Learning Community/POeTry Luck

Host: Candice Hershman

When: Thursday, August 25th @ 6:30 PM

Where: 14 Zanco Way

Novato, CA 94947

Please RSVP 415-328-4575

cahershman@comcast.net

Bring a dish and a poem or two or three . . .

This will be a great opportunity to meet and network with local professionals and students in the bay area who share a passion for Existential and Humanistic psychotherapies. We will share poetry this evening, and will also spend some informal time getting to know each other and exchanging ideas. Thi is a new group, so fresh ideas are encouraged and welcomed.

EHI is seeking supporters who are interested in hosting learning community meetings in other regions of the country. A learning community is basically a social forum in which people who share an interest in the Existential Humanistic tradition can get together and network, share resources and ideas, brainstorm, and build a local support system in the psychological world at large. Learning community meetings can look very different depending on who organizes them, but the common thread which they all share is that they bring people together who have diverging interests. It is also helpful to invite people from other professions (e.g. - the artistic community, the teaching community, the medical community) to create an integrative grassroots forum. If you have any questions about how to begin a learning community, or want to advertise with EHI, please contact Candice Miller, M.A. at cahershman@comcast .net. or 415-408-3849

The Existential-Humanistic Institute’s Annual Conference, Fall 2008:

Existential Therapy for a World Gone Mad.

The Goal of this conference is to introduce and deepen our understanding of the theory and the practice of Existential Humanistic psychotherapy in the United States and internationally.

This conferene will provide insights needed for a world too diverse and complicated for yesterday's 'diagnoses.' We need new perspectives adequate to today's mental health challenges, perspectives that celebrate us as intrinsically human, that do not make us wrong for who we are.

The Existential Humanistic approach, phenomenological in nature, celebrates our amazing diversity without pathologizing symptoms and behaviors. The Pacific Institute is proud to present this conference with the hope of emphasizing again the richness and mystery of our lives.

CEUs are available for MFT, LCSW, and Psychologists.

Call for information: 415.861.3455.