This project sought to find ways in which emotional learning could be brought to a level commensurate with intellectual learning. Confluent education refers to the concept of teaching a person through both cognitive and affective processes. Nine elements must be present in the teaching situation in order for confluent education to exist: responsibility--the ability to respond creatively and positively to any situation; convergency--relating and experiencing what is done or what is happening to the self; connectedness--a sense of positive affiliation with others; divergency--relating and experiencing what is happening in the world to the educational experience; power--a sense of personal control over what is happening or will happen; gestalt--gaining closure (satisfaction) through positive frustration and explication; identity--a feeling of self-worth, self-esteem, and ego identity; context-learning to understand communications through general semantics and environment; and evaluation--eliciting individuals' opinions concerning values. (LL)