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13 November 2024 | Kathy Engler

tPCA Residential Conference 2025: Compassion as a 'way of being'.

28 October 2024 · Kathy Engler

July 11, 2025 - July 13, 2025 The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 1AT You can find our more and book your place on the events page here. There is a discount fo...

Trustee Volunteers Needed

05 September 2024 · Kathy Engler

We are looking for new volunteers to join our trustee group. Could this be you? Being a trustee provides 40 CPD hours a year, but just as importantly it helps us to support...

AGM 2024

05 September 2024 · Kathy Engler

Thank you to everyone who attended our AGM on Sunday 1st September. It was fantastic to see such a high turnout. In particular, we are hugely grateful to Jan Hawkins and Brian Thorne, who del...

tPCA AGM Sunday 1st September 2024. 10.00am-12.00pm

26 August 2024 · Kathy Engler

The AGM for tPCA is on Sunday 1st September, 10am and 12pm, over Zoom. All members are welcome and you need to register here to receive the zoom link (you will need to be logged into tP...

NEWSLETTER PCE EUROPE - JULY 2024

20 July 2024 · Kathy Engler

Dear Members, Time is flying and summer is fast approaching. The board of PCE Europe has been busy with several projects in the last six months and we are pleased to announce the following ne...

SCoPEd and the threat to the person-centred approach

16 July 2024 · Louise Wilson

Person-centred therapy is facing an existential crisis. Not only is the approach shrinking in terms of presence in the professional field and training organisations but SCoPEd (Scope of Practice an...

tPCA Residential Conference 2024

25 June 2024 · Kathy Engler

As Chair of tPCA trustees I would like to thank everyone who attended this year's tPCA residential conference and those who delivered workshops. On behalf of the trustee group (and after the conf...

A comment on 'Why Rogers is still relevant' Therapy Today, June 2024

07 June 2024 · Louise Wilson

BACP members may have read the article ‘Why Rogers is still relevant’ in the June 2024 edition of Therapy Today. The article depicts person-centred theory as historic and outdated and posits plural...

tPCA AGM Sunday 1st September 2024 - Save the date

19 April 2024 · Kathy Engler

The AGM of the Person Centred Association will be taking place on the morning of Sunday 1st September 2024, via Zoom. Information about the event will be sent out to all members closer t...

Queerer way of being: how trans people are failed by medicine and therapists alike. By Sam Hope

13 April 2024 · Kathy Engler

Content note – mentions abuse, misdiagnosis, trauma, oppression This article is a revised version of one I wrote for the late, lamented site Spooniehacker. I wanted to reshare it in co...

Next Meeting of The Education and Training Special Interest Group

12 November 2023 · Christine Bennett

The next meeting of the Education and Training SIG will take place on Thursday 21st December at 7.30 pm. All the meetings are now kept to an hour in length. If you would like to be included in the...

Next Meeting of The Education and Training Special Interest Group

08 October 2023 · Christine Bennett

The next meeting of the Education and Training SIG will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 9th November. If you are not already on the list for a Zoom invitation, to attend when you can, please conta...

Neurodivergent Community of Practice

03 August 2023 · Kathy Engler

The Neurodivergent Community of Practice meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7.00pm and provides a space where neurodivergent members of tPCA can meet and explore what this means for us a...

tPCA AGM Sunday 13th August 2023

16 July 2023 · Kathy Engler

The AGM of the Person Centred Association is on Sunday 13th August 2023, via Zoom. Registration opens at 9.30am and the AGM is from 10.00 -11.00am; the room will remain open for a furthe...

The Next Meeting of The Education and Training Special Interest Group

10 July 2023 · Christine Bennett · Working groups/Education and training

The next meeting of the Education and Training SIG will take place on Thursday September 7th at 7.30pm. In you would like to be included in the Zoom invitation to this and future meetings, to atten...

tPCA GSRD Conference: Queerness in the Person-Centred Approach

30 June 2023 · Kathy Engler

The person-centred association's 'gender sexuality and relationship diversity (GSRD)' Community of Practice is pleased to be hosting a one-day conference aimed at looking at various aspects of work...

Message from tPCA Chair.

14 June 2023 · Kathy Engler

Please find below information from Jonno Ward about his resignation as Chair of tPCA. The trustees would like to thank Jonno for his leadership and support over the last 10 month and although...

tPCA AGM Sunday 13th August 2023

05 June 2023 · Kathy Engler

The AGM of the Person Centred Association is on Sunday 13th August 2023, via Zoom. Registration will be from 9.00am; AGM from 10.00 -11.00am and the zoom link will remain open for a furth...

Neurodivergent Practitioners CoP

05 June 2023 · Kathy Engler

We will be holding our first Community of Practice meeting for neurodivergent members on Thursday 8th June at 7.00pm. At this meeting we will agree the aims and scope of the group and what we ...

Next Meeting of The Education and Training Special Interest Group

12 May 2023 · Christine Bennett

The next meeting of the Education and Training SIG (incorporating the tutor support group) will be on Thursday 6th July at 7.30pm.