Making It Fun to Review the Guidelines
This is the year when we review the Guidelines for the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities with people in our RC classes and Areas. How can we make it more fun for more people to review the Guidelines and better contribute their thinking?
I had a “think and listen” about this in my Area leaders’ class. Here are five ideas from that class that I plan to use:
- Invite people to share and have Co-Counseling sessions on the worst “rules” from when they were young. Then think together about the differences between a “rule” and a “guideline.”
- Have people pick a “rule” or “guideline” they think exists in RC, look for it in the Guidelines, and report back on what they learned. Was it there? What did it say? Was it the same as or different from what they had thought?
- Put people in small groups to come up with a creative skit (or song, piece of artwork, poem, and so on) about a section of the Guidelines. Have each group present it to the class. Then do mini-sessions and a “think and listen.”
- Use the opportunity of thinking about the Guidelines to have people practice leading parts of an RC class—presenting ideas, counseling someone in front of the group, setting up mini-sessions, leading a “think and listen,” and so on.
- Hold specific classes on the Guidelines sections that tend to be the most “controversial” or misunderstood, or that have the most significant proposals for change. Examples: how we make decisions in RC; expectations for RC teachers; handling disagreements and upsets; the psychiatric drug policy; the RC Communities and money. Use creativity (like in the ideas above) to keep people laughing and engaged.
Other ideas?
Lansing, New York, USA
Reprinted from the e-mail discussion list for RC teachers
(Present Time 207, April 2022)
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