BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Existential-Humanistic Institute - ECPv6.14.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ehinstitute.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Existential-Humanistic Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220319T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220319T120000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20220201T182900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T223642Z UID:7262-1647684000-1647691200@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended: March Salon w/ EHNW DESCRIPTION:Salon: Case Conceptualization\, Consultation\, and Discussion from an Existential-Humanistic Perspective\n\n\n\nPresented by Facilitated by Bob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT and Dave Fischer\, PsyD Date: Saturday\, March 19th\, 2022 – 10 AM till NoonSalon to be held via Zoom – Details for joining are provided upon registration Cost: Free for all EHNW affiliates.Others: Professionals – $20\, Students – $15  \n\n\n\nDescriptionWe invite you to join us in an open conversation. At this salon we will review some therapy cases\, including client’s presenting issues and potential therapeutic responses\, from within an Existential-Humanistic framework. The discussion will be facilitated by EHNW board members\, including Bob Edelstein and Dave Fischer. Please feel free to bring a current case for which you would like some consultation\, or listen to others\, ask questions\, and contribute your comments. Due to time considerations\, not every case will likely be discussed. Our hope in hosting these salons is to create a space for practitioners and members of the EH community to gather\, socialize\, and explore meaningful topics. The conversation will be salon-style where participants share what is present for them as the conversation emerges. BiographyI am passionate about the existential-humanistic perspective in both my personal and professional life. To me\, the perspective embraces all of what it means to exist and values each unique\, individual journey. I value that we always have a choice to change our attitude and behavior\, even in the most limited of conditions or circumstances. I take on the powerful responsibility that our choice matters in that we impact the world by our feelings\, thoughts and actions. This perspective also embraces that as human beings we are always moving towards health and wholeness\, both individually and collectively. BiographyDave is a licensed psychologist\, providing compassionate and patient-centered therapy in a primary care setting. He completed a doctorate in clinical psychology and a post-doctoral fellowship in health psychology in the integrated primary care model. He currently works for Premise Health Care\, at Intel Health for Life Centers and sees clients that are Intel employees or their dependents. He engages in brief interventions\, diagnostic evaluations\, and ongoing psychotherapy for individuals\, couples\, and adolescents. Dave has experience with multi-cultural patients and can provide therapy in Spanish if needed\, as he has lived and traveled throughout Latin America. Dave has also taught a variety of psychology courses at several colleges and universities\, including coursework in clinical\, abnormal\, group\, adolescent and basic psychology. Dave received a year of specialized training and conducted academic research in psychotherapy with persons living with HIV. As a member of the American Psychological Association and board member of Existential-Humanistic Northwest\, he brings and makes space for a broad range of perspectives to each client encounter. Please refer questions to Ryan Brown via the EHNW Contact Form.  URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-march-salon-w-ehnw/ CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EHNW-logo-2021.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Northwest":MAILTO:https://www.ehnwpdx.org/contact-ehnw/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T100000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20220205T235500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T195218Z UID:7278-1646208000-1646215200@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:E-H Therapy Consult Group for Newer Practitioners DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in strengthening your understanding of an Existential-Humanistic (E-H) approach to psychotherapy\, enriching your work with your clients and supporting your own personal and professional development? \n\n\n\nE-H therapists seek not only a deeper knowing of their clients\, but also cultivate deeper contact with their own historical context that shapes their sense of their being in the world. EHI’s consultation groups offer the opportunity to consult about your clinical work from an E-H perspective\, and to experientially work with the therapist’s own conscious and unconscious meanings that get stirred by particular clients. \n\n\n\nExperiential learning in the consult groups includes guided self-reflection and case conceptualization\, feedback from fellow group members\, role plays\, and theoretical reflections following the experiential work. \n\n\n\nJoin our facilitators for this new E-H consultation group series! \n\n\n\nThis is online consultation via Zoom! \n\n\n\nNewer to Clinical Practice?Interested in a Beginner’s E-H Consult Group? \n\n\n\nWho: This group will for newly licensed therapists – or those nearing licensure – who have are interested in gaining more E-H training or reinforcing their understanding of E-H work in the context of case consultation and group feedback and support. 10 hours of case consultation\, training\, and skills practice. \n\n\n\nBeginners Group meets on Monday* mornings for 2 hours from 8:00 am to 10am PST. Please note the first session of this series will be *Wed\, March 2nd (this is the only Wed am session). Meeting Dates: *3/2\, 3/28\, 4/25\, 5/23\, 6/27 (1 Wednesday & 4 Mondays).\n\n\n\nFee: $425 for the series of sessions \n\n\n\nFacilitators: \n\n\n\nSonja Saltman\, MFT is a co-founder of EHI and a long-time EHI Core Instructor. \n\n\n\nDoug Silberstein\, MFT is in private practice\, serves on EHI’s Board and is an EHI Affiliate Instructor. \n\n\n\nEnrollment: For info on enrollment\, engagement or inquire about a place in the Beginners Group please email Michelle through the Contact Us page. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/e-h-therapy-consult-group-for-newer-practitioners/ CATEGORIES:EHI Training ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Consult-Group-1920x-1080.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220212T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220212T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20220201T221400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T235342Z UID:7252-1644660000-1644670800@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended: Kirk Schneider's EDD at MIP DESCRIPTION:The Experiential Democracy Dialogue: Using Depth Psychology to Address Cultural and Political Divides\n\n\n\nInstructor: Kirk J. Schneider\, Ph.D Host: Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCourse Description and Overview:This workshop will provide skills for therapists who are challenged by the cultural and political stances of their clients and how those stances manifest and potentially affect the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Schneider will introduce the concept of the “polarized mind” (the fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view)\, which he developed based on extensive existential-depth and social-psychological research on the roots of human destructiveness. Emerging from concern about the destructive effects of intra-psychic and societal polarization\, along with a resultant deep interest in helping individuals and communities depolarize\, Dr. Schneider spent over fifteen years developing a one-on-one depolarization dialogue format called “Experiential Democracy Dialogue” (detailed in his book The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook for Social Healing). This approach is a hybrid of his experience as a leading figure in the existential-humanistic psychological and psychotherapeutic movements with his experience as a trained moderator for the nation-wide organization called “Braver Angels.” Braver Angels is a grass-roots citizens’ movement that uses a highly structured group (and individual) format to bring self-identified liberals and conservatives together for “living room” style dialogues. \n\n\n\nExperiential Democracy Dialogue\, as a one-on-one conflict mediation format\, provides a unique resource for clinicians struggling with the ways that socio-cultural and political differences show up in the therapeutic encounter. Techniques and principles from this approach can be utilized by therapists to more adaptively work with the aforementioned challenges as they arise in therapy by helping them develop skills to be more present to clients from highly contrasting backgrounds\, develop greater capacities to empathize with and find common ground with such clients\, and develop greater capacities to experience curiosity and enhance exploration with such clients who formerly elicited anguish or even revulsion. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, Dr. Schneider will outline five phases of Experiential Democracy Dialogue – Guided Visualization\, Providing Background\, Taking a Stance\, Identifying Stereotypes and Results/Discovery – and then demonstrate how to employ Experiential Democracy Dialogue in the therapeutic relationship. Participants will then be placed into dyads to role-play therapist-client\, with the “therapist” leading the pair through the five phases. Participants will then be able to reflect on and begin to integrate how utilizing Experiential Democracy Dialogue techniques and core concepts can help strengthen their therapeutic relationships with clients who hold strong cultural and political differences from them. \n\n\n\nDate/Time: Feb. 12\, 1pm-4pm EST; 10am-1pm PST \n\n\n\nLocation: Zoom \n\n\n\nCost: $90 and candidates $60 (Proof of Institute affiliation required.)  CE: 3 \n\n\n\nManhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department as an approved provider of continuing education for LCSW\, LMSW\, LCAT\, LMHC and Licensed Psychologists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKirk J. Schneider\, PhD\, is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is a cofounder and current president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (an award-winning psychotherapy training center)\, Council Member and Candidate for President of the American Psychological Association (APA)\, past president (2015-2016) of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32) of the APA\, recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2005-2012)\, a trained moderator for the conflict mediation group Braver Angels\, and an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and Teachers College\, Columbia University. Dr. Schneider is also an Honorary Member of the Society for Existential Analysis and the East European Association for Existential Therapy. His work on existential-integrative psychotherapy has been featured in a special issue of the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (March\, 2016) and is the inspiration for the psychotherapy training program of the Living Institute\, Toronto\, Canada. A Fellow of five Divisions of the APA\, Dr. Schneider has published over 200 articles\, interviews and chapters and has authored or edited 13 books including The Spirituality of Awe\, The Polarized Mind\, Awakening to Awe\, The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology\, Existential-Humanistic Therapy\, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy\, The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy\, and The Depolarizing of America:  A Guidebook for Social Healing. Dr. Schneider’s work has been featured in Scientific American\, the New York Times\, Psychology Today and many other health and psychology outlets. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-kirk-schneider-at-mip/ CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Manhattan-Inst-Psychoanalysis-logo-4.24.18.