Events

We aim to train experienced counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists to contract and offer Person-centred couples counselling confidently. This is an important area of training that is constantly in demand from Employee Assistance Programmes and couples themselves. A counsellor spending their training budget in this area will likely enjoy a good return on their investment. This training is unashamedly person-centred, using Person-centred…

This workshop will be an opportunity to discuss the nature of presence and how it relates to power. The topic of presence is a familiar theme for person-centred therapists although there is no single, universal definition of the word. Attunement, relational depth, spiritual connection, healing, transcendence and energy are just some examples of language used in the conversation around what it means to be present. Rogers shifted from a secular st…

PCE Europe organises monthly online encounter groups, held online via Zoom. These are free of charge to individual members of PCE Europe - which is 25 Euro annually, or a concessionary rate of 15 Euro.  Background Opening up to individual members was the first step of PCE Europe to live up to our name "European Network ..." not only at the level of organisations but also at the level of living persons. And of course a core part of our app…

Non-members are welcome and will be charged at £35. You can join PCT Scotland here or email membership@pctscotland.co.uk for further details on membership. Annual membership fee is £40, or £12 for student membership. The venue is accessible. Tea and coffee will be available. If you are interested in attending this events please express your interest by email to secretary@pctscotland.co.uk so that further registration details can be sent t…

** Please note this event is now full for in-person attendance but you can still register to receive the recording here.  This year's Mary Kilborn Lecture will be given by Dr Gillian Proctor (University of Leeds) on Thursday 8th May at 6.30pm (tea/coffee from 5.45pm). It will be held at the Strathclyde Business School (Stenhouse Wing, Cathedral Street - plan your route in advance to avoid the steep hill from George Street).  Att…

The next Co-ordinating Group meeting is scheduled for Wedensday 28th May, 7 - 8.30pm.  All members are welcome.  Please email the secretary if you would like to attend to receive the zoom link. The agenda will include: Apologies Matters Arising Updates on workshops Update on Encounter groups SCIO Update and next steps Social Media and Marketing Group Update Symposium: Access Fund Requests AOB Date of Next Meeting

A workshop reflecting on how the PCA informs and affects how we think of our own power as practitioners, trainers and in a relationship. There will be an opportunity to examine why we talk so little about the struggle involved in being with clients and supervisees, and also to reflect on the impact - on our use and misuse - of power - of our 'imprints' carried from childhood and life experience. Barbara Malinen is a person-centred counsellor, s…

The next monthly Coordinating Group meeting will be held on the 2nd July.  The group meets monthly, for an hour and half, on Zoom.  It is open to all members.  If you are interested in attending please let me know (secretary, Joanne Frame) and I will send you out a zoom link.  We would love to see you. You can check out the minutes from previous meetings here to find out what we are working on.  The agenda is sent…

The Counselling Unit at the University of Strathclyde, the Association for Person-Centred Creative Arts, and Person-Centred Therapy Scotland are delighted to have joined together to host the 6th PCE Europe Symposium. The symposium will take place in Glasgow and online, from Friday 21st until Sunday 23rd November 2025. We warmly invite you to join us for an online discussion and symposium preview, exploring our…

Cross-Cultural Communication International, Bilingual Person-centered Workshop Hungary August 11 – 17, 2025 The largest, week-long, international PCA event of Hungary - including 41 hours of condensed self-exploration - awaits you for the 13th time since 2009!

Presented by Pre-Therapy International Network and Heart Wood Charity   Pre-Therapy: a person-centred way of offering reconnection in moments of contact loss A masterclass by Dion Van Werde   “A workshop with Dion Van Werde is your ultimate experiential dive in the foundations of the person-centered paradigm. Saddle up for a journey into heartfelt contact work and pre-therapy,with an honest, caring assistant who has tons of experi…

“In such a group the individual comes to know himself and each of the others more completely than is possible in the usual social or working relationships.”  (Carl R. Rogers, 1969) PCE Europe organises monthly online encounters over two hours via Zoom. Twice a year there are long online encounters over 6 hours. Background Opening up to individual members was the first step of PCE Europe to live up to our name "European Network ..." not o…

In response to members’ requests, and following an engaging series of encounters in Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh we are delighted to announce that a further Encounter Group will be taking place in September. Attendance at the event is FREE TO MEMBERS Non-members are welcome & will be charged at £35. You can join PCT Scotland here:https://pctscotland.co.uk/about/membership/join-pct-scotland  Annual membership fee is £40, or £12 for…

PCT Scotland is a stakeholder in a project being run by the Strathclyde Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Clinic (at the University of Strathclyde) called: A place of useful research: Enhancing the impact of the Strathclyde Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Clinic. The project aims to foster knowledge exchange between practitioners and researchers in the counselling and psychotherapy field. As the research clinic focuses on person-c…

