Tom Greening, PhD, Poet and Author, at EHI’s 8th Conference which celebrated EHI cofounder, Jim Bugental. He shares insight into his complicated relationship with Jim Bugental, his poetry, the motivation behind his often irreverent “pokes” at what he views as some of the precociousness of existential therapy. He also shares his thoughts on why he started poetry in answer to a couple of questions from Nader Shabahangi about how he first connected with poetry. As he describes, ‘that in the pain and distress of living” and “discovering that well, you don’t just have to be a victim…” “Are you the cause of your life and experience or at the effect of, the recipient of it?”