This article presents a description and critique of the Rust Workshop in Vienna, Austria, 1985. Recollections of emotionally charged incidents provide the focus for analysis of challenges to the person-centered approach as applied to international tension reduction. The report is represented as an invitation to dialogue and exploration of ways in which the personcentered approach can be opened to cross-fertilization with other methods of conflict resolution. The author worked on each phase of the workshop with Carl Rogers who, with United Nations University for Peace President Rodrigo Carazo, was co-convener of the event.