Tudor, Keith2025-04-142025-04-142023-07-24Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, ISSN: 1477-9757 (Print); 1752-9182 (Online), Informa UK Limited, 23(4), 445-460. doi: 10.1080/14779757.2023.22349851477-97571752-9182http://hdl.handle.net/10292/19059This article offers a person-centered understanding of courage, based on the classical, organismic-relational perspective in person-centered psychology. Drawing on literature (Shakespeare) and philosophy (especially Aristotle and Tillich), it discusses both the courage to be (and become)–and to belong. It considers courage as a virtue which in its deficiency is fear but in its excess is over-confidence, and elaborates four ways of understanding and working with this therapeutically: in terms of being (in terms of regard and self-regard), process (from fixity to fluidity), encounter (with self and others), and communities (influence and impact). At a meta-perspective, the article also offers a commentary on the issue of belonging in a world of psychology and/or psychotherapy that tends to discount person-centered psychology.© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/5203 Clinical and Health Psychology52 Psychology1701 PsychologyBeingbecomingbelongingcouragehomonomyorganism and environmentJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1080/14779757.2023.2234985