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Read MoreBasic Rogers – A lost paradigm? (Part 2) – Jerold Bozarth
Jerold Bozarth facilitated a workshop thinking about the theory, philosophy and practice of the person-centred approach.
Read MoreBasic Rogers – A lost paradigm? (Part 1) – Jerold Bozarth
Jerold Bozarth facilitated a workshop thinking about the theory, philosophy and practice of the person-centred approach.
Read MoreLearning In An Unstructured Group – Dot Clark & Colin Lago
An hour of conversation with Colin Lago and Dot Clark on their experiences of holding open learning environments.
Colin has, for some time now, been facilitating the Temenos Postgraduate Supervision Training using this mode of learning, and Dot has joined him as co-facilitator on the last two courses. The next course is due to begin in October 2014.
The aim of creating such a learning environment is to enable participants to take responsibility for their own learning process and to support the making of meaning within a rich context of appropriate resources and relationships.
Read MoreRage and Shame – Sue Parker Hall
In the trainings I deliver I have frequently been asked “what is the link between rage and shame?” Participants and myself have intuitively known that there is a strong relationship between them both. As a consequence I have been inspired to research the issue and have developed a model that articulates the connection between the two, and also a deeper understanding of how the therapeutic relationship can address these commonly presented, often perplexing, issues.
In this online interview I discuss a practice example of how a client may oscillate between rage and shame, the impact that this had on me as a therapist and how I worked with it.
Read MoreWAPCEPC – Congruence Revisited: A Shibboleth in Person-Centred Therapy? – Beth Freire
In this event Beth presents her perspective on Congruence and demonstrates how she feels it has been misunderstood and therefore used inappropriately in therapeutic relationships. Beth’s commitment to rigorous theoretical thinking and it’s application in service of the client is both inspiring and deeply challenging!
Read MoreWAPCEPC – Relationship, Empathy, and Cultural Differences – Iguaraya Morales
As a result of researching on the Venezuelan episteme (along with Dr. Alejandro Moreno), it was found that Venezuelans perceive themselves as “in-relationship”; they do not conceive themselves as individuals.
In consequence, as a Clinical Psychologist, I started thinking about the implications of these findings on the therapeutic relationship and the way empathy is established.
Rogers considered empathy and relationship concepts from a modern paradigm where the person is an individual self; but Venezuelan therapists need to overcome the phenomenology and take into account what has been lived and shared in the same life-world and hermeneutic horizon.
Read MoreA Person Centred Approach to Counselling Children and Young People: The Benefits, the Challenges, and Some Thoughts on Counsellor Training – Sue Lewis
In this presentation Sue intends to set out her thinking on the person centred approach’s contribution to working with children and young people, to explore some of the benefits and challenges of working in this way and to start a conversation about a person centred approach to the development of counsellors of children and young people.
Read MoreCounselling for Depression (CfD): My Experience as a Trainer – Kate Hayes
When the IAPT (Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies) funding was announced it caused an initial ripple of delight- which soon became a dreadful shock as surgery’s lost their counsellors and CBT seemed to be the only choice for free on delivery ‘psychological therapy’ in the NHS.
Then Counselling for Depression (CfD) emerged and when I read the manual I was excited to recognise the person-centred approach throughout. It was then I decided to do my best to support its development as it was clear the funding allocated to it was temporary and unless it was taken up, the person centred approach in free on delivery services would not survive.
Read MoreBeyond the Frontiers of Person-centred Purism: Pluralism and Experiencing Diversity of Therapeutic Practices – WAPCEPC Online Event with Mick Cooper
In recent years, Mick Cooper has been working with John McLeod to develop a ‘pluralistic’ approach to therapy, which Mick has described as a person-centred ‘metatherapeutic’ approach. That is, a person-centred way of thinking about the therapeutic field as a whole.
This dialogue will explore the concept of pluralism and its implications for person-centred theory and practice: introducing research and theory on client preferences, therapeutic goals, and ‘metatherapeutic communication’: talking with clients about the process and focus of therapy.
