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The Existential Moment: Micro-Skills — Staying with

The rookie cop pulled his squad car up to the group of people standing on the sidewalk and rolled down his window. “Hey,” he barked, “there’s no loitering in this neighborhood! Move along.” The people grumbled and began to dissipate. The policeman turned to his partner and asked, “How’d I do?” “Pretty impressive,” the partner responded. “Particularly because it’s a

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New E-H Consultation Group via Zoom

Are you interested in strengthening your understanding of an E-H approach to psychotherapy, enriching your work with your clients and supporting your own personal and professional development? E-H therapists seek not only a deeper knowing of their clients, but also cultivate deeper contact with their own historical context that shapes their sense of their being in the world. EHI’s consultation

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The Existential Moment: The Interpersonal Dimension

“That’ll do very well,” said Alice: “and ‘slithy’?” Alice, of course, is the iconic Lewis Carroll character in Through the Looking Glass. She is asking Humpty Dumpty to explain the nonsensical poem Jabberwocky. “Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau – there are two meanings packed up into one

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4 E-H Masters Workshop: Still Time to Register!

EHNW Conference on Existential Psychotherapy Four Masters, Four Approaches: An Exploration of Existential Theory and Practice Friday, September 24th – Sunday September 26th 14 CEUs Approved via NASW-Oregon Chapter For the first time, the four contemporary leaders of the four major existential psychotherapy schools of thought in the world, will come together and present their specific theories and approaches, followed

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The Existential Moment: Micro-Skills — Slowing Down and Pausing

A stop sign or traffic light. A comma in a sentence. Intermission in a movie. A timeout in a game. Examples of slowing down and pausing abound in our lives. Yet, we often fail to do so. We fail to slow down and pause or stop and then deliberate and decide. Instead, impulse and instinct toss us about as if

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The Existential Moment: The Person of the Therapist

In the Oscar-winning film, Good Will Hunting, Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is a brilliant, troubled young man with a traumatic past. After Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, MIT math professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard), who has taken Will under his wing as a math prodigy, negotiates with the court for leniency provided Will enters therapy with Sean

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EHNW Workshop 4 Masters 4 Approaches September 2021

Recommended Fall Conference: 4 Masters, 4 Approaches

For the first time, the four contemporary leaders of the four major existential psychotherapy schools of thought will come together and present their specific theories and approaches, followed by a live demonstration of how they work with a volunteer. The conference will conclude with a panel of all four presenters.

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The Existential Moment: Micro-Skills–Tagging

After the massive leak of information by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the U.S. government released a mountain of classified information to control the message and quell the mob. Predictably, ironically, almost comically, much of the information was redacted – struck-through with those thick, black lines. In the clandestine world of national intelligence, redaction is called sanitation. It seems certain information is

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CEs Approved for July’s Workshop

3 CEs Available by Request Radical Authenticity: Liberating the Everyday Divided Mind Developed and Facilitated by: Ken Bradford, PhD Hosted by: Existential-Humanistic Institute Date/Time: Saturday, July 10th 10am-1pm Pacific Daylight Time CE: 3 CEs approved for live workshop attendance*. Fee: $18.50. For more information on CE offerings, or to request disability accommodations, please contact us at program@ehinstitute.org. Cost: $35* General/Professional;

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Radical Authenticity Workshop Registration Opens

Registration has Opened for July 10th’s Depolarization Workshop! Radical Authenticity: Liberating the Everyday Divided Mind Developed and Facilitated by: Ken Bradford, PhD Hosted by: Existential-Humanistic Institute Date/Time: Saturday, July 10th 10am-1pm Pacific Daylight Time CE: 3 CEs pending approval for live workshop attendance*. Fee: $18.50. For more information on CE offerings, or to request disability accommodations, please contact us at

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The Existential Moment: The Person of the Client

“As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour.” This quote is from the article, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema,” published in The American Anthropologist in 1956. In the article, anthropologist Horace Miner describes the Nacirema, a people with a lifestyle centered on the obsessive belief that “the human body is ugly and…[the]

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The Existential Moment: The “here and now”—Our best friend

Existential-Humanistic Therapy is experiential and relational. Working in the “here and now” is central to experiential work and a powerful ally in therapy. As Irv Yalom (2002) aptly summarizes, “The here-and-now is the major source of therapeutic power, the pay dirt of therapy, the therapist’s (and hence the patient’s) best friend.” (p. 46)

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Up to $250 Early Bird Savings for the 2021-2022 Programs

Save With Early Bird Tuition Specials Through May 20th! Now Accepting Applications for EHI’s 2021-2022 Curriculum Year, Including the October 2021 Experiential Training Course! Two enrollment tracks are available. Apply for the Foundations Certificate Program or the stand-alone Experiential Training Course at Westerbeke Ranch Retreat Center in Sonoma, CA! 1. Certificate in the Foundations of EH Therapy Practice For students

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