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The 6th Annual EHI Conference

"Everyday Existentialism: Cultivating Presence, Awe and Meaning"

• Dates: November 16th and 17th, 2012
• Location: AgeSong/EHI 624 Laguna Grove, San Francisco, CA 94102
• Registration: Registration Closed
• Fee: Online Payment Option Closed
• Conference Contact: Dr. Mary Madrigal, phone: 714-504-8840, email: drmmadrigal@verizon.net

“Everyday Existentialism: Cultivating Presence, Awe and Meaning” AgeSong hosts the Existential Humanistic Institute’s (EHI’s) 6th Annual EHI Conference Friday and Saturday, November 16 and 17. EHI is a program of Pacific Institute, a non-profit organization. The conference is also a training venue for our yearlong certificate program. Upon successful completion, students in the program are awarded a certificate in the Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Practice. The “certificate track” will offer current and prospective students 12 hours of E-H therapy training, organized around the conference theme and taught by our nationally recognized faculty. Read more…

2012 EHI6 Program Guide

• Download the 2012 EHI6 Conference Schedule Outline [PDF]
• *Schedule Update - Optional onsite lunches added to both Friday and Saturday $10 each day.

EHI Certification in Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Practice

The conference is also a training venue for our yearlong certificate program. Upon successful completion, students in the program are awarded a certificate in the Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Practice. The “certificate track” will offer current and prospective students 12 hours of E-H therapy training, organized around the conference theme and taught by our nationally recognized faculty. To learn more about the certificate program and the 12 hour certificate track curriculum, visit the EHI website.

Directions and Info 2012 EHI Annual Conference

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Special Hotel Offer for EHI 2012 Conference Phoenix Hotel, a Joie de Vivre hotel, has offered EHI 20 rooms with the following group deal for the annual conference.The Phoenix Hotel is located less than a mile from AgeSong at 601 Eddy Street. The room rate of $145 per night is good for Nov. 15-18. EHI6 2012 Conference: 1 complimentary parking space per room rented. Complimentary wifi through out the property. Complimentary coffee, tea and muffins in the morning to help get you started for the day. And of course access to our amazing courtyard and outdoor heated swimming pool. We also have an amazing restaurant and lounge on property called Chambers eat + drink that serves dinner from 6pm to 11pm, bar bites and drinks from 6pm to 1am weekdays and now offer an awesome brunch service on Saturday and Sunday’s from 10:30am to 3pm. There are many other great amenities offered at Phoenix Hotel, including complimentary spa passes good on M-F from 8am -5pm. If you'd like to check out the hotel, please click here: Phoenix Hotel Phoenix Hotel 601 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109 T 415-776-1380 | F 415-885-3109 R 800-248-9466 Contact Phoenix Hotel

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The Existential Humanistic Institute Invites You to the Launching of Their Film Series

Hosted by Candice Hershman, MA, MFT

Cinema is the great contemporary art form of the 20th and 21st century. In his book, Sculpting in Time (1987), Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky asserted that cinema, along with music, was the most personally impactful art form in the sense that it has the capacity to bring us into the most direct experience of a story possible. Through suspended belief, an audience can experience a moving work of art in a palpable way, transcending the barriers that separate us from the world of the "other," and expanding our sense of personal emotional life through a deep intimacy that is developed with complex characters and estranged worlds. Existential Humanistic Psychology has a rich history of creative acknowledgement, recognizing that artists are perhaps among the greatest of psychological minds. Because of this, we invite the community to share a filming experience with each other, both as observers and dialectic participants.

• Cost: $15 per screening. EHI Members will only be charged $10
  Where: Laguna Grove Care, 624 Laguna St, San Francisco, CA 94102
  Due to limited seating, please RSVP in advance with Candice Hershman at cahershman@comcast.net or 415-328-4575.
• We hope to see you there. Bring popcorn!

