A Sample Introductory Lecture (notes)
- Introductions
- Name
- How did you hear about RC and why did you decide to come to this talk?
- How did you get into RC and what has it done for you?
- Short description of RC
- Vast, flexible intelligence; love of life; great relationships—caring and communication; inherent power
- Ability to handle each situation in a unique, flexible way, to come up with creative new, successful responses
- Why do we make repetitive mistakes, feel bad? We get hurt; we have bad relationships
- When we get hurt our mind gets stuck if we don’t have the conditions and the time to recover.
- Emotional discharge—our natural, inherent recovery process
- What we’re going to do in this class is get our minds unstuck. We will help each other do this.
- RC has one goal: I help you. You help me (to heal from distress).
- Short demonstration
Take someone’s hand and show what human attention does. - Introduction to Mini-session #1
- Explain about taking turns
- RC relationships—we use them to listen to each other, to heal
- What is attention?
- Topics for mini-session:
1) What is pulling at your attention? What’s on top?*
2) Is there a situation in which you respond inflexibly? Or is there something else you want to change?
- Questions, comments
How was the mini-session? What were you thinking? How were you feeling? What was it like to be the listener (counselor)? To be the talker (client)? - More basic theory
- The difference between the person and the pattern: one is the way we act as a result of having been hurt; the other is the way we really are, inherently
- We can use RC relationships to practice acting/being the way we are inherently
- Distress patterns are the sole source of human irrationality
- We walk around waiting for someone to listen to how we’ve been hurt; we also get scared of feeling these hurts
- Demonstration: Don’t push the client; ask him or her to talk about what he or she wants to talk about.
- Questions
- RC policies: Confidentiality, no socializing, no drugs or alcohol
- Details about the class: Starting date, time, place, payment
Jenny Sazama
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
*What’s on top means what feeling are you noticing right now?
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