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Reflections on the role of trustees for tPCA.

11 March 2025 | Kathy Engler

Ailson Drury writes:- I am writing here in my role as Chair of tPCA trustees. Recent discussions in our meetings have led me to reflect on the trustee role in a membership organisation for person centred practice. Just how can that role be faithful to the principles of person centredness whilst still discharging the duties that the Charity Commission have placed on us to ensure that tPCA is run in a professional manner with robust governance in place? Our rich discussio…

Calling person-centred counselling students and (fairly) recent graduates!

07 March 2025 · LJ

As counselling students you will probably have written a lot of assignments about the person-centred approach and how it relates to various intersecting topics. Depending on which qualification route…

A person-centred approach is antithetical to gender critical beliefs

18 February 2025 · GSRD Community of practice

There have been more and more discussions and mentions of trans people in the press, both here and abroad (notably the US) in recent times. This prompts us, as a group of person-centred therapists wi…

The Continuing Problem with SCoPEd

07 February 2025 · Louise Wilson

The development of SCoPEd (Scope of Practice and Education) proceeds behind closed doors and tPCA is on standby for any new information regarding the process and implementation of the framework. When…

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

10 January 2025 · Kathy Engler

Friday – Sunday, 11 - 13 July (The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 1AT) In these turbulent times, the 2025 conference will focus upon what it means for us as person-cen…

Strengthening Connections and Growing Together

29 December 2024 · Jennifer Taylor

Our commitment to fostering a supportive, collaborative, and thriving community remains at the heart of everything we do. Over the past months, our team has been diligently working behind the scenes…

PCE Europe Encounter Groups

10 December 2024 · Kathy Engler

The next PCE Europe online Encouter group is Saturday 14th of December 2024, 09:00 – 11:00 UK Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81789604459 This is the last encoun…

tPCA Student Special Interest Group

13 November 2024 · Kathy Engler

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 o…

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 deliv…

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 tPCA…

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 news…

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 and…

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 confer…

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 pluralis…

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 to…

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 conj…

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 Z…

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 contact…

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 and…

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 further…