A Sample Introductory Lecture (notes)

1. Introductions
o Name
o How did you hear about RC and why did you decide to come to this talk?
o How did you get into RC and what has it done for you?
2. Short description of RC
o Vast, flexible intelligence; love of life; great relationships—caring and
communication; inherent power
o Ability to handle each situation in a unique, flexible way, to come up with
creative new, successful responses
o Why do we make repetitive mistakes, feel bad? We get hurt; we have bad
relationships
o When we get hurt our mind gets stuck if we don’t have the conditions and the
time to recover.
o Emotional discharge—our natural, inherent recovery process
o What we’re going to do in this class is get our minds unstuck. We will help
each other do this.
o RC has one goal: I help you. You help me (to heal from distress).
3. Short demonstration
Take someone’s hand and show what human attention does.
4. Introduction to Mini-session #1
o Explain about taking turns
o RC relationships—we use them to listen to each other, to heal
o What is attention?
o Topics for mini-session:
1) What is pulling at your attention? What’s on top?*
2) Is there a situation in which you respond inflexibly? Or is there something
else you want to change?
5. Questions, comments
How was the mini-session? What were you thinking? How were you feeling? What
was it like to be the listener (counselor)? To be the talker (client)?
6. More basic theory
o The difference between the person and the pattern: one is the way we act as a
result of having been hurt; the other is the way we really are, inherently
o We can use RC relationships to practice acting/being the way we are
inherently
o Distress patterns are the sole source of human irrationality
o We walk around waiting for someone to listen to how we’ve been hurt; we
also get scared of feeling these hurts
7. Demonstration: Don’t push the client; ask him or her to talk about what he or she
wants to talk about.
8. Questions
9. RC policies: Confidentiality, no socializing, no drugs or alcohol
10. Details about the class: Starting date, time, place, payment