Jenny Dillman USA, started co-counselling in 1980 and is since a most loyal visitor of CCI USA- gatherings expressing her loyalty, wisdom  and curiosity. She started to teach co-counselling in 1987, but has not taught during the past 14 years. She writes: 'I am so happy to have recently returned to teaching this brilliant and transformational blend of philosophy, theory, and technique! How lucky we all are to know of it, and to be skilled in its use! CCI Co-Counselling is simply the most effective and empowering practice I know. It is an honour to rejoin the ranks of those who are committed to teaching!'. (05-10)

Jlynn Silvers USA, is a CCI co-counsellor since 1991 and accredit as CCI teacher in 1993 in the New England USA CCI community. 'Co-counselling has helped me to create a life I love. I feel very fortunate to have a wonderful family and supportive friends.  I have chosen to teach co-counselling because it has allowed me to be more authentic and loving in relationships and I want to offer to others the benefits available for them.  I co-counsel regularly and find the practice continuing to be transformative. I have been active in the community as teacher, member of Community Committee, Program Planning Chairman for our USA workshops, and Communications Co-ordinator. We have a dynamic community and I'm proud to be associated with it'. (04-10)

Johannes Risse (1942), Germany, started CCI co-counselling in 1977, 'had my fundamentals with Siglind Willms. Together with her I started teaching in 1979. Since that time we had each year 2 fundamentals and 2 advanced training's. By co-counselling I experienced a great deepening of my Christian belief. It became more and more the foundation of my pastoral care as roman catholic priest and pastoral psychologist. Free attention is for me a name for God. Until 1995 I only knew our own community at Muenster. In that year Siglind and I visited J. Heron in Italy. Since we started opening to the international community. In 1998 we attended for the  first time an international CCI meeting in the Netherlands and in 2000 we had the first international in our community. I focus in my work on spiritual guidance and co-counselling'. (03-11)

John Talbut, did his basic training in co-counselling in 1984. 'I have been co-counselling regularly ever since and regularly attended international and UK national workshops. I have been actively involved in organisation within CCI and in discussions on the theory and practice of co-counselling.  I have been teaching co-counselling regularly since 1993. I have had the fundamentals of co-counselling course validated by an external examining body as a certificated course and offered as a regular course at a further education college. As well as co-counselling I also train people in counselling skills and facilitation skills. I have run courses in Hungary and Sri Lanka as well as the UK. The training is based mainly on the work of John Heron. I have run a two year diploma course in facilitation based on John Heron's book 'The Complete Facilitator's Handbook', for which co-counselling was a requirement. See also: www.dpets.demon.co.uk/about.html     (02-11)

Joke Stassen, the Netherlands: co-counselling helps me to be in charge of my life, to be in touch with my feelings and my intuition and to make clear decisions. Teaching CCI co-counselling is passing on a gift, for which I am grateful. I am a psychologist and did my CCI teachers training in 1993-1995 in Birmingham (UK) and in the Netherlands. Titles of follow-up workshops I have facilitated indicate the wide range of topics in which co-counselling can be a useful tool: e.g. body and spirit, my loveable computer, peace and conflict. I am interested in integrating non-violent communication with co-counselling and developed together with Fred Wallace and Niek Sickenga  the workshop Aware communication, which includes co-counselling, non-violent communication, and decision making skills. I am a travelling teacher: I am willing to come to other countries to teach.     (02-11)

Marc Kronisch (USA),  now living in Connecticut, took his first fundamentals in 1981 and is a CCI trainer since 2004. He states: 'I facilitate fundamentals to give back to my community that has supported me during difficult times in my life'.                        (01-11)

Marian van Wijngaarden, the Netherlands had in 1988 a deep healing spiritual experience by doing her CCI fundamentals. In 2002 she was accredited as teacher in the CornuCopia way and in October 2003 in the Dutch Co-Counseling network CCN. 'I enjoy learning new things in a safe and playful way. Therefore I am committed to teach Co-Counselling  in a  as safe and as playful possible way. Teaching fundamentals is a fantastic way to teach other people - and also to remind myself of -  this wisdom. I work as company social worker for a city council  and have a Hypnotherapy-Social -Counselling practice'. (03-11)

Marjan Tuk the Netherlands has been a CCI co-counsellor since 1996 and became an accredit CCI trainer in the Netherlands in 2007. She says, 'I facilitate fundamentals because I love the CCI community. It is a peer network with a positive, playful, creative and warm caring atmosphere in which members are in charge of their own personal process and their potential to develop. You can empower yourself by renewing, strengthening and confirming your social and emotional skills. The intention is that we open our hearts and minds to enable us to live richer fuller lives'. (01-11)

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