Putting it Together: Supporting Others
In his talk Experiences in Communication given in the autumn of 1964 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Carl Rogers said:
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good…. When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.