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220211T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220211T143000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20220201T182200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T222938Z UID:7257-1644584400-1644589800@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended: Feb EHNW Lunch n Learn DESCRIPTION:Buddhism and Existential-Humanistic Therapy: The Importance of Interconnection\n\n\n\n Presented by Chuck Craytor\, LPC Friday\, February 11th\, 2022 1:00pm – 2:30pm Pacific Time Zoom Webinar (logon instructions sent with registration confirmation) Free to all EHNW Affiliates$10 for Non-Affiliates  \n\n\n\nDescriptionWe live in a world of rapid change and an increasing sense of uncertainty. There is a deepening sense of isolation\, resulting in more and more people retreating into their small tribe and lesser self. In my talk\, we will explore the Buddhist teaching of Dependent Origination and its relationship with the Existential-Humanistic perspective. This talk will include research I conducted in graduate school while working in Moldova and how the EH perspective influences my work\, even before I knew what EH was.  BiographyFor over twenty-five years\, Chuck has worked in personal coaching\, workshop facilitation\, and leadership development. He has worked with private\, non-profit\, and governmental organizations. Chuck completed graduate school in clinical mental health counseling in 2012 and has been in private practice since then. His practice of Buddhism began while living in Japan from 1975-77\, and he has been practicing since then. Chuck has been pulled forward throughout his journey by committing to transforming adversity into opportunities to develop resiliency\, peace\, and harmonious connections with our natural environment and others. This commitment has provided the opportunity to work with people locally\, nationally\, and internationally as far away as Moldova. Please refer questions to Dave Fischer through the EHNW Contact Form.  URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-feb-ehnw-lunch-n-learn/ CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EHNW-logo-2021.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Northwest":MAILTO:https://www.ehnwpdx.org/contact-ehnw/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220122T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220122T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20211101T180604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T194454Z UID:6149-1642845600-1642856400@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Depolarizing Therapeutic Presence w/ Kirk Schneider\, PhD DESCRIPTION:Depolarizing Therapeutic Presence: Utilizing Concepts of the “Experiential Democracy Dialogue” to Help Therapists Reduce Polarization With Clients\n\n\n\nDeveloped and Facilitated by EHI Core Instructor: Kirk Schneider\, PhD\, EHI President \n\n\n\nDate: Saturday\, January 22\, 2021 \n\n\n\nTime: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific Time Zone /Sign in to waiting room at 9:45am  \n\n\n\nOnline: via Zoom and Zoom Breakout Rooms  \n\n\n\n3 CE hours available(live presentation participation)*. Fee: $18.50. Please contact us for more info regarding the course. \n\n\n\nRegistration Fee: Cost: $35 General/Professional; $20 Student/Elder: $10 Economic Hardship/Equity;No one will be turned away due to lack of funds—please reach out to Michelle via contact form at the bottom of page for assistance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Page\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is the final webinar in our Depolarization Series. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will provide skills for therapists who are challenged by the cultural and political stances of their clients and want to more effectively work through their own charged internal reactions that could adversely affect the therapeutic relationship. \n\n\n\nDr. Schneider will introduce the concept of the “polarized mind” (the fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view)\, which he developed based on extensive existential-depth and social-psychological research on the roots of human destructiveness. Emerging from concern about the destructive effects of intra-psychic and societal polarization\, along with a deep interest in helping individuals and communities depolarize\, Dr. Schneider spent over fifteen years developing a one-on-one depolarization dialogue format called the “Experiential Democracy Dialogue” (detailed in his book\, The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook for Social Healing). This approach is a hybrid of his experience as a leading figure in the existential-humanistic psychological and psychotherapeutic movements with his experience as a trained moderator for the nation-wide organization called “Braver Angels.” Braver Angels is a grass-roots citizens’ movement that uses a highly structured group (and individual) format to bring self-identified liberals and conservatives together for “living room” style dialogues. \n\n\n\nAs a conflict mediation approach that is informed by components of existential-humanistic psychotherapy\, the Experiential Democracy Dialogue is a unique resource for clinicians struggling with the ways that socio-cultural and political differences affect them in the therapeutic encounter. These struggles might even be more intense today than previously\, given the context of intense socio-political polarization\, potentially making it even harder for therapists to sit with difference with their clients. Though the actual format of the Experiential Democracy Dialogue is not in and of itself suitable to be used between therapist and client\, techniques and concepts from this approach can be utilized by therapists to more adaptively work with their own challenging and charged feelings as they arise in therapy\, mainly by helping them develop skills to be more present to clients from highly contrasting backgrounds\, develop greater capacities to empathize with and find common ground with such clients\, and develop greater capacities to experience curiosity and enhance exploration with such clients who formerly elicited anguish or even revulsion. The concept and practice of “presence” plays a central role in this process and will be emphasized by Dr. Schneider. \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, Dr. Schneider will outline five phases of the Experiential Democracy Dialogue – Guided Visualization\, Providing Background\, Taking a Stance\, Identifying Stereotypes and Results/Discovery – and then demonstrate how going through these phases can help therapists feel a greater openness toward and gain a greater understanding of their clients. Participants will then be placed into dyads to go through this process together. Participants will then be able to reflect on and begin to integrate how utilizing Experiential Democracy Dialogue techniques and core concepts can help strengthen their therapeutic relationships with clients who hold strong cultural and political differences from them. \n\n\n\nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \n\n\n\nParticipants will be able to: \n\n\n\nDefine the use of “presence” in the Experiential Democracy DialogueIdentify two (2) concepts of the Experiential Democracy Dialogue that they can use to depolarize in relationship to clients’ beliefsList two (2) ways that utilizing the Experiential Democracy Dialogue techniques can strengthen the therapeutic relationship\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Today!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*Continuing Education Info\n\n\n\n3 CEs Approved. Please contact us for more info regarding the course. or to request disability accommodations.  \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\nDownload the Workshop Flyer!\n\n\n\nDownload the Flyer and Share! URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/2022-kirk-schneider-workshop-on-depolarization/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Dep-Ther-Presence-Event-cover.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211210T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211210T143000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20211025T230556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T190649Z UID:5929-1639141200-1639146600@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended: Lunch and Learn w/ EHNW DESCRIPTION:Join Our Friends at EHNW in Portland for a Lunch and Learn! \nHumanistic Psychotherapy and the Art of Living\nFacilitator: Carol Swanson\, LCSW \nDate: Friday\, December 10\, 2021 \nTime: 1pm-2:30pm\, Pacific; Online by Zoom \nRegistration Fees: Free for EHNW Affiliate $10-Non-Affiliate \nPresentation Host: Existential Humanistic NorthWest (EHNW in Portland) \nWe live in a world of fragile things: fragile selves\, fragile psyches\, fragile bodies. Yet even with this uncertainty and fragility\, we are asked to approach our lives with tenacity\, grace and wisdom. As existential humanistic therapists we encounter the uncertainty and complexity in our clinical work everyday. We are asked to suffer alongside our clients\, and to help them increase their capacities for living\, and hopefully for a more creative life. An important capacity we need as therapists and we can lend to our clients is knowing that life’s unpredictability exceeds our capacity to control it\, that a degree of insecurity is an existential predicament and not a neurotic issue. In this presentation\, and conversation I want to put forward how we may never be successful in cultivating a unitary and internally consistent self. I pose the question: How do we develop the acceptance and tolerance for a degree of instability in our lives? \nBio: Carol Swanson has been in private practice in Portland\, OR for forty years. She co-founded the Portland Gestalt Therapy Training Institute and has trained therapists in the US\, Europe and Australia. Her current interest is studying philosophical resources for clinical work.\nShe has authored several articles published for Gestalt journals. When not in the Zoom room you can find her in the garden\, cycling\, hiking\, paddling her kayak or paddle board or camping.Existential-Humanistic Institute Northwest (EHNW). \nRegister With EHNW Here>> \nPlease Note: this event is not being hosted by EHI. Please contact EHNW about their events here: EHNW Contact Form. \nBrowse Additional Hosted Events From the EHNW Team Here>> URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-lunch-and-learn-w-ehnw/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EHNW-logo-2021.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211115T100000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20211103T001626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T191706Z UID:5956-1636963200-1636970400@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:New Existential-Humanistic Consult Group for Practitioners DESCRIPTION:Group Leaders: Sonja Saltman\, MFT\, EHI Core Instructor & Doug Silberstein\, LMFT\, EHI Instructor-in-Training\nSessions: This group meets for a total of 5 sessions. This specific group has sessions that are 2 hours in duration. (10 hours total).\n*Cost: $400.00\nScheduled Day/Time: Mondays: 8:00 am – 10:00 am Pacific Time via Zoom.\nDates:  Nov. 15th\, Dec. 13th\, & Jan. 10th\, Feb. 7th & Mar. 7th (5 sessions/2 hrs each). \nPlease reach out to our admin\, Michelle through the form below for inquiries. \nAre you interested in strengthening your understanding of an E-H approach to psychotherapy\, enriching your work with your clients and supporting your own personal and professional development? \nE-H therapists seek not only a deeper knowing of their clients\, but also cultivate deeper contact with their own historical context that shapes their sense of their being in the world. \nEHI’s consultation groups offer the opportunity to consult about your clinical work from an E-H perspective\, and to experientially work with the therapist’s own conscious and unconscious meanings that get stirred by particular clients. Experiential learning in the consult groups includes guided self-reflection and case conceptualization\, feedback from fellow group members\, role plays\, and theoretical reflections following the experiential work. \nOur Facilitators\nSonja Saltman\, MFT is a co-founder of EHI and a long-time EHI Core Instructor. She has been in private practice for 20 years in Las Vegas\, Nevada after training extensively in various humanistic modalities\, including Gestalt\, Existential\, Redecision Therapy\, Hypnotherapy\, Group Therapy and Imagery. Sonja was also co-founder of Therapy Institute\, an organization offering continuing education seminars in principles of the humanistic-existential tradition\, as well individual and group therapy. \nSonja\, together with her husband Michael\, a lawyer\, has founded The Saltman Center of Conflict Resolution at the Law School of University of Nevada\, Las Vegas; a center that combines both law and psychology to provide programs to students wishing to train in conflict negotiation. The Center has offered presentations and workshops in combination with other organizations such as Harvard Law School and the Woodrow Wilson Center to both students as well as the general public. In its existence it has placed 5th in ranking amongst national Conflict Resolution Centers at Law Schools due to its excellent programs and its outstanding academic and research leadership. \nIn addition to her work with EHI and the Saltman Center\, Sonja serves as the appointed Honorary Consul for Austria in Las Vegas\, Nevada. \nDoug Silberstein\, MFT has been in private practice in San Rafael and Santa Rosa\, CA\, for the past 11 years\, focusing on working with couples\, parents\, individuals struggling with depression and anxiety\, teen boys\, and individuals and families dealing with divorce. He provides depth psychotherapy\, integrating attachment-based and systems approaches with an existential-humanistic foundation for working with clients\, and facilitates support and psycho-educational parenting groups for dads and dads going through divorce. \nPrior to being in private practice\, he was a staff member at the counseling and social services agency\, FamilyWorks\, in San Rafael\, CA\, employed as a therapist\, Communications Coordinator and Program Coordinator. While at FamilyWorks\, he helped develop\, co-coordinate and co-facilitate the Back to Family program delivered to inmates at San Quentin State Prison as part of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood initiative. He also coordinated and facilitated a teen pregnancy prevention and life-skills after-school program for middle schoolers. \nDoug is a member of Arts Omega\, a peer training and support collective based on the Art of the Psychotherapist training groups developed and led by James Bugental\, and is Treasurer of the Board of Directors for EHI\, and is one of its Adjunct Instructors. \nAre you an interested therapist?