One-Way Counseling in the RC Community
Soon there will be an excellent article here on providing one-way counseling in the RC Community. For now, this is the draft Guideline that Tim thought should not be in the Guidelines. (We don't want to put everything about RC in the Guidelines.)
ONE-WAY COUNSELING
An organized project of providing one-way counseling to a member of the RC Community (apart from intensive counseling for RC leaders available as part of leadership development through RCCR) must be authorized by a Reference Person and for a limited period of time.
No Co-Counselor has any obligation to be part of a one-way counseling project. Individuals who are part of the project should actively want to be involved and be committed to discharging any restimulations about being a one-way counselor.
Possible reasons to organize one-way counseling are temporary situations where the client is unable to or it would be irrational for them to reciprocate in a Co-Counseling session, and could include: serious illness, injury, surgery, birth of a child, …..
REASON
Re-evaluation Counseling is two-way, peer counseling. Any exception to this apart from an occasional individual session must be evaluated, approved, and overseen by a Reference Person. Providing such resources to RC Community members in situations where they are unable to reciprocate can be invaluable for their well-being and re-emergence. Well-organized projects benefit the RC Community as well as the individual involved.
Without oversight, patterns of care-taking or victimization can lead to inappropriate use of one-way time.