THE AUSTRIA PROGRAM

The Austria Program is an outstanding opportunity: the only workshop in Europe that has been offering the unique possibility for more than 30 years, to experience, learn and further explore genuine person-centered work, to develop yourself as a person and to learn personal and political ways of influencing both, your relationships and society.

Established as "La Jolla Program in Austria" in 1978,  The Austria Program is committed to the classical person-centered approach by Carl Rogers.

A new possibility is to participate for five days
(June 2 through 6).

Organizers:
Peter Frenzel (Mag., SFU Vienna; APG•IPS, Vienna; Kaleidos, Linz; TAO, Vienna)
Renata Fuchs (MAS; SFU Vienna; APG•IPS, Vienna; Zentrum f. Beratung, Training & Entwicklung, Krems)
Peter F. Schmid (HSProf. Univ.Doz Mag. Dr., Univ. Graz & SFU Vienna; APG•IPS, Vienna and others.

Expected Facilitating Team 2021:
Peter Frenzel, Renata Fuchs, Peter F. Schmid and others

Expected Time: June 2 - 9, 2021 (Wed 3 p.m. through Wed 6 p.m.)

Location: To be announced. formerly Großrußbach Castle, Lower Austria (close to Vienna; see prictures on these pages) which will be refurbished soon. 

How to get there by train and shuttle, by bus and private vehicle.

Tuition:

•  One week:
to be announced

•  5 days (Wednesday through Sunday):
to be announced

Prices include weekend activities.
Lodging and board to be paid on location. Please note the conditions for participation and payment to be found here. Under certain conditions VAT may be added.

Languages: German and English.
 

2017

The relationships both in the small groups and the community provide a chance to grow and to learn

to experience and learn the person-centered approach and its social implications in action

to better understand yourself and others and to enlarge your behavioral repertoire towards greater creativity and freedom

to encounter the diversity of people of different age, sex, origin, education, profession and culture

  to practice the art of facilitating groups and to find out how you can be helpful for others

to find out the conditions for collective ways of decision-finding and self-guided learning

to understand and further the development of small and large groups and intergroup relations

to actively take part in societal and political developments.

 

References re LJP and TAP

• Coulson, William R. / Land, Doug / Meador, Bruce, The La Jolla experiment. Eight personal views, La Jolla 1977

• Peter F. Schmid, "Ein Kontrastprogramm" - Das La Jolla Programm, ein Personzentrierter Workshop, in: ders., Personzentrierte Gruppenpsychotherapie in der Praxis, Bd. II, Paderborn (Junfermann) 1996, 411-424 — .— click here

• Peter F. Schmid, 25 Jahre Austria Programm — Der Personzentrierte Ansatz als persönliches und politisches Programm. Einige Lernerfahrungen (pdf)

• Carl R. Rogers (1970a), On encounter groups, New York 1970, chp 9: Building facilitative skills; dt. Encounter-Gruppen. Das Erlebnis der menschlichen Begegnung, München 1974, Kap. 9: Zur Ausbildung von Gruppenleitern

Further references

• Peter F. Schmid, Encounter-oriented learning programs for person-centered psychotherapists: Some learnings from decades of experience and their theoretical background, in PCEP 14,1 (2015) 100-114

• Peter F. Schmid, “All real life is encounter” On the sustainable relevance to be
surprised and affected, in: PCEP 18,3 (2018) 202-213

• Peter F. Schmid, Encounter group (T group), in: Zeigler-Hill, Virgil / Shackelford, Todd K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Living Edition, Springer (Cham) • Link to full article: http://pfs-online.at/1/papers/en

THE AUSTRIA PROGRAM WEEKEND WORKSHOP FOR PRACTITIONERS

to be announced

Registration online, by e-mail, phone, or post.