I was talking about assigning a rundown to someone because you think they have false purposes, when they've never voiced anything to indicate that they have interest in looking at that.
Best thing I ever did was HRD. Didn't indicate at the time but I gave the C/S the benefit of the doubt.
Some rundowns are sufficiently "broad" that they nevertheless find material which "bites deep". HRD is one. I suspect the FPRD is also.
The question is: are you running the program for the benefit of the pc or for the benefit of the "group"?
FPRD is easy to abuse. It can be seen as an intentional MAKE WRONG of a pc. Any program which is intended to address areas of "low responsibility", "personal out ethics", "service facsimiles", "overts/motivators/missed withholds", etc., although quite likely to produce spectacular gains for a pc if run ETHICALLY, can very EASILY be perverted into a tool of group domination & control when used unethically.
So, do you never program "ethics related actions" for auditing because the pc isn't "interested", or because it might "screw the pooch"? That kills running out "service facsimiles" or just about anything having to do with personal ethics. NOT a smart move.
I'm talking about bypassing what's hot to run something assumed to be there.
Obviously you run what is PRESENT & HOT first.
As I understand the purpose of "life repair" programming is to do just that. Similarly, competent C/Ses are not unwilling to tailor unique programs for pc's where appropriate. In many cases just having them do the lower bridge often counts as an excellent general "case set-up".
Requring a pc's interest, before starting a program is not necessarily essential provided this is not done as an excuse for bypassing that which is important to the pc. ALWAYS requiring the pc's "interest" may not be the quickest way to accomplish what the pc has in mind.
Many of the basic rundowns & programs are used precisely because they serve to undercut a case and make subsequent auditing go more smoothly. They often don't "indicate" until sometime in the middle when a process BITES and the pc starts to cognite why this may be worth looking at.
I like to think of NED & the grades as "general requirements" and other rundowns & programs ("advanced levels" included) as "special studies" or "areas of concentration". Generally programs are best recommended as appropriate for a given pc based on BOTH what the pc's interest is as well as what the current case circumstances are for that pc.
Mark A. Baker