middle Class—with Love

    A Raised Working-Class Woman Thinks About the Middle Class—with Love, by Ann Mackie. Our True Selves No. 2, pages 23 - 27.
    Published in: Our True Selves 2

  • Working on Oppressor Material

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

  • The Art of Listening

    The Art of Listening, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time No. 46, pp 48-53. This inherent process that we're all equipped to use has been, in general, frustrated, simply because it takes another person outside of ourselves really paying attention while we talk and think about ourselves, and re-experience the distresses that we have accumulated, for it to work
    Published in: Present Time 46, January 1982, Counseling Practice

  • Being Sensible About Class Divisions

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

  • "Mental Health" Liberation Is for Everyone

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • A Policy in the Making

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

  • Language Liberation, and Individual Re-emergence

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

  • Preparing to Play a Key Role in Transforming Society

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

  • 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

  • Excerpts from Diane Balser's Talks at the Women of Color Workshop

    Excerpts from Diane Balser's Talks at the Women of Color Workshop. Sisters No. 11, page 36.
    Published in: Sisters 11

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #1

    Published in: Teaching -

  • Thinking, Discharging, and Talking about Suicide

    Thinking, Discharging, and Talking about Suicide, by Joan MacKenzie I believe that many people have thought about suicide. However, hardly anyone ever talks about it. “Mental health” oppression makes it scary to talk about, because it can send you into the “mental health” system quickly.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Counseling Practice11

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mizrachi Identity

    Mizrachi Identity, by Orit Aviv. The difficulty in sharing and telling comes from the oppression. As long as the Mizrachi culture is perceived as less valuable, of less quality, there exists an apprehension to tell about dear and beloved things lest they are perceived as negative and not worthy.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, LiberationPage: 73

  • 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

  • My Jewish-Ukrainian-Puerto Rican Heritage

    My Jewish-Ukrainian-Puerto Rican Heritage, by Aurora Levins Morales.My father’s family is of Ukrainian Jewish heritage. They have been in the United States since the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My mother’s family is Puerto Rican, of Caribbean Indigenous, North and West African, Spanish, and probably Arab heritage.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberationpages 41 to 44

  • Paris Reflections

    Paris Reflections, by Teresa Enrico. I had the privilege of going to Paris as part of the Sustaining All Life project. It was a moving, challenging, exciting experience.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing80

  • Language Liberation for Native English Speakers

    Language Liberation for Native English Speakers, by Xabi Odriozola. The following is a talk given by Xabi Odriozola, the International Commonality Reference Person for Languages and Interpreting, at a topic table for native English speakers at a September 2012 workshop in Poland.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberationpages 75 to 79

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • English Liberation

    English Liberation, by MB. Below are some thoughts about the liberation of English people that I first wrote down about four years ago, in response to where I thought previous efforts at English liberation in RC had become stuck, and then updated with further thoughts and more detailed research.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberationpages 57 to 59

  • Joanne Bray—International Liberation Reference Person for Catholics

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Toward a Policy on Disability

    Toward a Policy on Disability, by Laurie Summers. People with disabilities are people with apparent or non-apparent conditions
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberationpages 26 to 30

  • What Addictions Really Do

    What Addictions Really Do, by Dewey Bandy.
    Published in: Present Time 52, July 1983

  • 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

  • Week-long Class

    Published in: Teaching -

  • 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

  • Thinking About Thinking

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

  • 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

  • Teresa Enrico—International Liberation Reference Person for Pilipinos/as and Pacific Islanders

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

  • Thirty Years of Liberation

    Thirty Years of Liberation, Xabi Odriozola. A Little Historical Perspective on Our Language Evolution. We have completed the 2017 World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, and it is a good time to evaluate our progress in language liberation.
    Published in: Spanish, Liberation81

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Goodness of Gay Men's Relationships

    The Goodness of Gay Men's Relationships, by David Nijinsky. There has been a real price to pay in my life for being Gay. At the same time, there have been huge benefits for me in identifying as Gay, and when I think through the trade-offs, I have never regretted my decision.
    Published in: Present Time 137, October 2004, Liberationpages 61 to 70

  • United to End Racism

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Organizing to Have a Decisive Impact


    Organizing to Have a Decisive Impact

    Published in: Present Time 200, July 2020, Wide World Changing43

  • 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)

  • 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

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

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

  • The No-Socialising Guideline & and Young Adult Liberation

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

  • 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

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #4

    Published in: Teaching -

  • "Techniques"

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

  • Discharging Patterns of Domination


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

  • Being a Female Ally to Large Women


    Being a Female Ally to Large Women
, by Joy Kroeger-Mappes. Teresa explained how vicious large women’s oppression is, how it affects us, and how we have “thrown large women under the bus” [abandoned large women and treated them badly].

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation78

  • Language Liberation in Oregon, USA


    Language Liberation in Oregon, USA
 by Rita Jimenez. I am a woman of Latin American heritage who was born and raised in the United States of America. For most of my life l have been working through many layers of language liberation and oppression. 

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation61

  • Modeling and Leading

    Modeling and Leading, by Mari Piggott. We RC young people and young adults led many successful workshops and caucuses in Paris. We modeled using RC tools, being playful, and supporting each other in the face of young people’s oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing74

  • Sustaining All Life, in Paris

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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Discouragement is Always Old

    Discouragement is Always Old, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 148, page 3 to 7. We all grew up in societies similar enough that essentially everyone gets a certain collection of distresses. The particular ways we get them differ from family to family, and by class, and so on, but no matter how we arrived, where we arrived, or what our lives have been like, we end up feeling bad about ourselves. That is part of living in an oppressive society. Another thing that happens is we get discouraged.
    Published in: Present Time 148, July 2007, Counseling Practice(pages 3 to 7)

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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

  • A New Step for the RC Communities

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

  • Mari Piggott—International Liberation Reference Person for Young People

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • “Where Was the Violence in Your Life?”

    “Where Was the Violence in Your Life?” by Dan Nickerson
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberation74

  • Facing the Late Thirties

    Facing the Late Thirties, by Mike Markovits. At the recent Thirties Workshop (July 1995) led by Jenny Sazama, I presented some beginning thinking about people in their late thirties, ages thirty-six to thirty-nine.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberationpage: 68

  • 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

  • Commitments Related to National or Cultural Heritage

    Published in: Commitments

  • Sexism and Racism

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Young Adult Liberation for Everyone

    Young Adult Liberation for Everyone, by Emma Roderick. We had a long conversation about how awesome young adult liberation is and how sad it is that some people in RC never have access to it because they joined RC after turning thirty-one.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:83

  • Language Liberation and the World Conference

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

  • Jewish Liberation: Part of the Whole Human Liberation

    Jewish Liberation, Part of the Whole of Human Liberation, by Billy Yalowitz. I think that as Jews we have work to do in renewing our alliances with other wide-world liberation movements so that Jewish liberation can be correctly understood as part of the whole of human liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • Parents of Teenagers and Policy

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Draft Program for Young People's Liberation

    Published in: Young and Powerful

  • Re-evaluation Counseling Online Fundamentals Class

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

  • Outline Online Class Updated

    Published in: Fundamentals

  • 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

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

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

  • Pam Geyer— International Liberation Reference Person for Elders

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

  • Men

    Men, by Steve Thompson. Men in RC have made great strides in the recent period. We are more able to use the discharge process—it has become easier for us, and we work more productively on our early lives. For many of us this took decades to accomplish.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section78

  • 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

  • Parents

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • An Interpreter's Perspective

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

  • To End the Class Society Is in Everyone’s Interest

    To End the Class Society Is in Everyone's Interest, by Tim Jackins. Talks from the West Coast North America Reference Persons’ Workshop and the Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop in Coventry, England, January 2014.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Counseling Practice: pages 3 to 7

  • The Many Aspects of Racism

    The Many Aspects of Racism, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 147, page 17. Racism exists as a tool for economic exploitation. Race is an entirely artificial idea created to provide a pretext for exploiting people.
    Published in: Present Time 147, April 2007, Liberation(page 17)

  • Disability Assistance at Workshops

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

  • Integrating and Living with Two Heritages

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • White Protestant Women


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

  • “Mental Health” Workers

    “Mental Health” Workers, by Jean Hamilton. We help people recover their ability to discharge and re-evaluate so they can become better able to think, decide, and take action, including action in the broader society. None of the big issues humanity faces—environmental degradation, climate change, conflicts, war, oppression—can be resolved without discharge.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section63

  • Catholic, on Our Own Terms

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

  • 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

  • Remember Reality, Fight for Our Minds

    Remember Reality, Fight for Our Minds, by Azadeh Khalili. It is important for us all to fight for our own minds so that we can think more clearly and not be manipulated by distress patterns. Some of the ways we can work on the current events include discharging on early connection and separation; hopelessness and discouragement; feelings of powerlessness (connected first to young people’s oppression); the pool of material we need to clean up in order to take initiative.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing(page 55)

  • Human Connection, and Sex

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

  • A Jewish Parents’ Workshop

    A Jewish Parents’ Workshop, by Tresa Elguera. I had the pleasure of attending the first Jewish parents’ workshop. It was led by Marya Axner, the International Liberation Reference Person for Parents, and Cherie Brown, the International Liberation Reference Person for Jews. Marya Axner led as both a parent leader and a Jewish mom.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation67

  • Donald Trump and the Working Class

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

  • Older Women's Workshop - Eight Reports

    Reports by eight women attending a workshop for Older Women. Pushed Beyond the Limits, by Dorothy Marcy. "Complete, Whole, Beautiful, Powerful Women" by Barbara Love. We Can Sustain Our Big Lives, by Jane Zones. Grandmothers-A Complex Reality, by Jerrry Ann Yoder. Highlights from the Workshop, by Pam Geyer. A Big and Important Victory, by Jeannette Armentano. Older Women in Partnerships with Men, by Randi Wolfe. "Perhaps I will take Chemistry Again", by Susan Seibel.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: pages 59 to 62

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Women’s and Men’s Workshop

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

  • 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

  • How the Economic Class Structure Affects our Learning

    How the Economic Class Structure Affects our Learning by Julian Weissglass. Classroom 6, pages 12-13
    Published in: Classroom 6

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • Returning to the South

    Returning to the South, by Margie Venning. I am a Southern USer, born and raised in North Carolina, and my family goes back for many generations (to the 1600s) in North Carolina.
    Published in: Present Time 149, October 2007, Liberation(pages 65 to 66)

  • Irish-Heritage USers

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

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #5

    Published in: Teaching -

  • 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

  • Some Thoughts About White People and Native-American Spirituality

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

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

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • 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 -

  • Basic Theory of RC

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Racism, Genocide, and the Environment

    Published in: Environment -

  • Allies to Muslims


    Allies to Muslims
, by Stephanie Abraham. In September 2019, I led a weekend workshop in my Region for allies to Muslims.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation66

  • Language Liberation

    Language Liberation A Recipe for Africa’s Re-emergence, by Onii Nwanwu-Stevenson. Many years after African nations secured their independence, the African people continue to suffer the long-term effects of forced disconnection from their language and culture.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation44

  • A Draft Policy for Hindu Liberation

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Chicanos and Chicanas

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

  • The ILRP for Young People

    The International Liberation Reference Person for Young People by Mari Piggott
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation62

  • A Liberation Workshop for Owning-Class Jews

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

  • More on the Owning-Class Jews Workshop

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

  • An Elders' Liberation Workshop

    An Elder's Liberation Workshop, by Pam Geyer. I led an Elders’ Liberation Workshop in Virginia (USA). It was preceded by a gather-in on “health and well-being.” I was pleased with what we accomplished.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberationpage 37

  • Thinking about Humiliation

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

  • About Re-evaluation Counseling

    Published in: RC Theory

  • An Invitation to Fathers

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

  • Disabled People and Working-Class Liberation

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Inclusion: The Intentional Rebuilding of Community

    Inclusion: The Intentional Rebuilding of Community by, Micheline Mason. Before human beings got organized into class societies, there was much hardship and difficulty in living, but there apparently was little deliberate exploitation of humans by humans. But the natural affection between intelligent people who lived together as associates and families and bands would probably have made sharing and mutual support the dominant themes in the simple groupings that grew from families into clans and tribes.
    Published in: Present Time 105, October 1996, Contents(page 11 to16)

  • 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

  • Excerpts from the RC journal RUAH HADASHAH

    Published in: Ruah Hadashah 11

  • Workshop Proposals from United to End Racism for NGO Forum in Durban

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Working on the New Goal

    Working on the New Goal, by Diane Shisk and others. How you are working on the new RC goal on care of the environment—both yourself and in your classes and groups?
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: Pages 68 to 71

  • Identity

    Identity, by M-International Liberation Reference
Person for LGBTQ+ People
    Published in: Side by Side

  • Overeating, Health, 
and Weight 


    Overeating, Health, 
and Weight, by Marya Axner. 
Thanks so much for writing and telling us about your struggle and being so open about where it has been difficult for you. I think lots of parents have these kinds of struggles, so you are not alone.

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Counseling Practice07

  • Disabled People Choose First

    Disabled People Choose First by Al Head. Over the last fifteen years, alongside others (some of whom have been working on this for decades), I’ve been experimenting with ways to make RC workshops more accessible to disabled people. One of the times disabled people are often excluded from full participation is when the workshop leader calls for a mini-session.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:17

  • Diane Balser—International Liberation Reference Person for Women

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

  • Dan Nickerson—International Liberation Reference Person for Working-Class People

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

  • A South, Central, and West Asian and U.S. Identity Workshop

    A South, Central, and West Asian and U.S. Identity Workshop by multiple people who attended the workshop. A South, Central, and West Asian and U.S. Identity Workshop, led by Azi Khalili (the International Liberation Reference Person for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People) and Diane Shisk (the Alternate International Reference Person for the RC Communities) was held recently in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The following are excerpts from some reports on the workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation44

  • 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

  • Working-Class People

    Working-Class People, by Dan Nickerson. In 2016 the RC Communities took a historic new direction in our work in ending classism. All four of the International Liberation Reference Persons for people of different class backgrounds led two workshops called “Working Together to End Classism.”
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section29

  • United to End Racism (UER) at the White Privilege Conferences (WPC)

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation

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

  • Black Lives Matter and Policies on Israel

    Black Lives Matter and Policies on Israel, by Cherie Brown The Black Lives Matter movement has been growing over the past few years in the United States in response to the killing of Black people—mostly Black African-heritage men, but not only men—at the hands of law enforcement officers. Many Jews, particularly young Jewish activists, have been involved in the Black Lives Matter movement.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016

  • What Class Am I?

    What Class Am I?, by Dan Nickerson. Some mixed-class workshops are coming up at which we may at some point divide into separate groups based on the labels “raised poor,” “working class,” “middle class,” and “owning class.” A person may have to decide which group to go to, which label best fits their experience. People are asking, “What class am I?” There is no correct answer.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation58

  • A Class Series on “Mental Health” Liberation

    A Class Series on “Mental Health” Liberation, by Sarah Harre. I identify as a “mental health” system survivor, as several of my family members have been heavily targeted by the “mental health” system.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:48

  • 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

  • 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

  • Helping Teens in Crisis

    Helping Teens in Crisis, by Marya Axner. (Patty Wipfler) “Parents almost always need to discharge some big chunk of distress to be able to notice and help their child where they haven’t been able to before. And there is nothing like a crisis to help make this happen. (Janet Foner) The feeling that one doesn’t have the resource to help is prevalent in our societies, but resource can be created in many ways.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practicepages 22 to 23

  • 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

  • And Some Added Emphasis

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Prospects For RC

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Stepping Outside of Both Ends of an Oppressor Pattern

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

  • New RC Liberation Movement Taking Form

    New RC Liberation Movement Taking Form, by Wendy Schlitz. Here in Oregon, USA I have been successful in establishing a group of allies to deaf and hard-of-hearing people and a deaf/hard-of-hearing support group.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: page 65

  • Abusers and "Liberals" Are Both Harmful

    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996

  • 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)

  • Challenges to the 1997 World Conference

    Challenges to the 1997 World Conference, by Harvey Jackins. The following are some observations about thinking that may be useful in reminding us to stay intelligent and avoid some of the patterned substitutes for thinking that are common in our cultures. We who are meeting at this Conference have become increasingly aware that making the distinction between intelligent behavior and behavior arising out of distress patterns is the crucial requirement for the success of the upward-trend processes in the universe.
    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998, (World Conference: pages 7 to 8)

  • 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

  • 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

  • Perspectives from an RC Elder

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

  • A Draft Liberation Policy for the Basque People

    An English translation of A Draft Liberation Policy for the Basque People (original Basque)
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Un Projet de Politique de Libération pour le Peuple Basque

    Un Projet de Politique de Libération pour le Peuple Basque; A French version of A Draft Liberation Policy for the Basque People, translated from English
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Excerpts from the RC journal SIDE BY SIDE

    Published in: Side by Side

  • A Women’s Workshop in Eswatini

    A Women’s Workshop in Eswatini by Petronella Muza. This summer we had a women’s workshop in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), led by Diane Balser, the International Liberation Reference Person for Women. Women came from Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, and Swaziland. What a wonderful, well-planned workshop. Diane took us through sexism, internalised oppression, and the beautification industry, with precision.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation43

  • Bringing a Child to an Adult Workshop

    Bringing a Child to an Adult Workshop by Marya Axner. The following is an answer from Marya Axner, the International Liberation Reference Person for Parents, to a question on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of parents. Our policy is that we generally don’t have children over two years old at adult RC workshops. This is because we don’t want to act out young people’s oppression by having young people at a workshop without the program being built around them—something that is very much like how the rest of the world is.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:23

  • Owning-Class People

    Owning-Class People, by Jo Saunders. As capitalism collapses worldwide, the owning class is going to greater and greater lengths to protect its wealth, not the least by acting out blatant anti-Jewish oppression and institutionalised racism. Owning-class RCers are determinedly holding out the twofold reality of (1) the destructiveness of owning-class behaviour and (2) owning-class people being as human and good as anyone else.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section32

  • “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

  • Healing from the Hurts of War

    Healing from the Hurts of War, by Sheila Fairon. Over the last six years in this small Northern Ireland Region I have been leading one-day workshops on Healing from the Hurts of War. At the workshops I noticed that even in the introductions people were keen to tell what had happened during The Troubles, the forty-year low-level conflict between the oppressed Catholic minority and the Protestant majority.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:78

  • From a Working-Class Jewish Female

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

  • To Gentile RCers

    To Gentile RCers, quote by Harvey Jackins. I propose that Gentile RCers become experts on Jewish history, Jewish oppression, Jewish liberation, and Jewish struggle.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation84

  • RC Muslims: Don’t Go Quiet

    RC Muslims: Don’t Go Quiet, by Azi Khalili. The recent events in France have been heartbreaking, scary, and infuriating for me. I am outraged at the depths of the effects of oppression on all of us. I am outraged at the brutality and horrors of colonization and racism and how they’ve damaged both the colonized and the colonizer.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberationpage 51

  • Care of the Environment and Ending Racism

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

  • Visions for People of Chinese Heritage

    Visions for People of Chinese Heritage by Jim Lin. Our Asian Inheritance No. 7, page 63. They speak publicly and articulately in any situation, displaying feelings if necessary. They have recognized and conquered Chinese internalized oppression through discharge and decision.
    Published in: Our Asian Inheritance 7

  • Using RC in My Work as a Performance Artist

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

  • Parents Liberation and Capitalism

    Parents’ Liberation and Capitalism, by Patty Wipfler. The oppression of parents is intensifying in most countries I know of. As capitalism encroaches on all the cultures of the world, work that creates profit is made to seem far more important than work we do to create closeness and caring as human beings.
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Liberation(Page 34)

  • An Introduction to the Work of United to End Racism

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • 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

  • Previously Adopted Goals

    Goals for the RC Communities, current
    Published in: Guidelines

  • Glossary

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Re-evaluation Counseling DVDs

    Re-evaluation Counseling DVDs
    Published in: Present Time, Back Pagespages 107 to 110

  • Death and Dying, Life and Living

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Single Women’s Workshop

    The Single Women’s Workshop by Diane Balser. I am proud of what we accomplished at the Single Women’s Workshop. It shifted the assumed reality of single women’s lives. I led the workshop, Tokumbo Bodunde assisted me, and Jeannette Armentano organized. Over a hundred women attended, including a number who participated using Zoom [a kind of video conferencing].
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation55

  • Principles to Guide Our Work

    Principles to Guide Our Work by Cherie Brown. The following is a talk given by Cherie Brown (the RC International Liberation Reference Person for Jews) at a meeting of community and faith leaders called by the mayor of Washington, D.C. (USA). There had been painful accusations between people of color and Jews following a series of local incidents, and Cherie was asked to speak about principles and practices for dealing with anti-Semitism and racism.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing19

  • Emily Feinstein—International Liberation Reference Person for Visual Artists

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

  • A Tremendous Opportunity

    A Tremendous Opportunity, by Diane Balser. In the recent presidential election, the United States experienced a great moment with regard to sexism and male domination.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing35

  • An Artists Liberation Workshop

    An Artists’ Liberation Workshop, by Dan Iocavella. As artists we can work through our distresses in our sessions or in the privacy of our studios and avoid using our audiences to work through them.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation

  • My Story of Loving Muslims

    My Story of Loving Muslims, by Belinda French. I decided to write this because I hear so much bad being said about Muslims and I wanted to show that what I know and experience is very different.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation72

  • White Catholic Working-Class Women

    White Catholic Working-Class Women
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:56

  • 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

  • Becoming People's Intellectuals

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

  • A Draft Policy for Students

    A Draft Policy for Students, by Paul McKenzie. Classroom No. 9, page 11.
    Published in: Classroom 9

  • A Workshop Talk in New York

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

  • A Theory Based on Practice and that Informs Practice

    A Theory Based on Practice and that Informs Practice,by Julian Weissglass. I led my first weekend Wide World Change Workshop last weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, for about one hundred people. It was a wonderful experience - powerful, exciting, and fun!
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Wide World Changing: page 5

  • Keep the Basics Clear - A Challenge for All Young People

    Keep the Basics Clear - A Challenge for All Young People, by Ellie Brown.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: page 49

  • Advanced Work on Building Alliances Between Groups

    Advanced Work on Building Alliances Between Groups, by Cornelia Cho.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Contents(pages 10 to 11)

  • Mizrahi Jews and the Holocaust

    Mizrahi Jews and the Holocaust, by Merchi Shookroun Lior. I am an Israeli Jewish woman, born in Israel to parents who were born in Morocco. As a Mizrahi Jew, I always considered the Holocaust to be something that belonged only to the Ashkenazim. (I know that many Mizrahi feel this way.) I was not interested in what happened to the Jewish people during the Second World War. I felt disconnected from this significant piece of my and my people’s history.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(pages 46 to 47)

  • "Reclaiming Music in All Aspects of My Life"

    “Reclaiming Music in All Aspects of My Life” by Shasta Martinuk. Thinking about musicians' liberation
    Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999, Liberation(page 72)

  • 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 -

  • 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

  • The Uncovering of Reality

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

  • List of Workshops

    List of Workshops of the No Limits for Women Project at the Beijing NGO Forum.
    Published in: Sisters 10

  • 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

  • An Economy of Caring


    An Economy of Caring
. As a raised-poor, working-class woman of color living in this advanced stage of capitalism, I have lots of feelings about not being able to think. I have been told all my life that I am stupid and that what I think isn’t important.
    Published in: Present Time 207, April 2022, Counseling Practice05

  • Working on Oppressor Material


    Working on Oppressor Material

    Published in: Present Time 204, July 2021, Liberation23

  • 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

  • Heather Hay — International Liberation Reference Person for Musicians Liberation

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

  • 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

  • A Day about Racism, in Israel

    A Day about Racism, in Israel, Ofer Lior. The following is a brief report about a daylong event I led for a small group of activists. Almost all of them work in Jewish-Arab peace education and co-existence programs. I have been working in that field for many years and am always looking for ways to “plant” the ideas and practice of RC into the work.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing47

  • 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

  • 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

  • Preface to the Pamphlet Sustaining All Life

    Preface to the Pamphlet Sustaining All Life. It is possible to limit the effects of human-caused catastrophic climate change and restore the environment—and some big changes are needed if this is to happen.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing40

  • An Eight-Week Class on Care of the Environment

    An Eight-Week Class on Care of the Environment, Gail Mandella. Care of the Environment Class, Summer 2016
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:81

  • Being Allies to Our Children in School

    Being Allies to Our Children in School, by "W". I am writing to ask you to share your experience with and strategies for staying close to your children and being an ally to them as they enter school and go to school.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Counseling Practice04

  • 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

  • More Reflections on the Middle-Class Women’s Workshop

    More Reflections on the Middle-Class Women’s Workshop, by Caroline New. I am a woman who’s been leading middle-class liberation work for twenty-five years, and it has been a shock to realise how much I have not addressed women’s liberation and to what extent I have kept the two sorts of work separate.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation81

  • An Economy of Caring

    An Economy of Caring, by Teresa Enrico, As a raised-poor, working-class woman of color living in this advanced stage of capitalism, I have lots of feelings about not being able to think.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpages 31-32

  • Claiming Our Full, Common Humanity

    Claiming Our Full, Common Humanity
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practicepage 12

  • 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

  • A Wonderful Young Jews Workshop

    A Wonderful Young Jews Workshop, by "Bobby Tamara". I recently attended a wonderful Young Jews Workshop led by Emily Bloch and Cherie Brown.1 I was so excited for it because I wanted to work on Jewish terror with other young adults.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation40

  • 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

  • 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)

  • My Goals for Elders

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

  • RC Women’s Liberation—Then, and Now

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Wide World Change is Possible

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

  • The African Pre-World Conference Conference

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Important Articles by Harvey Jackins

    Published in: Important Articles by Harvey Jackins

  • RC and the Climate Emergency


    RC and the Climate Emergency
. We are facing a dangerous situation. The climate emergency and our increasingly unstable and unworkable political and economic systems confront us with a threat to human existence that will likely reach a climax in the lifetimes of many of us. This has important implications for how we use RC. 

    Published in: Present Time 211, April 2023, No Section14

  • Allow Ourselves Time to Grow

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • RC Policy and Psychiatric Drugs

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

  • Talking to Children about Tragic Events


    Talking to Children about Tragic Events
 - Many children (and two adults) were recently killed in a shooting at an elementary school in the United States. The following are some thoughts about talking to children when hard things happen. They are based on writings by Patty Wipfler, former International Liberation Reference Person for Parents.

    Published in: Present Time 208, July 2022, Counseling Practice47

  • Discharging on Historical and Ancestral Events

    Discharging on Historical and Ancestral Events, by Iara Cury, Fialaui'a Lamositele and Aly Halpert. At a recent Thirty-Five-and-Under Climate Change and Climate Justice Workshop, in Massachusetts, USA, we led the land acknowledgement and the work on historical and ancestral events.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing81

  • 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

  • A South, Central, and West Asian Workshop for Europe and North Africa

    A South, Central, and West Asian Workshop for Europe and North Africa by Azi Khalili. A South, Central, and West Asian Workshop for Europe and North Africa took place in June of this year. Forty-two people attended, including people from Europe, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, and Israel. There were two Palestinian women from Israel and twelve new RCers from Morocco and Algeria.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation64

  • 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

  • Middle-Class People and Ending Classism

    Middle-Class People and Ending Classism by Multiple. Below are some comments on the workshop Ending Classism for Middle-Class People led by Seán Ruth, the International Liberation Reference Person for Middle-Class People, near Seattle, Washington, USA, in June 2017. One of my highlights from the workshop was hearing Seán’s perspective on being allies. He encouraged us to “just be with people and not get weird.” How I heard this was to be ourselves, to bring who we are to people, and not use our chronic distress to build relationships.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation65

  • 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

  • Standing with Muslims

    Standing with Muslims by Stephanie Abraham. I’m a female Arab Catholic from the United States. I have been set up to stand separate from Muslims, but I refuse to do so. I hope you will refuse, too. Over the last two years I’ve led several RC groups for allies to Muslims. People often tell me that they don’t know where to start on this topic and that it makes them feel inadequate.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation52

  • Joanie Parker—International Liberation Reference Person for Union Activists

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

  • Chuck Esser—International Commonality Reference Person for Family Work

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

  • Barbara Love—Liberation Reference Person for African 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

  • Thinking My Way through Breast Cancer

    Thinking My Way through Breast Cancer
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice

  • Talking to Teenagers about Sex and Pornography

    Talking to Teenagers about Sex and Pornography, Anonymous, I am a parent of a fifteen-year-old and an eleven-year-old. A couple of years ago I realized I’d better get in shape [condition] to deal with issues of sex and pornography so I could be a resource for my children.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Counseling Practice06

  • 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

  • How Do We Change the World?

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

  • African Heritage People

    African Heritage People, by Barbara Love. A range of issues affect the lives of African Heritage People in the United States, in Africa, and in the African Diaspora. In this space we can catalogue some of those issues and briefly describe a few.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section04

  • 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

  • Family Work

    Family Work, by Chuck Esser. RC family work continues to have great benefits. It helps build strong RC Communities. It also functions as an important personal re-emergence strategy. People learn how to put aside their distresses as they pay attention to young people. They get in touch with and discharge early childhood distresses that would otherwise go unchallenged.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section41

  • United to End Racism (UER) at the United States Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan, June 2010

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • More Relaxed as a Northern Irish Catholic

    More Relaxed as a Northern Irish Catholic , by Sheila Fairon. I recently participated in a Catholic liberation workshop, in Manchester, England, led by Joanne Bray, the International Liberation Reference Person for Catholics. Since the workshop I feel more reassured and have more “ground beneath my feet” about my goodness as a person.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation81

  • “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

  • Reach for Each Other, and Discharge

    Reach for Each Other, and Discharge, by Jeanne D'Arc and "David Nijinsky". We are deeply saddened by the recent tragedy in Orlando, Florida, USA, in which forty-nine people were killed and many more were injured.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation13

  • Young Adult and Queer

    Young Adult and Queer, by "Libah Finkel". I am a white young adult Jewish female. I have discharged a bunch on Queer and gender-variant identity, and the following are some of my thoughts and experiences.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation43

  • Making Bigger Changes

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

  • With a Clear Goal, Things Can Change

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Some Thoughts for Allies to Jews

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

  • 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)

  • Technological Devices at Workshops?

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

  • The First RC Muslim Workshop

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

  • White People with Native Ancestry

    White People with Native Ancestry, by Dan Nickerson. The White/Native Workshop, led by Barbara Boring in June 2014, left me with a sharpened clarity about the work for white RCers with Native ancestry and for Native RCers raised white. The main purpose and goal of the white/Native workshops is to advance and support the liberation of Native people raised Native—those who are living Native lives, on their Native land, in Native cultures
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberation(pages 33 to 35)

  • 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

  • We Get to Win

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

  • Efficient Co-Counseling

    Published in: Present Time 70, January 1988

  • 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

  • Eliminating Addictions From Our Lives

    Published in: Present Time 58, January 1985

  • All Women Are Beautiful

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

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

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

  • 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.)

