second therapy drama on Dutch TV
| 18 July 2010
For the second time a Dutch television programme will be launched about the theme emotional 'therapy'. The first was a copy of a Spanish version of 'the red' box (chamber) about therapy by showing, pictures of the 'hot' items on the walls of the 'therapy-room'.
CCI Aotearoa/New Zealand 2012
| 18 July 2010
The flyer of the Co-Counsel International (CCI) meeting in 2012 in Aotearoa/New Zealand is available since Sunday morning July 18th 2010! (Central European time.) The meeting starts on January 3rd and closes on January 9th. 'The NZ Coco community is longing for you to join as we explore and co-create this event and deepen our sense of belonging at every level'. The item for this event is 'belonging'.
go for what connects
| 30 June 2010
In my personal welcome in reply to the open letter of Dror to members of CCI, I refer to the fact that some of the (European) CCI members in 2006 were shocked. Because for them, suddenly, participants showed up at this European CCI meeting, without being accredited (by themselves and supported by others) after their CCI fundamentals.
tips to benefit from CCIWNS
| 30 June 2010
Internet information benefits, in general and to our own choice, to our understanding and communication. Here are some tips, hoping to contribute to your emotional well being! The first tip is: do word your question, and send it to the editor/coordinator of CCIWNS. Several did and the result is this overview. Click at 'about CCIWNS'.
CCI-USA Women's Winter Retreat 2011
30 June 2010
The 9th Annual CCI-USA co-counselling Women's Winter Retreat 2011 will be at Angel's Rest Retreat and Conference Centre from noon on Friday, January 21st to Sunday 3 PM, January 23rd. The Centre is situated in Leyden, Massachusetts, a little village in the northwest corner of that state. Jenny Dillman Marks is the contact for the retreat. All women who have completed CCI co-counselling fundamentals are welcome she writes us. 'This is a lovely, unique experience for women co-counsellors!' See also our 'events' list (CCI World schedule).impressions of a visit to Germany
| 22 June 2010
Next weekend, Saturday June 26 and Sunday June 27, is a special CCI practical co-counselling happening in Münster, Germany, says the 2010 program of the so called Counsel Initiative community in this German university city. The flyer with this program answers at the same time the question 'what is co-counselling', mentioning first that it is a self help method to balance and stabilize the balance within. Secondly it reflects that every individual owns their special personal potentialities to create themselves their live in self responsibility. The flyer recalls also some highlights of the CCI history and the actual year program, and is by that also an excellent CCI introduction. So in March there was a fundamental course with 19 participants and another in April with 13 'students'. Others are planned next August and October.
Google translation and CCIWNS
| 24 June 2010
With the update of this issue of CCI World News Service we introduce to you the free service of Google's translation on this website to translate the content in your own language or any other as you wish. Google's translation is a rather new service although they at the Google Translation Centre worked for it already several years. The system of translating texts from one language to another is fully computerized and in so far, in our own experience, more than rather acceptable. And it certainly will develop.
news from Dror, Israel
22 June 2010
Janice Wasser, Dror's CCI contact person, reports about recent events in this Israelian community:
various items
| 19 June 2010
Last weekend (June 12) we camped near the borders of the river IJssel, an about 2000 year old river in the East of the Netherlands, a tributary of the European delta river, the Rhine. We went there because the nature camping grounds are close to an old city Deventer. In the old days part of a 'harbour cooperation' with cities in North Eastern Europe.
reactions on Dror's letter
| 09 June 2010
Dror's website, with the item 'Liberation of Humankind', publishes the responses on their open letter of May 30, 2010. Here follows what is published so far. Interested in more? Look at their website (see also international network/CCI links)
back to basics
| 08 June 2010
Back to the basics of the CCI approach of co-counselling is not only useful for refreshing what to do, how to do it as it was meant and is understood now, it shows as well, what and how I changed things in my experiences, and it deepens these why's and what's. That is my personal experience after a 'b to b'- residential weekend, starting last Friday evening at 8PM till Sunday afternoon 5PM in June 6 2010 at Donkerbroek, Friesland, the Netherlands.
welcome Minke and Corrie
08 June 2010
We welcome Minke and Corrie as - long term - CCI trainers from the Netherlands on our list of trainers, committed to the CCI approach as they understand it, and willing to accompany those who want to connect and benefit of this way of handling their emotions or their life.
