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Path of the Bridger: AHP's Role in Co-Creating A "New Reality" For Human Togetherness and the Evolution of Consciousness
AHP Perspective (2006)
  • carroy u ferguson, UMASS Boston
Abstract
As the newly elected President of AHP, I feel very honored to become part of an ongoing, transformational, creative, and inspiring history. As I mentioned in my recent introductory letter to you all after being voted AHP’s new President this summer, since its founding the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) has been engaged in an historic, “transformational undertaking”—to actualize “a bold new affirmative approach in psychology and life” and “to explore the edges of what is known, looking for new and workable methods to facilitate our evolution as individuals and as a society.” Humanistic Psychology and AHP represented a shift in Consciousness, away from a primary focus on “what’s wrong with us as human beings” to a primary focus on “how and in what ways we can become our optimal selves as human beings.” Over time, the primary focus of Humanistic Psychology and the various educational activities of AHP, and its strategic partners, helped to co-create a “climate of possibilities” for individuals, groups (e.g., racial, cultural, social) and kindred organizations to explore numerous paths for becoming more of “who we are” as human beings.
Keywords
  • Consciousness; Empowerment; Politics; Perspectives; Paradigm; Emotions; Beliefs; Psychology; Sociololgy; Philosophy
Publication Date
Fall November, 2006
Citation Information
carroy u ferguson. "Path of the Bridger: AHP's Role in Co-Creating A "New Reality" For Human Togetherness and the Evolution of Consciousness" AHP Perspective (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/carroy_ferguson/22/