CCI co-counsel guidelines 1975

17 March 2010

first published in the co-counselling international newsletter 1975

Co-counselling International is an international federation of co-counsellors & co-counselling communities. Its PURPOSE is to facilitate interaction of co-counselling communities by:

Sharing address lists of co-counsellors and enabling people to co-counsel when abroad or away from home in their own country.
Holding national & international federation workshops for co-counselling & for sharing developments in theory & method.
Publishing an international newsletter & such other publications as are necessary.
Maintaining archives of all material relevant to the history & development of co-counselling.

shared principles of method
Co-counselling is a two-way process among peers, each taking a turn as client & counsellor, each exercising appropriate skills.
The client is self-directed.
The counsellor does not criticise, interpret or advise, and acts within a contract indicated by the client.
The co-counsellor affirms the value of discharge.

shared principles of community
Co-counsellors associate in a supportive community.
Each community develops its own organisational structure.
The reflection of the peer principle by the organisational structure is affirmed.

federation committee
The Federation Committee consists of the Financial Co-ordinator, the Communications Co-ordinators and six members to fill three-year terms. Two terms become vacant each year.
The Federation Committee selects its members and conducts the business of Co-counselling International by whatever means will establish the consensus of the Committee and will ensure that it reflects the peer principle.

financial co-ordinator
The Financial Co-ordinator will be selected by the Federation Committee for a three-year term and is responsible for taking care of payment of bills, budget and accounting.

communications co-ordinators
The Communications Co-ordinators will be selected by the Federation Committee for a three-year term and are responsible for communications between groups an individuals who are members of Co-Counselling International, publications, announcements and newsletters

1976 added to the guidelines 1975

first published in the co-counselling international newsletter issue three 1976

membership guidelines

Membership of Co-Counselling International is open to all individual co-counsellors and co-counsel-ling communities who accept the CCI guidelines.
Membership is obtained by writing to the CCI Committee, requesting membership and supplying the following details:

A. A statement that the person or community is aware of and accepts the CCI guidelines as publishes in the Newsletter

B. Details as appropriate to individual or community.

1 For individual co-counsellors: Name, address, co-counselling experience (including details of how you learned to co-counsel).

2 For communities of co-counsellors:

         (a) The name by which community is known.
         (b) A list of the titles and responsibilities of the roles within the community which carry responsibility to the community. (A minimum of two such roles,   filled at any one time by different people are required, to distinguish a community from a class or an informal group.)
          (c) The name and address of someone willing to serve as CCI Contact person. (This will be published in the Newsletter and the person will be responsible for liasing with the CCI committee and the Newsletter editors).