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Upcoming Events
Online event: My Journey into Self
with Dr. Dominic Cirincione
July 11, 2026 - 9AM PT
My Journey into Self
Dominic Cirincione, MA., PhD, CPC
Early on in my life, I learned that people were very important and that I was interested in how individuals were dfferent and yet we were all the same. I want to share with any willing listener my journey from studies of the spiritual life to the internal life and psychotherapy.
I was very fortunate to have met and worked with Carl Rogers beginning in 1968. I cherished his value of the person and his ability to listen to the other person’s world.
I saw this as a baseline way of working with and being with people.
I was also deeply curious about other ways in which I might reach individuals seeking help using other modalities, I would like to share that journey through other therapies and then creating a center, with some colleagues, which focused on feeling and exercising the personality to have a more satisfying life.
Join me in an open discussion of learning to find oneself and escorting others on their inner journey.
Dominic
If you'd like to attend please write to info@centerfortheperson.org, and we will send you the Zoom link
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.
This is not therapy, yet many times it is very therapeutic to have others “be with” you with compassionate hearts as you explore parts of you. Most, if not all, of the people who attend, are people with whom I have had very warm, intensive personal encounters. They are authentic caring, sensitive, and willing to be vulnerable, “seekers.” Our sessions are compassionate spaces to explore your inner life and sometimes get feedback from others who are on a similar journey.
Our approach is grounded in congruence—authenticity and genuineness, accurate empathy, and unconditional positive regard. You are free in this setting to explore your way of being a partner, a leader, a caregiver, or perhaps a lost soul or a found soul. All ways of being are welcomed here! In this safe, non-judgmental community, you have the opportunity to disconnect from the activity of the outside world and just explore quietly, or through dialogue and listening to others, how you “do your life,” or how “you do life in your workplace.” Here we don’t have to work at changing. We have experienced that change takes place naturally, as we take the time to look, reflect, and share ourselves.
Space is limited. We probably have room for 20 participants and 11 have already signed up.
If interested please contact Pat: patrickhowley0@gmail.com I will send you more information and answer any questions you might have.
Recurring Meetings and older events
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.
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 Wednesday of the month.
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.
The PCIE Project’s main goal is to create opportunities for educators interested in both a person-centered approach and an integral approach in education to apply these understandings with both self and others…