Sunday, May 6th, 2012, 2 – 5:30 PM: The Elephant Man (1980), directed by David Lynch. Film Synposis: The Elephant Man was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best picture, Director, and Screenplay, and was also nominated for four Golden Globes. The Elephant Man won Best Foreign Film at the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. David Lynch tells the true story of John Merrick, a severely disfigured man who made his way through the world pimped off as a circus freak until he was discovered by a surgeon, Frederick Treves, who had an agenda of his own. The transformation that occurs as a result of the relationship leaves the good doctor to examine his own character and the disfigured man to discover the great beauty that lies beneath his repulsive exterior. The film is a masterful portrait of the collective shadow, what we value, disregard, as well as the beauty and ugliness that exists within every human being regardless of what we choose to invite in or cast out. Sunday, June 10th, 2012, 2 – 5:30 PM: Act III, Scene I (2010) Written, directed, and produced by Kindred Parker of Last Wave Film. Kindred Parker will personally screen his award winning film and be available to discuss the content of his film and the artistic process after the screening. Film Synopsis: Act III, Scene I won Best Cinematography at San Francisco City Shorts 2010. Act III, Scene 1 is a modern reworking of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. It abstracts, contemporizes, and condenses elements of the play into a short film with its focus trained on Act III, Scene 1: the crucial exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia. A young prince embarks on a path of vengeance, sacrificing an authentic "romantic love" for a lofty idealism, driving himself and his lover insane. Last Wave's revision uses the classical tale of Hamlet to contemplate domesticity, anthropology, power dynamics, gender roles, politics, etc., and ultimately to tell its own story. Artist Biography: Kindrid Parker is a writer, award-winning filmmaker, and the co-founder of Last Wave Film. The films he has written and directed have been on view at various mainstays of the Bay Area filmmaking community: The Pacific Film Archive/Berkley Art Museum, The Artists' Television Access, The Knew Nothing, The Cafe Revolution, The Space Gallery, and many others. Kindrid publishes fiction and experimental prose through a number of literary journals, including 3AM Magazine and The Walrus. When he is not writing or directing films, Kindrid teaches Film Production and Film Acting at the Shelton Studios in San Francisco. Kindrid is currently in pre-production on his first feature film, Home. Sunday, July 15th, 2012, 2 – 5:30 PM: La Strada (1954), directed by Federico Fellini. Film Synopsis: La Strada won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1956. Fellini tells the story of Zampano and Gelsomina, two traveling circus performers who are in an abusive relationship with each other. The disconnection, cruelty, lost innocence, and questioning of one’s own personal value in an indiscriminately painful, yet beautiful and awe inspiring world is even further complicated when the two encounter Il Matto, another traveling, high wire performer with a devilishly irresistible free spirit. The tragedy that unfolds elicits irrevocable change that ultimately leaves one of the characters alone with their vulnerability in the face of a vast mystery. Candice Hershman, MA, MFT , will give a brief talk before each film screening, and then facilitate a group discussion before concluding the afternoon. Candice Hershman has a private therapy practice in Sausalito, and has been pleased with the efficacy of cinematherapy in groups she has facilitated in residential treatment. Candice has invested a great deal of time exploring cinema as an illuminating force in psychology. With faculty sponsorship, Candice wrote and taught a course at Sonoma State University titled Humanistic Psychology and Film , and has continued to pursue her passion for film through the mentored guidance of Dr. Ed Mendelowitz, author of Fellini, Fred, and Ginger: Imagology and the Postmodern World (2001), and Dr. Kirk Schneider, author of Horror and the Holy: Wisdom Teachings of the Monster Tale, (1999). For more information about Candice, please visit her website at www.chershmantherapy.com.

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The Poetics of Aging

Towards A New Understanding of the Many Verses of Life

• Dates: November 16 - 19, 2011
• General Schedule: 8:30am to 6pm (Wednesday); 8:30am to 5pm (Thursday-Saturday)
• EHI-Inner Elder Program Schedule: 2:30pm to 7pm (Thursday); 9:15am to 5:30pm (Friday); 9:00am to 4:30pm (Saturday)
• Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, California

EHI is one of the collaborating organizations for this conference organized by AgeSong Institute. The conference mission is to counter the mainstream understanding of aging as decline and/or disease with a more expansive, humanistic, and creative - that is poetic - vision and approach. Together we shall create a climate where people exchange information and partake in creative expressions, while providing room for self-study and discovery.

