Fundamentals Teaching Guide Part I, Updates and Readings
The 2020 version of the Fundamentals Teaching Guide is available. It incorporates all the changes below, as well as including the updates from the 2017 Guidelines, and 3 new topics: Internalized Oppression, Physical Hurts, and Counseling on Sex. Content throughout has been revised and new readings are referenced. Copies of articles are no longer included; instead all are found online.
You can purchase The Fundamentals Teaching Guide, Part I (paper version pdf download)
Supplement to The Fundamentals Teaching Guide
Listed below are those readings referenced in the Fundamentals Teaching Guide, Part I that are not included in the basic books referenced in the Guide (The Fundamentals Manual, The Human Side of Human Beings, The Human Situation, The RC Community Guidelines, Working Together to End Racism, How to Begin RC, Sustaining All Life, ).
Introduction
- The Role of the RC Teacher
- A Recent Introduction to RC
- What We Think We Know That Would Be Good for the Rest of the World to Understand
Topic 4 The Role of the Counselor and the Client
- The Counselor as Bagpiper
- Keeping the Counselor and Client in Communication with Each Other
- On Being the Counselor
- Going Forward Together
Topic 5 Fundamental Counseling Skills
Topic 6 The Early Roots of Distress Recordings
- The Counseling Use of Spontaneous or "Flash" Answers
- Reviewing the Basics of Co-Counseling
- Discouragement is Always Old
Topic 7 Counseling Techniques
- “Techniques”. by Harvey Jackins
- Commitment
- All Commitments
- Scorning Fear
- More on Scorning Fear
- Techniques by Tim Jackins
Topic 8 The Co-Counseling Relationship
- RC Community Guidelines
- The Counseling Relationship
- On Being the Counselor
- The No Socializing Policy Applies to All Groups
Topic 9 Closeness, Rational Needs, and Relationships
Topic 10 Co-Counseling Session Reports
Topic 11 Distresses and the RC Class and RC Community
- Relationships
- Give up False Expectations and ‘Disappointment'
- Not Believing Our Distresses
- The Universality of Oppressor Recordings
- RC Community Guidelines 2022
Topic 12 Thinking, Logic, and Power
Topic 13 Setting Goals
Topic 14 Self-Appreciation and Not Feeling Bad About Ourselves
- Don’t Take it Personally
- Not Believing Our Distresses
- You Might Have to Be Happy
- Ending Confusion About Ourselves
Topic 15 Reality
- The Uncovering of Reality
- Choosing a Perspective
- The ‘Reality Agreement’ Approach to a Session
- Two Articles on Understatements
Topic 16 Communication of Important Ideas
Topic 17 Addictions
- Eliminate All Addictions
- Drugs and Alcohol and Young People
- RC Drug and Alcohol Policies
- The Logic of Being Completely Logical
Topic 18 The Oppressive Society
- The Flexible Human in the Rigid Society
- The Role of Re-evaluation Counseling in Liberation
- The Elements of Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation
- Propositions About Human Liberation
- The Effects of Oppressive Societies
- Why Oppressive Societies Continue
- Facing and Handling System Collapse
- Pushing For Change
- Building Unity Now: Standing for Humans and Opposing All Oppression
Topic 19 Liberation From Oppression
- Steps Toward Liberation for any Oppressed Group
- Propositions About Human Liberation
- Making Bigger Changes
Topic 20 Racism
- Ending Racism, Making it Happen
- Racism, and Our Interpersonal Interactions
- Native People Have Been Targeted With Genocide
Topic 21 Overview of Some Other Forms of Oppression
Topic 22 Internalized Oppression
Topic 23 Leadership
- RC Community Guidelines
- Leadership
- Understanding the Guidelines
- Discharging About and Handling Attacks
Topic 24 The Re-Evaluation Counseling Community
- Why We Have an RC Community
- Understanding the Guidelines
- The Importance of RC Communities
- RC Community Guidelines
- A.1. What is the RC Community
- A.4. The Membership of the Community
- E.1. Structure of the Community-Leadership
- E.2. Structure of the Community-Liberation
- E.4. Structure of the Community-Organizing Locally
- E.5. Formation of an Area and Selection of an Area Reference Person
- E.6. Functions of the Area Reference Person
- E.10. Regional Reference Person
- E.11. Developing New Reference Persons
Topic 25 Bringing Friends into RC
- Adding Co-Counseling to Existing Relationships
- You Can Start Your Own World Community Now
- Community Building
Topic 26 Learning
- The Nature of the Learning Process
- Comments on Learning Situations
- Key Insights for Teaching and Learning
Topic 27 RC Literature--Reading and Writing
- Present Time, and Reading
- The Effective Use of Literature
- RC Literature and Learning Re-Evaluation Counseling
Topic 28 Care of the Environment
- Taking a Needed Initiative
- Bringing Our Strengths as RCers to the Movement to Stop Climate Change
- An Emergency, and New Opportunities
Topic 29 Discouragement and Fighting for Ourselves
- Discouragement Is Always Old
- Going Back for the Young You
- Finishing an Unfinished Battle
- Overcoming Early Defeats and Discouragements