Upcoming Events
2nd Annual
Discovering and Re-Discovering Carl Rogers
A weekend Encounter Group for mental health practitioners and students
Saturday June 5th 2010 10am to 8pm - Sunday June 6th 2010 10am to 6pm
This two-day Encounter Group is designed to promote the work of American humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers. Rogers’s Person-Centered theory is action-oriented. The Encounter Group offers a practical arena for applying Person-Centered concepts to real relationships. The encounter will be facilitated by three seasoned Person-Centered practitioners, and space will be limited to ten participants.
If you are interested, please send us an email describing why you are interested in the Person-Centered Approach.
Facilitators:
Elvira M. Medus, LMSW
I am a Humanistic Client-Centered psychotherapist trained within the Rogerian/Person Centered Approach trained at Holos in Argentina. My work is to promote the discovery of each client's potential and inner wisdom. In that journey, I honor and embrace the clients' experiences that emerge in the therapeutic process allowing them to explore and find new answers to their questions.
Mark Rodgers, MA
I trained in the Person Centered Approach in the UK and have been living and working in a commercial context here in the US for the past 6 years. Although I am not currently a practicing psychotherapist, each day, I am reminded of the power of what Carl Rogers called a 'Way of Being'.
Sarton Weinraub, Ph.D.
I am a Rogerian person-centered psychotherapist who believes the primary goal of therapy is deep empathic listening and nonjudgmental acceptance. As a psychotherapist, I feel it is important to avoid biases, not to impose values, and to appreciate each person as the expert on his or her life. I believe that a properly structured and facilitated Encounter Group can be an ideal therapeutic experience for any individual willing to fully participate.
Past Events
Discovering and Re-Discovering Carl Rogers
A one-day seminar on the life and work of Carl Rogers for students, mental health practitioners, educators, and other interested parties.
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
9am to 5pm
House of the Redeemer
7 East 95th Street
New York, NY 10128
Sponsored by the New York Person-Centered Resource Center
www.nypcrc.org // 212-989-6086 // nypcrc@gmail.com
In recent years, Humanistic approaches including Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach, which were founded by the American psychologist Carl Rogers, have enjoyed renewed interest in the fields of psychotherapy, psychology, education, social work, pastoral care, and other helping professions. In 2006 the membership of the American Psychological Association named Carl Rogers the most influential psychotherapist of the 20th Century. However, Rogers' work is unknown or misunderstood among many mental health practitioners. This one-day seminar is designed to introduce the life, work, and theoretical legacy of Carl Rogers' work to a new generation of practitioners, educators, and other interested parties.
Cost: $60 before April 1st, $75 after April 1st
CEUs from the National Board for Certified Counselors
Available for Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Program
9:00am to 12:00pm (there will be a 15 minute Break in the middle of this presentation)
Rediscovering Carl Rogers: Biography As Surprise
Howard Kirschenbaum, Ed.D
Dr. Kirschenbaum, known as the author of On Becoming Carl Rogers (1979), a biography on Rogers, has been interpreting the life and work of Rogers for several decades. His updated and expanded biography, The Life and Work of Carl Rogers, was just published by the American Counseling Association and incorporates much new material, including Rogers' unpublished private papers and interviews with Rogers' family and closest colleagues. The morning session will begin with Dr. Kirchenbaum's comprehensive DVD presentation, which gives an excellent overview of Rogers' life and work and includes excerpts of Rogers counseling clients and working with groups. In the second part of the morning session, Dr. Kirschenbaum will discuss new discoveries and interesting surprises he found while performing his research. Topics will include Rogers' personal relationships, inner life, spiritual journey, involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency, intercultural work, international influence, and the latest research. The new biography shows that Rogers was a more complex person than how he has been perceived, and that his work has had a greater impact than is often recognized. Dr. Kirschenbaum will share his excitement and insights about one of the major social revolutionaries of the 20th Century.
*The DVD presentation and lecture will be followed by Q&A. Copies of The Life and Work of Carl Rogers will be available for purchase and signing.
Howard Kirschenbaum, EdD, is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Counseling and Human Development, Warner Graduate School of Education, University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of more than 20 books on education, psychology, and history. A leading interpreter of the life and work of Carl Rogers, Dr. Kirschenbaum is the author of the biography On Becoming Carl Rogers, coeditor of The Carl Rogers Reader and Carl Rogers: Dialogues, and the writer and producer of the best-selling video Carl Rogers and the Person-Centered Approach.
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Lunch Break
1:00pm to 3:00pm
The Ongoing and Evolving Legacy of Carl Rogers
Arthur C. Bohart, Ph.D.
The ideas of Carl Rogers have had a strong impact on psychotherapy. His insights on relationships have been empirically supported and are accepted by practitioners working under various schools of thought. His insights into the role of the client in psychotherapy are also empirically supported and are gaining widespread acceptance. Rogers' ideas include: having a forward-looking focus on client potential and strength; working with growth potential more so than on "curing pathology;" fostering clients' active, exploratory activities for learning; relying on clients' potential for internal wisdom; emphasizing client collaboration; and fostering a learning environment that includes clients' cognition, emotion, and experiencing. Additionally, Dr. Bohart will discuss the more radical aspects of Rogers' vision, which confront conventional views of the nature of psychotherapy, psychopathology, and the profession. This lecture will be followed by Q&A.
Dr. Arthur C. Bohart is on the faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, CA. Previous to this he was a Professor at California State University Dominguez Hills for many years. Dr. Bohart is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He is widely published. His book How clients make therapy work: The process of active self-healing (with Karen Tallman, published by the American Psychological Association) has brought attention to the importance of client contributions to the psychotherapy process. His work on empathy has contributed to the designation of empathy as an empirically-supported relationship component by the Psychotherapy Division of the American Psychological Association.
3:00pm to 3:15pm
Afternoon Break
3:15pm to 5:00pm
Discovering the Person-Centered Approach while Immersed in Psychoanalytic Training
Sarton Weinraub, Ph.D.
Dr. Weinraub will describe his personal experience of discovering Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Approach while in psychoanalytic training, and how this discovery helped guide and motivate his theoretical studies, professional development and clinical work. In addition, Dr. Weinraub will present a concurrent case study of a client who experienced a transition from psychoanalytic to Rogerian psychotherapeutic approach. This lecture will be followed by Q&A.
Dr. Sarton Weinraub is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City and is the Director of the New York Person-Centered Resource Center. Dr. Weinraub received his Doctorate Degree at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. Dr. Weinraub studied psychoanalysis at the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute (NYUPI) and at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute (LAPSI). He has worked with Leo Rangell and Esther Menaker, and Arthur Bohart was his dissertation chair.