WCET4 Program & Schedule
Enhance Your Congress Experience – More than just Programming
Meals
Meals will be available for purchase June 3rd–6th in the Café Lounge, located on-site at the Hyatt Convention Center.
Meal service times:
- Morning: 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
- Midday: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
- Evening: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Workshops
All pre- and post-congress workshops require separate registration.
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Banquet
The banquet on Sunday, June 6th requires separate registration.
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Book Signings & Bookstore
Select book signings will take place in the foyer the evenings of June 3rd–5th as a part of the social events.
Books will be available for purchase at the on-site pop-up bookstore.
Evening Social Events
Join us in the foyer each evening from 5:00 to 8:00p.m., June 3rd–5th, for cocktails, live music, networking, and engaging activities. Beverages will be available for purchase.
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| Time | Conference Room I (1) | Conference Room II (2) | Conference Room III (3) | Conference Room IV (4) | Conference Room VIII (8) | International Archives of Existential and Humanistic Therapy, Colorado Springs | |
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| 6:30 a.m. – 9:00a.m. | BADGE PICKUP & REGISTRATION OPEN | ||||||
| 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. | Tending the Fire: Existential-Phenomenological Perspectives on Group Therapy; Yaqui Martinez-Robles and Barbara Godoy | Part 1: Personal Existential Analysis: Engaging the Practical Method of Existential Analysis; Alfried Längle | The Cultural Context of the Direct Approach and its Resonance with Existentialism; Xuefu Wang | Evidence-based Existential Therapies: A Research Overview for Practitioners, Researchers, Training Institutions, and Society; Joel Vos | Love: The Prohibited Substantive Factor in Existential-Humanistic Therapy—Reclaiming Love as a Transformative, Ethical, and Courageous Clinical Force; Nathaniel Granger | Where the Hell am I? Bushwhacking Through Life’s Existential Wilderness; Michael Moats | |
*Meet at Badge Pickup to be escorted to transportation for this full-day workshop which is held off-site in Colorado Springs workshop.
Existential Work with Dreams; Emmy Van Deurzen
*Meet at Registration to be escorted to transportation for this full-day workshop which is held off-site in Colorado Springs workshop.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.Meal Break1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Being With the Unknown: Existential-Phenomenological Contributions to the Psychedelic Renaissance in Therapy; Yaqui Marinez-RoblesPart 2: Personal Existential Analysis: Engaging the Practical Method of Existential Analysis; Alfried LängleOur Ethical Responsibility in Promoting Epistemological Justice in Psychology; Theopia JacksonExistential Compassion: An Evidence-based Call to open our HEARTS for our Clients and our Polarized World; Joel VosCarrying Existence Forward: Introducing Experiential-Existential Psychotherapy; Siebrecht Vanhooren5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.BADGE PICKUP & REGISTRATION OPEN
| Time | Aurora Ballroom | Aurora III | Aurora IV | Conference Room III (3) | Conference Room IV (4) | Conference Room VI (6) | Conference Room VII (7) | Conference Room VIII (8) | Foyer |
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| 7:00 a.m. | Badge Pickup & Registration Open | ||||||||
| 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Welcome and Keynote Black Existential Therapy, Twenty-first Century Challenges; Lewis Gordon |
