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Person-Centred Gathering Tobar Mhuire, Crossgar A theme of, 'Being' Saturday 12th April 2014 9.30am to 4.30pm Reflecting on his experiences in both large and small community groups Carl Rogers wrote:   "I realise that of all the ventures in which I have ever been involved,   this was the most thoroughly person-centred" Carl Rogers ‘On Personal Power’   The next Person-Centred Gathering will be held on 12th April, at Tobar Mhuire retreat, Crossgar. This will be our fourth person centred gathering and you are all welcome   The gathering is based on a tried and trusted model that occurs regularly in the Person-Centred community worldwide. It is an opportunity for personal and professional growth, self-awareness, and the understanding of others while meeting new people and having a good time. The focus is on Being,                     ...

LEST WE FORGET (Im Westen nichts Nueus)

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I read this work for the first time this week and I was moved by it and in particular the paragraphs below. The whole work takes me into the guts of war, it's horror and the inhuman impact on humans. Our inhumanity to each other and we haven't learned much. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. 1929 ERICH MARIA REMARQUE (Im Westen nichts Nueus by Ullstein, Berlin 1929) P 38 For me, the front is as sinister as a whirlpool. Even when you are a long way away fro its centre, out in calm waters, you can still fee its suction pulling you towards it, slowly, inexorably, meeting little resistance. But the power to defend ourselves flows back into us out of the earth and out of the air-and most of all it flows out of the earth. The earth is more important to the soldier than to anybody else. When he presses himself to the earth, long and violently, when he urges himself deep into it with his face and with his limbs, under fire and with the fear of death upon him,...

Person Centred Gathering Tobar Mhuire, 12 April 2014

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Person-Centred Gathering Tobar Mhuire, Crossgar A theme of, 'Being' Saturday 12th April 2014 9.30am to 4.30pm Reflecting on his experiences in both large and small community groups Carl Rogers wrote:   "I realise that of all the ventures in which I have ever been involved,   this was the most thoroughly person-centred" Carl Rogers ‘On Personal Power’   The next Person-Centred Gathering will be held on 12th April, at Tobar Mhuire retreat, Crossgar. This will be our fourth person centred gathering and you are all welcome   The gathering is based on a tried and trusted model that occurs regularly in the Person-Centred community worldwide. It is an opportunity for personal and professional growth, self-awareness, and the understanding of others while meeting new people and having a good time. The focus is on Being,                     ...