Prepared by Carol Driscoll & Dency Sargent, CCI USA Continuity Persons, May 1999
CCI in the USA was founded in 1974 by Tom & Dency Sargent.
To have trained Co-Counsellors available to help support me and others in managing our lives.
In the section above on Community Building, I proposed one model of decision-making for a Type One Community. But what are the alternatives?
There are two polar extremes here, with many distorted variants in between.
There is not much point teaching people to co-counsel unless equal attention is paid to building up a supportive community within which effective ongoing co-counselling can be sustained and developed. The pressures toward privatization, bourgeoisification, in contemporary society are very strong. These pressures create an ambience of apathy and powerlessness , which reduces people back into a state of alienation from their own growth and development.
