Tim (Timothy) Jackins (born c. 1940) is the International Reference Person (leader) of Re-evaluation Counseling (RC), known within that organisation as the "International Re-evaluation Counseling Communities". Formerly a math teacher and union negotiator at the Mission College, Santa Clara, California, he succeeded his father Harvey Jackins in the role, following the former leader's death in 1999 . Jackins is a graduate of Yale University and has...
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Tim (Timothy) Jackins (born c. 1940) is the International Reference Person (leader) of Re-evaluation Counseling (RC), known within that organisation as the "International Re-evaluation Counseling Communities". Formerly a math teacher and union negotiator at the Mission College, Santa Clara, California, he succeeded his father Harvey Jackins in the role, following the former leader's death in 1999 . Jackins is a graduate of Yale University and has a masters from Stanford.
Jackins has published a number of books and writings on parental roles and raising children, including How Parents Can Counsel Their Children. The main thrust of these publications is that personal discharge of painful emotion by parents leads to a more relaxed style of parenting which enables young people to grow up themselves more free of painful emotional distress.
Jackins' leadership style within the RC movement has been perceived as different from his better-known father; he does not personally respond to...
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