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.

Save the Date! December Workshop: Envisioning Eldership

SAVE THE DATE! Dec 7th, 2019
The Existential-Humanistic Institute Presents:
Envisioning Eldership

Embracing the Long View of Life and Living - An Existential, Process-Oriented Approach

A Day-Long Workshop Developed & Facilitated by EHI Core Instructor:
Dr. Nader Shabahangi, MFT, RCFE

Date: Saturday, Dec 7th, 2019

Time: Day-Long; Start/End TBA

Location: SF Bay Area – exact location TBD

Registration: To Open in October

Cost: $160.00 Early-bird/$175.00 regular fee;
Student and/or Elder: $140.00 Early-bird/$155.00 regular fee

Who For? We invite both lay persons and therapists alike to join us! Interested in an Existential-Humanistic approach to aging and eldership? Join us for this day long workshop where we explore Eldership using a Processwork Approach.

Limited Spaces Available

Save the date to join Nader and EHI for this day of dynamic engagement. 
This workshop outlines an attitude towards life that embraces our collected years of life experience and expresses a deep appreciation for its richness and complexity. An attitude that elevates us above the beleaguered worlds of "good and bad" and "likes and dislikes" to welcome our world and the people inside it just as we are. It introduces us to Eldership as a way of being and the practice of living life.
More 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.
Eldership isn't a state, but a process. It's not something to be achieved, but practiced. We don't educate others how to be elders, but instead open the space for their own unique journey.

Nader Shabahangi, PhD, RCFE

Nader R. Shabahangi, Ph.D., RCFE, received his doctorate from Stanford University and is a licensed psychotherapist. His multicultural background has made him an advocate for different marginalized groups of society throughout his adult life. In the 1980's he worked with abused children and teenagers and led anticipatory bereavement groups for Coming Home Hospice. In 1992 he founded the non-profit organization Pacific Institute with the purpose of training psychotherapists in a multicultural, humanistic approach to counseling and to provide affordable therapy services to the many diverse groups living in San Francisco.
In 1994, noticing the often inhumane treatment of the elderly living in institutions, he started to develop an innovative Gerontological Wellness Program in order to provide emotional support and mental health care services for the elderly. In 1997, together with his two brothers, Nader opened a residential care home for the elderly in San Francisco called Hayes Valley Care, where he could, along with the Pacific Institute Internship team, implement the Gerontological Wellness Program.