CCI is about

18 March 2010
Posted in CCI basics

CCI is about emotions, they all add colours to our lives. Experiencing them fully is healthy. Emotions are responses to what is going on with us. Our emotional centre continuously monitors events, processes them according to our personal history and experience, and produces an also bodily visible response - which we call an emotion.
This ongoing emotional checking is similar to how our body monitors its health, and to how our rational centre checks the logic of what we encounter. In these three ways, emotional, rational and in the body, we are constantly and automatically monitoring and checking our environment - and, if necessary - what follows the checking is a correcting and adjusting process, a response that restores any imbalance. These ongoing processes are our personal life.
Life itself is a remarkable phenomenon, at work within us and within the whole world, a phenomenon which wants to go on living, growing and unfolding itself into its optimal potential. We hold this process to be positive and creative, and seek to cooperate with it in our own personal growth and in the way we interact in the world. Doing so is an art, a life process in itself, is CCI.
Part of that process of growth is emotional and rational decision making. Is making choices for ourselves, for our life and growth. First of all, raising self-awareness of our emotional and rational processes our past experiences and our present responses. And secondly, as appropriate, making new choices toward new ways of responding and interacting. Emotions, feelings, are based in personal assumptions and all emotions have a purpose.
CCI is an environment for this process to begin and be maintained. The underlying preconditions are: respect (each of us is self-responsible and autonomous, in charge of our own lives and process); confidentiality (exploration of our personal lives and ex-pressed emotions stay confidential.)
CCI acknowledges three basic human needs:
1) to love and be loved
2) to understand and be understood
3) to be self directing while also part of a bigger whole.                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                     June2004 Niek Sickenga Graham Howie