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 [...]

To Be That Self Which One Truly Is: Carl Rogers

“To Be That Self Which One Truly Is” is published in Carl Rogers’s book “On Becoming a Person.”
In this essay he provides guidance for opening oneself up to the process-nature of one’s self while relating it to the question: “What are my goals in life?” That is, how are we to realize these goals? [...]

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, [...]