Read MorePersonal Growth And Societal Impact: The PCA as Ethics, Philosophy and Psychology for Personal and Social Change – Peter F. Schmid
The world faces substantial challenges: from globalization to climate change and the planet’s limited resources, from religious warfare and terrorism to new ways of inter- and intra-national relationships and community, partnership and ‘family’ building – to only name a few.
This calls for a considerable change in the self-understanding of us humans. I am convinced that we have the potential to deal with the encounters ahead constructively, if we indeed understand and approach them as encounters, we have to face and are able to do so.
Read MoreHope for this Hour: Watch Out for Angry Flying Cows – Carol Wolter-Gustafson
Today, it takes just an instant to be electronically connected to human suffering half way around the world. Amidst endless streams of variously sourced information, we absorb the world, and make choices in response. Amidst cynicism, corporate dominance and competing narratives, how is it possible to “be the change we want to see in the world?” What are we to do? How is it possible for us to have hope for this hour in which we live?
Read MoreWe Start From Where We Are – Dot Clark
Our theme, ‘Going Global’, can easily arouse anxiety and helplessness when we consider the scale of the challenges facing the world today. However, “we start from where we are”, even when that includes despair and panic, by endeavouring to approach our experience with compassion and acceptance. The Person-Centred community has much to contribute here and now, especially if we can reach out beyond the confines of therapy into the world.
Read MoreRaising Awareness of Aspergers Syndrome: Demonstration and Discussion – Kate Stubbings & Allan Turner
We estimate that 1 in 10 of individual counselling clients is affected (either personally, or through a close relationship) by Autistic Spectrum conditions. For couples counsellors we estimate that this figure climbs to 4 in 10 since it creates so many relationship difficulties. In this demonstration workshop we will first role play the partner of a person with the condition and then the client with the condition. There should also be about 30 minutes of discussion time.
Read MoreWe’ve Had 75 Years of Carl Rogers and the World’s Getting Worse – Richard Baugham
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Read MoreAfter the Launch of the DSM-V, Yet Another Tilt at the Medicalisation of Distress – Pete Sanders
Unable to resist shouting ‘I told you so!’ from the front of a room somewhere in the Royal Agricultural University, Pete Sanders, does just that.
He revisits some old stuff, brings some new stuff, and asks whether the end has come for diagnosis. Again!
Read MoreWAPCEPC – Client as Active Self Healer and the Role of Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship – Arthur C. Bohart
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Read MorePerson Centred Couples Counselling – Allan Turner & Kate Stubbings
This is an important, but often neglected area of Person Centred Counselling. There is very little theoretical writing which is exclusively person centred, on this subject. This presentation is unashamedly person-centred and will focus on PCA theory as it is applied to couples work.
Our two presenters are both very experienced in the field with more than 40 years experience between them. They are both Senior Accredited members of BACP.
Read MoreWAPCEPC – Mutuality of Rogers’ Therapeutic Conditions: The Process and Outcome of Successful Psychotherapy – David Murphy
In Rogers’ theory the natural consequence of therapy is for the client to experience greater congruence between experience and awareness, unconditional positive self regard. As a consequence of being received by the therapist experience of UPR and empathic understanding for the client, the client comes to experience these conditions towards others. Through my research I have provided empirical support for this aspect of our theory. Not only this, the research suggests that when the therapeutic relationship is characterised by the mutual experiencing of therapeutic conditions outcomes are also improved.
Read MoreWhat is Growth? – Gillian Proctor
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Read MoreJourney to the Heart of Person Centered Therapy – Arthur C. Bohart
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Read MoreWhat Have the Positive Psychologists Ever Done for Us? The Person-centred Approach and Positive Psychology? – Stephen Joseph
Over the last decade the world of psychology science and practice has been changing. One mainstream development that person-centred psychologists need to be more aware of is positive psychology – the science of optimal human functioning and well-being.
The big idea of positive psychology is that we should be interested not only in distress and dysfunction but also in what makes life worth living. Does this sound like a familiar idea? It should.
Read MoreHope for this Hour: Watch Out for Angry Flying Cows (Interview) – Carol Wolter-Gustafson
As part of the preparation for Going Global 2013 Carol has agreed to participate in an interview with the same title as her presentation at the conference.
