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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 Hilarious and terrifying, teaching methods are so outdated.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...

Ch.7 A process conception
7 stages to understand the process by which a personalty may change
Fully received, welcomed understood
Experiencing must be safey in the past before meaning can be drawn from it
Loosening of cognitive maps of experiencing
Change in rship to problems, recognition of own contribution, increased sense of self responsibility, change in manner of relating. Lives openly and freely.

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