Aktuelle Mitteilungen | Boletín informativo
WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR PERSON-CENTERED AND
EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING
NEWSLETTER October 2001
Aktuelle Mitteilungen | Boletín informativo
Dear World Association Member
The WAPCEPC Board has decided to keep in touch with members through a regular
Newsletter, of which this is the second edition. Since the great majority
of members have access to e-mail, it seemed sensible for a number of reasons,
including speed and cost, to communicate via this medium where possible. We
do, however, lose out on fancy graphics and formatting!
Your contributions to the Newsletter are very welcome. Please send to newsletter@pce-world.org.
Also, if you are receiving this by snail-mail, please let us have your e-mail or
fax number if you have either. Thanks.
PCE
CONFERENCE
The triennial conference of the World Association (formerly ICCCEP) will next be held in Noorwijkerhout, Holland from July 6 - 11 2003. The conference is to be hosted by the Dutch organisation, VCgP. Your questions and suggestions can be addressed to pce-conference@pce-world.org.
NEW
TRANSLATION
Jean-Marc Randin has translated 'The Carl Rogers Reader' into
French. Together with Natalie Rogers, he chose the title 'L'approche centrée
sur la personne', because he believes that the usual term, "non-directivité
(non-directivity)", leads to misunderstanding of the approach. Jean-Marc
has put a great deal of work into this project, particularly in respect of the
quality of the translation, and hopes that its publication will lead to a better
understanding of the Person-Centred Approach.
The complete reference for the French publication of The Carl Rogers Reader is:
ROGERS C.R., L'approche centrée sur la personne, Lausanne, Randin, 2001 (544
p.)
8TH
PCA FORUM IN JAPAN
The Forum had 107 attendees from 17 countries in Asia, Africa,
Europe, North America, and South America. This means attendees were from almost
all over the world. At first we had anxiety that no people might come to Japan,
because we are more used to visiting foreign countries than to playing host.
Actually as there were 49 attendees from foreign countries and 58 from Japan, it
might show our tendency. However, 49 attendees from 16 countries had very deep
meaning for us.
We had very good time, with talking, many presentations, silence at the
community meeting, dancing, singing, visiting elementary school by the forum
site, visiting Buddhist temple, Ikebana (flower arrangement), Sado (tea ceremony),
Shodo (calligraphy) and so on. It was unconditionally fun! We felt very close
each other. It was big harmony. I strongly wish this harmony spread all over the
world. The New York tragedy happened only 10 days after the Forum. Now, I am
finding this Forum has a deep meaning.
With my deep wishes
Kazuo Yamashita
ADPCA
2001
The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for the
Development of the Person-Centred Approach (ADPCA) was held at the beginning of
June in Manchester, UK. The Conference was a truly international event,
with over 50 of the 175 participants living outside the UK. Countries
represented were: Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, Denmark, Czech
Republic, France, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, USA, England, Scotland
and Wales.
There was a rich programme of theoretical inputs, practice demonstrations and
workshops and the most frequently-heard complaint was of too much choice. However,
let it not be thought that the conference was all work and no play. In
addition to the planned entertainment of a live band and a performance by the
Manchester Community Choir, there was some seriously bad snooker played and an
impromptu Karaoke evening turned out to be one of the highlights of the event!
Evaluation forms were overwhelmingly positive. However, the view was
expressed that person-centred events should not have a pre-decided schedule.
LETTERS
Allan Turner, one of the organisers of ADPCA 2001, writes:
I think there is value in a totally unstructured meeting provided that there
is little else on the agenda. I think that there have been serious mistakes made
in the past by assuming that it is possible to run almost anything in an
unstructured way - I see this as a time wasting pipe dream.
It seems to me that the real challenge is to find ways of organising ourselves
so that everyone has a voice and that voice is genuinely listened to. I do not
think that a total lack of structure is likely to achieve that and I do not
think that we can expect to be taken seriously as an approach to psychotherapy
if we continue to insist that all decisions have to be made in the chaotic
manner which unorganised, unstructured meetings are likely to cause.
It is certainly the case that an unstructured group could organise a FEW in
depth meetings and presentations. I think the number would have been greatly
reduced and that it is very unfair to expect people to prepare a presentation,
travel half way round the world only to find that they do not get the
opportunity to present it because the organisers failed to do their job (organise).
Additionally, I would expect a great deal of criticism from people who had spent
a lot of money and time to come to the event. As I have previously said I think
that the view that the Manchester organising committee acted in an authoritarian
way is a minority one which seeks to pursue an experiment which was popular in
the student movement of the sixties. I think that it would have done harm to the
Person Centred movement within Britain to have collected approximately $500 from
180 people and then tell them that if they were lucky something may be organised
but if not you can just argue about it for 4 days.
I believe that the Person Centred approach has problems with power and if we
cannot learn to exercise it responsibly and for the common good the strong
dominate and those who are not good at defending themselves against the strong
are crushed by quasi freedom.
(Replies to Allan, and any other news or comment, to: newsletter@pce-world.org)
WAPCEPC
JOURNAL
Submissions to the forthcoming Journal are very much welcomed by
the Editorial Board. Since we have a number of new members, information
about the Journal is repeated below (with apologies to the 'old' members!).
