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October 2009 - Issue 3 Volume 9
Inside this newsletter… Page 3: News Page 4: PCE 2010 - Latest Information Page 5: PCE Research in Japan Page 6: Personal Reflections on the 2009 Cross-Cultural Communication Workshop in Szeged, Hungary Page 7: PCE Europe Becomes First WAPCEPC Chapter The European Certificate for Person-Centred & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counselling (PCE Certificate) Page 8: Organizational Members Page 9: Website News Page 11: Events Page 13: Journal News
WAPCEPC
World Association for Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling
By Jef Cornelius-White It is my pleasure to introduce to you some wonderful developments accom-plished by the board and members of the World Association during the last few months, most of which are de-
scribed in depth in this newsletter.
To begin, I want to thank Susan Corn-forth for the fresh air she has brought to the newsletter since her first issue last fall, adding length, pictures, and an
has catapulted the association closer to meeting its goals (See II. At http://pce-world.org/about-us/statutes-and-bylaws.html), particularly the first two goals: international cooperation and facilita-
tion of organizations and persons.
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From the Chair
invitational style. This newsletter includes the launch of a new column that reports news and information from and for organizational members and a change of design that reflects that of the new WAPCEPC web-
site launched this summer.
Speaking of the new website (http://pce-world.org/), I want to thank Beth Freire who has worked tirelessly in a team effort with the board, our web designer Nic Wistreich, our mem-bership administrator Di English, the PCEP editors, and many members who have provided feedback to bring this useful, professional, and friendly
face to the world.
I believe this collaborative process
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Register for PCE 2010 by January 31st, 2010 to secure the Early Bird rate.
For more information, visit www.pce2010.com
A Truly Worldwide Newsletter
We want this newsletter to reflect the breadth and diversity of the WAPCEPC membership. Please send your news, comments, and information about people,
projects and events to Susan Cornforth at [email protected]
The deadline for contributions to the next issue of the newsletter is 8 January 2010.
From the Chair - Jef Cornelius-White (Continued from Page 1) There have been other developments at the or-
ganizational member and chapter levels:
• I attended the General Assembly of WAP-
CEPC’s first chapter - PCE Europe - and the 25th Anniversary Cross-Cultural Conference in Szeged, Hungary in July. I was warmly wel-comed by both PCE Europe and the confer-ence organizers and participants, and value the important work these groups have accom-
plished and are working towards.
• In a similar vein, I am pleased to share that an
application for an Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Chapter is in the consultation
phase.
The board hopes to sponsor some workshops at PCE 2010 in Rome to encourage collaboration and engagement with the association’s goals, par-ticularly as relates to organizational and regional
development and international cooperation.
We also hope to introduce transparent reduced membership fee options and/or a donor fund for organizations in countries classified by the World Bank as having B, C, or D economies beginning with 2010 membership. We hope to continue the WAPCEPC’s growth towards becoming more representative of the world’s person-centered and experiential practitioners and researchers, a
theme reprised in the PCEP news column.
While I feel like I’d like to acknowledge and share with you many more things that are happening or that are described in the newsletter, I will stop
and leave ample incentive for you to read on!
WAPCEPC
Page 3 News
Congratulations to Bill Stiles, co-editor of WAPCEPC’s journal Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies,
who has been presented with the 2009 Distinguished Research Career Award by the Society for Psychother-
apy Research. Bill was presented with his award on June 24th, 2009 at the SPR meeting in Santiago de Chile.
A poem written by Robert Elliott to mark the occasion can be read at:
http://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=254
Bill Stiles Receives 2009 Distinguished Research Career Award
Consultation Launched on Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Chapter
The WAPCEPC board has received a proposal for the formation of an Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
regional chapter. As required by WAPCEPC’s by-laws, the board is presently consulting members living in
the region and have requested that any substantial feedback to the proposal be sent to Susan Cornforth
([email protected]) by October 6th, 2009.
Call for Papers - PCE 2010, Rome, Italy
The organisers of next year’s PCE conference are ready to receive proposals for papers and workshops. The
conference theme is “Empowerment: the politics of the helping relationship”.
