It is recommended that new
Helpership training programs be undertaken within regional and chapter
organizations, or at least in cooperation with existing regional and chapter
organizations.
If
trainings are located within existing regions and chapters, it is clearly
preferable that the trainings be done in cooperation with the existing region or
chapter. If the trainings are located outside existing regions and
chapters, and the area can bring together the necessary resources to provide
adequate helpership training, then the area appears to be a good candidate for
being designated a chapter.
Additional reasons for this
recommendation include the advantages of more broadly based programs that
involve several helpers. More broadly based programs give trainees
exposure to more than one helping style, and are generally better able to avoid
difficulties associated with the “blind spots” that even the most
experienced helpers may have. More broadly based programs are also better
placed to avoid the difficulties which can be associated with “dual
relationships”, in which – for example – a leader may be at one and the
same time the program’s leader, administrator, and teacher, as well as the
evaluator and individual helper of trainees.
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Guideline Approved by The Pathwork Foundation Board, October 2000.