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| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Roundtable: Existentialism in Africa and the African Diaspora; Lewis Gordon et al. (Chair: Terri Davis) | Paradoxical Discipline and Identity Rituals; Gwenhwyfar Dunne-Henry | Pathways to Change in Existential Group Treatment: Experiences from Older Adults with Psychological Distress in Primary Care; Isak Erling | Meaning in life, mental distress and wellbeing in university students: An exploratory network analysis; Anne H Berman | Edith Stein’s Empathy and Its Relevance in Existential Therapy: Ethical Support for Therapists; Evija Puķe – Jansone | – | – | – | – |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | – | Antigone, Kierkegaard, and Sartre: Authenticity in Defiance; Evgenia Georganda | Existential Foundations for Life and Work in the..; Norma Hernández | Reconciling Trauma by Coming Home to the Body; Stanisław Sądowski | Transience, Authenticity and Freedom: An Existential Phenomenological Arc; Burcu Tuncel | Performing Authenticity: Sartre, Pop Psychology, and the Social Media Community; Ana Segala | From Polarity to Presence: A Middle Way Approach; Chuck Craytor | The mystery of the being in the face of the experience of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS); Edgar Gutierrez | – |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Midday Meal | Embodied Freedom: Movement, Meaning, and Healing; Courtney Cabell, Devon Kardel | Class and Authenticity: Intersectionality, Freedom, and Contradiction Across the Therapist’s Journey; Matthew Gonzales | Class and Authenticity: Intersectionality, Freedom, and Contradiction Across the Therapist’s Journey; Matthew Gonzales | – | – | Midday Meal | ||
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Affect and Affectivity in Existential Phenomenology: Frantz Fanon’s Challenge and Elaboration; Leswin Laubscher | – | Honoring therapists’ lived experience; Sophie Ducrocq Archibald | Midday Meal | |||||
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Roundtable: Frantz Fanon and Existential Psychology; Lewis Gordon (Chair: Louis Hoffman) | Embodied Mystery: Exploring Being and the Between; Mar Amaral | Out of Bounds: E-H Therapy in a California Prison; Stephanie Golinveaux, Kelly Johnson | Somatic Art Therapy and EMDR for Traumatic Stress; Alexis Morgan | Phenomenology beyond what they teach: Tapping into Husserl’s wisdom to widen our phenomenological practice; F. Jak Icoz | Becoming Together: Humanistic Values in Group Supervision; Vanessa Brown et al. | Diagnosis as an Excuse for Bad Faith: Reclaiming Freedom and Responsibility; Jelena Kecmanovic | Inner and Outer Landscapes: aligning an ecological and existential model of the self; Kate Thompson | – |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Roundtable: Research Supporting Existential Therapy; Siebrecht Vanhooren et al. (Chairs: Valerie Martin and Phillip Benois) | The Healing Process of Relationality (Part 1); Chris Bradshaw | How the Existential and Humanistic Theory and Therapy Class Transformed My Professional and Personal Life (Part 1); Terri Davis | Working existentially with displaced populations; Maria Galani, Samira Ghasemi | Psychotherapy in Our Turbulent Contemporary Times: The Need for Existential Therapy; Louis Hoffman | Hearing Existential Whispers: The Bench, the Bottle, and the Therapeutic Struggle with ‘Befalling’ in Latino Immigrant Men; Ronald Ulises Vega Pardo | The Face as an Anchor in Time: Lived Identity and Temporal Disruption Following Elective Facelift Surgery; Gwenhwyfar Dunne-Henry | Beyond Death Denial: An Examination of Cultural Narratives Surrounding Death, Its Impact on Grief Support & Beyond; Hank Shuler | – |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Blueprints for a New Society in Which It Will be Easier to Love: A Pedagogy of Hope; Nisha Gupta | The Healing Process of Relationality (Part 2); Chris Bradshaw | How the Existential and Humanistic Theory and Therapy Class Transformed My Professional and Personal Life (Part 2); Terri Davis | Drives, Self-Creation, and the Mystery of Becoming: Implications of Nietzsche’s Philosophy for Existential Theory and Practice; Joel Givens | “Oh! You’re Having Sex?”: Understanding the Experience of Ovarian Cancer Survivors to Inform the Adaptation of eSense-Cancer, a Digital Health Platform Treating Sexual Difficulties After Cancer.”; Anilā Lacroix | Recentering Myth: The Value of Mythology in Liberation from Oppression; Jasmine Hobson | – | – | – |
| 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Networking, Social, & Cocktail Gathering | ||||||||
| Time | Aurora Ballroom | Aurora III | Aurora IV | Conference Room III (3) | Conference Room IV (4) | Conference Room VI (6) | Conference Room VII (7) | Conference Room VIII (8) | Foyer | |