If you wish to submit an abstract, please download an application form from the PCE2010 website
(http://www.pce2010.com). Proposals must be submitted no later than January 31st, 2010.
Presenters are encouraged to offer their papers for publication in PCEP, the WAPCEPC journal.
“Emotional Experience” - Special Issue of Emotion Review Journal Now Online
Members of WAPCEPC may be interested in Volume 1, Issue 3 of new online journal Emotion Review
http://emr.sagepub.com/content/vol1/issue3/. This interdisciplinary special issue is devoted to the topic of
“Emotional Experience” and is edited by Professor Rainer Reisenzein of the University of Greifswald, Ger-
many, and philosopher Sabine Döring. As a promotional offer, Emotion Review is presently available free for
three years to subscribers.
Access to PCEP Online - Organizational Members
Organizational members are reminded that your right to access the members’ section of the new WAPCEPC
website, including the online archive of PCEP, is limited to your representatives only.
Any organizational member who wishes to arrange for its membership to receive individual subscriptions to
PCEP, both the printed and online versions, should contact Michael Behr ([email protected]) to
find out how to become a Subscribing Organization.
Page 4 PCE 2010 - Latest Information
30th June Alberto Zucconi (Italy): Power
issues in the helping relationship.
Alberto Zucconi, founded IACP with Carl
Rogers and Charles Devonshire, is president of
IACP and ACPItalia, teaches Client Centred Psy-
chotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine of the Uni-
versity of Siena; with Robert Elliott started the
IPEPPT international research project.
1st July Jeanne Watson (Canada): The poli-
tics of transformation: Extending the proc-
ess model.
Jeanne Watson, is a professor in the Depart-
ment of Adult Education, and Counseling Psychol-
ogy, at OISE at the University of Toronto, Can-
ada, has written numerous books, articles and
chapters on psychotherapy process and outcome
and maintains a part-time practice in Toronto.
2nd July Akira Ikemi (Japan): Empowering
the implicitly functioning relationship.
Akira Ikemi, is a professor of psychotherapy at
Kansai University, Graduate School of Profes-
sional Clinical Psychology in Osaka, Japan. A stu-
dent of Eugene Gendlin, he has written several
books, chapters and articles on Focusing and Fo-
cusing Oriented Therapy.
3rd July Godfrey Barrett-Lennard
(Australia): The nature of human relation-
ship in therapy and life: an evolving
understanding. Discussants: Jeffrey Cornelius-
White, Elke Lambers, Giovannella Nasta, Arthur
Bohart.
Godfrey Barrett-Lennard is a former student and colleague of Carl Rogers, with a half century
of contribution pivoting on the study and under-
standing of relationship in therapy and life con-
texts. In retirement he is mentor to the Counsel-
lor Training Program named after him in the Psy-
chology School, Murdoch University, Australia.
Empowerment: The politics of the helping
relationship ROME, Italy
June 30th - July 4th 2010 Aurelia Conference Center
www.pce2010.com
Keynote Speakers Announced
Bursary Fund WAPCEPC and the conference organizers are able to offer bursaries to a limited number of colleagues from countries in World Bank Categories B, C & D who need financial support in order to attend the conference.
Applications to the bursary fund must be made before January 15th, 2010.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
Page 5 PCE Research in Japan - The Current Situation
By Yukishige Nakata
What is researched in Japan often reflects what practitioners need to know for the development of their practice. Outcome research is not as ac-tive as it is in the West because Japan is not faced
with competition between schools of orientation.
PCE research carried out in Japan is mainly con-cerned with encounter and focusing, not on coun-seling practice. Group research studies have been conducted on group developmental stage theo-ries, pre-post change, and facilitation. Focusing research projects have been concerned with the application of focusing within clinical settings and the development of new techniques based on fo-cusing. The results of these studies have been es-sential for group and focusing practitioners. I would like to introduce to you two new develop-
ments in Japan, which I think of as promising.
