Marlies Tjallingii - van der Werf the Netherlands, did her CCI fundamentals in 1985 and is accredited as teacher in 2003. My personal statement why I facilitate fundamentals is, she writes: 'I like to see participants opening themselves like 'a hollow bamboo'. This gives me a positive impulse to train people to become 'managers' of their own emotional and every day life processes'. (11-10)

Meredith Elgart, USA, started with CCI co-counselling in 1986 and became a accredited CCI trainer twelve years later of the Northeast US CCI community. About teaching the CCI method she states: 'I teach fundamentals because co-counselling is great stuff and I want to share it'. (07-10)

Mira Reus, the Netherlands is a CCI co-counsellor since 1992 and an accredited trainer since 2007. ' I facilitate fundamentals because I have always been interested in what makes people happy. I think that happiness and personal growth go hand in hand. For me, co-counselling gives a lot of opportunities for growth. It inspires me to live more openly and creatively.  What I like in CCI are the equivalence, the clarity, the safety and the warmth.  It makes my life rich to be part of a community of people on which I can depend. By teaching I give others the opportunity to experience that too'. (05-10)

Nettie Gruson the Netherlands, started CCI co-counselling in 1986 after her fundamental training on one of the boats in the canals of Amsterdam and was accredited in 1991 as teacher of the Dutch CCN community after the teachers training in Friesland. About her motivation why to teach CCI  she states: 'I  believe that co-counselling is a way to be able to get an idea of my 'being' and offers an opportunity to take full responsibility for myself. I obtain skills to handle my emotions and it gives me a possibility to change my life the way I  would like to. It is fun to grow among others, who do the same and share, and...lots of fun too..…'. (12-10)

Niek Sickenga (1931) the Netherlands, started CCI co-counselling in 1982, followed a CCI teachers training in the Midlands (UK, 1993), in the Netherlands (1995) and co-ordinates CCI World News Service since the start in 2000. 'I am convinced that the format of CCI contributes tremendously to my continuously transformation from (CCI) co-counselling into co-creating and beyond. Practising CCI means for me: teaching to facilitate the pre-conditions to start this personal process of awareness in discovering whom I am and to create to live my life my way. It is a  privilege to assist people in a non hierarchical environment, to find their own way in this ongoing process of an unfolding personal journey. (02-11)

Peter Koekebakker the Netherlands, came into contact with co-counselling in 1972, his fundamental trainers was John Heron; 18 years later - in 1990. - he was accredited as CCI trainer by the Dutch community CCN (Co-Counselling Nederland). His personal statement about introducing people into the CCI method says: 'co-counselling has been a revelation and great help in difficult times for me. It has brought me freedom, deep personal contact and pleasure in my life. Since I have more time for co-counselling, as being a past teacher at the University of Technology in Delft, it is great to let deal other persons this experience. It gives me a lot of fulfilment'. (06-10)

Richard Charles Mills UK, has been a CCI co-counsellor since 1992. In 2000 he was accredited as CCI trainer in West Yorkshire, UK. He states: 'What I got most from co-counselling was a sense of freedom to be myself - I felt I had permission to explore inside myself without being disapproved of if I found something unpleasant. Co-counselling helped me on my journey towards finding out who I am - my own personal truth'. Information about Richard's co-counselling training courses is at www.co-counselling.co.uk (03-11)

Richard Horobin (Scotland) started co-counselling in 1973, and became a UK trainer in 1975. He says, 'Pay-offs for my practising co-counselling over the past couple of years are: Vastly reducing my distress when travelling long distances, despite my advancing years. Spending less time in a 'Burdened' style of being, even when thinking about and dealing with death, dieing and incapacity'.  He describes teaching fundamentals courses as 'Handing on gifts--like Christmas, but more fun'. Concerning the process of co-counselling he exclaimed, 'How wonderful it is to experience the power of community, of concrete changes following emotional release, and of reaching for transformation not merely coping better!' Richard usually co-teaches with Rose Evison. (07-10)

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