\nReach out to us! URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/new-existential-humanistic-consult-group-for-practitioners/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Training ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Consult-Group-1920x-1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211106T120000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20211025T225349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T191803Z UID:5907-1636192800-1636200000@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended: EHNW Student Salon DESCRIPTION:Join Our Friends at EHNW in Portland for a Fall Student Salon! \nStudent Salon: I don’t know is the only thing I can know: Tolerating ambiguity and holding our theories lightly in therapy.\nHow do you know what you know? How certain are you of your knowledge\, your approach\, your treatment plan? If these questions unsettle\, hooray! Therapy unsettles us. Experienced and wise therapists are fallibilists\, recognizing that our understanding of anything or anyone is only a perspective within a horizon limited by our own experience. HOLD YOUR THEORY LIGHTLY. \nThis perspective keeps us flexible and open to multiple\, emerging and expanding horizons of meaning. This also means we live and work with uncertainty and NOT KNOWING in our clinical work. This salon will focus on how our clinical skepticism can increase our humanism in our work.\nFacilitators: Carol Swanson will be co-facilitating the conversation with Bob Edelstein. \nDate: Saturday\, November 6\, 2021 \nTime: 10am-12pm\, Pacific; Online by Zoom \nRegistration Fees: Free for EHNW Affiliate) $20-Professional & $15-Student \nPresentation Host: Existential Humanistic NorthWest (EHNW in Portland) \nRegister With EHNW Here>> \nPlease Note: this event is not being hosted by EHI. Please contact EHNW about their events here: EHNW Contact Form. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-ehnw-student-salon/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EHNW-logo-2021.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211010T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20200425T190231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T232344Z UID:882-1633881600-1634302800@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:2021 Experiential Training Retreat DESCRIPTION:Gain Hands-On Training in Existential-Humanistic Therapy Practices!\nJoin the 2021-2022 Existential-Humanistic therapy training cohort through either the Foundations Certificate Program or the Experiential Training Course Retreat Program! \nTaking applications and enrolling for 2021. \nThe hands-on training component for EHI’s programs has been updated. EHI now holds one longer training that combines the former two experiential trainings into one intensive residential retreat! \nThe next open experiential retreat for participants in both the Certificate and the Experiential Training programs will be held October 10th\, 2021 – Oct 15th\, 2021. \nStudents will receive the complete training previously experienced in our two retreats in one intensive retreat! Approximately forty-three training hours are scheduled in this updated Experiential Training. This update makes the training more effective and much less expensive for attendees. To ensure all our students get the best possible experiential training in Existential-Humanistic therapeutic practices the training cohorts are limited to 20 students max. \nEHI Programs That Feature the Updated Single Experiential Training\nCertificate in the Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Therapy\nFor students looking for grounding in E-H theory & practice. \nThe Foundations Certificate Program coursework provides students with an E-H Therapy foundational core by integrating both theory and practice into each course. New to EHI? Join this year long certificate program which is open to licensed professionals who seek to enhance their clinical skills and full or half-time students in a masters or doctoral psychology program. \nGain a Foundation in E-H Therapy Practice \nFoundations Certificate Program Info » \nExperiential Training CourseFor those interested only in the EHI Experientials.\nOpen to licensed mental health professionals and graduate students who would like to participate in EHI’s Experiential Training. Master E-H therapists and noted authors such as Kirk Schneider\, PhD and Orah Krug\, PhD. create intimate\, safe and collaborative training environments which emphasize hands-on learning of relational and experiential techniques. Participants learn how to enter their clients’ self constructed worlds\, using their own personal contexts to develop responsiveness to clients while also cultivating the “presence” that enables genuine encounters and real therapeutic change. Designed for attendance and participation at the retreat is the only commitment\, no additional course-work required. \nExperiential Training Retreat Program Info » \nWho Should Apply?\nParticipants who find this training effective include psychotherapists\, social workers\, counselors\, nurses\, creative and expressive arts therapists\, doctors\, psychiatric practitioners and psychologists.  Those who get the most out of the training are interested in adopting Existential-Humanistic therapeutic techniques in their practice. The programs welcome both Master’s and Doctorate students and residents of the above professions. \nWe have even had sociologists and documentary filmmakers join the training! \nEHI welcomes international students in all of our programs and does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race\, color\, religion (creed)\, gender\, gender expression\, age\, national origin (ancestry)\, disability\, marital status\, sexual orientation\, or military status\, in any of its activities or operations. \nIf you have questions about whether a program or training might be a fit for you please contact Michelle\, EHI admin assistant to start a conversation: program[at]ehinstitute.org or call 415-689-1475! \n \n Download the Application\n \nContinuing Education Info\nApproved for 33 CEs. Please contact us for more info regarding the course or to request disability accommodations.  \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. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/2021-experiential-training-applications-being-accepted-now/ LOCATION:Westerbeke Ranch\, Sonoma\, California CATEGORIES:EHI Training ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210924T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210926T170000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210424T155317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T223830Z UID:3277-1632470400-1632675600@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended Event—Four Masters\, Four Approaches: An Exploration of Existential Theory and Practice DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Our Partners Existential-Humanistic NorthWest \nEHNW is excited to announce that for the first time\, the four contemporary leaders of the four major existential psychotherapy schools of thought will come together and present their specific theories and approaches\, followed by a live demonstration of how they work with a volunteer.  The conference will conclude with a panel of all four presenters. \nOver the course of the three days\, participants will be able to experience the work of these four masters: \n\nEmmy van Deurzen\, PhD presents on Existential-Phenomenological Therapy\nErik Craig\, PhD presents on Daseinsanalysis\nAlfried Längle\, MD\, PhD presents on Logotherapy and Existential Analysis\nKirk Schneider\, PhD presents on Existential-Humanistic and Existential-Integrative Therapy\nSunday Panel of all four Masters moderated by Bob Edelstein\n\nTickets:  All tickets include the panel presentation and access to the panel video after the conference. You can select the full weekend ticket to attend all four individual presentations or buy a ticket to attend a single presentation. Following the event you will receive access to view recordings of the presentations that correspond to your ticket purchase (e.g.\, a full weekend ticket will have access to all four presentations\, whereas an individual ticket may only access that presentation and panel). \nPricing:  Tickets are divided between Professionals and Students. EHNW Affiliate members in either group are eligible for discounted pricing.  Become an Affiliate! \nEarly Registration Pricing:  Purchase your ticket prior to August 1st\, 2021 to receive an Early Registration Discount. \nCEUs: Up to 14 CEUs pending. \n\nRegistration URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-event-four-masters-four-approaches-an-exploration-of-existential-theory-and-practice/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/EHNW-Workshop-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210917T080500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210917T100500 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210824T190804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210827T232451Z UID:5337-1631865900-1631873100@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Existential-Humanistic Video Consultation Group Starting Sept 17th DESCRIPTION:Consultation Group Beginning in September!\nExperiential Learning With EHI Instructors\nCase Conceptualization\nPeer Feedback\nFacilitated by: Sonja Saltman\, MFT – EHI Core Instructor\, and Doug Silberstein\, MFT – EHI Affiliate Instructor \nAre you interested in strengthening your understanding of an E-H approach to psychotherapy\, enriching your work with your clients and supporting your own personal and professional development?  \nE-H therapists seek not only a deeper knowing of their clients\, but also cultivate deeper contact with their own historical context that shapes their sense of their being in the world. EHI’s consultation groups offer the opportunity to consult about your clinical work from an E-H perspective\, and to experientially work with the therapist’s own conscious and unconscious meanings that get stirred by particular clients.  \nExperiential learning in the consult groups includes guided self-reflection and case conceptualization\, feedback from fellow group members\, role plays\, and theoretical reflections following the experiential work.  \n \nJoin us for the next EHI group video consultation series!  \n \nDates: Sept 17th\,  Oct. 22nd\, Nov. 12th\, Dec. 10th\, & Jan. 14th\, 2022. \nWhen: Fridays 8:05 am -10:05 am Pacific Time via Zoom. \n \nSessions: This group meets for a total of 5 sessions. This specific group has sessions that are 2 hours in duration. (10 hours total). \nWho: This group is for licensed psychotherapists – or those nearing licensure – who have some prior training experience with EHI and are interested in gaining more in the context of case consultation and group feedback and support.  \n \nFee: $400 for the series.    \nOpenings: 2 places available in this ongoing group. \nRegistration: To inquire about a place in the group please reach out to Michelle\, our admin\, by form below or by phone at 415-689-1475 and she will connect you with the group leaders. \n \nOur Facilitators:   \nSonja Saltman\, MFT is a co-founder of EHI and a long-time EHI Core Instructor. She has been in private practice for 20 years in Las Vegas\, Nevada after training extensively in various humanistic modalities\, including Gestalt\, Existential\, Redecision Therapy\, Hypnotherapy\, Group Therapy and Imagery. Sonja was also co-founder of Therapy Institute\, an organization offering continuing education seminars in principles of the humanistic-existential tradition\, as well individual and group therapy.   \n \nSonja\, together with her husband Michael\, a lawyer\, has founded The Saltman Center of Conflict Resolution at the Law School of University of Nevada\, Las Vegas; a center that combines both law and psychology to provide programs to students wishing to train in conflict negotiation. The Center has offered presentations and workshops in combination with other organizations such as Harvard Law School and the Woodrow Wilson Center to both students as well as the general public. In its existence it has placed 9th in ranking amongst national Conflict Resolution Centers at Law Schools due to its excellent programs and its outstanding academic and research leadership.  \n \nIn addition to her work with EHI and the Saltman Center\, Sonja serves as the appointed Honorary Consul for Austria in Las Vegas\, Nevada.  \n  \nDoug Silberstein\, MFT has been in private practice in San Rafael and Santa Rosa\, CA\, for the past 11 years\, focusing on working with couples\, parents\, individuals struggling with depression and anxiety\, teen boys\, and individuals and families dealing with divorce. He provides depth psychotherapy\, integrating attachment-based and systems approaches with an existential-humanistic foundation for working with clients\, and facilitates support and psycho-educational parenting groups for dads and dads going through divorce.  \n \nPrior to being in private practice\, he was a staff member at the counseling and social services agency\, FamilyWorks\, in San Rafael\, CA\, employed as a therapist\, Communications Coordinator and Program Coordinator. While at FamilyWorks\, he helped develop\, co-coordinate and co-facilitate the Back to Family program delivered to inmates at San Quentin State Prison as part of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood initiative. He also a coordinated and facilitated a teen pregnancy prevention and life-skills after-school program for middle schoolers.  \n \nDoug is a member of Arts Omega\, a peer training and support collective based on the Art of the Psychotherapist training groups developed and led by James Bugental\, and is Treasurer of the Board of Directors for EHI\, and one of its Affiliate Instructors.   \n \nContact Us\nDo you have questions about EHI Consultation Groups?Are you interested in this consultation group? Please reach out to us! URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/existential-humanistic-video-consultation-group-start-sept-17th/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Training ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210714T173439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220130T235601Z UID:4528-1631354400-1631365200@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Working with Nonverbal Communication to Navigate Conflict DESCRIPTION:This Workshop is Canceled\nAugust 19th Update: Due to unforeseen circumstances this workshop has been canceled. We are looking forward to rescheduling this workshop in the future. When it gets rescheduled we will notify those who registered and our mailing list. Registrants will be refunded the fees paid. \nHosted by: Existential-Humanistic Institute \nDate/Time: To Be Announced \n3 CEs for live workshop attendance(pending approval)*. Fee: $18.50. For more information on CE offerings\, or to request disability accommodations\, please contact us at program@ehinstitute.org. \nCost: $35* General/Professional; $20 Student/Elder: $10 Economic Hardship \nJoin Our Mailing List to Get News About Upcoming Events\nSome of the best writers note that words\, according to Virginia Woolf\, often “miss the mark.” They can create misunderstandings\, inflame emotions\, and polarize groups of people. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone\, a phenomenologist and dancer\, advises us to go back to the “things themselves”: through detailed observation of the first language of all humans and sentient beings—movement—we can more accurately “read” other people and the world around us. \nIn this workshop\, we will look at nonverbal language as one that is authentic (“the body does not lie”). Observing the nonverbal gives shades and layers of meaning that are often obscured in solely verbal communication. In this workshop\, we will learn a simplified form of Labanotation- a movement notation system that uses existential dimensions of time\, weight\, space and flow to track the ongoing process of movement. It can also be used to track interpersonal movement as dialogue\, and even tune into the rhythms of speech. \nLearning to work with our clients with particular attention paid to their nonverbal language can help them develop a more authentic\, integrated experience of self and connect with others in more gratifying ways. Comprehending the existential dimensions of nonverbal communication can reveal whole new layers of meaning and contribute to deeper understanding and increased harmony in a troubled and conflicted world. \n \nOur Presenter:\nIlene Serlin\, PhD\, BC-DMTEHI Affiliate Instructor\nIlene Serlin is a licensed psychologist and registered dance/movement therapist in practice in San Francisco and Marin county. She is the past president of the San Francisco Psychological Association\, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association\, past-president of the Division of Humanistic Psychology. Ilene has taught at Saybrook University\, Lesley University\, UCLA\, the NY Gestalt Institute and the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She is the editor of Whole Person Healthcare (2007\, 3 vol.\, Praeger)\, over 100 chapters and articles on body\, art and psychotherapy\, and is on the editorial boards of PsycCritiques\, The American Journal of Dance Therapy\, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology\, Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research\, Policy and Practice\, Journal of Applied Arts and Health\, and The Humanistic Psychologist. Ilene studied Labanotation for 3 years at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute in NY with Irmgard Bartenieff\, student of Rudolf von Laban. Her research interests include existential and humanistic psychotherapy\, Buddhist and Jewish spiritual practices\, dance movement therapy and women’s issues. \nContinuing Education\n3 CEs Pending . Fee: $18.50 \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 \nMany licensing boards for LPCs\, LCSWs\, and LMFT’s accept CE credits from an APA Approved Provider for their continuing education requirements. Please check with your Board or your Board’s website to find out if they accept CEs from an APA Approved Provider like Society of Humanistic Psychology. \nCalifornia Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credit from APA Approved Providers! \nAre you from another state? Check with your Board to see if they accept continuing education credits from an APA Approved Provider. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/working-with-nonverbal-communication-to-navigate-conflict/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Working-with-nonverbal-comm-FB-event-cover-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T140000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210713T194844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210813T203113Z UID:4911-1629543600-1629554400@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended— RMHCPA Workshop: Critical Race Theory and Psychotherapy DESCRIPTION:Critical Race Theory and Psychotherapy Workshop\nDate:    August 21\, 2021 \nTime: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM MST (8:00-11:00 AM EST; 10:00 AM-1:00 PM CST; 11:00 AM-2:00 PM EST) \nCost:    $35 for professionals (CEs included); $25 for students (no CEs) \nPresenters: Lisa Xochitl Vallejos\, Nathaniel Granger\, Jr.\, & Louis Hoffman \nHost: Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychology Association \nContinuing Education: 3 CEs (pending approval) \nRegistration: https://rmhcpa.org/product/critical-race-theory-and-psychotherapy-workshop/ \nOverview \nCritical Race Theory (CRT) began in the legal field but over time has been applied in many different disciplines\, including psychology. Delgado and Stefancic (2017) briefly define the CRT movement as “a collection of activists engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race\, racism\, and power” (p. 3). Furthermore\, they note that CRT is not a unified movement and includes many variations and differing perspectives. CRT is unified by shared questions and concerns more than specific beliefs or dogma. However\, CRT theories are consistently concerned about the problem of race\, racism\, and power and how this impacts individuals\, institutions\, and society. Furthermore\, CRT purports that to understand racial disparities and other racial issues in the United States and around the world it is necessary to consider institutional racism\, systemic racism\, and issues of power. \nRecently\, CRT has come under increased scrutiny and criticism\, including arguments that CRT should be banned from being taught in schools\, universities\, and/or other settings. Many of these criticisms misrepresent CRT\, such as purporting that CRT maintains that some people are inherently inferior or racist. \nIn the first part of this workshop\, the presenters provide an overview of the primary themes of CRT. Next\, they consider criticism of CRT\, both popular and academic\, and provide some responses to these criticisms. In responding to the criticisms\, the presenters consider which are based upon false assumptions about CRT and which reflect valid criticisms. After considering the foundations and critiques of CRT\, the presenters address how CRT can be applied in clinical and training settings. \nCEs are included in the Professional Registration; there are no CEs included with the student discount. \nProfessional: 35.00 | Student: 25.00 \n  \nPlease Note: This workshop is being held by RMHCPA \, this is not an EHI event. Please contact RMHCPA through their website/registration page if you have questions regarding this offering. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-rmhcpa-workshop-critical-race-theory-and-psychotherapy/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CRT-Psychotherapy-RMHCPA-2021.png ORGANIZER;CN="RMHCPA":MAILTO:ce@rmhcpa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210806T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210808T170000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210720T200823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210812T215644Z UID:4878-1628236800-1628442000@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended Event: International Meaning Conference DESCRIPTION:11TH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL MEANING CONFERENCE 2021\n\n\nFROM VULNERABILITY TO\nRESILIENCE & WELLBEING DURING THE PANDEMIC:\nADVANCES IN EXISTENTIAL POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (PP 2.0)\nAugust 6-8\, 2021*\nVirtual Meaning Conference from INPM\n\nEHI’s Kirk Schneider is one of the Keynote Speakers! \n\n*Can’t make it on those days? Register online through the link below and we’ll send you the conference recordings\, accessible for a month! \nHost: International Network on Personal Meaning (INPM) \nRegistration on : https://www.meaning.ca/conferences-and-events/meaning-conference-2021/ \n\nINPM invite you to the 11th Biennial International Meaning Conference\, where you will learn from leading researchers\, practitioners\, and educators on how to rise to such challenges\, transcend pandemic fatigue\, and live a meaningful life. The International Meaning Conferences continue to be the only world congress on existential positive psychology\, embracing disciplines ranging from psychology\, philosophy\, and religion\, to management\, education\, and medicine. \nCome and learn the new science of flourishing through suffering. More specifically\, you will learn: How to find healing and hope in tragic times and how to transform vulnerabilities to resilience. \nGiven travel restrictions\, we are pleased to offer the conference virtually and reach more people globally. Mark August 6–8\, 2021\, on your calendars so that you do not miss this unique event. \nConfirmed keynote speakers thus far include Kristján Kristjánsson\, Darcia Narvaez\, Robert Emmons\, Todd Kashdan\, Scott Barry Kaufman\, Tim Lomas\, Robert Neimeyer\, Kirk Schneider\, Scott Churchill\, Blaine Fowers\, Farooq Naeem\, Christina Becker\, and Paul Wong. \nWe have chosen the conference theme\, because at a time when our vulnerability is laid bare by the external threats and our collective existential crisis\, we embrace it as an opportunity to explore and discover new pathways to resilience and wellbeing in trying times. Subthemes of the conference include the following: \n\nThe role of meaning in wellbeing.