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:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210821T140000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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:20261106T081859 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200806T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200808T170000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081859 CREATED:20200701T203013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200701T203013Z UID:1796-1596700800-1596906000@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended Event: APA Convention - Aug 6th\, 7th & 8th DESCRIPTION:  \nFor the first time\, the APA annual convention is coming to you. Join the APA online August 6-8 for: \n\nInspiring Main Stage events on the psychology of racism and hate\, human behavior and leadership in a time of crisis\, and the psychological toll of COVID-19\nDynamic keynote sessions from thought leaders like Jonathan Haidt\, Thema Bryant-Davis\, Ramani Durvasula\, and others\nAccess to the latest scientific research\nInformation on leading practices from across the field\nConnections and a global community\n\nAttendees will also receive 12 months of on-demand access to hundreds of APA 2020 Virtual sessions\, posters\, and discussions. You won’t need to worry about missing a great session because of a packed schedule! \nTickets/Digital Access: 15.00 – 75.00 \nContinuing Education: 45.00-65.00 \n\nREGISTER NOW  URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-event-apa-convention-aug-6th-7th-8th/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Recommended Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200725 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200726 DTSTAMP:20261106T081859 CREATED:20200621T194218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200701T195546Z UID:1787-1595635200-1595721599@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended Event: IMEC 2020 Virtual -Saturday\, July 25th DESCRIPTION:EHI Recommends this year’s International Meaning Conference\nFACING COVID-19 AND BEYOND\nUK Time Zone- All  Virtual!!\n\nJoin the largest international virtual conference on COVID-19 and beyond. A day of inspiring webinars from world-leading experts\, interactive workshops\, social connections\, networking\, & music!   \nA meaningful day in times of meaningless pandemics!\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered how many people live their lives. Many countries have been in strict lock-down\, people worry about their loved ones getting infected\, frontline workers are overburdened\, and the political landscape is changing. Uncertainty and worries are on the minds of many\, due to health disparities\, unemployment\, and financial uncertainty. Experts fear that this situation may not disappear soon\, as we have entered an era of pandemics\, fundamentally changing how we live. How can we live a meaningful and satisfying life in these circumstances? In this virtual conference we will  explore what the challenges are that we are facing in this era of pandemics\, and how we could cope with these challenges\, now and in the future. \nInspiring webinars from world-leading experts\, interactive workshops\, social connections & networking\, live music! \nThis is the third IMEC International Meaning Conference\, the first completely virtual conference. \nThis conference is being held in UK Time Zone. Videos of webinars will be available to ticket holders. \nProgramme Available Here \nCOST: £22.50-75.00  through July 11th; Discounted tickets available for unwaged/students visit site for details \nTickets Available on Eventbrite UK Here \n  \n  URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-event-imec-2020-virtual-saturday-july-25th/ CATEGORIES:Recommended Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081859 CREATED:20200605T105701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200701T195947Z UID:1789-1595070000-1595077200@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Recommended Event: EHNW Salon DESCRIPTION:Salon Webinar Hosted by Our Friends at EHNW:\nPoetry\, Lyrics\, and Prose Webinar\nFacilitated by: Dave Fischer\, PsyD. and Gemma Baumer\, graduate student \nDate: Saturday\, July 18\, 2020 \nTime: 11 AM – 1 PM; Pacific \nCost: $20 for General/Professional\n$15 for students\nNo Charge for EHNW Affiliates\nRegistration required \n*For the time being\, all EHNW activities will be held via webinar (Zoom) \nPoets\, lyricists\, and writers have creatively and beautifully expressed humanistic and existential themes with their words. We will be sharing some of our favorites\, with reflections. We invite the attendees who would like to do so to share a song\, a lyric\, a poem\, a line\, or a passage that has personal meaning. As a group we will listen\, reflect\, respond\, and hopefully be inspired. In salon fashion\, there will not be a presentation\, but rather a gathering to share thoughts with each other. Please come to share or to listen. \nIn salon fashion\, there will not be a presentation\, but rather a gathering to share thoughts with each other. Please come to share or to listen. \nGo to www.EHNWpdx.org for more information and registration. Once you are registered you will receive the Zoom meeting details. \nPlease refer questions to Dave Fischer at davefischerpsyd@gmail.com. \nTo participate and get the webinar log-in info\, you need to register for the event! \nRegister Here » \nPlease Note; this webinar is not being hosted by EHI- please contact the presenter or EHNW with questions about the event. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/recommended-event-ehnw-salon/ LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T130000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081859 CREATED:20200627T185717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T001303Z UID:1780-1594461600-1594472400@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Depolarizing of America for Ourselves and Our Clients DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: Kirk Schneider\, Ph.D. and Bob Edelstein\, LMFT \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is the first one in EHI’s new series of webinars on depolarization: \nDepolarizing Our Minds\, Our Hearts & Our Nation\nThis webinar will present mental health practitioners with a conflict mediation approach that can help them work with the sense of otherness both in themselves and with their clients. This webinar will be both didactic and experiential. \nWhen:  July 11\, 2020\, 10am – 1pm PST \nWhere:  Online Utilizing Zoom \nHow Much:  $27.50 \nIn the wake of the pandemic and recent racial\, political\, and economic upheaval in our country\, this approach addresses practitioners’ work and lives. Drawing from his new book The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook for Social Healing\, Kirk Schneider\, along with colleague Bob Edelstein\, will demonstrate this new conflict mediation approach–titled the “Experiential Democracy Dialogue.” We will also provide a space for dyads for audience members to try the skills on their own.  The Experiential Democracy Dialogue provides a supportive\, highly structured format that invites people from contrasting cultural and ideological backgrounds to learn about and understand each other\, rather than automatically being closed to each other’s point of view.  The upshot of the approach is that it can notably improve people’s capacities to humanize each other and to achieve common ground. For practitioners\, specifically\, it can enhance capabilities to be more present\, both within oneself and with one’s clients\, which is foundational to effective practice. The approach can also help practitioners to work with the divisiveness within themselves in regards to the polarized issues in society\, which in turn may help with their work with their clients. \nCompanion Book\nThe companion book that this training is based on is the newly published\, The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook for Social Healing. This book is not necessary to join the training! However it is recommended as a reference and context if you will be using the skills outlined in this workshop outside the workshop setting. \nWorkshop Format\nThis webinar is an online workshop that will be both didactic and experiential utilizing Zoom Meeting. The format will include all attendees being assigned to a dyad to work the approach with another attendee. \nThe workshop will start with a short presentation and a full demonstration of the 6 phases of this approach. Attendees will be able to Q&A the presenters prior to breaking off into their dyad breakout rooms. Due to the nature of Zoom and the limited time we will not be able to customize the dyads for the attendees; they will be random assignments. \nTechnology Recommendations & Limitations\nThis webinar utilizes Zoom meeting and will feature the use of Zoom Breakout Rooms. Attendees are responsible for ensuring the device they will use is adequate to access the workshop and for downloading Zoom app appropriate for their device. \nRequired: A stable wifi connection and a device that can access the internet connection. Audio & Video will need to be accessible to the Zoom app the device uses to join the Workshop. To participate in dyads attendee must be logged into a Zoom Desktop Client or Zoom app for Mobile – this is a Zoom requirement. [Attendee does not need to pay for a Zoom account – a free Zoom account will work.] Please note that attendees accessing the workshop via Chromebooks or Chrome OS will not be able to participate in the dyads in Breakout Rooms- this is a Zoom limitation. \nOur Presenters\n \nKirk J Schneider\, Phd \nKirk Schneider\, PhD\, is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic/integrative psychology. Dr. Schneider is a cofounder and current president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (an award-winning psychotherapy training center)\, Council Member of the American Psychological Association (APA)\, past president (2015-2016) of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32) of the APA\, and current candidate for president of the APA. He is also a moderator for Braver Angels and an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and Teachers College\, Columbia University. 