CCI descriptions

Written by Joke Stassen | 01 February 2000

  CCI co-counselling
self directed - safe - personal development - emotional competence
peer support - discharge, insight and revaluation - change
spiritual - positive - equal - integrative - international

CCI co-counselling is:

• a client directed, peer based method for personal development and emotional competence.

CCI co-counselling offers you:

• a method for handling your emotions, changing your patterns, making choices
• a powerful tool for personal development, stress management and peer support
• effective ways to help you enjoy your life, become more self-directed and actualising your full potential as a human being
• a firm base for spiritual exploration and deepening, whatever your belief system is

CCI co-counselling works with:

• CCI co-counselling techniques, used for discharge of emotions from the past, insight and revaluation, or life action to create your own future.

CCI co-counselling is positive:
CCI co-counsellors are trained to be aware of their positive qualities and to celebrate them, to take positive steps in changing their life and to focus on their strength.

CCI co-counselling is a safe method:

• the client is totally in charge of their own process
• clients are trained to balance their attention between distress connected with past experience and being awarely present in the her-and-now, which enables full catharsis
• CCI co-counsellors are trained to respect and support each other's process and to create emotional and physical safety in sessions

CCI co-counselling is reciprocal:

• clients supports each other in using the CCI techniques, taking turns in paired equal time sessions or group time

CCI co-counselling is based on equality:

• it is a peer based method, in a non-hierarchical setting, it is non-judgmental

CCI is an integrative method:

• CCI co-counselling works with a limited number of basic techniques, taught in a 40 hrs. basics course; integration of other techniques into the co-counselling format is an option for clients who are familiar with these other methods. Workshops of CCI co-counsellors offer a wide range of methods, that clients use in combination with co-counselling or as an integral part of a co-counselling session: yoga, rebirthing, (circle) dancing, NLP, drawing therapy, birth re-enactment, neo-Reichian bodywork, (spirit) song, are examples.

CCI co-counselling is international:

• The format and techniques of CCI co-counselling make it possible, that co-counsellors support each other in a session regardless of the language the client is speaking.
• CCI co-counselling celebrates cultural differences in the way the method is used, and co-counsellors from different communities learn from each other by working together and exchanging insights and ways of working.