\nThe contributions of cultural differences and indigenous psychology to global wellbeing.\nThe need to confront human suffering as the foundation for wellbeing.\nThe role of responsibility in personal\, institutional\, and global wellbeing.\nThe transformation of shame\, guilt\, anxiety\, and other negative emotions as a means of achieving sustainable happiness.\nThe role of faith and spirituality in positive mental health.\nThe positive psychology of sickness\, death and dying.\nThe effect of interactions between positive and negative emotions on wellbeing.\nA dialectical mindset in avoiding radicalism and achieving a balance.\nHumility and servant leadership in resolving conflicts.\nMoral courage in the face of dangers and risks.\n\nThis is only a subset of the expanding domain of existential positive psychology (PP 2.0). All submissions are welcome in any areas related to the adaptive benefits of what is typically considered as detrimental to wellbeing. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-event-international-meaning-conference/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210421T001535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T225314Z UID:3844-1625911200-1625922000@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Radical Authenticity: Liberating the Everyday Divided Mind DESCRIPTION:Online Workshop w/ Ken Bradford\, PhD\nHosted by: Existential-Humanistic Institute \nDate/Time: Saturday\, July 10th 10am-1pm Pacific \nCE: Approved for 3 CE Hrs.  \nOverview & Description\nOverview and Description: The polarized mind that plays havoc politically and relationally is an extension of the everyday divided mind\, or divided self\, which gives rise to all manner of anxiety\, despair and confusion. All human conflict – outer as well as inner – arises from a singular root. Cut that root and its branches of physical tightness and psychic confusion\, leaves of relational discord and personal discontent\, and bitter fruit of feeling anxious\, depressed and irritable – perpetually wanting – dissolve. \nRadical Existential and Buddhist psychology recognize there is a basic – quite normal and innocent – split in human consciousness that divides perceived objects and others “out there” from a perceiving subject “in here.” This underlying bi-polar disorder of everyday consciousness is the object-subject split that dominates our mind by confusing projections for reality as it is. Pitting self against world\, us against them\, conscious reason against unconscious compulsion\, everyday mind oscillates between moments of self-infatuation and self-hatred. Everyday dualistic vision reifies the flux of experience to the extent we identify “me” as a being separate from being as such. The compulsive striving to defend and promote our self as a self-grounded entity severs us from the ground and innate well-being of undivided\, authentic presence. \nWhether or not political\, relational\, psychological or physical problems are solved\, it is possible to befriend impermanence – the flux of experience forever unresolved – in a way that is supple\, attuned\, creative and carefree. But only insofar as we are able to drop our ego-shields and dare genuine openness and radical freedom\, undivided in mind and untethered to our projections. \nOur Presenter\n \nKen Bradford\, PhD is a teacher\, author and contemplative yogin integrating Buddhist\, Dzogchen and Existential thought and practice. Formerly\, he maintained a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay area and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University and California Institute of Integral Studies. Publications include numerous peer-reviewed journal articles\, most recently on “Radical Authenticity” and “Existential-Contemplative Therapy”; and books\, The I of the Other: Mindfulness-Based Diagnosis & the Question of Sanity; and Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy\, Vol. 2 (with John Prendergast). \n  \n \n Register Today\n \nContinuing Education Info\n3 CEs Approved. CE Fee: $18.50. Please contact us for more info regarding the course. or to request disability accommodations.  \n3 CEs \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 \nFlyer for Workshop\n \n \nClick to Download the Flyer to Print & Share URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/radical-authenticity-liberating-the-everyday-divided-mind/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Radical-Authenticity-FB-event-cover.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T120000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210506T191121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210506T191215Z UID:3741-1621677600-1621684800@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended—EHNW May Salon: Exploring the Role of Psychedelics in Psychotherapy DESCRIPTION:EHNW Professional Salon \nNew Frontiers: Exploring the Role of Psychedelics in Psychotherapy \nFacilitated by Jacqueline Potter\, CSWA & Bob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT \nSaturday\, May 22nd\, 2021\n10am – 12:00pm PDT\nZoom Webinar (logon instructions sent with registration confirmation) \nFree to all EHNW Affiliates\n$20 for Professionals\n$15 for Students \nWe are in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance. The role of psychedelics and the ethics around their use in a therapy practice require careful consideration. Research shows that psychedelic therapy is extremely effective in working with a wide range of mental health conditions and existential issues. What does this mean for us as psychotherapists? Join us at our salon to explore these topics and more. We welcome professionals and students with all levels of knowledge and experience. \n  URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-ehnw-salon-exploring-psychedelics-psychotherapy/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210504T215337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210512T221928Z UID:3827-1621072800-1621083600@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended: Kristine Mann Library - Psychoanalytic Research Award Presentation DESCRIPTION:Encounters with the Liberal or Conservative Other: A Jungian Phenomenological Analysis of Individuation through Conflict\nOpen to the Interested Public!\nDescriptionCarly Larson Solome\, clinical psychology doctoral candidate at Fielding Graduate University and recipient of the Kristine Mann award for psychoanalytic research\, presents the results of a phenomenological investigation of Liberals and Conservatives in conversation. In-depth interviews with individuals who participated in depolarizing communication training revealed multi-dimensional aspects of tension and suffering experienced through dialogue with socio-politically different others. The study results give voice to lived first-person experiences of people who responded to the extreme U.S. political divide by engaging with interpersonal\, intrapersonal\, and transpersonal conflict. Research themes and images are presented in relation to alchemical symbols and Jungian interpretations of individuation processes.   An Invite to EHI’s Community from Presenter\, Carly Larson Solome \nHello Kirk and EHI-\nTwo years ago I received a grant from the Kristine Mann Psychoanalytic Library to study the experiences of people who attended Depolarizing workshops\, and participants came from both Braver Angels and EHI programs. I will be presenting the research on May 15th (via Zoom) 1:00PM EST. It is a three hour presentation\, and the last part will be a brief experiential exercise similar to what the research participants experienced. \nCarly Larson Solome\n\nWatch the Presentation via Zoom\nKristine Mann Library – Psychoanalytic Research Award Presentation \nMay 15\, 2021 \n10am-1pm Pacific Time /1:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) \n Zoom Meeting Link\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87596552488?pwd=VUkwL3dyM1IvN2xJL2NPelVreUZCdz09 \nMeeting ID: 875 9655 2488 \nPasscode: 093979 URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-presentation-kristine-mann-library-research-award-presentation/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Research-Award-May-15th-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210516T150000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20201217T013508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T000545Z UID:1848-1620993600-1621177200@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Core Skills in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy DESCRIPTION:This was held May 14-16\, 2021 and will be held again in the future!  \nAre you interested in this workshop?  Send us a note in the form below to let us know you would like to be contacted as soon as details available for the next one! \n Description \n An 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 \nIn this 15-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 \nTopics covered include: \n \n \n\nThe cultivation of presence as both the ground of therapy and one of its primary objectives\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\nThe differentiation between primary\, direct experience and secondary\, interpretive experience – and the emphasis on working with phenomenological experience\nThe meaning-making process and the formation of the Self-and-World Construct – helping client and therapist understand identity construction and de-construction\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\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\nIntegrating and embodying your theoretical beliefs and authentic sense of self in your work as a therapist\n\n \n \nWho is This Training For?\n \n \nThis training is for licensed/pre-licensed therapeutic professionals and students currently enrolled in Master’s or Doctorate programs in related fields. \n \n \nStudents\, psychologists\, MFTs\, social workers\, counselors\, psychiatrists\, nurse practitioners\, and doctors are all encouraged to attend! \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. \nSchedule and Fees\n \n \nDates: 2-1/2 Day Intensive Starts Friday\, May 14th – Sunday\, May 16th\, 2021 \n \n \nSchedule: Friday: 12 to 3pm PDT; Saturday the 15th & 16th: 8am to 3pm PDT (w/ 1-hour lunch break). \n \n \nOnline: This is a Live Workshop via Zoom Meeting w/ Zoom Breakout Rooms \n \n \n \nIn order to provide an intimate-enough experience (even on Zoom)\, the number of participants will be limited. \n \n \nFee Schedule: $659 Regular Licensed/Pre-Licensed Level or $609 Regular Elder/Student* Level  \n \n \n*Elder/Student Eligibility: Elder=65+ and Student=Currently enrolled in a therapeutic Master’s/PhD program. \n \n Continuing Education \n \n CE: 15 CEs approved. CE Fee: $65; Please contact us for more info regarding the course.  \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  APA Division 32\, Society of Humanistic Psychology (SHP)\, is a proud cosponsor of CE credits for EHI events and trainings whenever CE credits are offered. Find out more about SHP and consider becoming a member here. \n Interested in the Next Core Skills Workshop? URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/core-skills-in-existential-humanistic-psychotherapy/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/May-Coreskills-FB-event-cover-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T151500 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210404T171226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T180808Z UID:3256-1620636300-1620746100@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended Event— Resilience Symposium: The Awe Project DESCRIPTION:co-hosted by Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the New York City Police Department (NYPD). \nThe international Resilience Symposium: The Awe Project will take place from May 10-11\, 2021. It is being co-hosted by Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the New York City Police Department (NYPD). \nThis virtual event will bring together leading researchers in awe and how it relates to wellbeing\, mental health\, and resilience. \nExperiencing awe can certainly provide a “wow moment” but it is also much more than that. The extensive research has shown that by experiencing awe\, it can increase prosocial behavior\, patience\, social connectedness\, critical thinking\, positive mood and much more. \nExperiencing awe is associated with enhancing personal resilience and overall positive mental health. All of this is critical for first responders\, front-line workers\, teachers and many other professionals at being effective in their professional work while also with thriving in their personal lives.