**Please note this is a new date for this workshop, postponed from 23rd August. In this workshop we will explore and develop an understanding of the connection between two concepts - the non-directive attitude and cultural humility - and consider how our own relationship with power may impact our ability to be truly other-oriented in our work with clients and supervisees. Susan Stephen is a person-centred counsellor and supervisor based in Gla…

“In such a group the individual comes to know himself and each of the others more completely than is possible in the usual social or working relationships.”  (Carl R. Rogers, 1969) PCE Europe organises monthly online encounters over two hours via Zoom. Twice a year there are long online encounters over 6 hours. Background Opening up to individual members was the first step of PCE Europe to live up to our name "European Network ..." not o…

Three partner organisations have joined together to host the 6th PCE Europesymposium. We are the Counselling Unit at the University of Strathclyde, the Association for Person-Centred Creative Arts, and Person-Centred Therapy Scotland. We are delighted to welcome you to participate in the symposium which will take place in Glasgow and online from Friday 21st until Sunday 23rd November 2025. In addition, we are organising…

PCT Scotland's Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday 30th November - we hope you will join us. Further information and papers will be sent to all members in advance.

PCT Scotland is a stakeholder in a project being run by the Strathclyde Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Clinic (at the University of Strathclyde) called: A place of useful research: Enhancing the impact of the Strathclyde Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Clinic. The project aims to foster knowledge exchange between practitioners and researchers in the counselling and psychotherapy field. As the research clinic focuses on person-c…

“In such a group the individual comes to know himself and each of the others more completely than is possible in the usual social or working relationships.”  (Carl R. Rogers, 1969) PCE Europe organise monthly online encounters over two hours via Zoom. The next is:  Friday evening, 16th of January 2026 18:00 – 20:00 Portugal, UK 19:00 – 21:00 Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, S…

We are pleased to announce that PCT Scotland are running four Encounter Groups in 2026. The first of these is in Glasgow in January. These events are free of charge of to members. Non-members are welcome and will be charged at £35. You can find information about membership of PCT Scotland here. All of the event spaces are accessible. Refreshments are included but please bring your own lunch. If you would like to attend, please express y…

“If we can touch one another as persons in the way it can happen in an encounter, then we emerge from an existence of loneliness and diminution to a possibility of fully aliveness. I can really say ‘yes’ to mankind, because I have discovered in a deeply personal way that each person in the world is an abundant reservoir of life and love” (Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups 1970) Persona would like to invite you to take up this opportunity to meet…

PCT Scotland is a stakeholder in a project being run by the Strathclyde Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Clinic (at the University of Strathclyde) called: A place of useful research: Enhancing the impact of the Strathclyde Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Clinic. The project aims to foster knowledge exchange between practitioners and researchers in the counselling and psychotherapy field. As the research clinic focuses on person-c…

With Sarah Rossi and Katie Murray **Not long to go to the opening event of our workshop series for 2026 - and with the recent publication of Clare Slaney's book (ed) 'Counselling and Class: Power, Privilege & Professionalisation' it feels like the right moment to be engaging with issues such as power and class in relation to counselling. We're looking forward to a rich and varied day of discussion - do come and join us! This workshop explo…

The PCE Europe team has created a new type of event for the PCE community, the PCE Europe Community Meetings. They are intended as a supplement to the Symposium that takes place every two years in the years in between the symposiums. To create a space to discuss important issues of our profession, organisations, strategies think about our identity and our development as an organisation (membership, ethics…) and as a community concentr…

We are pleased to announce that PCT Scotland are running four Encounter Groups in 2026. The second of these is in Edinburgh in April. These events are free of charge of to members. Non-members are welcome and will be charged at £35. You can find information about membership of PCT Scotland here. All of the event spaces are accessible. Refreshments are included but please bring your own lunch. If you would like to attend, please express…

PCT Scotland is a stakeholder in a project being run by the Strathclyde Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Clinic (at the University of Strathclyde) called: A place of useful research: Enhancing the impact of the Strathclyde Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Clinic. The project aims to foster knowledge exchange between practitioners and researchers in the counselling and psychotherapy field. As the research clinic focuses on person-c…

Our speaker this year is Professor David Murphy from the University of Nottingham. The lecture will be held in a different building on campus than previous years: the Learning and Teaching Building. We'll be on the 4th floor, which can be accessed by lift from Richmond Street or from street level at the top of North Richmond Street. The lecture will begin at the usual time of 6.30pm (registration from 6pm), followed by a wine reception until 8…

Heart Wood Certificate Level Training Course Person-centred, contact-orientated nature-based therapy Led by Rab Erskine and Chip Ponsford   Including the Extended Certificate in Pre-Therapy (contact reflections) certified by the Pre-Therapy International Network.   “A great opportunity to learn from gifted and experienced practitioners. They embody the very principles that they seek to teach.”   A modular in-person course…

With Louise Wilson. Congruence is arguably the most complex of the therapist attitudes and a variety of definitions exist within person-centred literature including from Rogers himself. However, there is widespread agreement that therapist ‘realness’ or ‘genuineness’ is central to the therapy relationship and Rogers emphasised the need for therapists to remain self-aware and open to experience. What does this look like for the person-centred th…