The first is the PCAGIP (Person Centered Ap-proach to Group Incident Process) method devel-oped by Shoji Murayama. Murayama’s model is concerned about case supervision within a group setting in graduate training courses and academic conferences, where he frequently observes that supervisees and participants do not speak up, even if the supervisor does not behave authorita-tively and coercively. Another reason is because Japanese people tend to be silent in groups in gen-eral (Nakata, 2008). So it is not only about the supervisor’s facilitation style but also general Japa-nese behavior patterns. Consequently, a supervi-see learns to follow only external authority. So Murayama, who has extensive encounter group experience as a facilitator, has developed the PCAGIP method where every participant in a su-pervision group of about ten people asks one question to the case presenter in turn. When the presenter answers, another participant writes the question and response on the blackboard. Gradu-ally the blackboard becomes filled with many questions and ideas, enabling everybody, including the presenter and the facilitator, to reflect on the case. The PCAGIP method has been shown to be participatory and stimulating for participants as well as presenters. It is not a top-to-bottom
teaching method led by the supervisor but an ex-cellent learning opportunity for case presenters as they learn to be open to many new perspectives and to consider the case by themselves. Mura-yama has tried this with beginning therapists and students and will try it with experienced thera-
pists.
In addition, Yasuyuki Kira (2002) has developed another method for growth-oriented learning for therapists through focusing, which he names “Therapist Focusing”. About fifteen studies have
been carried out on this method.
The second development that I want to tell you about is FMS (Focusing Manner Scale), developed by Fukumori & Morikawa (2003), and its relevant research studies. Fukumori & Morikawa wanted to know what happens to focusing practitioners when they have gone through many focusing ex-periences. They developed FMS, a method that measures focusing attitude in daily life, not only within the focusing session. FMS has stimulated research studies on the relationship between FMS and mental health, stress and other areas of inter-est. More than twenty studies have been con-ducted, most of which have demonstrated a sig-nificant relationship with mental health. In May of this year, a symposium on FMS was held by young Japanese researchers in the 21st International Fo-cusing Conference in Japan. FMS-R, a revision that adds felt sense related items to the original ver-
sion, and an English version were presented.
Many Western participants at the symposium were interested because they do not have such a scale in their countries and they have taken the English version home. This shows that this area of research reflects a practical need that exists in other regions of the world. In addition we have learned that researchers can sometimes be blind to other themes or areas which do not reflect their own situation in practice. For example, when Mick Cooper came to Japan this summer and de-livered workshops, many participants realized, lis-
tening to his excellent lecture, the importance of
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Page 6 Personal Reflections on the 2009 Cross-Cultural
Communication Workshop in Szeged, Hungary
By Renate Motschnig
The Cross-Cultural Communication Workshop was a highly experiential and versatile event for me. Through its proposed structure of offering large-group, small-group, topic-group and panel sessions, presented as the second best design with the expectation that the best design would appear throughout the workshop, it offered an almost unbounded potential for learning and active par-ticipation. This was multiplied by the challenge of understanding each other in an atmosphere domi-nated by the Hungarian language, however with a felt respect of every language and with a constant endeavor to facilitate understanding, in particular in English. Throughout the workshop I felt a warm and welcoming atmosphere that was marked by the continuing interpersonal presence of the main organizer, Klein Sándor and his family, with all the concomitants of this family’s full engagement. Per-sonally, I came back with a multitude of learning in the areas of democracy, group facilitation qualities and styles (within and outside the PCA), freedom and rules, my responses to authority, the impor-tance of expectations for me, a feeling of commu-nity and connectedness, and a deepened apprecia-
tion of the PCA. Also, I enjoyed communicating in English and feel thankful for all opportunities I have ever had to learn this language that - to me -opens the door to understanding people of differ-
ent cultures.
One issue that keeps me thinking is that I feel that some people expressed highly personal issues and – to me – seemed not to have been heard as deeply as I would have liked them to be heard. Hence, my idea for consideration is that a team of designated facilitators meet – as was the case when Carl Rogers facilitated workshops – before the conference to work through their processes and be able to be fully present for the participants during the workshop. Also, for the time-limited small groups, in my view, a smaller size than about 20 participants would be advantageous to allow
for more depth.
In summary, 25 years after Carl Rogers co-facilitated a cross-cultural communication work-shop in Szeged, the CCC 2009 was a notable ini-tiation of the intended follow up workshops. I ap-preciate the whole experience and value it highly
for my professional and (inter)personal life.