Visit poeticsofaging.org

The EHI-Inner Elder Program

This program given by the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) will provide presentations and workshops that focus on inner growth and wisdom that accumulates throughout life and can be tapped into regardless of actual age. Inner elderhood is an ongoing process and these presentations will highlight how our inner world can continue to meet the outer world in a fruitful way.

The EHI-Certificate Tract Training

The Existential-Humanistic Institute offers a Certificate Program in E-H Therapy. The workshops designated EHI-CT will offer training in E-H Therapy and are intended to provide those students enrolled in the EHI Certificate Program additional training. These workshops are also open to all therapists and therapists-in-training wanting experiential workshops in E-H Therapy. All the EHI- EHI-Certificate Tract trainings are taught by senior core faculty of EHI, and will offer CE credits. The Certificate Track Training is open to all conference attendees and are labeled “EHI-Certificate” on designated workshops below.

Thursday, November 17: 2:30pm - 7pm

• Nader Shabahangi and the Existential Humanistic Institute Board, EHI Inner Elder Training Introduction
  Mary Madrigal, Availability and Quality of End-of-Life Care for Persons with Complex Mental Health Conditions
  EHI end-of-day social gathering, with refreshments

Friday, November 18: 9:15am - 5:30pm

• Orah Krug, E-H Therapy Principles in Action: A Gateway to Therapeutic Effectiveness (EHI-Certificate)
  Kirk Schneider, Rediscovering Awe for Ourselves and Our Practices (EHI-Certificate)
  Chris Armstrong & Lou Dangles, Old Hearts Forging Depths of Intimacy Caring for the Soul of the Other: The Tempering of Intimate Relationships
  Dave Elkin, Poetry Reading
  Lora Wilson, Dancing Beyond Dementia: Creating Connection and Honoring Personhood

Saturday, November 19: 9:00am - 4:30pm

• Bob Edelstein, Thirteen Interventions for an Existential-Humanistic Therapist (EHI-Certificate)
  Meg Chang & Donna Newman-Bluestein, Dance/Movement Therapy-Based Nonverbal Communication Training for Caregivers: Creative Dance as Source and Sustenance
  Shawn Rubin, A Day in the Life(Span): An Appreciation of the Challenges and Triumphs of Personal Growth from Childhood to Elderhood through Peer Supervision & Consultation
  Bill Ryan, Legacy: What do I want to pass on to the next generation?
  Sonja Saltman, The Nature of Contact (EHI-Certificate)
  Matt Spalding and Puran Khalsa, Open To Not Knowing: Humanistic and Transpersonal Approaches to Psychotherapy for Elders with Dementia
  Sonja Saltman & Candice Hershman, In Search of the Inner Elder: The Challenge of Adding Wisdom to Years (EHI-Certificate)

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EHI Learning Community Meeting

Do you want to connect with other existentially oriented therapists in the Bay Area? And do you want to have a voice on the future of the Existential-Humanistic Institute?

If so, please consider attending an EHI Learning Community Meeting in San Francisco on Thursday, July 7th @ 7 PM. The purpose of this get-together is to explore how EHI can meet the needs of our members and the local world at large via a learning community format. We are inviting feedback from attendees on how to make EHI relevant to your needs and dreams, so please bring your ideas and a lite snack to share with the group.

If you've been interested in getting more involved with EHI to help make it a vibrant organization that can meet your needs and address local and global concerns, this is a great opportunity!

• Date: Thursday, July 7th, 2011
  Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
  Location: Laguna Grove Care, 624 Laguna Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

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Community Institute for Psychotherapy

presents

Love in the Psychotherapy Relationship

A Study Class for Professionals

• Dates: Saturdays, February 12, March 12, and April 9, 2011
  Time: 9am to 1pm
  Location: CIP, 1330 Lincoln Ave, San Rafael, Suite 201
  CE Credits: 4 CEUs per session approved for MFT's and LCSWs and 4 CEUs approved per session by the MCEPAA for Psychologists

Freud once said to Jung: “Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.” If this is true, is psychotherapy a “love cure”? Is there a therapeutic kind of love? What forms does it take? How might “disorders of the heart” appear in psychotherapy? More personally, how does love (or the lack of it) in our own lives affect our work with our patients? The overall purpose of this series of seminars is to contemplate the varieties of love in the therapeutic relationship. Practical applications of theory to clinical work will be central to the seminars. We will explore Jungian, existential- humanistic, and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on love.

