Abstract

Rae Ellen McKee, a recent national Teacher of the Year, gives evidence of her originality as a teacher in a question that she poses for her young grade school students. Rather than the all-too-familiar "What are you going to be when you grow up?", she asks instead, "How are you going to be when you grow up?" It is with great pride that she speaks of her own daughter's answer to this question when it was first posed on the back porch of their West Virginia small town home. After thinking about the question as much as a young girl can, she replied, "I want to be full of myself." The experiential psychology of Eugene Gendlin takes as its point of de? parture a similar transition from "what" sort of questions, or considerations of content and form, to "how" questions, or considerations of process. In a long, early essay (1973) that lays out the program of experiential psychol? ogy, he writes:

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