Thoughts on Co-Counseling Theory
I've been involved with Peak Living Network for a year, participating in support groups, classes, and individual weekly sessions, splitting time with other women who feel to me to be peers. The healing change I've experienced over this past year is dramatic, in that I am now able to put all this material out to be seen. For decades I've been able to write and express myself privately, secretly even, but never able to share it with anybody without feeling a sense of panic and then shutting down.
Having weekly 30-minute (each) sessions, thereby splitting time with 2 or 3 partners each week, over the phone or Zoom, plus attending the class and support groups, I have discharged like crazy and I am now greatly enjoying this process of publishing my work. One by one the inner obstacles have fallen away. I am very happy with the Peak Living Network organization, the rules, how it has all been. I feel certain that I would have taken my written pieces to the grave with me, I was so hopeless about sharing the work. That attitude is absolutely gone. Thank you Lundy Bancroft for writing The Joyous Recovery and for starting the Peak Living Network!!
These papers extend the children's rights / applied human rights essays; and further show my thoughts about how to normalize the healing process into our daily lives and into our live-in community relationships, by relying on environmental contradictions, ground-rules for privacy, and good listening. The center of gravity, the onus of responsibility for the person's healing is in the person, not in the listener / counselor.
I wrote the pieces listed below, in the mid-1990s, when I was figuring out whether I could integrate my applied human rights theory with the Re-evaluation Counseling organization. The answer was basically no, not then. I was frustrated with RC back then, in that I could not be heard for these ideas. But really it was me who wasn't speaking up! Now I am.
Having weekly 30-minute (each) sessions, thereby splitting time with 2 or 3 partners each week, over the phone or Zoom, plus attending the class and support groups, I have discharged like crazy and I am now greatly enjoying this process of publishing my work. One by one the inner obstacles have fallen away. I am very happy with the Peak Living Network organization, the rules, how it has all been. I feel certain that I would have taken my written pieces to the grave with me, I was so hopeless about sharing the work. That attitude is absolutely gone. Thank you Lundy Bancroft for writing The Joyous Recovery and for starting the Peak Living Network!!
These papers extend the children's rights / applied human rights essays; and further show my thoughts about how to normalize the healing process into our daily lives and into our live-in community relationships, by relying on environmental contradictions, ground-rules for privacy, and good listening. The center of gravity, the onus of responsibility for the person's healing is in the person, not in the listener / counselor.
I wrote the pieces listed below, in the mid-1990s, when I was figuring out whether I could integrate my applied human rights theory with the Re-evaluation Counseling organization. The answer was basically no, not then. I was frustrated with RC back then, in that I could not be heard for these ideas. But really it was me who wasn't speaking up! Now I am.