• Bryan Wittine, PhD, LMFT, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Mill Valley and San Francisco. He has also trained in contemporary psychoanalytic, existential, and transpersonal approaches and has practiced meditation for 40 years. He teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco on the spiritual dimension of psychotherapy, the father, relationship problems of men, and love in the analytic relationship.
• Betsy Cohen, PhD, LCSW, is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Albany, CA and has been in private practice for 38 years. She is the author of The Snow White Syndrome and several papers on the practice of Jungian psychoanalysis. She is a teaching analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
• Jane Jordan, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst with practices in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. She is a training and supervising analyst for the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and a member, coordinator and instructor for the international advisory council of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.
• Kirk J. Schneider, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and the leading spokesperson for contemporary humanistic psychology. He is editor of The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vice-president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), and adjunct faculty at Saybrook, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology.

• CIP Members: $60 per session up to 2 weeks prior to each session or $80 late registration
• CIP Non-Members: $70 per session up to 2 weeks prior to each session or $90 late registration

FALL CONFERENCE

The California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies presents:
Being Awesome! and Other Topics

Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Westside
Culver City, CA
November 4, 2010

Conference Schedule and Registration Information

Thursday June 10th | 7:30 PM | Presentation and Book Signing

Kirk Schneider & Orah Krug — Existential-Humanistic Therapy

Saybrook Residential Conference
San Francisco Airport Westin Hotel | 1 Oldshore Highway | Millbrae, CA 94030

Saturday, May 22 | WORKSHOP

Deepen Your Therapeutic Work Using an Existential-Humanistic Perspective
with Bob Edelstein, LMFT, MFT
One-day workshop | Portland, OR | 6 CEs Approved

Click here to download workshop flyer

Thursday, May 20 | 8:00 - 9:30pm | Book Reading

Conversations with Ed - Ed Voris, Nader Shabahangi, Patrick Fox
Fields Book Store | 1419 Polk Street, San Francisco | (415) 673-2027

Learning Community Event | Saturday March 13, 2010 12:30pm

"The Phenomenology of Nature."

Learning Community Event | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:30pm - 9:30pm

"The Phenomenology of Food."

EHI's Third Annual Conference

From Crisis to Creativity: Necessary Losses, Unexpected Gains

November 19-21, 2009
First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center
1187 Franklin, San Francisco, CA 94109

The theme of our conference reflects the paradoxical nature of life and our times. In order to change and grow, a familiar way of being must end. As people and therapists, we are often at the center of a person's dance between loss and gain, between the comfort of the old and the anxiety of the new. This conference will attempt to further our understanding of this dance and the richness and diversity of its movements.

14.0 CEUs available to MFTs & LCSWs, and Psychologists (APPROVED by MCEP / California Psychological Association Accrediting Agency)

List of Workshops & Sessions

Thursday - November 19th:

Humanizing Governance: Bringing Experiential Democracy to the Legislature (no CEUs)

Fiona Ma and Discussion with Kirk Schneider

Friday - November 20th:

Artistic & Creative Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Research, Theory, and Practice (1.5 CEUs)

Louis Hoffman, David Elkins, Cathy Calvert, Jason Dias

Worldview: What Are They and Why You Would Need to Know About Them (1.5 CEUs)

Stephen Curtin

Authentic Engagement: A Radical Way of Being (1.5 CEUs *Psychologist CEU pending Approval)

Bob Edelstein

When the Honeymoon Ends: Helping Couples to Embrace Each Other (1.5 CEUs *Psychologist CEU pending Approval)

Louis Dangles, Christine Armstrong

Post-traumatic Embitterment Disorder: Existential Roots of Anger, Rage, and Resentment (1.5 CEUs)

Stephen Diamond

Developing Together: Mutual Development between Adult and Child (1.5 CEUs)

Josette Luvmour

Existential Political Psychology (1.5 CEUs)

Thomas Greening

Art and Artist, War and Warrior: Creativity and the Transformation of Trauma, Self, and Society (1.5 CEUs)

