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SUMMARY:EHNW Community Circle: Navigating Fear and Finding Hope in Troubled Times
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: Bob Edelstein\, LMFT & Kirk Schneider\, PhD \n\n\n\n\n\nCost: Free; Online registration is requiredOnline: via ZoomHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) \n\n\n\nA free virtual gathering for mental health providers to share about their own struggles and concerns within the community.  \n\n\n\nAs Existential-Humanistic practitioners\, we hear our clients’ fear and despair as we navigate these troubled times in the United States. Through this event\, Bob and Kirk seek to facilitate hope and support as we manage our own angst while holding open a safe container for others. ENHW invites you to come together to talk about what you are experiencing\, both personally and professionally. \n\n\n\nThis free Community Circle event is a safe and compassionate place to be heard\, to share what’s on one’s heart and mind\, and support others in the community doing the same. The facilitators will include a brief somatic focusing to help participants be in touch with their inner world and how they are experiencing current world circumstances. \n\n\n\nAbout the PresentersBob Edelstein\, LMFT\, is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist with over fifty years of experience. He provides individual and couples therapy\, as well as consultation\, supervision\, workshops\, and trainings for clinicians and students. He has presented an Existential-Humanistic Training group series for over two decades. He has a chapter entitled “Frames\, Attitudes\, and Skills of an Existential Humanistic Psychotherapist” in The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology\, 2nd Edition. He has presented multiple workshops on Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy\, including presenting at both the 2nd and 3rd Existential Psychotherapy World Congresses. He was also a presenter at the Existential Global World Summit. Bob is the founder and past president of the Existential-Humanistic Northwest professional organization\, the host of this offering.Kirk J. Schneider\, PhD\, is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary Existential-Humanistic and Existential-Integrative psychology. Dr. Schneider is adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College\, Columbia University\, the president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI)\, and a past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology.. Dr. Schneider’s current book in preparation is The Vibrant Center: A New Consciousness for Our Broken Age (due to be published by University Professors Press in May\, 2026).  \n\n\n\nRegistration >> \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please note that this workshop is hosted by our friends at Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) in Portland\, Oregon. For any questions\, contact them at event-host@ehnwpdx.org. \n\n\n\nEHNW Vision Statement: Existential-Humanistic NorthWest is here to impact the world through our commitment to and passion for existential-humanistic values of authenticity\, integrity\, responsibility\, inter-connectedness\, inclusion\, and awe.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehnw-community-circle-navigating-fear-and-finding-hope-in-troubled-times/
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SUMMARY:SHP MidWinter Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Society for Humanistic Psychology Presents: \n\n\n\n2026 Theme: Generational Equity – Honoring the Past\, Shaping the Future\n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker: Thomas Joseph Doherty\, PsyDGuest Speakers: Stanley Krippner\, PhD and Anthony Pavlo\, PhD\n\n\n\nDates:  March 26th\, 2026 – March 29th\, 2026 (Pre Conference Mixer 7-9pm March 25th)Hosted Online: Via Zoom. Link access is sent in your registration email. \n\n\n\nLocation: Red Bluff Community Center\, Red Bluff\, CA \n\n\n\nRegistration: $150-$445 \n\n\n\nSchedule and Registration
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/shp-midwinter-conference/
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SUMMARY:EHNW's March Online Lunch n Learn
DESCRIPTION:Focusing on Process is Key to Effective Existential-Humanistic Therapy\n\n\n\nPresented by: Bob Edelstein\, LMFT\n\n\n\nDate: Friday\, March 20th\, 2026Time: 1 pm–2:30 pm Pacific TimeFee: $0-20  \n\n\n\nOnline: via ZoomHost: Our Friends at Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) in Portland\, OR \n\n\n\nProcess 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. \n\n\n\nThrough 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. \n\n\n\nAbout the PresenterBob Edelstein\, LMFT\, is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist with over fifty years of experience. He provides individual and couples therapy\, as well as consultation\, supervision\, workshops\, and trainings for clinicians and students. He has presented an Existential-Humanistic Training group series for over two decades. He has a chapter entitled “Frames\, Attitudes\, and Skills of an Existential Humanistic Psychotherapist” in The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology\, 2nd Edition. He has presented multiple workshops on Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy\, including presenting at both the 2nd and 3rd Existential Psychotherapy World Congresses. He was also a presenter at the Existential Global World Summit. Bob is the founder and past president of the Existential-Humanistic Northwest professional organization\, the host of this offering. \n\n\n\nRegistration >> \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please note that this workshop is hosted by our friends at Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) in Portland. For any questions\, contact them at event-host@ehnwpdx.org. \n\n\n\nEHNW Vision Statement: Existential-Humanistic NorthWest is here to impact the world through our commitment to and passion for existential-humanistic values of authenticity\, integrity\, responsibility\, inter-connectedness\, inclusion\, and awe.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehnws-march-online-lunch-n-learn/
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SUMMARY:EHI Salon: The Many Faces of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Developed & Facilitated by: Sonja Saltman\, EHI Core Instructor and Joshua Diliberto\, EHI Teaching Assistant \n\n\n\nDate: Thursday\, February 26\, 2026 \n\n\n\nTime: 11 am – 1 pm Pacific Time (2pm-4 pm ET; 7pm-9pm UTC) \n\n\n\nOnline: via Zoom. Link access is sent via your registration email. \n\n\n\nFormat: Group Discussion\, demonstration\, small group\, or dyad engagement. This is not intended to teach specific skills like our Core Skills workshop\, but there will be exposure to E-H skills used in the demos. \n\n\n\nCameras On Salon: We offer experiential humanistic engagement and ask that people who enroll attend with their cameras on. You do not have to engage\, but we do ask you to have your camera on. \n\n\n\nFee: $25. We do not want a lack of funds to be an issue to your engagement. Please reach out to Michelle via program@ehinstitute.org to get a code for a $10 economic inequality or hardship registration. For anyone\, no judgment. Michelle will assist you! \n\n\n\nContinuing the Experiential Salons\n\n\n\nOn February 26\, EHI is hosting a two-hour virtual community space for exploring The Many Faces of Resistance. We will spend the initial hour identifying the types of resistance and then demonstrate how to work with one or two of them\, if anybody has an example they want to bring to us. There will be a group discussion\, a practical demonstration\, and we will stay flexible to follow emergent wishes from the group. \n\n\n\nEHI is excited to continue the series of experiential salons into the new year. 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. \n\n\n\nAs 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. \n\n\n\nConceptual frames for our topic\, “The Many Faces of Resistance .”Sonja and Josh offer conceptual definitions:We use energy to make good contact with our environment. Without obstacles\, this energetic effort results in positive outcomes. However\, if this effort does not get the desired returns\, we end up with a list of negative feelings\, anger\, confusion\, resentment\, disappointment\, etc. \n\n\n\nThere are five major channels of resistant interactions: \n\n\n\n\nIntrojection: Passively and indiscriminately absorbing the environment without explaining one’s preference.\n\n\n\nProjecting: Disowning parts of self and ascribing it to the other or the environment.\n\n\n\nRetroflection: Disowning parts of the environment by becoming a separate unit\, investing energy back to an intrapersonal system.\n\n\n\nDeflecting: Investing energy without focus\, getting little in return.\n\n\n\nConfluence: Means yielding energy to the environmental trend that carries little personal expenditure.\n\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nFor a little more background on resistance in E-H therapy\, Scott Gibbs has written two companion articles for this salon in our blog series\, The Existential Moment\, entitled “Why “Resistance” Matters—The Existential Cost and the Therapeutic Aim” and Working With Resistance. \n\n\n\nGeneral Outline (2 hours): \n\n\n\n\nWelcome and Introductions\n\n\n\nIntroducing The Many Faces of Resistance\n\n\n\nAttendees are invited to share their own perspective.\n\n\n\nDemo — We may ask for a volunteer “client” for a demo. Guiding the client to the inevitable next moment\, which can then unfold freely.\n\n\n\nExperiential Dyad Exercise\, or Deepened Group Discussion: We will decide in the moment as a group\n\n\n\nFinal Large Group Process\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWho is This Event For?Anyone with a foundation in clinical work or completing hours. MFTs\, social workers\, counselors\, psychologists\, psychiatrists\, nurse practitioners\, doctors\, Master’s or Doctoral students in internships\, and pre-licensed therapeutic professionals are all encouraged to attend! International practitioners are very welcome! \n\n\n\nWe always hope to create an intimate and safe space. Please do not enroll if you will not be able to attend the live event with your camera on. Naturally\, we understand withdrawals will sometimes need to happen. \n\n\n\nRecording? To encourage deeper engagement\, this event will not be recorded. \n\n\n\nSalon Host: Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) offers trainings\, workshops and education in Existential-Humanistic approaches to psychotherapy. Formed in 1997\, EHI continues to offer experiential training retreats\, certificate programs\, workshops\, consultation groups\, theory courses and community gatherings in the Bay Area with the goal of supporting existentially and humanistically informed psychologies and psychotherapies: approaches that focus on and nurture subjective experiential reflection of life’s deepest joys and predicaments. \n\n\n\nWaiverThere is a required waiver for attending and participating in this salon due to both the topic and the format. This salon in general\, and the break-out groups in particular\, will include experiential exercises that might be more likely to evoke emotional – including difficult emotional – reactions than just presentational techniques. \n\n\n\nFrequently Asked QuestionsHow do I get my Zoom link? Your Zoom link is included in your Registration Confirmation email that will arrive within minutes of your registration- please be sure to put in your correct email address!
