Person-Centred Encounter Events
WE'RE BACK
We’re thrilled to share that our person-centred encounter groups are resuming. We look forward to getting back into encounter, and we hope you are too. Our next online encounter group will be held 17-19 OCTOBER 2025, and we would love you to join us. Donation based pricing, from free.
Online Encounter Events
We host four online Person-Centred Encounter Groups each year. The groups run from the third Friday evening to the following Sunday afternoon, in January, April, July and October each year. If the April event clashes with Easter, we will move it one week later. Pricing is donation-based, from free.
Once we are able resume our residential groups, we will only run three online groups, dropping the one closest to the in-person group.
Residential Encounter Event
We hope to resume an annual 5-day residential Person-Centred Encounter Groups in the near future, once we can find a suitable venue. We expect the group would run from Wednesday evening to Sunday afternoon, possibly the third week in July.
If you know of a low-cost residential venue with a capacity of 30-50 guests, please send details to enquiries@encounterevents.uk. Thanks.
What's it All About?
The person-centred encounter group provides opportunity to meet one another in a deeper, more personal way. “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.” (Rogers, C. 1969, Encounter Groups, p16).
Other Groups
We very much want to promote Encounter and will happily advertise other encounter groups. We are in the process of creating a directory of groups and organisations offering encounter groups. Please contact us if you’d like your group to be included.
…the encounter group has a clearly existential implication in its increasing ability to emphasise the here and now of human feelings and living one’s life…
Carl Rogers (1969)
Person-Centred Encounter Events
“The person-centred group is an event in which there is non-directive facilitation that fosters freedom and personal enhancement of the individual.
Jerold Bozarth (2005).
The Person-Centred Basic Encounter Group is a basis both for person-centred meeting and for developing person-centred being. A group may include designated facilitators or be self-facilitated by the participants. Either way, ideally, the Rogerian conditions, as they apply to groups, are held in mind, as we open ourselves to encounter each other: to hear; to understand; to offer others and ourselves acceptance of our experiencing in these moments of meeting. All our encounter groups are participant-facilitated, and so have no desigated facilitator.