In this workshop we will tell the story of our own bicultural encounter(s) and explore our reflections and learning from coming together to discuss how we might facilitate bicultural encounter groups.
The workshop will comprise: our own accounts, our thinking about this with reference to some of the literature on encounter and concepts from te Ao Māori; and facilitated discussion. We welcome all participants to come along and share your own reflections on bicultural encounter(s).
Course Content
Organisation
PCE World had its genesis in the mid 1990s after person-centred theoreticians and practitioners felt there was not an adequate representation of the PCA at the First World Conference on Psychotherapy (WCP) in July 1996.
Nearly 25 years since it was officially formed, our desire remains to be an identifiable, international organization serving as a world-wide forum.
Presenter
Brian Rodgers is a senior lecturer and programme director for the counsellor education programmes at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Brian has been involved with counsellor education over the last two decades at a number of institutions including Auckland University of Technology, University of Queensland in Australia, and University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
He is past Chair of the World Association for Person Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling (PCE World), and is still actively involved in a number of the association’s initiatives. Brian’s research interests include person-centred and experiential counselling, pluralistic practice, client directed and outcome informed practice, integration of research into practice, client’s experience of therapy/research, technology and counselling/psychotherapy, bi-cultural approaches to counselling/psychotherapy, collaborative learning and counsellor education.
Keith Tudor is Professor of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand, where he is currently engaged in establishing a Centre for Research in the Psychological Therapies. He is the author of over 500 publications, including a book on Group Counselling (Sage, 1999) which he is in the process of revising for publication next year. Since immigrating to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2009, he has been involved in different forms of bicultural engagement, of which facilitating this workshop is the latest manifestation.
The World Association for Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling had its genesis in the mid 1990s after person-centred theoreticians and practitioners felt there was not an adequate representation of the PCA at the First World Conference on Psychotherapy (WCP) in July 1996.
Nearly 25 years since it was officially formed, our desire remains to be an identifiable, international organization serving as a world-wide forum.