By Werner Wascher
I went to the Cross-Cultural Communication workshop in Szeged because it was an opportu-nity to be part of a large group - a community.
This is not easy in Europe.
For me personally there could have been more time spent at the workshop within this process as a community. But I can understand that, for other participants, small groups, topic groups and panels were also essential and offered chances to learn and to grow as a person. The organizers under-stood the needs of the Hungarian participants and so it was designed with this in mind, but I must say that the chance of "making the best design in the workshop" was, in my view, very limited and there were not really opportunities to do so in
the large group. I had the same impression about the time-table and changes that occurred in the pre-planned design. The staff of the community should have listened more to the needs of the participants naturally, not openly presented, and out of the community. The cross-cultural aspect in the community was okay, but my small group was, in my view, very much Hungarian-dominated and it was not easy to get into personal contact with the other participants. It seemed to me that there was also a theoretical and practical differ-ence between what an encounter group is and the
aim of the group present in Szeged.
Part of my theoretical problem with this Hungar-ian cross-cultural workshop is that, personally and
individually, everybody always learns a lot. This
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Page 7 PCE Europe Becomes First WAPCEPC Chapter
By Magda Draskoczy, Chair of PCE Europe
The Network of European Associations for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy & Counselling (formerly NEAPCEPC, now PCE Europe) became the first regional chapter of the WA in July 2009. The chapter consists of 18 person-centred and experiential psychotherapeutic organisations (i.e. national associa-tions and training institutes) from 11 European countries. The chapter invites European organisational mem-
bers of the WA to join, so that we can develop a closer cooperation among PCE organisations in Europe.
The current, most important projects for the chapter are:
• develop and offer a PCE certificate for its members (see below) and
• represent person-centred and experiential psychotherapy and counselling in the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) and in the European Association for Counselling (EAC) and help to promote the
acceptance of this therapeutic modality in Europe.
A new website for the chapter is under development. You can find further information at the www.pce-
europe.org site.
PCE Europe unanimously decided at its General Assembly in Norwich on July 6th, 2008 to create The European Certificate for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling (PCE Certificate) for
• practitioners,
• trainers and
• training organisations.
Each member of the Member Organisations of PCE Europe is entitled to apply for the Certifi-
cate.
Among the benefits of the PCE Certificate are:
You will be visible on an official website: all certificate holders are entitled to be listed in the public online register with their data and a direct link to
their personal website.
Person-centred and experiential therapies will be visi-ble for the public: a list of qualified PCE therapists/counsellors all over Europe will be available to the
public.
Clients will be able to find qualified pce therapists and counsellors: if somebody needs a PCE therapist or counsellor anywhere in Europe, a look on the
Internet site will help.
PCE therapies will improve their impact: PCE thera-pies will strengthen their stand among the orien-
tations and show how widely the paradigm is rep-
resented.
Paper certificate: you will get a nice certificate to be displayed in your private practice or wherever
you like.
Trainers can present themselves and their workshops online: trainers will be entitled to add a personal profile to the online list in addition to their data
and the link to their website.
The PCE Certificate will aid mobility: mobility of PCE psychotherapists and counsellors within Europe
will be facilitated.
Participation at a reduced rate: certificate holders will get a reduction for the fee at PCE Europe
conferences and symposia.
For a full text of the decision of the General As-sembly and for details about the Certificate please go to www.pce-europe.org/ncertific.htm. The PCE Europe website is presently being updated so that you will be able to enter your details and easily
apply for the PCE Certificate online.
We hope that you find this new facility helpful in raising public awareness and access to you and the services you offer and look forward to issuing
your personal Certificate.
