Non-geographic Online Fundamentals Classes
We are having a lot of fun doing non-geographic online fundamentals classes.
Our Area has almost doubled since the pandemic started. We now have four experienced teachers and close to ten folks in each of their classes. We have brought in family and friends because our relationships with them were already in place and it’s easy to include them via Zoom. Some don’t live in our state but are in the same time zone. None would be learning to Co-Counsel without our Zoom classes.
Some participants are new to Co-Counseling; others had left and have returned. One of the classes is made up entirely of Black men, and the rest of the new people are People of the Global Majority. We ask for a three-week commitment; all have stayed and are working their way through fundamentals. At this rate, I won’t have enough teachers for more than another handful of folks and will have to get one of the assistants ready to teach.
We are excited to have the opportunity to do something we like and are pretty [quite] good at, which is teaching Co-Counseling.
When the dust settles [as time goes by], we’ll try to transplant the new Co-Counselors into their geographic Communities. We understand that some, if not many, will leave Co-Counseling. However, they will have the tool of RC, and that’s good enough for now.
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Reprinted from the RC e-mail discussion list for Area Reference Persons
(Present Time 201, October 2020)