Carl Rogers: The Good Life (a condensation)

I’ve been obsessing over Carl Rogers these days and would like to briefly outline techniques for enacting and engaging in “the good life” as drawn out in his piece “A Therapist’s View of the Good Life.”
THE GOOD LIFE: A Process
1. An Increasing Openness to Experience: Your armor has disintegrated and you are more at [...]

Person as a Fluid Process (Spending Time with Carl R. Rogers Part 2)

Image via WikipediaYesterday, I had the pleasure of reading Carl R. Rogers’s essay “What it Means to Become a Person” from his book “On Becoming a Person.” In this essay, Rogers discusses the idea of “false faces” and “pure culture” while opening up what he calls the “fluid process” experience of personhood. As with my [...]

Sensitive Empathy or Spending Time With Carl R. Rogers

Image from WikipediaCarl R. Rogers provides us with a look at our relationships, with our uniquely human interactions with those around us and with our self-reflective communication (our talk about our talk, our talk to our self). Rogers, in his book “On Becoming a Person,” has compiled many of his essays on self-development, communication, listening, [...]