Co-Counseling Class with Deborah Robinson and Jesse Tichenor starting in January 08. Hanover, NH. Sliding scale. For more information about the class, please contact Deborah Robinson at (603) 795-2825.
Deborah and Jesse were my teachers and I highly recommend them, and this class. Co-counseling has changed my life in a profound way, and helped me to understand and change some of my deepest patterns that years of therapy never touched. Deborah is a very skilled counselor with many years of experience. Jesse runs the Deep Community program at Dartmouth College.
Co-counseling--also called Re-evaluation Counseling--is a truly sustainable way to take care of your mental health, and create social change in the process. Instead of paying someone a lot of money to listen to you, co-counseling trains people to counsel each other, for free. Once you have taken the class, then you are part of this world-wide community of delightful intelligent people--and can go anywhere in the world and have a community of caring people willing to hold your hand, look deep into your eyes and really listen. Here’s how they explain it on their website: (www.rc.org)
“Re-evaluation Counseling is a process whereby people of all ages and of all
backgrounds can learn how to exchange effective help with each other in order
to free themselves from the effects of past distress experiences.
Re-evaluation Counseling theory provides a model of what a human being can
be like in the area of his/her interaction with other human beings and his/her
environment. The theory assumes that everyone is born with tremendous
intellectual potential, natural zest, and lovingness, but that these qualities
have become blocked and obscured in adults as the result of accumulated
distress experiences (fear, hurt, loss, pain, anger, embarrassment, etc.) which
begin early in our lives.
Any young person would recover from such distress spontaneously by use of
the natural process of emotional discharge (crying, trembling, raging,
laughing, etc.). However, this natural process is usually interfered with by well-meaning
people ("Don't cry," "Be a big boy," etc.) who erroneously
equate the emotional discharge (the healing of the hurt) with the hurt itself.
When adequate emotional discharge can take place, the person is freed from
the rigid pattern of behavior and feeling left by the hurt. The basic loving,
cooperative, intelligent, and zestful nature is then free to operate. Such a
person will tend to be more effective in looking out for his or her own
interests and the interests of others, and will be more capable of acting
successfully against injustice.
In recovering and using the natural discharge process, two people take turns
counseling and being counseled. The one acting as the counselor listens, draws
the other out and permits, encourages, and assists emotional discharge. The one
acting as client talks and discharges and re-evaluates. With experience and
increased confidence and trust in each other, the process works better and
better.”
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