Meaning-Making & Therapeutic Change
Dr. Krug's presentation combines
lecture, case examples and experiential exercises to identify and describe the
process of existential meaning-making, and explores how the act
of “making sense” of an experience, is central to our client's therapeutic change.
Recent research has identified that “contextual factors” rather than specific techniques or treatments are overwhelmingly responsible for effective therapy. Other prominent research shows that meaning-making, a contextual factor fundamental to Existential-Humanistic therapy, is at the heart of transformational healing and change in therapy. In lecture and exercises, Dr. Krug will show how individuals participate in constituting their realities by making meaning of their perceptions and experiences and then comprehend their new experiences using meanings made in the past. Dr. Krug will show how consciousness, personal freedom and responsibility can operate in this reflective therapy process to promote creation of new ways of being with self, others and the world.
Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to:
- Describe and define the existential meaning-making process.
- Learn how meaning making is foundational to therapeutic change and how to use meaning making with therapy clients.
- Participate in exercises that illustrate and teach the process.
- Practice contextual factors like presence in dyadic exercises in meaning making.
Workshop Fees:
Professional Registration - $150
Students - $75
Includes continental breakfast, beverages and lunch
We encourage you to register early - space is limited
6 CEs through NASW
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About Orah Krug Ph.D.
Orah T. Krug,
Ph.D., is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice in Oakland, and
Sausalito, CA. She is a faculty member of Saybrook University, and an editor
for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Dr. Krug is a founding member and
Clinical Director of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) of San
Francisco. Under Dr. Krug’s direction, EHI offers consultation, foundational
and advanced certificate programs and retreat style trainings in E-H Therapy. One of these trainings is in partnership with Saybrook University. http://ehinstitute.org/existential-therapy-certificate.html.) Most recently, Dr. Krug authored the
chapter, “Existential, Humanistic, Experiential Therapies in Historical
Perspective,” (2015) in The Comprehensive
Textbook of Psychotherapies, Oxford Press, in publication. She co-authored
the chapter, with J. Pearson, “Cultivation Psychotherapist Artistry: Model
Existential-Humanistic Training Programs,” (2014) in The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology (2nd edition)
(Eds., Schneider, K., Pearson, F., & Bugental, J.). Dr. Krug co-authored
the textbook, with K. Schneider, Existential-Humanistic
Therapy (2010) part of a monograph series for the American Psychological
Association. Currently she is writing, with Dr. Schneider, the companion APA
monograph on supervision and training in E-H therapy. Dr. Krug has interviewed her mentors James Bugental and Irvin Yalom in a collection of 3 videos. Two videos with Bugental (2006) are entitled, "Conversations with Jim" and "Joe: A Demonstration of the Consultation
Process." Dr. Krug's recent interview with Irvin Yalom (2015) is entitled "Irvin Yalom: On Psychotherapy and Writing." Her current research
focuses on the relationship between existential meaning-making processes and
therapeutic change. Dr. Krug may be reached at orahkrug@gmail.com.
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