Integrating the Self Workshop: Early Bird Registration Open

Early Bird Registration!
Join us Feb 29th for a Winter Workshop

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 (Sponsorship pending 6 CE* hours)

Location: Heart Source, Berkeley, CA

Cost: $150.00 Early-bird/$175.00 after CE Sponsorship Announced;
Student and/or Elder: $130.00 Early-bird/$155.00 after CE Sponsorship Announced
Please reach out to Michelle to receive a personal email when CE Sponsorship is secured: conf@ehinstitute.org.

A couple of scholarship tickets are available! Please reach out to Michelle for details: conf@ehinstitute.org.

Limited Spaces Available. Lunch not included.

Ticket Refund Policy: Full refund minus a $15 admin fee if withdrawn by January 29th; a 50% refund if withdrawn by Feb 15th. No refund available after Feb 15th, 2020.

Continuing Education*: Continuing Education sponsorship pending from Society of Humanistic Psychology of APA. This course will award 6 CE credit hours. CE fee will be separate. Attendees who would like request CE credit will be contacted with Course info and cost prior to workshop.

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Therapeutic Professionals Invited!

We invite you to join us as Dr Schechter works with us in exploring ways to guide clients in accepting and integrating the self toward congruence and wholeness! This workshop is intended to engage and enrich the work of therapeutic professionals.

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.

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Accessibility: It is the policy of EHI to make every reasonable effort to provide qualified attendees with disabilities with the opportunity to take full advantage of its programs and events. Contact us to discuss learning arrangements with our team. Email Michelle and Troy at conf@ehinstitute.org or call Michelle at 415-689-1475.

Break: 12:15pm - 1:45pm. Lunch is not included.

*Continuing Education Information

EHI is applying for continuing education sponsorship for this course from Society of Humanistic Psychology (SHP), APA DIV32.

APA Division 32, Society for Humanistic Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. APA Division 32, Society for Humanistic Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Disclosures:

The presenter for this workshop has declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or delivery of this workshop session.

Our Presenter: Galia Schechter, PsyD

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 an 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.

Our Co-Host: Heart Source

Heart Source is located in the heart of delightful Gourmet Ghetto neighborhood, at Cedar and Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California and is committed to love through truth, clarity, and community. Heart Source is surrounded by lots of great restaurants, cafes, shops, and quaint residential areas, and just a 10 minute walk from the Downtown Berkeley BART station or a 15 minute drive from the Bay Bridge/ 20 mins from the San Rafael – Richmond Bridge.

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Upcoming Existential Humanistic Workshop w/ Bob Edelstein, LMFT, MFT

Recommended Upcoming Workshops

Deepen Your Therapeutic Work Using an Existential-Humanistic Perspective

With Bob Edelstein,  LMFT, MFT

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

9-12pm and/or 1-4pm

In-Person Workshop Lewis and Clark College Thayer Room, Portland, Oregon 
Full day (am + pm -6 CEs) / Half-day (a.m. or p.m.– 3 CEs)  APA Approved Sponsor

This workshop is open to all levels of experience.

Attend In-Person or via Interactive Webinar: 

Live event will take place at Lewis and Clark College, Thayer Room, in Portland, Oregon, OR; interactive webinar can take place anywhere with an internet connection!

Full Day  In-Person at Lewis & Clark Workshop Registration >>
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Morning Session

Core Concepts of Existential-Humanistic Therapy; Exploring the Work of Bugental and Yalom.

9:00am – 12:00pm
Description: The Existential-Humanistic approach embraces all of what it means to exist. It values each unique, individual journey. Through this workshop, you will deepen your therapeutic work by increasing your ability to be with the lived experience of your clients and yourself within the therapeutic container. You will understand the purpose of resistance in Existential-Humanistic terms, and learn ways to effectively engage client resistances to facilitate growth and healing.
Learning objectives: Through lecture, discussion, experiential exercises, and demonstrations, participants will be able to:

• Describe the impact and influence of James Bugental, Ph.D. and Irvin Yalom, M.D. by specifying two major contributions they each added to the development of Existential-Humanistic psychotherapy.
• Describe and use the inward searching process to facilitate a client’s subjective deepening.
• Explain why clients resist deepening into their subjectivity and be able to apply three ways to effectively intervene with the client’s resistance.
• Describe and use a dialogue process to deepen the relationship between client and therapist.
• Explain why clients resist an authentic connection to the therapist and apply three ways to effectively intervene with the client’s resistance.

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Afternoon Session

Cultivating Presence: Being Fully There for Your Client

1:00pm – 4:00pm
Description
In Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy, a fully engaged presence is the key to guiding the therapist to make optimal therapeutic choices. Being present is the ability to be fully there for your client in the lived experience of the moment. We will explore two philosophical frames, two relationship attitudes, and two therapeutic skills that serve as a bridge for the therapist to develop a more fully engaged presence.
Learning objectives
Through lecture, discussion, experiential exercises, and demonstrations the participants will:

• Explain two values of Being with the client and demonstrate the difference between Being with the client and Doing with the client.
• Describe two purposes for Deep Listening and demonstrate the skill of Deep Listening.
• Explain two values of reflecting Process. Demonstrate the difference between reflecting process and reflecting Content.
• Describe and demonstrate three ways to cultivate a therapeutic I-Thou relationship.
• Compare and apply when Intention needs to be emphasized versus when Resistance needs to be emphasized in working with clients.
• Demonstrate two ways to be a Mirror to the client’s process.

