Events

CEUs Available

12 CEUs (LMHC/LICSW) available for $140.
(Massachusetts practitioners only.)

Please note: We are now able to offer CEUs to LMHCs and LICSWs who attend in-person or on-line (either synchronous or asynchronous).

Purchase Attendance

  • Professional non-members: $50.
  • Unlicensed/retiree non-members: $25.
  • Students (with a current ID): $0.
  • Current members: $0.

Events

Published! The Psychology and Philosophy of Eugene Gendlin (Psychology and the Other)
May
1
to Sep. 30

Published! The Psychology and Philosophy of Eugene Gendlin (Psychology and the Other)

By Eric R. Severson and Kevin C. Krycka. With chapters by Robin Chalfin and Bob Fox. This book is an outcome of our 2021 Gendlin Symposium, which was the work of the Gendlin Research Center and the Departments of Psychology and Philosophy at Seattle University. Drs. Severson and Krycka were chairs of that event and these essays were presented at that Symposium.The book brings together a collection of essays written by scholars inspired by Eugene Gendlin’s work, particularly those interested in thinking with and beyond Gendlin for the sake of a global community facing significant crises.

View Event →
Residing in the Space Between: Suffering and the Dialectic of Hope and Dread
Apr.
28

Residing in the Space Between: Suffering and the Dialectic of Hope and Dread

Returning guest speaker Karley Guterres will turn directly toward working with suffering and the forces of hope and dread in clinical practice. Where these polarizing responses to suffering can reduce the world into black and white, this talk explores how we can stay in the gray areas: what it means to work under conditions of great existential uncertainty while resisting the temptation to cling to comfortable solutions in the face of anxiety.

View Event →
Who Are You? Who Am I?: Reflections on boundaries of self in postmodernity
Mar.
3

Who Are You? Who Am I?: Reflections on boundaries of self in postmodernity

Our guest speaker, Dr. Lisa Moore will join us from the University of Chicago. Her talk will how contemporary practice conditions require us to reconsider outdated notions of self, illusions of anonymity, and constructions of the therapeutic container. Her discussion will move the clinical frame toward more rigorous and less reductive understandings of the practitioner's self in the therapeutic dyad, challenging and reframing the clinical frame and formations of self. PLEASE NOTE: This talk will be entirely ON ZOOM!

View Event →
Heidegger's Openness: The Space Between Identity and Difference
Dec.
10

Heidegger's Openness: The Space Between Identity and Difference

NECET steering committee member Richard Freid will elaborate on his talk for the Psychology of the Other conference entitled What is Ethics? From Content to a Mode of Existential Activity. Drawing upon Heidegger’s later work on Identity, Difference and "the openness"; Richard will show how this openness evokes a tenderness that softens the threat of difference. From this perspective, he will show how ethics can shift from defensive, protective rules of right and wrong to a relational mode of existential activity, which can be embodied in clinical practice.

View Event →
Challenging the Selfish-Selfless Dichotomy: from Self-Absorption to Self-in-Relation
Oct.
1

Challenging the Selfish-Selfless Dichotomy: from Self-Absorption to Self-in-Relation

In this first talk of the 2023-2024 NECET Conference Series, Robin and Bob co-present a discussion of ethics that challenges the trend toward lofty abstractions on morality and alternately righteous conversations of survival. Through untangling and unpacking the ancient and contemporary myths surrounding selfishness and selflessness they explore a non-reductive relational mode of ethics in practice.

View Event →
Bob Fox presents "Paterson"
Oct.
2

Bob Fox presents "Paterson"

Bob Fox takes us through “Paterson” (2016), directed by Jim Jarmusch.
Respondents: Laura Gimby, RN, CNS and Julie Weiss, PhD.

(We recommend seeing the film before attending this talk.)
Click on photo for more information.

View Event →