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SUMMARY:EHNW Workshop - Supervision: An Existential Therapy Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Supervision: An Existential Therapy Perspective\n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker: Professor Ernesto Spinelli\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nCost: $29 – $69 \n\n\n\nOnline via Zoom \n\n\n\nThis workshop explores what is distinctive about an existential approach to supervision\, including lecture\, discussion\, and live demos. \n\n\n\nThe supervision of therapists by their colleagues has become one of the primary requirements for continuing professional practice. Just about every Professional Body concerned with therapy emphasizes the importance of supervision and\, typically\, specifies that its members must engage in it under regular and ongoing approved conditions. Although existential therapy is no different in that its members adhere to these governances\, the very concept of supervision\, and in particular what its meaning and purpose might be understood to be\, has remained an ongoing source of debate. \n\n\n\nIn many ways\, the issues surrounding supervision have provided existential therapists with a focus through which to address the wider debate as to what constitutes and defines existential therapy and what may be distinctive about its practice. \n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\n\n3 CE’s (PENDING) are available from NASW. CE’s for this workshop cost $20 to handle the administrative fees and labor. See the Q&A below for more information.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator: \n\n\n\nProfessor Ernesto Spinelli was Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis between 1993 and 1999 and is a Life Member of the Society. His writings\, lectures and seminars focus on the application of existential phenomenology to the arenas of therapy\, psychology\, and executive coaching. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) as well as an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. \n\n\n\nIn 1999\, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of Psychotherapy\, Counselling and Counselling Psychology. In 2000\, he was the Recipient of the BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. And in 2019\, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His most recent therapy book\, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World 2nd edition (Sage\, 2015) has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice. His previous books include: The Interpreted World: an introduction to phenomenological psychology\, 2nd ed. (Sage\, 2005); Demystifying Therapy (PCCS\, 2006); Tales of Un-Knowing (PCCS\, 2006); and The Mirror and The Hammer: Challenging therapeutic orthodoxies (Sage\, 2001). \n\n\n\nLiving up to the existential dictum that life is absurd\, Ernesto is also the author of an on-going series of Private Eye novels. His most recent standalone novel\, Moments – A Greek Island Tale\, will be published in 2025. \n\n\n\nPlease Note this workshop is hosted by Existential-Humanistic Northwest\, EHNW in Portland\, not EHI. For any questions\, contact Beth Swain at beth@ehnwpdx.org
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SUMMARY:EHNW's December Lunch and Learn
DESCRIPTION:Everyday Moments That Matter: Bringing Love and Meaning Back into Therapy \n\n\n\nFacilitated by Justin Rock\, LMFT\, LPCOnline via ZoomHost: EHNW (www.ehnwpdx.org)Cost: $0 – $20What if the most important moments in therapy are the ones that never make it into the notes? \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nJustin will also invite participants to notice how they experience time in their work\, the difference between the clock time of our profession and the living time that opens when connection deepens. These shifts in time can guide both clinical practice and renewal in our own lives. \n\n\n\nThrough story\, reflection\, and brief experiential exercises\, participants will attend to the subtle hauntings that accompany our work: the clients who linger\, the futures we hope for\, and the love that quietly shapes everything we do and the world we live in. \n\n\n\nCome ready to pause\, reflect\, and reconnect with the living heart of therapy. Our world could use it. About the facilitator:Justin W. Rock\, LMFT\, LPC\, is a therapist\, AAMFT-approved supervisor\, educator\, and writer\, grounded in existential-humanistic and relational-ontological practice. He teaches in the Marriage\, Couple\, and Family Therapy and Art Therapy programs at Lewis & Clark College and maintains a private practice in Portland\, Oregon.Justin’s work explores ontological haunting\, kairos\, and existential love as ways of understanding presence and responsibility in both leadership and therapy. He is a past president of Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) and a doctoral student at Antioch University\, where his research examines knowledge generation\, epistemological justice\, and phenomenology as they shape relational healing and the tension between liberation and oppression. \n\n\n\nThis event is being hosted by our friends at Existential-Humanistic Northwest. For any questions\, contact EHNW at: event-host@ehnwpdx.org .with any questions. \n\n\n\nEHNW Vision Statement: Existential-Humanistic NorthWest is here to impact the world through our commitment to and passion for existential-humanistic values of authenticity\, integrity\, responsibility\, inter-connectedness\, inclusion\, and awe.
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SUMMARY:Salon: The Path to Being in Contact With Others
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: Sonja Saltman\, MFT – EHI Core Instructor\, and Joshua Diliberto\, LCHC\, NCC\, RYT- EHI Teaching Assistant\n\n\n\nLocation: Online Via Zoom \n\n\n\nHost: Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) \n\n\n\nRegistration: https://ehi.ticketspice.com/the-path-to-being-in-contact-with-others \n\n\n\nRegistration fee: $25 for General tickets. To promote effective discussion\, we are limiting registration to 30 people. We do not want cost to be an issue. We offer economic inequality/hardship tickets for $10. Please contact Michelle via our contact form to get a code for this ticket level. \n\n\n\nOn 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\, possible dyad or small group engagement—we will be flexible to follow emergent wishes from the group. \n\n\n\nWe are excited to be continuing the series of experiential salons and to hold one more before the end of the year. 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. \n\n\n\nGeneral Outline (2 hours):  \n\n\n\n● Welcome and Introductions \n\n\n\n● Conceptual frames for “The Path to Being in Contact with Others”:   Contact is vitalizing. Contactful experiences center around our senses and involve being touched. Seeing is being touched by light waves\, hearing happens via sound waves\, smelling and tasting is being touched by various substances. Talking and moving are also ways to create contact. Once contact has been fully established through one of these functions\, a sense of full engagement is the result.In contrast\, diminished contact can be the result of personal distancing such as inertia\, disinterest\, environmental hindrances\, or psychological overload causing distress. For example\, looking away to lessen the impact of potentially impactful experiences. A person can also selectively choose what to say or hear and ignore listening to more than just the words. \n\n\n\n● Attendees are invited to share their own perspective \n\n\n\n● Demo \n\n\n\n● Experiential Dyad Exercise or Deepened Group Discussion: We will decide in the moment as a group \n\n\n\n● Final Large Group Process \n\n\n\n As we acknowledge that the word “salon” implies a more free flowing structure this is a flexible outline that will be modified by Sonja andJosh to work with what is happening in the moment for the group.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/salon-the-path-to-being-in-contact-with-others/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Join Coachmate Collective Open House
DESCRIPTION:Gather Together — A Coachmate Collective Virtual Open House \n\n\n\nSaturday\, November 29th9:00–10:30 am PDT / 12:00–1:30 pm ETRegister here for a Zoom Link \n\n\n\nThe 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.  \n\n\n\nFind out more about opportunities to coach\, be a participant\, or support the Coachmate Collective. \n\n\n\nCoachmate Collective Website
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/join-coachmate-collective-open-house/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251115T100000
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SUMMARY:EHNW Student Salon
DESCRIPTION:How do you know you’re actually helping? \n\n\n\nFacilitated by: Clare Knudsen\, BS\, and Sara J. Smith\, MA\, LMHCA\n\n\n\nDate: Saturday November 15\, 2025Time: 10am–12pm Pacific TimeFee: $20 for non-affiliates. $15 for students. $0 for EHNW affiliates \n\n\n\nOnline: via ZoomHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) \n\n\n\nIf you’re a student or professional in the helping field\, chances are this question brings up some amount of anxiety in you. In a world run by insurance and the managed care framework\, we are primarily taught that the measure of helping clients lies in results. Did the client’s depression improve? Is the client maintaining sobriety? Have you achieved their initial goals?  \n\n\n\nIn this salon designed for those old and new to the field\, we’ll have a collective conversation about this and alternative understandings of what it means to actually “help” someone. Through an Existential-Humanistic framework\, we will consider aspects of helping that expand on and diverge from the dominant managed care model. These may include emphases on the values of presence\, process\, and the dialogical. In sum\, perhaps we will find that “help” is more complex and relationship-oriented than reductionistic and results-oriented.  \n\n\n\nAbout the FacilitatorsClare Knudsen is a student in Western Seminary’s CACREP-accredited master’s program in clinical mental health counseling\, currently interning at Charis Counseling in Vancouver\, WA. She received additional training in Existential-Humanistic psychotherapy core skills from the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) and joined the board of EHNW in 2024. As a counselor and human\, she believes in the power of presence and safe connection. Outside of counseling\, she enjoys gardening\, spending time with people\, playing on the pottery wheel\, and learning new things.  \n\n\n\nSara J. Smith\, approaches therapy from an Existential-Humanistic framework\, emphasizing authenticity\, presence\, and meaning-making in the therapeutic relationship. Drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)\, experiential methods\, and relational approaches\, Sara tailors therapy to each person with respect for their lived experience. With a background in Community Mental Health\, Sara is committed to social justice\, cultural humility\, and honoring the inherent worth of every individual. Outside of work\, Sara enjoys creative writing\, TTRPGs\, spending time with friends and family\, and engaging in a variety of creative activities. Sara holds an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from George Fox University. For any questions\, contact Beth Swain at events@ehnwpdx.org  \n\n\n\nRegistration will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so we can email Zoom links and event info. \n\n\n\nRegistration >> \n\n\n\nAs this event is being held by EHNW in Portland please contact Beth Swain at events@ehnwpdx.org .with any questions. \n\n\n\nEHNW Vision Statement: Existential-Humanistic NorthWest is here to impact the world through our commitment to and passion for existential-humanistic values of authenticity\, integrity\, responsibility\, inter-connectedness\, inclusion\, and awe.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehnw-student-salon/
