UPCOMING EVENTS

The Poetics of Aging

Towards A New Understanding of the Many Verses of Life

• Dates: November 16 - 19, 2011
• General Schedule: 8:30am to 6pm (Wednesday); 8:30am to 5pm (Thursday-Saturday)
• EHI-Inner Elder Program Schedule: 2:30pm to 7pm (Thursday); 9:15am to 5:30pm (Friday); 9:00am to 4:30pm (Saturday)
• Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, California

EHI is one of the collaborating organizations for this conference organized by AgeSong Institute. The conference mission is to counter the mainstream understanding of aging as decline and/or disease with a more expansive, humanistic, and creative - that is poetic - vision and approach. Together we shall create a climate where people exchange information and partake in creative expressions, while providing room for self-study and discovery.

Visit poeticsofaging.org

The EHI-Inner Elder Program

This program given by the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) will provide presentations and workshops that focus on inner growth and wisdom that accumulates throughout life and can be tapped into regardless of actual age. Inner elderhood is an ongoing process and these presentations will highlight how our inner world can continue to meet the outer world in a fruitful way.

The EHI-Certificate Tract Training

The Existential-Humanistic Institute offers a Certificate Program in E-H Therapy. The workshops designated EHI-CT will offer training in E-H Therapy and are intended to provide those students enrolled in the EHI Certificate Program additional training. These workshops are also open to all therapists and therapists-in-training wanting experiential workshops in E-H Therapy. All the EHI- EHI-Certificate Tract trainings are taught by senior core faculty of EHI, and will offer CE credits. The Certificate Track Training is open to all conference attendees and are labeled “EHI-Certificate” on designated workshops below.

Thursday, November 17: 2:30pm - 7pm

• Nader Shabahangi and the Existential Humanistic Institute Board, EHI Inner Elder Training Introduction
• Mary Madrigal, Availability and Quality of End-of-Life Care for Persons with Complex Mental Health Conditions
• EHI end-of-day social gathering, with refreshments

Friday, November 18: 9:15am - 5:30pm

• Orah Krug, E-H Therapy Principles in Action: A Gateway to Therapeutic Effectiveness (EHI-Certificate)
• Kirk Schneider, Rediscovering Awe for Ourselves and Our Practices (EHI-Certificate)
• Chris Armstrong & Lou Dangles, Old Hearts Forging Depths of Intimacy Caring for the Soul of the Other: The Tempering of Intimate Relationships
• Dave Elkin, Poetry Reading
• Lora Wilson, Dancing Beyond Dementia: Creating Connection and Honoring Personhood

Saturday, November 19: 9:00am - 4:30pm

• Bob Edelstein, Thirteen Interventions for an Existential-Humanistic Therapist (EHI-Certificate)
• Meg Chang & Donna Newman-Bluestein, Dance/Movement Therapy-Based Nonverbal Communication Training for Caregivers: Creative Dance as Source and Sustenance
• Shawn Rubin, A Day in the Life(Span): An Appreciation of the Challenges and Triumphs of Personal Growth from Childhood to Elderhood through Peer Supervision & Consultation
• Bill Ryan, Legacy: What do I want to pass on to the next generation?
• Sonja Saltman, The Nature of Contact (EHI-Certificate)
• Matt Spalding and Puran Khalsa, Open To Not Knowing: Humanistic and Transpersonal Approaches to Psychotherapy for Elders with Dementia
• Sonja Saltman & Candice Hershman, In Search of the Inner Elder: The Challenge of Adding Wisdom to Years (EHI-Certificate)

Authentic Presence: The Art of Psychotherapy

A Professional Course with Ken Bradford, PhD

Advanced training program in Existential-Contemplative Therapy focusing on:
• Intertwining a mindfulness-based practice of relational presence with existentially-grounded psychotherapy.
• Developing skillful means of intersubjective inquiry and therapeutic conversational competencies
• Cultivating the healing play of unconditional presence.

This experiential program integrates the therapeutic approach of Jim Bugental with the principles and meditative practices of Buddhist-nondual wisdom with Heideggerʼs holistic vision of human being. The art of authentic presence and attunement to body, energy and mind will be practiced to develop skillfulness in therapeutic speaking and listening. We will consider how this approach might work with the various persons, problems and populations we encounter in our clinical practices and personal lives.

This 36-hour course meets during 4 weekends:
• Dates: Saturdays & Sundays: April 9-10, June 11-12, September 10-11, & December 10-11, 2011
• Time: Saturdays 10am to 5pm; Sundays, 10am to 1pm
• Location: Berkeley
• Cost: $675 ($200 deposit due by February 11, 2011)
• Registration Contact: Mary Smyer (mary@smyer.com)
• Contact: Ken Bradford (ken@bradfordphd.com) for more information

Download course flyer.