Counselor Training

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Much of the information about this group comes from the second episode of a remarkable four-part interview on how Osho influenced modern psychology, given by Sw Anand Vikrant, currently unavailable.

The first Counselor Training was offered in late 1977 and led by Karuna (among many others). It was the first training of any kind offered as a group, and was remarkable for its lack of curriculum. Just Be Here and Wait for Something to Happen was the game. In hindsight, one could ask, "How could it be otherwise?" but at the time it was a great collective leap into the unknown. Trainings for specific skills and modalities eventually were developed that featured instruction in the relevant skills (plus lots of Waiting) but the broad-spectrum Counselor Training had none. Vikrant points out that what was being trained was intuition, which cannot be taught, just encouraged. He made an analogy with the first Tantra group, run by Kaveesha, who was told by Osho to do nothing and just let arise what arises, and so nothing happened at all for the first two days.

It is not known how long the group ran or how often it was offered. It did continue, however sporadically and however evolved, well past Pune One. The first Counselor Training offered at the Ranch, in the summer of 1983, was three months long and had over sixty participants, most of whom were already group-leaders in their home countries. This iteration of CT was like a "certification" process for them, in that they would not be allowed to call themselves Osho therapists unless they attended.

This Ranch group was led by Siddha and assisted by Prasad. By this time, some modicum of curriculum had been developed but only as guidelines for the group leaders, not stuff the participants had to learn. They were there to process their inner stuff, not learn anything.

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