Fundamentals Class Outline #1
Class 1 - Basic Human Nature and Listening
- Basic theory
- humanness
- intelligence--definition, how much, how it operates
- other inherent characteristics
- effects of unhealed hurts, sources of hurts, oppression
- recovery process
- Co-Counseling
- International RC Communities
- Some important words
- The postulates of RC
- The art of listening
- The art of being a client
- What to do in your first Co-Counseling session
Class 2 - Distress Recordings
- The nature of distress recordings, irrationality
- The three ways distress is encountered; accident, contagion, oppression; history of the oppressive society, classism
- The two effects of undischarged distress, restimulation and reduced function
- Intermittent vs. chronic patterns, how to recognize a pattern
- Short and long term effects of distress
- The distinction between the person and the pattern; importance as a contradiction to internalized oppression
Class 3 - Discharge
- The mechanisms of discharge, dramatization vs. discharge, basic order
- Patterns that interfere with discharge; control patterns; cultural patterns and pressures to conform
- The oppression of young people, parents, young adults, older adults, women, men, artists, and the oppression of the "mental health" system
- Family work; special time
- Sustained discharge, intensives
- Re-evaluation
- Re-emergence
Class 4 - Contradictions
- Contradictions to distress patterns
- The four things to do while being a counselor
- The counselor as bagpiper
- Contradicting patterns related to oppression; internalized oppression; oppressor patterns; example: racism and internalized racism
Class 5 - Simple Counseling Techniques
- Counseling techniques
- News and goods
- Attention out
- Balance of attention
- Spectrum of Techniques
- Rapid review of related experiences
- Early memories
- Occluded memories
- Asking questions
- Directions in and out of session
- Appreciation and self-appreciation
- Counseling on control patterns
- Identification checks
- Counseling on internalized oppression and oppressor patterns; example: anti-Jewish oppression; religion and Co-Counseling
Class 6 - Human Needs and Addictions
- Rational needs
- Frozen needs
- Addictions
- Counseling on physical well-being
- Counseling on learning
- Counseling on creativity
- Counseling on disabled people's oppression, ageism; oppressions that target particular distresses
Class 7 - Relationships and Sexuality
- Love and closeness between human beings
- Rational relationships
- A rational theory of sexuality
- How to counsel on distress related to sexuality
- Sexual identities
- Counseling on sexism, men's oppression, and the oppression of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
Class 8 - Thinking, Logic, and Power
- Awareness
- Complete freedom of choice
- Complete power
- The logic of being completely logical, eliminating addictions
- Holding directions
- Complete appreciation of oneself
- Who's in charge
- The importance of long-range goals
- Wide-world change
- Commitment to re-emergence
- Frontier commitments
- Strategizing one's re-emergence, client's and counselor's notebooks
Class 9 - Reality
- Reality vs. pseudo-reality
- Counseling with attention away from the distress
- Role exchange technique
- The Reality Agreement
- The Understatement
- Educational change
Class 10 - The Oppressive Society
- The one-point program of Re-evaluation Counseling
- Oppression and economic exploitation
- History of the oppressive society
- Patterns related to oppression
- Forms of oppression
Class 11 - Liberation From Oppression
- Two kinds of patterns
- Discharging oppressor patterns
- Discharging internalized oppression
- Propositions for human liberation
- Wide-world change
- Educational change
Class 12 - The Re-evaluation Counseling Community
- The RC Community
- Theory and policy, The Guidelines
- Community Membership
- Leadership; building your own world community
- Literature
- Workshops, support groups, classes, etc.
- Re-evaluation Counseling Community Resources Incorporated and the Re-evaluation Foundation
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