“I am impressed with the calm and ease of the course leaders,” “very much present, listening and participating.”  “They are quite different in style from each other which enhances the learning,” an “excellent integration of the theoretical and experiential.”

Continuing Education Units: 16 Units for Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, and Registered Nurses; and National Board for Certified Counselors.

This program is done in partnership between The Chicago Counseling Associates and Center for Studies of the Person (CSP).

* This course will be conducted in English.

The course is approved for all mental health professionals including, psychologists, counselors, psychotherapists and nurses.

The 16 Units for Continuing Education will be offered by The Chicago Counseling Associates, which is aproved by The State of Illinois Department of financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) for continuing education for psychologists and social workers.

Professions should check with their licensing board if they accept Continuing Education Credits from the State of Illinois.

FROM A PARTICIPANT’S JOURNAL:

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Throughout this person-centered training, I’m repeatedly returning to that only in such a group of empathic attitudes and genuine responding does it become possible for me to be congruent, to say to myself and to the group the things that I’m really thinking.  And when I am less defensive, I am freer to accept others, too.  It’s a heady thing, this feeling of permission to be yourself with others.  I think I’ve only felt this with those very close to me and it doesn’t happen every day.  It’s invigorating and exciting and is bringing up an awful lot.

It’s not just me; we’re all touched by our trainers’ encouragement around finding definitions that make sense to us, as well as dismissing the parts of Rogers’s theory that aren’t (for lack of a better term) congruent with our worldview.

More and more, it’s clear to me that one of the more important things distinguishing this training from my experience of school and agency work is that we are treated like people with resources within us rather than boxes to be filled with information.  I’ve enjoyed several skills-based trainings, and really liked the feeling of getting better at a specific therapeutic style, but this way of learning feels…more important.  Little by little, I am stopping to notice whether I’m treating myself and others as people, too.

Course Objectives

The faculty is striving that students gain clarity with the PCA as a psychotherapeutic approach:

• To describe the basic concepts of Person Centered Approaches and its application to psychotherapy, education and organization consultation.
• To distinguish the application of Person Centered Approaches from other, more directive approaches to behavioral change.
• To apply and experience listening at a depth.
• To discuss and understand the six essential conditions for therapeutic change.
• To experience and practice receiving Empathy, Unconditional Positive Regard, and Congruence.
• To explain the nature of the self in its application within the theory of the Person Centered Approach.
• To experience Person Centered Psychotherapy in small and large groups.

Course Outline

• Clarify student and faculty objectives
• History of the Approach
• Who was Carl Rogers—the man, his practice, his ideas
• Faculty stories and experience with PCA
• Participant practice, a demonstration

Event Schedule

October 2nd

USA (PDT) – 10AM – 1:00PM

Brazil – 2PM – 5PM

Europe – 7PM – 10PM

October 3rd

USA (PDT) – 6AM – 9AM &  10AM – 1PM

Brazil – 10AM – 1PM &  2AM – 5PM

Europe – 3PM – 6PM &  7PM – 10PM

October 4th

USA (PDT) – 6AM – 9AM &  10AM – 1PM

Brazil – 10AM – 1PM &  2AM – 5PM

Europe – 3PM – 6PM &  7PM – 10PM

Event Pricing

Students and people enduring financial hardships, please use the form below to apply for a discounted rate of $100 (US), to the 2020 Person Centered Psychotherapy Course.