LA JOLLA PROGRAM 2025

We encounter ourselves and each other during our five days together.                       We want to listen deeply;                                                                                                  listen to intriguing stories we might never have guessed                                           about how people are meeting and making their worlds                                              and the inhabitants there.                                                                                                     We listen to the stuck places, the delightful, the boring;                                              open for the possibilities--                                                                                               where can that movement toward freedom take us?

From other people every participant hears echoes                                                            or new truths about himself, and works and plays                                                             to express how to better interrelate his own obscurities and clarities.                        Oh, and for certain, each of us allows herself her own time--                                          and that's important.                                                                                                                For me, new realizations slide up, then wash through--                                                 then again another rolls through.

Let us be creative and come together, immerse ourselves in a five-day continuing journey of an encounter group experience to learn and to grow.

Will Stillwell

Successfully Encountered: La Jolla On-Line, February 2025

Adventure Yet to Come!

June 19 (evening) through June 23 (midday) 2025

IN PERSON, Devon, United Kingdom

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We need not cook-up a danger. Openness to personal change; being in moments without agenda for accomplishment; allowing for unexpected, emerging experiences; listening to our feelings and deeper truths and dreams in our interactions with each other — these are positive practices in personal attitudes that will help us become “a community in which every soft voice, every subtle feeling has its respected place” (Carl R Rogers)

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THE LA JOLLA PROGRAM

The La Jolla Program was founded in 1966, as part of American psychologist Carl Rogers’ work bringing discoveries from his approach in personal psychotherapy to a format fostering further social as well as individual growth. La Jolla Program staff facilitators arise from and continue that person-centered tradition. We live in the original values and philosophies that have been in the fabric of this experience since its inception.

We believe that through participating in bringing about an environment in which each person can feel free to be who they are, in their uniqueness and in their own style of expression, all are more likely to experience a sense of belonging and deep connection – within themselves and with one another.

We carry this tradition in our sixth decade of practice now into an on-line medium, and the challenges we all face in the twenty-first century.