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SUMMARY:Core Skills in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy Fall 2025
DESCRIPTION:September 19th Update: The workshop has filled. \n\n\n\nStill interested? Join the waitlist. Please fill join the waitlist via this form.  \n\n\n\nWe try to keep the small groups even in number so we are offering a waitlist in case of withdrawals.  \n\n\n\nIf you are able to join this training between Sept 20th and the start of the workshop\, please consider joining this waitlist. If you can be flexible chances are good. Historically we have had withdrawals. \n\n\n\n If you are not available to register after a certain date\, please include that information.  \n\n\n\nMichelle will be reaching to those on the waitlist when/if an opening becomes available. \n\n\n\nFULL SCHEDULE: 9AM-1:15PM Pacific Time Each Day \n\n\n\nFriday\, 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) \n\n\n\n\nHosted and Facilitated by EHI Instruction Team\n\n\n\nExperiential & Hands-On\n\n\n\nVia Zoom  \n\n\n\nMandatory Cameras On Participation\n\n\n\nContinuing Education*: Approved for up to 16-Hours of CE Credit; $70 fee\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRegistration Page\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCore Skills in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy Practice- An Online Continuing Education Workshop \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nAn Existential-Humanistic approach to psychotherapy can be a foundation for all therapists seeking to do deep and life-changing work with their clients. The E-H approach is based on core ways of being and working with clients that help facilitate greater awareness\, greater sense of choice\, increased agency and adaptiveness and a deeper connection to self and others – all in the service of healing and growing. There are core capacities and skills an E-H therapist uses to help clients effectively explore and work through their existential predicaments so they can more fully access what deeply matters to them. \n\n\n\n Topics covered include: \n\n\n\n\nThe cultivation of presence as both the ground of therapy and one of its primary objectives\n\n\n\nThe focus on the “living moment” in working with the “here-and-now” experience of clients – staying with what presents itself phenomenologically rather than employing theoretical interventions\n\n\n\nThe differentiation between primary\, direct experience and secondary\, interpretive experience – and the emphasis on working with phenomenological experience\n\n\n\nThe meaning-making process and the formation of the Self-and-World Construct – helping client and therapist understand identity construction and de-construction\n\n\n\nHow to work with the client’s ways of being in the world and how to utilize the therapist-client relationship to help shift unhelpful ways of being\n\n\n\nHow to identify and work through clients’ inner battles in order to support their longings to emerge\, and feel more choice-ful and psychospiritually whole\n\n\n\nIntegrating and embodying your theoretical beliefs and authentic sense of self in your work as a therapist\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWho is this training for? \n\n\n\nThis training is ideal for those who have not yet had any intensive training in E-H therapy and does not require any didactic preparation. The workshop is also an excellent refresher for those who have had prior training and are seeking reinforcement of what they’ve learned. \n\n\n\nAm I eligible as a practitioner? \n\n\n\nWe offer this to licensed and pre/licensed professionals who work in clinical therapeutic settings\, no matter the modality. See our blog posts on Existential-Integrative therapy. Therapists\, counselors\, social workers\, nurses\, doctors\, and more are very welcome to join this training. If you are unsure or would like more information please reach out to see if we would be a good fit for each other. This workshop is appropriate for Master’s and PhD students with clinical experience. International practitioners are also very welcome! \n\n\n\nTuition Fee Schedule and Offers\n\n\n\nRegular Tuition starting Sept 20th: $685* for General (Licensed/Pre-Licensed) | *$635 for Elders (65yrs+) & Students (enrolled in a Master’s/PhD program with hands-on clinical experience).Early Bird Offer 8/29/25-9/19/25: $645 General | $595 Elder/Student \n\n\n\nPlease see the Registration page for payment plan options and withdrawals/refund information. \n\n\n\n*Continuing Education Information\n\n\n\nThis program have been approved for up to 16 CE credits for full participation for all days (4 credits per day). CE Fee is separate: $70. Many state boards accept CE credits from our APA approved co sponsor. Example: CA BBS accepts these credits for renewals. \n\n\n\nAPA Division 32\, Society for Humanistic Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. APA Division 32\, Society for Humanistic Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \n\n\n\nEHI endeavors to make this accessible for interested learners. Please reach out to Michelle via our contact form for course info and accessibility arrangements.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/core-skills-in-existential-humanistic-psychotherapy-fall-2025/
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SUMMARY:EHNW Online Reading Salon: Life Enhancing Anxiety by Kirk Schneider\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: Bob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT & Lisa Sloan Strom\, LPC\n\n\n\n\n\nBook: Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: Friday\, October 17th Time: 1pm–3pm Pacific TimeFee: $20 for non-affiliates. $15 for students. $0 for EHNW affiliates \n\n\n\nOnline: via ZoomHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) \n\n\n\nThis event has been rescheduled to take place 2 weeks after Kirk Schneider’s Keynote Workshop “Awakening Life-Enhancing Anxiety in our Profession and World: An Existential-Depth Approach” which will be hosted as a hybrid-event by EHNW on October 4th. Find out more information and register for that event via the event page.  \n\n\n\nJoin EHNW for a virtual fall reading salon on Friday\, October 17th from 1 PM to 3 PM\, Pacific Time. \n\n\n\nEHNW 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. Kirk is the leading spokesperson for Existential-Humanistic and Existential-Integrative psychotherapy in the United States. EHNW are honored that he will be the Fall 2025 workshop presenter. In this salon Bob and Lisa will discuss the value of life-enhancing anxiety and the price we pay if we deny or avoid our anxiety. Come join as participants explore ways to engage with anxiety for the benefit of ourselves and our clients.  \n\n\n\nBiosBob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT\, is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist with over fifty years of experience. He provides individual and couples therapy\, as well as consultation\, supervision\, workshops\, and trainings for clinicians and students. He is a blogger for Psychology Today and has published articles on the existential-humanistic perspective\, including a chapter entitled “Frames\, Attitudes\, and Skills of an Existential Humanistic Psychotherapist” in The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology\, 2nd Edition. He has presented multiple workshops on Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy\, including presenting at both the 2nd and 3rd Existential Psychotherapy World Congresses. He was also a presenter at the Existential Global World Summit. Bob is the founder and past president of the Existential-Humanistic Northwest professional organization. \n\n\n\nLisa Sloan Strom\, LPC\, has an office in Portland near the zoo. In practice over a decade\, her previous careers were in education and entertainment. As a member of the EHNW board\, Lisa is passionate about serving humanity\, and our search for meaning. She also serves as Advisor to the Council for Sati Sangha. Outside of office hours\, Lisa might be found hiking\, dancing and hanging out with friends\, family\, and her canine companion\, Sadie Sage. \n\n\n\nRegistration will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so we can email Zoom links and event info. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page >> \n\n\n\nPlease contact EHNW about this event  here via their contact form. \n\n\n\nEHNW Vision Statement: Existential-Humanistic NorthWest is here to impact the world through our commitment to and passion for existential-humanistic values of authenticity\, integrity\, responsibility\, inter-connectedness\, inclusion\, and awe.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehnw-online-reading-salon-life-enhancing-anxiety-by-kirk-schneider-phd/
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SUMMARY:EHNW Fall Workshop: Kirk Schneider "Awakening Life-Enhancing Anxiety in our Profession and World: An Existential-Depth Approach"
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speaker: Kirk Schneider\, PhD \n\n\n\nHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW)Date/Time: Saturday\, October 4th\, 2025 | 9am-5pm Pacific Time Zone \n\n\n\nThis 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.  \n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, Kirk will elaborate on the above and provide a series of exercises that can optimize our capacity for life-enhancing anxiety both in our practices and in the communities in which we live. He will also provide a demonstration of such optimization both at the level of therapy and bridge-building dialogue between people who are culturally or politically estranged from one another. Kirk will raise the huge problem of how to really “meet” each other and ourselves in the encounter with differences within ourselves and others\, and underscore “presence” as key.6 CEUs pendingHybrid EventVirtual via Zoom In-Person Location: George Fox University\, Portland\, OregonRegistration Options >>For further information contact Beth Swain at beth@ehnwpdx.org \n\n\n\nKirk J. Schneider\, PhD\, is a licensed psychologist and leading author and spokesperson for contemporary Existential-Humanistic and Existential-Integrative psychology. Dr. Schneider is past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology\, adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College\, Columbia University\, and president of the Existential- Humanistic Institute (EHI).
