The group included Tom Greening, Abraham Maslow, Dorothy Lee, Ross Mooney, Marie Rasey, Carl Rogers, David Smillie and Frances Wilson.
Key players in this event was James Bugental, the first president of the association, and Gordon Allport, who arranged a grant to help with the founding.
The conference was held in Connecticut and was visited by academic profiles in the field of humanistic psychology - Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers and Rollo May - who presented papers.
Carmi Harari was appointed director of international development[9] In 1970 The New York Times reported from the eight annual meeting of the association, which was held in Miami Beach, Florida.
[9] At this time, Eleanor Criswell, who functioned as liaison officer for the organization, helped "create the concept of the Humanistic Psychology Institute", now Saybrook University.
[9] The third International Invitation Conference on Humanistic Psychology was arranged in cooperation with Sophia University, a Catholic institution, the following year.