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Therapy
'The
good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a
direction not a destination.'
- Carl Rogers
My
Way of Facilitating a Group - by Carl R. Rogers
We
follow our introduction to one of the lesser-known
writings of Carl Roger, in the previous issue of
Nurturing Potential, by this further example of a draft
article that was originally intended for private
distribution only.
The
positive feedback we got from readers last time has
encouraged us to do this and we hope it will meet with
an equally positive welcome.
In
his book On Becoming a Person, Rogers had
written: "The touchstone of
validity is my own
experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own
ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to
experience that I must return again and again, to
discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the
process of becoming in me.
".
. . My experience is
not authoritative because it is infallible. It is the
basis of authority because it can always be checked in
new primary ways. In this way its frequent error or
fallibility is always open to correction."
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