Fully Functioning Person
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Fully Functioning Person
A Fully Functioning Person is Carl Rogers’ term for an individual whose self-structure is sufficiently healed and integrated that they can remain open to experience, trust their inner signals (i.e., organismic valuing), live flexibly in the present, and act with increasing congruence between felt experience, awareness, and behaviour. IN LP terms they have entered Growth Mode
Concept Map
Carl Rogers Terms
Actualizing Tendency, Client-Centered Therapy, Congruence, Fully Functioning Person, Growth Hypothesis, Ideal Self, Self, Self-Structure, Tendency Towards Self-Actualization
Key Concepts
- Five Barriers to Human Flourishing
- Harmonic Social Structure
- Health
- Human Development Framework
- Human Potential
- Lightning Path Human Development Framework
- Planetary Healing
- Planetary Steward
- Seven Components of Human Development
- Socialization
- Stages of Human Development
- The Regime
Human Potential Terms
- Full Realization
- Individual Potential
- Species Potential
- Actual Realization
- Human Flourishing
- Potential Realization
- Fully Functioning Person
Related LP Terms
Fully Functioning Person > Growth Mode
Non-LP Related Terms
Syncretic Terms
Notes
In Carl Rogers’ person-centered theory, a fully functioning person is not “perfect,” finished, or permanently “happy.” It’s an ongoing way of living in which a person is increasingly open to experience, trusts their organismic (whole-body) responses, and lives flexibly and responsively in the present, so their choices and actions become more congruent (aligned) with their real feelings, needs, and perceptions (their biological and spiritual selves). Rogers frames this as a process of becoming—“a direction, not a destination.
On the Lightning Path, a fully functioning person corresponds to a fully functioning Physical Unit operating primarily in Growth Mode—i.e., with Seven Essential Needs sufficiently met and life-energy freed for learning, creativity, healthy relationship, Alignment, and Connection.
fully functioning person is not an “end state,” but a direction of growth. Common indicators include:
- less defensiveness and distortion; greater openness to emotional reality
- increased self-trust and internal guidance (inner signals)
- present-centered, flexible responding (instead of rigid self-concepts)
- creativity, autonomy, and relational authenticity
Syncretic Terms
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