OLD SAYBROOK 2000 PROCEEDINGS
SETTING BOUNDARIES, BUILDING IDENTITY, CLARIFICATION OF/FOCUS ON:
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY'S CORE WORLD VIEW
1) Potential/Fulfillment
a. Belief in organismic wisdom, intuitive sense
b. Fully experientially human, implication for fulfilled life?
c. Potential
d. Beings of perpetual emergent interactionism
e. Motivated and emotional beings: in change
f. Transcends the biological
g. Free will, freedom
h. Cosmic Self organizing and expanding organism, learning and actualizing full potential
i. View of self, relationships, nature, people, spiritual whole, collectivity. Humanistic psychology, a way of viewing that informs these concerns.
2) Diversity
a. Deep respect for diversity of every type, including contradiction/fragmentation
b. Prizing of each individual's way of understanding
c. Uniqueness
d. Deep respect for dialectics of diversity
e. Complimentarity
3) Wholeness
a. Exploration of being part of a greater whole
b. Hindu jewel net
c. Togetherness of two
d. Macro and micro-cosmically, I-Thou
e. Stresses harmonious boundaries
f. Parts of larger systems in process of evolving
4) Community
a. Alternative community based on humanistic values
b. Recognizing the oneness of the human family
5) Self and Other
a. Inter-subjective experience
b. Respect for others
c. Yin-Yang micro-cosmology: I-Thou
d. Philosophy of existence, prefaced by an ethics of approach
6) Caring
a. Creation and conscious co-creation
b. Being-in-the-world (we are the world), Shepherds of Being
c. Each contributes to the process
d. Top of Maslow's needs - how do we get others to that core level and our responsibility for that
e. Responsibility
f. Leadership, supervision or models of harmony
g. Helping self and group actualization
h. Growing darkness
i. Self creativity
7) Normativity
a. Inherent in the human
b. Openness
c. Willingness to question, to commit to the differences between truth and falsehood, good and evil
d. Meaning and value to life
e. Integrates advances and consciousness from all fields: psychology, paranormal, spirituality, science, medicine, sociology, technology, jazz
f. Meaning makers, seekers, and value-based\
g. Present moment focus
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY'S CORE VALUES
- Valuing the paradox: we are both individual and universal, humble and bold
- Non-hierarchical view of relationship
- Recognizing emotional and spiritual need
- Empowering everyone
- Respect for self-consistency and self-contradiction
- Authenticity
- Freedom
- Free will
- Unconditional love
- Respect
- Peace
- Evolving
- Growth with joy
- Responsible self-creation
- The artistic and poetic, right brain, metaphoric and symbolic
- LOVE!!
- Equanimity
- Simplicity
- Survival of humanistic psychology
- Deconstruction, devolution/destruction
- Creative dynamic tension
- Develop human goodness fully/correct "badness"
- Support systems non-toxic to humanity
- Social responsibility in action
- Science, humanistic science
- Networking and group action
- Mind, body, spirit
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY'S VISION
- Rest of world has luxury to hold humanistic values and goals
- Vision for the invisibles and ineffable
- Genuine openness and tolerance for ideas
- One world unified transcends ethnicity, religion , nationality
- Basic and highest human needs met worldwide
- Promotion of capacity for awe
- Clear negative collective unconscious and create in love
- Love will find a way
- Blend humanistic values with evolving technological world
- Growth in honor and respect of world views
- We are one
- Respect for all humankind
- Self-actualizing techniques for everyone
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY'S MISSION/PURPOSE
- Develop and disseminate the research, theories, and practices that support the development of humanity to its fullest potentials.
- Helping everyone self-actualize
- Being-in-the-world using all my tools
- Meeting basic needs of all people
- Commitment to development
- Action in the world according to values
- Community which models/lives it out
- Develop one's own potentials
- Serve people and community
- Rest in goodness and peace while in the world
- Educational material, opportunities, activities
- Networking an outreach by kindred folk
- Support humanistic/therapeutic practices
- Catalyst for social change
AGENDA 2000-2001
Short term
- Taking responsibility of action taken
- Identify OS3 participants
- Collecting existing materials for public outreach to increase theory, practice, development
- Expand web sites created by OS2
- Who are the stakeholders of the agenda
- Have a directory of publications/ongoing research
- To raise public awareness of humanistic values (i.e. internet)
- Actively network/reach out to kindred individuals
- Organizing effort by committee from Saybrook II to develop a follow-up plan
Middle term
- OS3 Meeting
- 2002-Sino-American conference
- Provide an array of services to our most needy
- Constant revision/teaching/updating of our basic premises
- Seeking out opportunities for applications to research and action across disciplines
- Develop ways to expand consciousness, and disseminate to public
Long term
- Prepare an arrangement of materials and resources that can be applied to all levels of educational and other institutions
BEING OF SERVICE
If you look at the starting point as a finish point, you will never get past the beginning
Humanistic Psychology is not dying / fragmented; it is evolving
Humanistic Psychology is the impetus, the revolutionary force, the nurturing matrix: from which we all and others have gone forth and multiplied. THE WORD BECOME FLESH!
Embrace the offering - we're all in this together! Let's bring it (whatever our understanding) in a practical way to the world
RESOURCES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
EDUCATION:
- University CDPP schools
- Others listed in directory of HP / TP Psych in North America
ORGANIZATIONS:
- AHP / Div 32 / Assoc. for Hum Educ.
GEOGRAPHIC / STRUCTURAL:
PUBLICATIONS:
- J Hum Psy / Hum Psychologist
- newsletters
- AHP / Div 32 /
- IBSR
CENTERS:
INFLUENCE:
- Many well placed scholars / practitioners
THIS AND MORE AS BASIS FOR RESURGENCE OF HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
THINK HOW MUCH MORE WE HAVE IN INFRASTRUCTURE NOW THAN OS1 HAD IN 1964!
HOW DO WE BECOME A LEARNING COMMUNITY?
- Theory
- Practice
- Education
- Bricolage
- Issues
- Actions
- People
- When
- Where
- Diversity
- Allies and teachers
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY AS A LEARNING COMMUNITY
Theory
- Develop an integrative humanistic theory
- Person
- Community/Society/Nature
- Incorporate humanistic psychology concepts into personal life
- Building sense of community
- Emphasize interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange
- Develop a set of best practices
Practice
- Immersion experience in humanistic psychology skills
- More E-humanistic psychology gatherings
- Informal learning conversations - interdisciplinary
Education
- Training in empathic communication for the public
- Introduce humanistic values to schools, industry, and government in a concrete way
- Collect short powerful stories
- On-line courses
- Directory of humanistic psychology therapists
- Mentoring - counsel of elders
- Nurturing/facilitating dialog (inner/outer)
- Reprint classical texts, create archive
- Web site
- Immersion trainings for humanistic psychology therapists
Learning Community Volunteer Sign-Up
- Stan Krippner - theory
- Victor Daniels - theory/collect short stories
- Robert Walker - web site/web master
- Francesco Palmirotta - web site (international)
- Fraser Pierson - immersion in humanistic psychology skills
- George Aiken - immersion in humanistic psychology skills
- Susan Miller - mentoring, counsel of elders
- Priscilla Levasseur - reprint classic texts
- Will Kouw - web site