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehnw-fall-workshop-kirk-schneider-awakening-life-enhancing-anxiety-in-our-profession-and-world-an-existential-depth-approach/
CATEGORIES:Recommended Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250912T130000
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SUMMARY:EHNW Lunch-n-Learn: Psilocybin Sessions for Existential and Death Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Lindsey Lerner\, PhD \n\n\n\nPsilocybin Sessions for Existential and Death Anxiety\n\n\n\nDate: Friday\, September 12\, 2025Time: 1pm–2:30pm Pacific TimeFee: $20 for non-affiliates. $15 for students. $0 for EHNW affiliates \n\n\n\nOnline: via ZoomHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) \n\n\n\nParticipants will gain a better understanding of Oregon’s psilocybin service model\, including the roles of preparation\, administration sessions\, and integration\, while also appreciating the sacred indigenous roots of psilocybin usage- gaining a better understanding of how meaning\, presence\, and authenticity can guide this work. Through case examples\, participants will examine how a single psilocybin session can help a client move toward greater acceptance and aliveness\, and how\, as therapists\, we can ethically and skillfully provide support throughout this process. Participants will also reflect on our own views of life\, death\, and meaning-making. \n\n\n\nIf you are curious about the clinical use of psychedelics or interested in opening your mind to the use of new avenues of care to help with existential despair\, then Lindsey and EHNW invite you to join them for this workshop.  \n\n\n\nFrom Lindsey\, “I come to you humbly as a teacher\, but also as a lifelong student and hope that we can all learn from one another during this lunch and learn presentation.”” \n\n\n\nAbout the presenter: \n\n\n\nDr. Lindsey Lerner is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist\, Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator\, death doula\, and psychonaut working and residing in Portland\, Oregon. She has been working in mental health for the past 18 years and has been part of the psychedelic world for half her life. She has been curious about consciousness\, death and dying (and near death experiences)\, non-ordinary states\, existential thought and meanin-making since she was a young child\, and utilizes the intersection of her personal and professional experiences to guide her work and advocacy\, with a deep reverence for the originators of medicine\, for the medicine\, and the seekers of medicine. \n\n\n\nRegistration Deadline: Registration for EHNW’s event will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so they can email Zoom links and event info. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page >> \n\n\n\nPlease contact EHNW about this event  here via their contact form.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehnw-lunch-n-learn-psilocybin-sessions-for-existential-and-death-anxiety/
CATEGORIES:Recommended Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250905T131500
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SUMMARY:Philosophical Resources for Clinicians
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: Carol Swanson\, LCSW and Gestalt Practitioner\n\n\n\nDates: September 2025 – May 2026. Meeting first Friday each month. First Meeting is September 5thTime: 1:15pm–2:30pm Pacific TimeFee: $300 for for full seminar \n\n\n\nOnline: via ZoomHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) \n\n\n\nThis is the 3rd year this seminar is being held. It is designed for psychotherapists\, psychoanalysts\, and clinicians who are interested in deepening their work through philosophical reflection and dialogue. We will explore ethical\, hermeneutic\, and humanistic dimensions of clinical practice by reading Donna Orange’s The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice.In this profound and accessible text\, Orange brings together five influential clinicians—Sándor Ferenczi\, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann\, Donald Winnicott\, Heinz Kohut\, and Bernard Brandchaft—and places them in conversation with two major philosophical figures: Hans-Georg Gadamer\, representing the hermeneutic tradition\, and Emmanuel Levinas\, with his radical ethics of responsibility to the Other.  \n\n\n\nIf you’re a clinician who finds yourself hungry for deeper reflection\, who enjoys rich conversation\, and who is curious about how philosophy can illuminate and support your practice—this seminar is for you. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page >> \n\n\n\nPlease contact EHNW about this event  here via their contact form.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/philosophical-resources-for-clinicians/
CATEGORIES:Recommended Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250826T110000
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SUMMARY:Salon: Our Life’s Narrative and Meaning Making
DESCRIPTION:With Sonja Saltman\, MFT – EHI Core Instructor\, and Joshua Diliberto\, LCHC\, NCC\, RYT- EHI Teaching Assistant\n\n\n\nDate/Time:  Tuesday\, August 26th\, 2025 at 11am-1pm Pacific | 2pm-4pm Eastern Location: Online Via Zoom Registration fee: $25 for General tickets. To promote effective discussion we are limiting registration to 30 people. We do not want cost to be an issue. We offer economic inequality/hardship tickets for $10. Please contact Michelle via the form to get a code for reduced ticket. Host: Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) \n\n\n\nOn August 26th\, EHI is hosting a two-hour virtual community space for exploring “Our Life’s Narrative and Meaning Making.” Personal\, relational\, and cosmological aspects are considered in group discussion\, practical demonstration\, possible dyad or small group engagement—we will be flexible to follow emergent wishes from the group. EHI is excited to be continuing the series of experiential salons and to hold one more before the EHI team takes their summer break. 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. \n\n\n\nGeneral Outline (2 hours):  \n\n\n\n● Welcome Introduction and check-in  \n\n\n\n● Conceptual frames for Our Life’s Narrative and Meaning Making:  The concept of self calls for the person to transform the pronoun I into a recognition of essential qualities with which the person may be identified. Real self\, nuclear self\, narcissistic self and false self all refer to essential qualities of the person.They are representative of the person and this patterning process organizes personal characteristics into coherent clusters from which we form our inner sense of self. Based on this sense of inner self we form our “life stories”. They are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and that are sometimes small work of fictions we believe to be true. Any new experience then might be filtered through this belief about our coherent self\, might therefore be distorted.Meaning making can be the process of restructuring of the patterns of the self and thus confronting myths that were created by parts of ourselves. The person is invited to examine incoming new information without filtering it through already preexisting faulty assumptions to reemerge with a new sense of meaning for ourselves. \n\n\n\n● Demo on Our Life’s Narrative and Meaning Making  \n\n\n\n● Group Discussion\, Attendee/EHI Demo\, or Experiential Dyad Exercise: we will decide in the moment as a group \n\n\n\n● Final Large Group Process \n\n\n\n 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.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/salon-our-lifes-narrative-and-meaning-making/
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SUMMARY:Recommend: EHNW Lunch-n-Learn
DESCRIPTION:Clinician Self Care – Suicide Prevention Awareness\n\n\n\nPresenter: Michaele P. Dunlap\, PsyD  \n\n\n\nJune 13\, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm \n\n\n\nLocation: OnlineRegular Pricing: $20 for Professionals\, $15 for Students\, and $0 for EHNW affiliates \n\n\n\nDr Dunlap’s description:  \n\n\n\n“That human beings sometimes commit suicide is a fact. As mental health professionals we are required to understand suicide risks and do our best to avert such events as adeptly as we can.I hold acute awareness that medical and mental health clinicians are human and have a very high incidence of suicide and suicide ideation\, as do first responders trained to intervene in grim and often ghastly situations: firefighters\, police\, and EMTs. When I talk with colleagues about the fact that our own and our colleagues’ suicide risks need to be a topic for suicide prevention education\, the sort of response I get is\, “I’ve never heard a presentation on clinicians’ suicide risk.” I’ve been stumbling toward the development of a 3-hour CE presentation on this topic for 3 years and hope to have it online in September 2025. In this brief lunch and learn presentation\, I will offer a smattering of data and some personal stories\, share assertions reflected upon in-depth\, and offer resources.I would like to engage with you in a discussion about medical and mental health clinicians’ suicide risks and self-care strategies\, as well as those of others working in this muddy\, hazardous space.” \n\n\n\nPresenter Bio\n\n\n\nMichaele Dunlap\, PsyD\, completed college at Reed\, earned a master’s in counseling at Lewis & Clark and a Psy.D. at Pacific University. Michaele is licensed in Oregon and Washington and practice at Mentor Professional Corp. in NW Portland (503-227-2027).Michaele has been an organizer and presenter of professional continuing education events since 1989. In 1996\, Michaele\, with 4 colleagues\, formed Mentor Research Institute (MRI). MRI was approved as a 501(c)3 organization in 1997.  Michaele serves as executive Director of the Independent Mental Health Practices Alliance (IMHPA). \n\n\n\nRegister here: Existential-Humanistic Northwest June 2025 Lunch & Learn Tickets\, Fri\, Jun 13\, 2025 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite \n\n\n\nRegistration Deadline: Registration will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so we can email Zoom links and event info.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommend-ehnw-lunch-n-learn/
