KJELL RIBERT

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I got acquainted with Rogers’ thought at the same time I started up plunging into the field of conflictology, and thoroughly learned that how you do things strongly affects what you do. And the how’s are more often than not much more crucial than the whats. Since the onset of my professional life I have been concerned about…

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SOPHIE MULLER

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Μy journey with the Person-Centered Approach started in 2009 with meditation. Sitting quietly with myself, letting go of the many thoughts that inundated me, I started discovering who I was, and understood the power of self-compassion. I also further developed my awareness of being connected to everyone and everything. Until I read A Way of…

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KATHRYN MEADOWS

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President and CEO of Camelot-USA, Inc. She teaches competence in Leadership and Management, training leaders to become competent in work relationships. She is a linguist using language and PCA to prize and maintain differences in relationships and to build new community. She is currently working on a conference for CSP of its past, present and…

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BOB LEE

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In a past life, Bob was a teacher, counselor, and administrator in the San Diego Unified school district. He became acquainted with Carl Rogers and Client-Centered Therapy and the encounter group in 1963. This took place in a Counseling Institute held at San Diego State University in San Diego, California, USA. He thought that what…

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KEYNAN HOBBS

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My interest in the Person Centered Approach began while I was failing at a new job. I had an office mate named Barbara Bonnice who had been studying PCA in organizations for some time, and was a CSP member. I noticed that she excelled in the areas where I was failing, and with the influence…

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SILVIA DUBOVOY

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Silvia C. Dubovoy, is the great grandmother of Olivia, grandmother of 11 grandchildren and 4 children. Has a M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Universidad de Barcelona and is a lecturer, consultant and teacher trainer for Montessori teachers from birth to six years of age for Association Montessori Internationale. Started as a teacher since…

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JAY DOWNING

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My name is Jay Downing. In my professional life I am a university administrator, a Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at a regional college in Texas. In my personal life I am a spouse and a father of two daughters. I earned my Ph.D. in psychology from the…

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OTHER ANIMALS ARE POSITIVE TOO

Anthony Rose

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I don’t recall discussing these experiences with Carl. When I left Kaiser Permanente and returned to CSP in 1984, I doubt he heard about my epiphanies with orangutans and gorillas. He didn’t know I was studying great ape ethology and writing about the positive nature of our common primate personhood. Rogers had begun to look…

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NEW PARADIGMS FOR PERSONHOOD

Anthony Rose

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Since the 1994 founding of The Biosynergy Institute, our theories and visions, research and innovations, achievements and ongoing programs have evolved in effects, vision, and potential. This year (2021) a new CSP Biosynergy Project will be launched to stand with the Center’s other Internet offerings. There you’ll find a large assortment of articles, essays, poetry…

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ALL PATHS LEAD TO THE PERSON

Anthony Rose

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A half century ago I came to La Jolla to walk by the side of persons who offered an alternative path for psychologists. A positive path. A soft path. A path with heart. A person-centered path that, for me, has wound ‘round the world, exploring the myriad manifestations of personhood in humanity and beyond to…

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