The Journal will be entitled "Person-Centred and Experiential
Psychotherapies" and will commence publication in the second half of 2002,
which, fortuitously, is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Carl
Rogers. The Managing Editor is Robert Elliott. Dave Mearns and Peter
Schmid are Co-Editors.
The mission of the Journal is to encourage and disseminate, worldwide, new work
on Person-Centered and Experiential therapies, including philosophy, theory,
practice, training, and research. The journal will not give preference to
any parts of the world, nor to any philosophical or theoretical emphases within
the approach. Just as the triennial World Conference on Person-Centered
and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling (previously ICCCEP) has succeeded
in maintaining an openness to the whole person-centered and experiential field,
so too will the Journal maintain that spirit of inclusiveness.
As an international journal, Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies
will appear in English, but will be fully cognizant of the major
contributions made by those from non-English-speaking countries. Thus, the
Journal will publish abstracts of all articles in up to four languages, English,
German, Spanish, and, if appropriate, the language of the submitter.
The Journal will commence publication with two special issues:
(1) New Developments in Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy. The
first issue of the Journal will address new developments in Person-Centered and
Experiential therapies. These may be developments in regard to our
understanding of the philosophies reflected by the approach, the theory
underpinning it, its practice, and current research (including research reviews).
(2) The Continuing Contributions of Carl Rogers to Psychotherapy and
Counseling. The second issue of the Journal will be devoted to new
work on the continuing legacy and influences of Carl Rogers to theory, practice,
training and research in psychotherapy and counseling. We are particularly
interested in pieces that address Rogers' contributions in light of challenges
from biological/medical and other theoretical approaches, evidence-based mental
health, and developments in contemporary society such as globalization. Such
pieces might include extrapolating the trajectory of Rogers' thought to these
and other current developments.
Contributions of different lengths are invited, including both standard
article-length pieces of 3000 - 7000 words (including references) and shorter
reports and reviews of 1000 - 2,500 words. It is hoped to set in place a 'fast-track'
refereeing procedure for the first volume of the journal. This should allow an
article to be reviewed by three international referees and for collated feedback
to be given within a six to eight week period.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
To assist this efficient process, where possible, articles should be submitted
as email attachments to the following e-mail address: journal@pce-world.org.
If electronic submission is not possible, then four copies of the article should
be sent, along with a copy of the paper on disk. Paper copies of articles
should be sent to the establishment co-editor: Professor Robert Elliott,
Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA.
Potential contributors are encouraged to contact journal@pce-world.org
for further information, or to consult the website, www.pce-world.org.
MEMBERSHIP
It is important that the Association attracts new members in order to keep down
the costs of the Journal and, hence, membership fees. Existing members can
be of great help in this, first, in encouraging colleagues to join and, secondly,
in letting the Board know of any organisations or individuals which might be
approached. Please do this by e-mailing: membership-promotion@pce-world.org.
Also, if you can distribute our new leaflet, please order as many as you need
via the same address.
Membership fees can now be paid direct
by credit card (so that the currency change is done automatically) via the
website .
EVENTS
Further information about
the events below can be obtained via the World Association website, www.pce-world.org.
IV FORUM BRASILEIRO DA ACP
28 Oct.- 3 Nov., 2001
Pirenopólis/GO - Brasília/DF
Contacto: Ana Lúcia
cphb@zaz.com.br
ÄGG-TAGUNG 2001
9-10 Nov 2001
"Komorbidität"
Hans-Prinzhorn-Klinik, Herner
Organisation: H. L. Becker
Tel.: +49 2372 861108
NETWORK OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATIONS FOR
PERSON-CENTRED AND EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING (NEAPCEPC)
9-11 Nov 2001, Brussels
4th General Assembly
4e Assemblée Generale
Generalversammlung 2001
www.pce-europe.org
ADVANCING PERSON-CENTRED THEORY AND PRACTICE:
WHAT IS ESSENTIAL?
An International Colloquium on the 100th Anniversary of Carl Rogers"
with
* Ute Binder, D
* Elke Lambers, GB
* Polly Iossifides, GR
* Dave Mearns, GB
* Martin van Kalmthout, NL
* Peter F. Schmid, A
Vienna, November 23-24, 2001
Information and application: pfs@pfs-online.at
Website: www.pca-online.net
WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL
"CENTENAIRE DE CARL ROGERS. Actualité de son message personnaliste "
Paris, 26-27 Jan 2002
www.pca-online.net
THE AUSTRIA PROGRAM
former La Jolla Program in Austria
24th program 2002
29 - 5 May/June 2002
Großrußbach, Lower Austria
akademie-ips@gmx.at
www.personzentriert.at
3rd WORLD CONGRESS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
3e CONGRÈS MONDIAL DE PSYCHOTHÉRAPIE
3. WELTKONGRESS FÜR PSYCHOTHERAPIE
3. CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE PSICOTERAPIA
Vienna | Vienne | Wien | Viena
July | Juillet | Juli | Julio 14-18, 2002
"Anima mundi - The challenge of globalisation"
SUBSYMPOSIUM Carl Rogers 1902 - 2002
Reflections - Encounters - Perspectives
www.pca-online.net
ADPCA
14-18 Aug 2002
Cleveland, Ohio
kevinpsy@aol.com
Newsletter editor: Janet Tolan