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     HCO BULLETIN OF 10 DECEMBER 1964



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              SCIENTOLOGY 0



          LISTEN-STYLE AUDITING





There are two ways to run listen-style auditing -- (1) As a 

number of teams directly under an Auditing Supervisor, and (2) As 

an individual auditor. Correct training procedure at Level 0 is 

to have the auditor do co-audit style until confident and then 

train him to do the same thing individually.



         LISTEN-STYLE CO-AUDIT



The co-audit version is merely to get the student to do auditing 

without having to assume too much responsibility.



In this version it is really the Instructor who is doing the 

auditing. He starts the sessions and tells the auditors to give 

the commands and acknowledge the answers. If this relationship is 

understood, it makes the supervision of a Level 0 group of teams 

much easier.



The procedure for running a listen-style co-audit is as follows:



1. Instructor gets the auditors to seat their pcs in their chairs 

and then sit down.



2. He writes up on a board the exact wording of the process to be 

used.



3. He asks students if the room is all right for them to be 

audited in.



4. He tells them what is going to be run in the session (R-

factor) and cleans up any questions on the part of pcs 

(obviously, stress is on getting them able to talk to anyone).



5. He tells auditors and pcs that all the auditor is permitted to 

do is to give the command and acknowledge the answers. If pc says 

anything that cannot be handled with an acknowledgment, the 

auditor will put out his hand behind him and wait for an 

Instructor.



6. He tells the auditors to keep their Auditor's Reports.



7. Instructor then says "Start of session." And tells the 

auditors to give the command. No goals or rudiments are set or 

done.



Notes: Students should be taught that before they give an 

acknowledgment they should understand pc's answer. They are 

permitted, therefore, to ask pc to amplify an answer or to 

explain a word so that they (the auditors) understand the answer.



If a student puts out his hand, the Instructor goes to session 

and without ending it handles what needs handling and then lets 

session go on. The Instructor is careful not to become the pc's 

auditor completely as transference will set in and pcs will 

invent trouble to get more attention. Instructor should have a 

meter handy so that in the case of an ARC break he can quickly do 

an assessment. In doing the ARC break assessment, he is of course 

careful not to audit the pc, only to locate and indicate the 

bypassed charge.



At end of period, Instructor says, "Commence ending your 

sessions." He waits a bit and then says, "Tell your auditor any 

gains you've made in the session. Auditors write them down." 

Waits again and then says, "All right, I'm going to end the 

session now. End of session." Instructor then gives whatever 

instruction is necessary either to end the period or to get the 

room ready for the next period or gives a break, etc.



          LISTEN STYLE, INDIVIDUAL



This is done exactly the same as the co-audit version but in this 

case, of course, the auditor handles the session. It goes like 

this:



1. The auditor seats the pc in his or her chair and then sits 

down across from the pc, knees a few inches from the pc's. A 

table is used, or just two chairs, the Auditor's Report being 

kept on a clipboard. There is, of course, no meter.



2. The auditor takes the exact auditing command to be used from 

his textbook, bulletin or notes.



3. He asks the pc if it is all right to audit the pc in the room 

and, if not, makes things right by adjusting the room or location 

of auditing.



4. He tells the pc the purpose of such sessions (reality factor). 

"I want to get you used to talking to another." "I want to 

improve your reach," etc. It's the auditor's goal at this level, 

not the pc's. Pcs don't get a chance to have goals in listen 

style as they would set goals they can't attain at this level and 

wouldn't have enough reality on auditing anyway to be sensible 

about it. So, only an R-factor is used-no goals. The auditor also 

tells the pc exactly how long the session will be.



5. The auditor tells the pc that all he is going to do is to 

listen and try to understand the pc, and that all he wants the pc 

to do is talk on the selected subject the auditor will give him 

and that if he veers off, the auditor will call it to his 

attention.



6. The auditor then quickly starts his Auditor's Report.



7. The auditor says, "Start of session."



8. The auditor gives the command from his text, bulletin or 

notes. The command must have something to do with telling people 

things or communicating, and may also specify a subject to talk 

about.



