Rogers. The work.
Eight strangers, sixteen hours, led by Carl Rogers and Richard Farson. The documentary made from it, Journey into Self, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Doubting the work without doubting ourselves
A facilitator secure enough to say he is uneasy, in his first minutes with the group.
Carl Rogers
Being accurately understood
What it is like to receive accurate empathy. Listen for where this member's sense of worth has been coming from.
Carl Rogers, reflecting to a group member
Warmth that holds
Staying with someone who cannot respond. Here one member offers it to another.
A group member
A rupture, and what follows
A member says what she does not want to be, and a facilitator risks telling her what he sees.
A group member, then Richard Farson, co-facilitator
What protects us also cuts us off
The defense that keeps another person out also keeps us from reaching them.
Beth, speaking with Jerry, both group members
The sampler and the four-day encounter group offered here come from this tradition.
Start with the sampler →