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CE Credits Approved for Jan 22nd Workshop w/ Kirk Schneider, PhD

Depolarizing Therapeutic Presence: Utilizing Concepts of the “Experiential Democracy Dialogue” to Help Therapists Reduce Polarization With Clients Developed and Facilitated by EHI Core Instructor: Kirk Schneider, PhD, Psychologist & EHI President Date: Saturday, January 22, 2021 Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific Time Zone /Sign in to waiting room at 9:45am  Online: via Zoom and Zoom Breakout Rooms  3 CE hours available(live presentation participation). Fee: $18.50. Please contact us for more info regarding the course. Registration Fee: Cost: $35 General/Professional; $20 Student/Elder: $10 Economic Hardship/Equity;No one will be turned away due to lack of funds—please reach out to Michelle via contact form at

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January 4, 2022
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The Existential Moment: The Goal of Therapy

Happy New Year!

The ringing in of the New Year is a time for new beginnings. The celebration of a new year dates back to the Babylonians, and current cultures the world over continue to embrace comparable rites and rituals.

The New Year’s resolution is a celebrated example of ringing in the new in the US. We commit to a change, make a promise to do something different in our lives in a process of growth (sometimes, sadly, a fleeting process). Notably, the promise of the resolution presumes a before and after, an old and new. The new is our goal.

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January 3, 2022
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New E-H Consultation Groups Coming in 2022

New Groups to Start in the New Year-Including a Beginners Consultation Group! In addition to our Existential-Humanistic (E-H) consultation groups for established practitioners, in 2022 EHI would like to start a group for newly licensed and interning therapists. Please reach out to us via the contact form if you are interested in joining this beginners group or a group for

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December 31, 2021
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Registration Open for Jan 22nd Workshop w/ Kirk Schneider

This workshop will provide skills for therapists who are challenged by the cultural and political stances of their clients and want to more effectively work through their own charged internal reactions that could adversely affect the therapeutic relationship. Attendees will utilize phases of Kirk’s Experiential Democracy Dialogue from his book, The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook to Social Healing

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December 12, 2021

Ode to Kara

Ode to Kara In the silence of snowyour heavy step seems to vibratethrough the walls. I sense your presence as you walk, or rather hobble up our steep hill after school.Now it is white outside,each season quilts new colorsblurry and crispto frame your moving form.We share our young girlhoodat the widest point of a circle. Envisioning you now is easy.The

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December 10, 2021

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