Board and Certificate Committee of PCE Europe
Page 8 Organizational Members
Current Organizational Members of WAPCEPC:
Australia The Moreno Collegium for Human
Learning
Caladenia Counselling Murdoch
University
Austria Forum APG
IPS-APG*
Belgium AFPC
Pre-Therapy International Network
VVCEPC*
Brazil
Delphos Instituto de Psicologia Hu-
manista
Czech Republic
PCA Institut
France
AFP-ACP
ACP-France
Germany
AGG
GwG
Greece
Hellenic Focusing Center
ICPS-TCPCA Hellas
Hungary
HAPCEPC
Italy
IACP
Istituto di Psicologia Umanistica
Empateia
The Netherlands
VCgP*
Portugal
APPCPC*
Slovak Republic
PCA Institut Ister
Spain
Instituto de Formacion Ramon
Serra-Escola de l’Es
Switzerland PCA-ACP
United Kingdom
BAPCA*
PCT Scotland
United States of America New York Person-Centered Re-
source Center
*Subscribing Organisations
The Swiss association SGGT-SPCP recently changed its name to pca.acp. This means that the formulation in German is now similar to the English and the French ones, with "Personzentrierten Ansatz" as a translation of "Person-Centered Approach". This event happened just before the celebration of the 30 years of the association, that will take place in November 7th, in Zürich. With some 600 members, the pca.acp is the biggest association of psychotherapists in Switzerland. For more information see www.pca-acp.ch
The GwG celebrates its 40th anniversary in June 2010 - but, before then, faces a court case. On October 7th, 2009, the GwG goes to court to argue that not only PCE for adults but also PCE for children and adolescents should be recognised as a scientific approach in Ger-many. Michael Behr and Dagmar Hölldampf are identifying outcome studies that can be used as evidence by GwG’s solicitor. Please contact them if you know of any recently published or hard to find studies at [email protected].
PCT Scotland presented Elke Lambers, former Chair of WAPCEPC, with honorary membership of the association at its annual general meeting held in June 2009. The presentation was made in recognition of the important contribution that Elke has made to the development of the person-centred approach both in Scotland and worldwide.
Organizational members play a key role in enabling
WAPCEPC to achieve its goals. The board has proposed that
this section of the newsletter be dedicated to the exchange
of news about our organizational members.
Representatives of organizational members with news to
share, please contact [email protected].
Page 9 Website News
By Beth Freire
The WAPCEPC board is really delighted with the launch of our new website. Thanks to the hard and dedicated work of Nic Wistreich and Di Eng-lish, the process of signing up for PCEP online ac-cess went smoothly, without any major ‘bug’ or problem. We invite you to visit the new website
and to explore it in full: www.pce-world.org.
We also would like to draw your attention to
some new sections of the website:
The latest update on the bibliographical survey of PCE books (and doctoral dissertations) com-piled by Germain Lietaer: http://www.pce-world.org/about-pce/bibliographies/recent-pce
-publications.html
We would like to thank Germain for the won-derful work he has done to build this amazing resource. The survey also includes references to books in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Ital-ian, Hungarian, and Japanese, thanks to the help of Alberto Segrera, Jean-Marc Priels, Al-berto Zucconi, Magda Draskoczy, and Yuki-
shige Nakata.
Germain asks that if you know of any books that are not yet included in this survey, please
send the full reference to him at
The Spanish translations of the PCE 2008 keynote speeches are now available on the website thanks to the remarkable work of Silvia Lombardi: http://www.pce-world.org/pcep-
journal/translations.html
The WAPCEPC board is immensely grateful to Silvia, who is so dedicated to the promo-tion of the WA in the Latin America person-centred community. We want to acknowl-edge publicly how extremely valuable her work has been for the development of the
WAPCEPC. Thanks a lot, Silvia!
The WAPCEPC organizational members have now two dedicated pages in the website. We are really committed to promoting our organizational members and to give them more visibility in our
website. So we have posted a list of the organiza-tional members organised by country here http://www.pce-world.org/about-us/organizational-members.html and created a special ‘links’ page dedicated exclusively to our organisational members (with small pretty snap-shots of their homepage websites): http://www.pce-world.org/about-
pce/links/organizational-members.html
Although the website is now launched, it does not mean that it is ‘ready’… There are some sections of the website that still need improvement, and we are counting on the membership to help us
with that:
Weblinks
We have created a page with ‘other weblinks’ http://www.pce-world.org/about-pce/links/other-weblinks.html. This page has been organized into
four sections:
PCE Resources
Public (non-profit) PCE Organisations
Humanistic Psychology
Psychotherapy & Counseling Research
We need your help with suggestions of weblinks to be added to these pages. If you know of other websites that might be relevant to the WAPCEPC membership, please send your suggestions to we-
Articles
We’ve created a section named ‘Articles’: http://www.pce-world.org/about-pce/articles.html and the idea is to post articles in that section that are (a) relevant or important to the WAPCEPC membership, (b) have been published elsewhere, and (c) have copyright permission. At the mo-ment we have only one article posted in this page, Mick Cooper’s article ‘Person-centred therapy: The growing edge’, originally published in Therapy Today in 1997. (This article was already posted in the old website, and we have simply imported it
into the new website). However, this section
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PCE Research In Japan - The Current Situa-tion - Yukishige Nakata
(Continued from Page 5)
conducting comparative study on psychotherapy and counseling, something that is not done in Ja-
pan.