  • Language Liberation Is Crucial

    Language Liberation Is Crucial, by Xabi Odriozola. Present Time No. 157, page 70. Language can be a key factor in achieving equal and inclusive relationships. Languages have been, and still are, used to reinforce classism, sexism, and racism—that is, to prevent human unity and support capitalism’s lifestyle of isolation and separation.
    Published in: Present Time 157, October 2009, Liberation(pages 70 to 71)

  • An Invitation to Stand Against Oppressor Distresses

    An Invitation to Stand Against Oppressor Distresses, by Joanne Bray. Present Time No. 162, pages 58 to 59. I would like to encourage us all to do more work on oppressor material. I have discharged on the first time I turned oppressor on someone.
    Published in: Present Time 162, January 2011, Liberation(pages 58 to 59)

  • New CDs from Rational Island Publishers

    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013

  • 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)

  • The Background Noise We Grew Up With

    The Background Noise We Grew Up With, by Julian Weissglass. This “background noise” influences everything we do: the way we think, our body language, our facial expressions, our habits, what we are willing to question and not question.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changing(pages 76 to 77)

  • Accurate Language that Contradicts Distress

    Accurate Language that Contradicts Distress, by Leigh Crenshaw and Tokumbo Bodunde. Racism and genocide overlap but are different. They require different contradictions. In RC we get to use language that is accurate and provides contradiction.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(pages 48 to 49)

  • 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

  • The Totally Benign Reality

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

  • 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

  • Working on the Sex Industries—What I Have Learned

    Working on the Sex Industries—What I Have Learned, by Teresa Enrico. Sisters No. 12, pages 14-16.
    Published in: Sisters 12

  • RC Policy and Psychiatric Drugs

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

  • Maria Judith Colon Ramirez—International Liberation Reference Person for People of Puerto Rican Heritage

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

  • Light-Skinned People of the Global Majority

    Light-Skinned People of the Global Majority by Barbara Love. How do we think better about people who have a white parent and a light-skinned parent of the Global Majority and who pass as white? Telling them they are only white can collude with Latinx internalized oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation42

  • Lawyers

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

  • 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

  • Moving

    Moving, by Marion Ouphouet. Large Women’s Health Project: ...Probably most of us humans have distress recordings of being stopped from moving when we were little ones. I think physical moving is a contradiction to many oppressive internalized messages that stopped us—hopelessness, discouragement, powerlessness, and more.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section20

  • The Liberation of Working-Class Women

    The Liberation of Working-Class Women, by Micaela Morse. I recently attended a West Coast USA working-class women’s workshop, led by Diane Balser and Dan Nickerson, with Rachel Noble assisting. A tremendous amount of safety was built to work on difficult aspects of female and class oppression and how they intersect.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation65

  • Applying RC in South Sudan

    Applying RC in South Sudan, interview with Victor Sillas, by Pamela Haines. Growing up, I experienced hatred—watched beatings, looting of properties, raping, and killing. It was a turning point in my life when I learned RC, when I was introduced by Wanjiku to the theory that there is nothing wrong with any human being except the result of mistreatment and oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Counseling Practice39

  • Listening in Greece

    Listening in Greece, by Theodoros Kakoulidis. Yesterday a decision was made by the capitalist system to maximise the punishment and humiliation of Greece for objecting to capitalist oppression by saying a big no in a democratic referendum.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing26

  • 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)

  • Useful Counseling on "Identities"

    Useful Counseling on "Identities", by "Lysistrata". I want to report on how H- used her Lesbian "identity" as leverage to help the heterosexual women in her class see the distress in our heterosexual "identity" and see components of our women's internalized oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Counseling Practicepage 43

  • Breaking Through Nationality Barriers

    Breaking Through Nationality Barriers by, Hidetoshi Mizoguchi. I was very impressed by the workshop on "mental health" oppression in England and by all the attendants. I could discharge some fear about discharging and lots of other things.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: page 72)

  • Language Liberation

    Articles about language liberation and resources for interpreting and translating. Links to translations in many languages.
    Published in: Translations

  • Lawyers Topic Group

    Lawyers Topic Group, East Coast Owning Class workshop. Coming Home No. 1, page 96.
    Published in: Coming Home

  • Alcohol as a Liberation Issue

    Alcohol as a Liberation Issue
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation50

  • 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

  • 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

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


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

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

  • Sample Solicitation Letters

    Published in: Foundation

  • Day Five at COP25


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

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

  • A Parents’ Workshop in Nigeria


    A Parents’ Workshop in Nigeria
. by Alfred Asika. A Parents’ Workshop recently took place in Lagos, Nigeria.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation74

  • Contemporary Women’s Issues in England


    Contemporary Women’s Issues in England
, by Belinda French. I attended the Contemporary Women’s Issues Conference in England in November 2019. It was led by Diane Balser (the International Liberation Reference Person for Women) who is fiercely and powerfully determined to keep us all looking at sexism and sexual exploitation.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation73

  • The First RC Workshop for European Native People

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

  • 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

  • Present Time 178, January 2015

    Present Time 178, January 2015 - Table of Contents
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015

  • Contemporary Women’s Issues in Nigeria

    Contemporary Women’s Issues in Nigeria by Nez Ibekwe. It was a privilege to attend the Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop led by Diane Balser, the International Liberation Reference Person for Women, in Lagos, Nigeria, this August. I learnt so much and left feeling lighter than I have in years, emotionally and mentally empowered, and awake to the need for women to work together for our liberation—irrespective of nomenclature, status, or age.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation41

  • 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

  • RC at Its Best

    RC at Its Best, Nazish Riaz. I attended the RC World Conference this past August. It was full of good contradictions [to distress] and hopeful moments. It also illuminated places where we struggle. It was marvelous to see how much work so many people had done ahead of time to make it go well.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:22

  • 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

  • Activism and the No-Socializing Policy

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

  • South, Central, and West Asians

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

  • 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

  • Another World Is Possible

    Another World Is Possible, by "Libah". I spent all of Sunday looking at information about the shooting and was completely numb to it.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation16

  • Sexual Exploitation, and “Having It All”

    Sexual Exploitation, and “Having It All”, by Micaela Morse. The commercial sexual exploitation of females has grown exponentially in the last period.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation46

  • “Mental Health” Liberation

    “Mental Health” Liberation, by Janet Foner. Basic RC is basic “mental health” liberation. For example, we can’t “lose our minds.”
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation30

  • Connecting Racism and Care of the Environment

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

  • Making Big Changes

    Making Big Changes, by Diane Shisk. Tim Jackins has for many years had us working on fighting for ourselves, on not believing our feelings of defeat and discouragement, and on remembering our importance to and connection with one another.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing28

  • An Indian Woman Stands Up to Marriage

    An Indian Woman Stands Up to Marriage by S.J. Shashikala (Shashi). Looking at marriage from a woman's perspective and discharging have been quite useful for me.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 69

  • Arabs Ending Divisions

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

  • 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

  • Standing Against Men’s Oppressor Behavior

    Standing Against Men’s Oppressor Behavior by Chris Austill. We men are systematically brutalized, including and especially by the suppression of the discharge process.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 66

  • “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)

  • A White Jewish Working-Class Woman

    A White Jewish Working-Class Woman
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:54

  • “I Will Not Be Bribed Anymore”

    “I Will Not Be Bribed Anymore”
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:60

  • Death and Dying

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

  • Thinking About Circumcision (3 articles)

    The following three articles were taken from a discussion on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of Jews.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberationpages 30 to 33

  • A New Goal on Care of the Environment

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

  • Young People Thinking Hard and Communicating Well

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Being Rational About "Ritual Abuse"

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

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

    Published in: Present Time 88, July 1992

  • A Learning Experience for West Europeans

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • We're All Full-Spectrum Humans

    We're All Full-Spectrum Humans, by Maryhelen Snyder. At a workshop last weekend, a man, somewhat younger than myself, asked me how old I was. To my response, "Sixty-five," he said, "I thought so. You're a wonderful model of an older woman."
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: page 52

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

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

  • West Asians and Asian Identity

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

  • The Work of United to End Racism

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Techniques

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

  • Undoing the Hurts of Learning

    Undoing the Hurts of Learning by Julian Weissglass. I have found the distress experiences which interfered with our learning to be deep and heavy, perhaps more so than the hurts around love, closeness, and sex.
    Published in: Present Time 107, April 1997, Counseling Practice(page 18)

  • Looking Directly at Internalized Racism

    Looking Directly at Internalized Racism, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 169, pages 21-22. Part of the struggle is looking at racism, directly. Part is making RC available in spite of racism, so that people have this tool to work on every distress. A part that needs to be looked at over and over again, which isn’t easy to look at, is how much racism has affected us and gotten into our minds.
    Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012, Liberation(Pages 21-22)

  • More about the White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating Racism Workshop

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

  • Close Friendships Between Women and Men

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

  • Changing the World for Generations to Come

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

  • Harvey Jackins: A Powerful Ally to Women

    Harvey Jackins: A Powerful Ally to Women, by Kathy Miller. Sisters No. 11, pages 101-102. I don’t know any other human who has as many deeply loving, personal, caring, and effective relationships with other human beings.
    Published in: Sisters 11

  • Closeness and Re-emergence at an Asian Liberation Workshop

    Closeness and Re-emergence at an Asian Liberation Workshop, by Kyung Jin Park. Represented were Asians from the Far East, the South East, the Middle East, and more. The great diversity among us made the workshop all the more interesting. I met, for the first time, a person of Turkish heritage and people of Egyptian heritage.
    Published in: Present Time 134, January 2004, Liberation(pages 45 to 46)

  • White U.S. Southerners, and Racism

    White U.S. Southerners, and Racism, by Leslie Kausch. As young people, we can tell that racism is stupid, arbitrary, and unthinking.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 51

  • Black and White in the USA

    Black and White in the USA, by Greg Lipscomb. As a young boy of mixed heritage, I understood black and white more literally as colors, so the idea of “Black” or “white” as a race was quite confusing to me.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: pages 31 to 32

  • Freedom of Decision and Taking Charge

    Published in: RC Theory

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

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Important RC Resources!

    Important RC Resources!, by Rational Island Publishers. Short talks on CD
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: page 20

  • The Breaking of Relationships

    The Breaking of Relationships, by Micheline Mason. Present Time No. 98, pages 3 to 8. Disabled people suffer a form of violence which is unrecognised. Current interventions from nearly all professionals and service providers have the effect of breaking natural relationships between disabled people and everyone else.
    Published in: Present Time 98, January 1995

  • 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

  • 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

  • Takeaways from the Single Women’s Workshop

    Takeaways from the Single Women’s Workshop, by “Beryl Blevins”. It was a contradiction [to distress] to be together with a hundred-plus single women.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • 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

  • Present Time 171, April 2013

    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013

  • Discharging on Health-Related Issues


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

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

  • The Climate Crisis on Indigenous People, Black People and Pacific Islanders


    The Climate Crisis 
in the Pacific Islands
. Sustaining All Life (SAL) held a fundraiser on May 30 of this year. Many RCers attended—bringing friends and family and using the fundraiser to introduce people to SAL and RC. 

    Published in: Present Time 205, October 2021, Wide World Changing14

  • No Human Enemies 


    No Human Enemies 

    Published in: Present Time 202, January 2021, Wide World Changing64

  • We Are a Sisterhood

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

  • Where We Spend Our Money

    Where We Spend Our Money, by Nancy Faulstich. I was on the literature sales promotion team at the West Coast USA Care of the Environment Workshop. Being on that team helped me stop and think about gift giving and resource allocation
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing88

  • A Beautiful and Encouraging Workshop

    A Beautiful and Encouraging Workshop by Hauwa Musa. At the Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop in Nigeria [see previous article], it was refreshing to see us beautiful African women coming together and discharging on issues affecting us. Being in a group solely of women gave me the confidence and courage to express myself freely on issues I had thought were unique to me. I realized that as women we share a bond, no matter what our race or age. We share similar struggles.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation42

  • A Jewish Elders’ Workshop

    A Jewish Elders’ Workshop by Miri Sager. I attended the Jewish Elders’ Workshop, in Auburndale, Massachusetts, USA, in May of this year. It was led by Cherie Brown, the International Liberation Reference Person for Jews, and Pam Geyer, the International Liberation Reference Person for Elders, and was a joyful and powerful experience.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation53

  • Climate Change and “Mental Health” Liberation

    Climate Change and “Mental Health” Liberation by Russ Vernon-Jones. At a summer Educational Change Workshop I led in the northeast United States, we talked about sharing RC perspectives and tools with non-RCers. I noted that each of us would likely be asked multiple times how our summer or our weekend had been, and I proposed that we plan ahead for how to include in our answer a few sentences about the workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing77

  • 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

  • The Strengths of Poor People

    The Strengths of Poor People by Harvey Jackins. Capitalistic society encourages poor people to believe that we either deserve or are to blame for our condition. Poor people, damaged by such widespread invalidation and lacking correct information, often accept and internalize these ideas and attitudes.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation45

  • Explaining War to Young Children

    Explaining War to Young Children, by Multiple. The following are taken from a discussion, on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of parents, about explaining war to young children. (See also page 14 of the January 2018 Present Time.)
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Counseling Practice50

  • Learning about and Acting against Anti-Semitism

    Learning about and Acting against Anti-Semitism, by Barbara Love. Dear Cherie, Thank you so much for bringing these anti-Semitic incidents to our attention. [See previous article.] Your posting highlights several key issues for me: First is the need to stay awake, pay attention to what is happening around us, and increase our ability to notice acts of anti-Semitism when they occur.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation71

  • 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

  • “What African Americans Want from White Allies”

    “What African Americans Want from White Allies”, by Dorothy Marcy. I did a talk yesterday at the Unitarian church. They had e-mailed me a few weeks before and asked me to do one hour on “What African Americans Want from White Allies.” The audience was primarily white people who are liberal and members of the Unitarian congregation. The first speaker was a young Black woman in her twenties, Raven Cook. She has taken my fundamentals class and teaches Black history to white people at the Omni Center for Peace and Justice.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing03

  • Working on Our New Care-of-the-Environment Goal

    Working on Our New Care-of-the-Environment Goal, by Sujata Maini. Some in RC say that our new goal on care of the environment* makes an activist of every RCer! The language of the goal may be restimulating. The situation caused by climate change is heartbreaking and frightening. It is urgent. Therefore, the tone of the goal is urgent, too.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:59

  • Building RC in Guahan and the Philippines

    Building RC in Guahan and the Philippines by Tara Villalba. Note: The Chamorro—the Indigenous people of Guam—call their home Guahan. In this article we are using that term. Pacific Islander and Filipino/a liberation got a boost this year! In January six RCers with connections to the Philippines and Guahan went to these beautiful islands to introduce RC and to help build RC Communities.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:65

  • The National Nigerian Men’s Workshop

    The National Nigerian Men’s Workshop by Onuba Victor Ifeanyi. The first-of-its-kind national Nigerian men’s workshop, in March 2018, was a three-day meeting of twenty-four strong, great, wise men from across the RC Communities in Nigeria. Chioma Okonkwo, the Area Reference Person for Lagos (Nigeria), led the workshop, and Kingsley Ibekwe, the Area Reference Person for Enugu (Nigeria), hosted it.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:80

  • Jean Hamilton— International Liberation Reference Person for “Mental Health” Workers

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

  • An Exciting Time for Asian Liberation

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

  • Catholic Liberation in Mexico

    Catholic Liberation in Mexico, Anonymous. I attended a fabulous Catholic liberation workshop that Joanne Bray (the International Liberation Reference Person for Catholics) led in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first RC Catholic liberation workshop in Mexico, and a wide range of Catholics—from people raised in conservative Catholic families to people raised in Communist or atheist families—were represented.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation84

  • Highlights from the Women’s and Men’s Workshop

    Highlights from the Women’s and Men’s Workshop, Azi Khalili. The Women’s and Men’s Workshop—led by Diane Balser, the International Liberation Reference Person for Women, and Tim Jackins, the International Reference Person for the RC Communities, near Washington, D.C., USA, in October 2017—was a powerful RC gathering of minds.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation71

  • 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

  • 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

  • United to End Racism

    About UER
    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Climate Change and RC

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

  • This Work is for Everyone

    This Work is for Everyone, a report given at a May 2015 gather-in, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, by Marilyn Robb, International Liberation Reference Person for Educational Change.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation71

  • Being More Thoughtful with “News and Goods”

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

  • The Work Is Possible

    The Work Is Possible, by Dan Nickerson. Issues surrounding the suicide of family members were high on the list of things that people were not able to overcome in order to continue leading in RC.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation21

  • Challenging Anti-Black Racism

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

  • 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 New Beginning

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

  • From a Korean Middle-Class Female

    From a Korean Middle-Class Female, by JeeYeun Lee. Thoughts after a workshop about racism, and experiences as a Korean middle-class female.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation75

  • From an Indian-Heritage Woman

    From an Indian-Heritage Woman, by Anu Yadav. I figured it must be middle-class patterns surfacing, because of the workshop and because I was with predominantly white Protestant women, a group I grew up around.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation78

  • Our Lives Matter

    Our Lives Matter, by Chantal Esdelle. Yesterday, not more than four blocks from where I was buying my lunch in our little capital of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), three prisoners shot their way out of prison.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation50

  • The Beatification of Oscar Romero

    The Beatification of Oscar Romero, by Joanne Bray and others. Whether or not you know who Oscar Romero[1] is probably depends on which nation you live in, what generation you are part of, and what race and class you are.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing45

  • The International Liberation Reference Person for People with Disabilities

    The International Liberation Reference Person for People with Disabilities, Marsha Saxton, talks about her work. In the 1950s I was the little girl in the classroom with the metal leg braces.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation70

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fully Reclaiming My Past

    Fully Reclaiming My Past, by anonymous. I recently attended an invitational workshop for “Formerlies,” led by Tim Jackins and assisted by “Jeanne D’Arc.” Formerlies are folks who have at one time claimed the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Queer identity and who now either claim a heterosexual identity or are looking beyond identity.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: page 63

  • “Hearing Voices”

    “Hearing Voices”. Someone was “hearing voices” and felt that she had a unique link to another reality. Here are letters to her from Diane Shisk and Janet Foner.1
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Counseling Practice20

  • Here Come the Elders

    “Here Come the Elders!” by Laurie Summers found on page 38 of the January 2015 issue of Present Time. In November 2014 Pam Geyer1 led a truly amazing Elders’ Liberation Workshop for the Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia (USA) Regions.2 An outstanding group of shining elders came close together to tackle and understand the struggles surrounding health and healing that threaten to take over our lives as we age.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation

  • Thinking and Discharging About Ebola

    Thinking and Discharging About Ebola, by Marsha Saxton. Re-evaluation Counseling encourages us to “hold everything up to the light of discharge.” I was invited to lead a Regional1 gather-in on discharging about the Ebola crisis.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Counseling Practice18

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Goal-Setting Group for Friends

    A Goal-Setting Group for Friends, by Emma Roderick. This past winter I started a “goal setting and reaching, and also having fun” group for about a dozen female young adult friends of mine. I started it because I noticed that my friends and I have some beautiful dreams and goals but we struggle with taking steps toward accomplishing them, which often leaves us feeling pretty stuck.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice11

  • Daring Not to Be Discouraged

    Daring Not to Be Discouraged, by Tim Jackins. Distresses like discouragement keep us from thinking and acting together and figuring out how to change things. I want us daring not to be discouraged.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice(pages 3 to 5)

  • Giving Up Preoccupation with Appearance

    Giving Up Preoccupation with Appearance by Chau Ly. Here are some of my highlights from the Women’s and Men’s Workshop...
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberation:page 64

  • UER at the Fourteenth White Privilege Conference

    UER at the Fourteenth White Privilege Conference by Judi Soloway
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Wide World Changing52

  • 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

  • “Mental Health” Labels, and Information Coordinators

    “Mental Health” Labels, and Information Coordinators; In the letters below, Tim Jackins and Janet Foner1 respond to a request for an Information Coordinator for people with “Asperger’s syndrome.”
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice:25

  • The Liberationof the Middle Class

    The Liberationof the Middle Class
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, No Section:62

  • Children, and Violent Events

    Children, and Violent Events; The following is from a discussion on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of parents:
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice:26

  • I Am Truly Central

    I Am Truly Central
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:39

  • "A Rich and Wonderful Opportunity"

    "A Rich and Wonderful Opportunity", by Caryn Davis. Last night I led a gather-in for my Area for heterosexuals to discharge about the Gay Policy. In preparation, I re-read the Guidelines, Harvey's "Report to the World Conference," and "Jane Marple's" letter in the April Present Time No.103
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Counseling Practicepage 43

  • 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

  • A Great Revelation

    A Great Revelation, by S.J. Shashikala (Shashi). I was a science student, and now I am a science teacher. As students, it was expected that we handle science seriously. I just accepted such seriousness without questioning. Now I realize it was so stupid.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: page 47

  • Another Look at Relationships

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

  • 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)

  • Overcoming Middle-Class Distress

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

  • Confidentiality, the Internet, and Our Pseudonym Policy

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

  • Why “Educational Change?”

    Why “Educational Change?” by Julian Weissglass. Classroom 6, page 9. Several people have raised questions about the use of the phrase “educational change.” Their concern seems to be whether one must be employed by an educational institution in order to attend educational change workshops. The answer is emphatically NO! Educational change is for everyone.
    Published in: Classroom 6

  • Summary of the Systematic Mistreatment of People as Learners

    Summary of the Systematic Mistreatment of People as Learners, by Julian and Theresa Weissglass, Classroom No. 8, pages 9-10.
    Published in: Classroom 8

  • Thinking Through a Physical Injury Thoroughly

    Thinking Through a Physical Injury Thoroughly, by Jenny Sazama. Jenny Sazama, the International Liberation Reference Person for Young Adults, was hit by a taxi cab while riding her bicycle in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the story of her accident, hospitalization, and early recovery, as told to Charlotte Lowrey.
    Published in: Present Time 91, April 1993

  • Concrete Gains For European Unity

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • 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

  • The First Palestinian Workshop for Healing the Hurts of Racism

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

  • Working-Class Jews

    Working-Class Jews, Dvora Slavin. A workshop where working-class Jews get to be their full selves
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 33

  • Uncovering the Internalized Sexism in My Decision to Be a Parent

    Uncovering the Internalized Sexism in My Decision to Be a Parent, B--. Discharging her way to being able to fight for herself.
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Counseling PracticePage 24

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

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

  • Giving Up the Victim Position

    Giving Up the Victim Position, by Barbara Love. I am holding out to you that despite your feelings there is no real justification for occupying the victim position. Promise me that you will look it squarely in the eye and say, “I deny you. I just won’t occupy you anymore.”
    Published in: Present Time 141, October 2005, Liberationpages 69 to 70

  • 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)

  • Reports from Melphy

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

  • Young Women and Young Adult Women in Huairou

    Young Women and Young Adult Women in Huairou, by Jenny Sazama. There were 300 Co-Counselors who went with the No Limits Project to the Women's Conference in Beijing. About thirty of us were young people and young adults. We were able to have an impact on young women's issues.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(More Reports on Beijing: pages 30)

  • The African Presence in Beijing

    The African Presence in Beijing, by Melphy Sakupwanya. In Zimbabwe, active preparations for the 1995 Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Forum started way back in 1993. Women reflected on the past ten years, critically analysing the situation of women and presenting their concerns and perspectives on issues not only related to women but to society at large.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(More Reports on Bejing: pages 28 to 29)

  • White Protestant Liberation

    White Protestant Liberation, by Alison Ehara-Brown. As white people raised Protestant, many of us share a common experience of rules not being clearly spelled out.
    Published in: Present Time 135, April 2004, Liberation(pages 61 to 62)

  • 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)

  • Children and Psychiatric Drugs

    Children and Psychiatric Drugs, by Jenny Sazama. From a talk by Jenny Sazama, the International Liberation Reference Person for Allies to Young People, at the Allies to Young People Conference in The Netherlands, March 2006.
    Published in: Present Time 150, January 2008, Counseling Practice(pages 12 to 13)

  • You Might Have to Be Happy

    You Might Have to Be Happy, by Tim Jackins. You have to decide that you are worth facing anything for, and that you belong here with us—not because of what you did or what you will do, or any relationship, but simply because you are one of us, because you are human.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: page 3 to 4

  • On Caribbean Indigenous People

    On Caribbean Indigenous People, by Aurora Levins Morales. Heritage No. 4, page 67. I am a Puerto Rican woman, born and raised in the mountains of Puerto Rico. Almost all Caribbean* people have Native heritage, but I have never had a session about it with another Caribbean person.
    Published in: Heritage 4

  • 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

  • Korean-Heritage Experiences

    Korean-Heritage Experiences, by Unyong Kim. What a year of personally profound experiences around Korean heritage! 1) the East Coast Asian Liberation Workshop, summer of 1995; 2) going to the NGO Forum in Beijing; and 3) accompanying my mom on her first trip back to Korea since we left in 1962.
    Published in: Present Time 103, April 1996, (From the Mail: pages 79 to 80)

  • 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

  • The Differences Are Tiny

    The Differences Are Tiny, by Harvey Jackins. The differences between any two people in the entire world are at most two hundredths of one percent.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 44

  • Excerpts From the RC Journal OUR ASIAN INHERITANCE

    Published in: Our Asian Inheritance

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #3

    Published in: Teaching -

  • Present Tense Table of Contents

    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996

  • Topics to Cover in Fundamentals Class

    Published in: Teaching -

  • 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)

  • Sustaining All Life

    Description of the work of Sustaining All Life (SAL) and resources for SAL
    Published in: Environment -

  • Uncoupling Native and Indigenous Liberation from 
the Work on Racism Targeting Global Majority People


    Uncoupling Native and Indigenous Liberation from 
the Work on Racism Targeting Global Majority People

    Published in: Present Time 212, July 2023, Liberation65

  • My History in RC

    My History in RC
    Published in: Present Time 212, July 2023, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:45

  • Moving Forward in Confusing Times


    Moving Forward in Confusing Times

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

  • Translations in Japanese (PDF)

    Translations into Japanese
    Published in: Japanese

  • Following Up with Contacts Made at COP21

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

  • 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

  • Native People from Europe

    Native People from Europe, by Xabi Odriozola. Native people from Europe need to be seen and noticed. And we need to meet alone together to discharge on our hurts.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(page 47)

  • Showing Our Struggles

    Showing Our Struggles, by Francie Chew. Our Asian Inheritance No. 7, pp 46 to51. We are in an ironic position. We’re dealing with the non-Asian world—as Asians, Asian North Americans, or Asian whatever we are. However—in our heart of hearts—few of us have an Asian identity yet.
    Published in: Our Asian Inheritance 7

  • 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

  • Working on Heavy Fears

    Working on Heavy Fears, by Chuck Esser. Forceful and directive sessions on heavy fear, especially with young people, have sometimes been called “non-permissive” sessions. The term “non-permissive” can suggest that someone is deciding and enforcing what should happen in someone else’s life. I would like to clarify what we are talking about.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Counseling Practice45

  • Imagine a World without Violence against Women


    Imagine a World without Violence against Women

    Published in: Present Time 204, July 2021, Liberation28

  • An Unprecedented Opportunity


    An Unprecedented Opportunity

    Published in: Present Time 200, July 2020, No Section:03

  • 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

  • Israeli and Diaspora Jews Reaching for Each Other

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

  • 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

  • Challenging Isolation

    From a talk by Tim Jackins at the September 2019 Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop for Fryslân and the Netherlands
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice03

  • 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

  • Countering Christian Hegemony

    Countering Christian Hegemony by Barbara Love and Juanma. In the coming months in the United States and many other parts of the world, people will be engaged in what is often called “The Holiday Season.” This is a euphemism for an outward manifestation of Christian hegemony and domination. During “The Holidays,” the pretense that we live in a secular society is dropped, and the belief that Christianity is right and everyone must be made to follow its traditions and practices is openly demonstrated in public places and in everyday discourse.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation66

  • Anti-Semitism and Denial

    Anti-Semitism and Denial, by Dvora Slavin. Denial is a key piece of anti-Semitism. I’ve experienced how deep it is whenever I’ve let people (both RCers and non-RCers) know that their behavior has been anti-Semitic. In my experience not only Gentiles deny anti-Semitism but Jews as well. Actually, it’s not that Jews deny anti-Semitism but rather that we occlude it after it happens, or we don’t recognize it as anti-Semitism, or we’re afraid to trust our perception that it is.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation72

  • RC in El Salvador

    RC in El Salvador, by Victor Nicassio. I recently visited El Salvador. There were many small but significant steps forward that I feel pleased about being part of. Any progress is appreciated by people these days. It seems that things have gotten worse in the country during the year and a half since I was last there.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:67

  • Recent Anti-Semitism

    Recent Anti-Semitism, by Cherie Brown. I don’t think we can end racism—toward Palestinians, or all People of the Global Majority—without also ending anti-Semitism. The following are two recent incidents of anti-Semitism: Seventeen young people and teachers were recently shot and killed at a high school in Florida, USA—a high school that is reportedly forty percent Jewish. The shooter had Nazi symbols on his rifle and had posted anti-Semitic comments on-line; there is speculation that anti-Semitism was a motivating factor in the killings.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation71

  • Catholic Liberation in Mexico City

    Catholic Liberation in Mexico City by Joanne Bray. Twenty-four RCers gathered in Mexico City in October 2017 for the first Catholic Liberation Workshop in Mexico. Co-Counselors with a wide range of experiences shared their connections to a culture, people, and history that date back five hundred years. Some had never attended church, Catholic school, or anything related to the religion.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation51

  • For Raised-Poor People, Writing to Present Time Is a Powerful Act

    For Raised-Poor People, Writing to Present Time Is a Powerful Act by Julie Longden. I have only ever sent one article to be published in RC literature, and that was many years ago when Diane Shisk (the Alternate International Reference Person for the RC Communities) asked Area Reference Persons for articles about teaching. I only did it because I would go to the ends of the earth for Diane. This time I wanted to write for myself, because it would be a liberation thing for me.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation37

  • 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

  • South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage Women

    South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage Women by Anonymous. A South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage Women’s Workshop for North America and the Caribbean was held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in March 2018. Azi Khalili, the International Liberation Reference Person for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People, led the workshop. Diane Balser, the International Liberation Reference Person for Women, led a class on sexual exploitation.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation47

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

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

  • Jenny Sazama—International Liberation Reference Person for Allies to Young People

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

  • Jo Saunders— International Liberation Reference Person for Owning-Class People

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

  • Gwen Brown— International Liberation Reference Person for People Who Were Raised Poor

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

  • Harshly Mistreated for Being Female

    Harshly Mistreated for Being Female, Anonymous. I am grateful to all of the women and men who attended the Women’s and Men’s Workshop [see previous two articles] and to Diane and Tim for the groundbreaking thinking and counseling they did there. It becomes more and more obvious to me how much we need each other.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation73

  • There Is Much We Can Do

    There Is Much We Can Do There has been a lovely discussion, on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of parents, about sex and pornography and how to think about our children. Thanks to all who have written. I want to add that the porn industry preys on our children and that it’s our job to protect them from it.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Counseling Practice08

  • More on the Workshop in The Gambia


    More on the Workshop in The Gambia
, by Caroline New. The Gambia Introductory Workshop [see previous article] was a follow-up to the Sustaining All Life (SAL) Project at COP21 [the December 2015 United Nations climate conference in Paris, France]. It was organised by Saiba T. Suso, to whom I’ve been teaching RC over Skype or VSee [ways to communicate by video over the Internet] since meeting him briefly at COP21.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:24

  • People with Disabilities

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

  • Allies to Young People

    Allies to Young People, by Jenny Sazama. The less slack and resource adults have, the harder their lives are and the worse they feel about themselves. Then it is harder for them to remember to be allies to anybody, including young people.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section42

  • Raised-Poor People

    Raised-Poor People, by Gwen Brown. I have focused on helping raised-poor people (and people from other classes) understand how the economic system has confused us and set us up to behave in ways that do not reflect our caring, integrity, generosity, and power. I work with people on moving past class-based confusions so that we can have the lives and the world that we want.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section27

  • Present Time 175, April 2014

    Table of Contents for Present Time 175, April 2014
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014

  • A New Dating Relationship

    A New Dating Relationship, by Anonymous. I am a sixty-seven-year-old heterosexual female who’s lived alone for the past twenty-four years. I’ve created a rich, full, satisfying life as a single woman. Periodically that life has included intimate relationships.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Liberation61

  • Making Good Use of Online Communication

    Making Good Use of Online Communication, Diane Shisk. Skype, Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp, and other online communication services are making it easier for us to teach RC to people in distant locations. More and more RC leaders are experimenting successfully with holding classes, support groups, and other meetings online.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:74

  • Language Liberation in Australia

    Language Liberation in Australia, by Cynthia Lawson. What a joy to have attended the Care of the Environment Workshop led by Wytske Visser (the International Commonality Reference Person for the Care of the Environment) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wytske highlighted how care of the environment, language liberation, and ending racism are connected.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation54

  • Alive, and Enjoying Being an Elder

    Alive, and Enjoying Being an Elder, by Delores Jean Britt. The elders’ workshop led by Pam Geyer, the International Liberation Reference Person for Elders, last June in New Hampshire, USA, was thought provoking and exciting. The themes of ending racism, building allies, health, and fear of death and dying brought much discharge.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation57

  • A South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage Support Group

    A South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage Support Group, by Amin Khoury. Our South, Central, and West Asian-heritage support group in Los Angeles, California, USA, continues to go well. Four or five of us meet monthly.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation56

  • Hard Things Happened Long Ago

    Hard Things Happened Long Ago; From a talk by Tim Jackins* at the New York City Regions’ Workshopin New York City, New York, USA, June 2016. Almost always, the things that were the hardest on us happened a long time ago.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Counseling Practice03

  • Internalized Sexism

    Internalized Sexism; From a talk by Tim Jackins at a teachers’ and leaders’ workshop in England, January 2016
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation:73

  • 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

  • RC Information Coordinators

    RC Information Coordinators, by Jim Driscoll. Reports we received from Information Coordinators in response to a request by Tim Jackins for information about their activities.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation68

  • The Movement for Black Lives

    The Movement for Black Lives, by Barbara Love. This platform is a “far-reaching, comprehensive plan for the transformation of society.” It is based on an analysis of existing problems related to racism, and includes a range of policy and program proposals for addressing them.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing22

  • 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

  • Embracing Each Other as Jews

    Embracing Each Other as Jews, by Janet Foner. It is of key importance to treasure each Jewish person, including the Jews who came to this country with rich cultural traditions and had to assimilate.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation29

  • First Nation Suicides

    First Nation Suicides, by Barbara Love. Leaders of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Northern Ontario, Canada, have called for help after eleven suicide attempts over this past weekend.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation20

  • 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

  • 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

  • Giving Myself Permission to Be Anti-environmentalist in Sessions

    Giving Myself Permission to Be Anti-environmentalist in Sessions, by Terry Day. Dan Nickerson’s posting in which he asked the question, “Why are there not more working-class people in the environmental movement?” inspired me to write something about my journey toward becoming an activist on environmental issues.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing21

  • 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

  • Hope!

