CO-COUNSELLING INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES 1975 first published
in the CO-COUNSELLING INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER 1975
Co-counselling International is an international federation of co-counsellors & co-counselling communities. Its PURPOSE is to facilitate interaction of co-counselling communities by:
clarification of terms Different CCI circles may use slightly different terms while they are all peer facilitated. So it is less the term that counts and the more the activity of particular the volunteer practising it.
the first issue of CCI Newsletter 1975; until April 1979
Sharing address lists of co-counsellors and enabling people to co-counsel when abroad or away from home in their own country. Holding national & international federation workshops for co-counselling & for sharing developments in theory & method. Publishing an international newsletter & such other publications as are necessary. Maintaining archives of all material relevant to the history & development of co-counselling.
CCI - active trainer/teacher active CCI trainers/teachers are those who were last year, and or planned to be next year, active in the field of facilitating CCI fundamental training's. - community is a gathering of three or more CCI members to practise the method on a more or less regular base and for a certain amount of time;
- international contact person are those CCI members who, voluntarily, serve their community by informing other CCI communities and or individual CCI members about the community they represent and vice versa;
- local contact persons are those CCI members who voluntarily serve their community by acting as information provider to the public and the press about CCI; mostly trainers/teachers play this role;
- member are those who have, in a satisfying way by their trainer/teacher, followed a CCI fundamental - introductory - training of at least 40 hours;
- network practitioners of the method who agree to be on a list of availability;
- newsletter is a regular (monthly, quarterly, yearly) information letter, mostly for CCI members only, and especially for those of the specified community (ties);
- press contact are those CCI members who voluntarily serve their community by editing their newsletter of internal contacts; these publications are, for reasons of confidentiality, mostly not open to the public and the press.
- address all addresses in this database are either email addresses or just (international) phone numbers. We want to respect utmost all privacy of those who are voluntarily involved with CCI. All names, text and photos in this database are agreed by those who are involved.
FEDERATION COMMITTEE The Federation Committee consists of the Financial Co-ordinator, the Communications Co-ordinators and six members to fill three-year terms. Two terms become vacant each year. The Federation Committee selects its members and conducts the business of Co-counselling International by whatever means will establish the consensus of the Committee and will ensure that it reflects the peer principle. FINANCIAL CO-ORDINATOR The Financial Co-ordinator will be selected by the Federation Committee for a three-year term and is responsible for taking care of payment of bills, budget and accounting. COMMUNICATIONS CO-ORDINATORS The Communications Co-ordinators will be selected by the Federation Committee for a three-year term and are responsible for communications between groups an individuals who are members of Co-Counselling International, publications, announcements and newsletters.
SHARED PRINCIPLES OF METHOD Co-counselling is a two-way process among peers, each taking a turn as client & counsellor, each exercising appropriate skills. The client is self-directed. The counsellor does not criticise, interpret or advise, and acts within a contract indicated by the client. The co-counsellor affirms the value of discharge. OF COMMUNITY Co-counsellors associate in a supportive community. Each community develops its own organisational structure. The reflection of the peer principle by the organisational structure is affirmed.
added to the guidelines 1975 and first published in the CO-COUNSELLING INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER issue three 1976
MEMBERSHIP GUIDELINE Membership of Co-Counselling International is open to all individual co-counsellors and co-counsel-ling communities who accept the CCI guidelines. Membership is obtained by writing to the CCI Committee, requesting membership and supplying the following details: A. A statement that the person or community is aware of and accepts the CCI guidelines as publishes in the Newsletter B. Details as appropriate to individual or community. 1 For individual co-counsellors: Name, address, co-counselling experience (including details of how
you learned to co-counsel). 2 For communities of co-counsellors: (a) The name by which community is known. (b) A list of the titles and responsibilities of the roles within the community which carry responsibility to the community. (A minimum of two such roles, filled at any one time by different people are required, to distinguish a community from a class or an informal group.) (c) The name and address of someone willing to serve as CCI Contact person. (This will be published in the Newsletter and the person will be responsible for liasing with the CCI committee and the Newsletter editors).
