2022 ADPCA Conference

吴今 Jin Wu、刘懿亿 Yee Liu

Seeking peer consultation for a person-centered counseling training program currently being designed. All are welcome.

Salvador Moreno-López

Using the music of language and the jazz-duet analogy to understand and guide the therapeutic relationship.

吴今 Jin Wu

Supervision is an organic part of the counseling profession. Some person-centered counselors do not like the power dynamics in traditional supervision. In recent years I have done some clinical supervision work in both the United States and China, and I hope to share experiences and ideas about supervision with colleagues in this session.

Marjorie Witty & Carolyn Schneider

Reflecting on his contributions to person-centered theory and practice, and a review of his major contributions.

Honorata Chorazy-Przybysz

This will be a presentation allowing questions and discussion, showing how person-centered factors such as acceptance, empathy, and non-judgmental attitude can creatively influence participants in community arts groups. The session will illustrate the difference between directive methods and person-centered methods in creative work when the focus shifts from product to process and internal evaluation.

吴今、刘懿亿、李佳翔

Empathic listening demonstration plus discussion; the specific format will be decided jointly by participants.

Jo Cohen、Edgardo Riveros、Isaiah Smola

We will briefly present the therapy of Ellen West and Rogers' 1958 argument: how person-centered therapy might have prevented West's eventual tragic suicide. Rogers hypothesized that if the therapist had been more genuine, empathic, accepting, and valuing of West's self-actualizing potential, West could have grown into a more fully functioning person. We will also reflect on whether and how diagnosis, analysis, interpretation, and other objectifying communications deepened West's separation from organismic experience and real self.

Sarah Boles

A counselor's personal wellbeing directly affects the quality of their work with clients. The speaker will share her experience as a person-centered counselor, how she views colleagues' struggles with self-care, and invite an ethical exploration of the topic: What kind of counselor do you and I want to become, and how do we move toward that?

Art Bohart

Exploring the nature of empathic witnessing and how it works. One axiom of the person-centered approach is that therapy can help clients without giving directive information (advice, explanations, techniques). Empathic witnessing is one of the best examples—one person's empathic attention to another, in its purity, can itself be healing.

Sherry Singh Panchal & Jo Hilton

This workshop explores the concept of "thoughtless awareness"—a state of "mental silence." We will discuss what it is, how to achieve it, its use in the counseling process and the counseling relationship, and how it relates to counselor self-care. The session will conclude with experiential exercises and discussion time.

Dr. Amanda Goldman & Patrick Noonan

Introducing a practice in an under-resourced region of the United States that upholds the core values of the person-centered approach, followed by discussion with the audience. The "conditions" Rogers set forth to foster personal growth and empowerment are being undermined by surrounding treatment approaches that use directive and authoritative methods—the speakers share their commitment to maintaining a growth-promoting atmosphere.

吴今 Jin Wu、刘懿亿 Yee Liu

This is an open discussion about various issues related to sexual and gender minorities in counseling.

Barbara & Heather Williams

This program has served children in Italy, France, and the United States for over 20 years. Carl Rogers helped design it to awaken children's innate trust, receptivity, empathy, and congruence—qualities that, when supported and nurtured, give them lifelong confidence and resilience. Children experience the workshop through activities they enjoy.

刘懿亿

Building on the speaker's study of several person-centered theorists' understandings of the healing power of empathy, the speaker offers her own reflections on this question.

Seb Heid

When it comes to power, most theories focus on its relative stability and how it places people in social hierarchies. The speaker takes a philosophy-of-psychological-process perspective, focusing on the here-and-now—how power is experienced in people's moment-to-moment interactions—and presents a basic conceptual model describing the different factors at play in the experience of power and how these relate to person-centered helping methods.

Edwin Rutsch

Experience the Empathy Circle process in small breakout groups. Grounded in Rogers' active listening practice, this process enhances mutual understanding and connection by ensuring that each person feels fully and completely heard. It is one of the most effective introductory exercises for learning and practicing deep listening and empathy skills.

Laura Lauko Fernandez

An open discussion.

Antonio Santos

杨吉鹰 Mark Yang

This lecture draws on a chapter from a recently completed book and explores issues in supervision from an existential-humanistic theoretical orientation: commonalities between Daoist thought and existential-humanistic thought, the role of supervision as mirroring rather than monitoring, embodiment/experiential learning, inspiring rather than merely imparting knowledge, going beyond technique, cultivating awareness, surrendering and learning to let go, the core of the supervisory relationship, being present and living in the now.

Ani de la Prida

Relational depth describes a profound and real connection between counselor and client; experiencing this connection helps facilitate the therapeutic process. The speaker has found that using art in therapeutic work can promote relational depth in therapy and also foster a deeper connection with oneself. The workshop will offer opportunities for creative art exercises to explore this concept experientially; please bring basic art supplies or digital drawing software.

Awards presented to Alberto Zucconi, Margaret Warner, and others. Separate registration required.