letter from Dror to CCI

Written by Niek | 02 June 2010

On behalf of the Dror (Israeli co-counsel) Community and the Dror Council Members, Janice Wasser addresses the following open letter to CCI members by CCI World News Service and 24 CCI individuals. The letter says:

 Tel Aviv, May 30, 2010

To Members of CCI Communities,

The Dror Co-Counseling Community has been in contact with members of CCI for over 5 years. The first contact was made when a member of Dror, having found information about CCI in the internet, approached CCI members in the UK about joining the network. After a straightforward exchange of several emails agreeing on the basis of common principles, Dror members made the request to attend a CCI event (McCoCo 2005).

Over the next few years many Dror members attended CCI's in Hungary, USA, the Netherlands, Scotland and Germany, and were received with great enthusiasm. There has been a rich sharing of ideas and methods within co-counseling theory. The Dror Community was enriched by new concepts adopted through this exchange. Several members of CCI communities from England, USA, Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands visited Dror in Israel on the occasion of the international co-counseling meeting in October, 2009.

Dror was established in 1998, a more recent break from the original RC community, but for the same reasons as CCI. Many CCI members expressed positive connections with Dror members having worked together in Europe, the US and Israel. We are especially grateful to Marlies and Sytse for their determination in building the bridges and bringing our communities together for network development and further growth. They have visited the Dror Community several times, facilitating and participating in workshops, and various Dror activities and meetings.

Along the way, certain obstacles proved challenging, but there was never an intention to push where resistance was felt. The feeling today is one of a welcoming spirit and true commitment to the original quest stated in John Heron's 1996 definition of CCI.

It is our hope that members of CCI will know that there are fellow co-counsellors in the Dror Community in Isreal. Dror would like to be considered as part of the CCI Network so we can support and encourage cooperation internationally to further the core theory and practice of co-counselling.

Respectfully,

Janice Wasser,

on behalf of the Dror Community and the Dror Council Members: Naomi Springer, Philo Aviram, Leonid Michael, Yoav Moran and Aliyah Straus.

welcome!

CCI World News Service welcomes the text of this open letter from Dror. And it wants to remind our readers that we – with respect to everybody, and by the best of our abilities – reported, directly in 2006, that suddenly the Dror delegation attended a CCI Europe meeting in Hungary. For several (European) members was that quite a shock and that says something about the international connections and communication within CCI.
So we interviewed Avi, Philo and Janice about their impressions and what they took home of that happening in 2006. In our view that was their first encounter with CCI. And we kept corresponding publicly during the following years. Lastly we reported about our personal reaction on Janice her question at the CCI-USA 2010 business meeting. This answer is still actual, and is quoted below.
My personal benefit of this encounter is, that I realise – for myself – how much CCI is build on my own trust. Trust in the potentialities of the human beings in their understanding of the core of the method; trust in the philosophy behind the core of the method without any authority; trust of the capacities of those who want to hand over the method by the best of their abilities, and trust to those who are the 'newcomers'! So, WELCOME!