The main aims of the Subud organization are to facilitate the practice of the latihan and help enable members to understand its benefits and how to apply it in their everyday lives. To further these aims and to help individuals to feel and follow their own receivings, the WSA appoints helpers with an international function for a four-year term. Their job is to visit groups and to do latihan together, answer questions and assist members. Their role is also to support local and national helpers. In Subud, we sometimes use testing to deepen and widen our experience in the latihan. Testing is simply seeking guidance from a quiet inner place free from the influence of our thinking and desires. Perhaps the most important aspect of the work of the international helpers is to have an inner state such that they can receive guidance appropriate to the various situations they find as they travel among the membership in the various countries.

In a typical year, the 18 international helpers make over 80 journeys to 45 countries. This work is an extraordinary testament to the vibrancy of the latihan and its diverse manifestations in the lives of individual members. Frequently the international helpers report on their visits, with the reports being distributed in the Subud media.

 

The international helpers also answer letters from members and form part of the World Subud Council.

At the 2010 World Congress in New Zealand, the international helpers facilitated a program of test questions.

 

HELPER CARDS

 

International Helpers are also responsible for the distribution of helper cards. While some of the larger countries have a supply of helper cards on hand, most countries work with the international helpers to distribute them. The helper process begins locally, with helpers testing with a member about the suitability to begin the candidate helper process. Kejiwaan Councillors, international helpers, as well as local helpers eventually sign new helper forms. Generic helper forms are downloadable here: English, Spanish, French, Russian. In countries without national committees or with few members, the international helpers assist the process from beginning to end, but in all cases, an international helper signs every card. To read about the process in more detail, click here and to view a card click here.

 

Since the Innsbruck World Congress in 2005, and as of December 2009, approximately 250 cards have been distributed to new helpers and existing helpers receiving cards for the first time.

 

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