CornuCopia
Co-Counselling Manual

by JanPieter Hoogma

[ intro | contents | versions available | ordering ]

Intro

The CornuCopia approach to Co-Counselling is in development since 1992. It got a major rethink in the late nineties when I was critically reviewing the results of my teaching Co-Counselling so far. I decided to restructure my approach along the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Focusing and other results of scientific research into human feelings, emotions and social behaviour.

The manual grew out of the slides and hand-outs I used during my workshops since 1992. Gradually I added more and more text so that people could read around what they saw, heard and learnt during the workshop.

Contents

The CornuCopia approach and so its manual, consists of four integrated workshops:

• the Co-Counselling Fundamentals
  enabling people to have Co-Counselling sessions the CornuCopia way and to join the CCI Co-Counselling networks.
  
  
• the "Conflict and difficult conversations" workshop
  empowering people to deal with conflicts and difficult conversations in a much more co-operative and constructive way, so that they do not need Co-Counselling sessions again and again to work on the distress of mishandled conflicts.
  
  
• the "Create your life" workshop
  enabling people to use Co-Counselling to create proactively their own lives and to provide them with an insight how positive and negative creation processes work. This takes Co-Counselling into co-coaching.
  
  
• the "support and support-groups" workshop
  empowering people to cater for their own needs in a mutually supportive way, to keep consensually a grip on the group dynamics and last but not least, to work on 'social emotions' like shame and guilt more effectively. As a positive side effect, these support groups turned out in the longer run also to become very supportive towards maintaining the local Co-Counselling communities. This takes Co-Counselling into co-supporting.

The manual consists of four parts:

• Personal notes and homework sheets
  
  
• Workshop theory
  of the four workshops mentioned above
• Techniques
  Core techniques and Group techniques
• Booklets
  Currently existing of "the Rescue Triangle" and "Fundamentals Review" booklet.

Versions available

1. A read only version - free
   This is what is available to anyone visiting this web site.
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2. A printable Acrobat version
   You need access information in order to view and download it. This is free for people who have completed a CornuCopia workshop. If not, you need to buy it: £10 or a sizeable amount of feedback and improvement suggestions.
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3. Printed with folder and tabs
   
   £12.50 + P&P or a sizeable amount of feedback

Ordering

• Done a CornuCopia workshop?
  Send me by email your name, home and e-mail address plus when you have done which CornuCopia workshop. You will receive instructions how to access the printable version of the manual by e-mail.
  
  
• Offering a sizeable amount of feedback and suggestions for improvement?
  Send me by post or by email your name, home and e-mail address plus your feedback and suggestions. You will get a response by e-mail.
  
  
• Paying for the online manual?
  Send me by post your name, home and e-mail address plus a cheque of £10 made payable to J.P.Hoogma. You will get a response by e-mail.
  
  
• Paying for the printed manual?
  From the UK: send me by post your name, home and e-mail address plus a cheque of £15 (£12.50 + P&P) made payable to J.P.Hoogma
  From elsewhere: Send me an email so I can enquire how much the P&P will be and we take it from there.
  
  

J.P.Hoogma
32-A Inverleith Place
Edinburgh
EH3 5QB
Scotland (UK)