    Hope! by Barb Molanus. Hope is something I’ve been chasing for a while—most of my life, I suspect.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing30

  • Immigrants

    Immigrants, by Bikku Kuruvila. Immigration in the United States is strongly tied in with capitalism and the policy decisions of the U.S. government. It is also strongly linked to racism and class divisions. Immigration may look different on different people on the surface, but there are some deeper similarities.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation67

  • Musicians’ Liberation

    Musicians’ Liberation, by Nicola Ossher. I am a musician from Sydney, Australia. I play the drums professionally and enjoy playing guitar and piano and singing.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation66

  • Raising Funds for BLCD

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

  • Information, Perspectives, and Challenges

    Information, Perspectives, and Challenges, by Leslie Kausch. On compromising integrity, individualism and working to eliminate classism and working to eliminate sexism and male domination can’t be separated.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation77

  • More on the Catholic Liberation Workshop

    More on the Catholic Liberation Workshop, by Dulce Cisneros. As a country colonized by Spain and the Catholic religion, Mexico has a culture full of recordings1 of genocide. The Church has played an important role in keeping these recordings in place and has not offered enough space to discharge them.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation60

  • The International Liberation Reference Person for Pacific Islander and Pilipino/a-Heritage People

    The International Liberation Reference Person for Pacific Islander and Pilipino/a-Heritage People, Teresa Enrico, talks about her work.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation68

  • ILRP for Parents

    International Liberation Reference Person for Parents
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 63

  • Response to a Suicide

    Response to a Suicide by Russ Vernon-Jones. I was asked to share some thoughts toward an RC perspective on the situation.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practicepage 18

  • Sharing What I Gained from a Care of the Environment Workshop

    Sharing What I Gained from a Care of the Environment Workshop, by Kathy Taylor.In February I attended the Care of the Environment Workshop led by Wytske Visser in the Basque Country. Afterward I led a class meeting of our Area community class in which I reported on the workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:29

  • 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

  • Family Work for People of the Global Majority

    Family Work for People of the Global Majority, by Fela Barclift. The following is a report on the People of the Global Majority East Coast North America Family Work Leaders’ Conference, led by Fela Barclift, Teresa Enrico, and Chuck Esser in October 2014.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Counseling Practicepages 5 to 6

  • Girls, and Female Family Workers

    Girls, and Female Family Workers, submitted by Caryn Davis. From a discussion at the East Coast USA and Canada Leaders’ Workshop in Warwick, New York, USA, December 2014
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 84

  • The Usefulness of Counseling White People on Racism

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

  • Drugs, Alcohol, and Young People

    Drugs, Alcohol, and Young People, by Anna Boyar, Mari Piggott and Rae Axner. Thanks for starting this conversation, Anna. Here are a few of my thoughts about drugs and alcohol—specifically about working on our distresses related to them as young RCers and (for many of us) as young people raised in RC.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice(page 24)

  • From a Palestinian American Woman

    From a Palestinian American Woman, by Joy Totah Hilden. I have used the discharge process to find my mind and voice as a mixed-heritage Palestinian woman. For thousands of years, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in relative peace as neighbors in the same lands of West Asia.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing(53)

  • “We Can Make a Key Difference”

    “We Can Make a Key Difference”, by "Henry Church". I can see the difference this work has made in my own life. Without it I might have been permanently “treated” by the “mental health” system. Instead I am here, claiming my right to a life—to living well, with some semblance of beauty and order—and inspiring people with my success story.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberation(page 40)

  • Capitalism, and a Rational Economic System

    Capitalism, and a Rational Economic System by Harvey Jackins. Capitalism has many internal contradictions.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Wide World Changing51

  • More on the Guidelines

    More on the Guidelines by Diane Shisk. Ever since I became the Alternate International Reference Person in 1999, I have organized this process of revising the Guidelines. I have read a lot of suggestions for Guidelines changes! And I have learned a lot about what people do and don’t understand about the Guidelines.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:33

  • Women’s Liberation, with Men

    Women’s Liberation, with Men by Tokumbo Bodunde. The workshop kept in the forefront the idea of women’s liberation with men. Working on institutionalized sexism, playing “girls’ games,” doing physical power work,1 meeting separately from and together with the men—all among such a dedicated cadre of leaders of women and men—was tremendously hopeful and alive.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Liberation62

  • “Literacy Privilege”

    “Literacy Privilege”
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:49

  • Distress Patterns from Conquest

    Distress Patterns from Conquest, by Lorenzo Garcia. In the early years of the colonization, women were regarded as spoils of war. Rape, forced sexual slavery, and arranged marriage were also used to win favor with the colonizing forces.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation

  • United to End Racism Publications

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Middle-Class in "Classless" Israel

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

  • The Concrete Work Of Eliminating Your Racism

    Published in: Present Time 88, July 1992

  • Parents Leading the Working Class

    Parents Leading the Working Class, by Marya Axner. The following are my thoughts about parents leading the working class.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: page 46

  • Suddenly Our Eyes Are Clear

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

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

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

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

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

  • 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

  • Pam Roby

    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Harvey Page 58

  • Artists and the Importance of Discharge

    Artists and the Importance of Discharge, Elva Nelia Macias. Description of Artists' workshop led by John Fehringer (ILRP for Visual Artists)
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 45

  • Parents' Liberation and Capitalism

    Parents' Liberation and Capitalism, Patty Wipfler. Parents' liberation is key to ending capitalism
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 34

  • In the Family and with Friends

    In the Family and with Friends, by K-. I'm positive there are millions of these stories that could be told that don't make it to print or to anyone's attention. But they exist, and here is one of my stories.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: pages 47-48

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Strategies 2003

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Strategies 2004

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Being a Male Ally in a Massive Women’s Movement

    Being a Male Ally in a Massive Women’s Movement, by Chris Austill. His experience at the Beijing NGO Forum as a male ally to women.
    Published in: Present Time 101, October 1995, Contents(Pages 29 and 30)

  • Hindu Identity and Liberation

    Hindu Identity and Liberation, by Amisha Patel. I’d love to hear from South Asian-heritage folks about Hindu identity and liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation(page 37)

  • 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

  • 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

  • Overcoming Early Defeats and Discouragements

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

  • 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

  • A Recent Introduction to RC

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

  • A Successful Fight Against Racism and Sexism

    A Successful Fight Against Racism and Sexism, by Shani Fletcher. remembering our significance, taking up space, and reaching for each other.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 24

  • Intelligent Care of the Environment

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Disability, Volleyball, and Attention

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Excerpts from RC Journal OLDER AND BOLDER

    Published in: Older and Bolder

  • Reclaiming Singing, and Ourselves

    Reclaiming Singing, and Ourselves by Heather Hay
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013

  • Showing Our Struggles

    Published in: Our Asian Inheritance 7

  • About Draft 
Policy Statements


    About Draft 
Policy Statements
, by Harvey Jackins. In working to eliminate the patterns of oppression, draft policy statements are an important formulation of the way the oppression operates and provide a program for liberation from the oppression. 

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation72

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Antisemitism in the Current Period

    Published in: Present Time, Liberation49

  • Staying Engaged in Making 
Change in Difficult Times


    Staying Engaged in Making 
Change in Difficult Times
. How do we stay engaged in our organizing to end the climate emergency (or racism, or sexual exploitation, or . . . ) and have a good life as the conditions in our societies get harder and harder? 

    Published in: Present Time 211, April 2023, No Section77

  • Getting Back to RC

    Getting Back to RC, by anonymous. I would like to tell about getting back to RC.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Counseling Practice(page 17)

  • ILRP for Young Adults

    International Liberation Reference Person for Young Adults
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation63

  • INTERNALIZED RACISM

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • I’ve Always Been Female

    I’ve Always Been Female, by Irene HongPing Shen. I loved being at the Contemporary Women’s Issues Workshop. On Saturday night, after two days and three nights of not having to constantly negotiate sexism and male domination, I felt a sense of sisterhood as we, a hundred and fifty females, sang joyously, took up space, put our minds together, and worked hard on our liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation83

  • Parents and the Climate Crisis

    By Marya Axner, RC International 
Liberation Reference Person for Parents

    Published in: Present Time, Wide World Changing84

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Updated 
Fundamentals Teaching Guide and Class Outline (Part I) 


    Now available
The Revised and Updated 
Fundamentals Teaching Guide and Class Outline (Part I) 

    Published in: Present Time, No Section50

  • We Need This Liberating Tool


    We Need This Liberating Tool
. I crossed paths with RCers in 2001 in Durban, South Africa, during the United Nations World Conference against Racism and Xenophobia. I was amazed at the transformation, the revolution, I felt inside after attending one of the RC workshops. 

    Published in: Present Time 205, October 2021, Counseling Practice63

  • Present Time No. 110 January 1998

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Discharging Fear (five articles)

    The following five articles are from a discussion, on the e-mail discussion list for RC teachers, about discharging fear. Discharging Heavy Early Fear, by Michael Levy. Fear and Yawning, by J I need to Know Someone Is Really There, by Erin Mansell Fear and Physical Counseling, by Jeanie Lindquist How I've Dealt with Early Terror, by Anonymous
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Counseling Practicepages 12 to 14

  • Coming Back from Exile


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

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

  • Teaching a Fundamentals Class on Zoom 


    Teaching a Fundamentals Class on Zoom 

    Published in: Present Time 200, July 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:67

  • Important RC Resources!

    Ads for important RC resources: 2013 Guidelines, Working Together to End Racism, Short Talks by Tim Jackins on CD
    Published in: Present Time, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 85

  • Sharing RC Tools at Three Evening Meetings


    Sharing RC Tools at Three Evening Meetings
, BY Marilyn McEnery.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:25

  • Influencing Wide World Organizations

    Influencing Wide World Organizations, by Anonymous. I’m a mixed-heritage (Colombian and European white) USer who has been living in the United Kingdom (UK) for sixteen years. I am also a newly single mother of Catholic heritage and a member of the Catholic Worker Movement.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing85

  • 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

  • Disaster Preparedness—A Doorway into Addressing the Climate Crisis

    Disaster Preparedness—A Doorwayinto Addressing the Climate Crisis, by Marsha Saxton. My job is working with people with disabilities and their families, allies, caregivers, and service providers. I am learning ways to gently and amicably bring up climate issues without shutting people down [making people lose their attention].
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing79

  • A Parents’ Climate Movement in Israel

    A Parents’ Climate Movement in Israel, by Lotahn Raz. At the end of August 2019, with the huge fires burning in the Amazon, the climate crisis was becoming impossible to ignore, and I was crying hard in Co-Counseling sessions about the news.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing70

  • Staying Focused on Good Things in Life

    Staying Focused on Good Things in Life, by Janet Foner. If you’re having a hard time—for example, feeling sad or terrified or out of sorts [irritable] all the time—here are five ways to refocus yourself toward enjoying life:
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice04

  • “My Identity Is Still Working Class”


    “My Identity Is Still Working Class”
, by MacClurg Vivian. I grew up white, poor, and working class. I did not want to do factory work. I went to college to avoid getting trapped in poverty like my mom (and her seven children) were. That scared me early in my life.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation53

  • A New International Liberation Reference Person for Young People

    A New International Liberation Reference Person for Young People, by Elvin Landaeus Csizmadia. Being in this role is exciting! Getting the opportunity to take on [undertake] young people’s liberation as a main project in my life means a lot to me!
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation45

  • 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

  • It’s the Collapse of Society That’s Exhausting

    It’s the Collapse of Society That’s Exhausting, by Dan Nickerson. I struggle with getting enough sleep and rest. I also think that we need to be clear that it’s not RC that is exhausting us, it is the collapse of society.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice07

  • 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

  • Enormous Opportunities, and Doing Everything at Once

    Enormous Opportunities, and Doing Everything at Once by Harvey Jackins. The economic crisis is creating enormous opportunities. Everybody is in trouble. (laughter) Everybody. The collapsing society is collapsing on the necks of a large number of people, not just the hopelessly discouraged permanent poor, who are supposedly trained to just die quietly. The damage is reaching all sections of the population.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing70

  • Weaning with Attention

    Weaning with Attention by Multiple. The following was taken from a discussion on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of parents. Hi dear parents, I am hoping to hear from those of you who have weaned a child. My daughter is almost two, and we are still nursing two to four times a day.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Counseling Practice30

  • Working on U.S. Issues

    Working on U.S. Issues by Diane Lobaugh. I have been working on U.S. issues since I was first introduced to U.S. distress recordings by my dear Co-Counselors in the British Columbia, Canada, RC Community. I am grateful to Bill Horne, Samantha Sanderson, Bill Moore, and many others there, as well as to Jo Saunders, in England, for lovingly putting a wedge between me and my U.S. distress.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:22

  • Bringing RC to a Local Fathers’ Organization

    Bringing RC to a Local Fathers’ Organization, by Billy Yalowitz. The Fathering Circle is a wide-world grassroots community of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) fathers who are supporting each other as fathers. We are primarily working class, Black, and Latino, with a smaller number of white fathers who are mostly Jewish.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing18

  • Forgiveness

    Forgiveness, by Anonymous. I am a raised-Catholic, Irish/English elder woman. Although I lived in the United States for the first five years of my life, I have lived in England since then. In the Catholic Church we were taught about forgiveness. However, due to the rigidities we were taught, I could not really do forgiveness for much of my life.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Counseling Practice39

  • More on the Fathering Festival

    More on the Fathering Festival, by Marya Axner. A delegation of RCers did a “going public with RC” project at the Fathering Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. [See previous article.] The festival was a beautiful two-day event, and I left feeling hopeful and inspired.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing19

  • Peacekeeping for Indigenous Women at the Women’s March

    Peacekeeping for Indigenous Women at the Women’s March, by Diane Shisk. At the Women’s March this January I was part of a contingent of “peacekeepers” for the “Indigenous Women’s March for Missing and Murdered Women,” which led the entire Women’s March in Seattle (Washington, USA).
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing29

  • Using the Anti-Semitism Pamphlet

    Using the Anti-Semitism Pamphlet, by Cherie Brown. Dear wide world changers, Hopefully by now most of you have ordered and received a copy of our new pamphlet: Anti Semitism: Why Is It Everyone’s Concern? If you haven’t ordered it yet, you can order it online. Go to Rational Island Publishers, ; for the subject, type in AntiSemitism (with no hyphen).
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing16

  • What Will You March For?

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

  • 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

  • Women Reaching Out Together

    Women Reaching Out Together, by Sujata Maini. I was part of the Sustaining All Life team at the United Nations climate conference COP23 in Bonn, Germany, last November. Two other women and I deepened our relationships while organizing the women's forum.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing23

  • Addressing Pornography and Other Addictions

    Addressing Pornography and Other Addictions by Chuck Esser. The following is a question and answer that appeared on the RC e-mail discussion listfor leaders of parents:I am the father of a fifteen-year-old boy. I’ve been thinking and discharging about talking with him about pornography. I’ve not spoken with him about it yet. It terrifies me and feels like a minefield, so discharging first is necessary. I’d love to hear what other parents have done when faced with this issue.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Counseling Practice26

  • Catholics Working on Their Oppressor Roles

    Catholics Working on Their Oppressor Roles by Mary Toutonghi. I want to tell you about two Catholic groups that met at recent workshops. The first was at the South, Central, and West Asian Women’s Workshop held last March in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, led by Azi Khalili, the International Liberation Reference Person for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation57

  • Counseling on Menstrual Cramps

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

  • Giving It Back

    Giving It Back by Craig Simpson. When my mother died, in 1991, I inherited some money. It wasn’t enough to buy a condominium or house in Boston (Massachusetts, USA), but I found a small two-bedroom cottage on Cape Cod (in Massachusetts) and bought it. I never thought I would own my own house. I never thought much about it.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing09

  • Pushing for Change

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

  • 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

  • Marsha Hunter—International Liberation Reference Person for Lawyers

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

  • Marilyn Robb—International Commonality Reference Person for Educational Change

    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

  • A Huge Collective Success

    A Huge Collective Success, Azi Khalili. The Muslim Liberation Workshop in Marrakech, Morocco, last September was about putting RC into the hands of activists and people in the Global South who are hungry for it and are eager to share it with others.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation63

  • Getting Off Antidepressants

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

  • The First Step Is to Get in Motion

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

  • What to Do in the Current Situation

    What to Do in the Current Situation by Diane Shisk. Since I’ve become a climate activist (in the last six years), I’ve discharged a lot on what keeps me from thinking clearly about the present situation and taking the most effective actions for reversing climate change. I have good access to the early distresses that are restimulated.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing72

  • Översättningar som efterlyses

    Translations into Swedish
    Published in: Swedish

  • RCers as Elected Officials

    RCers as Elected Officials, by Ruth Atkin and others. I am the Information Coordinator for Current and Former Elected Officials. I left elected office after seventeen years as a mayor and city council member in a small urban city in the San Francisco Bay (California, USA) area.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing80

  • 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

  • Leveraging Our Likes and Dislikes in the RC Community

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

  • A Chance to Heal from War

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

  • 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

  • Climate Change and RC

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

  • Ad for Older and Bolder No. 7

    Published in: Present Time, Counseling Practice13

  • Owning Class Pamphlet

    The Owning Class—a Pamphlet
    Published in: Present Time, Wide World Changing28

  • The Hebrew Guidelines

    The Hebrew Guidelines
    Published in: Present Time, No Section22

  • New Teacher Packet Coming Soon!

    New Teacher Packet Coming Soon!
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:79

  • A Good Time to Talk about Anti-Semitism

    A Good Time to Talk about Anti-Semitism, Cherie Brown. The good news: anti-Semitism is now more visible, so it’s harder to deny it and pretend it doesn’t exist. The other good news: we RCers have been discharging and working on anti-Semitism for decades, so we have a lot to contribute to the conversation and to activism.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing24

  • Artists’ Liberation

    Artists’ Liberation, by Emily Feinstein. Shortly after I started Co-Counseling, in my twenties, I decided to get back to making art. Since then I have made it a priority in my life. I’ve appreciated getting to think about and lead artists within the RC Communities over the years.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Liberation63

  • Going the Extra Mile at the Nigerian National Workshop

    Going the Extra Mile at the Nigerian National Workshop, Chris Akubuiro. It was a marathon—from COP22 to the African Pre-World Conference and then to the Nigerian National Workshop, all in one stretch. So much work; so much teaching and learning; so much discharge; so many friends, old and new, and new experiences and fun.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:65

  • One of the Most Hopeful Classes I Have Ever Led

    One of the Most Hopeful Classes I Have Ever Led, by Wytske Visser. I just finished leading a weekly class in Fryslân for Co-Counselors who choose to work on leading. Tonight we watched parts of a video in which Harvey Jackins was talking about national liberation, classism, patriotism, and more.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:70

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Backing My Son in a Decision about School

    Backing My Son in a Decision about School, by anonymous. My son has struggled for years in a traditional school setting. This past year he had a very hard time in fourth grade at the public school he had been attending.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Counseling Practice37

  • Latinas/os

    Latinas/os, by Lorenzo Garcia. Latinas/os are now the largest Global Majority population in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. It’s common now in the United States to refer to us as Latinas/os.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation57

  • One Day We Will Eliminate Imperialism

    One Day We Will Eliminate Imperialism, by Bill Horne. I want to thank Juan Manuel (and Terry for translating) for his perspective and suggestions regarding the U.S. elections and the RC e-mail discussion lists [see previous article]. I want to recognize the risk he took for speaking frankly.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing33

  • Sustaining All Life at COP22

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

  • We Get to Mourn, then Plan for Tomorrow

    We Get to Mourn, then Plan for Tomorrow, by Barbara Love. You woke up this morning—or perhaps you could not sleep through the night—and faced the morning news. It was experienced by many of us as disastrous.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing28

  • Music Is Part of Our Humanness

    Music Is Part of Our Humanness, a report given at a May 2015 gather-in, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, by Heather Hay, International Liberation Reference Person for Musicians.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation71

  • Older and Bolder No. 7

    Older and Bolder No. 7
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing:31

  • We Are Out There with Workers

    We Are Out There with Workers, a report given at a May 2015 gather-in, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, by Joanie Parker, International Liberation Reference Person for Union Activists
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation72

  • 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

  • Appreciating the RC Teacher Update CDs

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

  • 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

  • Moving Forward Together

    Moving Forward Together, Caryn Davis. I’m in Fela Barclift’s Region—Brooklyn North, in New York, USA—in which we are all consistently working on racism and internalized racism.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:80

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • More on the Young People in Transition Project

    More on the Young People in Transition Project, by Megan Lynes. The project began in 2006 and currently has twenty-nine pairs—sixteen in the United States, six in the Netherlands, five in England, one in Canada, and one in Spain.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Counseling Practice09

  • 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

  • A New Day for Elders

    A New Day for Elders, by Pam Geyer. It’s a new day for elders! We can be hopeful, we can be active, we can set big goals. We have lots of experience in the world and lots of knowledge.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation68

  • Following the Lead of Indigenous People

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

  • The African Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop

    The African Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop, by Rosenell Nyakinyua. I am an RCer from Nairobi, Kenya, and one year old in RC. Within this year I have been liberated in some areas of my life. Others are works in progress, as I continue to discharge past hurts.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:48

  • The Southern Nigeria Leaders’ Workshop

    The Southern Nigeria Leaders’ Workshop, by Kingsley Ibekwe. It was a great opportunity for me to learn how to teach RC by modeling rational behavior, exhibiting a good attitude, being a friend, and welcoming other people’s friendship.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:53

  • 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

  • Racism and Care of the Environment, in Trinidad and Tobago

    Racism and Care of the Environment, in Trinidad and Tobago, multiple authors. Waveney Richards, the Regional Reference Person for the Caribbean, led a weekend workshop here in Trinidad and Tobago that paralleled the Racism and Care of the Environment Workshop. We followed the same schedule and used Skype to join in the main classes
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing23

  • Speak Out

    Speak Out, by Diane Balser. After the death of an African American woman arrested for a minor traffic violation, encouraging women not to say silent.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation51

  • The International Catholic Liberation Workshop

    The International Catholic Liberation Workshop, by Ellie Hidalgo. This April, fifty Catholics from throughout the Caribbean and Latin America (Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Trinidad) and from South Africa, England, and the United States gathered for an International RC Catholic Liberation Workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation58

  • The International Liberation Reference Person for Allies to Young People

    The International Liberation Reference Person for Allies to Young People, Jenny Sazama, talks about her work. First, they need us to be alive. They are alive, and we need to come out here and match them and not just enjoy the lives they have.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation69

  • Women and Physical Power—“The World Is Ours”

    Women and Physical Power—“The World Is Ours”, by Tokumbo Bodunde. Many highlights of the workshop, most of them related to the contradiction of many women getting to use their bodies in a personal and collective fight against sexism and male domination.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation55

  • African Heritage, Working Class, and Female

    African Heritage, Working Class, and Female by Tokumbo Bodunde
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 57

  • Bringing RC to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change

    Bringing RC to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpage 44

  • 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

  • Profound Re-evaluations at Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Profound Re-evaluations at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Terry Fletcher. I recently attended a Healing from World War II Workshop, led by Julian Weissglass, and visited Auschwitz-Birkenau for the fourth time.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation:pages 65-66

  • Sunrise Center Workshop

    Sunrise Center Workshop by Joan Mackenzie.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practice14

  • The Capitalist System

    The Capitalist System by Anonymous.Thanks, Julian1, for asking how we are discharging and thinking about the capitalist system, and for your thoughts about how important and necessary it is to replace it with a society that is humane, inclusive, and equitable for all women and men in the world.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpages 33-34

  • We Have the Resources to Recover from Everything

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

  • 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

  • All Human Life Is Sacred

    All Human Life Is Sacred, by Barbara Love. I have a lot of thoughts about the events in Paris (France) and the response to them around the world. I am sure that my thoughts have a lot of reactivity and restimulation attached to them. But I have decided to go ahead and share my thoughts anyway, resisting the urge to hold on to them until I am sure that I have cleaned them up.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: pages 25 to 26

  • “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

  • A Workshop on Israel and Palestine

    A Workshop on Israel and Palestine, by Elizabeth Shefrin. I led a short workshop in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) for people to discharge on Israel and Palestine. There were eleven of us—three of us Jewish and the rest Protestant and Catholic.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:81

  • 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

  • The People’s Climate March

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

  • A New Relationship with My Bathroom Scale

    A New Relationship with My Bathroom Scale, by Marion Ouphouet. I’ve been trying out a new relationship with my bathroom scale, with weighing myself. For some time, and almost all the time since I’ve been with the Large Women’s Health Project, I have held a position that I can discharge and think about what’s useful in weight loss.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice(pages 9 to 10)

  • BLCD 2014

    BLCD 2014, by Patricia Leola Ayoka Thandiwe Mallory-Oduba. We came from all over the Eastern coast of the US of A, including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Jersey and New York. Everybody was eager to hear The words and wisdom of Rudy Nickens and Barbara Love And reunite with old friends And catch up with the happenings and goings on in they lives And miss old friends who could not be there.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberationpages 32 to 33

  • Daily Sessions on Skype

    Daily Sessions on Skype, by Suvan Geer. I have been doing early-morning twenty-minute sessions on Skype with the same Co-Counselor almost every weekday for the past five years. Over time we both realized that something important was happening and decided to do it more often even though there was no overwhelming crisis in either of our lives.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice(page 8)

  • Drugs and Our Son

    Drugs and Our Son, by "Pete". It became clear that our son was far from being able to make rational decisions about drug use, and was not heading in that direction anytime soon. While his amazing human qualities shown through, it was clear that the drugs were messing up his life in a big way.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice(20)

  • So Much to Learn from One Another

    So Much to Learn from One Another, by Azi Khalili. Niti Dandekar, the Regional Reference Person for India, has decided that women’s liberation is a key issue for the liberation of India. Iranian RC women, led by Vida Mozafarieh, are also committed to women’s liberation as their key issue. The women’s workshop in India1 was a growing experience for us all.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberationpage 30

  • 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)

  • This Year’s Pilgrimage

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

  • 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

  • Always Pleased, Never Satisfied

    Always Pleased, Never Satisfied
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice:24

  • Challenging the Limits of Internalized Racism

    Challenging the Limits of Internalized Racism
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice:34

  • Discharging “Superman” Distress

    Discharging “Superman” Distress
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice:23

  • “Love Awaits Me at Every Turn”

    “Love Awaits Me at Every Turn”
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice:24

  • The Right Time for Intersex Liberation

    The Right Time for Intersex Liberation, by Prsank. For three years I have been part of a non-RC support group for intersex people. It has been a place for us to share experiences of childhood treatments, hospitals, secrecy, silencing, and coping with the gender expectations in society.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation

  • 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

  • Asian-American Art and Growth

    Asian-American Art and Growth, by Mike Ishii. I'm continuing to build Asian RC here in New York City. I believe, though, that we're entering a new phase of growth, a fruition of our long efforts.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, From the mail: page 83

  • The Importance of Policy

    The Importance of Policy, by Ayana Raquel Morse. A policy is a guideline for action for a person or a group of people. In and out of Co-Counseling, people come up with many different policies all the time. There have been and will be good policies that make people feel angry.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: page 62

  • Important Job Open

    Important Job Open, by Julian Weissglass.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building: page 60

  • Reaching Out, One Big Step After Another

    Reaching Out, One Big Step After Another, by Truus Jansen. I run a parenting program with low-income parents. I am finding that we can't go faster with the children than the parents can handle.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: page 26

  • Strategies 2004

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Dreaming Big for Your Life

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

  • Counseling People Who Think about Suicide (8 articles)

    Counseling People Who Think about Suicide (Eight articles), by several authors. The following eight articles were taken from a discussion on the e-mail discussion list for RC Community members.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Counseling Practice(pages, 10-13)

  • Discharging about U.S. Patriotism

    Discharging about U.S. Patriotism, by Bill Horne. I attended the International Care of the Environment Leaders’ Conference near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, last August.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberation(page 25)

  • Women’s Liberation and Working-Class Liberation Mutually Dependent

    Women’s Liberation and Working-Class Liberation Mutually Dependent, by Diane Balser. Women’s liberation cannot take place without working-class liberation, and vice versa. The exploitation of female labor has always been a primary prop of class societies.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: page 43

  • A Powerful Weekend for Women in Their Thirties

    A Powerful Weekend for Women in Their Thirties, by Cristina Mitra. The participants were of a range of identities and from many different parts of the United States and Canada.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberationpages 57 to 58

  • A Workshop for Women in Their Forties

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

  • Online Dating and Sexism

    Online Dating and Sexism, by Kristin Larson. a group of us met to discharge on sexism and online dating.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberationpage 56

  • 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

  • The Best World Conference Yet

    The Best World Conference Yet, by Janet Foner. The recent World Conference was the best one yet! I have been to all but one World Conference since 1981, and they have been getting better and better each time.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 22

  • Healing from Damage Inflicted by Racism and Internalized Racism

    Healing from Damage Inflicted by Racism by Tim Jackins. Working Together to End Racism. To heal from the damage inflicted by racism and internalized racism, we need to tell our stories—how racism has affected our lives, what has happened to us and to our people. When we do this, the damage done by racism begins to dissipate.
    Published in: Working Together to End Racism

  • Confronting Sugar and Overeating Addictions

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

  • A Page or Two in the Life of a Scientist

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Union Organizing

    Union Organizing, D--. Union organizing drive
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Wide World ChangingPage 73-74

  • Beacons to Each Other in Eliminating Racism

    Beacons to Each Other in Eliminating Racism, Gail Mandella. Each of us being a fire for each other to eliminate racism
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 31

  • Thoughts about Growth

    Thoughts about Growth, by Karl Lam. So I figured out that it is important for us to grow—not just so we spread RC ideas, which is important, and not just as a Community, but so that each of us, as an individual, builds RC around himself or herself.
    Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012, Teaching

  • Native Liberation, Colonization, and Genocide

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

  • 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

  • It Sometimes Happens that a Woman Remembers that God Is Not a Man

    It Sometimes Happens that a Woman Remembers that God Is Not a Man, by Ibtisam Barakat. In a session today I started using the understatement, "It sometimes happens that someone likes somebody," and proceeded to improvise slightly with each repetition. It was amazing how much discharge came off.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: Experience with the Understatement: page 26

  • Generating New Ones

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Thinking About How to Work, as Well as Working

    Thinking About How to Work, as Well as Working, by Carmen Verne. I have been in Re-evaluation Counselling for almost three years. I'm currently leading an ongoing couples' support group in Adelaide, South Australia with my partner, Peter.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Counseling Practice(page 15)

  • No One is Lazy

    No One is Lazy, by Jessi Hance. I am a person with chronic health issues. As a result of extremely weak digestion, I've experienced malnutrition and other problems for most of my life.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Counseling Practice(page 20)

  • Supporting Each Other

    Supporting Each Other, by Mike Dashman. At this year's East Coast USA Educational Change Leaders' Workshop, I called together a topic table for young adults at lunch one day. One of the questions I asked them was, 'How can we as young adults support each other better?'
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(page 31)

  • Black/Jewish Alliance

    Black/Jewish Alliance, by David Franklin. I have just returned from another 'four on four' blacks and Jews RC event. Participating in this black/Jewish dialogue led by N'tua N'tua-Domayla has been remarkable.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(page 35)

  • The Filipino Presence at the East Asian Conference

    The Filipino Presence at the East Asian Conference, by Teresa Enrico. The East Asian Pre-World-Conference Conference in Japan was very good. It was good to be with the Filipinos so soon after our initial workshop in March.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Teaching(Leading, Community Building: page 47)

  • Sure-footed on a Narrow Path

    Sure-footed on a Narrow Path, by B-. Thanks for giving me the job of Pre-World-Conference Conference organizer. Thinking about the whole is something I like to do
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 51.)

  • 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.)

  • Guidelines for the RC-LIST

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Southern Accents

    Southern Accents, by Rachel Winters. Present Time 157, October 2009, page 81. I and many other people have “lost” our accents. (Sometimes my Southern accent will surface but usually not unless I am around other Southern people.) People both in and out of RC can be quick to comment on this, which is not a benign thing to do. I tell them that I have assimilated, and that it is a big hurt.
    Published in: Present Time 157, October 2009, Liberation(page 81)

  • Appreciating Present Time

    Appreciating Present Time.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, No Section74

  • Applying Decisive Ideas Boldly

    Applying Decisive Ideas Boldly by Cherie Brown. Your article on the topic of people discriminated against for distresses in the new Present Time has stimulated so much important discharge and thinking. Your commitment to rigor and non-liberalism is always such a model for me.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (From the Mail: page 71)

  • 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)

  • The Economic Victimization of the World’s Women

    The Economic Victimization of the World's Women, by Rosie Brennan. The most important overall challenge is the impact of the “globalisation” of the economy on women’s lives. In particular, the imposition of “Structural Adjustment Programmes” by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the adoption of Free Trade Agreements each have a major effect on women worldwide.
    Published in: Present Time 101, October 1995, Contents(Pages 22 and 23)

  • 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

  • Changing the Narrative

    Changing the Narrative, by Nneka Inniss. The harshest way that internalized racism confuses me is by attacking my intelligence; it causes me to struggle to trust my own mind.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation(page 39)

  • 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)

  • A Passover Seder in Japan

    A Passover Seder in Japan, by Randy Matsui. Our allies-to-Jews support group here in Japan is actively engaged in learning about Jews and Jewish culture and working to support the Jewish member of our local RC Community
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Teaching(page 73)

  • A Secure and Sustainable Future for All

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

  • Capitalism and the Threat to the Environment

    Capitalism and the Threat to the Environment, by Sean Ruth. At all of my workshops over the past few years, I have raised the issue of capitalism and the threat to the environment.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Wide World Changing(page 82)

  • Discharging Patterns of Domination

    Discharging Patterns of Domination, by Joanne Bray. We who are members of oppressor groups (white people, males, people of dominant nations or languages, people with high status, heterosexuals) are pulled to take control, take charge, think we are always correct. We take up space without noticing it and assume privileges (access to resources).
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(page 60)

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Priorities for Parents

    Priorities for Parents, by Randi Wolfe. there are basically three things we parents do to support our young people’s re-emergence.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: page 13

  • 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

  • What Matters Is Not Losing People

    What Matters Is Not Losing People, by Xabi Odriozola. Nowadays I choose very carefully whom I am going to invite into RC, and I make sure that the person will stay in.
    Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012, Teaching

  • Clarifying and Summarizing

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Successful Class — Contributing Factors

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

  • 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

  • Korean Liberation Workshop

    Korean Liberation Workshop, by Kyoungho Koh. Present Time No. 118, page 21. The goal for the weekend was for all of us to fall deeply in love with each other, to allow ourselves to be deeply loved, and to give each person the space to show himself or herself to the others in as real a way as possible.
    Published in: Present Time 118, January 2000, Liberation(page 21)

  • People of Korean Heritage

    People of Korean Heritage, by Kyoungho Koh. Present Time No. 111, page 87. My full birth name is Kimberly Kyoungho Koh, and I would like to introduce myself as the newly appointed Information Coordinator for People of Korean Heritage!
    Published in: Present Time 111, April 1998

  • Fighting for Ourselves as Catholics

    Fighting for Ourselves as Catholics, by Joanne Bray. Present Time No. 163, pages 9 to 10. Fighting for ourselves as Catholics (in RC and out) is a significant battle.We need to prioritize it, and do it again and again, so that we can see how the recording to “erase” ourselves (as the highest good)—to not need, not want, not fight for ourselves—has been a part of our history.
    Published in: Present Time 163, April 2011, Counseling Practice(pages 9 to 10)

  • Sixty Years of Co-Counseling

    Sixty Years of Co-Counseling, by Sidney Stock. This is my anniversary. Sixty years ago, June 1953, I met Harvey. I was desperately looking for help for my mother, Ida, who’d been victimized by the “mental health” system with insulin shock and sundry other psychiatric “treatments” since before my birth.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Counseling Practice(page 15)

  • Health and Well-Being for All!

