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Carl Rogers Library and Store
The Carl Rogers Memorial Library is a public resource featuring works by Carl R. Rogers, his contemporaries, students, critics and colleagues, and people…
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CSP Events
CSP hosts numerous workshops and conferences, including the Carl Rogers Annual Conference, Person-Centered Psychotherapy, as well as encounter groups.
“Psychologically, we are a close community, supporting each other but criticizing each other just as openly. Although our director has routine responsibilities, no one is in authority over anyone else. Everyone can do as he wishes, alone or in concert with others. Everyone is responsible for his own support…
There is absolutely nothing holding us together except a common interest in the dignity and capacity of persons and the continuing possibility of deep and real communications with each other. To me it is a great experiment in building a functioning group – a non-organization really—entirely based on the strength of interpersonal sharing.”
A Way of Being, Carl Rogers, 1980
CSP Upcoming Events
ENCOUNTER WITH SELF
Retreat & Workshop: “Exploring Your Way of Being"!
October 9th, 10 & 11th 2026
Pat Howley, Board Member of CSPGLOBAL
History: For forty years, since the early 1980’s, “Exploring Your Way of Being” (now called, Encounter with S/self”), a personal growth lab, has taken place near the shore in Wakefield, Rhode Island.
These retreats have continued on and off every year since then. Our first group was attended by over 30 participants. We squeezed into a small house with one bathroom. Many brought tents. As I age, I personally am now looking for more physical comfort! But the essence of our meetings have not changed. Our meetings are relatively unstructured, and we invite people to explore how they do themselves. We encourage participants to explore their way of being and to imagine and risk new ways of doing themselves in a setting of acceptance, understanding, and genuineness.
What to know:
This weekend is mostly unstructured. The agenda is open for you, if ready or when ready, to take risks and share yourself or parts of your “self” that you are unsure about. You might want to listen a lot to others, or you may want and need to take deep dives within yourself. You are free to explore your inner self in the way that fits best for you and where you are in your life.
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CSP Projects
Person-Centered Psychotherapy
The Person-Centered Psychotherapy Project has been in existence for the last five years, and we have trained people from many parts of the world, including India, Europe, South America, and North America. Our work has been to provide high-quality training in the Person-Centered Psychotherapy that emerged from the Person-Centered Approach developed by Carl Rogers.
The La Jolla Program
For more than half a century, The La Jolla Program has been at the world forefront of practicing our versions of interpersonal encounters. We convene together, facing one another, using the opportunity to talk and otherwise communicate. Our aim is to understand and experience our personal relatedness to happenings that concern us.
BIOSYNERGY PROJECT
The natural quest for biosynergy – the synergy of all life – has been ongoing for endless eons. Long before Aristotle’s illumination of the concept of synergy – the whole is greater than the sum of its parts — explorers, seekers, & scientists have seen earthlings from micro-organism clouds to human communities to natural ecosystems collaborating in mutual biosynergy for the greater good.
In Loving Memory
Our Member, friend, and beloved pianist
Fontaine Laing died soon after her 95th birthday.
A memorial Service for her life will be held June 14 at 1:30 PM
at the Self Realization Fellowship (SRF) temple at 939 2nd Street in Encinitas, Ca.
With great sadness we send notice of the death of our long-time member, Jan H.Ritt.
Laughing, singing, grieving, loving, a wonderful and supportive person to have with us in life.
Jan's memorial service has been scheduled for Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 11 a.m. at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 33501 Stonehill Drive, Dana Point, CA 92629.
There will be a lunch following the service.
Recurring CSP Meetings
Encounter With Self
Encounter with Self is a group designed, supported, and facilitated to promote personal growth through witnessing (primarily listening and observing oneself in a “sacred I space”) and a sharing of self in a sacred “we space” of a group encounter. Our time also will provide opportunities for intermittent silent introspection.
PCA International
Antonio Santos hosts a weekly PCA International Zoom meeting, Sunday mornings at 6 AM Pacific Daylight Time. This accommodates the needs of attendees who are spread across the globe. The meeting runs for two hours and is well attended by members of the International PCA Community, CSP, and others.
CSP Encounter
In an effort to bring the Center’s encounter group experience to the general public, CSP facilitators currently offer a two-and-a-half-hour sampling of what it is like in CSP’s more intensive face-to-face experiences. Will Stillwell is facilitating CSP Encounter meetings on the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
FROM THE CSP BLOG
The Significance of the Person-Centered Approach in Education as seen through the Eyes of Three High School Students and their PCA Counselor/Facilitator
The Role of Color and Music in Overcoming the Ego for Civil and Social Justice
Authoritarianism and the Person-Centered Approach: A Firsthand Account of the L.A. Protests
The Role of Color and Music in Overcoming the Ego for Civil and Social Justice
A Miracle of “We!”
Reflections on Carl Rogers’ Interview of a teenager (Elaine) on a Psychiatric Ward (1959)
Some thoughts and feelings of Patrick Howley, a person-centered counselor from Rhode Island, after reading the interview of Elaine.
When Presence Becomes a Way of Life
Throughout my journey, I increasingly perceive that my life path has never truly followed that of a conventional professional trajectory. It resembles far more an inner and relational crossing, a constant search for coherence between who I deeply am, human relationships, and the collective structures within which we evolve.
The Impact of Transpersonal Psychology on Understanding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela
The Role of Color and Music in Overcoming the Ego for Civil and Social Justice
What Is the Person-Centered Approach?
The Person-Centered Approach was developed from the work of the psychologist Dr. Carl Rogers (1902–1987). He advanced an approach to psychotherapy and counseling that, at the time (the 1940s–1960s), was considered extremely radical, if not revolutionary. Originally described as non-directive, this therapy moved away from the idea that the therapist was the expert and towards…