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Tag Archives: personhood
A ‘white guy’s’ perspective on narratives about white colonialism, feminism & stuff – Micah Ingle
Click on the link to visit Micah’s Facebook page for this post – which resonated strongly with the writer. Micah has featured here before. He is a Texan psychologist and counsellor. We experience him as heartful and wise. Here, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in awakening, beauty, civil rights, community, compassion, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, diversity, ecological issues, encounter, equality, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, love, masculine, Micah Ingle, perception, person centred, political, relationship, resilience, self concept, self esteem, shadow, vulnerability
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Teacher Chen Miller on connecting with a distressed child
Click on the link to visit Facebook, for this remarkable little film about teacher, Chen Miller. A person-centred way of engaging with distress… Chen is bang on about what works – whatever our age may be. The words in which … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, anger, child development, civil rights, communication, compassion, conditions of worth, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, education, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, growing up, healing, identity, objectification, parenting, perception, person centred, person centred theory, political, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self, self concept, self esteem, shame, shaming, teaching, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trust, unconditional positive regard, vulnerability
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Thomas Merton on love & empathy
“To love another as a person we must begin by granting him his own autonomy and identity as a person. We have to love him for what he is in himself, and not for what he is to us. We … Continue reading
Posted in Brent Potter, communication, congruence, core conditions, cultural questions, empathy, encounter, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, love, presence, relationship, self, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, Thomas Merton, transformation, unconditional positive regard
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Maria Popova on Self-Comparison & Cynicism
On the Soul-Sustaining Necessity of Resisting Self-Comparison and Fighting Cynicism: A Commencement Address This is great. Tu Maria. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994
Posted in accountability, autonomy, blaming, conditions of worth, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, diversity, external locus, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Maria Popova, meaning, power and powerlessness, presence, self, self concept, self esteem
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Susan Peacock on Year 6 SATs
Powerful and distressing personal account of the harm caused by our toxic cultural obsession with an ‘evidence base’, and our drive to define value only in terms of what can be categorised and measured. Shades of Charles Dickens’ ‘Hard Times’, and Utilitarianism, … Continue reading
Posted in actualizing tendency, autonomy, child development, cognitive, compassion, conditions of worth, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, education, empowerment, ethics, external locus, growing up, parenting, person centred, person centred theory, political, power and powerlessness, resilience, sadness & pain, self concept, self esteem, shame, shaming, teaching, trauma, values & principles
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