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Bob Edelstein, LMFT, MFT, is an Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist with over forty years of experience. He provides consultation, supervision, workshops, and trainings for clinicians and students. He is a blogger for Psychology Today and has published articles on the existential-humanistic perspective, including a chapter entitled Frames, Attitudes, and Skills of an Existential Humanistic Psychotherapist in the Handbook of Humanistic Psychology 2nd Edition. Bob is the founder and current president of the Existential-Humanistic Northwest professional organization.

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Bob provides workshops for professionals, students and interns. If you would like more information on any of these workshops and/or if you would like to be added to the email list so that you are notified the next time a workshop is scheduled, please contact Bob.

New Dates Set for the Existential Humanistic Experiential Training for 2017-18 Cohorts

Curriculum Year Change: Update to The Existential-Humanistic Institute's Education & Training Programs

Announcing a New Single Combined Experiential Training Residential in April

EHI's 2017-2018 Programs now Feature a Single Experiential Training
Enrollment has Re-Opened for 2017/18 Cohorts 

The 2017-2018 training schedule for EHI's programs has been updated. This year EHI will hold one longer training that combines the two curriculum-year experiential trainings into one intensive residential retreat. This change came about because our Fall retreat was canceled due to the recently contained wildfires in Sonoma.

To ensure all our students get the best possible experiential training in Existential-Humanistic therapeutic practices EHI has created a new single combined training for our 2017-2018 programs. This will be held in April of 2018. Students will receive the complete training previously experienced in our two retreats in one intensive retreat. A total of forty-three training hours are scheduled in this updated Experiential Training.

EHI is able to re-open registration to a few more students due to the generosity of Westerbeke who is offering us some extra space for the April residential.

Please check out the links below for more information and contact Michelle, EHI Admin at  admin[at]ehinstitute.org if you have any questions about the changes. 

Current EHI Programs That Feature This New Single Experiential Training

Certificate in the Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Therapy
For students looking for grounding in E-H theory & practice.

The Foundations Certificate Program coursework provides students with an E-H Therapy foundational core by integrating both theory and practice into each course. New to EHI? Join this year long program which is open to licensed professionals who seek to enhance their clinical skills and full or half-time students in a masters or doctoral psychology program.

Gain a Foundation in E-H Therapy Practice

Foundations Certificate Program Info »

Experiential Training Retreat Program
For those interested in engaging in EHI Experientials.

Open to licensed mental health professionals and graduate students who would like to participate in EHI's Experiential Training. Master E-H therapists and noted authors such as Kirk Schneider, PhD and Orah Krug, PhD. create intimate, safe and collaborative training environments which emphasize hands-on learning of relational and experiential techniques. Participants learn how to enter their clients' self constructed worlds, using their own personal contexts to develop responsiveness to clients while also cultivating the "presence" that enables genuine encounters and real therapeutic change. Designed for attendance and participation at the retreat is the only commitment, no additional course-work required.

Experiential Training Retreat Program Info »

Who Should Apply to an EHI Program?

Students who find this training effective include psychotherapists, social workers, counselors, nurses, creative and expressive arts therapists, medical doctors, and psychologists. EHI welcomes international students in all of our programs.

EHI Now Enrolling for Experiential Focused Existential Humanistic Therapy Training Programs

Now Accepting Applications for EHI's 2017/18 Existential-Humanistic Training Programs

Orah Krug, Ph.D. EHI Clinical Director and Saybrook Faculty
Co-Author of Existential-Humanistic Therapyand Supervision Essentials for Existential-Humanistic Therapy.

EHI's 2017/18 teaching staff, Orah Krug, Kirk Schneider, Sonja Saltman, Nader Shabahangi, and Troy Piwowarski invite you to join one of our unprecedented Existential-Humanistic experiential training programs this upcoming 2017/2018 curriculum year.

EHI Faculty, all noted leaders in the field, emphasize the key ingredients of the E-H approach, including empathy, acceptance, and genuineness, to model how trainees can create safe, collaborative and life-changing therapeutic encounters. They demonstrate how the therapeutic relationship, in and of itself is a vehicle for healing and change and how therapeutic "presence" cultivates sensitivity and appropriate responsiveness to clients emotions, relational patterns and inner worlds.These two essential principles: building the therapeutic relationship and working in the "here and now" are the foundational blocks of E-H therapy and EHI training.

Do You Wish to Deepen Your E-H Therapeutic Practice?

EHI offers four experientially-focused training and certificate programs for licensed clinicians and graduate students in psychology or counseling programs.

