Effective Listening Brings Healing
If it were not for a coworker who gave me information about Re-evaluation Counseling in 1992, I would not be here today.
Soon after the coworker told me about RC, a work injury kept me out of work for a year and a half. I went into a great depression and was contemplating suicide. I heard myself say that I needed help. Immediately I remembered the book my coworker had given me called The Human Side of Human Beings. I read the book and learned about this method of peer counseling that was based on listening to one another. I found a local RC teacher and took the sixteen-week class.
I liked that there was no advice and no socializing. No socializing means that the relationship is purely for peer counseling and nothing else. All you do with your Co-Counselor is exchange listening time. This “cleanness” makes it safe and effective.
I have been counseling with the same Co-Counselor for nearly thirty years. We have supported each other through good times and bad. I went back to school after my injury and became a family physician. I have applied this way of listening in my medical practice. Effective listening undoubtedly brings healing.
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(Present Time 205, October 2021)