Co Counselling

A transformational approach to personal and social development

Co Counselling is a personal development system that confronts limiting behaviour at its deepest level. Working in peer relationships with others it enables us to heal hurts from the past, build on our present strengths, and live into emerging potentials.

In a nutshell - free therapy for life!

Learning to Co Counsel means learning a series of simple techniques over a 40 hour training that allows us to work with our feelings rather than talk about or suppress them. It provides a clear theoretical and skills base for completing unfinished business from the past that is affecting how we operate in our current relationships. It helps to restructure outdated beliefs and create chosen futures.

The programme focuses on the development of emotional competence. It keeps us clear of unaware distress so that we meet others from a position of clarity, generosity, ease, creativity and delight. It is valuable for anyone who wants to interact in a genuinely facilitative way with their own process, their family, and their community and work colleagues.

The programme is for anyone wanting to develop themselves personally and socially and is particularly useful for people who want to promote co-operative, peer ways of working with others, such as facilitators, leaders, managers, counsellors and trainers and teachers.

Since 1995 Essentially Men has been presenting regular trainings in Co Counselling, leading to participation in the national and international Co Counselling networks.

In its original form, Co Counselling was developed in the USA in the 1960s. The Co Counselling International (CCI) was founded in 1974 by John Heron and has for many years been well established within the mainstream of humanistic psychology. There have been networks in Auckland and Wellington since 1978

Essentially Men, 13 Maidstone Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, Phone: (09) 376 2386, essentiallymen@clear.net.nz