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| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Authenticity and the mystery of being a person; Alfried Längle | Fear vs. Freedom: Interacting Forces in the Psychology of Human Growth and Self-Expansion; Tom Pyszczynski | Existential Vacuum in the Digital Era; Nitin Kalra | A Rogerian Experience of the Conference Theme; Robert Edelstein | Existential compassion: An evidence-based call to open our HEARTS for our clients and our polarised world; Joel Vos | Authenticity Is Not Individuality: A Closer Look at Authenticity in the World of Psychotherapy; F. Jak Icoz | Love Conquers Death: Daseinsanalysis from a Levinasian Perspective; Brent Robbins | ALIVE: A Phenomenological Framework for Re-Humanizing Clinical Encounters in High-Pressure Healthcare Environments; Ricardo Mitrani | – | |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Roundtable: The Mystery of Being; Emmy van Deurzen et al. (Chair: Joshua Dilibert) | Roundtable: Terror Management Theory; Tom Pyszczynski et al. (Chair: Rebecca Wickersham) | Affect and Liberation: Authentic Self-Creation from the Inner Life to Class Consciousness (Part 1); Alfredo Palacios | The Existential Unconscious and Existential Unconsciousness; Will Wadlington | Beyond the Individual: The Existential Reality of Racialized Trauma in Communal Worlds; Courtney Cabell | Relationship Anarchy as a Decolonial Framework for Community, Relational Ethics, and Collective Liberation; L. Xochitl Vallejos | Poetry:A Portal to Connection, Mystery and Healing; Nance Reynolds, Nader Shabahangi, Gaspar Segafredo | Steppingstones: Writing Landscapes of our lives; Kate Thompson | – | |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Affect and Liberation: Authentic Self-Creation from the Inner Life to Class Consciousness (Part 2); Alfredo Palacios | Encountering Death, Grief, and Loss: Lessons for Existential Therapy (Part 1); Louis Hoffman | Interruption Changes the Shape of Self: Grit and Blanchotian Désœuvrement in the CHANGES Model; Brett Wilkinson | Crossroads and thresholds: Towards a cross-cultural and sacramental existential therapeutic practice; Mihaela Launeanu | Existentialism & Patañjali — A Comparative Analysis; Rosy Datt (Mann) | The Phenomenological Structures of Existential Meaning and Their Psychotherapeutic Relevance; Jacob Bell | WHO Are We and When Are We: Identity, Time, and Aliveness in Existential Psychotherapy; Michael Stadter | – | – | |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Midday Meal | Encountering Death, Grief, and Loss: Lessons for Existential Therapy (Part 2); Louis Hoffman | Accessing Längle’s 4FMs Through Guided Meditation; Graham Nelson-Zutter | Climate distress: A systematic mixed-method case study from an experiential-existential perspective; Siebrecht Vanhooren | – | – | Midday Meal | |||
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | – | – | Double Binds and the Performed Self; Gwenhwyfar Dunne-Henry | Midday Meal | ||||||
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Art Therapy to Support Existential Authenticity; Elizabeth Hlavek | Three Disciplines, 3 Clinicians, 3 Philosophers: Toward a Shared Language of Healing and Dialogue; Michell Ruiz-Suárez | Beyond the Consulting Room: Benefits of Existential Therapy in Education; Monica Ortega-Quiroz | From Suffering to Meaning with EASE: A Process within The Purposehood® Method for Existential Health; Ammar Charani | The Shower Dance; Pablo Gonzalez | BREEMA: phenomenologically oriented embodiment practice as a path to the authenticity of Dasein.; Stanisław Sądowski | – | – | – | |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Roundtable: Existential Therapy and Community; (Chairs: Brittany Varisco & Jeff Singer) | The Corps of Depth Healers: A New Movement and Certificate Program to Promote Emotionally Restorative Relationships (Part 1); Kirk Schneider | Elevating Indigenous Existential-Humanistic Ideologies (Part 1); Theopia Jackson | Living Authentically and Finding Meaning (Part 1): Theoretical and Historical Perspectives; Derrick Klaassen | Authentically Integrating Lived Experience of Loss; B. Tammy Bartel, Mihaela Launeanu | Existential Phenomenological Description of How Artificial Intelligence (AI), as a Defining Technology of our Era, Has Fostered a Form of Mediated, Efficient, and Dependent Communication on Standing-reserve (Bestand), Often at the Expense of Authentic Human Encounter and Pre-reflective Exploration.; Alex Bravo | The Primary Human Experiences: A Phenomenological Framework for Existential Practice; Mackenzie O’Brien | Towards a Theory of Development in the Existential Paradigm: from Attachment to Creation; Vitalina Ustenko | The Gaze of the Other Sets Us in Motion; Alexandra Feoli Does existential revolt belong to social justice, and can it coexist with evolution and natural selection: imagining new societal structures; Natalia Khudokonenko |
