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Tag Archives: therapeutic growth
Trauma, injury, illness and waking up – Monica Cassani
Trauma, injury, illness and waking up Click on the title link above for this post by Monica, whose site holds a great richness of resources for anyone seeking healing or seeking alternatives to the psychiatric model perspectives. This post has many … Continue reading
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Paulo Coelho on Awakening love
“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings … Continue reading
Posted in awakening, consciousness, encounter, friendship, interconnection & belonging, love, relationship
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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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Person-Centred Basics: Dave Mearns on the power dynamic
Another in our series of person-centred fundamentals, this time Dave Mearns on power. ‘The issue of “power” is fundamental to person-centred counselling. Indeed, the essential principle of the person-centred approach is that the counsellor does not take responsibility for the … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, client as 'expert', communication, conditions of worth, congruence, core conditions, cultural questions, Dave Mearns, empathy, empowerment, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, growth, internal locus of evaluation, love, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, person centred theory, power, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, self concept, shadow, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, unconditional positive regard, values & principles, working with clients
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Michael Kahn on the ‘extraordinarily radical’ nature of person-centred
“Genuineness, empathy and unconditional positive regard – these, then, are the three attributes that Rogers thought necessary to a successful clinical relationship. I’m sure it has occurred to you that if any of us could always be fully genuine, empathic, … Continue reading
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Jeff Foster on the fundamentals of healing, teaching (& therapy)
Update 29 December: for some reason, this link is not showing up for all readers (thank you, Thad!). In case that includes you, the Jeff Foster quotation is:- “A true healer does not heal you; she simply reflects back to … Continue reading
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Person-centred basics: expertise of the person-centred counsellor – Dave Mearns & Brian Thorne
The fourth in our occasional series of person-centred fundamentals. ‘The person-centred counsellor must learn to wear her expertise as an invisible garment in order to be an effective counsellor. Experts are expected to dispense their expertise, to recommend what should … Continue reading
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Carl Rogers on remembering our humanity
“Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no fear that I cannot understand, no suffering that I cannot care about, because I … Continue reading
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