Selling RC Literature
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.
The meeting room had seven long tables, so we could spread everything out—for example, every issue of Recovery and Re-emergence. It felt like a luxury.
I had brought a selection of journals, a number of the “classic” books by Harvey Jackins, both basic and recently published items for people teaching RC, and some audio and video materials.
A man from Canada who was fairly new to RC came back to the table a number of times, carefully looking at items and purchasing some.
After the workshop Lorenzo led an evening on being allies to men. We took literature there, too. At the end of the evening I called everyone’s attention to the pamphlet The Human Male, saying that it listed the various ways that society oppresses men.
Bob Lenk had donated some Spanish-language literature from a previous men’s workshop, and I had purchased and brought some of the RC books in Spanish. The men from Mexico City were happy to find this literature, and I was happy to let them take whatever they wanted on Sunday night without charge.
We sold $84 worth of literature at the men’s workshop and $26 worth on Sunday evening. Although it is enjoyable to sell a lot of literature, what’s important to me is that people are actually reading it, not just buying it.
Colorado, USA