pceti

PCETI is about ideas in person-centered expressive arts therapy. Focussing on personal development and transformation through writing, art, movement and dance, drama, and sound. Person-centered expressive therapy aims to promote self-realisation by nurturing our creativity. This ultimately results in personal development by releasing our inner powers.

Person-centered therapy originated in the work of Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s. It was further developed and extended to encompass expressive elements in therapy by Carl Rogers' daughter Natalie Rogers

The principles of Carl Rogers' work are founded on respect for others, demonstrated by treating everyone with empathy, honesty and giving them unconditional acceptance. He held that each person had a natural impulse of growth and development in the direction of self-fulfillment and being in harmony with others.

These principles were incorporated into his theories of client-centered therapy and counselling and person-centered relationships.

Carl Rogers received many prestigious awards for his work. He was Past President of the American Psychological Association. In 1956 he received their Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award and their Professional Achievement Award followed in 1972.

In 1987 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, sadly news of this was not received until shortly after his death.

For courses local to California, see here: The Creative Art Studio (for Workshops, Classes, and Ongoing Groups in and around Santa Rosa) and Natalie Rogers' Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change workshops

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