    Health and Well-being for All!, by Pam Geyer. Almost all health issues have their origins in hurts that happened early in our lives.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Counseling Practice: page 17

  • Next Steps

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

  • 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)

  • Appreciating Men

    Appreciating Men, by Chris Austill. "I am a good guy, I am one of the good guys, And the bad guys are good guys too."
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: page 16

  • An Introduction to Disability Liberation

    An Introduction to Disability Liberation, by Amy Anderson. I defined disability as a physical, mental, or emotional condition that significantly limits one’s activities of daily living and/or ability to work.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: pages 45 to 46

  • 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

  • Learning from Patty to Be at Ease with People

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • "Nature" Not "Native"

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Reaching People in Big City Schools

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Teaching About Leading

    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

  • The United States Social Forum

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • UER Activities in the United States 2001-2004

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • UER at the White Privilege Conference, April, 2004

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • UER at the White Privilege Conference (WPC) April, 2006

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Giving Up a Life-Threatening Addiction to Sugar

    Giving Up a Life-Threatening Addiction to Sugar, by Susanne Langer. I am a large woman and as such am exposed to both sexism and the oppression of being large—in addition to the oppressions of being raised-poor, working class, Catholic, an elder, and more.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation27

  • Staying Counselor

    Staying Counselor. Someone asks Harvey1 how to be a counselor to an oppressed person who is directing their restimulated feelings of anger at him. Harvey asks him to come up and play the role of the oppressed person while Harvey plays the oppressor role.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Liberation33

  • Refuse to Tolerate Scapegoating of Any Group

    Refuse to Tolerate Scapegoating of Any Group, by Gail Bradbrook. I recently went to a workshop. It's purpose was for Gentiles to think about Jewish liberation. We talked about how there are many oppressions in the world, such as classism, sexism, racism, and ageism. All these oppressions divide us and push us into certain roles that limit us.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(page 18)

  • Reversals to Capitalism

    Reversals to Capitalism, by Harvey Jackins. In the last one hundred and fifty years, at least three major efforts have been made to eliminate the inefficient, oppressive irrationalities involved in oppressive class societies. These three efforts were the Paris Commune, the Russian October Revolution, and the Chinese Liberation of 1949.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing17

  • 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

  • An Even Clearer Way to Communicate about Anti-Semitism

    An Even Clearer Way to Communicate about Anti-Semitism by Nanci Luna Jiménez. I started leading wide-world work on eliminating racism and all other oppressions almost twenty-five years ago. I cannot tell you how many times over the years Jewish participants in my workshops have told me that it was the first time they had seen anti-Jewish oppression included in work on equity, diversity, and inclusion.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing18

  • More Thoughts on Oppressor Material

    More Thoughts on Oppressor Material, by Karl Lam. Since my article “Working on Oppressor Material” was published in the January 2015 Present Time, a lot of people have said it has been useful. I think that part of what makes it useful is that it puts oppression in a wider context.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation79

  • Resigning from the Owning Class

    Resigning from the Owning Class, by Harvey Jackins. Coming Home No. 1, page 64. Owning-class people can resign from the owning class anytime they want to. You have the complete freedom to give up your oppressive role.
    Published in: Coming Home

  • Necessary!

    Necessary!, by Debbie Newton. A Trained "Personal Assistant" At Any Workshop Where Disabled People Attend, Anything Less Is Oppressive Thoughtlessness. About ten years ago, in Present Time, you invited any disabled person to look upon you as his or her ally and to phone or write to you.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (Front Section: pages 4 to 6)

  • Sustaining All Life_test

    Description of the work of Sustaining All Life (SAL) and resources for SAL
    Published in: Environment -

  • 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

  • The Pull to Blame and Attack

    The Pull to Blame and Attack, by Harvey Jackins. When any oppressed group begins to awarely organize to achieve its liberation, there will be a reactive attraction to get into a more comfortable end of the pattern—a reactive attraction toward blaming and attacking other oppressed groups who have mistreated it in the past.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section35

  • A “Revolutionary” Parent

    A “Revolutionary” Parent, by Heather Luna. I realized I was being oppressive with my daughter.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practice06

  • 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

  • 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)

  • An Important Clarification

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

  • Sharing Visibly and Broadly

    Sharing Visibly and Broadly by Alysia Tate. Recent events offer us many opportunities to share what we know more visibly and broadly. Below is my attempt to communicate some of our RC ideas to a non-RC audience. With the visibility of racism in the United States, I wanted to communicate a few things, including 1) anti-Black racism continues and remains a vicious force, despite the successes of individual Black people; 2) it is incorrect for white people to blame Black people for the economic collapse we face; 3) we must not let oppressive forces divide us in any way; all for one, and one for all; 4) Black women experience vicious economic oppression from racism and sexism, despite the incredible gains we have made.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing82

  • Organizing as a Mom

    Organizing as a Mom by Tresa Elguera. As a mom, I do a lot of work in my children’s school and in my neighborhood. It is hard to remember and value it. The combined messages of sexism, young people’s oppression, and parents’ oppression make it difficult to notice that I do anything, or remember that I’ve done anything, or get help, or even talk about it.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation59

  • The Real Nature of Attacks


    The Real Nature of Attacks
, by Harvey Jackins. Being attacked is an almost inevitable accompaniment to being a good leader. Such attacks can stem from the efforts of the oppressive society to overcome any threat of resistance to the oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:30

  • “Freedom of Speech” Can Distract Us from Ending Racism

    “Freedom of Speech” Can Distract Us from Ending Racism, by Alysia Tate. For many years I worked as a journalist in the United States. In my experience, “freedom of speech” is often used to prevent us from facing racism and other oppressions that are fully expressed in the media. It distracts us from the real conversations and work that must happen to end racism and other oppressions in that industry.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 26

  • “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

  • Young People Regaining Power

    Young People Regaining Power, by Arlo Cristofaro-Hark. I have been thinking a lot lately about conservation work, national and state parks, and how we can empower young people (in RC and out) in the direction of care of the environment. As babies we all understand our true power, but because of young people’s oppression we often feel quite discouraged and frightened and it’s hard to act boldly in the face of interesting and restimulating problems.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 33

  • 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

  • Men's Liberation at the University

    Men's Liberation at the University, Selwyn Polit. Presentation on men's oppression at the University of Texas
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Wide World Changing(Page 79)

  • "Keep Fighting;Things Can Change"

    "Keep Fighting; Things Can Change", by José Nilo Rodríguez Up until last year, I had only studied at public schools. But the heavy oppression of young people was very difficult to manage, so I decided to leave school and take charge of my own education. I wanted to focus on my learning and re-emergence.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing14

  • A Time to Stand Together

    A Time to Stand Together, by "Taylor Swift". Gay oppression, like sexism, has been minimized in this country and in the current period.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation14

  • Forced to Accept Misinformation

    Forced to Accept Misinformation, by Harvey Jackins. Young people continue to be told “this is so” without being encouraged to check on it by their own observations. This is part of the process of oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation66

  • “I Retain the Right to Love You”

    “I Retain the Right to Love You” by Anonymous. A large part of owning-class oppression is that we who are owning class get separated from our families.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation:page 75

  • Fryslân and the Frisian Language

    Fryslân and the Frisian Language, by Annie Hoekstra. Present Time No. 114, pages 46 to 47. Fryslân is a province in the north of The Netherlands. The Frisian language, Frysk, has never been forbidden by the government, so there is no official oppression. However, Frysk is often associated with old fashioned, rural, backward.
    Published in: Present Time 114, October 1998

  • French Translations

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

  • Propositions About Human Liberation

    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • Propositions About Human Liberation

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Winning Allies


    Winning Allies
, 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 that are outside the group itself.

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation83

  • Reflections on War


    Reflections on War
, by Onii Nwangwu-Stevenson. The oppressive society is dividing us, and war thrives in such a situation. It follows that if humanity bonded together, there would likely be no more wars.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing54

  • What Does "Accessibility" Really Mean?

    What Does "Accessibility" Really Mean?, by Debbie Newton. To me, "accessible" means two things: 1. That I can take part in an RC event as freely and independently as any non-disabled person, 2. That I can expect not to have people rehearsing oppressive attitudes ("disablism") at me.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberationpages 65 to 66

  • From "The Reclaming of Power"...

    From "The Reclaming of Power"…, Harvey Jackins. Oppressive society alienates us and in RC we promote unity
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 45

  • Workshop for Scots

    Workshop for Scots, by John Ross. We celebrated being Scottish together, helped each other liberate ourselves from a bit (or two) of Scottish oppression, and just plain enjoyed ourselves. There was quite a bit of "theory," led by Jeannie, plus time in support groups, sessions, and topic groups.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(page 19)

  • A Sick, Wounded Monster

    A Sick, Wounded Monster, by Harvey Jackins. The battle of women and their allies against sexist oppression
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 25

  • U.S. Elections and Racism, Sexism, and Classism

    U.S. Elections and Racism, Sexism, and Classism, by Eric Braxton. The political system in the United States has been massively corrupted.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing62

  • Ending War

    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • “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

  • Our Ongoing Goals

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

  • Giving Up Invisibility as a Gentile

    Giving Up Invisibility as a Gentile, by Anne Barton. I have recently been able to discharge to some clarity about the privilege of being able to choose whether or not to take on* a Gentile identity. My lack of clarity has been connected to my white Protestant owning-class heritage.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(page61)

  • 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

  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience, by Lotta Kronlid. Does it make sense to use civil disobedience as a tool when stopping the destruction of the natural world? Is it effective?
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing42

  • We Own the Government

    We Own the Government, by Harvey Jackins The oppressive society is fundamentally irrational, and all its legalities are for supporting irrationality. There is no legal way to bring about a rational society.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing21

  • Competition, Play, and Capitalism

    Competition, Play, and Capitalism; From a talk by Tim Jackins at the Central European Workshop, in Basque Country, March 2014. Competition is fun, if you are good. Actually, in our society, competition is always connected to oppression, and this is too bad.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation19

  • Our Natural Attitude Is One of Confidence

    Our Natural Attitude Is One of Confidence, by Harvey Jackins The oppression has driven almost everyone’s confidence underground. Our natural attitude is one of confidence.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Wide World Changingpage 34

  • Art, and Racism

    Art, and Racism, by Diane Balser. I appreciate the postings. Along with the events of the last few days, they have made me think. I would encourage people to discharge not only on the taking of human life but also on the oppression of Muslims.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 27

  • “I Can Hold Out a Hand of Unity”

    “I Can Hold Out a Hand of Unity,” by Kayhan Irani. I have been privileged to have some perspective on the relationship between the struggles of South, Central, and West Asian-heritage people and the struggles of Black Americans. For many years I and my African-heritage collaborator and best friend have worked together on projects centered on the elimination of all forms of oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: page 52

  • My Talk on Sexism

    My Talk on Sexism, by Alima Adams. Last year I was looking to get involved with projects related to ending all oppression. I met an African woman, F—, a survivor of domestic violence, who had started a project empowering vulnerable women. She wanted me to be the host for her first event.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 43 to 44

  • Listening, Learning, and Discharging

    Listening, Learning, and Discharging by Christine Selig. Where I live in the United States, there is misinformation and lack of information about West Asian countries and Muslim, Arab, and other West Asian peoples. People are vulnerable to being manipulated and confused by racism and anti-Jewish oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Wide World Changingpage 71

  • Adversaries Are Only Patterns

    Adversaries Are Only Patterns, by Harvey Jackins. What’s our current situation? Our adversaries are only patterns. Nothing supports an oppressive society except patterns.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberation(page 35)

  • Finding Our Way Out of a Colonial Heritage

    Finding Our Way Out of a Colonial Heritage, by Wandia Kironyo. I was the head girl in my former school and often met people who found humour in humiliating others. When they have been humiliated at home they like to oppress others. Using RC tools, I have encouraged them to think positively about themselves; then they can think well of others.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, TeachingLeading, Community Building, page 56

  • More About Commitments

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

  • 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

  • Seeking My "Same" Background

    Seeking My "Same" Background, by Lisa Starborg-Frisk. I promised to give you a written report of the work I have been doing with the Same ("Same" is the accurate name for the reindeer-herding people of northern Europe who have been called in other languages by the oppressive term "Lapps").
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: page 72

  • 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

  • Men Asking Each Other for Help

    Men Asking Each Other for Help, by Christopher Jacques. Notes are from a topic group report at a workshop for Liberation from "Mental Health" System Oppression, November 1995.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Counseling PracticePage 38

  • Looking at Class

    Looking at Class, From a talk by Tim Jackins at the Australia and New Zealand Pre-World Conference, February 2017. You were born into a particular class—owning class, middle class (which is sort of a pseudo class), or working class. If you are owning class, you own stuff. You own the means of production, and all the laws in our societies justify your getting a lot of what’s produced.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation41

  • Sexism, Pornography, and War

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

  • Taking Stock of Ourselves

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

  • What We Are Trying to Do


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

  • Communicating about RC Outside the Communities


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

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

  • Gentiles: Engage with What Is Happening in the Middle East

    Gentiles: Engage with What Is Happening in the Middle East, by Dorann van Heeswijk. It never makes sense to judge ourselves as too small or too ill-informed. “I can and will make a difference, and this means . . .” is a way forward. And any step we take out of passivity and powerlessness is also a step toward our own liberation, and the liberation of us all.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing(56)

  • The Role of White People in Ending Racism

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • "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

  • The Reclaiming of Power

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

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

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

  • A Miracle--Not a Mistake

    A Miracle--Not a Mistake, by "Prisank." My life turned around when I learned that I was intersex, when I learned about the “correction” surgery that was done when I was small and about chromosomes and the hormonal system.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(pages 54 to 55)

  • Excerpts from the RC journal RECOVERY AND RE-EMERGENCE

    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 6

  • The Reclaiming of Power

    Published in: The Reclaiming of Power

  • 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

  • Choosing a Perspective

    Choosing a Perspective, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 140, page 15. Choosing a perspective helps us stand against the pull of distress recordings.
    Published in: Present Time 140, July 2005

  • Frisians and Their Allies

    Frisians and Their Allies, by Wytske Visser. Present Time No. 109, pages 45 to 48. I had always felt a strong bond with Gypsies, the Irish, Scots, Basques, and other indigenous races who refuse to give up their identities. That I dare to express my views outside the borders of Friesland is due to the thinking of those three people and to the support of Riet Schaper, Jan Venderbos, and Harvey Jackins.
    Published in: Present Time 109, October 1997, Liberation(page 45 to 48)

  • Guerre et changement climatique : 
Impact sur les populations 
arabes et musulmanes 


    Guerre et changement climatique : 
Impact sur les populations 
arabes et musulmanes, Amin Khoury (Victor Nicassio). Récemment, grâce à un logiciel de traduction en ligne, j’ai rédigé une première version en français de la présentation que j’avais faite au Maroc au cours du rassemblement des militants à la COP22 (les négociations sur le climat organisées par les Nations Unies à Marrakech, Maroc, en novembre 2016). Brigitte Guimbal et Régis Courtin ont relu et corrigé cette version. Régis Courtin a également traduit cette introduction. 

    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing56

  • The Work of Sustaining All Life

    The Work of Sustaining All Life, SAL handout at COP21
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing76

  • "SPIRITUALISM" IN RC? NO!

    Published in: Present Time 59, April 1985

  • Discharging Colonial Oppressor Distresses

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

  • The Fundamentals of Co-Counseling

    The Fundamentals of Co-Counseling, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time No. 39, pp 3-11. Human beings probably evolved the capacity to think intelligently in a series of steps. To combine the incoming information from the environment with the information on file from past experiences and put together completely new responses and new understandings of current situations is quite a different function from, and beyond the capacity of, pre-human life.
    Published in: Present Time 39, April 1980, Counseling Practice

  • Thoughts on Creativity and Artists' Liberation

    Thoughts on Creativity and Artists’ Liberation by Emily Feinstein. Creativity is inherent to all human beings. It is a natural function.
    Published in: Present Time 142, January 2006, Liberation(pages 33 to 37)

  • Opposing Irrational Policies Together


    Opposing Irrational Policies Together

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

  • 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

  • “Bad People”

    “Bad People”, by Karl Lam. One of the key difficulties for humans, at this point in our history, is our collective struggle to face our oppressor positions and our oppressor material [distress]. One reason is that we all have early hurts about “bad people” and how they are treated.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation84

  • 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

  • War and Climate Change: The Impact on Arab and Muslim Populations

    War and Climate Change: The Impact on Arab and Muslim Populations, Amin Khoury (Victor Nicassio). Recently, using an online translator, I did a draft French translation of the war and climate talk I gave in Morocco at the activist gathering outside of COP22 (the United Nations climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco, in November 2016). Brigitte Guimbal and Régis Courtin proofread it and made corrections.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing56

  • 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

  • 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

  • We Can Think Now and Act

    We Can Think Now and Act, by Sparky Griego. I’ve been using a part of the RC women’s draft policy to think about the U.S. presidential election: “We can give up acting like victims by discharging the feelings of powerlessness that were systematically installed on us as children. We can assist each other to reclaim our power and assume our rightful places as leaders of our own liberation struggle, and of the world.”
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing30

  • Hindu Heritage and Liberation

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

  • Jewish-Arab Unity

    Jewish-Arab Unity, by Harvey Jackins. The following is a set of assumptions I worked out for myself before leading the recent workshop for Jewish-Arab Unity, in Israel. These were not distributed at the workshop, since they were my own positions rather than those of the workshop sponsors, but I read some of them aloud so the workshop participants would understand my attitudes better. There were many requests for them from workshop participants and, later, from others, so I am now distributing them.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing57 to 59

  • Give Up False Expectations and "Disappointment"

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

  • Greetings from Éire!

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

  • Who Will Bring the Straws?

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • A Possible Source of Guilt

    A Possible Source of Guilt, by Harvey Jackins. A firm, consistent stand against guilt has proven necessary for the discharge of oppression patterns, particularly for members of groups cast in oppressor roles by the society.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Liberation38

  • A “Home” for Single Women

    A “Home” for Single Women by Alysia Tate. I want to appreciate Diane and Tokumbo for making a home for us single women. This is important—for us, for the RC Communities, and for society as a whole. Single women play a big role in making all kinds of institutions (including RC) work well for everyone. I especially appreciate that attention was put on the oppression of Black single women.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation57

  • Tackling Sexism with My Husband

    Tackling Sexism with My Husband by Anonymous. Four things from a recent women’s workshop were powerful for me: 1. Being strategic in working on sexism—not waiting for upsets to work on it, 2. Showing how sexual exploitation has shaped us—not just telling the stories of what happened, 3. Partnering with the imperfect, 4. The “big ask” of number three—meaning it’s a big thing to ask the oppressed to partner with the oppressor; we women cannot jump over our feelings, and men have to be able to listen to us.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation67

  • Do Men Have Reason to Be Proud of Themselves?

    Do Men Have Reason to Be Proud of Themselves? by Harvey Jackins. Do men have reason to be proud of themselves, proud of men? Yes. [As men] we have no reason to be proud of the oppressive roles that the real oppressors in these exploitative societies have put upon us, but we have every reason to be proud of our essential nature.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation82

  • The Permanent Gains

    The Permanent Gains by Harvey Jackins. The permanent gains of the progressive side in any non-final struggles lie almost entirely in the . . . partially successful defense of people’s well-being against the encroachment of oppression, in improved organization, and in higher awareness and consciousness on the part of the progressive forces and their supporters.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing21

  • “I Am Sure Violence Will Disappear”

    “I Am Sure Violence Will Disappear”, Harvey Jackins. I think this changeover will come not automatically with the transfer to a classless, non-oppressive society but with countless persistent sessions
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing53

  • Social Action as Well as Individual Re-emergence

    Social Action as Well as Individual Re-emergence by Harvey Jackins. I think our emerging intelligences must find ways to challenge and halt the baleful, continuing effects of social oppression by direct social action as well as individual re-emergence.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing70

  • It Takes All of Us

    It Takes All of Us, by Harvey Jackins. Liberation of any group will only be complete when all oppressed groups are liberated. It takes all of us. We can’t make it all the way without all of us.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section23

  • Experimenting with How to Communicate

    Experimenting with How to Communicate, by MacClurg Vivian. I’m experimenting with how to communicate to folks, given the increase in oppressive, irrational actions coming from the current administration and segments of the U.S. population. Lots of my family, friends, and acquaintances use Facebook.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing37

  • Plan to Change the Entire Structure of Society

    Plan to Change the Entire Structure of Society, by Harvey Jackins. As the world economy has spiraled into a deeper and deeper series of crises, it has become clearer to many of us that resisting the individual oppressions, while necessary and useful, needs to become part of a general intelligently-planned and boldly-carried-out action to change the entire structure of society.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Liberation61

  • A “Two-Front” War

    A “Two-Front” War, by Harvey Jackins. The oppressive society that surrounds us pressures us in thousands of ways to be inaccurate in our thinking.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing30

  • Pressure to Be Addicted

    Pressure to Be Addicted, by Harvey Jackins. As the oppressive society collapses, it generates enormous pressure to involve large numbers of people in addictions.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:81

  • Forging Unity across Class Barriers

    Forging Unity across Class Barriers, by Harvey Jackins. We have finally evolved to a clear understanding that all classes in this society are oppressed by the society itself.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation82

  • The closer we are...

    The closer we are..., by Eeva Hämäläinen. Quote. The closer we are to ourselves and each other, the harder it is for the society (or anyone or any situation) to manipulate us into oppressing each other. This thought gives me lots of hope.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:51

  • The Importance of Play

    Quote by Harvey Jackins. Play, which is often treated by the distress patterns of the oppressive society as if it were “amusement” or “entertainment” or even “wasting time,” is a very basic, profound, and effective learning process.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation81

  • Start with Pride

    Quote by Harvey Jackins. Each one of us, in our liberation, must start with self-appreciation, with pride in ourselves. To undo any accumulated invalidation is an essential and central part of any human being’s liberation from oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation50

  • "Often I forget..."

    A quote, by Cynthia Johnston. I often forget that if I am harsh with myself or others, I am colluding with a society that is oppressive and will keep me isolated.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberation: page 64

  • To all my beloved, strong, brave, smart, playful, and powerfulyoung people and young adultsaround the world

    To all my beloved, strong, brave, smart, playful, and powerful young people and young adults around the world, (poem) by Aurora Sofia Palm. I simply can’t think of anything more powerful than young people truly having each other. Young people working together, knowing their potential, gently taking the adults by the hand and leading the way into a society free of oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Liberationpage 69

  • Ready to Fight

    Ready to Fight, a quote by Harvey Jackins. If labor becomes organized and aware, it is able to require any action it wants, including the peaceful, gentle ending of this oppressive society. Given a sensible program and a little encouragement, it is ready to fight. The working class is there.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Wide World Changing65

  • Discharge, Action, and New Possibilities

    Discharge, Action, and New Possibilities, by Diane Balser. They shared their best thinking, inside and outside of RC, about the irrationality of wars, the right of both Palestinians and Israelis to their own homelands, the racism toward Palestinians, the injustice of the occupation, the middle-agent role of Jews and Israel, and anti-Jewish oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing(57)

  • More on the Lagos Workshop

    More on the Lagos Workshop, by Mrs. Oge Agbazue. I’m happy that RC is opening up now to a whole lot of people, because I find daily that a lot of people in the society need RC, especially in the area of listening without judging or criticizing. We discussed the environment, racism (even our local communal differences), the elderly, the challenges of young adults, and the elimination of all forms of oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:77

  • Moving Toward Real Power

    Moving Toward Real Power, by Harvey Jackins. Probably real power, when we come to it, will be a sort of gentle, constant thing. However, all our models of power are oppressive at this point. So we’re going to sound like a Mafia chieftain in order to contradict the “heh, heh, heh” embarrassed timidity.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberationpage 39

  • Learn from Women About Relationships

    Learn from Women About Relationships, Tim Jackins. Sexism and man's oppression makes men not good at relationships
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 39

  • From Maine, USA to Beijing

    From Maine, USA to Beijing, by Mary Bassett. Many changes have to be made to allow every woman a life of unbrokenness. When diverse cultures listen to each other, identification of pain and oppression is similar, and sincere human bonds are formed.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (More Reports on Beijing - Page 25)

  • Teaching with More Awareness

    Teaching with More Awareness, by Stephen Costello. At a workshop on class oppression, I discharged on learning hurts. Now when I teach RC fundamentas, I say one thing at a time. I also ask questions...Then I learn from the answers.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Teaching(page 69)

  • We Are in a Critical Phase

    We Are in a Critical Phase, by Susanne Langer. Great Gains have been made in women's liberation, in terms of reproductive and legal rights. However, capitalism cannibalizes every liberation movement and turns it from a struggle for freedom for all and for ending the oppressive society into a petty battle for individual freedom of choice among not very human choices.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(page 82)

  • Competition

    Competition, by Tim Jackins. In capitalist society, competition is always connected to oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Counseling Practice: page 22

  • Keep Listening and Thinking

    Keep Listening and Thinking, by Jean Baierlein. Present Time 30, p 30. One thing that I think is crucial in RC, especially as we develop new 'techniques' for working on powerlessness, oppression, etc., is to remember always that in each counseling session each person deserves to be listened to and responded to intelligently, flexibly and appropriately, and to what is going on right then.
    Published in: Present Time 30, January 1978, Counseling Practice

  • Greed

    Greed, by Jo Saunders. Coming Home No. 1, page 98. Greed is the fundamental underpinning of the oppressive society.
    Published in: Coming Home

  • Goal on Care of the Environment

    Goal on care of the environment
    Published in: Environment -

  • Finding My Voice as a Female Ally to Large Women 


    Finding My Voice as a Female Ally to Large Women, by Sonal Sheth. I organized the North American Female Allies to Large Women Workshop led by Teresa Enrico in September 2019. At one point the allies had a class with the large women, led by Marion Ouphouet. 

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation76

  • Topic 27: Care of the Environment

    Topic 27: Care of the Environment
    Published in: Fundamentals Teaching Guide Readings

  • A Men's Group at the Muslim Workshop in Morocco

    A Men's Group at the Muslim Workshop in Morocco by Amin Khoury (Victor Nicassio). One of my highlights as a Lebanese Christian ally at the Muslim workshop in Morocco last September was leading a men’s topic group. There were seven of us— from Morocco, Algeria, the Gambia, and the United States. Most of the men were Arab and North African Muslims.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:74

  • A Recent Workshop on Death and Dying

    A Recent Workshop on Death and Dying by Multiple. Last December I led a Death and Dying, Life and Living Workshop for my Regions. I started leading these workshops shortly after my mother died, over thirty years ago, and have led them sporadically ever since. During the five years of my mother’s illness, I discharged heavily on life and death and re-evaluated many of my assumptions. I also learned a lot from Harvey Jackins about life and death.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Counseling Practice28

  • A Topic Group on the Black Lives Matter Platform and Israel

    A Topic Group on the Black Lives Matter Platform and Israel, by Terry Fletcher. At a Jewish liberation workshop in my Region, beautifully led by Dan Alter, I led a topic group on the Black Lives Matter platform’s language on Israel and Palestine.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing26

  • 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

  • The Roots of Unfounded Expectations

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

  • Looking at Our Nations' Roles

    Looking at Our Nations' Roles, Violeta Vajada. Description of a First World and Second World country workshop
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPages 47-48

  • Looking at Male Domination

    Looking at Male Domination, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 165, pages 61-62. We get to look at how male domination has affected us. Who ordered you around? Who made life hard for you, more than anyone else?
    Published in: Present Time 165, October 2011, Liberation(pages 61 to 62)

  • 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)

  • All Was Well: Beijing through Gabriella’s Eyes

    All Was Well: Beijing through Gabriella's Eyes, by Molnar Gabriella. Describing her experience as part of the No Limits for Women delegation to the 1995 NGO Forum in Beijing.
    Published in: Sisters 10

  • Shabbat

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

  • On the Middle East

    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • Eliminate All Addictions

    Published in: Present Time 63, April 1986

  • Social Change

    Published in: RC Theory

  • On the Middle East

    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • The Nature of Theory

    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • 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

  • About Racism


    About Racism

    Published in: Present Time 202, January 2021, Liberation28

  • The Need for Change

    The Need for Change, by Tim Jackins
    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • Responding to Some Difficult Events

    Responding to Some Difficult Events, by Becky Shuster. The Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Jewish community has been through a particularly difficult series of events—including the desecration of the beautiful Holocaust Memorial located here. I am a white Ashkenazi U.S. Jew and a leader in both RC and the wide world.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing31

  • The Sex Industries and RC

    The Sex Industries and RC by Joan Karp. The sex industries have become a growing factor in all of our lives, whether we realize it or not and regardless of any current or past relationship to them. They also have a growing influence on the RC Communities. Some basic RC understandings are useful to remember when thinking about this issue:
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation49

  • Building Alliances between Muslims and People of Other Religious Traditions

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

  • Thinking about Drugs and Alcohol, as a Young Adult

    Thinking about Drugs and Alcohol, as a Young Adult by Anonymous. I started using alcohol and marijuana as a teenager. I usually used them in social situations, because it felt “fun”—although sometimes I could tell [notice] that I was using alcohol to cover up feelings.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Counseling Practice37

  • Taking On Anti-Semitism for Our, and Everyone’s, Liberation

    Taking On Anti-Semitism for Our, and Everyone’s, Liberation, by Dorann van Heeswijk. Our lives as Black people, seldom easy, are being set up to be even harder. This is happening to all targeted people. As fear bites and tensions grow, divisions are encouraged and our early undischarged experiences of being considered “less than” can leave us vulnerable. Unity is vital.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing26

  • Hard, Necessary Work

    Hard, Necessary Work, by JeeYeun Lee. I went to a middle-class workshop in May and the middle-class leaders’ conference in June. Working on middle-class liberation brings up a lot of unpleasant feelings
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation67

  • The Collapsing Society and Higher Education

    The Collapsing Society and Higher Education, by Michelle Thompson. In the United States (and I think England) there’s been a trend for universities to mimic corporations. As a result, more people who work in universities are exploited.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Wide World Changing26

  • Speaking with My Son About Sexism

    Speaking with My Son About Sexism by "Miriam". I’m responding to the question posed on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of parents about how one speaks to his or her child about sexism.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation:page 77

  • Recovering from a Bicycle Accident

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

  • Racism, and Our Interpersonal Interactions

    Racism, and Our Interpersonal Interactions, by Tim Jackins. I’m going to keep us looking at early defeats, isolation, and difficulties with relationships. These are part of racism.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberation: pages 21 to 22

  • Young Men of Color, Sexism, and the Face of a Feminist

    Young Men of Color, Sexism, and the Face of a Feminist, by Drew Frye. It was not until I was twenty years old, at my first men of color workshop, that I could take on the identity of a feminist.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberation(pages 34 to 35)

  • The Use of "Panels" at Workshops and Gather-Ins

    Published in: Present Time 79, April 1990

  • Our Choice Against Racism

    Our Choice Against Racism, Tim Jackins. Taking on eliminating racism continuously
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPages 27-28

  • "Special Time" Benefits the Attention-Giver, Too

    "Special Time" Benefits the Attention-Giver, Too, by Kate Potter. Three years ago I began doing "special time" with my then eight-year-old neighbor, K-, and it has been one of the most valuable and challenging experiences in my adult life.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Counseling PracticePages: 35 to 37

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

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

  • Reviewing the Dismal Side of Men's Lives

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

  • A Women's Workshop in Melbourne, Australia

    A women’s workshop, led by Louisa Flander, was held near Melbourne, Victoria, in May 2013. The following are comments from some of the participants
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation: page 38

  • Taking Steps Together to Build Our Community

    Taking Steps Together to Build Our Community by Mai Mai Lam. RC Teacher 29, Page 98.
    Published in: Teaching RC, Community Building(page 98)

  • United to End Racism Workshops Offered at United Nations World Conference Against Racism,Durban, South Africa, August 29 - Se

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Jobs for Participants at RC Workshops

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • The Need for Change 


    The Need for Change 

    Published in: Present Time 200, July 2020, No Section09

  • 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

  • Objective Conditions Are Right for a Classless Society

    Objective Conditions Are Right for a Classless Society by Harvey Jackins. For a long time, objective conditions have been right for a new classless, non-exploitative, cooperative society to emerge in which the people who work are also the owners of the means of production.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Wide World Changing83

  • A Success in Taking RC Public

    A Success in Taking RC Public, by Keith Osajima. I led an introduction to RC at a professional conference for scholars, community activists, and students interested in issues of racism. People loved the information and the chance to discharge on racism. The one-hour workshop was entitled “Healing from the Painful Effects of Racism.” I described it as follows:
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:66

  • A Young Person at the Climate Conference in Bonn

    A Young Person at the Climate Conference in Bonn, by Rob Venderbos. English translation of the preceding article: I was a member of the Sustaining All Life (SAL) delegation at the United Nations climate conference in Bonn, Germany, last November. There was no other organization with a team like ours. When something seemed impossible, we did it first and discharged later.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing22

  • An “Artist Intensive”

    An “Artist Intensive” by Jennifer Berry. For eight years I had been leading artists in the Los Angeles, California (USA), Region, but something had stalled. We couldn’t gain traction with each other, with building artists’ liberation, or with working on our early hurts related to being artists.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:82

  • The Class Nature of War

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

  • 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

  • Discharging on Whether or Not to Raise a Child

    Discharging on Whether or Not to Raise a Child, by Cristina Mitra. I attended a daylong workshop in Oakland, California, USA, led by Ayana Morse and organized by Vivian Santana-Pacheco. It was for women in their twenties and thirties, and the topic was deciding whether or not to raise a child (or children).
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation66

  • Leveraging Our Projects; Fighting for Z-

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

  • People Who Struggle to Stay

    People Who Struggle to Stay, by Tim Jackins and others. A workshop participant: I’m thinking about a bunch of mostly Black working-class and raised-poor Co-Counselors who have been solid Community members for decades but whose heavy chronic distresses are taking them down.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:35

  • Taking Action Toward Big Solutions

    Taking Action Toward Big Solutions. From a talk by Tim Jackins at the Teachers' and Leaders' Workshop in Kring van Dorth, the Netherlands, May 29 to June 1, 2015
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing19

  • Boys and Sports

    Boys and Sports
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 76

  • 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

  • Redefining Grandmotherhood

    Redefining Grandmotherhood
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:57

  • Family Work: Pioneering and Revolutionary

    Family Work: Pioneering and Revolutionary, by Emma Perrot.
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice

  • 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

  • Facing and Handling System Collapse

    Facing and Handling System Collapse, from an open-question evening with Tim Jackins at the East Coast North America Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop, December 27, 2013, to January 2, 2014
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: pages 48 to 49

  • Working on Oppressor Patterns with a Mutual Commitment

    Working on Oppressor Patterns with a Mutual Commitment, by Suvan Geer A Co-Counselor and I decided to work on our mutual restimulation that was affecting our Community.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Counseling Practice(pages 19 to 20)

  • 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

  • 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

  • Marked Tree, Arkansas

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

  • The Challenges of Being in Our Thirties

    The Challenges of Being in Our Thirties, Jevera Temsky. Figuring out what it means to be in our 30's
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 46

  • Challenging Racism: with Police, in Hospitals

    Challenging Racism: with Police, in Hospitals, Evelyn Spears. Description of racism work she did with police and hospital workers
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 29

  • The Complexities of Communication

    The Complexities of Communication, by Wendy Moss. I work with deaf people and interpreters, and my partner (who is leading around disability in RC) is hearing impaired. I would like to address being allies to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: pages 62-63

  • "Getting Involved" Successfully

    "Getting Involved" Successfully, Adley Gartenstein. Putting RC theory into practice in the wide world
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Wide World Changing(Page 77-78)

  • What Do We Mean by Relationships

    What Do We Mean by Relationships by Tim Jackins. I don't think anyone has ever been free to make their own relationships. We come out of societies where there are very pronounced strictures on what kind of relationships we can have-with our children, with our parents, with our friends, with everyone. Any attempt to do anything different than the culture demands, whether thoughtful or reactive, invites upset coming in our direction, often with heavy consequences.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (Questions and Answers: page 79 to 80)

  • Some Common Pitfalls in the Way of Thinking All the Time

    Some Common Pitfalls in the Way of Thinking All the Time, by Harvey Jackins. It is plain that "thinking all the time" has already become an important direction for many of our Co-Counselors, that as a kind of master direction it helps oppose all patterns by keeping one's intelligence in gear and making the effort to be rational at all times. Present Time 19, pp 35-36.
    Published in: Present Time 19, April 1975, Counseling Practice

  • Leadership

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

  • A Talk to White People About Racism

    A Talk to White People About Racism, by Tim Jackins. Present Time 163, April 2011, pages 4-6. The distresses we call racism have been on us and our ancestors for such a long time that racism continues to confuse us in spite of our decisions, our best thinking, and our work. It simply remains difficult—but it is not impossible; it moves forward.
    Published in: Present Time 163, April 2011, Counseling Practice(pages 4 to 6)

  • Sports, and Men's Emotions

    Sports, and Men's Emotions, by Ken Sazama. There are few spaces in our culture where it’s acceptable for men to show emotion. Sports are the only one I can think of.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 44

  • Men Discharging on Pornography

    Men Discharging on Pornography, by Dan Nickerson. At the World Conference there was much discussion about adding something about pornography addiction to our requirements for RC teachers.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: pages: 6 to 7

  • Determinedly Going "Public"

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Commitments Related to Vocation

    Published in: Commitments

  • Excerpts from the RC Journal COMING HOME.