As a board member of both WAPCEPC and the Japanese Association of Humanistic Association, I have been trying to create some kind of research link between these two associations. The Human-istic Association is the biggest one that holds Japa-nese PCE people. I presume that not only Japan but also other countries might welcome an inter-
national research link.
References
Fukumori, H. & Morikawa, Y.(2003) Relationship between Focusing and mental health in adolescents, Journal of Japanese clinical psychology 20(6), 580-587, in Japanese.
Kira, Y. (2002) Exploring the therapist's own experience by using focusing, Journal of Japanese clinical psychology 20(2), 97-107, in Japanese.
Nakata, Y.(2008) A Japanese perspective. In Haugh & Paul (Eds) The Therapeutic Relationghip: Perspectives and themes. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.
Personal Reflection - Werner Wascher(Continued from Page 6)
makes it very difficult to discuss aspects of design
and concept.
My impression is that, since the Szeged workshop with Carl Rogers in 1984, quite a lot of important publications, for example Wood (2008), Lago & MacMillan (1999), have been published that have changed our view on process and the necessary and sufficient conditions to organise and facilitate large groups and better communities, in particular, cross-cultural communities. To me it seems nec-essary that the essentials of these scientific in-sights be used in preparing for the next Cross-
Cultural-Workshop in Hungary.
References
Lago, C. & MacMillan, M. (1999) Experiences in Relatedness: Groupwork and the person-centred approach. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.
Wood, J.K. (2008) Carl Rogers’ Person-Centerd Approach: Toward an understanding of its implications. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.
Website News - Beth Freire
(Continued from Page 9)
obviously needs to be updated and we are really counting on the membership to suggest and send articles to us. Please send your contributions to this section to [email protected] In addition to these, we also need your help with suggestions and feedback for the overall improvement of the website. Please, send any comments, suggestions and feedback to [email protected]. Also, if you spot any ‘bug’, like a broken link or an ‘error 404’ page, please report it to us as soon as possible. Many thanks in advance.
An Invitation to the XI International PCA Forum
Dear Friends and Colleagues! My Russian colleagues as well as an International Organizing Committee are working hard on preparing XI International PCA Forum which will be held in Russia on May 4-10, 2010. We invite you to participate in the event, which is aimed at promoting PCA in Russia as well as worldwide. Please look at our websites (www.pca2010.com and www.pca2010.org). I would be glad if WAPCEPC members were to participate in the Forum. I would also be grateful to WAP-
CEPC members if they would inform people, who might be interested, about the Forum.
Sincerely, Veniamin(Venya) Kolpachnikov, on behalf of the Organizing Committee.