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\, TheWiley 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. \n \nBob Edelstein\, LMFT \nBob Edelstein\, LMFT\, MFT\, is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist with over forty-five years of experience. He provides consultation\, supervision\, workshops\, and trainings for clinicians and students. He is a blogger for Psychology Today and has published articles on the existential-humanistic perspective\, including a chapter entitled “Frames\, Attitudes\, and Skills of an Existential Humanistic Psychotherapist” in the Handbook of Humanistic Psychology\, 2nd Edition. Bob is the founder and current president of the Existential-Humanistic Northwest professional organization. \nCo-sponsored by: Existential-Humanistic Institute & Existential-Humanistic Northwest Professional Organization\nExistential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) \nEHI offers trainings\, workshops and education in Existential-Humanistic approaches to psychotherapy. Formed in 1997 as a program under the auspices of the Pacific Institute\, a non-profit organization in San Francisco\, 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. \nExistential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) \nEHNW is here to impact the world through Existential-Humanistic values of authenticity\, integrity\, responsibility\, inclusion\, and awe. EHNW 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. EHNW offers workshops\, professional presentations\, and salons. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/depolarizing-of-america-for-ourselves-and-our-clients-a-webinar-for-therapists/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T164500 DTSTAMP:20261106T081859 CREATED:20191023T043841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T195006Z UID:84-1582966800-1582994700@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Integrating the Self Workshop DESCRIPTION:EHI Winter Workshop\nIntegrating the Self: The Power of Presence and Community in Cultivating Self-Compassion\nA Day-Long Workshop Developed & Facilitated by:Galia Schechter\, PhD \nContinuing Education: 6 CE credit hours* \nA couple of scholarship tickets are available! Please reach out to Michelle for details: conf@ehinstitute.org. \n \nTherapeutic Professionals Invited!\nWe invite you to join us as Dr Schechter works with us in exploring ways to guide clients in accepting and integrating the self toward congruence and wholeness! This workshop is intended to engage and enrich the work of therapeutic professionals. \nSave the date to join Galia and EHI for this day of dynamic engagement. \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 self-shaming and self-alienating states to states of self- and other-compassion. Tapping also into Gestalt\, Family Systems\, Emotion-Focused and mind-body inquiry practices we will utilize individual and group based psychological inquiry practices\, therapeutic explorations\, mindfulness practices\, reflections and discussions\, to 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;\nExplore and identify our own living processes of contraction and rejection of parts of self as a means of gaining a deeper understanding of client processes;\nExplore and identify living processes for making contact with our own deep basic goodness and capacity to accept and integrate self toward congruence and wholeness;\nExplore and identify collective resonance around basic vulnerability and basic existential longings at the heart of the contracted and transforming self.\n\nOverview\nOne of the greatest human paradoxes manifests in the way our deep longings for love\, acceptance and belonging coexist with our human capacity for self-judgment and self-alienation\, all too often perpetuated by powerful cultural conditions of worth. \nMoreover\, it is often our deep desire to belong and be accepted that leads us to suppress and contract against parts of our self we feel may 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. \nLearning Objectives\nParticipants will be able to: \n\nExplain at least one (1) framework for understanding the ways the deficient self-identity develops and affects capacity for self-compassion;\nDiscuss at least one (1) framework for understanding how mindfulness-based practices can awaken self-compassion\nIdentify two (2) ways in which self-compassion improves mental health outcomes;\nApply at least two (2) interventions to shift the relationship with parts of the self from contraction to acceptance;\nDemonstrate at least two (2) group-based inquiry practices that support both the awakening of self-compassion and awareness of common humanity.