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| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | The Corps of Depth Healers: A New Movement and Certificate Program to Promote Emotionally Restorative Relationships (Part 2); Kirk Schneider | Elevating Indigenous Existential-Humanistic Ideologies (Part 2); Theopia Jackson | Living Authentically and Finding Meaning (Part 2): Experiential & Clinical Applications; Janelle Kwee | Dancin’ Toward Liberation: Communal Movement for D; Courtney Cabell, Devon Kardel, Lauren Dushane, Desirae Peel, Jadyn Iseler, Kendra Oja, Muzammil Khan, Madalyn Bailey, Serenity Littrell, Vrinda Mot, Zunaira Tirmizi | Going Beyond, Together; Elena Wolf | The Phenomenon of Manipulation as an Impediment to the Development of Personal Authenticity; Jekaterina Rozdestvenskaja | Relational Presence in the Vibrant Human Realm: Warmth and Echoes | Health Trauma and Existential Shattering; Andreas Ioannou | Worlded Together: The Existential Texture of Twinship; Mackenzie Farbo | |
| 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Networking, Social, & Cocktail Gathering | |||||||||
| Time | Aurora Ballroom | Aurora III | Aurora IV | Conference Room III (3) | Conference Room IV (4) | Conference Room VI (6) | Conference Room VII (7) | Conference Room VIII (8) | Foyer |
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| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | The Art of Existential Freedom; Emmy van Deurzen | Early Career Perspectives on Practicing Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy; Ash Lee, Payton Ward, Rebecca Wickersham, Heidi Streicher | It’s In The Room: Confronting Death and Mortality; Suzan Bollich | Positive Anxiety and Existential Authenticity: Toward Meaning and Radical Hope; Pninit Russo-Netzer: | Exploring Existential Concerns Across Settings: Cross-Cultural, Clinical, and Policy Perspectives; Sabina Musliu | Fellow Travellers: The experience and findings of a participant-researcher investigation into the lived experience of Existential-Humanistic consultation group members; Orah Wratten | Hermeneutic Phenomenological Description of the Experience of Child Sexual Abuse in an Adult Man.; Alex Bravo | How to Remain True to Oneself Without Getting Lost in the Attempt: The Authenticity of the Self vs. Our Attachment System in Romantic Relationships; María de los Ángeles Martínez | – |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Roundtable: Legacy and Contemporary Perspectives on Existential Therapy; Alfried Längle et al. (Chair: Theopia Jackson) | No Easy Answers: Justice and Freedom in Today’s World; Apryl Alexander | Co-Creating Connection and Curiosity: A Relational; Rafael Cortina | The courage of vulnerability according to an Integrated Psycho-Pedagogy; Maria Roberta Cappellini | Existential Perspectives on Hypnosis and Dissociation (Part 1); Ian Wickramasekera | Everyday Moments That Matter: Existential Love, Time, and Meaning in Therapeutic Encounter; Justin Rock | Agape Selves Therapy: The Existential Therapy of Choosing Selves for Living with Love instead of Fear; Dr Edward Chan | The Wounded Healer Between Two Worlds: How Existentialism and Vedanta Inform Therapeutic Presence in Ruptured Family Systems; Rosy Datt (Mann) | Affirmation, Authenticity and being an Accomplice during the American Transgender Genocide; Shawn Rubin |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Collapse Psychology; Vanessa Brown | Connecting community through embodied storytelling; Jennifer Tam | AI, Authenticity, and the Future of Existential Therapy: A Three-Voice Debate on Promise, Peril, and Practice; Ammar Charani | Existential Perspectives on Hypnosis and Dissociation (Part 2); Ian Wickramasekera | Resting in Kindness; Myrtle Heery | Freedom to Be in the Face of Fear: Existential Support for the Latine Community; Linda Ruvalcaba | TBD; Sanchez Fernando Nicolas | TBD; Marinnucci Facundo Nicolas | Nuestras máscaras, nuestra inautenticidad – Our masks, our inauthenticity; Diana Esther Miguel |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Midday Meal | A Neuropsychological Examination of Music as an Existential-Humanistic Intervention: How Music Augments Our Brains and Deepens Connection; Joseph Vanderhoff | Existential Themes in Education and Entertainment: Exploring Authenticity with Students and Stars; Jared LaGroue | Gelassenheit Freedom for Gathering and Letting Be: Meister Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Therapoetics of Mystery, Authenticity, and Logos; Janeta Tansey | Existential Therapy with Solid-organ Transplant Recipients: A Case Series; Amy Christianson | – | Midday Meal | ||
