Salon: The Psychotherapeutic Relationship

Developed & Facilitated by: 

Sonja Saltman, EHI Core Instructor and Joshua Diliberto, EHI Teaching Assistant          

Date: Thursday, February 20th, 2025

Time: 11am-1pm Pacific Time (2pm-4 pm ET; 6pm-8pm UTC)

Online via video. The Zoom link will be shared via registration email.

Format: Group Discussion, demonstration, small group or dyad engagement. This is not intended to teach specific skills like our Core Skills in E-H Psychotherapy workshop but there will be exposure to E-H skills used in the demos.

Cameras On Event: We offer experiential humanistic engagement and ask that people who enroll in this event attend with their cameras on. You do not have to engage but we do ask you leave your camera on.

Fee: $25. Please reach out to Michelle via program@ehinstitute.org to get a code for a $10 economic inequality/hardship ticket.

Continuing the Experiential Salons in the New Year

EHI is excited to continue the new series of experiential salons. The intention for these salons is to honor EHI’s commitment to experiential learning as well as the time honored group process of discussion and integration.

On January 30th, EHI is hosting a two-hour virtual community space for encountering The Therapeutic Relationship.Personal, relational, and cosmological aspects are considered in group discussion, practical demonstration, dyad engagement, and will be flexible to follow emergent wishes from the group.

As we acknowledge that the word “salon” implies a more free flowing structure this is a flexible outline that will be modified by Sonja and Josh to work with what is happening in the moment.

General Outline (2 hours): 

Welcome Introduction, poem, check-in (15 minutes)

Conceptual frames for The Psychotherapeutic Relationship (20 minutes)    

Experiential exercise: Exploring The Psychotherapeutic Relationship (35 minutes)

Dyad: Deepening the experience (30 minutes) 

Final Large Group Process (20 minutes)

For Reference:

There is no mandatory reading for this offering but the text book, Existential-Humanistic Therapy, 2nd Edition by Schneider and Krug published by the APA, and The Art of Counseling, Revised Edition, by Rollo May are resources we would like to mention.

Who is This Event For?

Anyone with a good foundation in field work. Existential students (Doctoral & Masters students who are completing hours), psychologists, counselors, MFTs, social workers, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, and doctors are all encouraged to participate!

Limited Enrollment. We hope to create an intimate and safe space, please do not enroll if you will not be attending thelive event with your camera on. This event is not recorded.

Economic Inequality/Hardship: We have $10 tickets available. Please email Michelle via the contact form  for a code for this ticket level.