Inspired by Saybrook's James Bugental, the not-for-profit Existential-Humanistic Institute has been offering training to Bay Area students for 8 years. The institute is located in San Francisco and utilizes some of the foremost existential therapy instructors in the country. These seasoned instructors have trained extensively with such masters as Rollo May, James Bugental, and Irvin Yalom. The institute also supports the work of humanistic therapists such as Carl Rogers,

The Existential Humanistic Institute is offering a Post-graduate consultation group in the San Francisco Bay area. The group is limited to eight licensed and license eligible Masters and/or Ph.D. psychotherapists. Consultation will focus on cases that illustrate the existential-humanistic orientation to therapeutic practice. This group is an opportunity to explore how all therapeutic orientations are enhanced by incorporating existential and humanistic perspectives.

Existential Humanistic Institute Learning Communities

San Francisco - Navado, CA Please contact Candice Hershman.

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Existential Humanistic Institute Annual Conference

2007

Workshop Sessions:
Memories of our Mentors:  Bugental, May, and Yalom.
Students of James Bugental, Rollo May, and Irvin Yalom discuss the impact of these mentors on their lives and work.
Orah Krug, Kirk Schneider, Stephen Curtin

May and Schneider’s Existential-Integrative Therapy: Latest Developments.
One of the authors of this model of therapy and discusses it evolution and his vision of it’s future applications and venues.
Kirk Schneider

Cultivating Presence: The “You”, the “Me” and the “We”.
A seasoned therapist, who studied with James Bugental and Irvin Yalom, she presents her research and perspective on deepening presence in the client, the therapist and the space “in-between” by integrating a subjective and intersubjective focus.
Orah Krug

East meets West: An Existential-Contemplative Model of psychotherapy.
A long time practitioner of meditative practices presents his therapeutic model that integrates that experience with what he has learned during his extensive collaboration with James Bugental.
Ken Bradford

Age Song: An Existential-Humanistic Environment for Elders
One of the creators of this spiritually rich elder care facility presents the lessons this endeavor offers him and his trainees.
Nader Shambahangi

Integrating dance and movement into Existential-Humanistic Therapy
A leading teacher encourages exploring and experimenting with the “physical”. She encourages therapists to integrate movement and dance into their therapies.
Ilene Serlin

Four in the Room: Existential-Humanistic informed Couple Therapy
Drawing on their training with Bugental and Yalom, these seasoned therapists present their experiences with couples.
Christine Armstrong and Louis Dangles

Conformity and Agency: Existential-Humanistic informed Child Therapy
A student of Bugental and contributor to Schneider’s publications, he uses case material to emphasize the encouragement of agency in his work with children.
 Stephen Curtin

2008

Existential Psychotherapy for a World Gone Mad -

Program Material

Thursday – November 13, 2008
Time	Activity	Topic & Presenter
3:00pm – 6:00pm	Registration & Check-In	Pacific Institute Administration
5:30pm – 7:00pm	Opening Session & Welcome	EHI Directors & Dr. Elizabeth Bugental  (Keynote Speaker)
7:00pm – 8:30pm	Opening Poster Session	Meaning–Making and Hope (Alexander M. Bacher, Stacie L. Cooper) Reflections on the Existential-Humanistic Approach in Working with the Elderly (Rochelle Suri) Humanistic Approach in Organization Psychology (Taylere Joseph) Aging Women in Search of Meaning (Tamar Shirinian) Open to Not Knowing: Existential and Process-Oriented Approaches to Therapy with Elders and Dementia (Puran Khalsa, Matt Spalding) Through The Circle - Artists and their Mandala Drawings: How Differential Dementia Diagnosis Reflect Behaviors as Seen Through the Making of the Mandala (Rev. Patti Goldstein, MA)
7:30pm – 9:00pm	Cocktail Reception	All presenters, staff and VIP guests

Friday – November 14, 2008
Time	Activity	Topic & Presenter
9:00am – 10:30am	Morning Plenary	The Daimonic & Existential Depth of Psychology: Putting the Punch Back into Therapy (Stephen A. Diamond)
10:45am – 12:15am	Concurrent Workshops	Existentialism & Taoism (Benjamin Tong)
		The Use of Therapeutic Enactment in Experiential Supervision (Kevin Keenan, Shawn Rubin)
		The Power of Now: Innovative Approaches to Cultivating Personal and Relational Presence in the Therapeutic Encounter (Orah Krug)
12:30pm – 1:45pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm – 3:30pm	Concurrent Workshops	Applying Existential Therapy in a Culturally Sensitive Manner (Louis Hoffman)
		Existential Integrative Psychology: The Art of “Being With” (Kirk Schneider)
		Poetically the Human Being Dwells – Psychotherapeutic Applications of a Heideggerian-based Psychology (Nader Shabahangi)
3:45pm – 5:00pm	Afternoon Plenary	On What is Hidden: The Limits of Knowledge (Edward Mendelowitz)
5:30pm – 7:00pm	Special Activity	EHI; Student Lounge; Film

Saturday – November 15, 2008
Time	Activity	Topic & Presenter
9:00am – 10:30am	Morning Plenary	A Shaking of the Foundations (David Elkins, Alexander Bacher, Stacie Cooper, Dave Fischer, Pernilla Nathan)
10:45am – 12:15pm (**please note extended time of 1 workshop)	Concurrent Workshops	To See and To Be Seen (Bill Staudenmaier, Bruce McBeath) **extended workshop: 10:45am-1:45pm
		Existential Orientation Survey (Tom Greening, Scott Kiser)
		Beyond Therapy: Bearing Witness to Will-Expression, Self-Generation, and Social/Cultural Engagement in the Pursuit of Optimal Living (John Galvin)
12:30pm – 1:45pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm – 3:30pm	Concurrent Workshops	Polarization: Unlocking Impasses in Couples Therapy (Louis Dangles, Christine Armstrong)
		Kinesthetic Imagining (Ilene A. Serlin)
		Authenticity & the Play of Unconditioned Presence: From Resolute Search Process to Natural Release (Kenneth Bradford)
3:45pm – 5:00pm	Closing Plenary	EHI Directors & Keynote Speaker

For further information or to register, contact: www.pacificinstitute.org.