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Introduction
to Co-Counselling 
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JanPieter Hoogma "What is Co-Counselling?"
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| A general introduction to Co-Counselling, written for people who don't know anything about it. (4 pages) |
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| Dutch translation by Marian van Wijngaarden |
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Niek Sickenga "Omgaan met emoties "
Kennismaken met zelf doen.
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| A more elaborated and personal introduction to Co-Counselling. In Dutch. |
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CCI Co-Counselling Manuals
In CCI Co-Counselling, theory and practice are quite
diverse, as there is no single authority who approves changes and evolutions.
Hence there are a variety of Co-Counselling Manuals.
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| "Co-Counselling Manual" John Heron (1974) (3rd edition 1998) |
| The Co-Counselling approach that stood at the cradle of Co-Counselling International in Europe. A manual that most Co-Counsellors trained in the late seventies and early eighties will be familiar with. |
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| Dutch translation by Toon van Wolferen |
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| "CornuCopia Co-Counselling Manual" JanPieter Hoogma |
The manual not only covers the Co-Counselling fundamentals, but also conflict, difficult conversations, creating your life, support and support groups.
This approach of Co-Counselling is based on principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Focusing and the Harvard Negotiation project. Its development started in the late nineties and it is still a project in progress. |
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| "How
to change yourself & your world" Rose Evison & Richard Horobin
(1983) (revised 1985) |
| This comprehensive and well appreciated manual draws its inspiration
both from CCI and Re-evaluation Counselling. |
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"Leopard, change your spots?" Barbara Williams (1985)
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| A manual developed over several years in the mid eighties, which
is still proving to be popular because of its readability. There is
also an extensive chapter about the challenge of peer groups. |
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| "Co-Counselling Manual" Gretchen Pyves |
| This popular manual reflects the teaching concepts and philosophy
presented by Gretchen Pyves and Mike Bray on fundamentals courses
run in North-West England since 1983. These concepts are in line with
CCI principles as advocated by John Heron, but they also reflect the
particular style developed by these two co-facilitators. |
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| Karola
Berger (1996) "Co-Counseln: Die Therapie ohne Therapeut" In
German |
| A book for people interested in finding out about Co-Counselling
which also contains information for the more experienced Co-Counsellor.
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| Available through the better bookshops. ISBN 3-499 19954 8. |
| Sue Quilliam & Ian Grove-Stevenson "Teach
it Yourself." |
| A guide for the more experienced Co-Counsellor who wants to teach
someone else how to do it, when there is no fundamentals class available.
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| John Heron "Intensive Counselling." |
| Though not strictly a Co-Counselling book, this manual provides
a good understanding of the 'Intensive Contract' in Co-Counselling.
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Relating to other Co-Counsellors
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| JanPieter
Hoogma & Teresa Tinklin "The Rescue Triangle" |
One of the basic principles of Co-Counselling is that people are
responsible for themselves. If I need something, it is my responsibility
to ask for it. If I don't want to do something I can say 'no'.
The Rescue Triangle describes common patterns that we may have learned
that help us control other people's behaviour. This booklet describes
those patterns and how they inter-relate with each other. Knowing
about the Rescue Triangle can help us become more aware of when we
are acting in controlling ways. |
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| John Talbut
"Handling Complaints and Conflicts" |
| CCI Co-Counselling does not have set procedures
for handling complaints and conflicts. I want to demonstrate here
that by taking open minded and self responsible approaches to solving
difficulties that there is much potential for finding successful solutions
to problems. In this article I look at this from three perspectives:
(1) I have a problem: either with somebody else or they with me. (2)
Somebody tells me about a problem they have. (3) I hear about problems
other people have. |
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| John Heron
"Aware Negotiation of Sexual Attraction, the ANSA contract." |
Sexual attractions happen among Co-Counsellors as well. Dealing
with sexual attraction demands honesty, authenticity, directness and
courage in both persons. Compulsive seduction, unaware flirtation,
innuendo, ulterior transactions, game playing, a whole series of moves
and ploys do not really acknowledge what is actually going on.