“If we can touch one another as persons in the way it can happen in an encounter, then we emerge from an existence of loneliness and diminution to a possibility of fully aliveness. I can really say ‘yes’ to mankind, because I have discovered in a deeply personal way that each person in the world is an abundant reservoir of life and love” (Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups 1970) Persona would like to invite you to take up this opportunity to meet…

We are pleased to announce that PCT Scotland are running four Encounter Groups in 2026. Our third Encounter will be held in Aberdeen in June. These events are free of charge of to members. Non-members are welcome and will be charged at £35. You can find information about membership of PCT Scotland here. All of the event spaces are accessible. Refreshments are included but please bring your own lunch. If you would like to attend, please…

The 17th World Conference on Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling „PCE2026“ will take place from July 8th to 12th 2026 in Cologne at the Maternushaus. The pre-conference will take place from July 6th to 8th 2026 at the TH Cologne. The PCE conference is the biennial event of the World Association for Person-Centered & Expreriential Psychotherapy & Counselling (WAPCEPC). A CHANGING WORLD … what it does with us an…

Hi, We hope this message finds you well. We're thrilled to share the dates for our next person-centred encounter group. We are so looking forward to our next encounter group, and we hope you are, too. Our next online encounter group will run 17-19 JULY 2026, and we would love to have you join us. As usual, we are keeping the costs as low as we can, running the event on a donation basis. Our suggested donatio…

“In such a group the individual comes to know himself and each of the others more completely than is possible in the usual social or working relationships.”  (Carl R. Rogers, 1969) We organise monthly online encounters over two hours via Zoom. Twice a year we organise long online encounters over 6 hours, the next one will take place in October 2026. If you are interested in the Encounter Group and want to join you have two options: Pay…

PCE Europe in cooperation with The Danish Society for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy (DSPOP) is offering a three-day seminar on Ethics in the Mental Health Care Professions. We warmly invite you to take part. About the Seminar This seminar will help you develop a deeper understanding of ethics and how it shapes the quality of your clinical practice. Ethics is a skill that can be cultivated — and this seminar aims to equip y…

“If we can touch one another as persons in the way it can happen in an encounter, then we emerge from an existence of loneliness and diminution to a possibility of fully aliveness. I can really say ‘yes’ to mankind, because I have discovered in a deeply personal way that each person in the world is an abundant reservoir of life and love” (Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups 1970) Persona would like to invite you to take up this opportunity to meet…

We are pleased to announce that, in addition to the three one-day encounters PCT Scotland are running in 2026, we are also hosting a fourth two-day residential. Quite a number of you have already registered interest but as we come closer to the event it is time to think about securing your place. We have limited places so it will be on a first come first served basis.  Whether you have already registered your interest or not now is the ti…

“In such a group the individual comes to know himself and each of the others more completely than is possible in the usual social or working relationships.”  (Carl R. Rogers, 1969) We organise monthly online encounters over two hours via Zoom. Twice a year we organise long online encounters over 6 hours, including this one. If you are interested in the Encounter Group and want to join you have two options: Pay 10 Euros per two hour…

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE FROM 22ND AUGUST TO 10TH OCTOBER 2026   Sexual abuse is cemented in place by silence; this operates on many levels throughout society. Sexual abuse and childhood sexual abuse are seldom found on curriculums in universities or colleges further education. The silence prevails and then in practise becomes fear and mystique for those who may find themselves needing to respond. In this workshop we get the opportunit…

“In such a group the individual comes to know himself and each of the others more completely than is possible in the usual social or working relationships.”  (Carl R. Rogers, 1969) We organise monthly online encounters over two hours via Zoom. Twice a year we organise long online encounters over 6 hours. If you are interested in the Encounter Group and want to join you have two options: Pay 10 Euros per two hours Encounter/ pay 25 Euros…

This workshop is intended as a continuation of the theme of 2025 of issues around power. We and our clients/students sit in an increasingly complex and confusing world where there are a variety of different – and not always sympathetic – conceptualisations of what it means to be a helper. The incongruence of working within the medical model and the impact of the conversations (or lack thereof) around class, gender and difference create a tense a…

“If we can touch one another as persons in the way it can happen in an encounter, then we emerge from an existence of loneliness and diminution to a possibility of fully aliveness. I can really say ‘yes’ to mankind, because I have discovered in a deeply personal way that each person in the world is an abundant reservoir of life and love” (Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups 1970)  Persona would like to invite you to take up this opportunity to…

“In such a group the individual comes to know himself and each of the others more completely than is possible in the usual social or working relationships.”  (Carl R. Rogers, 1969) We organise monthly online encounters over two hours via Zoom. Twice a year we organise long online encounters over 6 hours. If you are interested in the Encounter Group and want to join you have two options: Pay 10 Euros per two hours Encounter/ pay 25 Euros…