Apply to an EHI Program Today »

Apply Now to a 2017-2018 Cohort Space is Limited to Maximize Student Engagement

EHI is currently accepting applications and enrolling students in the upcoming 2017/2018 Programs. The next programs start in Fall 2017. All programs are open to licensed professionals and students currently enrolled in or recently graduated from psychology or graduate schools. Experiential Retreat Program For those interested in engaging in EHI Experientials. Open to licensed mental health professionals and graduate students who would like to participate in EHI's two curriculum-year Experientials, held at a beautiful Northern California retreat center. Master E-H therapists and noted authors such as Kirk Schneider, PhD and Orah Krug, PhD. create intimate, safe and collaborative training environments which emphasize hands-on learning of relational and experiential techniques. Participants learn how to enter their clients' self constructed worlds, using their own personal contexts to develop responsiveness to clients while also cultivating the "presence" that enables genuine encounters and real therapeutic change.The first of the two 2017/2018 EHI Experientials is in October - Apply now to participate in the Experiential Retreat Program! Join the 2017/18 Experiential Retreat Cohort! Learn More About the Experiential Retreat Program  » At the experiential trainings, we can apply theories to cases, watch the work of our mentors and each other. By living together we experience an intimacy that creates an environment that reduces barriers and the ensuing connections foster a greater capacity for learning. The use of transparency within therapeutic boundaries has influenced the work I am doing with my clients. I am more relaxed in session and I believe there is more connection between us when I find a way to be more revealing yet remain therapeutic. ~ Gloria Saltzman, LMFT, EHI Foundations Certificate Student Consultation Program For those interested in engaging in EHI's In-Person Consult Groups. Open to licensed mental health professionals who would like to participate in a monthly two-hour consultation group held in Oakland, Ca and led by master E-H therapist and noted author Orah Krug, PhD, Troy Piwowarski, and at times other EHI faculty. These consultation groups mirror the experiential retreat training goals as they emphasize the relational and experiential principles of E-H practice--principles which have proven to be essential for lasting therapeutic healing and change. In an intimate and collaborative group setting, participants present cases, work with personal context and role-play clients, all effective methods to understand clients' (and therapists') subjective worlds and protective patterns. Join a 2017/18 Consult Group! Discover More About EHI's Consult Groups  » I think what I took away from the last Experiential course, having been to several already, was a new appreciation: the understanding that the client's (a human being's) process is a sacred thing which must be nurtured and not usurped or dictated. The trust that people can do their own work--in their own time. ~ Juanita Ratner, LPC, Ph.D. Student, EHI Advanced Certificate Student Certificate in the Foundations of E-H Therapy For students looking for grounding in E-H theory & practice. Open to mental health professionals and graduate students seeking to develop a foundational understanding of depth work through an existential-humanistic lens that emphasizes how to build a healing therapeutic relationship and how to work experientially in the "here and now." To be certified, participants need to complete two experiential trainings, an online survey course in E-H therapy supervised by EHI faculty, 10 hours of group consultation (live or by video conferencing), a practicum and a faculty evaluation. Gain a Foundation in E-H Therapy Practice Find Out More About the Foundations Certificate Program » I gained a deeper understanding of my own context and how that has directed and influenced so much of my existence. I have always had an understanding certainly that what is experienced in the early, formative years is paramount in shaping our belief systems and personality, but somehow I have never before been able to feel this in such a palpable way. ~ Ada Fitz-Gibbon, LMHC, EHI Advanced Certificate Student Sonja Saltman engages with students in triad group during the EHI Experiential in Spring 2015. Advanced Program Leading to a Certificate as an E-H Therapist For students who have completed the Foundations certificate program. Open to EHI participants who have completed the Foundations Certificate and wish to take their clinical practice to deeper levels of nuance and skill. The advanced program includes participation in several more experiential training retreats, several more E-H therapy related online courses, additional hours of group consultation, a practicum and faculty evaluation. Deepen Your E-H Practice and Get Certified as an E-H Therapist Learn More About the Advanced Program Today » The community interactions and the exploration of our own context in relation to how we practice. This retreat in particular was great at providing new learning experiences without eliciting 'there is a particular way to be'. ~ Brac Selph, Ph.D., EHI Foundations Certificate Student Experiential Dates for 2017/18  Students working in triads at the EHI Experiential at Westerbeke Ranch, Spring 2015 EHI 2017-18 Experiential Training Dates E-H Therapy in practice. EHI Experiential* I: Sun, October 22nd, 2017 - Thurs, October 26th, 2017 EHI Experiential* II: Sun, April 8th, 2018 - Thurs, April 12th, 2018 *Every EHI student participates in both of the in-person experiential residentials per curriculum year; one in the Fall and the second in the following Spring. The experiential retreats are held at the wonderful Westerbeke Ranch Retreat Center in Sonoma, just north of San Francisco. See more retreat photos here in the EHI gallery >> Troy Piwowarski, Clinical Coordinator w/ Orah Krug, Clinical Director Questions? We are here to answer them! Do you have questions about a program or about becoming an EHI student? Orah Krug, our Clinical Director, and Troy Piwowarski, Associate Faculty and EHI's Clinical Training Coordinator are available to give you more information and to answer your questions about the upcoming EHI programs. Contact either Orah or Troy by email: info[@]ehinstitute.org