    Published in: Coming Home

  • Young People and Violent Games

    Young People and Violent Games by Jennifer Wexler
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013

  • Openly Challenging Our Racism


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

  • Sustaining All Life’s Events at COP22
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing10

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

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

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

  • Present Time No. 112 July 1998

    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998

  • Death and Dying, Life and Living, and COVID-19


    Death and Dying, Life and Living, and COVID-19

    Published in: Present Time 200, July 2020, Counseling Practice86

  • A Young People’s Workshop in Nigeria


    A Young People’s Workshop in Nigeria
, by Treasure Chikwado.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:23

  • More on the Francophone Africa Project

    More on the Francophone Africa Project, by Ellie Putnam. We began leading workshops in the Francophone Communities of Togo and Benin in 2010. In 2013 a Community was started in the Ivory Coast. Cameroun and Guinée started RC following Sustaining All Life workshops, and their leaders now come to the Francophone workshops.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:20

  • About Greed

    About Greed, by Harvey Jackins. There are many emotional distresses that afflict humans—jealousy, despair, panic, frustration, boredom, greed. All of them have played destructive roles in many individual and social situations.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing78

  • Expressing Our Full Humanness

    Expressing Our Full Humanness by "Han Solo". I appreciate you sharing your and M—’s story of navigating gender during M—’s childhood. M—’s story reminded me in some ways of my own childhood and teenage years (I am thirty). However, in reading your account it was clear how much more rigid U.S. society has become around gender.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation64

  • 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

  • Interrupting Anti-Semitism

    Interrupting Anti-Semitism, by Tresa Elguera. In a recent post, someone in a non-RC group I am part of mentioned her financial difficulties and wished that she had a “Jewish manager.” I knew I wanted to interrupt it. I didn’t want to humiliate her in front of the group, but since she had posted it to the group, it had affected the group.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing15

  • The Movement for Black Lives, and Israel/Palestine

    The Movement for Black Lives, and Israel/Palestine by Terry Fletcher. At a Jewish liberation workshop in my Region, I led a topic group on the part of the Movement for Black Lives platform that addresses Israel/Palestine. There were six of us in the group, all white Ashkenazi Jews. First I gave some information about the Movement for Black Lives platform and its language on Israel/Palestine.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:83

  • We Can Make a Non-Exploitative Society Work

    We Can Make a Non-Exploitative Society Work by Harvey Jackins. We working-class people are the humanity of the future. Societies divided into classes are no longer workable. They are collapsing in almost every aspect of their functioning. They are still producing billionaires at an accelerating rate, but they are . . . producing starving and homeless populations at an even greater rate.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing15

  • We Must All Stand Together

    We Must All Stand Together, Pamela Faith Lerman. This past Sunday I attended a gathering called “Uniting Communities Against the Politics of Hate” at a local Presbyterian Congregational Church. My husband and several friends came with me to support a woman from my synagogue who was speaking on a panel, representing the local Jewish community.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing24

  • An Unbounded Future

    An Unbounded Future, by Harvey Jackins. The excerpts and chapter headings below from Harvey Jackins’s last book, An Unbounded Future, show the continuing relevance of Harvey’s thinking to the present.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation58

  • Our Community Response to Current Events

    Our Community Response to Current Events, by Glen Hauer. It has been a hard couple of weeks in my country (the United States) and in the world.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:45

  • As Capitalism Collapses, People Will Feel Worse

    As Capitalism Collapses, People Will Feel Worse, by Liam Geary Baulch. Always support everyone as best you can, and model for others and lead others as well as you can whenever you can.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation16

  • A Workshop in Cameroun

    A Workshop in Cameroun, by Chioma Okonkwo. In April 2016 I led an RC workshop in Cameroun, organized by a man who had learned about RC from the Sustaining All Life delegation at COP21 in Paris.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:78

  • Israeli Jews Healing from the Holocaust

    Israeli Jews Healing from the Holocaust, by Tami Shamir. I suggested that we “let go of the victim role” by discharging on what happened to our people during the Holocaust and then discharging on our oppressor distress recordings.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:76

  • Native People Have Been Targeted with Genocide

    Native People Have Been Targeted with Genocide; From a talk by Tim Jackins at a leaders’ workshop in Washington, D.C., USA, in March 2013
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, No Section05

  • Sustaining All Life, in Israel

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

  • Middle-Class Women Catholics

    Middle-Class Women Catholics, by Dulce Cisneros. I spoke about what I see in Catholic material that colludes with middle-class material, specifically in regard to making mistakes.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Liberation81

  • RC in Kenya

    RC in Kenya, by Janet Wambui Kabue . In November 2014, thirteen women gathered in Cura, in the outskirts of Nairobi, for a one-day women’s workshop. Wanjiku Kironyo (the Regional Reference Person for Northern Africa) and I led it.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:13

  • Not Settling for Small Gains

    Not Settling for Small Gains; From a talk by Tim Jackins at the East Coast North America Leaders’ Workshop, in Warwick, New York, USA, December 2014
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practice09

  • Taking a Stand Against Psychiatric Drugs

    Taking a Stand Against Psychiatric Drugs by Anonymous. When I started practicing as a young adult, I decided that I wouldn’t prescribe psychiatric drugs to any of my patients. About thirty physicians who have worked with me over the ensuing twenty-five years have followed my lead.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practice:page 15

  • No More Public Remembrance Day Ceremonies

    No More Public Remembrance Day Ceremonies, by Kerri Wall. In order to create peace and end humans harming humans, we need fresh thinking about how we publicly remember war. I have been discharging on my memories of Remembrance Day ceremonies.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changing: page 46

  • Shift Due to Discharge, “Magical”

    Shift Due to Discharge, “Magical”, by S. J. Shashikala. Discharge is an amazing “magic.” It’s wonderful to notice the kind of shift it brings about in our material and thereby in our perspective.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Counseling Practice: page 24

  • Community Building

    Community Building, by Tim Jackins. Question: I would like to hear about RC Community building, especially about how Communities handle class, age, and race. For example, is it a good idea to wait to teach a fundamentals class because so far everybody who wants to take it is white and middle class? Tim: Building a Community is difficult. Where would you have learned how to do it? How many good examples have you seen? Most of us haven’t seen any.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:83(page 83)

  • Toward a Big Life

    Toward a Big Life
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:38

  • 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

  • The Power of Listening Across Differing Views

    The Power of Listening Across Differing Views, by Marsha Saxton. Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion have been hotly debated in the medical, feminist, disability rights, and bio-ethics literature. Each of the various factions has positions which criticize and invalidate the others. By and large, people from the various perspectives do not read about each other's views but tend to only write for themselves and their colleagues.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: page 22

  • Why Everybody Should Read "Everything"

    Why Everybody Should Read "Everything", by Chris Heidenrich.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, ContentsFront Section: pages 16 to 17

  • 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

  • Present Time No. 94 January 1994

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Present Time No. 104

    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996

  • Freeing Ourselves from Illusions

    Freeing Ourselves from Illusions, by Harvey Jackins. It is part of reality, in the actual current situation, that we are confused by illusions we have acquired.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberation(page 29)

  • The "Reality Agreement" Approach to a Session

    The "Reality Agreement" Approach to a Session, by Harvey Jackins. Present Time 93, page 6. It is a common conclusion by the people who've been using this that the basic reason for the effectiveness of the procedure is the agreement between the client and the counselor that they will communicate, answer questions, and support each other within their commitment to deal only with the rational side of the universe, persons, or situations.
    Published in: Present Time 93, October 1993

  • Trying to Fight My Way Out of Middle-Class Confusion

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Be Proud and Share With Each Other

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • An Insight So Simple

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Acting From a "Moment of Clarity"

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Lois Yoshishige

    Published in: Present Time 119, April 2000

  • 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

  • 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

  • Working Back to Inclusion of Everybody: The Details

    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996

  • 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)

  • Palestinian Women Taking Initiative

    Palestinian Women Taking Initiative, by Nouha Hijab. It's a big honour for me to tell about my first Arabs' workshop, which was also my first experience in leading. It was an adventure for me for several reasons:
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Teaching(Leading, Community Building: page 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)

  • WPF Workshops

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Rough Notes - Managers' Workshop

    Rough Notes - Managers' Workshop, by participants.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, Liberation(page 23)

  • The African Presence in Beijing

    The African Presence in Beijing, by Melphy Sakupwanya. Report on her experience at the NGO Forum in Beijing.
    Published in: Sisters 10

  • A Letter to Prospective Co-counselors

    A Letter to Prospective Co-counselors, by Jacob Rosenblum. ...a letter I wrote to three friends who live in the same house together in my neighborhood. I liked applying my mind to inviting them in a warm and accessible way to a Co-Counseling class that I am going to assistant-teach.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Teaching(page 72)

  • New Techniques

    New Techniques,
    Published in: Techniques

  • Deaf and Hearing Impaired People

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

  • Alcohol - My Story

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

  • We Can Regain Our Full Humanness

    We Can Regain Our Full Humanness, by anonymous. As boys we are left alone early on, both physically and emotionally. We are not expected to need closeness, reassurance, or attention. This early abandonment leaves a huge void. We feel desperate to get physical and emotional closeness in our lives.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: pages 8 to 9

  • 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

  • On Being the Counselor

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

  • Capitalism

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

  • Ending Racism: Our Key Struggle

    Ending Racism: Our Key Struggle, by Tim Jackins. The ending of racism, especially white racism, especially against people of African heritage, is the key struggle of this period.
    Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999, Liberation(pages 22 to 25)

  • Reviewing the Basics of Co-Counseling

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

  • Drugs and Alcohol and Young People

    Drugs and Alcohol and Young People, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 133, p. 7. Information about drugs, alcohol, and other addictions, and the importance of fighting against them.
    Published in: Present Time 133, October 2004

  • We Are the Heart of RC Women's Liberation

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

  • 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)

  • Accurately Perceiving Reality

    Accurately Perceiving Reality, by Harvey Jackins. The steps of liberation are 1. accurately perceiving reality,
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Wide World Changing(page 72)

  • I Shaped My Life

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Need Some Ideas?

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Excerpts from the RC journal CLASSROOM

    Published in: Classroom 6

  • Excerpts from the RC journal CREATIVTY

    Published in: Creativity

  • From the Editor

    Published in: Present Time 105, October 1996

  • Not Believing Our Distresses

    Not Believing Our Distresses, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 129, page 7. Chronic patterns need to be faced, discharged to take back the power of our minds.
    Published in: Present Time 129, October 2002

  • An Arab at the World Conference Shabbat

    An Arab at the World Conference Shabbat, by Victor Nicassio. I shared the following as part of the Shabbat service at the World Conference:
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 30

  • Effects of Co-Counseling on Learning and Teaching

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

  • Men Working on Reproductive Issues

    Men Working on Reproductive Issues, by Dan Nickerson. Inspired by the work that RC women have been doing on reproductive issues, I decided that we men needed to join them in thinking about the topic. So I led a one-day men’s workshop on it.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 85

  • The Postulates of Re-evaluation Counseling

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • 中译文

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

  • 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

  • Present Time 179, April 2015

    Present Time 179, April 2015 - Table of Contents
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Contents

  • Present Time 172

    Present Time 172, July 2013
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013

  • A Class on COVID-19


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

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

  • “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

  • The Revolutionary 
Point of View


    The Revolutionary 
Point of View
, by Harvey Jackins. The “liberal” and “conservative” positions are just two versions of supporting the status quo.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing43

  • Intersex and LGBQT Liberation

    Intersex and LGBQT Liberation, by "Prsank". Intersex is an umbrella term used to describe a wide range of bodily variations. In some cases intersex traits are visible at birth. In others they are not apparent until puberty.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • Men and Women—Confusion, and Trying

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

  • Men Fighting for Themselves

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

  • Single and Bisexual

    Single and Bisexual by Anonymous. I’m a fifty-four-year-old Bisexual woman who attended the groundbreaking Single Women’s Workshop. I have been single all my life, except for a few three-year relationships. My last romantic relationship was seventeen years ago, and I’ve been solidly single since. Although it feels right for me to live this way, I have a confusing negative judgment about it. All to say, this was the workshop I’ve been waiting for!
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation59

  • The Reality Agreement

    The Reality Agreement by Harvey Jackins. The approach to (or technique of) counseling that we have called the “Reality Agreement” makes it possible for the time being spent in session to be almost totally contradictory to the client’s distress pattern and almost completely lacking in any “rehearsal” of it.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Counseling Practice34

  • Raised in the U.S. Military

    Raised in the U.S. Military, by Francy Caprino. I was raised in the U.S. military. Not a lot of us raised-military people make it into Co-Counseling, but those of us who do can often be found at Southern (U.S.) Liberation Workshops. There were fifteen of us at the most recent of these. I was able to have a raised-military group. I’ve also been meeting once a month in a three-way session with two other raised-military Co-Counselors.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Liberation83

  • Giving Money Directly to People We Know

    Giving Money Directly to People We Know by Anonymous. Dear owning-class sisters and brothers, Recently I have been thinking about giving money directly to people I know (rather than to organizations or taxes). Here are some of my questions: If I give someone money, is it okay for it to be for a certain thing (such as medical expenses or tuition) or should the recipient really be the one to decide how to spend it?
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing22

  • People Raised Rural

    People Raised Rural by Beth Edmonds. In March of 2018 I led a small workshop for RCers in eastern Canada and the northeast United States who had been raised in rural communities or on farms. We contradicted the predominant distress of people raised in rural areas, which is a feeling of insignificance.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation43

  • The Origins of and Resistance to Anti-Semitism

    The Origins of and Resistance to Anti-Semitism by Ben Rosenbaum. I have been doing research on the origins and spread of anti-Semitism, and one thing I find hopeful is how anti-Semitism is not eternal. It was specifically created at a time and place and was difficult to propagate.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation41

  • “We Had a Great Workshop”

    “We Had a Great Workshop” by Beth Bannister. I organized the recent Raised Rural Workshop [see previous article]. The leader, Beth Edmonds, was brilliant in covering many topics related to being raised rural, in celebrating who we are as humans, and in contradicting our distresses.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation43

  • “Liberal” and “Conservative”

    “Liberal” and “Conservative”, Harvey Jackins. Question: Quite a few articles in Present Time mention “liberalism” as problematical, but I haven’t seen any that mention “conservatism” in a positive light, or as a contradiction to liberal distress. . . . Any thoughts on the topic would be very much appreciated.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation86

  • It Shifted My Way of Belonging

    It Shifted My Way of Belonging, Monnie Paashuis. It was a real surprise to get an invitation to the 2017 World Conference. Why me? I’m so—different! I’m still not much able to see the person I am and what contribution I make to the Community. So I was surprised. And with my isolation pattern I was not eager to join two hundred and forty people for five days.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:26

  • 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

  • Immigrants of the Global Majority

    Immigrants of the Global Majority by Bonung Koo. Last weekend I led an Immigrants and Children of Immigrants of the Global Majority Workshop. I am pleased with the work we were able to do. I received the following from two of the participants. Simply taking the time to write this is proof of the impact the workshop had on me.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Liberation52

  • Women Meet in Kenya


    Women Meet in Kenya
, by Wanjiku Kironyo. For the last few months, a group of women have been coming together on Fridays to learn to use RC to better their lives, the lives of their families, and the situation in their communities.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:28

  • 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

  • Indigenous People Flyer

    The following is one of the flyers brought to COP22—the November 2016 United Nations climate change talks in Marrakech, Morocco—by Sustaining All Life. (Sustaining All Life is a project of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities in which Co-Counselors bring what we’ve learned in RC to people working to stop climate change and the degradation of the environment.)
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing08

  • Our Care-of-the-Environment Goal in First-Person Singular

    Our Care-of-the-Environment Goal in First-Person Singular, by Laurel Green. I have adapted the RC care-of-the-environment goal to first-person singular—to make it my own and for discharge. I have also broken it into separate lines, which I find easier to use in sessions.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing07

  • Terminer une bataille inachevée

    Published in: French

  • Gentiles Must Interrupt Anti-Semitism

    Gentiles Must Interrupt Anti-Semitism, Jo Saunders. The tacit permission and open encouragement of anti-Semitism in the present political scene in the United States, England, and mainland Europe requires our attention. We understand the mechanism and why it is being deployed.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing27

  • About “Going Public” with RC

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

  • An Amazing Experience

    An Amazing Experience, by Micaela Morse. I led the No Limits for Women contingent at the Oakland, California (USA), Women’s March. It was an amazing experience!
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing14

  • Notice that We Have Lost a Fight

    Notice that We Have Lost a Fight, by Ayana Morse. I’m a woman of Yoreme /Mexican/Chicano heritage who lives in the United States. I’m glad to be me. Today is a challenging day.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing34

  • Our Goal Must Be a Non-exploitative Society

    Our Goal Must Be a Non-exploitative Society, by Diane Balser. Many of us Jews in the United States live, or aspire to live, a middle-class life. We often work at middle-class middle-agent jobs.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing29

  • Hindu Heritage and Liberation

    Hindu Heritage and Liberation, by Surabhi Kukke. On pages 17 and 18 of the April 2016 Present Time there are several responses to some questions that were posed to Co-Counselors of Hindu heritage on the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of South, Central, and West Asian-heritage people. Here is another response.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation57

  • Our Differences Are Tiny

    Our Differences Are Tiny, by Harvey Jackins. The actual differences between any people are tiny.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation65

  • RC in the Czech Republic

    RC in the Czech Republic, by Marek Tresnak. I was born and raised in the Czech Republic, and five years ago I connected with Co-Counseling here in the United States. After finding out there were no Co-Counseling resources back home, I was inspired to make RC available.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:49

  • Supporting New Parents and Their Children

    Supporting New Parents and Their Children, by Catherine Fischer. I am a birth and postpartum doula in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. I do a lot of listening to and encouraging of mothers and fathers before, during, and after their baby’s birth.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing28

  • 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

  • A Finnish Liberation Workshop

    A Finnish Liberation Workshop, by Eeva Hämäläinen. For more than a decade, Kaisli has encouraged us to look at our Finnish identity and to work on the incidents in our history that have been hidden and not talked about.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation22

  • Sustaining All Life, in Boston, USA

    Sustaining All Life, in Boston, USA, by Jenene Cook. I led a Sustaining All Life* workshop at the Local Environmental Action 2016 Conference. Elizabeth Saunders, another RCer and the Massachusetts Director for Clean Water Action, had made the connection and coordinated with the conference.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing49

  • Each One in Charge

    Each One in Charge, by Harvey Jackins. In talking about our Communities and what will happen, I urge that we not think of ourselves as a group but as a set of individuals who can think for ourselves as individuals.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:44

  • My Highlight for 2015

    My Highlight for 2015, by Wako Ono. In Paris I was the only Sustaining All Life member from Japan. I expected to meet Japanese people from other organizations, but there seemed to be few organizations from Japan. After returning to Japan from Paris, I learned that many Japanese organizations had cancelled their participation because of the November 13 terrorist attacks.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing75

  • Sustaining All Life, in South Australia

    Sustaining All Life, in South Australia, by Cathy Picone. We held an RC Community event here in Adelaide, South Australia, to bring together Co-Counsellors, friends, and family to think about the climate talks in Paris and the Sustaining All Life delegation’s work there.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing66

  • The Reality Agreement

    The Reality Agreement, by Anne Mackie. While cleaning out old files, I found some notes I took years ago after Harvey Jackins led a workshop on the Reality Agreement.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Counseling Practice05

  • 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

  • Rape, and Men’s Conditioning

    Rape, and Men’s Conditioning by Anonymous. Rape and other sexual violence continue to happen in many conflicts and wars, even though they are forbidden in all societies and religions.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation66

  • 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

  • Giving Up Individualism, Taking Responsibility

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

  • A Class on the Environment

    A Class on the Environment, by Chris Austill. I recently led a class on care of the environment. My goals were to learn how to teach this subject and to move each person one step forward.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:84(page 84)

  • Raised Poor, Thinking About Climate Change

    Raised Poor, Thinking About Climate Change, by Mary Daniels. I want to discharge so that I can think and be present with people in whatever situations I find myself in. I am going to lead a raised-poor/working-class support group, and one of the things I want to address there is the new RC goal on care of the environment.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Wide World Changing(60)

  • Real Power Lies in the Ability to Discharge

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

  • Possible to Stay and Fight After All

    Possible to Stay and Fight After All
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:61

  • Ruah Hadashah No. 11

    Ruah Hadashah No. 11
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, No Section:62

  • Present Time 176, July 2014

    Present Time 176, July 2014 - Table of Contents
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014

  • Relationships Between Jews and Catholics, a Source of Hope

    Relationships Between Jews and Catholics, a Source of Hope, by Shirley Russ. As Jews and Catholics come to know each other, some generalizations enhance our understanding of these relationships. I speak mostly of Jews and Catholics whose roots lie in Europe, such as Catholics of Irish descent and Jews of Polish descent.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberationpages: 74 to 75

  • 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 Young Leaders' Workshop

    A Young Leaders' Workshop, by Jamie Irwin. My reflection on the Young Leaders’ Workshop. One thing young people’s workshops can do really well is balance fun and playfulness with heavy feelings and discharge. It’s awesome to see how smart we are about using RC as young people!
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 77

  • Something We Can Do

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

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

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

  • The Effective Use of Literature

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

  • The Complete Goodness of Reality

    Published in: Present Time 96, July 1994

  • Mothers' Liberation

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Joe Fahey

    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Harvey Page 55

  • People Working in Women's Centers

    People Working in Women's Centers, by Doni Langlois. Since November 1997 I have been volunteering at the Houston Area Women's Center with the intention of bringing them the tools of RC and the wealth of information about women's liberation that we in RC have uncovered.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: Information Coordinators: page 91

  • 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

  • Clean Out Racism from Our Language

    Clean Out Racism from Our Language, by Amy Tai. The following is a letter from Super Stop and Shop responding to my letter objecting to their use of the word "Oriental" in their aisle and produce signs: "My research shows that you are correct, and we have made plans to correct this oversight quickly."
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Wide World Changing: page 13

  • Young People Show the Way

    Young People Show the Way, by Janet Gasparini. I do wide world change work through the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI). A while ago, I led a workshop with a dozen young people who were mostly people of colour.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Wide World Changing: page 12

  • Relationship Before "Help"

    Relationship Before "Help", by Pamela Haines. In a debriefing time after our parent and infant group, we were revisiting the seemingly eternal question of how to offer young people in distress the opportunity to discharge without using our adult authority to require it.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Counseling Practice(pages 16 to 17)

  • 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)

  • RC and Social Change

    RC and Social Change, by Julian Weissglass. I've been thinking recently about social change and our tactics for accelerating progress toward social justice and environmental respect. I wonder whether the principle of organizing around progressive policies and reaching people on a one-to-one basis has not somehow colluded with our passivity patterns or our despair about political action.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Wide World Changing(pages 57 to 58.)

  • Thinking and Discharging About Work and Unemployment

    Thinking and Discharging About Work and Unemployment, by Rowan White. I've been unemployed for as long as I've been Co-Counselling and then some. I've lived solely on the dole much of that time.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Wide World Changing(page 59.)

  • Trying to Deal with 'Official' Nonsense

    Trying to Deal with 'Official' Nonsense, by Paul Beich. Recently I was asked to be a guest speaker at one of our local universities, Harvard. I was asked to offer the perspective of someone who had worked professionally as a counselor with people who had substance abuse problems.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Wide World Changing(page 62)

  • 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.)

  • 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)

  • Computers and Distress

    Computers and Distress by Barry Joseph. I've noticed two different kinds of distress around computers. The first is distress which gets in our way of using computers, such as feelings of powerlessness or stupidity. People look confused and anxious in the grip of these feelings. A second category of distress plays out as people use computers-addictions, isolation, workaholic patterns, and even early sexual memories.
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (Computer Networking: page 64)

  • Finishing an Unfinished Battle

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

  • Resisting War, Poverty, and Economic Crisis

    Resisting War, Poverty, and Economic Crisis, by Wanjiku Kironyo. Her experience at the NGO Forum in Beijing in 1995.
    Published in: Present Time 101, October 1995

  • Getting a Global Perspective

    Getting a Global Perspective, by Susanne Langer. Report of her experience as part of the No Limits for Women delegation to the Beijing NGO Forum.
    Published in: Sisters 10

  • Profit, the Environment, and Technology

    Profit, the Environment, and Technology, by Harvey Jackins. The present society has been so extremely destructive of the environment simply because profit is its only motive and the fastest profit is given the highest priority.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Wide World Changing(page 82)

  • Growth of the RC Community, and Care of the Environment

    Growth of the RC Community, and Care of the Environment, by Marion Ouphouet. At the World Conference, Tim talked about growth of the RC Community. He said that each year we know more about RC, and are smarter and have better relationships, so “Why aren’t we growing faster?” and “What will let us solve this problem better than we have?”
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 31

  • 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)

  • Challenges and Progress in Africa

    Challenges and Progress in Africa, by Wanjiku Kironyo. An RC workshop took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 14 to 16, 2013. It was composed of participants with special needs, and others. Mesfin Taye Woldegiorgis, the Area Reference Person for Addis Ababa, had chosen a facility that was accessible to people with wheelchairs. Many of the participants had taught RC classes.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Teaching

  • Thrilled to Be Teaching Fundamentals

    Thrilled to Be Teaching Fundamentals, by Anne Claire Broughton and Inge Taylor, RC Teacher No. 30, page 47. I am a long-time RC leader who has taught RC fundamentals classes many times, but not in the seven years since my daughter was born. I am now leading the second cycle of an RC fundamentals class and it is going very well!
    Published in: RC Teacher 30

  • Pulling Each Other Along

    Pulling Each Other Along, by Anonymous. I attended the White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating Racism Workshop, along with a hundred and thirty other white Ashkenazi Jews.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation: page 46

  • Sexuality

    Sexuality, by various authors. Present Time 31, p54. In Discharging Your Distress On Sexuality With The New Approaches, What Results Have You Noticed In Your Thinking In Areas Far Away From Sexuality?
    Published in: Present Time 31, April 1978, Counseling Practice

  • Building Community—by Combining Classes and Teaching Together

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

  • Eastern Europeans Meet

    Eastern Europeans Meet, by Julianne Cieslak. Nine women—from Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and East Germany—met in a topic group at the Pre-world Conference in Poland in May 2013.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberation(page 50)

  • 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)

  • Connection

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

  • Close, Caring Contact

    Published in: Present Time 129, October 2002

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 9-11

    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • A Young Girl Recovers from Sexual Abuse

    A Young Girl Recovers from Sexual Abuse
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013

  • Excerpts from RC Journal THE CARING PARENT

    Published in: The Caring Parent

  • Excerpts from the RC journal COLLEAGUE

    Published in: Colleaque

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

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Liberation

    Published in: RC Theory

  • Societies

    Published in: RC Theory

  • Teaching RC on a College Campus

    Teaching RC on a College Campus by Phyllis Bronstein
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013

  • RC Theory

    Published in: RC Theory

  • Boldly Working Together in New Ways


    Boldly Working Together in New Ways

    Published in: Present Time 200, July 2020, No Section05

  • The Abuse Stopped with Me

    The Abuse Stopped with Me, by Anonymous I am a white Jewish woman, married to a man, raising a four-year-old girl.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Liberation(page 24)

  • The Nature of the Learning Process

    The Nature of the Learning Process by Harvey Jackins. The Human Situation, pages 89-101. It is possible, at the present time (1966) to outline the main features of the learning process in human beings and locate the main obstacles to learning in the usual teaching or learning situations. Some immediate remedies can be proposed and long-range ones outlined.
    Published in: The Human Situation

  • About the World Conference and Our Guidelines


    About the World Conference and Our Guidelines
 I want to talk about the World Conference. At the World Conference we are trying to think about us. We gather people who have had enough experience with our ideas and the RC Community that they have a good chance of thinking freshly about who we are, what we are trying to do, and what we will be facing in the next period.

    Published in: Present Time 210, January 2023, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:61

  • Working on Being USers


    Working on Being USers
 -Recently Beth Bannister [the Area Reference Person for Buttermilk (South/West Tompkins County, Ithaca, New York, USA)] led a Regional workshop on being USers. Here are some of my highlights from, and reflections and experiences following, the workshop:

    Published in: Present Time 208, July 2022, Liberation43

  • The Collapse of Capitalist Societies


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

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

  • Rational Island Publishers Books

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

  • Sustaining All Life No. 3

    Sustaining All Life No. 3
    Published in: Present Time, No Section40

  • Present Time 174, January 2014

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

  • Connecting with the Environment - A First Step

    Connecting with the Environment - A First Step, by JG. Being connected with the environment is a great first step for me.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Wide World Changingpage 70 to 71

  • Present Time 173, October 2013

    Present Time 173, October 2013 - Table of Contents
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Contents

  • New 
Sustaining All Life Journal!


    Don’t Miss the New 
Sustaining All Life Journal!

    Published in: Present Time, No Section50

  • The Ripple Effects Go Beyond What We Know


    The Ripple Effects Go Beyond What We Know
, by Rachel Landsberg. I participated in a four-week workshop through Project Drawdown New York City (USA).
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing53

  • Responding to the 
Climate Emergency 


    Responding to the 
Climate Emergency, by Bill Darnell.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing53

  • Learning from Workshops in Northern Uganda

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

  • More from the Parents 
Leading Parents Workshop 


    More from the Parents 
Leading Parents Workshop, by Zainab Musa. Parents are precious. Parenting is a tough job. I think it is the most important job that we will ever undertake.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Liberation75

  • Tools for Climate Organizing


    Tools for Climate Organizing
, by Rational Island Publishers. For you and your climate activist and organizer friends—to help 
with organizing in the climate emergency

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing51

  • Building the Relationship Is Key


    Building the Relationship Is Key,
 by Anonymous. I’ve been reaching out to people who disagree with me and am getting more skillful at handling upsets and attacks. 

