The results of the inquiry offer implicit support for the central proposition of the inquiry that: "Meditation and co-counselling can be usefully combined in a single reciprocal (turn taking) session." In offering his own explicit support to the proposal the author refers to a feedback report for corroboration. (App3.3.Jilly.p1) It is important to add the ‘Insight’ clarification to describe the kind of meditation the co-researchers were all using, and removing ‘turn taking’ allows room for a further exploration of the most dynamic integrative form. The statement: "Insight Meditation and co-counselling can be usefully combined in a single reciprocal paired session" gives greatest clarity.

Such a statement begs the further question: ‘Useful in what way?’ Given that the inquiry group chose to present the results as an explication of method, the statement stands as an invitation to others to generate new experiential meaning rather than as a new chunk of propositional knowledge. We are exploring the realm of "Know Thyself" knowledge rather than knowledge of this or that; or knowledge - even - of ‘my’ physiology or ‘your’ defence pattern. We are describing a method to facilitate a (wholistic) expansive knowingness rather than a reductive knowingness.

To the co-counselling communities, we are recommending the adoption of a new contract - the Co-med contract. The co-med contract, as an additional resource to consider at the begining of a session (alongside the usual contracts: ‘free attention’ ‘normal’ and ‘intensive’) offers a new choice for the self-directing co-counsellor to consider: As well as working with the contents of awareness - she could also work with awareness itself - (or that which is awareness itself, or, for that matter, that whichdirects ) and she can negotiate with her co-counselling partner a suitable way to do this work. The pamphlet is offered as a collation of carefully researchedsuggestions for Co-Med design.

Updated 16 June 99
by Martin Wilks