This booklet describes how one can work on sexual attractions in an
open and honest way.
With a Post Script by JanPieter Hoogma |
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CornuCopia Good Practices "Supporting a sense of safety at CCI
workshops" |
Feeling safe at Co-Counselling workshops is considered to be essential
for people to get the most out of the workshop.
However, feeling safe is a subjective feeling. That raises the question
who is responsible for feeling safe at CCI workshops. In this context
workshop organisers asked themselves what their contribution to a
sense of safety at a CCI workshop could be and what they could expect
reasonably from the workshop's participants.
Based on their experiences at Co-Counselling workshops as participants
themselves, as organisers and as Trust Persons, they decided to look
for good practices and to apply them at McCoCo 1998 and the CCI Europe
1999 in Scotland. Their approach seemed to work out well, hence in
the CornuCopia co-operative we have decided to adopt this approach
at all McCoCo and CornuCopia workshops. |
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Fundamental theory
Workshops facilitation and organisation
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| JanPieter
Hoogma "Open Co-Counselling Days" Version 1.1 |
| Open Co-Counselling Days are a simple way of offering Co-Counsellors
opportunities to have sessions and meet other Co-Counsellors. From
the Network point of view well-facilitated Open Co-Counselling Days
support the development of Co-Counselling skills and maintain and
extend the Co-Counselling network. |
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CornuCopia
Good Practices
"Supporting a sense of safety at CCI workshops" |
Feeling safe at Co-Counselling workshops is considered to be an
essential precondition for people to get most out of the workshop.
Workshop organisers asked themselves how they could contribute to
a sense of safety at CCI workshops.
Based on their experiences at Co-Counselling workshops as participants,
organisers and Trust Persons, they decided to look for good practices
and to apply them at McCoCo 1998 and the CCI Europe 1999 in Scotland.
Their approach seemed to work out well, hence in the CornuCopia co-operative
we have decided to adopt this approach at all McCoCo and CornuCopia
workshops. |
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| JanPieter
Hoogma "Workshop Manual" Version 2.1 |
| When organising a workshop one has to make several core decisions:
"What is the workshop about? For who is this workshop meant? Child
minding? What venue? What to do to keep the finances healthy? Who
to organise with and how to do this effectively? To name some of the
issues. This document is continually updated and is therefore not
available as HTML web document. |
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Teaching Co-Counselling
Just as CCI Co-Counselling theory and practice are diverse,
so are approaches to training Co-Counselling teachers.
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| John Heron
"Co-Counselling Teacher's Manual"(revised edition 1998) |
| A manual that most Co-Counselling teachers trained in the late seventies
and early eighties will be familiar with. |
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Gretchen Pyves "Co-Counselling Teachers Training Manual" |
| This manual lays out in broad terms the framework and philosophy
underpinning the fundamentals courses taught by Gretchen Pyves and
Mike Bray. In addition, there is a chapter on marketing, which is
an essential component if you want to get a group together to teach. |
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| John Heron "Suggestions for Exercises" revised
edition 1998 |
| A summing up of exercises for Fundamentals Training and other Co-Counselling
Workshops, just to stimulate the facilitator's imagination. The best
activities are those you devise on the spot to meet the emerging needs
of the situation. |
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| John Heron "Co-Counselling Teacher Trainer's
Manual" revised edition 1998 |
| This booklet begs the question who will write the manual for those
teaching Co-Counsellors how to train others to teach Co-Counselling. |
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Teachers of Northeastern U.S.A."Teaching Co-Counselling. A checklist
for apprentices" |
| This checklist was developed by the Co-Counseling Teachers of Northeastern
U.S.A. as part of their apprenticeship process. |
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Supporting
new Co-Counsellors to settle into Co-Counselling
As any teacher of Co-Counselling will know, not everyone
who does Fundamentals carries on with Co-Counselling afterwards. This section
contains material to support discussion about how new Co-Counsellors can be
supported to carry on with Co-Counselling.