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Wide World Changing46

  • Supporting the West Africa 
Francophone RC Communities


    Supporting the West Africa 
Francophone RC Communities
, by Marion Ouphouet. Since 2010 Ellie Putnam and I have been part of teams supporting Co-Counseling development in West African Francophone countries.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:19

  • Discharging “Unbearable” Distress

    Discharging “Unbearable” Distress, by Wendy Ganz. When I was eighteen, I had my first “panic attack.” When I was twenty-two, I started having debilitating panic attacks on a regular basis.
    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020, Counseling Practice05

  • Climate Action in Australia

    Climate Action in Australia, by Nicky Page. Here in Adelaide, South Australia, a great group of RCers are working within Extinction Rebellion and having a good impact. I have been training marshals.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing78

  • 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

  • The Climate Crisis and Being Jewish

    The Climate Crisis and Being Jewish, by Phil Rees. I recently led the first meeting of a climate action committee at my synagogue. Ten people came. I was pleased with how it went. People appreciated the focus on taking action and that we shared how we feel about the crisis.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing68

  • More from COP25

    More from COP25, by Leticia González López Translated from Spanish by Sheresada Villela. We write from Madrid, Spain. COP25 was scheduled for Santiago de Chile but was canceled because of the social protests happening there against the inequalities in Chilean society.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing64

  • Thinking Together and Staying Connected


    Thinking Together and Staying Connected
 by Anonymous. We have to keep thinking, and the key is our connection.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice13

  • Eye-Opening Work with Young People

    Eye-Opening Work with Young People, by Maryjane Ugwu. I was an ally to young people at a recent workshop in my RC Community. It was an eye-opener.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice08

  • The Contradiction of Benign Closeness

    The Contradiction of Benign Closeness, by Scott Miller. Who knows what rational sleep is, what sleep would look like without distress, but I can’t imagine it would be the isolated, each-person-alone sleep that many of us think of as “normal,” even at Co-Counseling workshops.
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice06

  • Needs for Sleep Vary with Circumstances

    Needs for Sleep Vary with Circumstances, by Randi Wolfe. Almost everyone has feelings about sleep, and wide world information can be confusing if not damaging (for example, the huge pressure on parents to “sleep train”).
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Counseling Practice05

  • The First Day at COP25 in Madrid

    The First Day at COP25 in Madrid
    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Wide World Changing62

  • 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

  • “I Am a Mother Who Had Her Son Circumcised”

    “I Am a Mother Who Had Her Son Circumcised” by Anonymous. First of all, I am not an advocate of circumcision. I would throw my weight behind [fully support] eliminating it as a practice. It is traumatic for the mother as well as the boy. The more people who stand against it being a “good” medical practice, the easier it will be to decide to not circumcise.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Counseling Practice33

  • Looking at War and the Environment in Kenya

    Looking at War and the Environment in Kenya by Janet Kabue. In August 2017 I led a workshop attended by young people, young adults, and allies. The venue, outside the city, felt like an oasis of peace. Each of us was from an area that is undergoing conflict, and we got to discharge on how this conflict and other wars have affected our lives. We also focused on matters of the environment. Below are comments from some of the participants.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:16

  • Now I See My Dad and Love Him

    Now I See My Dad and Love Him by David Rawlinson. I didn’t leave RC but was inactive for a long time. Now I’m trying to reverse the situation. Outside of sessions I no longer give myself the harsh messages I used to. The feelings of terror that go with being a child of violence are still there, but I’m working on them.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Counseling Practice29

  • Single, Female, and Native American

    Single, Female, and Native American by Kate Insolia. When I think about why I am single, my first thought is still, “Because I am Native American.” I am Native raised white. My mother is first-generation raised off the Lakota reservation, but she was raised on Lakota territory. I am first-generation raised off Lakota territory. I grew up hiding my Lakota identity. My mother worked hard and frantically to help me “fit in” to white culture.
    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018, Liberation57

  • Younger People at Tule Lake

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

  • “All Men Need This”

    “All Men Need This”, by Josh Thomases. I have been running [leading] a dad’s group once a month for nearly a year. We meet in my home. Nine men attend regularly. Five are Men of the Global Majority (two African-heritage, two Latino, one Native), two are currently working class and five are raised working class, and four either came to the United States as children or were born here soon after their parents arrived.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing20

  • A new issue of Recovery and Re-emergence

    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, No Section53

  • An RC Group for My Son, His Friends, and Their Moms

    An RC Group for My Son, His Friends, and Their Moms, by Anonymous. I recently led a small RC group for my son, two of his friends, and their moms. First I said a little about why we were meeting and about the discharge process. I mentioned that I had grown up using Co-Counseling and had participated in young people’s support groups.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:68

  • Continually Moving Forward

    Continually Moving Forward, by Harvey Jackins. Life is a dynamic process. Really thinking intelligently means creating, initiating. . . . Continually moving forward is part of our inherent humanness.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing10

  • Creating the Conditions

    Creating the Conditions, by Katie Kauffman. Thanks, Michael, for raising this question [see “Working on Early ‘Unbearable’ Distress,” by Michael Levy]. I, too, have been thinking about the “nuts and bolts” [practical aspects] of accessing and working on early “unbearable” distress.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Counseling Practice34

  • How I Discharged “Unbearable” Distress

    How I Discharged “Unbearable” Distress, by Betsy Damon. After about five years in RC, I decided that I wanted all of myself back. Little did I know what that would look like. And I sometimes joke, If I had known, would I have made that choice? But I believe it is what we all want. I joined RC because of its perspective on who we naturally are—the theory seemed so right.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Counseling Practice36

  • “We’re All Still Here!”

    “We’re All Still Here!”, by Jevera Temsky. I went to the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. (USA), on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. presidential inauguration. The march was on a Saturday, which is the Jewish Sabbath, and I went with two Jewish women. We are ages fifty-two, fifty-six, and sixty.
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018, Wide World Changing28

  • A Community Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria

    A Community Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria by Omodele Ibitoye Ejeh. Lying on the rug in the living room on Thursday night, reflecting on how positively Re-evaluation Counseling had impacted my life and family, I hoped that tomorrow would come faster. And the feelings of anxiety and joy didn’t allow me to sleep.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:83

  • Being an Ally Has Enriched My Life

    Being an Ally Has Enriched My Life by Sarah Dawson. When I met Julie Longden [see previous article], I loved her bright, easy welcoming, and we became friends over child-minding and cups of tea. Early on I mentioned that I was a Co-Counsellor. I didn’t make a big deal of it, but Julie kept wanting to know more. I wanted us to deepen our friendship alongside sharing RC, and we managed to do that with the help of other Co-Counsellors
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation38

  • Discharging Sexual Distress to Help Change the World

    Discharging Sexual Distress to Help Change the World by Søren Holm. In our Region we have worked regularly and systematically for many years on early sexual memories. My original motivation for doing this work was Community building. Big Swedish cultural patterns of isolation and distance make it difficult to build close, committed Co-Counseling Communities, and I thought that working regularly on early sexual memories, and building that into the ongoing functioning of the Community, would help us move against those distresses.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing17

  • Get Your Back Issues of The Caring Parent Journal

    Get Your Back Issues of The Caring Parent Journal by Lydia Vernon-Jones. Dear parents, allies to parents, family work leaders, allies to young people, and RC teachers, I recently ordered the six back issues of The Caring Parent journal, to have them to look over while I edited a new issue of the journal. In looking through them, I realized what a gold mine they are.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:79

  • Moving Everyone Forward, Including Ourselves

    Moving Everyone Forward, Including Ourselves From a talk by Tim Jackins at the Actively Getting RC into the World Workshop, in California, USA, March 2018. I think the questions to consider are as follows: (1) What is the most effective thing we can do to move us and the world forward to end the damage that is being done to people and the world? (2) How do we have a good life at the same time? And (3) Are these things in conflict? I don’t think they can be in conflict. Having a good life and moving the world to where everyone has a good life are in the same direction.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Wide World Changing04

  • The Ongoing Class in the Philippines

    The Ongoing Class in the Philippines by Nik Leung. Here is some background to the ongoing Co-Counseling class I’ve been teaching in the Philippines: It began with my wanting to teach Co-Counseling to my brother who was living in the Philippines. I would visit him every one or two years and give him pieces of RC information. He never showed much interest in learning more. However, if we spent an evening together, he would often have a long cry while I listened to him.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:70

  • The Powerful Effect of My Rural Experiences

    The Powerful Effect of My Rural Experiences by MacClurg Vivian. I lived rurally in the United States for eleven of my seventy-four years: from ages one to six in Greece, New York; from ages ten to thirteen, in Hollins, Virginia; and from ages thirty-three to thirty-six in Raymond, Washington. My rural experiences had a powerful impact on me, and the first RC rural workshop [see previous two articles] let me put attention on them and identify some of their advantages.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation44

  • “We Are All in This Together”

    “We Are All in This Together” by Margie Doyle Papadopoulou. Everyone needs to be part of making a better world—it won’t happen without everyone’s participation. And language liberation is an essential part of the platform from which we need to work. If I don’t understand you and you don’t understand me, we aren’t going to get very far.
    Published in: Present Time 192, July 2018, Liberation46

  • From an Israeli Mizrahi Jewish Ally

    From an Israeli Mizrahi Jewish Ally, Merchi Shukroon Lior. I visited Morocco, for the first time in my life, to participate as an ally in the Muslim Liberation Workshop [see previous article]. I am an Israeli Jew with a Moroccan background. It was a big contradiction [to distress] for me to travel to Morocco, hear the Moroccan language, eat the food I knew from my home, actually be with my people for the first time, and connect to being Arab.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation66

  • 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

  • Teaching Allies about Listening

    Teaching Allies about Listening, Liz Knaeble. I was asked to lead a training for white activists who had signed on to be allies to global majority leaders who were presenting at combating-racism events. My part of the training was to teach them “deep listening skills,” so they could handle people who were interrupting or disrupting when the presenters were doing their jobs.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing58

  • Allies Are Important

    Allies Are Important, Bikku Kuruvila. I led a report-back on a South, Central, and West Asian-heritage workshop and shared information about the role of allies. No group can free itself without allies.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Liberation70

  • Conditioning, Not Human Nature

    Conditioning, Not Human Nature, Harvey Jackins. In every country these powerful groups seek to promote racism, genocide, war, and destruction.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing58

  • 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

  • “I Will Never Let You Go to War”

    “I Will Never Let You Go to War”, Anonymous, When my son was about five, he asked me if he would have to go to war and fight. I was quite forceful. I said, “No, never. I will never let you go to war. Ever.”
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Counseling Practice14

  • Small Actions Make a Difference

    Small Actions Make a Difference by Bo-Young Lim. I’ve always struggled with feelings of insignificance. “But I’m just a grain of sand on the beach of life. What could I possibly do that will have any real effect?” I’ve felt a lot of terror in coming out of hiding and being visible, but I don’t see a choice anymore.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Wide World Changing78

  • A Fuller Picture of Co-Counseling

    A Fuller Picture of Co-Counseling by "Miriam". I was interested in a post to the RC Community e-mail discussion list about a new kind of listening project. Co-Counselors did listening exchanges with non-Co-Counselors, rather than just offering one-way listening.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017, Counseling Practice36

  • 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

  • Discharging Our Deepest, Heaviest Hurts

    Discharging Our Deepest, Heaviest Hurts, by Tim Jackins. The RC Community has a one-point program: to get the effects of distress patterns out of everyone’s minds. We are trying to end the grip of distress patterns on our peoples and on our societies.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section24

  • Start with Respect

    Start with Respect, by Harvey Jackins.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, No Section40

  • Thoughts About Dyslexic People

    Thoughts About Dyslexic People, by Jenny Sazama. I am dyslexic. I spent a lot of years trying to think about whether or not dyslexia was a distress and could be discharged.
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice: page 21

  • SAL Hankie Ad

    A Sustaining All Life Hankie!
    Published in: Present Time, Wide World Changing39

  • At the Women’s March in Bristol, England

    At the Women’s March in Bristol, England, Caroline New. Six of us from RC joined in the Women’s March and rally in Bristol, England. The mood was optimistic, despite the seriousness of misogyny and the anger about it. We had two No Limits for Women posters (which were often photographed) and a couple of posters asking, “How has your life been affected by sexism and male domination?”
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing19

  • I Just Want to Discharge

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

  • Indigenous Peoples’ Day

    Indigenous Peoples’ Day, by Ken Sazama. Last year I organized the first annual Climate Action Fun Run. The proceeds went to local nonprofits working on climate change. My team and I are working on changing the name to Indigenous Peoples’ Day Run.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing39

  • Men Reaching for Humanness

    Men Reaching for Humanness, by Andy Vernon-Jones. Chris wrote about the limitations of the “as the father of two daughters I am offended” approach to interrupting male domination. [See previous article.] I agree that as men we need to lay claim to what it means to be a man based on the reality of our caring humanity.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Wide World Changing45

  • Sexism Has Got to Go!

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

  • 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

  • The Question Before Us

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

  • U.S. Liberation?

    U.S. Liberation? by Harvey Jackins. USers must organize to require their country and its owning classes to give up their imperialist roles. In fact, large numbers are already doing just that, even if they organize only around particular acts so far and not the whole system.
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:79

  • People of Gypsy Heritage

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Gynecological Teaching Associates

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • A Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya

    A Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, by Janet Kabue. I led a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2016. We had good classes on sustaining all life, healing from war, and the growth of RC in our communities.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:75

  • Deliberately Seeking Rational Solutions

    Deliberately Seeking Rational Solutions, by Harvey Jackins. Our group of Re-evaluation Counselors is deliberately seeking rational solutions to the problems that are threatening the well-being of ourselves, of the environment, and of the habitat.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changing21

  • How I Led My First RC Class

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

  • Moving Toward Upset People

    Moving Toward Upset People. I experienced lots of early childhood violence (who didn’t, really), so when people are upset, my first response is to get the hell out of there (run fast). Seems like the right thing to do!
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Counseling Practice39

  • Practical Help with Parenting

    Practical Help with Parenting, by Lisa Yarger. One thing I loved about the parents’ workshop [see previous article] was the practical help Marya offered us. In a class on getting more resource for ourselves as parents, she asked how many people were still drinking alcohol.
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Liberation64

  • 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

  • Bringing Our Tools to COP22 in Morocco

    Bringing Our Tools to COP22 in Morocco, by Diane Shisk. Sustaining All Life* was accredited by the United Nations as a non-governmental organization (NGO). This gives us “observer status” at the COP22 climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco. The climate talks this year will focus on implementing the Paris Accord and empowering developing countries.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing28

  • First-Session Counseling Tips

    First-Session Counseling Tips, by Will McNaughton. Here are some tips I’ve given fundamentals students before their first Co-Counseling session:
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Counseling Practice07

  • Guiding and Steering the Collapse

    Guiding and Steering the Collapse, by Harvey Jackins. We do not have to furnish the motive power or the drive to overthrow the system. That’s a misleading concept. The system is heading for collapse.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing26

  • “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted”

    “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted”, by John Braxton I recently changed the words and added new lyrics to an old religious song and performed it during the creativity time at a recent workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Wide World Changing20

  • Many Liberated Elders

    Many Liberated Elders, by Anne Thompson. At a recent Australia and New Zealand leaders’ workshop, Cathy Picone called an elders’ liberation topic table at lunchtime.
    Published in: Present Time 185, October 2016, Liberation73

  • Working on Violence

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

  • Also a Crime of Racism

    Also a Crime of Racism, by Anacaona. Along with the grief and fear I have been discharging since the shootings in Orlando, I am noticing a silence about the fact that many of the dead were Puerto Rican and that the shooter, who had been to the club many times, chose to commit the violence on Latinx night.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation14

  • 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

  • Music, with Attention

    Music, with Attention, by Nicola Ossher. I have been leading a musicians’ support group in Australia for a little over a year. We use Google Hangouts (similar to Skype), as everyone lives in different parts of the country.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Counseling Practice12

  • Sexual Exploitation Is a Pivotal Issue

    Sexual Exploitation Is a Pivotal Issue, by Shani Fletcher. I think the sexual exploitation of females is one of the most pivotal issues we currently confront in the fight for women’s liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation37

  • U.S. Imperialism in Central America

    U.S. Imperialism in Central America, by John Braxton. We USers need to recognize that these wars were largely the result of U.S. government actions.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing55

  • War and the Environment

    War and the Environment, by Nazish Riaz. I have been thinking and discharging for a long time about the effects of war on the environment.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Wide World Changing50

  • Bridging the Separation Between Secular and Observant Jews in Israel

    Bridging the Separation Between Secular and Observant Jews in Israel, by Esther Frumkin. At the recent Regional workshop for Israel, on “Jewish Unity,” I called a mealtime table on the topic “Our Relationship to Our Religion.”
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation22

  • Sustaining All Life, in South London

    Sustaining All Life, in South London, by Ali Bourne. Earlier this year a small group of friends and I started a community climate and environmental activism group.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Wide World Changing63

  • What Are We Doing When We Teach RC?

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

  • A Sustaining All Life Hankie!

    A Sustaining All Life Hankie!
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, No Section:46

  • Building Stronger Communities in Ghana

    Building Stronger Communities in Ghana, by Marian Jubiril. The August 2015 workshop in Ghana was led by Sharon Wolf. As usual, she brought all her experience and skills as an RCer to bear.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:50

  • For Men, Too

    For Men, Too, by Benjamin Altman. I just attended a report-back on the No Limits for Women project done at Beijing+20 in New York (USA) a few months ago. I walked away feeling “de-isolated” in my concern to end sexism and male domination as a man. In my day-to-day life, it is hard to find allies in this among other men. It was good to feel that I have a team.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation77

  • 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

  • Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment

    Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment, by Jack Manno. The pope writes about how climate disruption is mainly the result of the rich (predominantly white) industrial world’s emissions of heat-trapping gases, while the worst impacts of it—droughts, sea-level rise, super storms—are experienced by poor people, mostly of the global majority, who have the least means to buffer themselves from calamity.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015, Wide World Changing25

  • A Great Way to Use Our Hearts and Minds

    A Great Way to Use Our Hearts and Minds, by Jennifer Berry, Seventeen years ago, before I was a parent myself, I decided to back a young person for life.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Counseling Practicepage 17

  • An Information Coordinator for Intersex People

    An Information Coordinator for Intersex People
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation59

  • Area Reference Persons of the Global Majority

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

  • Gentiles Fighting Separation

    Gentiles Fighting Separation, by Christine Marnane. At Jews and Allies Workshop I learned that we white Gentiles need to “get in” with each other and risk discomfort in our sessions.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation84

  • Learning and Discharging About My Mother

    Learning and Discharging About My Mother by H. A man learns and discharges about his mothers life.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberation:page 78

  • What Does It Mean to Share?

    What Does It Mean to Share? by Tamara Damon. I've been thinking a lot about sharing lately. What does it mean to share?
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Liberationpage 71

  • Working on Early Sexual Memories

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

  • Fighting for My “Different” Son

    Fighting for My “Different” Son, by anonymous. I am the parent of a child in “special education” and also work in a preschool for children with “special needs” (in the United States). It has been invaluable to discharge about my own child being “different” (not “typical”).
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Wide World Changingpage 42

  • The Power of the Timer

    The Power of the Timer, by "Bobby Tamara." October was my three-year anniversary of being in RC. I want to share the story of the first gift that RC gave me—the power of the timer.
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015, Counseling Practice: page 18

  • A Dose of Reality

    A Dose of Reality, by Tresa Elguera.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Counseling Practice06

  • “A Wonderful Weekend”

    “A Wonderful Weekend”, by Apollo Ssemwogerere Vvubya. In August of 2014 I led a workshop in Kira Town, Kampala, Uganda. The purpose was to bring together RCers from several Communities (Nabbingo, Migyera, Mulago, Mpererwe, Gulu, Kampala) so that they could have Co-Counseling sessions with experienced RC teachers.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:78

  • “Let’s Do It”

    “Let’s Do It”, by Michael Levy. At a men’s leaders’ workshop in California (USA) I called a topic group on climate change.
    Published in: Present Time 178, January 2015, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:84

  • A Believable Contradiction

    A Believable Contradiction, by Harvey Jackins. A client is doing fine if they’re already discharging on the “okay.” It needs to be believable.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Counseling Practice(page 13)

  • 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)

  • A Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria

    A Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria, by Chioma Okonkwo. All the local RC Communities were well represented. We began by listening to each other answer the following questions: What is your thinking about the Chibok girls?1 Do you think the government is doing enough? What is racism? How does racism affect global warming? What are pseudo-survival illusions?
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:77

  • Discharging About and Handling Attacks

    Discharging About and Handling Attacks, by Tim Jackins. Most of what are felt to be attacks are naive. The people attacking don’t really understand what they are doing. They are restimulated and act it out at you. We get attacked in relationships, at work—just about anywhere.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:71

  • 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)

  • Men and Women

    Men and Women, by Tim Jackins. Women’s liberation is extremely important to everything we want to do. It is a vital issue. We will not remove the grip of distresses on human minds without taking it on, beginning now, and sticking with it. We can’t let this set of distresses continue to determine our minds.
    Published in: Present Time 177, October 2014, Liberation(page 46)

  • Many Ways to Change People’s Consciousness

    Many Ways to Change People’s Consciousness by Aurora Levins Morales. I think our models for changing people’s consciousness have tended to be too narrow and bound by tradition, and that we seriously underestimate the impact of the arts in providing contradictions to distress.
    Published in: Present Time 172, July 2013, Wide World Changing50

  • “Our Liberation Is Intertwined”

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

  • 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

  • Reflections on an Early Sexual Memories Workshop

    Reflections on an Early Sexual Memories Workshop
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Counseling Practice:20

  • Sustaining All Life

    Sustaining All Life; The RC Journal about Careof the Environment
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Wide World Changing:83

  • Dancing!

    Dancing!
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Teaching, Leading, and Community Building:75

  • Fully Liberated within Our Own Cultures

    Fully Liberated within Our Own Cultures
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:36

  • I Am Home

    I Am Home
    Published in: Present Time 171, April 2013, Liberation:38

  • An Introduction to a Pre-World Conference

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

  • Present Time 168, July 2012

    Published in: Present Time 168, July 2012

  • Discharging on Sliding Scales

    Discharging on Sliding Scales, by Vicky Grosser. To work as entended, sliding escales usually require that people disharge on an ongoing basis about money, integrity, and economic inequality.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, TeachingPage 67

  • Young Biennial Age Group Leaders Needed and Available

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

  • Growth in the Basque Country and Friendly Contact in Cuba

    Growth in the Basque Country and Friendly Contact in Cuba, by Xabi Odriozola Ezeiza.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, From the Mail: page 82

  • Report From an Allies to First Nations People (Native Americans) Gather-in

    Report From an Allies to First Nations People (Native Americans) Gather-in, by Elizabeth Shefrin. In September a group of us met as allies to First Nations people. Everyone came committed to the topic, and everyone worked and discharged well.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberationpage: 78

  • 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

  • Identities as Clues to Patterns

    Identities as Clues to Patterns, by Meliors Simms. Identity usually means defining ourselves with particular words that symbolize shared experiences/hurts/values/etc. RC techniques recognize the potent contradiction of being flexible with identity.
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Counseling Practicepage 41

  • A Good Visit Home to Bharat

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

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

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

  • 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

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

    Published in: Present Time 61, October 1985

  • No Logical Limitations

    No Logical Limitations, by Maryhelen Snyder. One of the great difficulties with distress is that it narrows our vision of the world. In fact, that seems to me a definition of what distress does, it keeps us from seeing the universe clearly.
    Published in: Present Time 27, April 1977, Counseling Practice

  • Don't Take it Personally

    Don't Take it Personally, Harvey Jackins. A Better World, page 177.
    Published in: A Better World

  • 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

  • Family Work at a Community Workshop

    Family Work at a Community Workshop, by Rachel Landsberg. This past year my Area1 Reference Person, Gregg Wagner, seized an opportunity to do family work at our Community workshop. It was an interesting and useful experiment and a huge success from my perspective.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 81

  • Remembering Nelson Mandela

    Remembering Nelson Mandela, by Marilyn McEnery. Each time our Area classes meet, we have an ending-white-racism mini-session. Barb Delzio brought these quotes from Nelson Mandela for us to read out loud before the mini.
    Published in: Present Time 175, April 2014, Wide World Changing: page 57

  • Growing Up in Leftist Movements

    Growing Up in Leftist Movements, by M-. I’m interested in sharing thinking with other people who grew up in revolutionary or left-activist families, or who joined leftist social movements as young people or young adults, about the specific patterns we share.
    Published in: Present Time 173, October 2013, Liberationpage 62

  • No Ancestors, No Descendants

    Published in: Present Time 68, July 1987

  • The Successful Contradiction And Discharge Of Heavy Fear

    Published in: Present Time 68, July 1987

  • Cleaning Up Some Concepts

    Published in: Present Time 63, April 1986

  • An Exciting New Counseling Approach

    Published in: Present Time 96, July 1994

  • Reality Is Right Now

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Brilliant and Inspiring "Mental Health" Liberation

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Ready to be a Father

    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

  • Solid Beginnings in Chile

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Report From a Topic Group on Reclaiming Power

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • I've Learned a Lot

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Goals and Policies

    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

  • Ronnie Rafferty

    Published in: Present Time 119, April 2000

  • David Jernigan

    Published in: Present Time 119, April 2000

  • Jane Zones

    Published in: Present Time 119, April 2000

  • Demie Stathoplos

    Published in: Present Time 119, April 2000

  • S.M.

    Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999

  • L.F.

    Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999

  • R.

    Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999

  • L.B.

    Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999

  • From the Editor

    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998

  • Reminded to Be Rational

    Reminded to Be Rational, by "Quique Andêl Langevin." I want to share what I gained from the Gay/bisexual men's workshop in New York, USA last January. I'm a Southerner, raised Roman Catholic. I currently claim Gay identity and Cajun heritage.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Contents: From the Mail: page 80

  • Helping People Work on Whether or Not to Have Children

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

  • Importance in a Young Adult Life

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

  • "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

  • Cleaning Up the Past

    Cleaning Up the Past, by Kristian Lund. My name is Kristian. I am from Sweden. In 1972-1973 I was working as a forester in Chile in a program developed by the governments of Chile and Sweden to help organise forestry.
    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

  • Being an Ally to Elders

    Being an Ally to Elders, Dorothy Carroll. What to discharge on to be an ally to elders
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, LiberationPage 32

  • Making Men's Liberation Top Priority

    Making Men's Liberation Top Priority, D-. Deciding, learning, and prioritizing counseling and teach men.
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Counseling PracticePage 19-22

  • Men and "Rage"

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

  • Physical Counseling (from a talk by Tim Jackins, June 2000, New York City, New York, USA, Teachers' and Leaders' Workshop)

    Physical Counseling (from a talk by Tim Jackins, June 2000, New York City, New York, USA, Teachers' and Leaders' Workshop). Physical counseling is the creation of opportunities for people to physically struggle against their distress.
    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Counseling Practicepage 10-11

  • 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

  • Understand Each Person's Roles

    Understand Each Person's Roles, by Heather Parker. I have learned many lessons about organising from organising the April Inclusion Workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: page 59

  • Forging Alliances

    Forging Alliances, by Rie Shiraishi. I attended the Black/People of Colour Leaders' Workshop followed by a Teachers' and Leaders' Workshop in April in Sydney, Australia. Both were inspiring and earth-shattering.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Liberation: page 52

  • Letter to My Classmates

    Letter to My Classmates, by Nancy Faulstich. This is a letter I wrote, mostly for my classmates in a graduate program in education, to accompany fliers for an introductory lecture that Robin King and I will be holding prior to a new fundamentals class.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Teaching, Leading, Community Building: page 42

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

    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996

  • Discharging About the Visa Application Process

    Ideas to help you discharge your way through the visa application process.
    Published in: Visa Assistance

  • It Sometimes Happens

    It Sometimes Happens, by Raymond A. Norman. I exist... therefore I can. I am on my way. Today is an excellent day. There was a dream I'd have before my dreams were stolen: Perfect babies born and cherished, nurtured, nestled, sweetly nourished.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, RC on the Internet: page 87

  • A Faculty Activist

    A Faculty Activist, by Jan Froehlich. All I really want to do with most of my time is teach RC. I've had some recent successes teaching fundamentals to faculty, and I am about to start a new class and a faculty support group.
    Published in: Present Time 112, July 1998, Wide World Changing: page 13

  • Reaching for Women and Men

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

  • Now You Try One

    Now You Try One, by Petra Hinsch. Here is a draft for a German Commitment: I am proud to be German.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Liberation(page 33)

  • Do You Have a Middle-Class Client?

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

  • The Japanese Host Community

    The Japanese Host Community, by Yuho Asaka. Our workshop and Pre-World-Conference Conference were wonderful. One-hundred-and-twenty people came.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Teaching(Leading, Community Building: page 45)

  • Seeking Progress in Conservative Jerusalem

    Seeking Progress in Conservative Jerusalem, by April Katine (Kantrowitz). I have been on a path of figuring out how to reclaim my life. I struggled for years to counsel my husband, stay present, and work at the relationship.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, Wide World Changing(page 59.)

  • Recovering One's Creativity

    Recovering One's Creativity, by Linda Williamson. This has been an incredible week for me, following the Creativity Workshop you led last Saturday, and I wanted to let you know about it. Your talk and demonstrations helped me to feel more clear that I AM (and every human is) innately extremely creative.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: page 77)

  • Being Human Being Jewish Being Human

    Being Human Being Jewish Being Human, by Louisa Flander. When I returned from Israel, my rabbi asked me to speak about the conference at synagogue. I gave the sermon one Friday night in November and spoke about the RC Community, Jewish liberation in RC, and the nations represented at the conference.
    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997, (From the Mail: page 79)

  • Poem

    Published in: Present Time 120, July 2000, Wide World Changing(Page 78)

  • The Need for a "Care Movement"

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

  • Inclusion vs. Reciprocity: Conflict?

    Inclusion vs. Reciprocity: Conflict?, by Robin Smith. It has been RC practice to recruit only sharp people who can be counselors as well as clients. How does this fit with the recent RC mandate to include intellectually disabled people?
    Published in: Present Time 104, July 1996, Liberation(page: 64)

  • Present Time No. 105 October 1996

    Published in: Present Time 105, October 1996

  • Information

    Published in: Present Time 107, April 1997

  • Turning a Situation Around Using RC

    Turning a Situation Around Using RC by Colin Stroud, Phyllis Greenleaf, Steve Woodward, Pam Geyer, Susan Mullins, and Arasu Bhashyamnagdar. In the last Present Time we asked the following question of the readers: When is a time you have used what you know from RC to turn a situation in the wide world around (in a big or small way)? Here are the responses we received:
    Published in: Present Time 102, January 1996, (Questions and Answers: pages 84 to 85)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • Putting Forth a Larger Perspective

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

  • Brief Report on China Trip

    Brief Report on China Trip, by Mary Bassett. Report on her experiences as an indigenous woman at the Beijing NGO Forum.
    Published in: Sisters 10

  • Jan Froehlich

    Published in: Present Time 117, October 1999

  • Real Contact with Real People

    Real Contact with Real People, by Tom Washa. Description of making contact with raised poor/working class people.
    Published in: Present Time 106, January 1997, (From the Mail: page 75 to 78)

  • I Want Us to Be Us

    I Want Us to Be Us, by Tim Jackins. I want us to see what it’s like to be human without continually being misled by distresses from the past.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: page 17

  • Mistakes

    Mistakes, by Tim Jackins. That’s what has to happen when we make mistakes. We have to face them and apologize for them.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Counseling Practice: page 12

  • Validation

    Validation, by Andrew Fono. Present Time, No. 35, p. 11. Harvey's article on "sag" ("Let's Pull Up Our Socks And Go") points out that our "brush-pile" of patterns exert a continual pull to not think. This pull or sag pops up in various and sometimes unexpected areas. One area where sag has crept in, almost unnoticed, is in validation. What happens is that we stare at each other glassy-eyed and utter clichés.
    Published in: Present Time 35, April 1979, Counseling Practice

  • Preparing for the Transformation of Society

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

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

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

  • RC Literature and Learning Re-evaluation Counseling

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

  • Present Time, and Reading

    Present Time, and Reading, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 131, page 37. Counseling on what gets in way of learning by reading.
    Published in: Present Time 131, April 2004

  • Eliminating Arrogance

    Eliminating Arrogance, by Jo Saunders. Coming Home No. 1, page 26.
    Published in: Coming Home

  • Getting Present and Staying That Way

    Getting Present and Staying That Way by Janet Foner. Recovery and Re-emergence 6, p28. When this article was published around 1997, I was one of a few people who had tried this way of getting present and staying that way; but at this point many (hundreds) of people have tried it, and many have used it a lot and found it useful for getting into present time.
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 6

  • Teaching How to Teach RC (part 2)

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

  • Israel and the Middle East in Perspective

    Israel and the Middle East in Perspective, by Harvey Jackins. Unbounded Future pages 149 to 154. What are the forces that oppose Jewish liberation? Those forces are anybody who is making a living, or a better living, or a profit, out of the policy of extreme hostility between the Palestinians and the Israelis, as well as the large section of the Israeli population that was won over to that policy after the Six Day War.
    Published in: Unbounded Future

  • Big, Free, and Flexible

    Big, Free, and Flexible by Kyonja Hwang. Present Time No.130, p 37. My commitment to not stay a victim any longer has brought me a new and wider world that is in my hands.
    Published in: Present Time 103, April 1996, Counseling Practice(page 37)

  • Looking Again at Aging

    Looking Again at Aging, by Tim Jackins. Many societies direct a large amount of discouragement toward people as they age. People are poorly treated when the societies can no longer find a way to exploit them, can no longer get as big a profit margin off their efforts.
    Published in: Present Time 135, April 2004, Liberation(pages 59 to 60)

  • Honest Work on Oppressor Material

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

  • Family Work: The Best Way to Understand RC

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

  • The Role of Re-evaluation Counseling in Liberation

    The Role of Re-evaluation Counseling in Liberation, by Harvey Jackins. The Upward Trend, page 287. 1. Re-evaluation Counseling is not a program for social liberation. The Re-evaluation Counseling Communities have a one-point program only, that is, the use of Re-evaluation Counseling to recover one’s occluded intelligence and to help others do the same.
    Published in: The Upward Trend

  • "Real Man Talk"

    "Real Man Talk", by Leah Thorn. I ran a poetry workshop called “Speaking as a Man,” in a men’s prison in the North of England.
    Published in: Present Time 176, July 2014, Liberation: page 37

  • The Struggle to Be Fully Human

    The Struggle to Be Fully Human, by Tim Jackins. Present Time No. 130, page 3. Getting to be fully who we are--learning to use the discharge process and fighting for ourselves.
    Published in: Present Time 130, January 2003

  • Celebrating Jewish Women on Shabbat

    Celebrating Jewish Women on Shabbat, by Jevera Temsky. a celebration of Jewish women’s culture on Shabbat.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 50

  • The Most Important Job

    The Most Important Job, by Harvey Jackins. The most important job in the whole society is producing new humans.
    Published in: Present Time 174, January 2014, Liberation: page 51

  • Eliminating "Identities"

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Moving Math Educators

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Reaching for Influence

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Workable Socializing?

    Published in: Present Time 110, January 1998

  • Excerpts from the RC journal MEN

    Published in: Men

  • From the Editor

    Published in: Present Time 108, July 1997

  • From the Editor - Present Time No. 94 (Vol. 26 No. 1)

    Published in: Present Time 94, January 1994

  • Fundamentals Class Outline #2

    Published in: Teaching -

  • My Relationships

    My Relationships by Diane Shisk
    Published in: Present Time 170, January 2013

  • Recruiting

    Published in: Kind, Friendly Universe

  • Relationships

    Published in: RC Theory

  • The On-going Forever Class

    Published in: Teaching -

  • Theory and Policy

    Published in: RC Theory

  • UER Activities in Latin America

    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 European Social Forum September 2008

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • United To End Racism Workshops

    Published in: United to End Racism

  • Community Guidelines

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Commitments

    All of the commitments, by category
    Published in: Commitments

  • 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.