Carol invites us to engage with the question “How do we bring ourselves?” when we live in relationships and national groups that find themselves in crisis.
Read MoreIs There Life After Retirement? – Dave Mearns
From 2011 he set about his challenge. He had always loved writing but now the challenge was to switch genres and to use the structure of the novel to illustrate the variety of human developmental process and the ways people use relationship in support of their development. The first result is the Scottish novel, Smoky Bacon Crisps: Finding the edge of life, published as an e-book on Amazon Kindle and in hard copy via www.davemearns.com/smoky-bacon-crisps.asp. Appropriately to the title of our event, the three central characters in the book begin the significant developments in their lives after they retire.
Read MoreThe Person Centred Approach: Still a Radical Paradigm? – Rory Lees-Oakes
Rory talked to us about the philosophy of the Person Centred Approach and why even though the core conditions are almost universally accepted in the therapeutic world the approach is still a radical paradigm challenging societal norms.
Read MoreDancing at the Edge: Exploring the 21st Century Competencies – Maureen O’Hara & Graham Leicester
Psychologist Maureen O’Hara who was a long time colleague of Carl Rogers, and Graham Leicester, Director of International Futures Forum, conversation with John Wilson about the central ideas in their new book Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century.
Read MoreSystematic Outcome and Process Feedback: A Person-centred Practice – Interview with Mick Cooper
Across a range of healthcare, educational and third sector contexts, counsellors and psychotherapists are increasingly being asked to use outcome monitoring forms, such as the CORE-OM, to evaluate the effectiveness of their practice. For many of us …
Read MoreLearning – and Being in Action? – Lynette Green & Max Hope
This online conversation is with Lynette Green and Max Hope. Lynette is a person-centred psychodramatist and Max is a person-centred educator.
During this online discussion, they talked about the benefits of using psychodrama as a tool for learning as well as their own views of person-centred education. They addressed the dilemmas of being open to being led by a group whilst also having their own agenda (in terms of content and method).
Read MoreWorking with Anger – Mike Trier
I’ve worked for many years with teenagers labelled as angry, and poorly behaved, first as a teacher, and currently as a counsellor. I’ve developed ‘Working with Anger’ groups, aimed at teenage boys. We make sure they feel heard. And then we support them as they begin to take more control over their lives, even under difficult circumstances in school and at home.
We don’t have a magic wand, but we’ve a track record in helping young men engage with school more effectively!
Read MoreWorking With Couples Using Carl Rogers’ 6 Conditions – Allan Turner
Allan Turner is about to begin his 18th course training Counsellors and Psychologists to work with Couples using a Client Centred Perspective.
Allan very generously spent an hour with us taking questions and offering his perspective on the relevance of Carl Roger’s 6 conditions for Therapeutic Change.
Read MorePerson-centred Approaches to Trauma, Critical Incidents, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Allan Turner
We enjoyed interviewing Allan about his theoretical perspective and extensive experience working with trauma, critical incidents and PTSD. Allan approaches these very challenging client issues from a person-centred perspective and writes openly and clearly about how this forms the basis of his practice.
Read MoreEncounter Groups: A Place to Experience the Magic? – Terry Daly
Terry has been in Encounter groups from the age of 14 and has experienced much ‘magic’ in the moments of connection with other human beings in this unique and radical context.
Terry is passionate about the need for difference to be spoken and heard in all walks of life and feels that even after more than 40 years of history the Encounter Group is still a relevant context to make contact with others while being authentically ourselves.
Read MoreMY SOUL NEEDS TO BE WASHED: An Exploration of the Basic Encounter Group in Japan – Makiko Mikuni
As part of her journey into a professional life and network Makiko embarked on a research project to examine the history of the Person Centred Approach in Japan and it’s place in contemporary Japanese culture.
Read MoreEncounter Groups A Passionate Presence – Interview with Peggy Natiello
Peggy Natiello authored “The Person-Centered Approach: A passionate presence” as a challenge to those who practice the person-centered approach “to recognize and fully engage the philosophical belief system, the passionate style of living and the integrity that person-centeredness demands.” Her challenge extends to both therapists working one to one and those who would enter the encounter group experience.
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