Unconditional Positive Regard: Is Love the Curative Element? - Shiela Haugh

Unconditional Positive Regard: Is Love the Curative Element? - Shiela Haugh

Unconditional Positive Regard: Is Love the Curative Element?, Person‑Centred Theory & Practice Series with Sheila Haugh

By onlinevents.co.uk

Date and time

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Refunds up to 1 days before event.

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Session 3: Love (aka unconditional positive regard aka UPR)


When I asked AI (Gemini) to give me three sentences that describe love between friends, its last sentence included the statement that 'ultimately it's a bond built on trust [and] respect. Maybe Rogers is one of AI's core texts! This session will look at the development of UPR/love in person-centred therapy, the role it might play in therapsy and the challenges it throws at us as practitioners - beginning or otherwise.


Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

  • A clearer understanding of the notion of UPR.
  • A deeper appreciation of how UPR might be conceptualised as love.
  • An understanding of why UPR/love has been described as the curative factor in person-centred therapy.


Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

  • For those people training, or interested, in the person-centred approach, from early career therapists to those of us a bit longer in the tooth.


How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

  • Having a deeper and/or clearer understanding of love/UPR may help participants in to 'meet' Rogers 4th condition of the necessary conditions for the/a therapeutic process.

Person‑Centred Theory & Practice: 12‑Month Masterclass Series


Join us for a purposeful, year‑long exploration of the ideas that animate Carl Rogers’ person‑centred approach. Across eight live, highly interactive workshops—spaced monthly from June 2025 to January 2026—renowned trainer Sheila Haugh will guide you from foundational principles to leading‑edge debates. The programme blends concise theory input, reflective dialogue and live skills practice, supporting you to work with the confidence that “the client knows best.”


Together we will explore…

  1. Why Trust the Client? Formative, Actualising & Self‑Actualising Tendencies
  2. Empathy: Heartfelt Listening
  3. Positive Regard: Is Love the Curative Element?
  4. A Pyramid or an Iceberg? Authenticity & Congruence
  5. Psychological Contact: Are We in this Together?
  6. Client Perception: Essential Person‑centred Communication Skills
  7. Relational Depth: An Emergent Dynamic?
  8. Configurations of Self: Exploring Our Plural “Me‑s” in Practice


Secure your place and invest in a year of focused professional growth—building a richer, more responsive person‑centred practice one month at a time.

RECORDING

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.


ZOOM

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.


SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Sheila Haugh

Sheila is a person-centred therapist, facilitator, and consultant/supervisor. Until recently, she was the Director of Studies and Course Leader for the MSc Contemporary Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Applications at the Metanoia Institute in London. She is a former convenor of BAPCA and a former member of the board of WAPCECP. Sheila works in the UK and in Czechia, where she has lived for the past 15 years. She is co-editor of two books and author of a number of chapters, the most recent being:


Bozarth, J. D., & Haugh, S. (2024). Unconditional Positive Regard. In M. Cooper, G. di Malta, M. M. O’Hara, Y. Gololob, & S. Stephen (Eds.), The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (3rd ed., pp. 200–211). Bloomsbury Academic.

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Sandra and John are a sibling team who are proud to be serving the helping professions for more than 10 years with online interactive learning. The workshop programme is being offered alongside the Onlinevents CPD Library which we believe is the world’s largest online library of video and audio learning, with instant certification for the helping professions including counsellors, coaches, teachers, supervisors and nurses.

 

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