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Listening to the Mystery of Being: A Road Less Traveled By; Erik Craig | Roundtable: Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and Existential Therapy; Yaqui Martinez et al. (Chair: ) | Freedom and the Mystery of Being; Bárbara Godoy | Midday Meal | |||||
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | The Therapist’s Fears; Susana Signorelli | Cultural Considerations in Therapeutic “Presence”; Chris Bradshaw | Vita Activa – A call for existential rebirth; Claire Arnold-Baker | Being With Addiction; Raquel Glória Mert Ulusoy | Empowering traumatized clients to reclaim choice: A case study demonstrating a dramatic (and easy to learn) new eye movement therapy; Margit Henderson | Psychometric properties of the Existential Scale and the Existential Motivations Test for adolescent population; María Laura Asid | Inhabiting the Mitwelt: Phenomenological-Existential Therapy and Relational Transformation in Autism Spectrum Disorders; Michell Ruiz-Suárez | Existential psychotherapy: A phenomenological qualitative study on loneliness; Jarryd Lunger | Ethically Counseling Polyamorous Clients: Addressing Mononormative Bias; Elizabeth Kraft |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Roundtable: Existentialism in Latin America; Yaqui Martinez et al. (Chair: Alfredo Palacios) | Roundtable: Relationships in Existential Therapy; Chair: L. Xochitl Vallejos | Existential Therapy between Meaning and Being: Reflections on Our Teachers, Philosophy, and Living Practice. (Part 1); Erik Craig | From Existential-Humanistic Case Formulation to Evidence Based Practice (Part 1); Louis Hoffman | Parkinson’s Disease and Existence; Suzan Bollich | From Theory to Presence: An Existential Guide for Therapists; Jack Jaffe | – | – | – |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | – | – | Existential Therapy between Meaning and Being: Reflections on Our Teachers, Philosophy, and Living Practice. (Part 2); Erik Craig | From Existential-Humanistic Case Formulation to Evidence Based Practice (Part 2); Louis Hoffman | Humanistic Pedagogy; Vanessa Brown & Derrick Sebree | Ontological Reclamation through Hip Hop and Lyric Writing; Alfredo Palacios | From Awareness to Engagement: The ALIVE Compass and the Lived World of Health Care; Ricardo Mitrani | Reframing OCD: Structure and Treatment Through Personal Existential Analysis; Sebastian Wingfield | Clark Moustakas: Contributions to Existential Therapies and Research; Shawn Rubin |
| 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Networking, Social, & Cocktail Gathering | ||||||||
| Time | Aurora Ballroom | Aurora III | Aurora IV | Conference Room III (3) | Conference Room IV (4) | Conference Room VI (6) | Conference Room VII (7) | Conference Room VIII (8) | Foyer |
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| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Expansion of the Existential Tribe into Southeast Asia: Lessons Learned from Decades of Community Building; Mark Yang | Globalizing and De-colonizing Existential Therapy; Xochitl Vallejos, Nathaniel Granger; Louis Hoffman | The Politics of Power in Psychotherapy: understanding the roles of freedom, integrity and community in an ever more fragmented world.; David St John | – | The Humorous Condition: Exploring the nature of humour and the tragi-comic dimensions of Being; Neil Gibson | Creating a Personal Existential Map: Toward Mastery Within Mystery; Suhua Zhao | Zhuangzi on Authenticity; Shiyan Zheng
There’s Little to No Evidence that There is Little to No Evidence for Existential-Humanistic Therapies; Andrew Bland |
Underdogs, Misfits and Outliers in School: The Success stories of Singaporean Millennials; Kinmeng Choi
UK Primary School Teachers’ Lived Experience of Workplace Bullying: A Phenomenological Exploration; Maria Galani |
