The Quiet Revolution Movement in Italy and beyond was born in mid-2019 in anticipation of the organization of the XVI International PCA Forum in Italy.
Even though there was already great excitement before, as can be seen, for example, from the crowdfunding for Guinea Bissau started with Mirella’s first trip to Africa in 2015.To learn more about the project, we invite you to look at the photos, documents and drawings present in the squares at the top of the photograph “Guinea Bissau” on the “Studying in a shouting country” page, as well as reading the description of the project on the first page and looking at the pages of the “Contributions” to see HOW MANY WE ARE!!!!! The latest crowdfunding, on which fundraising is still active, is: “Studying in a country that shouts: Free to Study”.
Rogers has been defined a “Quiet Revolutionary” and he wrote that: “To the degree that each of us is willing to be himself, then he finds not only himself changing, but he finds other people to whom he relates are also changing” and thus he finds that he’s changing the world too. Like many waves generated by a flat pebble thrown into the water. And, in our experience, with the values and spirit of the Person-Centered Approach – empathy, congruence, unconditional acceptance, trust above all – this is possible.
BRIEF PRESENTATION OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND METHODS OF SPREADING THE PCA AROUND THE MOVEMENT OF THE QUIET REVOLUTION IN ITALY AND BEYOND
Around the Quiet Revolution Movement in Italy, and not only, there are the following structures, institutional and non-institutional, of Rogerian education and training (Sheet A. the names in bold indicate that the people are within the Bibliography):
IN ITALY
- APEIRON – Association of Existential Humanistic Psychology in Milan whose founder and Honorary President is Giulio Fontò. He is a Psychologist and Psychotherapist with a Rogerian, Bioenergetic and Phenomenological-existential background.
- EMPATEIA – Institute of Humanistic Psychology, Four-year School of Specialization in Humanistic Psychotherapy (Rogersian Approach) recognized by MIUR (Ministry of University and Scientific Research), whose Director is Sebastiano Ciavirella. He is a Psychologist and Psychotherapist with Gestalt, Group-Analytic and Rogerian training. He practices individual and group psychotherapy in Messina (Sicilia) and Milan.
- FREEDOM FOR BIRTH / Rome Action Group, co-founded by Mirta Mattina. She is a psychologist and psychotherapist with a Rogerian background, coordinator of the working group on “Psychology and Perinatal Health” – Order of Psychologists of Lazio. She is a managing psychologist in the RM1 public facility in Rome.
- Alessandra B. Caporale: Counselor, National President of AssoCounseling, co-executive director Center for studies of the person, La Jolla, California. She spreads PCA as a trainer in counseling courses, the culture of the person-centered approach in community projects and social empowerment, especially in Emilia Romagna.
- Livia Luberto: is a trainer and responsible for Focusing in Italy. She is an Anthropologist with a year of field experience in Chiapas and repeated returns, in Palestine (10 months), in the Balkans with various missions. Currently a teacher of Italian for foreigners and in training for the three-year course in Rogerian counseling.
- Massimo Caon: with a Rogerian background, he is a scholar of Political Philosophy and a scholar of the subject at the University of Tor Vergata in the teaching of General Sociology. A PhD student in Philosophical-Social Sciences at the same university, he was a visiting PhD student at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
- Monica Rebuffo: trains at the Consultorio Pro-Familia in Imperia (Liguria) where she is the director of the team. She is a psychologist and psychotherapist with a Rogerian background and a certified Gordon trainer.
- Roberto Tecchio: Rogerian counselor and trainer in person-centered Focusing and also responsible for the same in Italy together with L. Luberto. He collaborates with the Interdisciplinary Center for Peace Sciences of the University of Pisa (Toscana).
- Vincenza Malatino: works as a psychiatrist at the Polyclinic of Lampedusa (AG) and for the ASP of Palermo at the “Ucciardone” prison in Palermo. Doctor of research and Rogerian Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist. Former teacher of Psychopathology in training courses for Rogerian psychotherapists.
Furthermore, many of us train at the World of Thomas Gordon for effective communication in Lombardia, Liguria, Toscana, Lazio, Abruzzo, Campania, Sicilia.
With many colleagues of other approaches with whom we collaborate such as Rocco Mondello, Francesco Purita, and many others, the basic approach is Rogerian
But above all, the Rogerian way of being is transmitted with therapies and counseling work [for example, only M.M. D’Ippolito has 218 individual and 81 family therapies concluded and 22 in progress (as of February 2025), G. Prignano works with the “Ritmi dell’Io” in Napoli and the list would be endless].
Many people who have already undergone therapy and who have been taught the Rogerian way of being occupy important positions in Italy and have supported us and continue to support us from above.
In fact, we have received the Patronage for the XVI International PCA Forum in Italy (November 2022) from the Azienda Ospedaliero-universitaria Policlinico Umberto I – Università Sapienza di Roma and from the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Federico II University of Naples.
IN GUINEA BISSAU
- Candida Elisa Cabral Silva de Medina Rodrigues works as the National Chief Physician of Guinea Bissau for HIV and director of the Immunology Department at the Simão Mendes National Hospital in Bissau. Candida E.C. is registered for the next ADPCA conference in Chicago in June 2025.
- Dilma Alves Spencer Melicio works as a Psychologist at the Simão Mendes National Hospital in Bissau.
- Finhamba Quessangue Silva: Psychologist of the Mental Health Service in Bissau.
These three people form a Rogerian nucleus in Guinea Bissau around which many others revolve.
IN AND FOR PALESTINE
- Amal Khayal: born and lived in Gaza until a few months after October 7. She works from Italy with a Rogerian approach at the humanistic association Cooperazione Internazionale CISS Sud Sud ONG based in Palermo. She is a member of ADPCA and registered for the next conference in Chicago in June 2025.
- Manal Altamimi (and her husband Bilal): she works in the West Bank with a Rogerian approach at the International relations department of Colonization and Wall Resistence Commission (CWRC) in Ramallah for information and international cooperation and for non-violent associations for Palestine. She worked at Supporting Indipendence of Palestine. She is registered for the next ADPCA conference in Chicago in June 2025.
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There is a nucleus of the Movement also in France (of which Franҫoise Pezet and others included in the following Bobliography), in Romania and in Ukraine. The names are not indicated because they are not in Institutions.
There are almost 250 people around the Movement and around them other people rotate…
(Sheet B updated to February 2025)
