Past international events

We are very happy to announce that the  6th PCE Europe Symposium will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, from November 21 - 23, 2025 Pre-conference event on November 20, 2025. Location: University of Strathclyde SAVE THE DATE!  More details - https://www.pce-europe.org/symposium2025  Organised by three partner organisations: • Counselling Unit, University of Strathclyde (UoS) • Association of…

PCE Europe  Encounter group  14th December 9.00am-11.00am PCE Europe  organises regular monthly 2 hours online encounters  via Zoom.  If  you  want to be added to the mailing list please fill out the registration form via this link Register  

PCE Europe  Encounter group  17th November 5.00pm-7.00pm PCE Europe  organises regular monthly 2 hours online encounters  via Zoom.  If  you  want to be added to the mailing list please fill out the registration form via this link Register  

PCE Europe Long Encounter group  Session 1.   09:00 – 10:20,  80 min, 10 min break Session 2.  10:30 – 11:45, 75 min, 30 min break Session 3.  12:15 – 13:35,  80 min, 10 min break Session 4.  13:45 – 15:00,  75 min Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81789604459 PCE Europe also organise regular monthly 2 hours online encounters  via Zoom.  If  you are inter…

The 16th World Conference for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling (PCE2024) will take place in person & Online from the 9th to the 13th September in 2024, in Technopolis Athens. The Pre-Conference will take place in person & Online from the 7th to the 8th September in 2024, in ICPS – College for Humanistic Sciences. The PCE Conference is the biennial event of the World Association for Person-Centred & Experi…

The A.D.P.C.A.C.C.P.T.S-E.E. in collaboration with the Laboratory of Psychosocial Studies is organising the 18th summer and 4rd International P.C.A. Encounter Group. 12 -17 July 2024 in Samothrace, Greece. The Summer Encounter Group in Samothrace is a combination of Experiential learning, Training Seminars and summer vacations. It is about an Experiential Training Seminar especially for those who work or intend to work with groups of people (…

Join us for community meetings, presentations, discussion and more. Follow this link for full conference details, booking, and to submit proposals for presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions. The list of presenters is growing! A unique feature of Person-Centered conferences is the community meeting. This meeting is open to all participants. We have scheduled a community meeting every 6 hours around the clock to accommodate worldwid…

This is the first online LGBTQ+ centred Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship and follows on from the face to face one run by Sandra Taylor, and Robert Allan, EFT trainers, in London last year. This is the first level of ICEEFT approved EFT training, on June 13-14th and June 20-21st online. It will run from 3-11 pm each day and so allows for you to potentially still work for some of the day. This course will primarily be about working with c…

The actualising tendency, in my experience, is a soft target from other modalities and oftentimes a perplexing concept for those who are studying and practicing as PC professionals.  Indeed, I would argue that poor training around this is the main reason that nominally or one-time PC practitioners veer away from or ultimately discredit the approach as a whole. This workshop, Person-Centred 101 if you will, will seek to revisit and further your…

25% discount for registration before 12 Feb The Kids’ Workshop Facilitator Training Program is designed to provide participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to become effective facilitators of children’s development. Through this program, individuals will learn how to recognize person-centered qualities within themselves, while developing techniques and strategies that can be used to help children express these qualities more effecti…

This is an online international encounter group for therapists who identify as LGBT and/or queer and who have an interest in person-centred encounter. We aim to meet every couple of months on the second sunday. Times are 2-5 and 7-10 (or when the last people leave!) UK time. You are welcome to come to some or all of both or either session. Please email LJ for a link. Please note, this event is only open to people who identify as LGBT and/or quee…

 Event title: "Relating in the aftermath of the pandemic" 9-14 July 2021 “Becoming a Person", which is an international Association of Mental Health Professionals based in Alexandroupolis (Greece), organizes the 15th PCA Encounter Group in Samothrace (Greece) from 9 to 14 July 2021, which is open to anyone interested. The full title of the event is: "The universal dimension of relating in the aftermath of the pandemic: Challenges and prospects…

1. INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME BY THE BOARD 2. MINUTES OF THE 2020 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY 3. FINANCIAL UPDATE 4. ELECTION OF BOARD 5. APPROVAL OF INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP 6. APPROVAL OF STATUTES AND BYLAWS  7. APPROVAL OF ETHICAL FRAMEWORK  8. SYMPOSIUM 2021 - ROMANIA  9. FURTHER TOPICS  10. AOB

Behind the scenes The neuroscience of experiential psychotherapy The fact that experiential psychotherapy works, is something we witness everyday with ourclients. But how? And what specifically makes it effective? Which specific pathways areinvolved with emotional processing? What takes place in our bodily system when we focus,for example? What is so “magical” about the experiential encounter? National and international speakers take us behin…

Do you want to work therapeutically with creative arts? When the person centred, non-directive, interpretive approach is brought together with creative arts, the result is a powerful and yet safe therapeutic approach. Our course was developed by Liesl Silverstone and approved by Carl Rogers himself, and this year we have updated it for an online delivery. It really is an amazing course that will deepen your self awareness, boost your creativity…

Over the years, a considerable body of evidence has been built around differing understandings of how human beings respond to and are affected by trauma – and increasingly, the social contexts of relational trauma have been examined to comprehend the underlying factors of this persistent source of suffering. However, despite such extensive research, very few trauma specialists have made explicit conceptual associations between trauma and oppress…

The "Becoming A Person" Association, following the steps of Play-therapists around the globe, is organizing a series of events honoring the institution of "Play-Therapy Week". Through these events and festivities anyone can "get to know" and relate with the essence of "How Play Heals". Play-Therapy Week, being affected (but not afflicted) by the COVID-19 pandemic, is filled with Online Events, giving in that way everyone from any place in the w…

A unique space to immerse, explore and express yourself using a variety of media - learning through Creative Connection, regardless of artistic ability.​ Designed as personal development for counsellors and mental health practitioners in training and practice, these workshops provide a connective and held therapeutic space, to experience, explore and release, through self expression and creation. The workshops, based upon Carl Rogers person-ce…

Going Global Workshop A residential opportunity to explore our personal and collective creative potential for acting globally If the time comes… when our culture tires of endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, discontent with the half lives that it’s members are living, only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives... When that time comes they will not find a void...They will fi…

The XVth INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF THE PERSON CENTERED APPROACH The XVth International Forum of the Person Centered Approach, hosted by the AFP-ACP (Association Française de Psychothérapie dans l'Approche Centrée sur la Personne) will take place in France for the first time, in the town of Dourdan, near Paris, in the same building where Carl Rogers was invited to lecture during several memorable days during his first journey to France in 1966. Th…

Keynote sessions ‘Relational depth’: Moments of movement in therapy Mick Cooper – United Kingdom Relational depth’ is a concept developed by Dave Mearns, and refers to moments of profound contact and encounter in the therapeutic relationship.  These are the moments where we feel profoundly ‘touched’ by clients: a heart-to-heart meeting in which something deeply important seems to happen in the therapeutic work. This talk will give a state-of-…

33rd Annual Conference for the Development of the Person Centered Approach ATLANTA - July 25-29, 2018  The Atlanta conference committee (Dr. Rob Richardson, his partner Ken Barthels, and friend Jana Chambers-Sepich) are pleased to announce that this year’s conference will be held at Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta.  The meetings and presentations will be held in a multi-classroom facility and we have arranged for the availability o…

  The foundations of Humanistic Psychology were forged in a community that had great interest in transforming the world into a much more loving and just place. Humanistic Psychology has also been concerned with appreciating contemplative practices and methods that cultures have developed over millennia, to nurture the love and wisdom innate to all human beings. Speakers who exemplify Humanistic and Contemplative vision will headline this confer…

We are excited to announce that the annual meeting of the ADPCA will be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) from 7 p.m. on Wednesday July 19th through noon on Sunday, July 23rd 2017.   There will be a free pre-conference workshop convened by Marge Witty on Wednesday 7/19 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. (with 1.5 hour lunch break).  Dorm and meeting rooms are all located in the UIC Student Center East, 700 South Halsted Street, Chicago, Ill…