letter from Dror to CCI
| 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:
CCI Netherlands
| 01 June 2010
On Sunday you can park your car at the Java Island (Amsterdam city, the Netherlands) for free. That 's why the yearly general meeting of the Dutch CCI community was held last Sunday. This Dutch community is organised as a formal association by law since 1986. And they have a chosen 'board' and the decision making is done by majority – if voting is necessary. The interim president, Maarten den Draak, resigned and two new members of the board were nominated: Marianne van Duyvenbode en Jaques Lelieveld.
thanks to Carol
| 26 May 2010
As usual, we invite yearly the trainers of our world wide list of CCI trainers, by given name and now also by country, in the month they joined that list, to let us know if they intend to stay on that list for the next year. So we mailed also Carol Driscoll. She is one of the first CCI-USA trainers that joined ten years ago, in 2000, our first list. And she answered me this month:' I should be removed from the list of trainers. I am not teaching, have no time in my life to add that to my list of priorities. To leave my name on the list is misleading to your readership.'
And it feels sad to say good bye to Carol – as it does to all who have left that list before.
32 years of a CCI newsletter
| 26 May 2010
The Opening Circle (autumn 2010 edition), newsletter of the Aotearoa/ New Zealand Co-Counselling Community, announces their winter gathering at Taurewa (June 4th till 7th) in the Northern Island. Besides a photo of 'an advanced wave' (members of a recent advanced co-counselling course lead by Rex McCann, Anne Bailey and team) in this newsletter, there is also attention to some history. This contains a description of the setting up of (CCI) co-counselling in New Zealand.
The story is: 'Sometime around September, 1978 at the first get-together of Wellington co-counsellors, a newsletter was proposed and six weeks later emerged as 'FREE-FOR-ALL CO-COUNSELLING NEWSLETTER NO. 1', compiled by Allison Webber. With the comment that it '...could be the one and only edition...'.
the CCI workshop history 2010
18 May 2010
In the section 'events' of this website, is a category 'CCI workshop history'. In this category the different CCI international meetings worldwide since 1974, are mentioned for Europe, USA and the South Pacific. Since the start of CCI World News Service in the early spring of 2000, highlights of these CCI meetings has been reported. These – later – so called supplements, are preserved and now available on this site, linked as pdf document. This photo shows left the CCI banner, a gift of the Hungarian CCI community in 1989 to CCI. Right you see the banner given by the Aotearoa community to the CCI-USA communication coordinator, at the closing circle of the CCI-South Pacific meeting in January 2000 near Wellington. Bob brought this banner to CCI-USA 2000 at Wisdom House in Litchfield, CT.
the paradigm shift and CCI
| 18 May 2010
It is 1962 when Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) publishes his later world famous study 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', that genesis to 1947 when he was a graduate student at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In 1970 the second edition is published of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn, Philosophy Professor, about changes in fundamental models of events. This edition includes 'an important postscript in which Kuhn clarified his notion of paradigm and for the first time explicitly gave his work an anti-realist element by denying the coherence of the idea that theories could be regarded as more or less close to the truth.' So informs anyway the website: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn.
It takes until 1995 till John Heron, at a CCI teachers meeting in Harlech (Wales, UK) just before the international European gathering at that spot, is invited to answer the question 'what is your account of the original theory of co-counselling and how has this changed in the paradigm shift?'
international CCI dictionary online
| 11 May 2010
The International CCI dictionary is now online. In 2001 Levente Fruttus from Hungary took the initiative to cocreate a new version. In the introduction to the English-Hungarian-Dutch-German dictionary he writes: 'I believe that co-counselling can be done without any knowledge of foreign language. I have experienced that what I say in verbal communication on a co-counselling session hardly gives more than the way I say it.
To do this, however, I have to be able to use my non verbal channels properly. I also know, however, that speech is an indispensable means of human relationships.
This dictionary has been prepared to support international co-counselling relationships, to help express people's love towards each other. ' Click at the image to download the dictionary as pdf.
I believe that co-counselling can be done without any knowledge of foreign language. I have experienced that what I say in verbal communication on a co-counselling session hardly gives more than the way I say it. To do this, however, I have to be able to use my non verbal channels properly.
I also know, however, that speech is an indispensable means of human relationships.
This dictionary has been prepared to support international co-counselling relationships, to help express people's love towards each other.
what is alive now?
| 11 May 2010
Soon after the CCI-USA closing circle on Sunday April 25th the 'CoCounseling House in New Haven', Connecticut, USA announced a day workshop about 'what's alive now'. A workshop facilitated by Joke Stassen – the Netherlands - about feelings, needs and communication, using a Dancefloor of Non Violent Communication (NVC). The workshop is planned for next Sunday and Joke is introduced as a trainer 'who teaches throughout Europe and has combined her love of CCI co-counselling with NVC since 2004