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SUMMARY:May Retreat: Existential-Humanistic Therapy: Principles of Practice
DESCRIPTION:2025 Enrollment has filled. Next annual retreat is scheduled for May 21-26\, 2026. \n\n\n\nResidential Intensive Training in Sonoma for Clinicians & Students\n\n\n\nDates: May 22 – May 27\, 2025Location: Beautiful Westerbeke Ranch in SonomaTraining Host: Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) \n\n\n\nA Deeper Dive Into E-H Therapy Practice\n\n\n\nThe experiential intensive involves a combination of relationship-building\, learning of theoretical foundations\, and first-hand experiences wherein theory comes to life. \n\n\n\nHands-On Experiential Training!\n\n\n\nEngage in intensive\, immersive experiential learning \n\n\n\nPractice working in the “here and now” with an E-H focus \n\n\n\nLearn to build the therapeutic relationship using E-H skills \n\n\n\nExperience how E-H therapy is practiced up close and personally \n\n\n\nJoin professionals/graduate students in a facilitated and safe environment \n\n\n\nConsider Joining a Training Cohort!\n\n\n\nFind out more info about training at Westerbeke on the Existential Therapy Training Retreat Page \n\n\n\nThe Annual Experiential Training Retreat has 2 Enrollment Options!\n\n\n\n\nTrack 1. Discover more about the EHI Certificate in the Foundations of E-H Therapy.\n\n\n\nTrack 2. Find out about participating at the training by enrolling in just the Experiential Training Retreat Module (no extra coursework needed).\n\n\n\n\nAnnual Enrollment Opens in August!\n\n\n\nA Video from Training Residential at Westerbeke\n\n\n\n\n\nResidential Training attendees and instructors share their experiences at Westerbeke
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/may-retreat-existential-humanistic-therapy-principles-of-practice/
CATEGORIES:EHI Training
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SUMMARY:EHNW Online Salon: Being with our clients as they navigate our country’s political turmoil
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: Bob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT & Chuck Craytor\, LPC\n\n\n\nDate: Saturday\, May 17\, 2025Time: 10am–12pm Pacific TimeFee: $20 for non-affiliates. $15 for students. $0 for EHNW affiliates \n\n\n\nOnline: via ZoomHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) in Portland\, OR \n\n\n\nJoin EHNW for a discussion in how we can support our clients when they explore their concerns about our current political situation. An Existential value is that we are all Beings-in-the-World. We are not separate from what is going on. It impacts us regardless of whether we actively engage or not. How do we support our clients who are experiencing the effects of polarization\, suffering\, confusion\, and despair? How do we facilitate the exploration of these concerns? How do we deal with our own experience of the current political situation? How does it impact us as we seek to support our clients? \n\n\n\nBiosBob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT\, is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist with over fifty years of experience. He provides individual and couples therapy\, as well as consultation\, supervision\, workshops\, and trainings for clinicians and students. He is a blogger for Psychology Today and has published articles on the existential-humanistic perspective\, including a chapter entitled “Frames\, Attitudes\, and Skills of an Existential Humanistic Psychotherapist” in The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology\, 2nd Edition. He has presented multiple workshops on Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy\, including presenting at both the 2nd and 3rd Existential Psychotherapy World Congresses. He was also a presenter at the Existential Global World Summit. Bob is the founder and past president of the Existential-Humanistic Northwest professional organization. \n\n\n\nChuck Craytor\, LPC\, NCC\, is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist with over thirty years of experience in personal and executive coaching\, workshop facilitation\, and leadership development. He has collaborated with private\, non-profit\, and governmental organizations and has been in private practice since completing his graduate work in 2012. His studies emphasized developing resilience in the face of adversity\, whether at the individual or community level. Chuck has been driven by a commitment to exploring and transforming adversity into opportunities for growth\, peace\, and compassion throughout his journey. This dedication has enabled him to work with individuals locally and internationally\, reaching as far as Moldova (Eastern Europe) and Uganda. The path of an explorer has been a constant since his childhood. \n\n\n\nRegistration Deadline: Registration will open soon. Registration will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so we can email Zoom links and event info. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page >> \n\n\n\nThis event is not an EHI event. Please contact EHNW about this event  here via their contact form.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehnw-online-salon-being-with-our-clients-as-they-navigate-our-countrys-political-turmoil/
CATEGORIES:Recommended Events
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SUMMARY:EHI Salon: Transforming the Ordinary to the Remarkable
DESCRIPTION:Online Salon Facilitated by: Sonja Saltman\, MS – EHI Core Instructor\, and Joshua Diliberto\, LCMHC\, NCC\, RYT – EHI TA \n\n\n\nDate/Time:  Tuesday April 15\, 2025 at 11am-1pm PDT | 2pm-4pm EDT & 6pm-8pm UTCLocation: Online Via ZoomEnrollment: $25 for General tickets. To promote effective discussion we are limiting registration to 30 people and we offer economic inequality/hardship tickets for $10. Please contact Michelle via email at program@ehinstitute.org to get a code for this ticket level.Host: Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) \n\n\n\nEHI is excited to be continuing our 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. \n\n\n\nOn April 15th\, EHI is hosting a two-hour virtual community space for Transforming the ordinary to the remarkable. 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. \n\n\n\nGeneral Outline (2 hours):  \n\n\n\n● Welcome to 4th Salon: Transforming the ordinary to the remarkable (15 minutes) \n\n\n\n● Conceptual frames for Transforming the ordinary to the remarkable (20 minutes): Alertness to everyday experience creates the background for creating the aliveness necessary to appreciate aspects of life often minimized and ignored. Skipped over experiences can be valuable treasures for gaining self-knowledge. Simple events like a daily routine can escape notice\, events that give context and continuity to life. Understanding and highlighting breathes meaning into ordinary experiences. \n\n\n\n● Experiential Demo/Exercise: “Exploring the ordinary to the remarkable” (35 min)  \n\n\n\n● Dyads (30 min) \n\n\n\n● Final Large Group Process: (15 min) \n\n\n\n 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.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehi-salon-transforming-the-ordinary-to-the-remarkable/
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SUMMARY:Recommended Lunch-n-Learn: So\, CBT & EH Walk Into a Bar…
DESCRIPTION:EHNW Lunch and Learn  \n\n\n\nSo\, CBT & EH Walk Into a Bar…\n\n\n\nFacilitated by: Kayla Birkeland\n\n\n\nDate: Friday\, 4/11/2025Time: 1pm–2:30pm Pacific Daylight Savings TimeFee: $20 General  \n\n\n\nOnline: via Zoom \n\n\n\nIn this Lunch & Learn\, Kayla will be taking the time to explore the proclivity towards an either/or mindset when it comes to how we approach work with clients and find our space in the world of theoretical orientations (especially early on). Specifically\, she will be discussing her turbulent journey of navigating the dualism that was both absorbed and imposed on her approach to CBT and E-H\, and how over time\, she has come to release her grip on a dualistic mindset and discover a beautiful harmony between the two. This journey involved learning to discover and embrace the different parts of who she is and allow her experiences to shape how she engages the world in a way that resonates with the authenticity of her soul. Participants will be exploring the impact of attachments and domestication (as described in ancient Toltec wisdom) and how to recognize and exercise choice amid a world that tries so hard to make us fit the status quo. \n\n\n\nBio Statement from Kayla: “I’m Kayla Birkeland and I’m a licensed therapist in the state of Washington. I recently transitioned (September 2024) to a group counseling practice in Vancouver\, WA\, and currently provide individual therapy to people 11 years old and up. Previously\, I worked with youth in schools (K-12). I started my journey in community mental health and then spent 4 years at a small special education behavioral school in the Vancouver School District. My professional passions are working with those who have experienced trauma\, the neurodivergent community\, and those who are part of disenfranchised groups. I feel strongly about social justice and helping people find their voice and find spaces where their voices can be heard. Personally\, I have been married for 14 ½ years to a wonderfully supportive spouse accepting of all my quirks and neurospicyness. In my free time I enjoy boxing\, being outdoors\, and spending time with loved ones.” \n\n\n\nRegistration Dead register cheers\, Michelleline: Registration will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so we can email zoom links and event info. \n\n\n\nPlease contact EHNW about this event  here via their contact form. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page >>
