CCI culture

18 March 2010
Posted in CCI basics

There are no outspoken guidelines of CCI behaviour or a ‘CCI culture’ as such. There are certainly in ‘a definition of CCI co-counselling’ components mentioned which altogether suggest a range of rules of behaviour. Like to do the work in pairs, having equal time as worker and as co-worker, like keeping confidentiality about the content of the whole session together. Like to respect yourself and the other ones. Like own your statements by talking about ‘I’ and in the present time etc. Another example is to validate positive each others  and also your own qualities. Automatically - and especial in CCI-USA circles - they speak specifically about 'a culture of validations'. A validation may be described as 'an unconditional short and powerful stating your own or other people's qualities', The aim of it is, to acknowledge and reinforce positive qualities for yourself or others. Rounds of validations are classified as 'working' time. So what happens is confidential.
These are also recognisable in the personally by John Heron worded description of CCI co-creating (see definition CCI co-creating). They might be called something like a CCI culture. More, and certainly the more as we see this all as a certain process,  these suggestions are more likely preconditions, to get that process started and maintained than ‘a culture’.

In all CCI meetings - when they meet for the first time - the 'culture', the aim and how to manage this all to satisfy the needs why they meet, is the first thing to agree upon in consensus.