Page 11 Events 3. Stuttgarter Kinder- und Jugendtherapie-Tagung – Institut für Gesprächspsychotherapie und personzentrierte Beratung, Stuttgart (G) Interaktionelle Methoden und personzentrierte
Behandlungskonzepte Time: October, 10, 2009
Place: Stuttgart, Germany Info/contact: www.gespraechspsychotherapie.net;
www.personzentriert.eu; [email protected]
VIII Fórum Brasileiro da Abordagem Centrada na Pessoa [VIII Brazilian Fórum on the Person-Centered Approach] (P) Time: October 11 – 17, 2009 Place: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil Info: www.forumbrasileiroacp.com.br; [email protected] 14e Rencontre du Collectif Carl Rogers (F) Un monde en relation – un monde de sens (Jean-Marc Priels)
Time: October, 17 - 18, 2009
Place: Paris
Info: www.collectifcarlrogers.eu
ÖGWG-Woche 2009 (G) Mhm ... und ein bisschen mehr - Sprache in Bewegung Time: October, 21 – 24, 2009 Place: Salzburg, Brunauer Zentrum, Elisabethstr. 45
Info/contact: www.oegwg.at; [email protected]
The Person-Centered Experience (G/E) Encountergroup (in the tradition of the La Jolla Pro-
gram)
Time: October, 23 – 30, 2009
Place: Schloss Zeillern (Lower Austria)
Info/contact: www.apg-forum.at/; [email protected]
Encounter Group (P) Time: November, 4 – 7, 2009 Place: Lisboa Info/contact: Rute Brites and Mónica Pires:
www.appcpc.com; [email protected]
10. Castrop-Rauxeler Gesprächspsychotherapie-Symposium - Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Gesprächspsychotherapie (ÄGG) und Evangelisches Krankenhaus Castrop-Rauxel Erst Feuer und Flamme, dann ausgebrannt - Ätiologie und Therapie bei Burnout Time: November, 6, 2009 Place: Evangelisches Krankenhaus Castrop-Rauxel Info/contact: Sekretariat Gabriele Lührmann-Ott, Tel.
++49/(0)2305/102-2858
Symposium - 30th Anniversary of Schweizerische Gesellschaft für den Personzentrierten Ansatz (pca.acp) (G/F) „Empathie im personzentrierten Kontext heute” (Eva–
Maria Biermann-Ratjen) „Die Magie der Begegnung – Neurowissenschaftliche Aspekte personzentrierter Psychotherapie und
Beratung“ (Michael Lux)
Time: November, 7, 2009, 13.30 to approx. 20.00
Place: Restaurant Schweighof, Zurich
Info/contact: [email protected] ; www.pca-acp.ch
1. World Conference on Focusing Oriented Psycho-
therapies (E) (sponsored by The Focusing Institute and International As-
sociation for Focusing Oriented Therapists) Sharing Diversity/Building Community Time: November, 12 – 15, 2009 (Pre-Conference Day: 11, 2009)
Place: Stony Point Center, Stony Point, New York Info: www.focusing.org
Engaging the Other: 4th annual conference: The
Power of Compassion
Time: November, 12 – 15, 2009
Place: San Francisco, USA
Info: www.cbiworld.org/Pages/Conferences_ETO.htm
3. Czecho-Slovak Symposium in PCA (CS) Time: November, 19 - 21, 2009
Place: Zdar nad Sazavou, Czechia
Info: www.pca-institut.cz Focusing with Children event Hosted by VVCEPC (E) Time: November, 21-23, 2009 Place:Louvain, Belgium
Info: www.vvcepc.be; [email protected]
XVII Encontro Nordestino da Abordagem Centrada na Pessoa [XVII Nordestin Encounter on the Person-Centered Approach](P) Time: April 22-25, 2010 Place: Piauí, Brasil Info: Celina Lira, [email protected]
E = English, G = German, F = French, P = Portuguese,
CS = Czech/Slovak, S = Spanish
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3. Internationale Fachtagung für klienten-/personenzentrierte Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie (organisiert von Forum/APG, IPS/APG, ÖGWG und VRP) (G) Die Erlebnis- und Erfahrungswelt unserer Kinder Time: April, 24 – 25, 2010
Place: Kardinal König Haus, Vienna Info/contact: www.kindertherapietagungWIEN.at; [email protected] Harmony Institute, Russia, 3rd International Confer-ence – Self and Other: the Sacred Space for Dia-logue (E) Time: April, 28 – May, 2, 2010 Place: St Petersburg, Russia Info: www.inharmony.ru/eng/konferens/ XI. International Forum on the Person-Centered Approach (E) Time: May, 4 – 10, 2010 Place: Moscow, Russia Info/contact: www.pca2010.org; www.pca2010.com; Ve-niamin Kolpachnikov [email protected]
22. International Focusing Conference (G/E) Focusing, Veränderung und Verantwortung Time: May, 5 - 9, 2010 Place: Pforzheim
Info/contact: www.focusing.de 40 Jahre Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Gesprächspsychotherapie (GwG) (G) Personzentrierte Psychotherapie & Beratung - der humanistische Weg aus der Krise Time: June, 11 - 12, 2010 Place: Mainz
Info/contact: www.gwg-ev.org; [email protected]
