UPR

Unconditional Positive Regard (UPR) is the non-judgmental acceptance and support of a person, regardless of their actions, words, or choices. Developed by Carl Rogers, UPR is a core principle of client-centered therapy, aiming to create a safe space for individuals to be vulnerable and accept themselves. It involves recognizing a person's inherent worth and providing them with acceptance to foster their own self-acceptance and growth.  

UPR is not a concept that should be confined  to the CARINGprofessions because it is what FIRSTnations peoples do in regard to the 'places' they inhabit and moreover regard themselves as belonging to, and caring for, their place in the world. All of humanity has an obligation to 'care for' the places they belong to. Clearly, humanity in the so-called DEVELOPEDworld has not done since the ownership of land and the concept of fiscal investment in places has overriden any concept of obligation to place and 'placedness'.

Beyond that it is not without substance to expect PUBLICservants to apply UPR to those who they serve. In any event UPR is a two-way-concept that works best when it is MPR – Mutual Positive Regard.

UPR is not LOVE! ... Love is a feeling of strong attraction, affection, emotional attachment or concern for a person, animal, or thing. It is expressed in many forms, encompassing a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue, good habit, deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.

Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish, loyal, and benevolent concern for the good of another"—and its vice representing a moral flaw akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism.

UPR is what can be expected in relationships that are other than intimate relationship.