  • MHO Intertwined with Other Liberation Groups

    MHO Intertwined with Other Liberation Groups by Janet Foner. “Mental health” oppression (MHO) is intertwined in every oppression. It holds oppressions in place by preventing people in oppressor roles from discharging and by targeting people in oppressed roles for discharging.
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 7

  • The White Gentile Owning Class

    The White Gentile Owning Class, by Tamara Damon. Young people’s oppression is in all homes. All children are dominated and oppressed by their parents, and they all receive inaccurate and oppressive messages about themselves, their families, and other constituencies.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • 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

  • Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation

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

  • LGBQT People

    LGBQT People, by "Jeanne D'Arc" & "David Njinsky". The fight for LGBQT rights continues to be a leading-edge civil rights battle. It is important both symbolically, as in no one deserves to be oppressed, and in real-life terms, given the daily dangers LGBQT people face. Anti-Gay attitudes persist, as do anti-Gay legislation and open and deadly oppression in many parts of the world.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017, Liberation

  • Liberation Work That Is Fun

    Liberation Work That Is Fun, by Janet Foner. “Mental health” oppression is hidden. Most people don’t see it as an oppression and don’t talk about it.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Goodness and Respect

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

  • 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

  • The Universality of Oppressor Recordings

    The Universality of Oppressor Recordings, by Tim Jackins. In our societies we all have recordings from oppression. Because everything that was going on when we were hurt became part of these recordings, all of us end up with both oppressed and oppressor patterns.
    Published in: Fundamentals Teaching Guide Readings

  • The U.S. Presidential Election

    The U.S. Presidential Election, by Tim Jackins. The result of the recent presidential election in the United States was not what many of us had hoped for or expected. The person elected is someone who has been willing to openly act on his oppressive distress recordings of racism, sexism, and other oppressions.
    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • Liberation Theory

    Articles on RC liberation theory, organized by type of oppression.

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Female Ally to Large Women

    A Female Ally to Large Women, by Mary Ruth Gross. Every woman is beautiful, and every body is beautiful. There is a large range of healthy bodies—many more than the oppressive society says is acceptable.
    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016, Liberation

  • Helping Each Other with Oppressor Patterns

    Helping Each Other with Oppressor Patterns, By Jo Saunders. It can be confusing trying to figure out our own and one another’s liberation—including claiming our identities and discharging the patterns of being both oppressors and victims of oppression. (Everyone carries both sets of patterns.)
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • "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

  • 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

  • Feeling Safe at a Jews and "Mental Health" Liberation Workshop

    Feeling Safe at a Jews and "Mental Health" Liberation Workshop, by "A". Janet reminded us to counsel on how members of our families have been hurt by the “mental health” system and what that has been like for both them and us as Jews. She said that “normal,” as defined by “mental health” oppression, is Gentile, among other things, so as Jews in a Gentile society we are essentially seen as “crazy” (not “normal”).
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Elements of Oppression and The Struggle for Liberation

  • Parents Are Precious

    Parents Are Precious, by Marya Axner. Parents work 24/7 [every hour, day and night] and don’t get paid. This is the basis of parents’ oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • বিমুক্ত হিন্দু বৈঠকের আরো খবর

    More on the Hindu Liberation Workshop, by Bishu Chattopadhyay. I attended the Hindu Liberation Workshop. [See the article The First Hindu Liberation Workshop by Anu Yadav.] Below is my report in Bengali, and below that is my translation of it into English. I want you to know that it is not easy to write in Bengali, but it is a contradiction to my colonial history of language oppression—which I experienced growing up in India—and to my current assimilation.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • The Negative Results of Class Societies

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

  • Tim Jackins

    "Existing in Oppressive Societies", Present Time No. 147, April 2007

  • An Apology

    An Apology by, Jo Saunders. I wrote in the July Present Time about an incident of interrupting someone in an oppressed role who was dramatising the oppressor patterns they had internalised.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • "Don't Stop Looking for Us"

    “Don’t Stop Looking for Us”, by Jo Saunders. Today the world is facing climate change, the rise of right-wing governments, destruction, disruption, oppression, genocide and war, and a growing disparity in wealth between the owning class and everyone else.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • 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

  • Moving beyond “Resistance”

    Moving beyond “Resistance”, by Marjorie Smith & Margo Hittleman. I think the term “resistance” accurately reflects the rigid distress patterns of being “oppositional,” rejecting the “oppressive system,” and so on, that are currently widespread among activists.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • South and North, USA

    South and North, USA, by Jo Saunders. I recently led a workshop in North Carolina, in the U.S. South, where I was struck afresh by the North-South divide within the United States and how the oppression of the South by the North plays out [is acted out] within and outside of RC.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Language Liberation in Kenya

    Language Liberation in Kenya, by Wanjiku Kironyo. The workshop made me aware of language oppression as a strategy for assimilating people into the so-called dominant culture.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • Let's See What We Can Do Now

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

  • Relatives of "Mental Health" System Survivors

    Relatives of "Mental Health" System Survivors, by Janet Foner. Watching a relative get stuck in the "mental health" system and have a harder and harder time is part of "mental health" oppression.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Jewish Assimilation

    Jewish Assimilation, by Karen Rosauer, Victoria Kemp, Lara Lubitz. I was able to notice and discharge on the deep loss from assimilation in my family. Then suddenly I began to also discharge, with boldness, ease, and lightness, where I am oppressive. Suddenly I did not feel ashamed of who I am, and in that moment it was easy to fully face all of myself, to be myself. Thank you, everyone. It is only possible together.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • The Jewish Leader's Conference in Israel

    The Jewish Leader's Conference in Israel, by Cherie Brown. The Jewish Leaders’ Conference—held in Israel this April and led by Tim Jackins and me—was a leap forward in forging unity and closeness, combatting internalized oppression, and building bridges amongst Jews from seven countries (Israel, Australia, South Africa, Switzerland, England, Canada, and the United States). We had thirty-five Israelis, a strong group of Global Majority Jews, and a strong group of young and young adult Jews.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • The Truth about Men

    The Truth about Men, by Stephen Costello. It has been hard for me to remember the truth—I think because sexism and male domination are still entrenched in our world, and our internalized oppression and competitiveness distract us from our goodness.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Acting with Integrity and Courage in Our Co-Counseling

    Acting with Integrity and Courage in Our Co-Counseling, by Harvey Jackins. In this oppressive society, attitudes of unaware cowardice and unchallenged dishonesty tend to invade all activities.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice

  • People with Reading Disabilities

    People with Reading Disabilities, by Suzannah Park. I’m surprised at how many feelings come up when I’m asked to read. The ageist, academic, classist, “mental health” pile of oppression provides a rich well for discharging.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Counseling Practice

  • An Approximation, Continually Changing

    An Approximation, Continually Changing, by Harvey Jackins. What we call RC is the best approximation we have reached, so far, of reality in the area of the distress pattern, where the oppressive society has offered unreality.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • 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

  • Décharger et gérer les attaques

    Décharger et gérer les attaques, Tim Jackins. Des attaques se produisent — et elles ne se produisent pas simplement quand nous nous opposons à une oppression ou aux rigidités d’une institution. Elles se produisent souvent sur un plan personnel.
    Published in: French, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • How Do We Organize?

    Quote by Harvey Jackins. How do we organize? We ask people for help with small jobs that they are easily able to do without becoming intimidated, without feeling oppressed or exploited. And ask everyone’s opinion. There is no one whose opinion is not worth hearing.
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015, Teaching,Leading, Community Building:page 27

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

    Published in: Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual

  • Sexual Misconduct Guideline M.5. Resource Document

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Sexual Misconduct Resource Doc

    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • The Personal Healing Work of SAL

    Published in: Environment -

  • The Human Male Intro

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

  • Cherie Brown-International Liberation Reference Person for Jews

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

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

    Published in: Foundation Nolimits -

  • Elder Liberation

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

  • Class Outlines for Teaching on COE

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

  • Draft Policy on Disability Liberation

    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • 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

  • Challenging Sexism as a Catholic Female

    Published in: Present Time 156, April 2009

  • Unified Goal on Climate

    Published in: Environment -

  • The Art of Listening

    Published in: Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual

  • The Practical Work of Liberation Leaders

    Published in: RC Theory

  • Transcript of webinar

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

  • 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

  • Bringing RC to the U.S. Social Forum

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

  • Frequently Asked Questions about Re-evaluation Counseling

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

  • Allies to Young People

    Allies to Young People, by Jenny Sazama. Who are allies to young people? We are youth workers, parents, teachers, childcare providers, friends, aunts, uncles, neighbors. We are everyone who's decided to have some kind of caring relationship with a young person.
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • Parents’ Liberation: We Are Good Parents

    Parents’ Liberation: We Are Good Parents, by Marya Axner
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • Comprehensive Glossary

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

  • Human Liberation

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Artists' Liberation

    Artists' Liberation, by Emily Feinstein. Art is essential. It allows us to imagine and see possibilities.
    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

  • Artists Liberation Teaching Guide II

    Artist Liberation, by John Fehringer, in the Fundamentals Teaching Guide, Part II
    Published in: Ftg2 Readings -

  • Counseling Leaders on DVD

    Published in: Audio files

  • Proposed Goals 2022 World Conference

    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • Objectif Unifié sur le Climat

    Published in: French

  • Powerlessness is a Fraud

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

  • 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

  • Allies to Large Women

    Published in: Present Time 144, July 2006

  • Glossary

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Catholic Liberation Teaching Guide II

    Published in: Ftg2 Readings -

  • Thirty Years of Liberation

    Thirty Years of Liberation, by Xabi Odriozola. We have completed the 2017 World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities, and it is a good time to evaluate our progress in language liberation.
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018

  • Glossary

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • Articles by Harvey Jackins on Working-Class Liberation

    Published in: Working for a Living 8

  • D.2. Requirements of RC Teachers

    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 -

  • D.2. Requirements of RC Teachers

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • C.2. Goals of RC Classes

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • C.2. Goals of RC Classes

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Language Liberation

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

  • RC and the Transformation of Society: An Introduction to Wide World Change

    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • The Development of Commitments

    The idea of “directions” to be held during a session, or between sessions, developed several years ago in an attempt to achieve dependable contradictions to distress and secure consistent discharge. These proved particularly useful in eliminating chronic patterns, since “holding the direction” prevented the rehearsal of the chronic pattern and prevented its recharging. We called this “starving the pattern to death.”
    Published in: Fundamentals Teaching Guide Readings

  • Liberation Overview

    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Over Twenty Years of Early Sexual Memories Workshops

    Published in: Present Time 116, July 1999

  • Draft Policy on Artists' Liberation

    Draft Policy for Artists' Liberation, by Harvey Jackins
    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

  • Jeanne D'Arc-International Liberation Reference Person for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People

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

  • 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

  • Some Thoughts on Unity and Identity

    Some Thoughts on Unity and Identity, by David Ruebain. I have been in RC for about twenty years. I am particularly grateful for the relationships, the discharge process, and the Community. I also appreciate the work we are doing to make possible a connected, rational, and sustainable world.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • 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 -

  • Outline: Young People at the Forefront of the Climate Change Movement

    Published in: Environment -

  • Lawyers' Liberation

    Lawyers' Liberation, by Marsha Hunter. Throughout history and in every economic system, people have created and interpreted laws. Most laws are essentially agreements among the owning class about how members of a society will act toward each other. These laws regulate our institutions and relationships, all in the interest of the owning class. For our laws to mean anything, the agreements must be kept.
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • 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

  • Ending Confusion About Ourselves

    Ending Confusion About Ourselves, by Tim Jackins. Our rate of progress through our distresses depends on our relationships, and several other things—one of which is our perspective about ourselves.
    Published in: Present Time 122, January 2001 , Liberation

  • We Need to End Racism and Anti-Semitism at the Same Time

    We Need to End Racism and Anti-Semitism at the Same Time, by Karen Rosauer.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Marya Axner--ILRP for Parents

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

  • Money, Greed, and Capitalism

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

  • Fundamentals Teaching Guide II Readings

    Fundamentals Teaching Guide II Readings
    Published in: Ftg2 Readings -

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Present Time 180, July 2015

    Present Time 180, July 2015
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015

  • Short version Draft Program on Climate Change

    Short version, draft program on climate change
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Draft Program on Climate Change

    Draft Program on Climate Change for the RC Community
    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Ce que nous essayons de faire

    Published in: French

  • The Work of Sustaining All Life

    Published in: Environment -

  • Outline: Tools for Organizers and Activists

    Published in: Environment -

  • Getting and Staying Present

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

  • Anforderungen an NC Lehrer*innen

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

  • Our Work to End Racism

    Published in: Our Work to End Racism

  • La crise climatique en Afrique

    Published in: French

  • Recent emails posted to Climate Coordinators

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

  • SAL Donate Page

    Fundraising for SAL, sustaining all life, donate, fundraise, support, give
    Published in: Environment -

  • Erin Huang-Schaffer—ILRP for Young Adults

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

  • Articles on Racism

    Published in: Articles About Racism

  • Glossary of terms for those new to RC

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

  • Proposed revision short draft program climate

    Published in: Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Draft Policy on Care of the Environment

    Published in: Environment -

  • Sustaining All Life Basic Information

    Published in: Environment -

  • Francie Chew—International Liberation Reference Person for Chinese-Heritage People

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

  • Guerre et changement climatique: Impact sur les populations arabes et musulmanes

    Guerre et changement climatique: Impact sur les populations arabes et musulmanes, by Amin Khoury (Victor Nicassio). Marhaba (Bonjour en arabe). Mon nom est Victor Nicassio, et je viens de Los Angeles, Californie, aux États-Unis. J'utilise également mon nom arabe, Amin Khoury, qui provient du côté libanais de ma famille.
    Published in: French

  • Featured Recent PT Articles

    Published in: Present Time

  • Featured Recent PT Articles

  • contents

    Published in: BALCD Caribbean 2023

  • A Brief History of RC

    Published in: RC Theory

  • Draft Policy for Care of the Environment

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

  • Outline: Sustaining Ourselves as Activists & Organizers

    Published in: Environment -

  • The Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change

    The Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change, by Diane Shisk. Humans (our species, Homo sapiens) have struggled for survival for more than two hundred thousand years. During all that time our minds have been improving in their ability to think about our survival, while also accumulating distress recordings that have impaired our ability to think flexibly.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • J.8. Use of Pseudonyms/Anonymity by Authors

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • J.8. Use of Pseudonyms/Anonymity by Authors

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • N.1. Lengthy Reason Psychiatric Drugs

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Optional Groups Descriptions

    ******************************************************************** This document is updated automatically from the proposal submissions of Optional Group leaders. It will be OVERWRITTEN each time the data is updated by new submissions. Please relay any changes to: Alan Epstein ********************************************************************
    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • The First Hindu Liberation Workshop

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

  • 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

  • ILRPs Working Together to End Classism

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

  • Смерть и умирание

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

  • Managers' Liberation

    Published in: Present Time 121, October 2000

  • Discharging on Identity

    Published in: Present Time 166, January 2012

  • 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

  • O.1. MÉDICAMENTS PSYCHOTROPES ET CO-ÉCOUTE

    O.1. MÉDICAMENTS PSYCHOTROPES ET CO-ÉCOUTE Tou-te-s les Co-écoutant-e-s sont fermement invité-e-s à s’opposer, en paroles et en actes, à l’utilisation de médicaments psychotropes.
    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

  • Written Language, Oral Language, and Their Liberation

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

  • SAL/UER Past Events

    Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism events archives
    Published in: Environment -

  • Addressing Sexual Misconduct: Frequently Asked Questions

    Published in: Guidelines

  • It Is Okay to Be Angry

    It Is Okay to Be Angry, by Sean Ruth.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • M.5. Part B Addressing Sexual Misconduct in the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • M.5. Part B Addressing Sexual Misconduct in the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • 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

  • Outline: Pakikinigang Magkapwa: Sharing Our Stories to Build and Unite Toward Climate Resiliency and Justice

    Published in: Environment -

  • Des PRIL travaillant ensemble pour éliminer le classisme

    Published in: French

  • Nous opposer ensemble aux politiques irrationnelles

    Published in: French

  • E.2. Structure of the Community-Liberation

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

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

    Published in: Present Time 79, April 1990

  • 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

  • Outline: Labor and the Climate Emergency

    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

  • Fully Engaging with the Climate Crisis

    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Seán Ruth-International Liberation Reference Person for Middle-Class People

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

  • Sustaining All Life Preface

    Preface to the Sustaining All Life pamphlet
    Published in: Pamphlets

  • New pamphlets ad 2017

    Published in: Present Time

  • Present Time 188, July 2017

    Present Time No. 188, (Vol 49, No. 3) July 2017
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017

  • 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

  • Une économie du soin

    Une économie du soin, Teresa Enrico. En tant que femme de couleur élevée dans la pauvreté et appartenant à la classe ouvrière à ce stade avancé du capitalisme, je ressens un tas de sentiments me disant que je ne suis pas capable de penser. Toute ma vie, on m’a dit que j’étais stupide et que ce que je pensais n’avait pas d’importance.
    Published in: French, Wide World ChangingPT 180, p. 31

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Upward Trend, p. 303

  • Reports from Climate Coordinators

    Published in: Environment -

  • In-Person Job Descriptions

    Published in: West Coast Leaders 2024

  • jobs

    Published in: MHL for All Europe

  • An Emergency, and New Opportunities

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

  • Implementing Goal One

    Published in: Our Work to End Racism

  • SAL/UER online events before the COP

    Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism Lead-up to COP26
    Published in: Environment -

  • Éliminer le racisme blanc

    Published in: French

  • L’engagement de la Co-écoute en faveur 
de la libération des personnes LGBTQ+

    Published in: French

  • Parler aux enfants d’événements tragiques

    Published in: French

  • E.2. Structure of the Community-Liberation

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • J.5. Translations of Publications

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • J.5. Translations of Publications

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Artists and the Environment

    Published in: Arts and the Environment 2023

  • Job Descriptions for Zoom Workshops

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • 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

  • What I Think I Know About Doctors

    What I Think I Know About Doctors, by Joe Gallagher. What follows is what I think I know about doctors. It is admittedly limited in scope and written from the perspective of a white male family-practice doctor working in the United States
    Published in: Journals Well-Being 6

  • The totally Benign Reality

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

  • A Workshop for Jews and Palestinians in Israel

    A Workshop for Jews and Palestinians in Israel, by Ofer Lior. On the last weekend of November, I led for the third time a day about liberation from racism for Jews and Palestinians who are Israeli citizens and also social activists.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Letter to a Diversity Committee about Anti-Semitism

    Letter to a Diversity Committee about Anti-Semitism, by Ana V.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Middle-Class People of the Global Majority

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

  • A “Jews and Allies United to End Anti-Semitism” Event

    A “Jews and Allies United to End Anti-Semitism” Event, by Leah Thorn & Dorann van Heeswijk, The event was inspired by a recent widespread controversy about anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • "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

  • The Lives of African Heritage People

    The Lives of African Heritage People by Barbara Love. A range of issues affects the lives of African Heritage people in the United States, in Africa, and in the African Diaspora. In this space we can catalogue some of those issues and briefly describe a few.
    Published in: Black Re-emergence 13

  • Present Time 190, January 2017

    Present Time No. 190 (Vol 51, No. 1) January 2018
    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018

  • 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

  • Internation Liberation Reference Persons

    International Liberation Reference Persons, by various. At the 2016 “Mental Health” Liberation Workshop for ILRPs and RRPs: What has been going well at the workshop? For you, in the workshop as a whole, or both? (excerpts from people’s responses)
    Published in: Recovery and Re-emergence 7

  • Apologizing Can Heal Broken Connections

    Published in: Present Time 152, July 2008

  • 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

  • Table of Contents for print version

    Present Time 180, July 2015, Table of Contents for print version
    Published in: Present Time 180, July 2015

  • Leading a Workshop on "Class Experience"

    Leading a Workshop on "Class Experience", by Kirsten Johnson. I am the mother of two and the breadwinner for my family. If you had asked me in advance to lead a workshop for my Area, I’d have said, “No way. It’s just not possible.” But with little preparation, a great team backing me, and no time to worry, I was completely up for it!
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Liberation74

  • Sixty Considerations

    Published in: Our Work to End Racism

  • Zoom Job Descriptions

    Published in: West Coast Leaders 2024

  • A.4. The Membership of the Community

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • A.4. The Membership of the Community

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Catholic Women and the Policy

    Published in: Sisters 12

  • Mutliplied Awareness

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • SAL/UER Earth Day events 2021

    SAL events for Earth Day 2021
    Published in: Environment -

  • 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

  • Identité

    Published in: French

  • Enseigner la Co-écoute en période d’effondrement

    Published in: French

  • À propos du racisme

    Published in: French

  • Décharger les automatismes de domination

    Published in: French

  • Travailler sur le matériau d'oppresseur

    Published in: French

  • Éliminer le capitalisme

    Published in: French

  • Ideas for Supporting Wide World Work on Climate Change

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

  • Topic Groups

    Published in: Implementing the Unified Goal on Climate 2022

  • SAL at COPs

    Sustaining All Life at COP23
    Published in: Environment -

  • Initiative sur le Changement Climatique

    Initiative sur le Changement Climatique, Tim Jackins, April 2019/November 2021
    Published in: French

  • Projet de programme sur le changement climatique pour les Communautés de Co-écoute

    Published in: French

  • Musicians’ Liberation

    Musicians’ Liberation, by Heather Hay. Musicians’ liberation is for everyone. We are all inherently musical. As young people, we loved to explore our voices. We loved to explore the possibilities of sound and music. We were curious and creative.
    Published in: Liberation for New to RC

  • 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

  • Table of Contents, Present Time 198, January 2020

    Published in: Present Time 198, January 2020, Contents

  • Climate Activists' Panel Transcript March 2019

    Published in: Environment -

  • A Report from El Salvador

    A Report from El Salvador, by Victor Nicassio. I’ve been in El Salvador for the past week, and I’m reminded of what Harvey Jackins said—that the more you know a person, the more you love them. I think that is also true of a country and its people.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Parents Leading Parents Outside of RC

    Parents Leading Parents Outside of RC, by Rachel Landsberg. We were thirty-three parents—from Israel, Wales, England, Canada, and the United States. We were immigrant parents, parents of the Global Majority, Indigenous parents, Jewish parents, LGBQT parents, working-class parents.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • From a Heterosexual Husband of Asian Heritage

    From a Heterosexual Husband of Asian Heritage, by "Nikola Tesla". I’ve been convening topic groups at workshops for Asian-heritage (or Global Majority) husbands. I start off the groups with, “I am struggling in my marriage, made a big mistake, and don’t know what to do.”
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Counseling Practice

  • Table of Contents

    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019

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

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

  • The Older Women's Workshop

    The Older Women’s Workshop, by Ellie Putnam & Diane Balser.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Attacks on Abortion Rights

    Attacks on Abortion Rights, by Beth Edmonds. In the past few months in the United States, there has been a systematic and organized attack on women’s access to abortion. This kind of attack is not new, but it is becoming more and more pointed.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • The Current Situation

    The Current Situation, by Harvey Jackins. The situation in the world currently is very hard on working-class and other low-income people but is a situation offering great opportunities for world changing. It is a time when RC thinking and policies can quickly become widely accepted.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • 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

  • Un atelier pour les femmes seules

    Un atelier pour les femmes seules, pour Diane Balser. Je suis fière de ce que nous avons accompli lors de l'atelier pour les femmes seules. Cela a changé la conception que nous avions de la réalité de la vie des femmes seules.
    Published in: French, Liberation

  • Identity

    Identity, by "Jeanne D'Arc". Identity is a popular topic—often discussed, seldom understood. We are taught to take for granted that separations between people are normal. Historically, ethnic and racial identities have been recognized and treated as legitimate boundaries or separations between people.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • Immigrants of the Global Majority

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

  • Thoughts After the Pittsburgh Shooting

    Thoughts After the Pittsburgh Shooting, by Diane (Drezel) Balser. It is meaningful that we are responding so thoughtfully to the recent targeting of Jews in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA).
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Proud to Be a Pittsburgh Jew

    Proud to Be a Pittsburgh Jew, by Claire Galpern. Each day I discover more connections to people who were killed or survived the shooting.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Present Time 193, October 2018

    Published in: Present Time 193, October 2018

  • 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

  • J. TRADUCTION DES PUBLICATIONS ET INTERPRÉTATION DANS LES ATELIERS J.1. TRADUCTION DES PUBLICATIONS

    J. TRADUCTION DES PUBLICATIONS ET INTERPRÉTATION DANS LES ATELIERS J.1. TRADUCTION DES PUBLICATIONS Désignation de Coordinateurs-Coordinatrices de Traduction
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • Les gens qui ont du mal à s'accrocher

    Les gens qui ont du mal à s'accrocher, Tim Jackins. Un-e participant-e à l’atelier: Je pense à un groupe de Co-écoutant-e-s, pour la plupart des personnes de couleur originaires de la classe ouvrière et élevées dans la pauvreté, qui sont des membres solides de la Communauté depuis des décennies, mais dont les profondes détresses chroniques les mettent en échec.
    Published in: French, Teaching, Leading, Community BuildingPT 183, p. 35

  • 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

  • A Groundbreaking Workshop

    A Groundbreaking Workshop, by Mary Toutonghi. At first the Middle-Class Women’s Workshop felt heavy and hard. But when I began to realize how terrorized we all have been as middle-class women, it got easier.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015

  • Liberation Intro Articles

  • Tim Jackins

    "The Many Aspects of Racism", Present Time No. 147, April 2007

  • Réflexions sur la proximité alors que nous envisageonsun retour aux séances en face-à-face

    Published in: French

  • Unified Goal on Climate in isiZulu

    Published in: Environment -

  • Unified Goal on Climate in Shona

    Published in: Environment -

  • Ideas for Languages and Interpreting

    Published in: Translations

  • SAL/UER Events at New York City Climate Week

    Published in: Environment -

  • A.3. The One-Point Program of the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • A.3. The One-Point Program of the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • An Opportunity to Change the Class System

    An Opportunity to Change the Class System, by Ellie Brown. College and university faculty are a subset of the middle class. Our job is to “train” middle- and owning-class people and produce ideas and workers that serve the class hierarchy.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Native Liberation Teaching Guide II

    Published in: Ftg2 Readings -

  • Openly Challenging Our Racism

    Published in: Articles About Racism

  • Outline: Parents Fighting the Climate Emergency

    Published in: Environment -

  • Pourquoi le changement climatique est notre priorité

    Pourquoi le changement climatique est notre priorité, Why We Prioritize Addressing Climate Change, by Diane Shisk and Tim Jackins
    Published in: French

  • Present Time 184, July 2016

    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016

  • SAL in the Blue Zone at COP27

    Published in: Environment -

  • Table of Contents

    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019

  • The Uses of Beauty and Order

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Unified Goal Webinar Transcript

    Published in: Environment -

  • La mort et le décès, la vie et l'existence, et le COVID-19

    Published in: French

  • L’impact de la crise climatique sur les populations autochtones, les Noirs et les insulaires du Pacifique

    Published in: French

  • G.2. Interpreting at Workshops

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • C.3. Structure of RC Classes

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • III. Avoiding National Structures

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Optional Groups Schedule

    Published in: Climate Leaders January 2023 Optional Groups

  • G.2. Interpreting at Workshops

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • C.3. Structure of RC Classes

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Summary and Context for Guideline M.5.

    Published in: Guidelines

  • Poursuivre une initiative de plus en plus nécessaire

    Published in: French

  • test

    Published in: test

  • Present Time 182 TOC

    Present Time 182, January 2016
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016

  • CLASS #6: Resources

    Published in: Understanding Economics 2021

  • Present Time 191, April 2018

    Present Time 191, April 2018
    Published in: Present Time 191, April 2018

  • Continuing to Move Forward in this Time of Collapse

    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • Health and Well-Being

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

  • SAL COP 25 Santiago, Chile December 2019

    Published in: Environment -

  • Table of Contents, Present Time 197, October 2019

    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019

  • Leaving Our Middle-Class Role

    Leaving Our Middle-Class Role, by Seán Ruth. Our job as middle-class people is to make sure the class system functions smoothly and efficiently. Over the last period, middle-class RCers have made great strides in understanding how we got set up to play this role, the damage that was done to our humanity, and the way we were encouraged to be preoccupied with comfort and security.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Disability as a Class Theme

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

  • A Time for Connection and Solidarity

    A Time for Connection and Solidarity, by Joanne Bray. Years ago, at the end of a leaders’ workshop, Tim Jackins said to the group in closing, “Treat each other well. Move toward each other. Push each other forward.”
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Counseling Practice

  • 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

  • People of the Global Majority with white Skin

    People of the Global Majority with White Skin, by Tresa Elguera. I am of mixed heritage on both sides of my family. The people on my mother’s paternal side were Spanish and Italian Jews who, as a result of the Inquisition, ended up living in the Caribbean. On her mother’s side were Eastern European Jews from Belarus who came to the United States. My mother had olive skin, dark hair, and big, dark eyes.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • 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

  • Thinking about Climate Change as a Construction Worker

    Thinking about Climate Change as a Construction Worker, by Anonymous. I entered the construction field because I wanted to be part of energy, transportation, and residential infrastructure changes to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Listening, and Working on Oppressor Distress

    Listening, and Working on Oppressor Distress, by Dulce Cisneros. It is hopeful to see how we are moving in Re-evaluation Counseling to lead, or support those who lead, in raising awareness about the environmental changes we are experiencing. It is an interesting time to be alive and participate, all of us in our trenches
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • 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

  • Young People and Climate Change

    Young People and Climate Change, by Marian Michaels. I spent my childhood listening to adults talk about climate change but not take strong enough action to prevent it. I currently spend a lot of time around young people who care deeply about the environment.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • 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 194, January 2019

    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019

  • "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

  • Staying Connected at a Hard Moment

    Staying Connected at a Hard Moment, by anonymous. I recently attended an LGBQT workshop led by “Jeanne D’Arc.” I was about to lead a Havdalah service [a ceremony marking the end of the Jewish Sabbath], when I heard the news about the tragic event at the synagogue in Pittsburgh.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Standing against and Healing from Sexual Abuse and Cover-Ups

    Standing against and Healing from Sexual Abuse and Cover-Ups, by Joanne Bray. Sexual abuse and cover-ups have been a key and visible issue for Catholics for more than sixteen years.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Liberation

  • Sex

    Published in: Present Time 169, October 2012

  • COE Teaching Guide II

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

  • C.1. OBJECTIFS DES CLASSES DE CO-ÉCOUTE

    C.1. OBJECTIFS DES CLASSES DE CO-ÉCOUTE Objectifs La Communauté propose des classes de Réévaluation par la Co-écoute aux personnes intéressées à devenir Co-écoutant-e-s, mais aussi pour la réémergence continue de celles et ceux qui sont déjà dans la Co-écoute.
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • A.3. LE PROGRAMME EN UN POINT DES COMMUNAUTÉS DE CO-ÉCOUTE

    A.3. LE PROGRAMME EN UN POINT DES COMMUNAUTÉS DE CO-ÉCOUTE Le seul programme de la Communauté de Co-écoute, qui s'impose à chacun de ses membres, est de rechercher par la pratique de la Co-écoute à recouvrer son intelligence et son humanité innée et d'aider les autres à en faire de même.
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • A.4. ÊTRE MEMBRE DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ

    A.4. ÊTRE MEMBRE DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ Il est utile de faire la distinction entre un-e "Co-écoutant-e", un "membre de la Communauté de Co-écoute", et un-e "dirigeant-e de Co-écoute".
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • Un autre point de vue sur les relations

    Un autre point de vue sur les relations, Tim Jackins. Question : Quelles attentes rationnelles peut-on avoir vis-à-vis de nos relations ? Tim Jackins : Eh bien, cela dépend de la relation. Nous avons beaucoup de confusions vis-à-vis des relations.
    Published in: French, PT 175, p. 3

  • Une récapitulation des bases de la Co-écoute

    Une récapitulation des bases de la Co-écoute, Tim Jackins. Certains d’entre vous débutent en Co-écoute et ressentent probablement une certaine crainte. Ce n’est pas bien grave. Certains d’entre nous, qui ne sommes pas débutants, ressentons encore de la peur. Les peurs ne disparaissent pas toujours rapidement.
    Published in: French, Counseling PracticePT 135, p. 3

  • Some Challenges I Face as an Israeli Woman

    Some Challenges I Face as an Israeli Woman, by Orna Shuman. I finally feel able to share some of my life as a fifty-years-of-age Jewish white Israeli female who is married and a mother of four.
    Published in: Present Time 184, July 2016, Liberation

  • Harvey Jackins

    Workshop (Pacific Palisades)

  • Tim Jackins

    "Forward", Present Time No. 146, January 2007.

