Class Outline
Lesson 1: Basic Human Nature/Listening
- Basic theory
- The postulates of RC
- The art of listening
- The art of being a client
- What to do in your first Co-Counseling session
Lesson 2 : Distress Recordings and Distress Patterns
- The nature of distress recordings and patterns
- The three ways distress is encountered
- Intermittent vs. chronic patterns
- Short and long term effects of distress
- The distinction between the person and the pattern
Lesson 3: Discharge
- The mechanisms of discharge
- The basic order of discharge
Lesson 4: The Role of Counselor and Client
- The basic skills and responsibilities of the counselor
- The basic skills and responsibilities of the client
- Some preliminary skills and techniques beyond listening
Lesson 5: Fundamental Counseling Techniques
- New and good (at start of session)
- Balance of attention
- Spectrum of Techniques
- Physical contact
- Contradictions
- Attention out (at end of session)
Lesson 6: More on Contradictions
- Four Things a Counselor Needs to Do
- Examples of Contradictions
- Attention Away from Distress
- Validation and self-appreciation
- Holding directions
- Showing Caring
Lesson 7: And Even More on Techniques and Contradictions
- Commitments
- Scorning Fear
- Understatements
- Identification
- Flash Answer
Lesson 8: The Early Roots of Distress Recordings
- Early hurtful experiences and present day difficulties
- Early hurtful experiences and restimulation
Lesson 9: Co-counseling Session Reports
- A Method to examine your progress as client and counselor
- Review of Identifications and Restimulation
Lesson 10: Human Needs and Addictions
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- Rational needs
- Frozen needs
- Addictions
Lesson 11: Oppression and Liberation: An Introduction
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- Oppression and distress recordings
- Internalized oppression
- Oppressor patterns
Lesson 12: The Co-Counseling Relationship
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- Building increasingly caring, open, and permanent Co-Counseling relationship
- Review of the no-socializing policy, Co-Counseling reports, and identifications
Lesson 13: Thinking, Logic, and Power
- How our intelligence works
- Freedom of decision and acting on logic
- Reclaiming our power
Lesson 14: Setting Goals
- Setting short and long-term goals
- Decide, Act and Discharge
- The Goal Chart
Lesson 15: Reality
- Reality is always benign
- Counseling with attention away from distress
- Reality agreement and understatement
Lesson 16: Our Goodness, Our Relationships and Our Confidence and Hopefulness
- Recovering our sense of goodness
- Recovering our ability to connect deeply
- Recovering our inherent confidence and hopefulness
Lesson 17: More on Oppression and Liberation: The Basics and Ending Racism
- Oppressed, oppressor, and witness roles
- Freeing ourselves of internalized oppression, oppressor patterns, and the witness role
- Ending Racism: internalized racism, racist oppressor recordings and institutionalized racism
Lesson 18: Overview of Other Major Forms of Oppression
- Presentation of the basic elements of other key oppressions in our society including classism, oppression of indigenous people, sexism and male domination, and so on.
- All of these descriptions point to the basic element of dividing people to keep them from being able to unify and end the oppressive society.
Lesson 19: Counseling on Relationships, Closeness and Sex
- Love is the natural way for humans to feel about each other.
- We acquire many distresses in this rigid society in building close, intimate relationships.
- The co-counseling process can be used to discharge on those distresses to build rational relationships that can include sex.
Lesson 20: Care of the Environment
- Oppression and the environmental emergency.
- Ways to discharge on the environmental emergency.
- Setting goals and taking action.
Lesson 21: RC Learning Theory
- What is learning?
- Circumstances that allow students to learn best.
- Circumstances that get in the way of learning.
- How to use this process to recover our ability to learn anything.
Lesson 22: RC Literature--Reading and Writing
- The value of RC Literature.
- What gets in the way of reading and writing.
- Ways to counsel on recovering our ability to read and write.
- Circumstances that can create successful reading and writing experiences.
Lesson 23: The RC Community, Teaching, Leading, and Inviting Friends
- What the RC Community is
- What the RC Guidelines are
- Information about RC leadership and teaching
- Thoughts about inviting friends and family to join you learning about and using RC