Cultivating Consciousness

Abstract

The case is made for the need for a new educational praxis that can cultivate the levels of consciousness necessary to succeed in the new emerging global contexts. The work of Carl R. Rogers is discussed as a transformational pedagogy. In particular, his work in large person-center community group processes during the past 15 years of his career is described where rapid growth in individual consciousness levels and group consciousness occurs. Elaborated are various configurations of individual and group conscious and how they are related to each other. Also considered is an extraordinary consciousness state observed within groups where high levels of individual consciousness and high levels of group consciousness are aligned. Some facilitative attitudes that may create the enabling conditions for consciousness alignment are described.