How to Video and Improve your standards as an auditor.

Nothing in this universe stable. I am afraid this apply to being an
auditor as well.

This means that unless you are doing something to improve your skills, you
will find yourself sooner or later on a downward slide.

Improving oneself can be as simple as reading forgotten bulletins or
books, or studying new materials. It can include getting help and
suggestions from a more experienced individual. It certainly includes
doing drills (TRs, meter drills, session drills, drilling a process or
technique), or courses.

It all amount to having a professional attitude and personal pride.

Without these two, the auditor goes sloppy, and down.

At Flag, on a program designed to raise standards to heights yet
unachieved,  a team of auditor was made to memorize verbatim and clay demo
the definition of "Professional".

Though I am stating it purely from memory at this time (I do not have
access to any Scn Materials where I am at this moment), I hope you will
forgive me if I make any minor alter-is. I haven't read it in over 10
years, but I still remember it:

It isn't magic or luck, that makes the professional, it is hard won
know-how carefully "applied."

Care is the key word here. You not only must care for the pc but also
carefully apply what you know. Careful doesn't mean to be afraid; it means
to take all the necessary efforts to ensure that you do it right. It can
require doing something extra or going out of your way to achieve the
desirable result.

If you keep on making a specific flub, the answer is not to go into blame
shame and regret, but to simply either drill or clarify what has been
missed in the materials. Ignoring it is simply the first step on the way
down.

The most crucial point of getting a Video critiqued is finding someone
competent to do it.

At  this point I am not endorsing specifically someone better than another
within the FZ. This means you need to do your homework to find who you
think is best.

Sending your video to someone who has false data or misconceptions of his
own on key aspects of the tech could cause you to deteriorate.

One of the key criteria is deciding whether or not you wish to follow the
philosophical and spiritual tenets developed by L. Ron Hubbard.

If you do not wish to follow them, then you have my permission to submit
your videos to anybody you fancy from your favorite practitioner to the
local hobo.

If you wish to follow the principles set by L. Ron Hubbard, you should
look for an auditor that at least promote being "standard" or following
the tech.

In COS, because auditors are so closely examined and monitored,  the
yardstick for measuring quality is pretty much the same for most auditors
who have done the same level.

In the FZ, a Class IV  who trained with group "A"  may simply only be ¼ as
well trained as one trained in group "B".This is so because the standards
are only as good as the people running that group. So this is clearly no
yardstick.

Results (anecdotal evidence), is the poorest yardstick of all. It is all
too subjective.

Even Electroshocks, psychiatrists and witch doctors have their succes
stories.

Auditors who evaluate constantly can even produce remarquable success
stories, but they do not realize that by doing so, they have actually
reduced the self determinism of the pc who will always be dependent on
them, because the auditor has started to take over the functions of their
analytical mind.

Are you confused enough? I am sorry.

Until I have a better answer or trained people to pass other's videos,
send it to an auditor you feel you can trust.

You can send it to me of course, if you wish. Simply write to me
privately, if that is your intention.

Whether you wish to get a video of your sessions (or TRs if you are not a
trained auditor), or not is entirely up to the individual. The FZ is by
definition an unregulated environment, held together through good will.

A video can be made of a session or of someone doing TRs.

For Videoing a session: The picture needs not to be too blurry so that one
can see the meter reactions.

The picture should show, Meter, tone arm and Pc's face. It goes without
saying there should be sound.

For someone doing TRS, a video of him/her doing TR4, with the video camera
facing the student, not his coach. Observing the demeanor is important on
that type of critique, since you have no meter nor pc to observe

Unless the person receiving the video has the same equipment as you, it is
best to transfer onto a standard size VHS cassette. This is done by
hooking your camcorder to a standard VCR.

North America uses a different way of encoding Video called NTSC, in
Europe they use PAL or SECAM. Unless you live in the same country, you
should check with the other person to be sure of compatibility. (Canada
and the USA use the same standards).

Await the critique.

You shouldn't feel bad about the critique, unless it is invalidative or
gives suppressive generalities.

A proper critique will tell exactly what is correct and what is not
correct about your TRs, metering, session presence, handling of the pc,
running the process correctly etc.

It will direct you on how to improve. By following the assignment you will
become a better auditor. Your pcs will win even more and so will you.

Pierre Ethier






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