Alan Trangmar UK, is a co-counsellor since 1984 and a teacher since 1990 of the Herts Beds Bucks & Chilterns community. He teaches because 'I find co-counselling is valuable to me, and I want to share it with others; this is partly because I like to help other people by giving them something useful, partly so I have people who live with me that I can co-counsel with, and partly because a fundamentals is in itself a wonderful experience. I value the links I make and the marvellous people I meet through co-counselling. (09-09)

Bobby MacLaughlin Ireland, is a co-counsellor since 1983 and a CCI trainer of the Irish community since 1986. Why I facilitate fundamentals:  Co-counselling provides useful tools for dealing with difficult emotional issues; for discovering and fulfilling my true needs and desires; and for unloading the stresses that come from working as a professional therapist with people presenting extremes. (04-09)

Carol Driscoll USA, is a co-counsellor since 1977 and a teacher since 1983. 'Moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2001, my roots are in Connecticut where I remain a member of the Co-Counseling International Teachers of Northeast USA (CCITNEUSA). I have done a great deal of personal growth work, the most sustaining tool in my life management kit is co-counselling. It gives me the support and encouragement to look within for my own answers. I use and share many of the techniques in every day life and find them wonderful ways of staying focused on who I choose to be in the world. The co-counselling Culture of Validation supports me in acknowledging the gifts in those around me. I recommend co-counselling because this skill is too valuable to keep to myself. Co-counselling provides the support for a profound level of human sharing. My life is enriched in ways I cannot do justice with words.' I act nowadays as contact person (05-09)

Cathy Sargent USA 'I've been a co-counsellor since the age of 11 when my mother, Dency Sargent (one of CCI's cofounders), started teaching. 'I love CCI and I love to teach co-counselling. It is a powerful, simple process in which the most amazing alchemy takes place. I love contributing to the intentional, magical transformation of students in class as well as other co-counsellors, myself, and the CCI community at large. I love the way I come to love other co-counsellors as we work and learn together. I love the challenges and rewards of making decisions by consensus, as the CCI USA community does. I love the fact that I can travel across the world and use co-counselling with someone I've never even met before to process any fear or upset. Then, I love the depth with which I can enjoy being across the world. I invite anyone who is interested in co-counselling, and who can take a class in my area, to contact me for more details about how, and what I teach'. (06-09)

Celia Wilson (UK) has known about, used and taught co-counselling in one form or another for more than two decades. She learnt CCI co-counselling with Jenny Nicholson at the University of Reading in 1998, then assisted her in 1999. She is accredited through self- and peer assessment and is now an active teacher of CCI fundamentals. She writes: 'Co-counselling enables me to release my pain and move on to take delight in my relationships and in the green-blue beautiful world we live in. It helps me to act in my own interests and that of others. I want to pass it on'.   (12-08)

Corrie van Haasteren the Netherlands states: 'I co-counsel for more then 20 years (1979); so co-counselling has been and still is, very important to me. I learned a lot about myself by being a co-counsellor. My fundamentals meant a major change in my life. For the first time I really felt accepted as the person I was. Because co-counselling was so important to me, I wanted to share my knowledge and my wealth with as much people as possible. And I am a co-counsel teacher now for almost 20 years (1981)! One of the aspects of co-counselling is the equality between 'client' and 'therapist' and that to me, is very important in my contact with other human beings. I am a professional rebirther as well, in my opinion two methods of personal growth you can combine very well together'. (05-09)

Csaba, Ghimessy, Budapest, Hungary. I did my fundamentals with Mary Corr in 1988 and have been counselling more or less regularly since 1989. I have attended several workshops in Hungary and been to 8 international ones called CCI . I started teaching fundamentals as an assistant in 1994 and since then I have taught or co-taught 5 fundamentals. At co-counselling events I regularly offer workshops and I take an active part in organising events in Hungary as Secretary of the Védõháló Co-Counselling Foundation. I also have an active interest in healing work and transpersonal psychology. (03-09)

Dency Sargent USA: 'I have been co-counselling for about 30 years and continue to experience the process to be invaluable in supporting my growth and my ability to ongoingly create a life I love.  I have been teaching for over 25 years and am privileged to offer co-counselling as a vehicle of change and healing. As a cofounder of Co-Counselling International, with John Heron and my former husband Tom Sargent, I value the unique opportunity to participate in developing a self-responsible and mutually responsible co-counselling community '. (04-09)

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