I'm so glad I discovered RC
My first teacher (RC Fundamentals) was Elizabeth Sheffrin.
Thanks to her I discovered the Black Liberation and Community Workshop.
Since then, I've been to many Workshops for Allies to Jews, Musicians support groups, Artists support groups, People of Color support groups. Men's support groups and others.
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.
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.
For more info about RC and ending Racism: click here.
The RC men's commitment:
I promise that, from this moment on, I will be proud to be male and will seek closeness and brotherhood with every othe rman of every age, race, nation and class.
I will permit no slandering or disrespect or blaming of any man of the hurts which have been placed upon him, and I will seek to restore safety to all men to discharge these cruel hurts.
I will fight to end and eliminate the burdening of men with over-fatigue, over-responsibnility and coercion into armed service in which we have been brutalized, and forced to kill or be killed.
I will cherish my birthright of being a good, intelligent, courageous and powerful male human.
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