\n\nMore Workshop Info\n*Accessibility: It is the policy of EHI to make every reasonable effort to provide qualified attendees with disabilities with the opportunity to take full advantage of its programs and events. Contact us to discuss learning arrangements with our team. Email Michelle and Troy at conf@ehinstitute.org or call Michelle at 415-689-1475. \nContinuing Education Information \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. \nCA LMFT/LPCC/LCSWs can get continuing education credit too! California BBS accepts CE Credit from APA Approved Providers like Society of Humanistic Psychology. \nContinuing Education has a $35 CE fee. Attendees can request CE participation during registration or reach out to us at info@ehinstitute.org or call Michelle at 415-689-1475. *A full continuing education course description is available on request. \nOur Presenter: Galia Schechter\, PsyD\nDr. Schecter 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 10 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. \nOur Co-Host: Heart Source\nHeart Source is located in the heart of delightful Gourmet Ghetto neighborhood\, at Cedar and Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley\, California and is committed to love through truth\, clarity\, and community. Heart Source is surrounded by lots of great restaurants\, cafes\, shops\, and quaint residential areas\, and just a 10 minute walk from the Downtown Berkeley BART station or a 15 minute drive from the Bay Bridge/ 20 mins from the San Rafael – Richmond Bridge. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/integrating-the-self/ LOCATION:Heart Source Center\, 1600 Shattuck Avenue Suite 125\, Berkeley\, California\, 97409\, United States CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ehinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/integrating-self-email-600.png ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T173000 DTSTAMP:20261106T081859 CREATED:20190821T022905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T023015Z UID:1499-1575711000-1575739800@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:Envisioning Eldership Workshop DESCRIPTION:Embracing a Joyous View of Aging and Living – An Existential\, Process-Oriented Approach \nA Day-Long Workshop Developed & Facilitated by EHI Core Instructor:\nDr. Nader Shabahangi\, MFT\, RCFE \nDate: Saturday\, December 7th\, 2019 \nA day dynamic engagement with Nader Shabahangi\, PhD\, MFT\, RCFE! \nIntegrating existential-humanistic and process-oriented philosophy and methodology with the latest research in gerontology\, this workshop helped participants understand the concept and practice of eldership and invite them to reflect on their own beliefs about adulthood and aging. \nParticipants explored the possibilities for developing new identity constructions and frameworks for conceptualizing aging\, as well as meaning and purpose in old age. This new perspective can support not only psychotherapists but also any any person who is interested in more effectively working with elders and themselves. This approach and learning also contributes to the health and well-being of individuals and communities in general. \nMore than ever\, we crave a new definition of aging that borrows from the great thinkers\, artists\, philosophers and wisdom traditions throughout history. Blending existential\, process-oriented psychotherapeutic insights and centuries of philosophical wisdom with modern pragmatism learned from being a CEO of eldercare communities in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a quarter of a century\, this workshop seeks a thoughtful map on aging\, not a “To Do” list that illuminates yet another reason to fail. \nEldership isn’t a state\, but a process. It’s not something to be achieved\, but practiced in our own unique journey! \nTherapeutic Professionals and General Public Invited!\nThis workshop was intended to engage the general public and enrich the work of therapeutic professionals. We invited those interested in envisioning a new paradigm of eldership from an existential process-oriented approach and those who work with elders\, nurses\, care partners\, psychologists\, therapists\, social workers\, counselors\, all were welcome! \nAbstract:\nDrawing upon the philosophical roots\, literature\, and practices of humanistic psychology and philosophy\, as well as the latest research in gerontology\, this presentation will focus on the creation of positive frameworks of aging\, thereby supporting participants in improving therapeutic rapport with older adult clients\, in helping clients move towards a meaning-based understanding of the aging process and in understanding and utilizing principles of eldership in clinical practice. Participants will be invited to explore their personal identities\, reflecting on their own beliefs on aging\, adulthood and elderhood in order to develop new identity constructions as well as adaptive frameworks for conceptualizing aging\, meaning and purpose in old age. This new perspective can potentially nourish personal well-being\, enlarge the context of psychotherapy practice and contribute to the health of clients’ and clinicians’ inner and outer world. \nLearning objectives:\n\nAttendees will be able to list at least 3 reasons for the need to work therapeutically from an eldership perspective.\nAttendees will be able to explain at least 3 ways in which humanistic principles inform the concept of “eldership”.\nAttendees will be able to summarize the central concept of four-phase conflict resolution and how it is informed by an attitude of eldership.\nAttendees will be able to identify 3 ways in which eldership’s inherent focus on a sustainable way of living improves social and psychological health. URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/envisioning-eldership-workshop/ CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop ORGANIZER;CN="Existential-Humanistic Institute":MAILTO:program@ehinstitute.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181103T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181104T174500 DTSTAMP:20261106T081859 CREATED:20180821T023515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T024759Z UID:1506-1541237400-1541353500@ehinstitute.org SUMMARY:2018 Conference: From Sigmund Freud to Viktor Frankl to Alfried Längle: The Legacy of Vienna and the Search for Meaning DESCRIPTION:EHI Conference \nFrom Sigmund Freud to Viktor Frankl to Alfried Längle:\nThe Legacy of Vienna and the Search for Meaning \nFeaturing Honored Guest\nDr. Alfried Laengle of Vienna\nExistential-Humanistic Institute’s 10th E-H Conference \nSan Francisco on Nov 30th & Dec 1st\, 2018 \nTherapeutic Professionals\, Elders\, and Students Welcomed! \nHeld in central San Francisco\, Existential-Humanistic Institute’s (EHI) 10th Existential-Humanistic Conference featured renowned Existential Analyst Dr. Alfried Längle (Laengle) as Friday’s Keynote Speaker and presenter of the Saturday Workshop and Panels! \nThis 10th conference included dynamic\, interactive group discussion hosted by EHI’s Kirk Schneider\, Nader Shabahangi\, Sonja Saltman\, Orah Krug\, Troy Piwowarski\, Doug Silberstein with Special Guest Dr. Längle. \nFrom Sigmund Freud to Viktor Frankl to Alfried Längle:\nThe Legacy of Vienna and the Search for Meaning \nPresented in Partnership by: The Existential-Humanistic Institute & Pacific Institute \nDates: Friday Evening\, November 30th & Saturday\, December 1st\, 2018 \nLocation: First Unitarian Universalist Church and Center\, San Francisco\, CA \nExistential-Humanism exploration with those interested in existential-humanistic awareness: non-therapists and therapists alike! \nEvery conference EHI invites those who wish to delve into existential-humanism and integrated therapy; and of course we invite therapists\, mental health providers\, care-givers\, doctors\, nurses\, social workers\, and students who wish to learn more about existential-humanistic therapeutic practices for the modern integrated-therapy practictioner! \nSpecial Guest Alfried Laengle\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\n2 Days/4+ sessions/1 Social Hour!\nKeynote Speaker\, Workshop Presenter and Panel Participant \nEHI was excited to invite Dr. Alfried Laengle\, noted Psychotherapist\, Existential Analyst\, and Clinical Psychologist\, tol be our Keynote and workshop presenter at EHI’s 10th Conference. We were honored to have Dr. Längle join us for the full conference. \nDr. Alfried Laengle on Existential Analysis and “Meaning”\n-Excerpt from “Goals and Motivations in Existential Psychotherapy” by Alfried Laengle\, MD\, PhD\, 2015 \n“At its core\, Existential Analysis (Vienna) could be summarized as “bringing to realization the essence of the individual”. The essence of an individual can only be found within a mutual inner and outer dialogue. It is through a phenomenological openness towards the world\, through one’s encounter with others and towards oneself that a person discovers their unique “existential call” or their unique essence. This discovery enables a person to respond freely towards any given situation from their essential core. “Personal Existential Analysis” has been developed as a method to help a person discover their true essence in order to navigate difficult life situations or conditions of psychopathology.” \n“A central theme in Existential Analysis has always been the question of meaning in life. Recent phenomenological and empirical research on the structure of human existence has shown that there are three existential motivations that precede a fourth motivation concerned with finding meaning. The first fundamental existential motivation deals with the very fact of being in the world; I exist. The second motivation follows by asking: how do I respond to the fact that I have a life? The third asks how do I respond to the fact that I have an identity\, that I am an individual\, a self? The fourth motivation centres on a personal existential meaning\, (Frankl’s Logotherapy) as individuals fundamentally seek greater contexts and values for which they want to live.” \nAlfried Längle\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Dr. h.c.mult.