{"id":193,"date":"2008-12-04T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T15:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T15:27:36","slug":"empathic-or-reflective-listening-biography-of-carl-rogers-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/empathic-or-reflective-listening-biography-of-carl-rogers-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPATHIC OR REFLECTIVE LISTENING: BIOGRAPHY OF CARL ROGERS, CREATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WHAT IS CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING \u2122?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. McGuire\u2019s Creative Edge Focusing<\/font><\/a> (TM), with her core skills Intuitive Focusing<\/font><\/a> and Focused Listening<\/font><\/a>, is her offshoot after over 30 years as a Listening\/Focusing Teacher<\/a> and Focusing-Oriented Therapist<\/a>. She places special emphasis on learning through self-help and peer counseling communities and also upon application to daily life, through her Interest Areas<\/font><\/a>, including Creative Edge Organizations, Conscious Relationships, Building Supportive Community, Positive Parenting, Creative Edge Education, Experiencing The Sacred, and Experiential Focusing Therapy. Here she offers the biography of Carl Rogers, first to develop the idea of empathic or reflective listening as the core human response facilitating growth, change, and creativity.<\/p>\n

BIOGRAPHY: CARL ROGERS, CREATOR OF EMPATHIC LISTENING\u00a0(1902-1987)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Empathic Listening<\/h3>\n

Carl Rogers, creator of Client-Centered Psychotherapy, was the first to develop a theory about how every person has within an \u201cacorn\u201d able to grow into a certain kind of tree, a \u201cblueprint\u201d for a unique life <\/strong>(On Becoming A Person<\/em>, Houghton Mifflin, 1961). As a therapist in Rochester, NY, in the 1930\u2019s, Rogers followed up on the suggestion from a female co-worker that, if instead of telling clients what to do, the therapist simply reflected back to them what they were saying and encouraged them to continue to look more deeply into their own answers, clients became empowered to find their own solutions and their own unique, personally meaningful path through life. Rogers called this technique \u201creflective listening\u201d or \u201cempathic listening.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Learn Dr. McGuire’s simple, self-help version, Focused Listening<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the 1940\u2019s until his death in 1987, Rogers worked with many others in developing the idea that clients could heal themselves, if only the therapist provided \u201cfacilitative conditions\u201d of \u201cempathy,\u201d \u201ccongruence,\u201d and \u201cunconditional positive regard.\u201d<\/strong> Like a plant given water, soil, sun, and fertilizer, the person would unfold along his or her own unique path in facilitative conditions. While negative outward situations could stunt the person, like the potato left in a dark cellar, the person would always find a way, through what might look like torturous turns and twists, to reach toward the light. Read Dr. McGuire’s description of this unique, personal, unfolding through Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening, Creating At The Edge.<\/a><\/p>\n

Invention Of Peer Counseling<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rogers was so effective in defining the “therapeutic conditions” for growth that he and his followers became able to teach these skills, especially “empathic reflection,” to non-therapists as well: to physicians, ministers, parents, really anyone at all. Client-Centered Psychotherapy gave birth to the peer counseling movement, the idea that every day people could help each other, as equals, with their personal growth. The Changes model for building supportive community, written up in Dr. McGuire’s manual, Focusing In Community: How To Start A Listening\/Focusing Support Group<\/a><\/em>, grew out of this perspective toward peer self-help. Read Dr. McGuire’s applications for home, community, and work, Building Supportive Community<\/a>\u00a0and Creative Edge Organizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rogers, Gendlin, and the Discovery of “Focusing”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the early 1960’s, Rogers and his then-student Eugene Gendlin<\/a> and others at the University of Chicago undertook a huge and highly regarded research project on therapy with schizophrenics, trying to show that the Rogerian conditions could be as powerful in healing inpatients in a mental hospital as students in university counseling centers. It was during this research that Gendlin fully developed his concept of “experiencing” and the definition of the client’s ability to “focus” upon present experiencing as the crux determining factor in success of psychotherapy, more than any therapist conditions. Gendlin went on to write the self-help book, Focusing<\/em> (Bantam, 1981, 1984) in order to make this self-help skill of “inner reference” available to everyone. Find many books and articles, teachers and workshops\u00a0on Focusing at The Focusing Institute website<\/a>. Learn Dr. McGuire’s version, Intuitive Focusing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

International Conflict Resolution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rogers went on to extend his methods of “empathic listening” to couples, groups, and global conflicts. Using the simple empathic listening model, during the 1950’s in the United States, he had blacks and whites meet in groups and simply “listen to” each other, getting below stereotypes and prejudices and into their shared humanity. He used the same methods to bring individuals from North and South Ireland together, and for international conflict resolution in Latin America, Europe, Japan, South Africa, and the Soviet Union until his death in 1987. He was a man with a total dedication to working for world peace. See Dr. McGuire’s mini-course on Conflict Resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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