Welcome to the Brighton Person-Centred Community website
The Brighton Person-Centred Community is open to anyone interested in the Person-Centred Approach.
We are passionate about meeting each other as we truly are in supportive, confidential environments where we greet each other with a non-judgmental accepting attitude. We want to offer opportunities for connection and to support to each other.
There are different ways to be involved and to meet others interested in the person-centred approach. We hold three monthly meetings: a person-centred experiential group, a walking community, and a group for recently qualified practitioners. More information can be found here. We also have a programme of exciting workshops with guest speakers and a thriving book club.
We look forward to meeting you.
For the latest news, please scroll down below.
As a group we are affiliated to TPCA (The Person-Centred Association) and form part of the national 'Local Groups' network.
*Please note that the Community meetings on the second and third Saturdays of each month are by no means exclusive to therapists and counsellors.
How we came to be
The group was formed in recognition of the fact that there were few organized opportunities locally for counsellors and therapists with an interest in the person-centred approach to come together for contact and mutual support.
This perceived gap highlighted the need for a group where sustained personal/professional contact was made possible.
For more than ten years our community has been meeting once a month on a Saturday morning.
Latest News:
Please visit the Workshops page for additional details about a curated Encounter Group on 12th October, as well as full details of a workshop on 23rd November on The Politics and Ethics of Love in Person Centred Theory with Suzanne Keys
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The Regular monthly meeting at the Friends' Meeting House:
For some time the regular meeting at the Friends’ Meeting House on the 3rd Saturday of each month has been very poorly attended. We have therefore decided, with regret, to close the meeting at the end of the year.
The next meeting will be on 19th October. The last meeting will be on 21stDecember 2024.
If you feel strongly that you do not want this meeting to close, then the only way to save it will be to come to the meeting during these final months.
The meeting will, in any case, be transferring to Room 6 for the remaining few months. Room 6 is on the 1st floor at the end of the corridor.
Please note that the meeting on 16th November will also serve as a review of the Community’s activities over the year, an acknowledgement of the ending of the monthly meetings at FMH and consideration of our future plans. Please do come along.
Community meetings
There are three meetings each month:
A New Practitioners' meeting in Hove on the first Saturday of each month;
A walking meeting on the second Saturday of each month;
A conventional, in-person meeting on the third Saturday.
For more details, and for the dates of future meetings, please visit
our Meetings & Groups page.
Reading group
Meetings take please on a Friday evening in Lewes - usually in a member's house.
For more information contact Geraldine Pass: geraldinem1264@gmail.com
Donating to the Community
Our existing funds are reasonably healthy; but we certainly will not refuse donations if you feel like contributing to our future. If you would like to make a voluntary donation, our bank details are:
PERSON CENTRED COMMUNITY;
08-92-99;
65079432.
Alternatively, please contact our treasurer, William Johnston, at willj@ntlworld.com.
Photo by Ben Guerin on Unsplash
Become part of the community
The Brighton Person-Centred Community is not a 'membership organisation' in the official sense. However there are various ways to connect with the community. You can:
- Sign-up to our newsletter (on the right)
- Come to a community meeting
- Come to a workshop
- Join the reading group
We hope you find the community a useful and enjoyable thing to be part of, and that it furthers your appreciation, understanding and sense of community in relation to the Person-Centred approach.
For ongoing articles, links and discussions connected with the community and the person-centred approach simply click the Facebook and Twitter (X) icons below to 'like' or 'follow' us!
If you want to contact us, please either email one of the volunteers listed on our Contact page.
Alternatively, write to us at Brightonpcc01@gmail.com.