Workshops for Professional Development

Bob provides workshops for professionals, registered interns, and students based upon the Existential Humanistic Perspective.

For further information on any of these workshops, you can download a .pdf file. If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the next time an event is scheduled, or if you would like to ask Bob questions, please contact Bob.

Existential-Humanistic Training & Case Consultation Group

Bob offers a training and case consultation group for professionals on the Existential-Humanistic Perspective. The training portion of the group is based upon The Art of the Psychotherapist by James F.T. Bugental, Ph.D. This will consist of a dialogue and experiential exercises appropriate to each chapter to develop the skills of that chapter. The case consultation portion of the group will consist of exploring, on a rotating basis, individual cases from the participants’ caseloads through role playing and feedback.

• A 16-week professional development series - meets every other week
• Offered annually since 1995
• Next opening: October 2007 - May 2008
• Group limited to 6 members - early registration recommended
• 40 CEU’s available as this training is co-sponsored by the Oregon Counseling Association, which is recognized by the NBCC to offer CEU’s for National Certified Counselors through NBCC Provider Number 2038
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Authentic Engagement: A Radical Way of Being in the World

• A 1-day personal growth workshop focusing on self discovery and authentic relating
• Experiential learning in a group context
• Limited to eight people per workshop
• If you would like to bring this workshop to your professional or student group, contact Bob.
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How to Deepen Your Therapeutic Work Using the Existential Humanistic Perspective

• A 1-day workshop exploring key principles of the Existential-Humanistic Perspective through lecture, discussion, demonstration, and experiential exercises.
• Therapists will become aware of the importance of working with the here and now in both the intra-psychic and interpersonal realms within the therapeutic container
• Therapists will understand the need for client resistances and learn ways to effectively engage with these resistances to facilitate growth
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The Existential-Humanistic Perspective: Embracing the Lived Experience of All Humans

• A 2 hour workshop in which professionals will learn what the subjective is, and its importance for more fulfilled living
• Professionals will experience for themselves what it means to be in their subjectivity
• Professionals will learn ways the client resists being in their subjectivity and interventions they can use to help the client move through their resistances
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Personal Authenticity

• A 2-hour workshop incorporating lecture, discussion and exercises
• Explore how to live a more inner-directed, authentic life
• Group size is not limited
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On Being Fully Present in a Fragmented World

• A 2-hour workshop using dialogue to explore the importance of being fully present in our world, with an awareness of the obstacles that inhibit maintaining full presence
• Explore presence through the psychological lens of Carl Rogers and Jim Bugental
• Explore presence through the spiritual lens of Pema Chodron and Eckhart Tolle.
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If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the next time any of the workshops are scheduled, or if you would like to ask Bob questions, please contact Bob