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| JanPieter
Hoogma (Editor) "How can new Co-Counsellors be supported to settle
into Co-Counselling? 5 Case Studies" |
| Five studies of how Co-Counselling projects in Connecticut (USA),
Münster (Germany), Birmingham and Manchester (England) and in
Scotland tried to support new Co-Counsellors. |
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| Teresa
Tinklin & JanPieter Hoogma "Findings of the world wide survey
of Co-Counsellors' experiences of settling into Co-Counselling" |
| We wanted to gather information about as many people's actual experiences
of settling in as possible: to give us some real facts about what
people had found difficult and what they had found supportive. So
we sent out a questionnaire - to newsletters, communities, and over
the internet. Almost 100 Co-Counsellors responded. This report provides
a summary of what they said. |
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| Denis
Green & Keith Lander "Questionnaire 1996 Responses" |
| A questionnaire was sent to all addresses where there is a subscriber
to the West-Yorkshire Co-Counselling (WYCC) Newsletter. This document
reports the results. |
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Co-Counselling Applied
Co-Counselling:
organisation, movement, community and network?
In the past there have been made three major attempts
to describe CCI as 'organisation'. A kind of constitution, or guidelines as
Co-Counsellors prefer to say, that would fit the peer principle and the nature
of the Co-Counselling process.
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What Organisation
is Co-Counselling International ?
| "Co-Counselling
International Guidelines" (1974) |
| Written by John Heron, Tom and Dency Sargent when they founded Co-Counselling
International (CCI) |
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| John Talbut
"Co-Counselling and The Co-Counselling International" (1993) |
| Written in an attempt to generate a wider discussion. |
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John Heron "A definition of Co-Counselling International &
the Principles of Co-Counselling" (1996) |
| This article effectively stopped the small trickle of discussion. |
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Starting and developing a Co-Counselling Network
| "Independent Co-Counselling Communities" (1997)
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| John Heron and John Talbut give their opinions about
how Co-Counselling communities would (ideally) deal with democracy,
decision making, sexuality, out-reach and development of Co-Counselling
theory. |
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| JanPieter Hoogma "The Challenge
of Peer Organisation" (1998) |
| Not everybody in our western society has ample experience of successful
peer organisations. This booklet is about challenges one will meet
when people try to organise themselves on a peer base. It describes
the Scottish experiment until 1997 as well. |
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JanPieter Hoogma (Editor)
"How can new Co-Counsellors be supported to settle into Co-Counselling?
5 Case Studies" (1999) |
| Without new Co-Counsellors a network dies. Supporting new Co-Counsellors
is therefore an important objective for Co-Counselling networks. This
booklet describes how five differently organised Co-Counselling projects
(Connecticut (USA), Münster (Germany), Birmingham and Manchester
(England) and in Scotland) tried to support their new Co-Counsellors.
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Miscellaneous organisational topics
| John
Talbut "Gathering - a method for decision making" |
| When a group of people has a discussion or tries to reach a decision,
the use of the gathering method can prove to be very helpful. |
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| JanPieter Hoogma "Facilitating
Network conflicts" |
| Often it seems that conflicts in organisations, such as Co-Counselling,
are between two people and indeed that can be the case. However, it
could also be that a conflict between two people is actually the tip
of an iceberg, the most visible part of a struggle between two or
more groups, each with their own realities and their own understandings
of what is important. |
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| JanPieter
Hoogma "Holding Job holders properly accountable" |
| Generally speaking most jobs in Co-Counselling are done in a satisfying
way and with satisfying results. However, this is not always the case...... |
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History & background
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Dency Sargent & John Heron "Dialogue about CCI" (1997)
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| This conversation between Dency Sargent and John Heron, co-founders
of CCI, was recorded at the CCI International Workshop, Auckland,
New Zealand, January 1997. Topics cover among others a history of
CCI in USA and CCI in Europe and the relationship of CCI with Re-Evaluation
Counselling. |
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