What if the most important moments in therapy are the ones that never make it into the notes?
In this Lunch and Learn, Justin invites attendees to slow down and rediscover the ethical and transformative power of everyday moments that matter. Together, participants will explore how existential love, understood not as emotion but as a way of being with, calls us into deeper responsibility, presence, and care.
How do you know you’re actually helping?
Facilitated by: Clare Knudsen, BS, and Sara J. Smith, MA, LMHCA
Hosted by: EHNW in Portland
In this EHNW salon designed for those old and new to the field, participants have a collective conversation about this and alternative understandings of what it means to actually “help” someone. Through an Existential-Humanistic framework, attendees will consider aspects of helping that expand on and diverge from the dominant managed care model.
Keynote Speaker: Kirk Schneider, PhD
Host: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW)
This day-long workshop will explore how anxiety is hitting the roof in our practices and world precisely because we so often fail to address the underlying or primal anxiety that fuels greater and more destructive anxiety. That which Kirk terms “life-enhancing anxiety,” is a level of anxiety that enables us to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence. Or to put it more concretely, it fosters our capacity to live more on the edge of wonder and discovery rather than terror and overwhelm.
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