COUNSELING COURSE
by Frank Moore, circa 1976.
PURPOSE: To provide a unifying perspective of the dynamics of healthy relationships and of personal growth; to provide new insights and understanding of and within the art of humanistic counseling.
FOR WHOM: Those who are engaged in some form of counseling, who want to step back from their special focus to gain a new excitement and freshness to take back into their particular form.
LENGTH: Three months, beginning early in October; three hours per week.
COST: $200. Scholarships are available.
INSTRUCTOR: Frank Moore.
COURSE OUTLINE
FIRST MEETING: The role of the counselor or the art of kicking ass.
SECOND MEETING: Using and risking yourself.
Using yourself and your life as a symbol.
How and why to break taboos.
THIRD MEETING: Sex.
There is no such thing as a “sex drive.”
There are no such things as hetero-, homo- or bi-sexuality.
Exploding sex myths.
FOURTH MEETING: Dynamics of committed relationships and personal growth.
There is no Mr. Right and no Sleeping Beauty.
How to use the counseling process as an ideal symbol for all relationships.
Demanding within a commitment.
Inter-dependence vs. “independence.”
Commitment, self-trust, and growth.
FIFTH MEETING: The secrets of the magic in counseling.
How to achieve and maintain intensity within the process.
Act like a superstar.
Intimacy and closeness.
Keep everything personal and concrete.
SIXTH MEETING: Common issues.
Choosing what kind of person you want to be.
After choosing, no choice.
Reactions (anger, jealousy, resentment, etc.) are not real.
How to assume vulnerable control.
Healthy hard times or shit can be fun.
Dropping reactions.
SEVENTH MEETING: Glamor and romance.
How to use the “peer” counseling technique.
How to explode the illusion of being special.
There are no “special” problems; e.g., no gay problem, no crip problem, no womens’
problem in relationship counseling.
How to explode roles: lovers, parents, my baby, my man, my woman.
People are people.
Who is willing to get close?
EIGHT MEETING: Techniques.
Breaking taboos as a technique.
Using intimacy.
Primal and spiritual/growth junkies.
How to get these “growth junkies” off their dope.
Sex counseling: replace sex with closeness and play as goals.
NINTH MEETING: Creative imagination.
How to put a person into the inner state of imagination.
Exploring the past, using this state.
Solving problems, using this state.
A look at est, Silva Mind Control and Fischer-Hoffmann.
How to build a self-destruct feature into all techniques, methods to avoid creating
new problems.
The psychic as a technique.
TENTH MEETING: Handling the glamor of being crazy.
The choice of becoming crazy.
Working with someone who has chosen being crazy ain’t fun.
How and when to call his bluff.
How and when to take on his illusions to lead him back.
Suicide.
Drugs.
ELEVENTH MEETING: The class will do some exercises to experience “melting”.
TWELFTH MEETING: Counseling as an art.
Be totally selfish, not half-assed selfish.
Laugh a lot.
How to be outrageous.
Don’t take yourself seriously.
Frank Moore, founder of Inter-relations, Inc., has worked with over 200 people on their relationships within the last two years in the Bay Area. He currently sees over 30 clients on a regular basis. Mr. Moore has developed several different counseling modes. Most of his regular clients are in the weekly group Workshop which Mr. Moore leads in his Berkeley store front. Most of these people have been in the Workshop for over a year, recommitting themselves every four months. Out of the Workshop, which is focused on experiencing closeness and intimacy, there has developed a close-knit community.
Frank also sees people, individuals or couples or in household groupings, weekly to work on the issues and problems of relationships and/or personal growth. These sessions have a free-wheeling, unpredictable quality because Mr. Moore has no fixed format; rather he responds to every situation, every problem with “fast footwork”. It never gets boring in these sessions.
Mr. Moore also leads people through an eleven-week process, designed by Mr. Moore to remove emotional blocks which have been taken on during their childhood.
The Whole Earth Company store of Berkeley and Eureka Valley Contractors have used Mr. Moore as an outside advisor in labor relations to explore how to get human closeness as a focus among their employees. Mr. Moore has also spoken to training classes for Sex and Disability at the University of California Medical Center.
Mr. Moore is presently giving a three-month class in which he teaches the art of giving psychic readings: he calls this class “Marx Brothers Zen”. He also holds a drop-in class which is based on a 300-page manuscript which was channeled through Mr. Moore from a spirit named Reed over a two-year period.
Mr. Moore is also the founder and the director of the Theater of Human Melting, which has produced four original plays in Berkeley. Mr. Moore has also directed plays in New York City and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mr. Moore has a Master’s degree in Psychology.
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