\nSee the schedule here \nThis 2-day event will explain the science of awe and attendees will learn ways to harness it in your daily life because importantly\, experiencing awe and its benefits are not limited to going to places like the Grand Canyon\, seeing the Eiffel Tower\, or visiting the Great Barrier Reef. \nThis is something we all deserve\, especially in this global climate as we continue to endure during COVID-19 and other hardships. \nSo\, embrace your curiosity and join us for this free\, two-day virtual event to learn more about the science of awe and importantly how you can start practicing it in your life and also how you organization or agency can incorporate it into trainings. \nJoin Us\nGet insight from leading researchers to learn about how awe can help the individuals and their organizations. Additionally\, get insight from first responder and front-line leaders on wellbeing and resilience related to awe. \nLearn more about recent and prominent awe research that can help enhance your wellbeing. \nFind out about cutting-edge and emerging practices to promote awe and the related benefits from experiencing it. \nBe part of this symposium and get information that you will be able to apply as a both a member of your organization and as an individual. \nHow much does it cost to attend?\nThe event is FREE. Yes\, there is no costs for attendees to participate. Due to the symposium taking place virtually\, and costs being absorbed\, we are happy to say there is no cost to attend. We want to make sure that a fee to attend this important symposium does not prevent anyone from attending. \nWho should attend?\nThis symposium is open to everyone. That said\, the primary audience for this symposium is first responders\, front-line workers and awe-related researchers but again – we welcome and encourage everyone to attend. \nFor first responders and front-line workers\, this includes both uniformed and civilian professionals\, executives as well as personnel of in all titles. Individuals will learn information they can apply to look after their own well-being while leadership attendees while be able to collect information on how to implement science-back practices that they can institute agency-wide. \nFor researchers\, regardless of where you in your career\, we hope the talks at this symposium will both inform you and inspire you to continue your important role in helping others enhance their mental health and improve their resilience an learn about awe. \nFor everyone else\, think about it for a second – if this awe information is relevant to first responders and front-line workers\, it most certainly is relevant to you too. Why? We are all people\, and we all face tough\, unexpected\, adverse situations in life. \nIf the information being shared in this symposium can be helpful to them\, it can also be helpful to you and anyone else across the world. \nEveryone deserves to have positive mental health and enhance their resilience and mental health. Let this symposium on awe inform you to look after yourself\, those you work with\, and those close to you. \nEHI’s Kirk Schneider to Present\nAwe: The Spirituality and Psychology\nMay 10\, 1:45 – 2:45 pm (EST/USA)\nThe Resurgence of Awe in Psychology\nKirk Schneider\, PhD \nMore information: \n\nThe Resurgence of Awe in Psychology: Promise\, Hope\, and Perils\nRediscovering Awe: A New Front in Humanistic Psychology\, Psychotherapy\, and Society \nAwakening to Awe-Based Psychology\nAwakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation\n(Video) Dr. Kirk Schneider – What is awe? URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-event-resilience-symposium-the-awe-project/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/the-awe-project.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T090000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210421T172215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210506T192801Z UID:3288-1620630000-1620637200@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended E-H Event—Practising Existential Therapy: Ernesto Spinelli DESCRIPTION:Practising Existential Therapy: An Introductory 3-Phase Overview workshop with Professor Ernesto Spinelli\nAbout this Event\nExistential therapy places pivotal significance upon the inter-relational aspects of human experience. From this perspective\, the presenting symptoms and disorders brought to therapy are disclosed as direct expressions and outcomes of the client’s overall ‘way of being’ rather than as isolated and disruptive impediments. How these responses impact upon\, maintain\, and disturb the client’s overall worldview is explored from a predominantly descriptively-attuned focus. \nAt the same time\, existential therapy places critical significance upon the actual ‘being with’ that emerges between therapist and client and argues that it is via the contrast and comparison of this lived experience that clients can find the means to reconsider and reconstruct their worldviews or life narratives. In general\, existential therapy challenges the emphasis typically placed on directed and directive change\, preconceived outcomes\, and professional detachment as set by the majority of contemporary psychotherapists. \nThe workshop is derived from Ernesto’s textbook Practising Existential Psychotherapy: The Relational World 2nd edition (Sage\, 2015). Its aim is to provide participants with the unique opportunity to develop their initial understanding of the practice of existential therapy as viewed from the perspective of 3 inter-related phases: \nPhase 1: The Existential Therapist as Idiot – Working with the client’s presenting worldview; \nPhase 2: The Existential Therapist as Fool – Working in ‘the between’; \nPhase 3: The Existential Therapist as Executioner – Endings: possibilities and disappointments. \nThis workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group. \nTo support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee. \nThe self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00\, however\, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training. \nProfessor Ernesto Spinelli\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. In 1999\, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of psychotherapy\, counselling and counselling psychology. In 2000\, he was the Recipient of 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 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). Living up to the existential dictum that life is absurd\, Ernesto is also the author of an on-going series of Private Eye novels\, the first two of which are Scorpio’s Children (2019) and Cruel Love Ways (2020). URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-eh-event-practising-existential-therapy-ernesto-spinelli/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210508T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210508T110000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210416T191226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210506T192529Z UID:3745-1620460800-1620471600@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended—Hosted by RMHCPA: People of the Rainbow DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling & Psychology Association \nPeople of the Rainbow: Working with and Understanding the LGBTQIA+ Community from a Humanistic Therapy Lens—Knowing the Essential Language \n\nFacilitated by Dan Johnson\, PsyD\, & Justin Walmsley\nMay 8th\, 2021\n8am – 11am PDT \n  \nThis workshop is designed to help clinicians working with LGBTQIA+ clients understand the current essential language and why it is important to use the appropriate language.  According to the Centers for Disease Control\, LGBTQIA+ people are members of every community\, diverse\, come from all walks of life\, and include people of all races and ethnicities\, all ages\, all socioeconomic status\, and come from all over the world. As the LGBTQIA+ community grows\, gains more prevalence\, and becomes more visible\, clinicians are seeing a natural increase in the number of clients who claim membership to this community\, as well as clients who present with LGBTQIA+ related issues and problems in session. \nThis workshop begins with exploring the importance of language as well as the language itself. It encompasses a wide range of everyday language practices utilized in and about LGBT communities as well as members within those communities. Language signifies a particular way of envisioning and verbalizing the world around us and this course takes a focused view both from the members of the community as well as outside the community. A meaningful understanding of LGBTQIA+ language\, terms\, background\, and context is a vital first step in providing respectful and inclusive mental healthcare. Becoming more adept and comfortable with this language will help clinicians be better equipped to provide LGBTQIA+ sensitive mental health services to a broader range of people. This course offers not only an understanding of definitions of language within the community but explores the concept of limiting language to define people as well as utilizing it as a tool by focusing on the etymology of key language\, and exploring ideas and concepts associated with the language commonly used both within and outside of the community. Using the appropriate language and using it correctly with clients can prevent unintentional harm and ruptures in the therapy relationship as well as helping develop trust and a good therapeutic alliance. \nContinuing Education Information  \nRMHCPA partners with Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology to offer CE programs. \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. \nDisability Accommodations \nFor disability accommodations and more information on the CE offering\, contact RMHCPA down below. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-hosted-by-rmhcpa-people-of-the-rainbow/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events ORGANIZER;CN="RMHCPA":MAILTO:ce@rmhcpa.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T133000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210404T192818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210506T194149Z UID:3753-1618660800-1618666200@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended E-H Event: The Polarized Mind and What We Can Do About It DESCRIPTION:Hosted by CPA Annual Convention 2021 -Virtual- \nWorkshop Presented by: Kirk Schneider\, PhD\, PSY \nThe polarized mind is the fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view and is one of the chief bases for personal and interpersonal destructiveness. Dr. Schneider will explain how this is one of the most pressing problems today\, and will discuss and demonstrate a conflict mediation approach aimed at depolarizing the polarized mind. This approach\, which is a synthesis of his work with the group process format of “Braver Angels USA” as well as the phenomenologically based “experiential democracy dialogue\,” has been shown to stem stereotyping and bolster human civility. \nAt the end of the presentation\, participants will be able to \n1.  Define the “polarized mind.” \n2. Describe two phases of the Experiential Democracy Dialogue. \n3. Apply two skills from the Experiential Democracy Dialogue to their clinical or counseling practices. \nPresenter\n\n\n\n\n\nKirk Schneider\, PhD\nAdjunct Faculty\, Saybrook University and Teachers College\, Columbia University\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKirk J. Schneider\, PhD\, is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is the current president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI)\, Council Member of the American Psychological Association (APA)\, past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology of the APA\, recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology\, and adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and Teachers College\, Columbia University. He has published over 200 articles\, interviews\, and chapters and has authored or edited 13 books including The Polarized Mind\, Existential-Humanistic Therapy\, The Spirituality of Awe: Challenges to the Robotic Revolution\, and Depolarizing of America.  \nDemonstration Partners \nPsychoanalyst Dr. Michael Donner\, PhD & Cognitive-Behaviorist Dr. Paul Marcille\, PhD \n  URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-e-h-event-the-polarized-mind-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210418T170000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210403T153604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T155053Z UID:3262-1618560000-1618765200@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended Event—CPA Conference DESCRIPTION:Building Bridges\, Community\, and Understanding in Psychology\nThere will be 8 Live\, Main Stage Sessions (3 on Friday\, 3 on Saturday\, and 2 on Sunday). Most sessions are 90 minutes in length and each offers 1.5 live CE credits. One session on Sunday is 60 minutes and offers 1 Live CE credit. Attend all 8 sessions and earn 11.5 CE credits. \nExplore the Agenda to see the sessions and speaker details. \nRecommended Sessions: \nThe Polarized Mind and What We Can Do About It\nKirk Schneider\, PhDSaturday\, April 17th 12pm -1:30pm w/ a Meet the Speaker 1:30pm to 2pm \nThe polarized mind is the fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view and is one of the chief bases for personal and interpersonal destructiveness. Dr. Schneider will explain how this is one of the most pressing problems today\, and will discuss and demonstrate a conflict mediation approach aimed at depolarizing the polarized mind. This approach\, which is a synthesis of his work with the group process format of “Braver Angels USA” as well as the phenomenologically based “experiential democracy dialogue\,” has been shown to stem stereotyping and bolster human civility. \nAt the end of the presentation\, participants will be able to \n1.  Define the “polarized mind.” \n2. Describe two phases of the Experiential Democracy Dialogue. \n3. Apply two skills from the Experiential Democracy Dialogue to their clinical or counseling practices. \nExistential Meaning-Making: The Heart of Therapeutic Change\nOrah Krug\, PhD w/ Stephanie Weissman\, PsyDSaturday\, April 17th 3pm to 4:30pm with a Meet the Speaker 4:30pm to 5pm \nRecent research has identified “contextual factors”—and not specific techniques or treatments—as overwhelmingly responsible for effective therapy in general. Several prominent researchers have suggested that existential meaning-making may be foundational for transformational healing and change.  Existential theory challenges the notion of a world made up objects\, and subjects who perceive those objects. Instead\, it argues that subjects actually participate in constituting their realities by making meanings from their experiences in the real world. Dr. Krug will explain how consciousness\, personal freedom and responsibility take root in this reflective process\, often resulting in the creation of new meanings and new ways of being with self\, others\, and the world. \nAt the end of the presentation\, participants will be able to: \n\nDefine and describe existential meaning-making.\nExplain how and why it is foundational to therapeutic change.\nApply the lessons from experiential exercises to using the meaning-making process in their work as clinicians\n\n  \nAlly or Accomplice? The Human Cost of Racism\nTheopia Jackson\, PhDSunday\, April 18 11:30am-1pm with a Meet the Speaker from 1pm-1:30pm \nThe murder of George Floyd shined a light on the persistent complexities of racism in America\, serving as a catalyst for change. The wisdom of youth teaches that many of us are now Woke! and with increased awareness comes increased responsibility. There has been an uptick of attention to what it means to be an ally or accomplice. What is the distinction?  To what end? Dr. Jackson will interrogate the human cost of racism as it relates to the actualization of becoming an ally or accomplice and the implications for the practice of psychology. \nAt the end of the presentation\, participants will be able to: \n\nDiscuss the difference between being an ally or accomplice and the implications for practice.\nDescribe and critique the human cost associated with becoming an ally or accomplice.\nArticulate at least three (3) suggested paradigm shifts for the field of psychology URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-event-cpa-conference/ LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210411T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210411T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210301T170036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T000448Z UID:2301-1618134300-1618146000@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dancing With Dragons: Helping Clients Depolarize DESCRIPTION:Workshop Via Zoom & Zoom Breakout Rooms\nCost: $35* General/Professional; $20 Student/Elder* We understand that COVID-19 has created economic stress for many\, so if you are experiencing economic hardship due to COVID-19\, the requested fee for webinars in this series is $10 (though no one will be turned away due to lack of funds-please contact Michelle for assistance at program[at]ehinstitute.org). \n3 CE hours for Live Presentation participation. Fee : $18.50. \n\nRegister Here\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n \nIn this workshop\, through didactic and experiential elements\, the presenters will explore the nature of the dragon dance as a call for healing\, and the development of polarized relational dynamics as a form of that dance that needs to be effectively addressed. Though\, obviously\, not all couples conflict is polarization\, dynamics of polarization often emerge in most comprehensive couples therapies\, so couples therapists need to understand polarization and how to help couples depolarize. Working effectively to defuse a polarized dynamic can open a territory of deeper vulnerability and sensitivity between partners\, and strengthen the collaborative dimension of relationship. \n Therapeutic Professionals Invited! \n Join us as Lou and Chris illustrate an approach to helping couples identify\, and work through their polarized dynamic. This workshop is intended to engage and enrich the work of therapeutic professionals who work in clinical settings. \n Overview \n This workshop is intended for clinicians who are interested in the dynamic\, challenging territory of couples therapy. Romantic relationships inherently hold the human dilemma that we cannot open to love without opening to where we have been wounded in love. We all have dragons. Their job is to protect the gold; in the most fundamental sense\, the continued existence of our essential self. Our dragons protect our wounded hearts. We might say dragons continue to breathe fire until the core wound they are protecting is recognized. In this way\, the dragon dance is a call for mutual healing. \n  \nSometimes this dance is one in which partners become polarized. Relational polarization is a specific type of conflict dynamic that frequently presents in couples therapy as an irreconcilable impasse: the endless argument that returns again and again but goes nowhere. Typically\, in this condition\, each partner is convinced they hold the correct view – and each partner’s dragon can become fiercer and more entrenched. In a polarized dynamic\, the emotional field between partners is dominated by a sense of life and death\, all or nothing\, no middle ground\, no room for compromise\, no one has my back – I am on my own. \nIn a polarized dynamic\, the gravitational pull from partners to take their side can be intense for the therapist. In the context of this pull\, it can be extremely helpful for the therapist to imagine that partners caught in this dynamic are representing opposing positions along a values continuum. Some common examples are: saving-spending\, work-play\, dependency-independence\, spontaneity-planning. In this way\, the task of the couples therapist is helping partners recognize that each of their positions holds value for the whole. \nIn this workshop\, the presenters will share an “origin story” of their struggle around the decision to have a child\, and will illustrate an approach to helping couples identify\, and work through their polarized dynamic. They will emphasize the need for couple partners to encounter and work collaboratively with each other’s core wounds in order to shift out of the dragon dance into one that is depolarized\, adaptive\, more secure and more gratifyingly intimate. \n Who is This Training For? \n This training is for licensed/pre-licensed therapeutic professionals as well as students currently enrolled in Master’s/Doctorate programs in related fields. \nStudents\, psychologists\, MFTs\, social workers\, counselors\, psychiatrists\, nurse practitioners\, and doctors are all encouraged to attend! \n Our Presenters \n Christine Armstrong\, LMFT EHI Affiliate Instructor \n Christine established her private practice in 1976. Her work focuses on depth psychotherapy and she combines an Existential-Humanistic approach with a psychodynamic perspective. She and her husband of 35 years\, Lou Dangles\, have been doing couples and group work together for the past 20 years. She has trained extensively with Dr. Jim Bugental and Dr. Irv Yalom. More recently her training has included Ariadne Beck’s “group-as-a-whole” model with Jim Fishman. She is currently in private practice in San Anselmo\, where she works with couples\, individuals\, and groups. \n Louis Dangles\, LMFT EHI Affiliate Instructor \n Louis established his private practice in 1976. His work focuses on depth psychotherapy and he combines an Existential-Humanistic approach with archetypal and psychodynamic perspectives. He has trained extensively with Dr. Jim Bugental and Dr. Irv Yalom. More recently his training has included Dr. Ariadne Beck’s “group- as-a-whole” model with Jim Fishman. He is currently in private practice in San Anselmo\, where he works with couples\, individuals\, and groups. \n *Continuing Education Info \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\nAccessibility: It is the policy of EHI to make every reasonable effort to provide attendees with disabilities with the opportunity to take full advantage of its programs. Please contact us ahead of time so we can work with you arrange programming to needs. Please contact our admin\, Michelle\, by email at program[at]ehinstitute.org or phone at 415.689.1475 to make arrangements.\nAPA Division 32\, Society of Humanistic Psychology(SHP)\, is a proud cosponsor of CE credits for EHI events and trainings whenever CE credits are offered. Find out more about SHP and consider becoming a member here. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/dancing-with-dragons-helping-clients-depolarize/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Dancing-w-Dragons-FB-event-cover.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210105T014135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T000824Z UID:1851-1613815200-1613826000@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Integrating the Self: Helping Clients Depolarize and Cultivate Self-compassion DESCRIPTION:Developed and Facilitated by Galia Schechter\, PsyD\, EHI Affiliate Instructor \nThis webinar is the seventh in EHI’s series of webinars on depolarization:Depolarizing Our Minds\, Our Hearts & Our Nation \nWhen: Saturday\, February 20th\, 2021; 10am-1pm\, Pacific Time \nWhere: Online via Zoom Meeting w/ Zoom Breakout Rooms \nCost: $35 General/Professional; $20 Student/Elder; Economic Hardship $10**We understand that COVID-19 has created economic stress for many\, so if you are experiencing economic hardship due to COVID-19\, the requested fee for webinars in this series is $10 (though no one will be turned away due to lack of funds-please contact Michelle for assistance at events@ehinstitute.org ). \nSeries Discount Available: Attend a workshop in this series and we will send you a code for $7.50 off your next series workshop registration. \n3 CEs for live presentation*: $18.50 \n  \nIntegrating the Self: Helping Clients Depolarize and Cultivate Self-compassion \nOne of the greatest human paradoxes manifests in the way our deep longings for love\, acceptance and belonging can actually lead us to suppress and contract against parts of our self that we feel might be “bad”\, “unwelcome” and “not O.K”. And yet it is the process of self-judgment and contraction that unintentionally contribute to unnecessary human suffering in the forms of loneliness\, existential emptiness and common alienation from self\, others and even our planetary home. \nPerhaps the greatest antidote and medicine to loneliness and alienation from self and others is the cultivation of deep experiences of self-compassion and awareness of common humanity. To authentically embody self-compassion is to awaken a direct knowing that our inner experiences\, no matter how uncomfortable\, scary\, embarrassing or “dark”\, relate to and reveal fundamental universal longings for love\, belonging and freedom. \nIn this workshop\, inspired by and based mainly on Process Experiential\, Phenomenology\, Humanistic-Existential and Mindfulness-based traditions\, participants will learn how to help clients move from polarized\, self-shaming and self-alienating states to states of self- and other-compassion. The benefits of these shifts include the emergence or deepening of authenticity\, vitality\, empathy\, generosity and intra-psychic integration. Tapping