\, and Professor of Psychotherapy was born in 1951 in Austria\, studied medicine and psychology and works in private practice in Vienna as psychotherapist. He worked in close collaboration with Viktor Frankl from 1983 to 1991. Dr. Längle is the founder of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna) and it’s psychotherapeutic training program. He is a noted lecturer at many universities in Europe and South America. Since 2004 he has served as a Professor of Applied Psychology (psychotherapy) at Moscow’s HSE-university and is a guest professor at Vienna’s Sigmund Freud university (since 2011). Dr. Längle has served as Vice President of the International Federation of Psychotherapy (IFP – 2002-2010) and President of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis\, Vienna until 2017. Dr. Längle has authored over 400 publications and is the recipient of six honorary professorships. \nFor more information about Dr. Alfried Längle (Laengle)\, please visit his website www.laengle.info. \nEHI 10th Existential-Humanistic Conference\nNov 30th & Dec 1st\, 2018 \nFrom Sigmund Freud to Viktor Frankl to Alfried Längle:\nThe Legacy of Vienna and the Search for Meaning \n2018 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE \nFriday Evening Keynote*: \nTo Live With Inner Consent – An Existential Analytical Approach to a Fulfilling Life\nAlfried Längle\, Vienna \nHuman beings strive for happiness. We all want to have a good life. But how can we reach this goal? Upon what does it depend to get fulfillment in life? – The good life depends upon much more from ourselves than we often think. In large part\, it depends upon really becoming ourselves. Only when we can make use of what we are essentially\, in the deep inner self\, and only if we can thus bring ourselves to the world\, “to existence\,” can we get back a feeling that all our endeavors are worth being lived. \nThe concept of “inner consent” is key to such existential access\, or the life well lived. It embraces our freedom as well as our relationship and feelings\, our perception of the world’s reality and possible development in the future including the meaning of existence. This feeling of inner consent reflects our basic capacity to deal with the world and ourselves. \nFurther\, it forms a matrix for motivation and practical guidance of life but also for the understanding and treatment of psychopathology. In short\, the question of inner consent forms the basis for the structural model of modern Existential Analytical Psychotherapy. \nCEs- Want to know about what you will be learning? Please email Michelle at Conf@ehinstitute.org for the full Workshop course description: including the outline\, learning objectives\, limitations and references. \nFriday\, 8pm-9pm Social Hour: Mingle\, Nosh and Network \nSaturday\, December 1st\n9:00AM – 5:30PM\nALFRIED LANGLE’S WORKSHOP & PANEL/Q&A FOLLOWING \nSaturday\, 10am – 1pm*: Expanding Humanistic Practice with Existential Analysis and Logotherapy\nAlfried Längle\, Vienna \nThis workshop focuses on building a bridge between the given humanistic understanding of treatment and the add-ons by Existential Analysis and Logotherapy. Furthermore\, it offers the opportunity to arrive at a closer view of four key existential themes. These four themes derive from a phenomenological understanding of human experience\, and form an inescapable life-challenge with which each person must confront. They are: the world\, being alive\, being a person\, and needing meaning. \nThe workshop focused on describing the application of these themes to psychotherapy and their implication for psychopathology. Thus\, it opens access to introspective uses of the existential themes and for experiments in everyday living. A demonstration of the approach was featured during the second half of the presentation. \n1pm-2:30pm LUNCH BREAK- On our own \n2:30pm-5:00 Audience Participation w/ Dr Laengle \nAttendees had the opportunity to engage with Dr. Laengle regarding the presentations\, and watch a demonstration with an attendee volunteer. \n5:00-5:30pm EHI’s Kirk Schneider with Alfried Laengle \nThe chief aim of Kirk and Alfried’s discussion was to elaborate on and sometimes challenge points of contrast and comparison between Dr. Laengle’s existential-analytic approach to psychotherapy and the existential-humanistic approach. Such elaboration and questioning is aimed at helping both board members and the audience to better understand Dr. Laengle’s approach and to consider the opportunities for bridge-building between his existential analytical and the existential-humanistic approach. \nDr Schneider and Dr Laengle discussed the relevance of Existential therapeutic models and Existential Humanistic therapy today for people in the world – how does it help the common person live a more ‘meaningful’ life\, so to speak? \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://ehinstitute.org/event/2018-conference-from-sigmund-freud-to-viktor-frankl-to-alfried-langle-the-legacy-of-vienna-and-the-search-for-meaning/ LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States CATEGORIES:EHI Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR