Claire’s Reviews > On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy > Status Update

On creativity and the constructive conditions that enable it, psychological safety and freedom.

Dealing with breakdowns in communications, blockages and facilitation of empathetic understanding

The shortest chapter, a brief talk to a group of educators, an invitation to discussion centred learning becomes a truth bomb that ignites a storm of defensiveness, indicating how many of them could clearly benefit from exactly what Rogers specialises in. Hilarious and terrifying, teaching methods are so outdated.

Review of research
The implications for living
On teaching and learning...

"...crystallised into two important themes: my confidence in the human organism, when it is functioning freely; and the existential quality of satisfying living...
...beautifully expressed more than twenty-five centuries ago by Lao-Tzu, when he said, 'The way to do is to be.' "

Below level of problem is 1 question
Who Am I? below surface behaviour
How can I become myself?
The Process/Behind the Mask
fully experiencing feelings
Who Emerges?
More open to experience, opposite of defensiveness, accepts new situation as it is rather than distort to fit pattern already held, tolerates ambiguity
Trust in ones organism, less fear of emotional reaction
Willing to be in a process, stream of becoming