Tim Jackins
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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[1] and union negotiator in Mission Collegein Santa Clara, California, he succeeded his father Harvey Jackins in the role, following the former leader's death in 1999. Tim Jackins was a graduate of Yale University and has a masters from Stanford.
Tim Jackins has published a number of books and writings on parental roles and raising children, including How Parents Can Counsel Their Children, published by Rational Island in 1988 (ISBN 0-913937-32-0). 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.
Tim Jackins' leadership style within the RC movement has been perceived as different than his better-known father; he does not personally respond to correspondence from large numbers of people and attends fewer workshops and public speaking events. He has also been perceived as being more relaxed, allowing wider discussions within the organisation on direction and policy. The RC organisation respects the need for privacy of the personal lives of the IRP and deputy, so little is published about his personal life, but it appears that having retired from his job recently he is now more closely involved in the day-to-day running of RC, along with his deputy "Alternate International Reference Person" Diane Shisk, who manages the head offices of the organisation in Seattle, Washington. Jackins is a parent and has an adult son. The official RC website[2] contains no biographical information about him.
Jackins and Diane Shisk were reconfirmed as International Reference Person and Alternate International Reference Person by a unanimous vote of nearly 200 RC leaders at the RC World Conference in 2005.
In recent years, Tim Jackins has made public statements[3] on the 9/11 incident and US government responses to it.