9th PCE Conference (E) Empowerment: The Politics of the Helping Relationship Time: June, 30 – July, 4, 2010 Place: Aurelia Convention Centre, Rome, Italy Info/contact: www.pce2010.com/; secre-
III Fórum Paulista da Abordagem Centrada na Pessoa [III Paulist Fórum on the Person-Centered Approach] (P) Time: July 7 – 11, 2010 Place: São Paulo, Brasil Info: http://www.apacp.org/; [email protected] 2. DGfB-Kongress (G) "Da hol' ich mir Beratung - Professionalität und Verantwortung im Spannungsfeld von Markt und Sozialstaatlichkeit" Time: September, 24 - 25, 2010 Place: Frankfurt Info/contact: www.dachverband-beratung.de;
XV Encontro Latino Americano da Abordagem Centrada na Pessoa / XV Encuentro Latinoamericano del Enfoque Centrado em la Persona [XV Latin American Encounter on the Person-Centered Approach] (S/P) Time: October 9 – 16, 2010 Place: Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil Info: Centro de Psicologia Humanista Minas Gerais [email protected]
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World Congress for Psychotherapy 2011 (E)
Date: August, 24 - 28, 2011
Place: Sydney, Australia
Info: www.wcp2011.org
II Foro Mexicano del Enfoque Centrado en la Per-sona [II Mexican Forum on the Person-Centered
Approach](S) Date: 2011 Place: México
E = English, G = German, F = French, P = Portuguese,
CS = Czech/Slovak, S = Spanish
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Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, the journal of the World Association, has recently published Issue 8.3 while Issue 8. 4, a special issue on person-centered therapy with children and adolescents, is currently in press. We continue to have a healthy publication queue as the number of new submissions continues to grow. Currently we are working on two new special issues one on diversity and the other on non-directivity. New submissions can be sent to any one of the co-editors. However Mick Cooper will begin receiv-
ing papers in January 2010.
While we continue to have a healthy publication queue, we would like to encourage submissions from authors whose first language is not English. The co-editors feel strongly that exchanging ideas across cultures and language groups is important. To assist with the somewhat onerous task of writing in a foreign language we would like to en-courage those authors whose primary language is not English to team up with English speaking au-thors. To promote contact and the forging of alli-ances we would like to invite authors to post pro-jects, ideas, and research studies that they wish to write up on the journal web site asking for inter-ested English speaking co-authors to contact
them.
The four co-editors met in London in July 2009 to review matters pertaining to the Journal, and to plan ahead for the year. We revisited the man-date of the Journal and agreed that the focus of
PCEP is on psychotherapy. However this is de-fined quite broadly and covers such topics as per-sonality theory, developmental issues, psychologi-cal functioning, and specific topics related to per-son-centered and experiential theory. We con-tinue to encourage our readership to submit em-pirical papers, including quantitative and qualitative research studies. We are particularly interested in case studies that attempt to test our theories and help to illuminate how we work in therapy. Given that the review process for empirical pa-pers can be somewhat rigorous, the co-editors would like to encourage the membership to con-sult with them before beginning a study. This con-sultation would provide preliminary input on methodological issues to prevent problems that can emerge after the study has been completed that might compromise the possibility of publish-
ing the findings.
We welcome new members to the Editorial Board and thank all the members of the Editorial Board for their continued support in reviewing papers. Their efforts are highly valued and are vital to the ongoing development and maintenance
of the journal.
Peter F. Schmid [email protected]
William B. Stiles [email protected]
Jeanne Watson [email protected]
Mick Cooper [email protected]
September 2009
Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies Journal of the World Association for Person Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling
Editors: Peter F. Schmid, Austria; William Stiles, USA; Jeanne Watson, Canada; Mick Cooper, UK
Editor Emeritus: Robert Elliott
Register for PCE 2010 by January 31st, 2010 to secure the Early Bird rate.
For more information, visit www.pce2010.com