Early Bird Registration for Fall 2019 E-H Workshop: Dancing with Dragons

Registration Now Open Early-Bird Options Until Aug 30th!  The Existential-Humanistic Institute Presents: Dancing with Dragons Working with Couples' Core Wounds & the Tempering of Relationship - An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Couples Therapy Developed & Facilitated by EHI Affiliate Instructors: Christine Armstrong, MFT & Louis Dangles, MFT Date: Saturday, October 5, 2019 Time: 9:15am – 4:45pm Location: Heart Source Center at 1600 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 125, Berkeley, CA 94702  Cost: Regular Fee $160.00 Early-bird/$175.00 after Aug 30th Student and/or Elder: $140.00 Early-bird/$155.00 after August 30th 22 tickets are available for this workshop. Ticket Refund Policy: Full refund minus a $15 admin fee if withdrawn by September 4th; a 50% refund if withdrawn by September 20th. No refund available after September 20th, 2019. Continuing Education: The fees above do not include cost for CEs. We have applied for CE sponsorship. We will send attendees a follow-up email about CEs closer to the date of the workshop. Get Early-Bird Savings Until August 30th! Register Here! » Engage with Christine & Louis, EHI, and existential therapists at this experiential E-H workshop for day of dynamic engagement.  This workshop is intended for clinicians who are interested in the dynamic, challenging territory of couples' therapy. Along with helping clinicians more effectively navigate that territory, the workshop will also offer insights into our own journeys of intimacy. We begin with 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. We will explore the following themes utilizing didactic elements and case material reinforced by experiential exercises and demonstrations: The necessity that intimate partners must encounter each other's core wounds. The inevitability of the experience of betrayal and the archetypal relationship between, trust, betrayal, and forgiveness. Collaborative approaches to the essential task of repair. Intimacy as a container for deep healing and ground for individuation. The morning sessions will focus on the relationship between core wounds and the dragons that guard them. Then we will examine examples of the dynamic dance that evolves between partners. The afternoon sessions will focus on the dynamics of trust, betrayal, and forgiveness. Themes will include the five dangers of betrayal and the four tasks of repair. We will offer reflections on the role of responsibility, accountability, and sovereignty in forging intimacy.

Christine Armstrong, MFT & Louis Dangles, MFT Christine Armstrong, MFT (CA Lic #7529) 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. Louis Dangles, MFT (CA Lic #8207) 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. Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) EHI 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. Find out more about our 2020 Spring Experiential Training Retreat and 2020 Certificate Programs! Please visit www.ehinstitute.org Join Us on October 5th! Early Bird Registration Here »