John Galvin

Evanescence: The Abstract Art and Phenomenal World of John Urbain (1.5 CEUs *Psychologist CEU pending Approval)

Ed Mendelowitz

The Poetics of Aging & Dementia (1.5 CEUs)

Nader Shabahangi

The Inter-ness of Subjectivity: Reckoning with the Ambiguity of Authenticity (1.5 CEUs)

Kenneth Bradford

Personal Crisis: An Extraordinary Opportunity for Transformation (1.5 CEUs)

Leland Baggett

The Phenomenology of Collective Trauma: Toward a More Authentic Relationality (1.5 CEUs)

Robert Stolorow

Saturday - November 21st:

Existential and Intersubjective Therapy in Dialogue (1.5 CEUs)

Robert Stolorow & EHI Panel

"The Readiness is All": Unnecessary Losses, No Forseeable Gains (1.5 CEUs *Psychologist CEU pending Approval)

Benjamin Tong

Paradox and the Nature of Change: Beyond the Veil of the Visible (1.5 CEUs)

Donald Mihaloew

The Cultivation of Intra and Interpersonal Presence: A Comparative Study of James Bugental & Irvin Yalom: Two Masters of Existential Psychotherapy (1.5 CEUs)

Orah Krug

The Western Cultural Rigidly Bounded Self, The Individualist Paradigm and Global Warming (1.5 CEUs)

Stephan Tobin

Post-traumatic Growth (1.5 CEUs)

Ilene Serlin

The Nature and Power of Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation (1.5 CEUs)

Kirk Schneider, Jim Hernandez, Fraser Pierson, Candice Hershman, Michael Cooper

Towards a Common Goal: Creativity in Motion (2.0 CEUs)

Sonja Saltman, Candice Hershman

Existential Humanistic Institute | Learning Community Event | Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Day of the Dead Celebration

Learning Community Event | Saturday, February 21st - 2009 @ 10:45 am

SFMOMA exhibit: Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

2008 Second Annual EHI Conference

Existential Psychotherapy for a World Gone Mad

Thursday - November 13, 2008
Time	Activity	Topic & Presenter
3:00pm - 6:00pm	Registration & Check-In	Pacific Institute Administration
5:30pm - 7:00pm	Opening Session & Welcome/td>	EHI Directors & Dr. Elizabeth Bugental  (Keynote Speaker)
7:00pm - 8:30pm	Opening Poster Session	Meaning-Making and Hope (Alexander M. Bacher, Stacie L. Cooper) Reflections on the Existential-Humanistic Approach in Working with the Elderly (Rochelle Suri) Humanistic Approach in Organization Psychology (Taylere Joseph) Aging Women in Search of Meaning (Tamar Shirinian) Open to Not Knowing: Existential and Process-Oriented Approaches to Therapy with Elders and Dementia (Puran Khalsa, Matt Spalding) Through The Circle - Artists and their Mandala Drawings: How Differential Dementia Diagnosis Reflect Behaviors as Seen Through the Making of the Mandala (Rev. Patti Goldstein, MA)
7:30pm - 9:00pm	Cocktail Reception	All presenters, staff and VIP guests
Friday - November 14, 2008
Time	Activity	Topic & Presenter
9:00am - 10:30am	Morning Plenary	The Daimonic & Existential Depth of Psychology: Putting the Punch Back into Therapy (Stephen A. Diamond)
10:45am - 12:15am	Concurrent Workshops	Existentialism & Taoism (Benjamin Tong)
		The Use of Therapeutic Enactment in Experiential Supervision (Kevin Keenan, Shawn Rubin)
		The Power of Now: Innovative Approaches to Cultivating Personal and Relational Presence in the Therapeutic Encounter (Orah Krug)
12:30pm - 1:45pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Workshops	Applying Existential Therapy in a Culturally Sensitive Manner (Louis Hoffman)
		Existential Integrative Psychology: The Art of "Being With" (Kirk Schneider)
		Poetically the Human Being Dwells - Psychotherapeutic Applications of a Heideggerian-based Psychology (Nader Shabahangi)
3:45pm - 5:00pm	Afternoon Plenary	On What is Hidden: The Limits of Knowledge (Edward Mendelowitz)
5:30pm - 7:00pm	Special Activity	EHI; Student Lounge; Film
Saturday - November 15, 2008
Time	Activity	Topic & Presenter
9:00am - 10:30am	Morning Plenary	A Shaking of the Foundations (David Elkins, Alexander Bacher, Stacie Cooper, Dave Fischer, Pernilla Nathan)
10:45am - 12:15pm (**please note extended time of 1 workshop)	Concurrent Workshops	To See and To Be Seen (Bill Staudenmaier, Bruce McBeath) **extended workshop: 10:45am-1:45pm
		Existential Orientation Survey (Tom Greening, Scott Kiser)
		Beyond Therapy: Bearing Witness to Will-Expression, Self-Generation, and Social/Cultural Engagement in the Pursuit of Optimal Living (John Galvin)
12:30pm - 1:45pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Workshops	Polarization: Unlocking Impasses in Couples Therapy (Louis Dangles, Christine Armstrong)
		Kinesthetic Imagining (Ilene A. Serlin)
		Authenticity & the Play of Unconditioned Presence: From Resolute Search Process to Natural Release (Kenneth Bradford)
3:45pm - 5:00pm	Closing Plenary	EHI Directors & Keynote Speaker

