The Society for Humanistic Psychology Presents:
2026 Theme: Generational Equity – Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future
Keynote Speaker: Thomas Joseph Doherty, PsyD
Guest Speakers: Stanley Krippner, PhD and Anthony Pavlo, PhD
Process is how the client expresses themselves in a session. This reveals how the client lives in the present moment. Through focusing on the client’s process, the client can expand and modify their present identity to discover more of who they are and who they want to become. This is fundamental to effective Existential-Humanistic therapy.
Through lecture, demonstration, and Q&A, participants will gain an understanding of the importance of focusing on intrapsychic and interpersonal processes and see how they can apply working with process with their clients.
We will explore The Many Faces of Resistance.
The identification of the various faces of resistance is the pathway to working with these resistances to restore good contact with the environment in which we live. In other words, these various types of resistance are for the therapist to utilize with our clients to tap into the many distressing feelings evoked when the client does not have unimpeded access to what he/she wants, such as anger, confusion, resentment, disappointment, etc. These feelings, expressed in resistance, reduce the possibilities of productive contactual interactions with the environment and express the powerlessness over the outcome of these interactions. Being fully present to these ways of avoiding the negative feelings when we are not getting what we want can restore ownership of these feelings without having to resist them. Awareness, acknowledgment, experiential exercises, and acceptance can begin the necessary healing process.
This workshop explores what is distinctive about an existential approach to supervision. In attempting to do so, it will address several key aspects in the practice of existential therapy that can be transposed to supervision from an existential therapy perspective. As well as lecture and discussion, participants will have opportunity to take part in a live demonstration of this approach to supervision.
What if the most important moments in therapy are the ones that never make it into the notes?
In this Lunch and Learn, Justin invites attendees to slow down and rediscover the ethical and transformative power of everyday moments that matter. Together, participants will explore how existential love, understood not as emotion but as a way of being with, calls us into deeper responsibility, presence, and care.
Facilitated by: Sonja Saltman, MFT - EHI Core Instructor, and Joshua Diliberto, LCHC, NCC, RYT- EHI Teaching Assistant
Location: Online Via Zoom
Host: Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI)
On December 2nd, EHI is hosting a two-hour virtual community space for exploring "The Path to Being in Contact with Others." Personal, relational, and cosmological aspects are considered in group discussion, practical demonstration, with possible dyad or small group engagement—we will be flexible to follow emergent wishes from the group.
The organization, Coachmate Collective, is creating a future where people who are impacted by incarceration receive the support they need to transform their lives, realize their full potential, and positively contribute to their communities. Please considering registering to join for the open house or get the recording if you are interested in how ontological/existential coaching happens on the inside.
How do you know you’re actually helping?
Facilitated by: Clare Knudsen, BS, and Sara J. Smith, MA, LMHCA
Hosted by: EHNW in Portland
In this EHNW salon designed for those old and new to the field, participants have a collective conversation about this and alternative understandings of what it means to actually “help” someone. Through an Existential-Humanistic framework, attendees will consider aspects of helping that expand on and diverge from the dominant managed care model.
FULL SCHEDULE:
Friday, November 7, 2024 2025 (4.25 hours)
Saturday, November 8, 2025 (4.25 hours)
Friday, November 14, 2025 (4.25 hours)
Saturday, November15, 2025 2025 (4.25 hours)
In this 16-hour online training, leading instructors in the E-H field will provide theoretical explanation and experiential opportunities for the development and/or strengthening of skills and capacities that are not only core to the E-H approach but can also support therapists of many other modalities cultivate a foundation for optimizing their technical skills.
Join EHNW for a virtual summer reading salon on Friday, October 17, from 1 PM to 3 PM, Pacific Time.
EHNW Board Members Bob Edelstein, LMFT, and Lisa Sloan Strom, LPC will be facilitating a discussion of Kirk Schneider’s latest book, Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World, the topic of his recent EHNW day-long workshop held on October 4th.
Keynote Speaker: Kirk Schneider, PhD
Host: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW)
This day-long workshop will explore how anxiety is hitting the roof in our practices and world precisely because we so often fail to address the underlying or primal anxiety that fuels greater and more destructive anxiety. That which Kirk terms “life-enhancing anxiety,” is a level of anxiety that enables us to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence. Or to put it more concretely, it fosters our capacity to live more on the edge of wonder and discovery rather than terror and overwhelm.
Facilitated by Lindsey Lerner, PhD Psilocybin Sessions for Existential and Death Anxiety Date: Friday, September 12, 2025Time: 1pm–2:30pm Pacific TimeFee: $20 for non-affiliates. $15 for students. $0 for EHNW affiliates Online: via ZoomHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) Participants will gain a better understanding of Oregon’s psilocybin service model, including the roles of preparation, administration sessions, and integration, while […]
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