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-lunch-n-learn-so-cbt-eh-walk-into-a-bar/
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SUMMARY:Strategies that Deepen Therapeutic Presence: An Existential-Humanistic Perspective w/ Orah Krug\, PhD\, LMFT
DESCRIPTION:Save the Date! \n\n\n\nPresented by EHI Cofounder: Orah Krug\, PhD\, LMFT \n\n\n\nDate/Time:  Friday\, March 28th\, 2025 at 1pm-3pm Pacific | 4pm-6pm Eastern | 8pm-10pm UTCLocation: Online Via Zoom Enrollment: $25 for General tickets. $10 Elder/Student. We aim to support those who find cost an issue. We offer economic inequality/hardship tickets for $10. Please contact Michelle via the form on our contact page to get a code for reduced ticket. Host: Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI)CE*: Approved for 2 CE credits \n\n\n\nThe workshop offers practical strategies for therapists to enhance their therapeutic presence\, a fundamental aspect of effective therapy. Participants will learn through discussion and demonstration how to cultivate a deeper connection with clients by actively following the therapeutic process and offering insightful process comments. Process comments deepen the work by focusing for example\, not simply on the “problem” the client brings to therapy but on their way of relating to the problem. The workshop will also explore ways to deepen subjective presence such as “searching” and guided meditation. These interventions cultivate curiosity and invite discovery of something new for the client\, perhaps a newfound empathy for themselves or a new understanding of a significant relationship or experience. Additionally\, participants will discover through discussion and demonstration how working in the here and now: a) strengthens the therapeutic relationship\, and b) focuses the client on the way they are relating. Here and now works focuses on the interpersonal process between client and therapist as it unfolds in the present moment. Grounded in the Existential-Humanistic (E-H) approach\, these strategies will provide valuable tools for therapists seeking to create a more profound and impactful therapeutic experience for their clients.  \n\n\n\nGeneral Outline (2 hours):  \n\n\n\n● Welcome Introduction (5 min)  \n\n\n\n● Process Comments: discussion\, demonstration\, and practice (35 mins)  \n\n\n\n● Deepening subjective presence: discussion\, demonstration\, and practice (35 mins)   \n\n\n\n● Working in the Here and Now: discussion\, demonstration\, and practice (35 mins) \n\n\n\n● Final Debrief/Q&A (10 mins) \n\n\n\nOrah Krug\, PhD is recognized in her field as a master clinician\, supervisor\, teacher and author. She is an original cofounder of EHI and founder of Krug Counseling in Oakland\, California. She has been a licensed psychotherapist for over 30 years and an adjunct professor at Saybrook University for over 15 years. Through decades of client work\, research and teaching Orah has developed a comprehensive process applicable for individuals or couples. She is an editor\, author\, and contributing author of leading E-H textbooks:  Supervision Essentials for Existential-Humanistic Therapy\, Exisential-Humanistic Therapy\, Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice\, and The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy. \n\n\n\n*Continuing Education Information\n\n\n\nThis program have been approved for 2 CE credits for full participation.  \n\n\n\nCE Fee is separate: $18 \n\n\n\n\nAPA Division 32\, Society for Humanistic Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. APA Division 32\, Society for Humanistic Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content \n\n\n\n\nMany state licensing boards\, accept CE credits from APA approved sponsors! \n\n\n\nEHI endeavors to make this accessible for interested learners. Please contact Michelle for disability accommodations and more course info. \n\n\n\nRegistration Deadline: Registration will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so we can email zoom links and event info.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/strategies-that-deepen-therapeutic-presence-an-existential-humanistic-perspective-w-orah-krug-phd-lmft/
CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop
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SUMMARY:Recommended: Case Conceptualization\, Consultation\, and Discussion from an E-H Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Bob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT \n\n\n\nOnline Event \n\n\n\nHost: EHNW in Portland \n\n\n\nParticipants will review therapy cases\, including client’s presenting issues and potential therapeutic responses\, from within an Existential-Humanistic framework. Please feel free to bring a current case for which you would like some consultation. You can also just listen to others\, ask questions\, and contribute your comments. \n\n\n\nThe salon will be virtual and details for joining will be provided upon registration. The salon is appropriate for both students and professionals. \n\n\n\nBob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT\, is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist with over fifty years of experience. He provides individual and couples therapy\, as well as consultation\, supervision\, workshops\, and trainings for clinicians and students. He has presented an Existential-Humanistic Training group series for over two decades. He is a blogger for Psychology Today\, Authentic Engagement\, and has published articles on the existential-humanistic perspective\, including a chapter entitled “Frames\, Attitudes\, and Skills of an Existential Humanistic Psychotherapist” in The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology\, 2nd Edition. \n\n\n\nRegistration Deadline: Registration will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so we can email zoom links and event info.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-case-conceptualization-consultation-and-discussion-from-an-e-h-perspective/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T110000
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SUMMARY:Salon: The Psychotherapeutic Relationship
DESCRIPTION:Developed & Facilitated by:  \n\n\n\nSonja Saltman\, EHI Core Instructor and Joshua Diliberto\, EHI Teaching Assistant          \n\n\n\nDate: Thursday\, February 20th\, 2025 \n\n\n\nTime: 11am-1pm Pacific Time (2pm-4 pm ET; 6pm-8pm UTC) \n\n\n\nOnline via video. The Zoom link will be shared via registration email. \n\n\n\nFormat: 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.  \n\n\n\nCameras 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. \n\n\n\nFee: $25. Please reach out to Michelle via program@ehinstitute.org to get a code for a $10 economic inequality/hardship ticket. \n\n\n\nContinuing the Experiential Salons in the New Year\n\n\n\nEHI 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. \n\n\n\nOn 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. \n\n\n\nAs 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. \n\n\n\nGeneral Outline (2 hours): \n\n\n\nWelcome Introduction\, poem\, check-in (15 minutes) \n\n\n\nConceptual frames for The Psychotherapeutic Relationship (20 minutes)     \n\n\n\nExperiential exercise: Exploring The Psychotherapeutic Relationship (35 minutes) \n\n\n\nDyad: Deepening the experience (30 minutes)  \n\n\n\nFinal Large Group Process (20 minutes) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFor Reference: \n\n\n\nThere 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. \n\n\n\nWho is This Event For?\n\n\n\nAnyone 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! \n\n\n\nLimited 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. \n\n\n\nEconomic Inequality/Hardship: We have $10 tickets available. Please email Michelle via the contact form  for a code for this ticket level.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/salon-the-psychotherapeutic-relationship/
CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop
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SUMMARY:Recommended: Working With the Grieving Client
