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As part of a writing project, the Going Global facilitation team have been reflecting on their ideas around Personal and Community Power and where the opportunities and challenges are in Shifting Cultural Consciousness. This event is an opportunity for the team to share their ideas and to hear from colleagues, hoping that we can continue to nurture each other in our commitment to global transformation.

 

 

Going Global 2016 - Large Person-centred Group

 

In his tireless efforts to bring peace to feuding groups, Carl R. Rogers, predicted that members of the world community will find that there are ways of being that do not involve power over others….that harmonious community can be built on…..mutual respect and enhanced personal growth (A Way of Being, 1980). Carl R. Rogers, was an influential American humanistic psychologist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He developed client-centered therapy and searched for ways of being that are conducive to creating constructive change.

Toward that end, we invite you to join us in an international gathering devoted to creating a more compassionate future and finding personally and socially constructive ways through the chaos we face on this planet.

Each of us on this workshop facilitation team have experienced the potency of Rogers’s transformational approach in large groups. It is a potency that allows each person to find their own unique way in this complex and interconnected world. Some participants have described the experience as one that inspired them to live more authentically and compassionately, and empowered them to use their creativity to challenge prevailing social and political systems and structures.

 

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About Peggy Natiello

 

Human development consultant and author Peggy Natiello, Ph.D., worked closely with Carl Rogers from 1978-1987 on many person-centered staffs. Dr. Rogers served as her major doctoral advisor and mentored her dissertation on the nature of learning that occurs in person-centered experiences. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research and writing have addressed significant questions about the person-centered approach.

Known for her person-centered group work, Peggy is an international consultant, serves on the graduate faculty at Prescott College, and has written many articles on client-centered therapy and the person-centered approach. Her book, The Person-Centered Approach: A passionate presence, was written to clarify and demonstrate the importance of this often misunderstood and quite radical approach to psychotherapy, counseling, education, and group work.

To find out more about Peggy’s work please click here.

 

About Colin Lago

 

Colin Lago was Director of the Counselling Service at the University of Sheffield, U.K. from 1987 – 2003.

He now works as an independent counsellor, trainer, supervisor and consultant and visiting lecturer to the Universities of East Anglia and Strathclyde.

Trained initially as an engineer, Colin went on to become a full time youth worker in London and then a teacher in Jamaica. Colin was profoundly influenced by the writings of Carl Rogers long before he trained as a counsellor.

Deeply committed to “transcultural concerns” he has had articles, videos and books published on the subject.

He has recently been awarded a D.Litt for his contributions to the literature on multicultural therapy.

 

About Carol Wolter-Gustafson

 

Carol Wolter-Gustafson received her Ed.D. from the Department of Humanistic and Behavioral Studies at Boston University.She first met Carl Rogers as a graduate student in a nine-day residential workshop in New York, and later she worked on staff with him.

Carol values the unique opportunities for learning that we create together in the week long, residential, large group format.Her personal and professional life centers on cultivating a pathway out of the “us-versus-them” thinking and rhetoric that fuels violence locally and globally.

Her writing, workshops and courses (In the USA, Mexico, Europe and Japan) are concerned with exploring those themes, the person-centered approach, and how to move through the illusion of the body-mind split to help create more fully-functioning persons.

Carol maintains a Client-Centered practice in Boston.

 

About John Wilson

 

John has been in private practice as a counsellor since 2005 in West Lothian and online using video conferencing and virtual environments.

As co-founder of onlinevents, John has brought together his love of technology and passion for person-centred learning environments and has co-created an online learning space where practitioners from all over the world can come together to think and reflect together.

John is also responsible for running the business of Temenos and is co-facilitator on the Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling Programme, one of the most radically person-centred programmes surviving in the United Kingdom. This programme does not have a curriculum, the learning arises out of the process of the group in relationship to the professional standards in the field of Counselling & Psychotherapy. Temenos provides an environment where Trainees can engage in a rigorous training in which personal and professional development is inevitable.

John has a passion for large group work and has been part of the organising and facilitation teams for a number of large person-centred groups in the UK. In 2013, John worked as part of the Going Global facilitation team with Peggy Natiello, Carol Wolter-Gustafson, Colin Lago & Keemar Keemar to organise and facilitate two large groups in the UK. In 2015, the Going Global team organised a large group in Sedona, Arizona.

 

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