  • 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 -

  • N.1. Psychiatric Drugs and RC Community Members

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Mon histoire dans la Co-écoute

    Published in: French

  • Aller de l’avant en des temps pleins de confusion

    Published in: French

  • Optional Groups Schedule

    Published in: ILRP/ICRP Workshop

  • COVID policies

  • 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

  • topic groups

    Published in: MHL for All Europe

  • Renewed Effort for Eliminating Racism

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • B.3. Use of the Terms "Re-evaluation Counseling" and "RC"

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Journal Editor Information

    Published in: Editors -

  • Leaders and Leadership

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Resource Document for Unified Goal

    Published in: 2022 Goals of the RC Community

  • SAL at COP24, Katowice, Poland 2018

    Published in: Environment -

  • SAL at the New York Climate Summit

    Published in: Environment -

  • Sentence About Unified Goal Implementation

    Published in: Environment -

  • Style Sheet

    Published in: Editors -

  • Taking a Needed Initiative

    Published in: Environment -

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

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Un nouveau critère concernant les formatrices et formateurs de Co-écoute

    Un nouveau critère concernant Un nouveau critère concernant les formatrices et formateurs de Co-écoute, Tim Jackins
    Published in: French, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Class Liberation

  • Une initiative nécessaire

    Published in: French

  • Défier l’isolement

    Published in: French

  • Une classe sur le COVID-19

    Published in: French

  • "Interventions sonores" sur la crise climatique

    Published in: French

  • Une opportunité sans précédent

    Published in: French

  • Le besoin de changement

    Published in: French

  • Pas d'ennemis humains

    Published in: French

  • Imaginez un monde sans violence contre les femmes

    Published in: French

  • G.1. Workshops-Overview

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • N.1. Psychiatric Drugs and RC Community Members

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • M.1. The No-Socializing Policy

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • I.1. Offering RC Practices and Insights Beyond the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • V. Projects Aimed Outside the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • M.1. The No-Socializing Policy

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Mid Atlantic Teachers and Leaders

    Published in: Mid-Atlantic Teachers and Leaders 2023

  • G.1. Workshops-Overview

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • contents

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

  • How We Got Started

    Published in: Environment -

  • I.1. Offering RC Practices and Insights Beyond the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • G.7.  Teachers' and Leaders' Workshops

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • D.5. Overcoming Culturally Enforced Distress Patterns

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • YPYA

    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • A Welcome to the RC Communities from Tim Jackins

  • Tim Jackins

    Present Time No. 206

  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Present Time No. 200

  • Orientation to Family Workshops

    Orientation to Family Workshops, by Chuck Esser. There isn’t much time to talk at Family Workshops so this is an attempt to provide some information about what happens, why we do them the way we do and why they are useful.
    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Present Time 186, January 2017

    Present Time No. 186, (Vol 49, No. 1) January 2017
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017

  • Chicano Liberation

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

  • Transcripts in Online Workshops

    Published in: Organizing Tools Class 1

  • Table of Contents, Present Time No. 199, April 2020

    Published in: Present Time 199, April 2020

  • Outline: Building United, Resilient Movements to End the Climate Emergency

    Published in: Environment -

  • Outline: Women, Climate Emergency and the Economy

    Published in: Environment -

  • Articles from Recent Journals

  • Discharging about Abortion

    Discharging about Abortion, by Beth Edmonds and Amy Kalisher. Abortion rights are being attacked in the United States. We worked on how we need the right to have an abortion, given the sexism in our society. And we have to be clear that the fight for control of our female bodies is not over and cannot be taken for granted.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Racism Is Not about Individual Flaws

    Racism Is Not about Individual Flaws , by jan Froehlich. She reminded us that there are no “good guys” or “bad guys.” Racism is not about individual flaws but about a systemic flaw.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • "Our Goodness Is Indestructible"

    “Our Goodness Is Indestructible”, by Dipti Baranwal. There’s an idea in Hinduism that there is an indestructible force in the universe. That idea has kept me rooted in benign reality. There is something that cannot be destroyed.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Fighting Together for Connection

    Fighting Together for Connection, by Emily Bloch. We have to figure out how to set up our lives to make them workable for us. And then we have to make them workable enough that we can point ourselves toward the big struggles out in the world that we need to face together. That has to be a central part of our work.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • "Out There in the Jaws of the Lion”

    "Out There in the Jaws of the Lion”, by Joanie Parker. RC union members are fighting for the rights of workers, for decent wages and working conditions. At the same time, we’re figuring out how to use Co-Counseling to take charge of our lives. "Out There in the Jaws of the Lion”, by Joanie Parker. RC union members are fighting for the rights of workers, for decent wages and working conditions. At the same time, we’re figuring out how to use Co-Counseling to take charge of our lives.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • "We Are Reclaiming Our Minds, Our Integrity, and Our Voices"

    “We Are Reclaiming Our Minds, Our Integrity, and Our Voices”, by Francie Chew. I am the International Liberation Reference Person for Chinese-Heritage People. I also reference Southeast Asian people, who at present include RCers of Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Malaysian heritage.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • 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

  • Born and Raised Male

    Born and Raised Male, by "Gregory Peck". I am male in the sense that I have XY chromosomes resulting in a body I describe as male, and because I have been socialized as a male and I see the world through a male frame of reference. For some, this is what it means to be a “cisgender” male.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • An Open Letter to All Artists and Allies

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

  • A Workshop on the Climate Emergency

    A Workshop on the Climate Emergency, by Karl Lam. In January I led my RC Community class on the idea that we are now in a “climate emergency situation.” I noticed that with this framing, the demonstrations seemed more “alive” and that people were working more “fully” than they had in previous classes.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Defining “Direct Production Workers,” and Why We Are Using This Term

    Defining “Direct Production Workers,” and Why We Are Using This Term, by Dan Nickerson.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Highlights from the Working Together to End Classism Workshop

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

  • Loss of Heritage Can Lead to Racism

    Loss of Heritage Can Lead to Racism, by Harvey Pillersdorf. I do not know why my grandparents left their Polish and Russian homes, if or how they were religious, what traditions (religious or cultural) they practiced, or much else.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • Standing Against Hatred

    Standing Against Hatred, by Tim Jackins. The stand taken by both the peoples of New Zealand and some individuals in the government of New Zealand against the racist violence acted out in Christchurch is important. .. All of us are capable of openly and publicly joining this opposition. Such open opposition is important in changing the tone of our societies from one of confusion, isolation, and fear to one of united, principled, and determined action against the irrationalities.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice

  • Taking a Needed Initiative

    Taking a Needed Initiative, by Tim Jackins. At our World Conferences, every four years, we improve our Guidelines, agree on goals for the next period, and discuss issues that are important to our Community and the world. At the next World Conference, in 2021, I will propose that we adopt and pursue an initiative on climate change.
    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

  • Being a Queer Single Woman in My Early Thirties

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

  • Des hommes qui luttent pour eux-mêmes

    Des hommes qui luttent pour eux-mêmes, by Tim Jackins. D’après une présentation par Tim Jackins à l’atelier pour les dirigeant-e-s des femmes et des hommes à Washington, DC, USA, en Octobre 2017
    Published in: French, Liberation

  • Partners Skeptical of RC

    Partners Skeptical of RC, by anon, Marya Axner, Dan Nickerson. I’m writing to ask about any experience you’ve had with partners (life partners, marriage partners, co-parents, and so on) who were skeptical of RC when you decided to move forward with them as your partner.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Counseling Practice

  • 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

  • White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating White Racism

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

  • Jewish Liberation at the Global Climate Action Summit

    Jewish Liberation at the Global Climate Action Summit, by Emily Galpern. A group of RC Jews and allies worked to put Jewish liberation at the center of the Sustaining All Life (SAL)/United to End Racism (UER) project at the September 2018 Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco, California, USA.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • A Labor Team at the Global Climate Action Summit

    A Labor Team at the Global Climate Action Summit, by Joanie Parker. A labor team was part of the Sustaining All Life (SAL)/United to End Racism (UER) delegation at the September 2018 Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco, California, USA.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • From Another Pittsburgh Jew

    From Another Pittsburgh Jew, by Rachel Beck. Following the shooting I had a mini-session with a Jewish Co-Counselor. She counseled me first, and I looked at how the event led back to heavy Holocaust material [distress].
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Translations of the COE Goal

    Translations into Basque, Dutch, Frisian, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish
    Published in: Environment -

  • Climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark

    Published in: Our Stories of Climate Change

  • Present Time 187, April 2017

    Present Time No. 187, (Vol 49, No. 2) April 2017
    Published in: Present Time, April 2017

  • About Care of the Environment

    About COE
    Published in: Environment -

  • Present Time 178

  • Affection, Love, and Sex

    Published in: Present Time 162, January 2011

  • Present Time 189, October 2017

    Present Time 189, October 2017. Table of Contents.
    Published in: Present Time 189, October 2017

  • H. FINANCES DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ DE RÉÉVALUATION PAR LA CO-ÉCOUTE H.1. CLASSES : HONORAIRES ET BOURSES

    H.1. CLASSES : HONORAIRES ET BOURSES Les formateurs-formatrices de Co-écoute sont encouragé-e-s à demander des honoraires pour leur classes. Ils/elles peuvent en fixer le montant approprié à leur Communauté.
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • G.4. SOUTIEN DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ – VAINCRE LES AUTOMATISMES DE DÉTRESSE IMPOSÉS PAR LA CULTURE

    G.4. SOUTIEN DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ – VAINCRE LES AUTOMATISMES DE DÉTRESSE IMPOSÉS PAR LA CULTURE Les formateurs-formatrices aideront les membres de leur classe, surtout ceux appartenant à la culture dominante, à apprendre à travailler sur les automatismes de détresse imposés par la culture.
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • Why Is RC Important to You?

    Why Is RC Important to You?, comments collected by Kit Shepherd. At a recent teachers’ and leaders’ workshop in Sydney, Australia, Lynda Wightman began a class on Community building by asking us to have a session on why RC is important to us. Here are some answers people shared in the round following the session.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017

  • Les idées d'Harvey sur la théorie de base

    Les idées d'Harvey sur la théorie de base, Harvey Jackins. J’aimerais vous parler de théorie générale. Certains d’entre vous n’ont jamais entendu parler de théorie. Les autres en ont une bonne expérience, mais ça ne fait pas de mal de prendre un peu de recul et d’examiner ce que nous faisons avec un regard neuf.
    Published in: French, Counseling PracticePT 137, p. 3

  • Terminer une bataille inachevée

    Terminer une bataille inachevée, Tim Jackins. Chacun-e d’entre nous a des détresses ayant semé la confusion dans notre esprit, mais lorsque nous nous retrouvons ensemble et que quelqu’un nous écoute, les choses commencent à bouger.
    Published in: Present Time 165, October 2011, Counseling Practice

  • Sustaining All Life at the Paris Climate Conference

    Sustaining All Life at the Paris Climate Conference, by Diane Shisk. Our Sustaining All Life* delegation is making good progress in organizing for its participation in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (called COP21) in Paris, France, November 30 to December 4, 2015.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015

  • 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

  • Racism and Care of the Environment

    Racism and Care of the Environment, by Berta Ramos-Ramirez. Racism and Care of the Environment. A hundred Co-Counselors, forty-five percent of them people of the global majority, attended the recent Racism and Care of the Environment Workshop led by Barbara Love and Diane Shisk in Warwick, New York, USA.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015

  • The Decision to Have (or Not Have) Children

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

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Reclaiming of Power, p. 243

  • Harvey Jackins

    Propositions for Human Liberation

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Reclaiming of Power, p. 245

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Rest of Our Lives, p. 12

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Rest of Our Lives, p. 84

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Longer View, p. 117

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Flexible Human in the Rigid Society

  • Harvey Jackins

    Propositions for Human Liberation

  • Tim Jackins

    "Men and Sexism", Present Time No. 149, October 200

  • Articles supporting the Guidelines

    Articles Supporting Our Understanding of the RC Community Guidelines.
    Published in: Guidelines

  • RC Webinars: Description and Listing

    RC Webinars, online classes with theory, demonstrations, and mini-sessions.
    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Farsi Translations

    Translations into Farsi
    Published in: Translations Farsi -

  • Itzulpenak euskarara

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

  • My Story of Healing from Concussions

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

  • Completing an Early Triumph

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

  • Re-evaluation Counseling Teacher Update

    Published in: Audio files

  • COORDINATEURS DE CLIMAT

    Published in: Environment -

  • Workshop Topic Groups

    Published in: West Coast Leaders 2024

  • Podding

    Published in: LGBTQ Workshop for People Raised Female 2024

  • Reporting on COP28 from Climate Justice sources

    Published in: Environment -

  • Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism at COP28

    Published in: Environment -

  • Workshop Listing

    Published in: Present Time

  • Other Important Collections of Articles

  • The Minute of Silence

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

  • Contents

    Published in: Healing from Hurts of Racism New Zealand Australia 2023

  • home

    Published in: Open workshop for people raised female 2023

  • Dissocier la libération autochtone et indigène du travail sur le racisme visant les personnes de la Majorité Globale

    Published in: French

  • Contents

    Published in: Black Womens Liberation 2023

  • “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

  • 2023 PGMMC

    Published in: POGM Raised or Currently Middle Class Ending Class Oppression

  • Important Email Archive

    Published in: Environment -

  • SAL/UER at March to End Fossil Fuels

    Published in: Environment -

  • The Hands Project (March to End Fossil Fuels)

    Published in: Environment -

  • Pods Guidance

    Published in: Eagles Workshop Webpage

  • March Information

    Published in: Environment -

  • Optional Groups Schedule

    Published in: ILRP/ICRP Workshop

  • Maine Men's Daylong 2023

    Published in: Men's Daylong 2023

  • Preparation for Dubai

    Published in: Environment -

  • SAL at COP27

    Published in: Environment -

  • Transformation of Society

    Table of Contents, Wide World Change Articles by, Tim Jackins
    Published in: Tim's World Change Articles

  • Black African Liberation and Community Development

    Published in: Our Work to End Racism

  • Draft Liberation Policy Statements

  • Colonization & Racism in Africa

    Published in: Environment -

  • Privacy and Security

    Published in: Organizing Tools Class 1

  • Workshop Information

    Published in: Alcohol and Other Drugs as a Liberation Issue for Parents 2023

  • Sustaining All Life à la COP27

    Published in: French

  • A.6. Handling Difficulties in Relationships in the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • A.6. Handling Difficulties in Relationships in the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Articles from Benign Reality Read Aloud

    Published in: Community Building Videos

  • A Workshop in Gulu

    A Workshop in Gulu, by Jane Lucy Wambui Gachihi. In the early morning of 4 September, 2015, our host collected us Kenyan delegates to start the journey to Gulu, North Uganda, for an RC workshop. We later picked up all the Ugandan team from different waiting points in the beautiful, hilly city of Kampala (Uganda), and soon we were all headed to Gulu.
    Published in: Present Time 182, January 2016, Teaching, Leading, Community BuildingPT 182, January 201651

  • B.2. Choosing New Co-Counselors

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • B.2. Choosing New Co-Counselors

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

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

    Published in: Our Work to End Racism

  • Community Building Videos

    Several videos on Community Building
    Published in: Community Building Videos

  • Creativity

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • From One of the Extra Volunteers

    Published in: Present Time 190, January 2018, Wide World Changing44

  • La Morte, il Morire e il Vivere

    Per cominciare vorrei che ci rendessimo conto che abbiamo tutti qualcosa in comune - siamo vivi, Italian translation of Death and Dying, LIfe and LIving by Joan Karp.
    Published in: Italian

  • Poem by Harvey Jackins

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Resources for SAL

    Published in: Present Time

  • Revenir d’exil

    D’après une présentation faite par Tim Jackins à l’atelier des Dirigeant·e·s d’Asie et des Îles du Pacifique, sur Zoom, en Août 2020 Nous vivons des moments très intéressants. Les irrationnalités de nos sociétés sont sur le point de détruire les sociétés. Et les politiques destructrices sont menées par des gens qui sont gouvernés par leurs restimulations.
    Published in: French, Counseling Practice

  • Sustaining All Life Tank Tops, T-shirts, Hankies, and Pamphlet

    Published in: Present Time

  • Table of Contents for print version

    Present Time 179, April 2015, Table of Contents to print version
    Published in: Present Time 179, April 2015

  • The Communication of Important Ideas

    Published in: The Human Situation

  • Tools for Climate Organizing

    Published in: Present Time

  • Finaliser un triomphe précoce

    Published in: French

  • Être les alliés des Musulmans

    Published in: French

  • Rester focalisé-e sur les bonnes choses de la vie

    Published in: French

  • Enseignements tirés d'ateliers en Ouganda du Nord

    Published in: French

  • Nous avons besoin de cet outil libérateur

    Published in: French

  • J.2. Duplicating and Electronically Distributing RC Publications and Other Materials

    Guideline J.2. Duplicating and Electronically Distributing RC Publications and Other Materials
    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • H.1. Outreach Funds of the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • E.1. Structure of the Community-Leadership

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • D.1. Certification of RC Teachers

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • H.2. Class Fees and Outreach Funds

    Published in: Guidelines Introduction

  • I. Leaders' Groups

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • J.2. Duplicating and Electronically Distributing RC Publications and Other Materials

    Guideline J.2. Duplicating and Electronically Distributing RC Publications and Other Materials
    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • H.1. Outreach Funds of the RC Community

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • E.1. Structure of the Community-Leadership

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • C.5. Online Classes and Support Groups

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Guide for Online: Breakout Rooms

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • H.2. Class Fees and Outreach Funds

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • H.13. Assisting the Re-Evaluation Foundation's Outreach Efforts

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Contents

    Our Stories of Climate Change
    Published in: Our Stories of Climate Change

  • An Introduction to Climate Change

    An Introduction to Climate Change, by Diane Shisk. The basics of climate change.
    Published in: Environment -

  • L’effondrement des sociétés capitalistes

    Published in: French

  • Les personnes de moins de trente-cinq ans et le classisme

    Published in: French

  • ILRP Activities on COE

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

  • Guideline M.5. Definitions

    Published in: Guidelines

  • COP 27 Photo Gallery, day 1, 2, 3

    Published in: Environment -

  • E.6. Functions of the Area Reference Person

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • D.1. Certification of RC Teachers

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • M.3. Lengthy Reason Electronic Communication

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • H.10. Maintenance Funds

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • G.6. International Workshops

    Published in: Guidelines 2022

  • Optional Groups Schedule

    ******************************************************************** This document is updated automatically from the proposal submissions of Optional Group leaders. It will be OVERWRITTEN each time the data is updated by new submissions. Please relay any changes to: Alan Epstein ********************************************************************
    Published in: World Conference 2022

  • Sexual Misconduct Guideline Resource Document

    Published in: Sexual Misconduct Resource Document

  • 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

  • No Socializing

    Published in: Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual

  • Covid again, and again, and again

    Published in: IRP Perspectives

  • Harvey Jackins

    Present Time No. 195

  • Community Building

  • Tools for Climate Organizing in German

    Published in: Present Time

  • CLASS #2: Resources

    Published in: Understanding Economics 2021

  • Self study while waiting for a local class to begin

    Published in: Fundamentals

  • SAL workshops, forums, and handouts

    Sustaining All Life workshops, forums, listening projects, handouts and more
    Published in: Environment -

  • Contents

    Published in: Class liberation

  • 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

  • Bagong polyeto! • A New Pamphlet!

    Tools for Climate Change, by Rational Island Publishers. For your Tagalog/Filipino-speaking climate activist and organizer friends.
    Published in: Present Time, Counseling Practice

  • Stories of the Climate Emergency, RCers Experiences

    Published in: Environment -

  • Outline: Women and Climate Justice

    Published in: Environment -

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

    Published in: Environment -

  • Working on Anti-Semitism during Lent

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

  • Being Allies to Muslims

    Being Allies to Muslims, by Anonymous. Muslims around the world are being harshly targeted. We can decide to move closer to Muslims, build deep long-lasting relationships with them, and openly show love and respect. We don’t have to stand on the sidelines and passively watch the brutal mistreatment.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • 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

  • Work

    Work, by Harvey Jackins. The development of complexity, the enhancement of the upward trend, can be accelerated by the thoughtful intervention of human intelligence, expressed as work. . . .
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • We Are the Ones Who Have to Make Things Happen

    We Are the Ones Who Have to Make Things Happen, by Diane Shisk. My job is to think about climate change, now called “the climate emergency.”
    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

  • The People Who Create the Wealth

    The People Who Create the Wealth, by Dan Nickerson. I was twenty-nine years old when I met Harvey Jackins. It was the first time in my life I had heard that it was good to be working class. After that I decided to make working-class liberation my life’s work.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • Learn More about Poor People

    Learn More about Poor People, by Gwen Brown. First, let’s talk about capitalism. While it initially raised large numbers of people out of poverty into the middle class, global capitalism is now leaving most of the world’s people in poverty, and life on this planet at risk.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

  • A Targeted Group

    A Targeted Group, by Lorenzo Garcia. Hello. Buenas tardes. I am the International Liberation Reference Person (ILRP) for Chicanas and Chicanos in Re-evaluation Counseling. I also think about the Latinas and Latinos. I have been doing this job since—well, since I had black hair and a really beautiful moustache [mustache].
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Liberation

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

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

  • Selling RC Literature

    Selling RC Literature, by Steve Brown. I attended the recent Southwest (North America) Men’s Workshop led by Lorenzo Garcia. I brought a few boxes of literature, and someone else brought a lot of literature he had decided to donate.
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Reclaiming Creativity

    Reclaiming Creativity, by Luise Zanther, Yehudit Koadlow, Rowan White. Below are some comments about a Reclaiming Creativity Gather-in led by Cynthia Johnston in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Counseling Practice

  • Climate change in South Dakota, USA

    Climate change in South Dakota, by Marcie Rendon
    Published in: Our Stories of Climate Change

  • "Let's Get Together and Act"

    "Let's Get Together and Act", by "X". In the last elections I was involved in the campaign of a new, small political party. Being active, and around other people who were active and hopeful, had a tremendous, positive effect on me.
    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

  • 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

  • Climate Change, and Who We Are

    Climate Change, and Who We Are, by Marion Ouphouet. The following is from a talk I gave to my RC class
    Published in: Present Time 197, October 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Recovery and Re-emergence No.7

    Ad for Recovery and Re-emergence No.7
    Published in: Present Time

  • Human Liberation

  • An Intersection of Oppressor and Victim Distresses

    An Intersection of Oppressor and Victim Distresses, by Emma Hitchings. My counselor and I came up with [thought of] some contradictions to both racism and internalized sexism.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Facing and Discharging on Oppressor Roles

    Facing and Discharging on Oppressor Roles, by H-. I recently attended a War and Genocide Workshop for owning-class people, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA—the first RC War and Genocide Workshop for the owning class. It was profound for me personally and I think may have given us a road map to where our work as owning-class RCers needs to go.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • War, Genocide, and the Owning Class

    War, Genocide, and the Owning Class, by Azi Khalili. With the encouragement of Nazish Riaz, a South Asian Co-Counseling leader, Jo Saunders (the International Liberation Reference Person for Owning-Class People) and I (the International Liberation Reference Person for South, Central, and West Asian-Heritage People) co-led this past April a War, Genocide, and the Owning Class Workshop, for U.S. RCers.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Men Facing and Discharging Perpetrator Distress

    Men Facing and Discharging Perpetrator Distress, by Tim Jackins. The purpose of our day together is to figure out how to work on the distresses installed on us that lead to the sexual exploitation of women.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 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

  • Growing Up a White Jewish Male

    Growing Up a White Jewish Male, by Brian Lavendel. The North American White Ashkenazi Jews Eliminating White Racism Workshop, led by Dvora Slavin last October, provided a strong home base in which to look at where I had come from and how I had gotten here.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • An Especially Important Meeting

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

  • A New Information Coordinator for Veterans

    A New Information Coordinator for Veterans, by Vince Dijanich. Who are veterans? We are men and women who are or were part of a military or paramilitary organization or national liberation force. We have participated both willingly and unwillingly. We have had varying experiences with combat. Some of us have faced each other across a battlefield.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Liberation

  • Using RC Before and After a Traumatic Birth

    The moment I made up my mind [decided] to write about my birth experience, my distresses went into overdrive [I got very restimulated]. I didn’t think that anyone would want to hear what I have to say.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Counseling Practice

  • 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

  • A Men's Workshop in Ghana

    A Men's Workshop in Ghana, by Samuel W. Anuga. A full-day Ghana Men’s Workshop gave us a chance to discuss and discharge on the issues we confront as men.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

    Eliminating Nuclear Weapons, by Donna Gallers, I recently participated in an international (Zoom) RC class on eliminating nuclear weapons. It was led by Julian Weissglass
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Global Problem, Global Solution—the Role of the United States in the Climate Emergency

    Global Problem, Global Solution—the Role of the United States in the Climate Emergency, by Diane Shisk. Never before has there been a situation like the climate emergency. It impacts everyone on our planet, requires global unity to solve it, and a failure to unite has a high probability of endangering the survival of humanity.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Inspired by the youth Climate Strike

    Inspired by the Youth Climate Strike, by Eurhi Jones. Young people recently marched and rallied at City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, as part of the Youth Climate Strike.
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Uvacharta Bachayim [Choose Life]: Jews and Climate Change

    Uvacharta Bachayim [Choose Life]: Jews and Climate Change, by Miri Sager. While of course Jews everywhere will be affected along with the rest of humanity, as Jews we are also guided by calls for tikkun olam [repair of the world] and of bal tashchit [do not destroy or waste].
    Published in: Present Time 196, July 2019, Wide World Changing

  • A Colleagues’ Workshop

    A Colleagues’ Workshop, by Joan Ostrove. Forty-five colleagues attended. They ranged from young adults to people in their late seventies and were of various races, religions, classes, and sexual orientations.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • An Artist's Table

    An Artists’ Table, by Terry Simpson. Artists are allowed some (but very limited) leeway to be eccentric or “different.” But when we are “different,” we risk being marginalised and not taken seriously (except where our art can be made into a commodity and used for profit).
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice

  • Being “White” and of Mixed Heritage

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

  • Discharging on Whether to Have Another Child

    Discharging on Whether to Have Another Child, by Anonymous.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice

  • Facing the Climate Emergency

    Facing the Climate Emergency, by Bess Herbert. I write as a mother who is living a middle-class lifestyle in a Western country (England) and who has been involved in environmental activism for some time. I write having reached a new level in realising the need to face the full horror and scale of the crisis we confront as a species.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Facing “Unbearable” Feelings as an Artist

    Facing “Unbearable” Feelings as an Artist, by Aya de Leon. I come from a family of artists. As a young person I watched family members get a lot of public attention while simultaneously not having much attention for me (or the other children in the family)
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice

  • Intersex Humans

    Intersex Humans, by "Szernye". In the absence of sexism and male domination we would welcome all human infants to full human lives, no matter what they look like.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Liberation

  • 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

  • National Pride, and Humanhood

    National Pride, and Humanhood, by Harvey Jackins. We can see that to be members of the human race is the thing to take pride in, not in petty national differences.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Supporting a Woman through Recovery from Breast Cancer

    Supporting a Woman through Recovery from Breast Cancer, by “A Human Male”. When I was leading the men in my Region, I tried to help them discharge their feelings about women and actually take on [undertake] for themselves the ending of sexism and male domination.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Counseling Practice

  • The Power of Family Work

    The Power of Family Work, by Pamela Haines. Participating in three family workshops in East Africa with Chuck Esser (the International Commonality Reference Person for Family Work) gave me a fresh perspective on the power of family work as a vehicle for teaching the fundamentals of RC.
    Published in: Present Time 195, April 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • From Rational Island Publishers

    Published in: Present Time

  • Créer les conditions favorables

    Creating the Conditions, by Katie Kauffman
    Published in: French, Counseling Practice

  • More from Rational Island Publishers

    Published in: Present Time

  • Standing Against Anti-Semitism

    Standing Against Anti-Semitism, by Emily Cunningham. Standing Against Anti-Semitism
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • A Message from My Union

    A Message from My Union, by John Braxton. I am pleased to be part of a union that not only works to improve job conditions but also tries to look at the big picture—including at racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • A Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop in Ghana

    A Teachers’ and Leaders’ Workshop in Ghana. Comments by several participants. In May 2018, the Ghana RC Communities gathered for a two-day teachers’ and leaders’ workshop led by Wanjiku Kironyo.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Kenyan Youth Recovering from Difficult Lives

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

  • 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

  • Reclaiming Our Connection to Nature

    Reclaiming Our Connection to Nature, by Anu Yadav. It was a contradiction to see Indigenous people leading visibly throughout the week. In one RC forum an Alaskan Gwich’in Indigenous leader spoke movingly about how her people had survived for forty thousand years by following the porcupine caribou.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • The California Wildfires

    California Wildfires, by "Anonymous Mom". I’m a parent of a young child. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, USA. The wildfires in our state right now are devastating. [written on November 18, 2018.]
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Openly Showing What We Think and Want

    Openly Showing What We Think and Want, by Lorie Leifer, Ela Thier, Wendy Ganz, Bishu Chattopadhayay, Brenda Eisbey. Our goal was to “face our fears about stepping openly into reality and showing what we think and want.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • The Moment to Stand with All Humans

    The Moment to Stand with All Humans, by Azi Khalili. As capitalism collapses, working-class white Gentiles are being made to see Jews, immigrants, Muslims, women, disabled people, and LGBQT people as the root cause of poverty. They feel victimized, and justified in attacking marginalized groups.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Wide World Changing

  • Start Over Every Morning

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

  • An Arts Workshop in a Poor Rural White Community

    An Arts Workshop in a Poor Rural White Community, by Anu Yadav. It became clear to me that to solve our planet’s problems we need poor people leading at the center.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Applying RC in Kenya

    Applying RC in Kenya by, Griffins Otieno Ndhine. I first came into contact with RC through the book The Human Side of Human Beings, in 2013 when I was a first-year student at the University of Nairobi.
    Published in: Present Time 194, January 2019, Teaching, Leading, Community Building

  • Climate Change in California, USA

    Climate Change in California, USA
    Published in: Our Stories of Climate Change

  • Workshop Participation for Parents with Infants

    Published in: Workshops Guidelines

  • Climate Change in San Francisco, California, USA

    Published in: Our Stories of Climate Change

  • RC Classes on Care of the Environment

    RCers experiences in teaching about COE in their classes and workshops
    Published in: Environment -

  • Tim Jackins

    Present Time No.191

  • Harvey Jackins

    Present Time No. 190

  • Harvey Jackins

    Present Time No. 188

  • Ending an Addiction to Pornography

    Published in: Present Time 159, April 2010

  • What We Can Win By Apologizing

    Published in: Present Time 167, April 2012

  • Seattle UER/COE Project

    Seattle UER/COE Project
    Published in: United to End Racism

  • T-shirts and Hankie

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

  • OBJECTIFS DES COMMUNAUTÉS DE RÉÉVALUATION PAR LA CO-ÉCOUTE

    OBJECTIFS DES COMMUNAUTÉS DE RÉÉVALUATION PAR LA CO-ÉCOUTE À chaque Conférence Mondiale, la Communauté de Co-écoute définit ses propres objectifs. Ces objectifs sont utiles pour guider notre marche en avant.
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • 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

  • J.3. INTERPRÉTATION DANS LES ATELIERS

    J.3. INTERPRÉTATION DANS LES ATELIERS Une interprétation des communications orales est souvent nécessaire dans les ateliers. Les Co-écoutant-e-s désirant contribuer à l’interprétation peuvent organiser une interprétation bénévole
    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

  • C.2. STRUCTURE DES CLASSES DE CO-ÉCOUTE

    C.2. STRUCTURE DES CLASSES DE CO-ÉCOUTE Contenu des classes L'utilisation de la littérature est une composante essentielle de toutes les classes de Co- écoute. De plus, toutes les classes de Co-écoute doivent comporter :
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • B.2. CHOISIR DE NOUVEAUX ET NOUVELLES CO-ÉCOUTANT-E-S

    B.2. CHOISIR DE NOUVEAUX ET NOUVELLES CO-ÉCOUTANT-E-S On attend des Co-écoutant-e-s qu'ils/elles choisissent judicieusement les personnes nouvelles pour les former en tant que Co-écoutant-e-s. Nous sommes engagés dans un processus consistant à recruter un grand nombre de personnes d’origines très diverses.
    Published in: French Guidelines

  • Two Processes Are Necessary

    Two Processes Are Necessary, by Harvey Jackins. To attain complete liberation, two processes are both necessary. One: effective organized social action and struggle. Two: discharge and re-evaluation for each individual of his or her individual distress patterns.
    Published in: Present Time 188, July 2017

  • Educational Change

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

  • Réflexions sur le développement

    Réflexions sur le développement, Karl Lam. J'ai réfléchi aux raisons pour lesquelles notre Région1 ne s'est pas beaucoup développée ces vingt dernières années. Je pense que ce manque de développement a eu un effet pénible sur chacun-e d'entre nous personnellement, et sur nous tous en tant que Communauté de Co-écoute.
    Published in: French, Teaching, Leading, Community BuildingPT 169, p. 56

  • 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

  • Une introduction lors d’une Conférence Préparatoire

    Une introduction lors d’une Conférence Préparatoire, Tim Jackins. Bienvenue à la première des Conférences Préparatoires de 2013. Merci d’avoir fait ce qu’il fallait pour être ici. Nous sommes toutes et tous impliqué-e-s dans ce projet important.
    Published in: French, PT 171, p. 6

  • On the Playground After the Election

    On the Playground After the Election, by Tamara Damon. My daughter is nine. When she woke up, I told her that Trump had won the U.S. presidential election. Her first question was, “Can we move?”
    Published in: Present Time 186, January 2017, Wide World Changingp. 30

  • 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

  • SAL T-shirt

    Sustaining All Life T-shirt
    Published in: Present Time

  • Present Time 183, April 2016

    Published in: Present Time 183, April 2016

  • We Are Winning!

    We Are Winning!, by Anu Yadav. Here are some victories from the South Asian Liberation Workshop.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015

  • Women Are Key to Transforming Society

    Women Are Key to Transforming Society, by Holly Jorgenson. Before the Middle-Class Women’s Workshop, I imagined that men would be the major characters in transforming capitalism into a system based on what humans need. Diane helped me realize that it will be females acting collectively that will make things right.
    Published in: Present Time 181, October 2015

  • Fundamentals Teaching Guide II, ad

    Published in: Present Time

  • Emily Bloch--ILRP for Young Adults

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

  • 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 Longer View, p. 119

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Reclaiming of Power, p. 235

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Upward Trend, p. 306

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Rest of Our Lives, p. 11-12

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Reclaiming of Power, p. 245

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Rest of Our Lives, p. 34

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Longer View, p. 126

  • Harvey Jackins

    Propositions for Human Liberation

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Benign Reality, p. 50-51

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Reclaiming of Power, p. 158

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Upward Trend, p. 348

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Upward Trend, p. 403

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Reclaiming of Power, p. 158

  • Harvey Jackins

    Cover, Present Time No. 56

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Reclaiming of Power, p. 231

  • Harvey Jackins

    The Reclaiming of Power, p. 153

  • Tim Jackins

    Letter, January 2009

  • Tim Jackins

    "Men and Sexism", Present Time No. 149, October 2007

  • Tim Jackins

    "Putting Forth a Larger Perspective", Present Time No. 149, October 2007

  • Tim Jackins

    "Forward", Present Time No. 146, January 2007.

  • Tim Jackins

    "Continuing to Move Against Distress", Present Time No. 149, October 2007

  • Tim Jackins

    "A Central Struggle", Present Time No. 143, April 2006.

  • Tim Jackins

    "The Next Step in Ending Racism", Present Time No. 143, April 2006.

  • Tim Jackins

    Letter, 2000.

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