HR!Day450 - Part IV: The Relevance of Humanistic Psychology for Today’s Reality
Humanity’s Reckoning with Race-Linked Wounds
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This Week: Race-Linked Wounds
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MLK |
Part II
Repair |
Part III
Game |
Part IV
Psychology |
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This session brings together voices from the Association for Humanistic Psychology in the U.S and Britain to reflect on humanity's race-linked wounds.
This is a special session that brings together voices from the Association for Humanistic Psychology in the U.S (AHP) and in Britain (AHPb). As Humanity reckons with its race-linked wounds, we suggest that humanistic psychology can serve as a helpful framework to assist with this unfolding process. Humanistic psychology promotes growth through heightened awareness and self-understanding, body/mind integration and a focus on well-being. A humanistic approach also promotes collaboration with a basic belief in each person’s resources for healing and health. Humanistic psychology is interested in how people are influenced by their self-perceptions and the personal meanings attached to their experiences. As a framework, humanistic psychology can assist people in living more in the present; it is not concerned with instinctual drives, responses to external stimuli, or past experiences. While humanistic psychology and positive psychology both can be helpful frameworks for Humanity’s reckoning with its race-linked wounds and both focus on similar concerns, they have differences regarding methodology and epistemology. In terms of methodology, for example, humanistic psychology prefers qualitative approaches over quantitative approaches, whereas positive psychology tends to hold the opposite preference. In this regard, therefore, it can be argued that humanistic psychology can serve as a framework for how to better focus our individual and Collective Consciousness on the quality of “lived experiences.”
Presenters
- Carroy (Cuf) Ferguson, Convener, has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston College. He has been President or Co-President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology for many years, making history in 2006 as the first African American and first person of color to be President of this national Association since its founding in 1962 by world-renown psychologists in the field like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. He is a tenured Full Professor and former Dean at University of Massachusetts-Boston, currently serves as Human Services Program Director and Human Service Internship Coordinator, is a co-founder of two visionary organizations (Interculture, Inc. and Associates in Human Understanding), is a co-founder of Massachusetts’ historic Commonwealth Diversity Fellows Program, has been a clinical practitioner for over 35+ years, is a member of a number of boards, is a human relations, multicultural, and organizational development consultant, and workshop facilitator, is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and is a published author of books, articles, and other writings (e.g., Evolving The Human Race Game; A New Perspective on Race and Color; Transitions in Consciousness from an African American Perspective; and Innovative Approaches to Education and Community Service).
- Roxanne Hope Randall
- Bruce Southers
- Mark Harrison
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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