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Reflection Paper On Mr. Carl Rogers

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I can only imagine how Mr. Carl Rogers felt when he was asked to speak at the Brandeis University. I had to write a speech in high school for my class and my teacher invited a couple of classes to come to the auditorium to listen to my classmate and my personal speech. I was really nervous but I was proud of myself once I said my speech in front of all those students. Mr. Carl Rogers didn’t seem nervous but he just seems as though he did not know how to present his topics to the senior class. I think it is easy to talk about yourself but the challenging part is explaining it in a way that you don’t make your audience bored. Adults are just like kids and we can’t sit down to listen to someone for a long time before our minds or eyes start to wander around. I like the way Mr. Carl Rogers explained what his book was about “this book is about the suffering and hope, the anxiety, and the satisfaction, with which each therapist’s counseling room is filled”. Reading this part in Mr. Carl Rogers’ book made me feel as if Mr. Carl Rogers really care about his clients. “It is about a client in my office who sits there by the corner of the desk, struggling to be himself, yet deathly afraid of being himself striving to see to see his experience as it is wanting to be that experience, and yet deeply fearful of the prospect”. Mr. Carl Rogers took me as a person who listens to his clients and really tries to help them. “This book is about me, as I sit there with that client, facing him,

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