also into Gestalt\, Family Systems\, Emotion- Focused and mind-body inquiry practices we will explore the following themes: \n\nPrinciples of conscious healing\, including families of mindfulness practices\nNeo-Humanistic existential frameworks for understanding the ways we internalize a sense of the deficient self and contract against parts of the self\, including brief discussion of Internal Family Systems (IFS)\, Process-Experiential Emotion Focused and Buddhist psychological frameworks\nHow to identify and work with our own living processes of contraction and rejection of parts of self as a means to gain a deeper understanding of client processes\nHow to identify and work with living processes for making contact with our own deep basic goodness and capacity to accept and integrate self toward congruence and wholeness\nAwareness of collective resonance around basic vulnerability and basic existential longings that are at the heart of contracted and transforming self\n\n  \nOur Presenter: \nDr. Galia Schechter is a licensed clinical psychologist and Buddhist practitioner. She has extensive training and experience in multiple mind-body modalities. Along with having been in private practice for 11 years\, she has worked as a clinical director\, a clinical supervisor\, a clinical trainer and an organizational consultant. \nPrior to getting her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute and becoming a licensed psychologist\, she received an MBA from Georgetown University and worked for organizations in the U.S. and abroad in governance\, human rights and international development. \n*CE Information for the Workshop\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. \nAccessibility: It is the policy of EHI to make every reasonable effort to provide attendees with disabilities with the opportunity to take full advantage of its programs. Please contact us ahead of time so we can work with you arrange programming to needs. Please contact our Admin\, Michelle by via contact form or by phone at 415.689.1475 to make arrangements. \nWorkshop Cosponsors\nExistential-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. \nAPA Division 32\, Society of Humanistic Psychology (SHP)\, is a proud cosponsor of CE credits for EHI events and trainings whenever CE credits are offered. Find out more about SHP and consider becoming a member here. \n  URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/integrating-the-self-helping-clients-depolarize-and-cultivate-self-compassion/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201206T150000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20200516T000222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T001008Z UID:1298-1607252400-1607266800@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Working with the Cultural Outsider in Psychotherapy DESCRIPTION:Developed and Facilitated by Dennis Portnoy\, MFT \nTime: 10 am to 1pm: no lunch breakVia Zoom3 CE credits*. \n\n*APA 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*Accessibility: It is the policy of EHI to make every reasonable effort to provide attendees with disabilities with the opportunity to take full advantage of its programs. Please contact us ahead of time so we can work with you arrange programming to needs. Please contact our Admin\, Michelle at program[@]ehinstitute.org or call us at 415.689.1475 to make arrangements.\n\nSave the Date! URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/working-with-the-cultural-outsider-in-psychotherapy/ LOCATION:Heart Source Center\, 1600 Shattuck Avenue Suite 125\, Berkeley\, California\, 97409\, United States CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20200924T221704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T001324Z UID:3404-1605348000-1605358800@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:An Interplay of Wisdom\, Emotion\, and Reason in Depolarizing the Mind DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Utilizing Langerian Mindfulness in Working With Clients\nSaturday\, 11/14/2020\n10am-1pm Pacific Time; Check-in at 9:45am\nOnline workshop via Zoom & Zoom Breakout Rooms\n3 CEs \nWhile meditation-based mindfulness plays a significant role in espousing specific modes of mind that are prone to tranquility\, calmness\, and equanimity\, Langerian mindfulness develops a creative state of mind that is also flexibly tailored toward a peace-oriented mentality with potential features for a foundational change in one’s psychological being. \nMany mental health practitioners are aware of and utilize meditation-based mindfulness techniques in working with their clients. These techniques can help improve mental health and provide a number of health benefits in general. Fewer practitioners\, however\, are aware of and utilize a Langerian mindfulness approach when working with clients; and yet Langerian mindfulness can help increase psychological flexibility\, intentionality and well-being. \nIn this webinar\, Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi\, PhD\, will demonstrate and discuss Langerian mindfulness (developed almost 50 years ago by Dr. Ellen Langer)\, particularly as a way to increase empowerment through seeing and making conscious\, mindful choices. In increasing psychological flexibility and awareness of choice\, Langerian mindfulness can be an effective resource in depolarizing the polarized mind.  In fact\, research shows that an attitude of Langerian mindfulness\, with its positive impact on capacities for creativity and self-discovery\, cultivates and is associated with the depolarized mind; and that “mindlessness” – the state of narrowed awareness and responsiveness – correlates with the polarized mind. \nDr. Fatemi will also emphasize the roles of reason and emotion in the functioning of the mind and how mindlessness and mindfulness give rise to different modes of being with different implications for thoughts\, beliefs\, feelings\, emotions and behaviors. He will articulate ontological explanations of fear and anxiety\, detail how underlying fears and anxieties give rise to the polarized mind and highlight how increased capacity for conscious choice sits at the heart of existential approaches to increasing health and well-being. \nPsychotherapists are often dealing with the effects and influences of polarization on their clients\, whether in working with couples\, an individual locked in a rigid way of seeing things or with those suffering in the context of the deep division and antagonism that exists in our country today. Join us on November 14th as Dr. Fatemi provides training and education in how to find wisdom in the process of depolarizing the mind with the support of Langerian mindfulness. \n \n Registration URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/an-interplay-of-wisdom-emotion-and-reason-in-depolarizing-the-mind/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20210815T222441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220909T180432Z UID:3414-1601719200-1601730000@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:What Disturbs Me Most About You...is Me DESCRIPTION:Developed & Facilitated by: Nader Shabahangi\, PhD\, LMFT\, RCFE\nTime: 10am-1pm Pacific Time; Checkin 9:45am\n\nOnline workshop via Zoom utilizing Zoom Breakout Rooms\n\nHow do we learn to live in these times? How do we prioritize in our life during such a period of upheaval? Our world is undergoing so much change on a daily basis\, so many people on earth are suffering\, live in poverty\, are dying due to the effects of climate change\, of hunger\, of disease. Where do we turn for awareness so we can stop and think\, perhaps avert the calamity\, perhaps an extinction we are about to face? We need a different way of understanding ourselves. We need a different perception of how we can live together on this planet.\n\nTo find such a way\, we turn to those who have always been – at least until recently – the shepherds of human civilizations: our wise elders and thinkers. To stop the destructive path of polarization\, of us versus them\, we shift into a fundamentally different attitude to life and living. This attitude follows ancient wisdom that knows that everything is connected and united. This wisdom emphasizes that as we do to our outer nature\, we also do to our inner nature. It believes that if we do harm to what lives outside of us\, we also harm what lives inside of us.\n\nOld wisdom traditions\, and now also Quantum Theories\, point to the observer participating in the observed\, being the observed.What disturbs me about others who have a different perspective from me thus also points to something inside me – else I could not ‘see’ it. This fundamental shift in attitude looks at all that manifests as being part of a whole. We cannot discard certain parts of life thinking we do not desire them\, while we preference other parts as acceptable. We move beyond like and dislike\, we move beyond good and evil. With such a change in attitude\, we look differently at what disturbs\, irritates\, and angers us in others. Rather than thinking that the other is wrong\, we look at the other as teacher. As Carl Jung pointed out\, everything that irritates us can lead to a deeper self-understanding. The more we understand\, the more we become truly who we are. We are proposing that it is in accepting our disturbances and irritations\, we become whole. As whole beings\, we can create an opportunity to live in harmony with each other and with mother Earth.\n\nIn this webinar\, we will engage in concrete exercises that allow us to feel into the essence of the ‘other’s’ position and viewpoint. This will allow us to not only ’see’ the ‘other’ but also to deepen our own self-understanding. This way we can experience as much our unity as our differences. All is one; one is all. \n\n\nRegistration URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/what-disturbs-me-most-about-you-is-me/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T160000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20200601T195951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230107T010633Z UID:1792-1601024400-1601049600@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended Event: EHNW Webinar- Aging or Eldering w/ Nader Shabahangi DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE: EHNW WEBINAR!September 25\, 2020\nPresented by our Friends at Existential-Humanistic Institute Northwest\nAging or Eldering?\nA Powerful Shift to Understanding Human Life:Practical and therapeutic implications from an existential\, process-oriented lens.\nDeveloped and Led by EHI Vice President & Core Instructor: Dr. Nader Shabahangi PhD\, MFT \nDate: Saturday\, 09/25/2020 \nTime: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM \nCost: TBA; CEs pending \nMore details will follow soon at www.EHNWpdx.org \nExistential-Humanistic NorthWest(EHNW)EHNW is located in Portland\, Oregon and enlivens and enriches human experience through our commitment to being present with ourselves\, others\, society\, and the mystery of life. We serve the healing professions\, our clients\, and the public through dialogue\, education\, training\, and advocacy. \nPlease contact EHNW about their events here: EHNW Contact Form. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-event-ehnw-webinar-aging-or-eldering-w-nader-shabahangi/ CATEGORIES:Recommended Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200912T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200912T171500 DTSTAMP:20261106T081539 CREATED:20200319T003102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T001212Z UID:430-1599903900-1599930900@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:"Facilitating Experiential Democracy Dialogue" DESCRIPTION:Developed and Presented by Dr. Kirk Schneider!\nTime: 9:45 am to 5:15pm: lunch on our own 12:45-2:15pm \nFirst Unitarian Universalist Society\, San Francisco \n*APA 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*Accessibility: It is the policy of EHI to make every reasonable effort to provide attendees with disabilities with the opportunity to take full advantage of its programs. Please contact us ahead of time so we can work with you arrange programming to needs. Please contact our Admin\, Michelle at program[@]ehinstitute.org or call us at 415.689.1475 to make arrangements. \nSave the Date! \n \nRelated book to be released June 15th- now available for Pre-Order. \nThe Depolarizing of America \nUniversity Professors Press\, June 15\, 2020 \n“The book draws on my experience with humanistically oriented conflict mediation groups and provides practical\, structured formats for both laypeople and professionals to use in a variety of settings\, ” Kirk Schneider URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/facilitating-experiential-democracy-dialogue-workshop-dr-kirk-schneider-psy/ LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR