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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Save the Date! Integrating the Self Winter Workshop Feb 29, 2020

SAVE THE DATE! Feb 29th, 2020
The Existential-Humanistic Institute Presents:
Integrating the Self:

The Power of Presence and Community in Cultivating Self-compassion
A Day-Long Workshop Developed & Facilitated by:
Galia Schecter, PhD
Date: Saturday, Feb 29th, 2020
Time: 9:15 - 4:45; check-in at 9am; lunch 12:15 - 1:45pm (CE Sponsorship being sought for 6 CE hours)
Location: Heart Source, Berkeley, CA
Cost: $150.00 Early-bird/$175.00 regular fee;
Student and/or Elder: $130.00 Early-bird/$155.00 regular fee
Limited Spaces Available. Lunch not included.
Registration: To Open in Dec
Save the date to join Galia and EHI for this day of dynamic engagement. 

In 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:
  • Principles of conscious healing, including families of mindfulness practices
  • Neo-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
  • Explore and identify our own living processes of contraction and rejection of parts of self
  • Explore and identify living processes for making contact with our own deep basic goodness and capacity to accept and integrate self toward congruence and wholeness
  • Explore and identify collective resonance around basic vulnerability and basic existential longings at the heart of our contracted and transforming self.

Our Presenter: Galia Schecter, PhD

Dr. 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 nd organizational consultant.
Prior 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.