ROSE EVISON earns her living as an Independent Consultant, working with industrial, commercial, health-care and educational organizations. Her background is in science, psychology and teaching. She designs and facilitates learning environments in all the skills concerned with people working, and living together. She says, "I first wanted to teach co-counselling because I experienced it as the best support system for the counsellors I was training at that time. With further experience I've seen its applications in all areas of life. I apply it in my work with organizations, in the learning environments I create, and as one of the tools for people to use."
RICHARD HOROBIN earns his living as a biologist and teacher in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Sheffield University. He is a leading scientist in his own area of tissue staining techniques. He says "Teaching, whether one-to-one or in a lecture theatre with 180 people, is always a challenge. And working as a scientist has been one of the liberating experiences of my life. Co-counselling for me is a tool-kit for personal change. After using it for myself over several years, I delight in sharing this with others."
They both started co-counselling in 1973, taught by John Heron when he was within the Re-Evaluation Communities. They started to teach the process themselves in 1975, no longer within Re-evaluation Counseling. Since then they have run many courses, both individually and as a duo, both fundamentals and more advanced courses and co-counselling teacher training. Rose and Richard this year celebrated twenty years of a rich and growing relationship. They have a daughter Petra, now thirteen, who is a delightful, caring and competent human.
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