DESCRIPTION:EHNW Lunch-n-Learn\n\n\n\nWorking With the Grieving Client: Using existential humanist principles to support the client on their journey\n\n\n\n Facilitated by: Adam Marx\, MA\, Professional Counselor Associate\n\n\n\nThis workshop\, hosted by EHNW in Portland\, Oregon\,  is designed for therapists who wish to deepen their work with grieving clients through the lens of existential humanist counseling principles. Participants will focus on the concepts of being versus doing\, process versus content\, inclusion not amputation\, and others. \n\n\n\nBy the end of the workshop\, participants will hopefully have gained a deeper understanding of how existential and humanistic counseling principles can be used to support grieving clients. They will leave with a more compassionate\, grounded approach to grief work\, as well as practical strategies to help clients find acceptance and healing in the aftermath of loss. \n\n\n\nBio: Adam Marx specializes in helping grieving clients. His background includes experience as an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic programming) practitioner and trainer\, and an ICF (International Coaching Federation) certified coach. Adam has a degree in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He uses his own experiences of loss (a brother\, a father\, a son) to inform his work with clients. \n\n\n\nRegistration Deadline: Registration will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so we can email zoom links and event info. \n\n\n\nThis event is being hosted by our partners up in Portland at Existential-Humanistic Northwest. Please contact them with questions via their contact form.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-working-with-the-grieving-client/
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SUMMARY:Recommended: The Global Existential Summit
DESCRIPTION:2025 Theme: Wisdom\, Meaning and Hope for Humanity\n\n\n\nJoin Pioneers in Existential Thought!\n\n\n\nThe Global Existential Summit #4 Programme\n\n\n\nDay 1 | Monday 6th January 2025Pninit Russo-Netzer: A Philosophy of The Beauty and Gravity of Being Human | IsraelRobert Stolorow: A Philosophy of Crumbling Metaphysical Illusion In Emotional Trauma | USAMarc Boaz: A Philosophy Exploring Neurodivergence\, Trauma\, and Dehumanization | UK \n\n\n\nDay 2 | Tuesday 7th January 2025T Storm Heter: A Philosophy of Sonic Gaze\, Jazz\, and Racialized Listening | USAShannon Mussett: A Philosophy of Existing in a Morally Complex World | USAJason Dias: A Philosophy Directly Confronting a World In Distress | USAJameson Yingling: A Philosophy Travelling into the Unknown to Create a Meaningful Life | USA \n\n\n\nDay 3 | Wednesday 8th January 2025Carlos Alberto Sánchez: A Philosophy Expanding the Horizons of Existential Language | Mexico &USAEdwin Murillo: A Philosophy Retelling History by Uncovering Forgotten Stories | Colombia & USAKripi Malviya: A Philosophy Inspiring Revolution Through Representation | IndiaVincent Thomas Evangelista: A Philosophy Emerging from Indigenous Ancestors | Philippines \n\n\n\nDay 4 | Thursday 9th January 2025Todd DuBose: A Philosophy of Becoming Guardians of the Intangible | USAChrysa Plymaki: A Philosophy of Guiding Light\, Embracing Change and Possibility | GreeceFestus Akinola: A Philosophy of Moral Revival to Overcome Corruption | NigeriaJinny Gupta: A Philosophy Embodying the Spirit of Intuition | India\, UK \n\n\n\nDay 5 | Friday 10th January 2025Nader Shabahangi: A Philosophy of Depathologization Through Love and Beauty | Iran & USAStella Duffy: A Philosophy of Activism\, Creativity\, and Existential Wakeup Calls | Aotearoa NewZealand & UKArash Farzaneh: A Philosophy of Becoming Your Unique Self | Iran\, Germany\, CanadaSheel Kalil: A Philosophy Creating Art Out of Chaos and Confusion | India \n\n\n\nThis event is being held online via Existential Offerings.  \n\n\n\n\nWe’d Love To Hear From You!
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-the-global-existential-summit/
CATEGORIES:Recommended Events
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SUMMARY:E-H Reading Group via EHNW in Portland
DESCRIPTION:E-H Reading Group – Open to All \n\n\n\nFacilitated by: River Heisler w/ EHNW Board Members Ryan Brown and Justin Rock \n\n\n\nThis Existential/Humanistic (EH) reading group is a space to engage creatively\, constructively\, and spontaneously with the works of philosophers belonging to a large stream of “existential” and “phenomenological” thought (terms with which we will certainly experiment and contend). The group will be a space to critique\, question\, and experience the works which influence what it means to call oneself an “existential” therapist\, “existentialist”\, or an “existentially”-influenced human. Starting with the idea of alterity\, and what the experience of the Other can tell us about being human\, we will plunge headfirst into Emmanuel Levinas’ Totality and Infinity (November). Please read as much as you are able! Please also read Toward a Liberation Psychology [translated by Adrianne Aron]” by Ignacio Martin-Baro\, from the volume Writings for a Liberation Psychology\, as it provides a deep and meaningful framework from which to question and frame how we may engage in this type of critique from a consciousness-raising perspective. \n\n\n\nThis group started in November. Please feel free to contact River Heisler\, at heis6654@pacificu.edu\, with any questions!
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/e-h-reading-group-via-ehnw-in-portland/
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SUMMARY:Core Skills in E-H Psychotherapy Workshop Fall 2024
DESCRIPTION:Core Skills in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy – An Online Workshop \n\n\n\nEnrollment Update: This workshop has sold out. We have a waitlist.\n\n\n\nTo join the waitlist please fill out the contact form and Michelle will reach out to you and put you on the list! \n\n\n\nNew Workshop Format: Over 2 Weekends/4 Days \n\n\n\nFriday\, November 1st\, 2024 9am-1:15pm Time Pacific Daylight Light Savings PDT (UTC -7)Saturday\, November 2nd\, 2024 9am-1:15pm PDT (UTC -7)Friday\, November 15th\, 2024 9am-1:15pm Pacific Standard Time PST (UTC -8)Saturday\, November16th\, 2024 9am-1:15pm Pacific PST (UTC -8) \n\n\n\nAn Existential-Humanistic approach to psychotherapy can be a foundation for all therapists seeking to do deep and life-changing work with their clients. The E-H approach is based on core ways of being and working with clients that help facilitate greater awareness\, greater sense of choice\, increased agency and adaptiveness and a deeper connection to self and others – all in the service of healing and growing. There are core capacities and skills an E-H therapist uses to help clients effectively explore and work through their existential predicaments so they can more fully access what deeply matters to them. \n\n\n\nIn 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. Topics covered include: \n\n\n\n\nThe cultivation of presence as both the ground of therapy and one of its primary objectives\n\n\n\nThe focus on the “living moment” in working with the “here-and-now” experience of clients – staying with what presents itself phenomenologically rather than employing theoretical interventions\n\n\n\nThe differentiation between primary\, direct experience and secondary\, interpretive experience – and the emphasis on working with phenomenological experience\n\n\n\nThe meaning-making process and the formation of the Self-and-World Construct – helping client and therapist understand identity construction and de-construction\n\n\n\nHow to work with the client’s ways of being in the world and how to utilize the therapist-client relationship to help shift unhelpful ways of being\n\n\n\nHow to identify and work through clients’ inner battles in order to support their longings to emerge\, and feel more choice-ful and psychospiritually whole\n\n\n\nIntegrating and embodying your theoretical beliefs and authentic sense of self in your work as a therapist\n\n\n\n\nThis training is ideal for those who have not yet had any intensive training in E-H therapy or for those who have and are seeking a refresher or reinforcement of what they’ve learned: this training works in and of itself but can also be a precursor to the longer residential training EHI holds or even a helpful follow-up to the residential training. \n\n\n\nTuition Fee ScheduleRegular Tuition: $685* for General (Licensed/Pre-Licensed) | *$635 for Elders (65 and older) and Students (enrolled in a Masters or PhD level program).Early Early Bird Offer through 8/15/24: $615 General | $565 Elder/StudentEarly Bird Offer 8/16/24-9/15/24: $645 General | $595 Elder/Student \n\n\n\nTwo Payment Options Available: If you register by 9/15/24 you can either pay in full or choose the split-payment option. For this split-payment option there is a $150 deposit needed to hold one’s spot ($100 deposit for Elder/Student ticket). If you register choosing the split-payment option and are hoping to receive one of the early bird discounts\, your balance due must be paid by the relevant early bird deadline in order to receive the discount. For those registering after 09/15/24\, full payment is due at once in order to register. Refund policy: You’ll receive a full refund\, minus $75\, if withdrawn by 10/10/24. There are no refunds after that.  \n\n\n\nThe workshop is online via Zoom Meeting w/ Zoom Breakout Rooms \n\n\n\nIn order to provide an intimate-enough experience (even on Zoom)\, enrollment is limited – so please register early to ensure your spot! 
