DIV32 Conference- The Society for Humanistic Psychology's 11th Annual

Liberation through Wisdom and Love: Humanistic Psychology, Social Justice, and Contemplative Practice
Naropa University, Boulder CO
March 22-25, 2018

11th Annual Conference for the Society for Humanistic Psychology 

Dr Kirk Schneider, EHI's President and Faculty Member, will be at the conference and has a session on Sunday at 10am with Jim Hernandez. The two will discuss the role of awe in their respective paths. Included will be a demonstration and dialogue with the audience.

Sunday 10:00-12:00 (9235)

Awakening Awe in Violent and Troubled Youth: A Conversation between Kirk Schneider and Jim Hernandez

Dr Kirk Schneider, EHI's President and Faculty Member, will be at the conference and has a session on Sunday at 10am with Jim Hernandez. The two will discuss the role of awe in their respective paths. Included will be a demonstration and dialogue with the audience.

Description: 
This conversation hour comprises a dialogue between Kirk Schneider and Jim Hernandez about the role of awe—humility and wonder, sense of adventure toward living— in the support and healing of violent and troubled youths. Jim Hernandez, whom Kirk Schneider interviewed for his book “Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation” will discuss the role of awe on his own path from gang leader to youth advocate and mediator and Kirk Schneider will discuss his personal path to awe and the role it plays in his current work with polarizing personalities. Demonstrations and group exercises will be offered in addition to ample time for dialogue with the audience.

Kirk Schneider, Ph.D. is a leading voice in existential-humanistic psychology, past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University. president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute and author of 12 books, including his most recent “The Polarized Mind: Why It’s Killing Us and What We Can Do About It” and “The Spirituality of Awe: Challenges to the Robotic Revolution." Kirk is also in process of applying the “Experiential Democracy Dialogue,” which has been featured at the last couple SHP conferences and is planned as a series at Saybrook University.

Jim Hernandez is a California native and has been an outreach worker for 30 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a crisis counselor he has worked for Law Enforcement, School Districts, Trauma Units and Mental Health Agencies assisting individuals, families and communities in crisis. Jim received mentoring and training in Existential philosophy and counseling through consultation with Dr. Rollo May and Kirk J. Schneider Phd. His approach with turning Existential insight into effective methods to reduce and stop gang violence earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

Visit the 2018 SHP Conference page at Naropa University for more information about this year's scheduled programming.

Interested in Humanistic Psychology?

Find out more about The Society for Humanistic Psychology, DIV32 of the APA, on their website here.

E-H Institute Proudly Welcomes: E. Mark Stern, PhD as Opening Keynote Speaker for EHI:7

Dr. Stern's Keynote Presentation

"Grow Old Along With Me: Psychotherapist Looks at His Own Aging"

"Elders, defying their forgetfulness, become the tellers of passionate tales… Alternative realities are a means to soul making." Dr. Stern states that he has come to appreciate the unique poetics of a tousled mind and that pain and suffering, too, can move us into an unfamiliar paradigm. He states that "through an acceptance of the vitality of dying, we once again know the world."

EHI is excited to have Dr. Stern present the opening keynote at this year's upcoming EHI Conference on November 15/16, 2013. The EHI Conference is two days of speakers and sessions held at EHI/AgeSong on Laguna Street in San Francisco.

Speakers and sessions are being highlighted here on our blog. Read more about the EHI7 sessions here.

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Dr. E. Mark Stern earned his EdD from Columbia University in 1955 and completed post-doctoral work at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London and thereafter worked at The Maudsley Hospital from 1955-1956. In 1962, Mark earned a certificate in psychoanalysis from the Training Institute of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis in New York City and has been in private practice since 1956. Additionally, Dr. Stern was chief psychologist of the New York Clinic for Mental Health from 1960-1964, as well as a consultant in psychology for The George W. Henry Foundation from 1956-1962.
From 1964-the present, Mark has served as assistant, full professor, and now professor emeritus of the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Iona College, New Rochelle, New York and formerly adjunct professor of psychology at Seton Hall University and Fordham University. He was also a member of the teaching faculty for the American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis as well as the Training Institute for Mental Health Practitioners, both in New York, and in 1994 was a visiting professor of psychology at the Catholic University of Australia. Dr. Stern served as editor of The Journal of Pastoral Counseling from 1967-1976, of VOICES: The Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists from 1976-1988, and was the founding editor of The Psychotherapy Patient Monograph Series from 1988-2003. Mark has concentrated most of his authorship to books, chapters, articles and projects in the sometimes convergence of religious belief and what is central to the practice of psychotherapy.
Dr. Stern has served American Psychological Association(APA)in leadership positions as president of Division 36, (Psychology of Religion) and 32 (Humanistic Psychology). Additionally, he served four terms on the APA Council of Representatives and was a member of the Fellows Chair Committee for Division 32. Mark is currently a fellow of APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology), 29 (Psychotherapy and Substance Abuse), 32 (Humanistic Psychology), 36 (Psychology of Religion), and 52 (International Psychology); a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science; and a diplomat in clinical psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is also a member of the Dutchess County (NY) Mental Hygiene Board, a trustee of the Stanford Free Library, and the finance chair of the Dutchess County Democratic Committee.

Orah Krug: Lessons From an Existential-Humanistic Training Program

Orah Krug Presents a Talk at DIV32 About Directing the Certificate Programs in Existential Humanistic Practice at the Existential-Humanistic Institute

Orah Krug presents "Lessons From an Existential-Humanistic Training Program"  during the DIV32 Conference of the American Psychological Association held February 28 to March 3, 2013, about directing the Certificate Program in Existential-Humanistic Therapy, the history of the program and lessons learned along the way that inform the current focus of the program. Hear student voices about their experiences in the program and how the students' experiences and feedback have contributed to growth of the program.

The Renewal of Humanism: Lessons from an Existential-Humanistic Training Program - PDF 
Orah Krug, DIV32 6th Annual APA Conference: Spring, 2013

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Orah T. Krug, Ph.D., is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice in Oakland, and Sausalito, CA. She is a faculty member of Saybrook University, an editor for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and the clinical training director of the Existential-Humanistic Institute of San Francisco. EHI has two certificate programs, one in partnership with Saybrook University that offers a Certificate in the Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Practice. (Information about the certificate programs is at: Certificate in the Foundations of E-H Practice.) Most recently, Dr. Krug co-authored a textbook with Dr. Kirk Schneider entitled, Existential-Humanistic Therapy, part of a monograph series for the American Psychological Association. She has produced two videos entitled, Conversations with Jim and "Joe" A Demonstration of the Consultation Process, with James Bugental. Her current research focuses on the relationship between existential meaning-making processes and therapeutic change.