2007 First Annual EHI Conference - The Evolution Conference

Workshop Sessions:

Memories of our Mentors: Bugental, May, and Yalom.
Students of James Bugental, Rollo May, and Irvin Yalom discuss the impact of these mentors on their lives and work.
Orah Krug, Kirk Schneider, Stephen Curtin

Schneider and May's Existential-Integrative Therapy: Latest Developments.
One of the authors of this model of therapy discusses its evolution and his vision of its future applications.
Kirk Schneider

Cultivating Presence: The "You," the "Me" and the "We".
A seasoned therapist, who studied with James Bugental and Irvin Yalom, she presents her research and perspective on deepening presence in the client, the therapist and the space "in-betwee" by integrating a subjective and intersubjective focus.
Orah Krug

East meets West: An Existential-Contemplative Model of psychotherapy.
A long time practitioner of meditative practices presents his therapeutic model that integrates that experience with what he has learned during his extensive collaboration with James Bugental.
Ken Bradford

Age Song: An Existential-Humanistic Environment for Elders
One of the creators of this spiritually rich elder care facility presents the lessons this endeavor offers him and his trainees.
Nader Shambahangi

Integrating dance and movement into Existential-Humanistic Therapy
A leading teacher encourages exploring and experimenting with the "physical." She encourages therapists to integrate movement and dance into their therapies.
Ilene Serlin

Four in the Room: Existential-Humanistic informed Couple Therapy
Drawing on their training with Bugental and Yalom, these seasoned therapists present their experiences with couples.
Christine Armstrong and Louis Dangles

Conformity and Agency: Existential-Humanistic informed Child Therapy
A student of Bugental and contributor to Schneider’s publications, he uses case material to emphasize the encouragement of agency in his work with children.
Stephen Curtin

Presenters:
Christine Armstrong, M.F.T. is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in individual, couple, and group psychotherapy with adults from an Existential perspective. Past board president of Marin Horizon School. Co -authored article with Jim Bugental in The Psychology of Existence and Integrative, Clinical Perspective. Currently serving on the board of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, and providing pro bono supervision for Apple Family Works in San Rafael, CA.

Ken Bradford, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in Existential-Contemplative oriented psychotherapy. He is an Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and CIIS, Formerly, Co-Director of Maitri Psychotherapy Institute and senior teaching associate with James Bugental, Ph.D. Ken has been a practitioner in the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist  traditions for over 30 years, and is professionally engaged in applying meditative sensibilities to psychotherapy practice. His recent publications include: Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, Vol. 2 with John Prendergast, and articles on Therapeutic Courage and Natural Resilience: A Heart Sutra for Psychotherapy.

Stephen Curtin, Ph.D. o-Founder of EHI. He is a licensed psychologist in private practice. He is a graduate of Saybrook Institute and trained with James Bugental, Ph.D.. He has lectured and written on applying the Existential-Integrative model to psychotherapy with children and adolescents.

Louis Dangles, M.F.T. is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in individual, couple, and group psychotherapy with adults from an Existential perspective. Currently serving on the board of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, and providing pro bono supervision for Apple Family Works in San Rafael, CA. He is an enthusiastic student of jazz trumpet.

Orah Krug, Ph.D. Co-Founder of EHI and Training Director. A licensed psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant in private practice, she received her doctoral degree from Saybrook Graduate School. She has lectured and written on aspects of existential psychotherapy with a particular interest in the cultivation of intra and interpersonal presence.

Irene Serlin, Ph.D., A.D.T.R., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and a registered dance movement therapist. She is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association. She has studied Gestalt, Existential, and Archetypal psychology with Laura Perls and James Hillman, and has taught at Saybrook Graduate School, UCLA, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, and Lesley University. Her writings include: Humanistic psychology and women: A critical-historical perspective, and Laura Perls and Gestalt therapy: her life and values.

Kirk Schneider, Ph.D. Past President and Co-founder of EHI. A licensed Psychologist with a Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute. Author of a number of publications that defined and elaborated on the Existential-Integrative Model of Psychotherapy. His application of this model is the subject of a recent APA video on Existential Psychotherapy. His most recent publication, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, is due out in the Fall of 2007.

Nader Robert Shabahangi, Ph.D Current President and Co-Founder of EHI. Also President and Founder of the Pacific Institute. A licensed Psychologist with a Ph.D. from Stanford University. A leader, trainer and writer on applying the Existential-Humanistic approach to the treatment of elderly in the United States and Europe.

1998

Grand Opening Dinner Celebration with guest speakers: Dr. James F.T. Bugental and Dr. Irvin Yalom.

Discussion on Grief with Mary Goulding, M.S.W.

The Art of the Psychotherapist with James F.T. Bugental, Ph.D. at the Westerbeke Retreat Center.

Educational Programs:
Bridging Philosophy and Practice
Evoking the Inner Search Process
Subjectivity and Encounter
The Existential-Humanistic Conception of Resistance
Meaning and Alignment
Existential Transcendence
Integrating Existential Psychotherapy Into Your Current Practice

Existential-Contemplative Perspectives and the Integration of the Spiritual in Depth Psychotherapy. Workshop with Bill Staudenmaier, Ph.D. and Bruce McBeath, Ph.D.

The Legacy and Future of R.D. Laing's Contribution to Contemporary Thought: A Two-Day Symposium with moderators: Dr. Michael Guy Thompson and Dr. Kirk Schneider.

Evoking the Edge: Applying Existential Principles to Live Cases with consultants: Nader R. Shabahangi, Ph.D., MFT, Karla Boyd, Ph.D., MFT, and Orah Krug, MFT.

Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Therapists and Healers. Weekend workshop with Natalie Rogers, Ph.D., R.E.A.T.

What is Existential Humanism- A Dialogue with the Directors of EHI.

Writing, Editing, Publishing- Existential Humanistic Psychology with Tom Greening, Ph.D., Kirk Schneider, Ph.D., Frances Vaughn, Ph.D., and Leslie Berriman.

A History of the Breast with Marilyn Yalom, Ph.D.

The Art and Wonder of Psychotherapy with Children with Deborah Cohen, M.A., M.P.H., and Stephen Curtin, Ph.D.

Diversity: Exploring Existential-Humanistic Psychology with Various Populations with Sonya Grant Arreola, Ph.D., Lou Dangles, M.F.C.C., and Gregg Richardson, Ph.D.

Supervision and Consultation with Individuals and Groups with Ken Bradford, Ph.D., Jeff Sharp. Ph.D., and Molly Sterling, Ph.D.

Sufism and Psychotherapy with Myrtle Heery, Ph.D., an Bryan Wittine, Ph.D.

Meditation and Self-Inquiry for Existential Therapists: A workshop with Bryan Wittine, Ph.D.

1997

Discussion on Community and Brunch with panelists: Elizabeth Bugental, Ph.D., Richard Kleiner, Ph.D., and Nader Robert Shabahangi, Ph.D.