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/core-skills-in-e-h-psychotherapy-workshop-fall-2024/
CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop
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SUMMARY:Salon: The Person of the Therapist
DESCRIPTION:Announcing the second EHI Online Salon \n\n\n\nTopic: The Person of The Therapist \n\n\n\nFacilitators: Sonja Saltman\, EHI Core Instructor and Joshua Diliberto\, EHI Teaching Assistant            \n\n\n\nDate:  October 29\, 2024 11 am -12:30 PDT (2pm-3:30pm EDT; 6pm-7:30pm UTC) \n\n\n\nOnline: Via Zoom/Zoom Breakout Rooms \n\n\n\nFee: $25 for General/Professional.  Please reach out to Michelle via the form on contact page for info on $10 economic inequality/hardship tickets. \n\n\n\nLimited Registration: Due to the format EHI is limiting the number of places to 30 participants for this Salon. \n\n\n\nEHI is excited to be starting a 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. \n\n\n\nOn October 29\, EHI Is hosting a two-hour virtual community space for examining and invoking The Person of the Therapist. Personal\, relational\, and cosmological aspects are considered in group discussion\, practical demonstration\, small group engagement\, and will be flexible in nature to follow emergent wishes from the group. \n\n\n\nGeneral Outline (2 hours): \n\n\n\n\nWelcome Introduction\, poem\, check-ins (25 minutes)\n\n\n\nConceptual frames for understanding Person of Therapist (20 min total)Intro “The Person of the Therapist in Practice”Sonja\, and Josh share conceptual definitionsIntroduce personal context as example of one’s own way of being\, seeing\, and holding relational psychotherapeutic worldsMembers are invited to provide their own definitions\n\nWhole group process of topic\, encouraging first person engagement and description that may also involve other sources\n\n\n\n\n\nExperiential exercise: “Exploring how it is to be The Person of the Therapist.” (35 min)We ask for a volunteer “client” and Sonja and Josh both individually respond to the client (we could add a couple of responses from the group as well). We follow this interaction with a perusal of what feelings/thoughts within us\, the therapists\, led to a given response reaction. That means looking at arrows that provoked choosing a particular path. What evoked curiosity and interest in the therapist for the next interaction? What does this choice reveal about the person of the therapist?\n\nWe can make contact with the movement (the music) being experienced from the group in the here and now stay with it as a whole\, and as it flows between persons.\n\n\n\n\n\nSmall groups (25 min)\n\n\n\nFinal Large Group Process: (15 min)\n\nDiscussion\, Integration\, shared resources\, and announcements\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs 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. \n\n\n\nFor Reference: \n\n\n\nThere is no mandatory reading for this offering but the text book\, Existential-Humanistic Therapy\, 2nd Edition by Schneider and Krug published APA\, and The Art of Counseling\, revised edition 1989 are resources we would like to mention.
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/salon-the-person-of-the-therapist/
CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop
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SUMMARY:EHNW Annual Workshop: Ego\, Soul\, and the Restorative Function of Emotional Pain
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Leland Baggett\, LCMHC \n\n\n\nEarly Bird Fee: $165 Professional & $75 Student (prices good through 8/31/24)Host: EHNW in Portland\, OregonLocation: George Fox University\, Portland Oregon \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, the presenter will introduce an original approach to psychotherapy based upon the premise that emotional healing is fundamentally a psycho-spiritual event. This approach offers a unique way of integrating the values of authentic presence\, intentionality\, and meaning rooted in the Humanistic-Existential-Phenomenological orientation with the spiritual depth of Buddhist and Transpersonal Psychology. Its theoretical foundation is based upon the interweaving of three elemental assertions (see the event page for more details). \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nLeland (Chip) Baggett\, M.A.\, LPC\, is a psychotherapist and author\, and is a highly respected thought leader in the field of humanistic/existential/transpersonal psychology\, bringing attention to the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Humanistic Psychology from the University of West Georgia\, and is past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and the North Carolina Mental Health Counselors Association. In1988 he published a book of poetry\, So Where’s The Dawn which depicts the journey of emotional healing after the loss of a relationship. He is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and has maintained a private psychotherapy practice for over forty five  years\, working with individual adults and couples. He currently maintains his practice in Asheville\, North Carolina
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/ehnw-annual-workshop-ego-soul-and-the-restorative-function-of-emotional-pain/
CATEGORIES:Recommended Events
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SUMMARY:Dream Work: An Existential-Humanistic Method to Deepen Connection to the Cosmological Dimension
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Sonja Saltman\, MS and Core EHI Instructor\n\n\n\nWhen: September 28th\, 2024 @ 10am – 12pm PT  \n\n\n\nWhere: Online through Zoom  \n\n\n\nFee: $25 General/$10 Elders & Students \n\n\n\nContinuing Education*:  This workshop has been approved for 2 CE credits for full\, live participation. Additional CE Fee is $18. \n\n\n\nDreams represent a restatement of the client’s deeper problems\, only in a different language—a language of visual imagery.  The agency of the mind turns feelings\, attitudes\, and experiences into visual form (e.g.\, a journey\, a dilapidated house\, descending into a basement\, etc.). From an E-H perspective\, the point is not to fully and accurately interpret the dream—it can’t be done\, and misses the point.  \n\n\n\nJust as we learn to work with clients’ processes in the here-and-now\, E-H dream work involves bringing the dream into the here-and-now in order to find what is most alive\, most curious\, most baffling or disturbing to the client\, and to facilitate an in vivo exploration – often leading to deeper contact with a less conscious part of oneself.  \n\n\n\nWorking with dreams from the Humanistic perspective (in this case\, from the Gestalt perspective)\, the dreamer is helped to play out parts of her dream as aspects of her own existence\, i.e. a working through of the dream as a present event rather than past history and as action rather than a basis for interpretation.  Attendees will receive a didactic introduction to dream work through a Gestalt/E-H lens\, get to see 2 live demonstrations (and perhaps be one of the 2 volunteers)\, and engage in discussion about this approach to dream work. \n\n\n\nPresentation Outline: \n\n\n\n\nFinal Debrief/Q&A (25 mins)\n\n\n\nWelcome/Introduction (10 mins)\n\n\n\nDidactic Presentation (15 mins)\n\n\n\nFirst Dream Work Demonstration (25 mins)\n\n\n\nDebrief/Q&A (20 mins)\n\n\n\nSecond Dream Work Demonstration (25 mins)\n\n\n\n\nAdditional info: Scott wrote an blog post on Dream Work from an E-H perspective on The Existential Moment\, read Dream Work post here. \n\n\n\n\nThis program has been approved for 2 CE credits for full participation.  Separate CE Fee: $18APA Division 32\, Society for Humanistic Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. APA Division 32\, Society for Humanistic Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \n\n\n\n\nEHI endeavors to make offerings accessible for interested learners.  Please email or call Michelle via the contact page for disability accommodations and more course info. \n\n\n\nLMFTs\, LCSWs\, LPCs: You too might be eligible for APA Continuing Education Credit for your renewals!  \n\n\n\nState licensing boards for LPCs\, LCSWs\, and LMFT’s often accept CE credits from an APA Approved Provider for their continuing education requirements. Please check with your Board to ensure they accept CEs from an APA Approved Provider like Society for Humanistic Psychology. (CA BBS takes these CE credits).
URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/dream-work-a-method-to-deepen-connection-to-the-cosmological-dimension/
CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop
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