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. (09-10)

Anne Bailey New Zealand, was in the very first CCI co-counselling programme in Aotearoa/ New Zealand in 1978. 'Theory and practise resonated with me to such an extent, that it had an immediate and profound impact throughout my life. At personal level I found myself liberated from an incident that held a lot of grief. At an interpersonal level I became very interested in facilitation. I recognized it as a vital vehicle for peer-based living. At a community level I co-created a small co-counselling community of six households. Today the concept of 'whole personhood' and the basic principles of Co-counselling underpin my writing, my facilitation, and my work. (06-10)

Bobby MacLaughlin Ireland, is a co-counsellor since 1983 and a CCI trainer of the Irish community since 1986. When I first encountered co-counselling my spirits were at a very low ebb. The skills I gained in co-counselling empowered me to change my life to an extent I would not previously have believed possible.  I want to share this
amazing and wonderful experience with other people.  That has been my reason for training to teach co-counselling and is still my reason to continue.  I love the way co-counselling is based on equality, celebrating our human similarities, celebrating our human differences, with respect for all. (04-11)

Beth Barclay USA, first entered CCI co counselling in 1997, then became a teacher/trainer in 1999. Why I think it is important to teach the CCI way? That CCI-style co-counselling is the most sustainable mental health and community support system I have ever seen. (05-10)

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 (05-10)

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'. (06-10)

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'.   (12-09)

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 abroad and been teaching or co-teaching fundamentals since 1994. For 15 years I took an active part in organizing events in Hungary. At present I teach full-time in a secondary school. Only when you listen and you are listened to can you see the other person and yourself.(03-11)

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