The Liberation of Men
Tim Jackins, International Reference Person for the
Re-evaluation Counseling Communities; and Steve Thompson,
Area Reference Person for part of Seattle, Washington, USA
Tim Jackins: Neither one of us is the International Liberation Reference Person for Men. We had one once. It was very hard on him. Because of the particular distresses aimed at men, we weren’t yet in shape [in a condition] to put one man out front to lead and have others support him.
So what I’ve done is try to create better conditions. I’ve gathered eight men from around the world to lead men’s work. None of them do it in the same way. And they go to each other’s workshops and learn from each other and support each other. Steve, here, is one of them.
Steve Thompson: Yeah, I do my version. You should know that the others are Lorenzo Garcia, Rudy Nickens, Gerry Pechie, Goof Buijs, Karl Lam, Joel Nogic, and Chris Austill. We have different sets of relationships and end up in different places doing different things.
My niche seems to be RC Communities that have almost no men. I’m not joking—I really like trying to solve that puzzle. A lot of Communities have some men, and many have almost no men or the number is very small and static. I’m interested in that problem. So I’ve been doing workshops for the RC Community as a whole at which we look at this aspect of Community building, along with whatever else stops us from reaching for everyone.
Seattle, Washington, USA