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| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Roundtable: Existentialism in South and Southeast Asia; Xuefu Wang et al. (Chair: Ian Wickramasekera) | – | Yoga darśana; Aparna Ramaswamy | Life at the Last Minute; Ganna Baryshnykova | The Process of Forgiveness, understood with Nietzsche’s Philosophy; Monica Ortega-Quiroz | Intimacy with Waters of Body and Waters of Earth; Alja Lah | The impossibility of the therapeutic relationship; Peter Donders
Authenticity as Inner Pilgrimage: Bridging Existential Therapy and Vedantic Practice; Rosy Datt (Mann) |
Existential Resilience: Philosophical and Therapeutic Perspectives; Yaryna Kaplunenko
Who Are We; Yin Xu-Moore |
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | – | The Quest for Shared Meaning in a Seemingly Meaningless World: An Existential Integrative Family Therapy Odyssey; Katerina Zymnis | Mapping the Self With EASE; Ammar Charani | Voicing the censored self: A hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of navigating silence and authenticity in South-East Asia; Magdalen Cheng | The Psychosis of Existential Training; Sheba and Neresia Boakye-Duah and Osbourne | Marital Dissolution as an Existential Process: Co-creating the Living Human Document through mapping of the Subterranean Life of the Hour; Bavly Kost | Being at Home Without an Address; Snezhana Wein Wein
Points of growth of the sense of authenticity in the practice of inpatient existential-analytic psychotherapy.; Viktoriya Zabor |
Personal Position in Emigration Therapy; Katya Kiiaeva
Meditation, Community, Authenticity, and the Mystery of Being; Mariam Holmes |
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| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Midday Meal Poster Session in Foyer |
Midday Meal Poster Session in Foyer |
Midday Meal Poster Session in Foyer |
Whose Freedom? Reclaiming Existential Liberty from Neoliberal Capture; Bárbara Godoy | What is Psychosis?; Jack Thomas | From Defense to Dialogue: Using TMT and the Four Worlds in Existential Coaching Practice; Brad Johnson | – | Their death – Our death: The mutuality of death in existential therapy; Eli Buchbinder
Disembodied Support: A Phenomenological Study of Therapeutic Engagement with AI Chatbots Following In-Person Therapy; Max Karlin |
Poster Session |
| Voices We’ve Yet to Hear: Relational Existential Therapy and Other Worlds; Yaqui Martinez | Therapy demonstration; Alfried Längle | We Gather Here: Ritual as Existential Practice; Claire Santos | Midday Meal Poster Session in Foyer |
Midday Meal Poster Session in Foyer |
Midday Meal Poster Session in Foyer |
Midday Meal Poster Session in Foyer |
Midday Meal Poster Session in Foyer |
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| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | – | Roundtable: Existential Approaches to Advocacy and Activism; Apryl Alexander et al. (Chair: L. Xochitl Vallejos) | Meaning at the threshold: Authentic presence and e; Monika Ulrichová, Mihaela Launeanu | Finding Meaning Through Art Making: The Art and Artists of the Holocaust; Elizabeth Hlavek | The Taxonomy of Participatory Knowing in Suicide Assessment: Beyond Risk Calculation Toward Meaning Restoration; Alfredo Palacios | Existential Health: Defining a Missing Pillar of Human Well-Being; Ammar Charani | Linking Mindfulness to Prosocial and Pro-Environmental Behaviour through Authenticity: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda; Anton Skolzkov
From inner peace to peace with others. Contributions from Contemporary Existential Analysis to democratic and peaceful coexistence; María Laura Asid |
Phenomenological Hermeneutical Description of the Experience of Repressed Anger in an Adult Woman, Reflecting How the Containment of a Vital Emotion Leads to the Forgetfulness of Being (Dasein).; Alex Bravo
Four-voice co-therapy: A phenomenological-existential research experience in couples therapy.; Deifilia Zarate Arias |
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| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Mystery, Miracle, and Mortality: Living What We Do; Evgenia Georganda, Erik Craig | – | Between Two Worlds: Authenticity, Community, and the Mystery of Being a Middle Eastern American Therapist; Jifune Hermiz | Existential Empathy in Psychotherapy: Insights from Qualitative Research; Gianina Frediani | Unfolding the Mystery of the Self Through Arts-Based Reflection; Emily Lichtenberg | Freedom-For Behind Walls: Ontological–Existential Coaching with People Impacted by Incarceration; Christy Hey | Toward a Decolonial Existential Clinic: Corporality, Otherness, and Dignity; Nissarindany Bernal