9. Further commands are given only when the pc loses track of the 

subject and wants to know what it was (see routines for Level 0 

for exact handling of commands).



10. When the pc says something and obviously expects a response, 

the auditor signifies he has heard, using any normal means.



11. When the pc says something the auditor doesn't grasp, the 

auditor asks the pc to repeat It or amplify it so that the 

auditor does hear it in the fullest sense of the word. (See "The 

Prompters" below. Only four are allowed.)



12. When the pc stops talking, the auditor must adjudicate 

whether the pc is simply no longer interested in the subject or 

has become unwilling to talk about some bit of it. If the auditor 

believes the pc has stopped because of embarrassment or some 

similar reason, the auditor has the prompters, the only things he 

is allowed to use.



Prompter (a) "Have you found something you think would make me 

think less of you?"



Prompter (b) "Is there something you thought of that you think I 

wouldn't understand?"



Prompter (c) "Have you said something you felt I didn't 

understand? If so, tell me again."



Prompter (d) "Have you found something you haven't understood? If 

so, tell me about it."



(The student must know these prompters by heart.) He uses as many 

as needed, in the sequence given, to start the pc talking again.



The auditor must not start a new subject or process just because 

the pc can't bring himself to go on talking. The whole essence of 

Level 0 is to get the pc up to being willing to talk about 

anything to anyone. Thus, any coaxing is also allowed. Threats 

are forbidden. (a), (b), (c) or (d) usually handle. These are the 

commonest reasons people cease talking. Mere forgetting is 

handled just by reminding the pc of the subject.



13. New processes (or new subjects in a routine which are in 

essence new processes) are started only when the pc has 

brightened up and become quite able by reason of getting 

comfortable about the last one. Realizing that the whole target 

of Level 0 is to get people willing to talk about anything to 

others, a regained ability on a subject governs when to start a 

new process. If the auditor can answer to himself this question 

in the affirmative, then he can go to a new process, "Is this pc 

able to talk freely to or about (subject of last process)?" If 

so, it's all right to select a new question from the same routine 

or a new routine (more rarely) and ask it now. But it is never 

all right to prevent a pc from talking by butting in with a new 

question. One never asks amplifying questions at Level 0. 

Commentary-type questions are also out. The auditor listens to 

the question's answers and only interrupts when he truly hasn't 

heard or didn't grasp some point. No over and over repetitive use 

of commands is made, of course, as that's Level One. The commands 

are given rarely, same commands, but only to get the pc going 

again. Staccato repetitive commands and brief pc answers are not 

for Level 0.



14. Toward the end of the auditing period, the auditor warns, 

"The session time is about over. We'll have to be ending 

shortly."



15. When the pc has given an extra comment or two, the auditor 

says, "We're closing the session now. Time is up. Have you made 

any gains in this session?"



16. The pc's answers are quickly noted.



17. The auditor says, "End of session."



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Note: Pcs, of course, often keep on talking and make it hard to 

end a session. End it anyway. If this seems to shock the pc, 

point out the time the session ended as originally set and say 

also, "You'll be getting more auditing and we'll take that up in 

the next session." You'll always have trouble ending a session if 

you fall to put in its time in the R-factor (reality factor) in 

(4) above. As the auditor notes the time in his report (see [4] 

above) he must say, "This session will go until _____ (hours and 

minutes) precisely." Thus, he has an out for ending it. An 

auditor must never run beyond that time set and must, of course, 

audit until it is reached. This, by the way, does not just hold 

good for Level 0. It is very good practice for all levels in 

regular sessions. The only exception is the assist where one is 

auditing toward a definite gain. In general auditing one seeks to 

obtain general gains, not sudden momentary spurts.



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The auditor, whether in co-audit or individual session at this 

and the next level, will soon become impressed with this fact: 

The more he himself says during the session, the less gain the pc 

gets. Therefore, aside from the above, the auditor does very 

little in the session and is paid handsomely for it in pc gains.





L. RON HUBBARD

Founder



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