Carried in Silence: The Lived Experience of Iranian Childhood Migration and the Search for Belonging; Samira Ghasemi |
“Do You Understand?!” Best Practices using Artificial Intelligence in Research (and Life); Graham Nelson-Zutter
Dimensioning Qualitative Research: The basic dimensions of existence as a research method; Jaime Valdes-Neri |
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| 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Social Gathering & Poster Session | ||||||||
| 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Banquet Dinner | ||||||||
| Time | Conference Room I (1) |
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| 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Taoist Principles Within the Practice of Existential-Humanistic Psychology, Mark Yang |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Midday Meal |
| 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | The Dream as an ‘Existential Message’: An Experiential Training Using Dream Dialogues to Explore the Mystery of Being Human; Betty Cannon & Barbara Godoy |
Poster Session 12:30-1:30pm
Finding Comfort in Complexity: A Personal Narrative Exploring Existential and Awe Based Therapy; Abigail Geddes
Death Anxiety; Begüm Orhan Begüm Orhan
Humanistic Approach to Meaning Making Under Fatigue for Endurance Athletes; Bradley Spargur
Existential–Humanistic Perspectives on Self-Compassion, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Posttraumatic Growth; Cheyenne Neukomm
Creation as Survival: The Existential Imperative to Work Creatively in Dissociative Therapy; Dana Owens
What May Underlie Fate Acceptance in Early Adulthood: Construct Validation of
Russian Version of Amor Fati Scale; Dmitry Leontiev
Existential Analysis as a Method of Helping People with Anxiety Disorders; Dmytro Lubiv
Arrojados a la Consciencia: La Ignición del Ser en la Etapa Perinatal Desde la Neurobiología y el Análisis Existencial; Giuseppe Hammurabi Pérez
The Lived Experience of the Physical Body in Greek Women Following Multiple Cosmetic
Surgeries: An Existential–Phenomenological Study Using SEA; Ilia Galouzidi
Integrating Existential and Compassion-Focused Approaches to Self-Criticism; Jason Brown
Existential Perspectives on Chronic Illness and Meaning Reconstruction; Julia Thompson
Encountering the Void: Existential Anxiety in Emerging Adulthood; Kevin Morales
Reclaiming Agency After Trauma: An Existential-Humanistic Case Study; Laura Stevens
The Role of Awe in Existential Therapy; Matthew Doyle
Meaning Making in the Face of Climate Anxiety; Nora Whitfield
Existential Identity Formation in Cross-Cultural Contexts; Omar Haddad
Poster Session 4:15-5:15pm
Forecast, Project, or Dialogue with the Future? Psychometric Validation of a Three Factor Questionnaire of Modes of Dealing with the Future; Dmitry Leontiev
The Eagala Model with Military Populations; Vanessa Harris
Reproductive Choice as an Existential Crossroads; Whitley Blake
Integrating Phenomenological Psychopathology into Existential Therapies: Toward a Mutual Enlightenment in Clinical Practice; Victor Monteiro
Annhilation to Salvation – Surrendering to the Ontological Mystery of Being; Sushree Sahu
Is Gadamerian Dialogue Possible Without Junk Code?; Sonakshi Bidyadhar
Digital Existential Interventions for Adults: A Systematic Review; Sarine Agopian
Between Worlds: Soul Loss and the Failure of Archetypal Defenses; Sarah Gallagher
Cultivating Resilience and Authenticity in the Modern Workplace; Sage Breslin
Re-Storying the Self: The Role of Narrative Identity in Healing Moral Injury Through Poster Session Enactment; Richard La Fleur
Existential Psychotherapy and Social Justice Praxis; Priya Narayan
Existential Loneliness in the Age of Digital Connection; Oliver Grant
Freedom and Responsibility in Contemporary Existential Therapy; Natalia Ivanova
Therapeutic Presence and the Experience of Being Seen; Michael Adler
Existential Approaches to Grief and Meaning Reconstruction; Hannah Lee
Existential Courage in the Face of Collective Trauma; Daniel Okafor
*All dates, titles, presenters are subject to change.