https://www.necet.net/events daily 0.75 2026-03-01 https://www.necet.net/events/2025-2026-conference-series monthly 0.5 2025-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/11ce224a-8d20-4542-a209-427f72a069b2/NECET+2025-2026+schedule.jpg Events - Announcing the 2025-2026 Conference Series! - NECET celebrates its 30th anniversary with the 2025-2026 Conference Series. To download a PDF version of the conference schedule letter from founder, Bob Fox, please click on the image to the left. https://www.necet.net/events/from-origins-to-margins monthly 0.5 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/726096cd-298b-45c5-85b7-c2d4eda5bca8/ChalfinRobin_2025.jpg Events - From Origins to Margins: Dwelling in Difference, Power, and Presence - 4th and final talk of the 2025-2026 Conference Series by Robin Chalfin, LICSW Chalfin centers queer and feminist theory as essential to an existential-phenomenological exploration of the paradox of powerlessness and powerfulness.Considering non-dual spiritual traditions, deconstructive and critical theory, psychoanalytic relational frameworks, and the existential relational tradition cultivated at NECET, she highlights how marginal voices – often erased or minimized in dominant narratives – offer vital perspectives on vulnerability, responsibility, and being-with.Embracing multiplicity, friction and dislocation, not as deficits but as generative conditions for relational and pollical aliveness, Chalfin reframes home and belonging as dynamic, contested, and transformative. Tracing a journey from formative origins to dwelling in the margins, the presentation invites reflection on how difference (differance), power, and presence create openings for clinical practice and community-making that inhabit, rather than resolve, paradox. https://www.necet.net/events/our-existential-moment monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/6a04c42d-82ea-468e-9321-5af53b047721/Margulies_A.jpg Events - Future Tense: Permacrisis, Falling Out of the World, and our Existential Moment - 3rd talk of the 2025-2026 Conference Series by Al Margulies, MD Challenging the notion that psychoanalysis is bound to the past, Al Margulies reframes trauma and experience through the lens of the future – drawing on Freud’s Nachtraglichkeit (deferred action), Lacan’s après-coup, and Heidegger’s temporality. He examines existential shock, dislocation, and the longing for home within our current “permacrisis.” Building on decades of clinical and theoretical work, Margulies reflects on the interplay of art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and how meaning, memory and temporality shape our being-in-the-world. His presentation will touch on the full circle of his engagement with NECET – from his early keynote address in 1996 to his return now – situating the existential-psychoanalytic dialogue at NECET as a vital home for meaning-making in troubled times. https://www.necet.net/events/gendlins-experiential-process monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/3d73f401-51a2-4cc4-ae50-621b3fba5b57/Sharak_Wendy.png Events - “Notice, it’s always there for you.” Finding a Sense of Home in Gendlin’s Experiential Process - 2nd talk of the 2025-2026 Conference Series by Wendy Sharak, LMHC Wendy Sharak shares her journey discovering Eugene Gendlin’s phenomenological Focusing model within her clinical work integrating expressive arts therapies with NECET’s existential-psychoanalytic approach. She describes the profound joy of finding a sense of home in this integration – a therapeutic framework honoring embodied experience and existential presence. Drawing from Gendlin’s research with Carl Rogers, Sharak highlights the core concept of “felt sensing”, an intentional, embodied way of being with lived experience.She explores existential themes such as “experiencing” and “interaction first”, which enliven the therapeutic space.Through brief guided exercises, participants will connect with their own embodied experiencing, deepening their engagement with this dynamic process of belonging and therapeutic change. https://www.necet.net/events/founding-necet monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/6ec5cc85-82f8-4eff-b881-fbef1f9367f7/Fox_Robert.jpg Events - There it is! Attend to It. Follow it. Finding and Founding NECET - 1st talk of the 2025-2026 Conference Series by Bob Fox, LICSW Bob Fox traces the philosophical and clinical origins of NECET through his formative encounters with Eugene Gendlin’s embodied phenomenology, Aron Gurwitsch’s instruction in Husserl’s theory of intentionality, and Paul Russell’s psychoanalytic teaching of the repetition compulsion. He will explore how the guiding injunction – “Yes. There it is. Attend to it. Follow it.” – has shaped his work as a therapist, teacher and community-builder, and how it continues to inform NECET’s ethos. Situating NECET’s beginnings within a lineage of existential, phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions, Fox invites reflection on how attention to the implicit – in body, language, and relationship – can deepen clinical practice and sustain community over decades. https://www.necet.net/events/in-the-care-of-the-suffering-other monthly 0.5 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/c594e6a7-0058-4d86-9612-6e083433307f/Lynn+O%27Neal+-+2024-2025.jpg Events - Being Thrown, Being Called, Losing and Finding Oneself in the Care of the Suffering Other - 4th and final talk of the 2024-2025 Conference Series by Lynn O’Neal, LMHC. Lynn will present the final talk of the series whose very title evokes themes from Heidegger and Levinas but Lynn will lean heavily on the writing of Hans-Georg-Gadamer, the quintessential hermeneutic philosopher. As a psychotherapist specializing in working with death and dying, her talk will explore what it means to be with the suffering other in a caregiving role, and the implications to one’s sense of self and identity. She will explore the identity transformations experienced in her own working with death and dying through the lens of Gadamer and other philosophical traditions that explore modes of being-with and being-with-oneself in the caring relationship. https://www.necet.net/events/the-paradox-of-the-point-of-departure monthly 0.5 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/ea0a963a-e7f5-4d75-92f5-d9c6dfd9f3c9/Richard+Freid+-+2024-2025.jpg Events - The Paradox of the Point of Departure: Where Self Becomes Nothing and the Other Becomes Everything - 3rd talk of the 2024-2025 Conference Series by Richard Freid, LHMC. Richard’s presentation draws upon the experience of being thrown toward his acutely ill brother dying of cancer.From this encounter with death and dying of a loved one, Richard will explore the transformative potential of caregiving in such circumstances. His talk considers this transformation as a point of departure toward nothingness and yet surprisingly a gift of being more oneself and more with the other. He will draw upon Heidegger, Kierkegaard and especially Derrida’s The Gift of Death to survey an experience of this point of departure as an event that exposes the limits of reason and logic and yet opens to more. https://www.necet.net/events/make-me-an-angel monthly 0.5 2024-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/a7b3695e-028e-4f3c-929c-bb0351b9aa81/Julie+Weiss+-+2024-2025.jpg Events - Make Me an Angel: Perspectives on Professional Caregiving from a Hospice Social Worker - 2nd talk of the 2024-2025 Conference Series by Julie Weiss, PhD Julie’s presentation further explores identity, in this instance, the identity of someone who has freely chosen the role of professional caregiver. Julie will explore the idealizations and simplifications surrounding death and dying work. While hospice workers are often called “angels,” Julie attests that while this is not incorrect, it is incomplete. She illustrates the complexity of the work, exploring the supremely challenging and uncomfortable position of thinking about one’s own mortality daily. Informed by existential philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and a systems approach, this talk will explore what it means to be a professional whose work is to be with people who are being towards death. https://www.necet.net/events/becoming-a-caregiver-reflections-on-life monthly 0.5 2024-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/1723415892901-6HWXOVL7LX1PUMT5VG13/Bob+Fox+-+2024-2025.jpg Events - Becoming a Caregiver: Reflections on Life-Alteration - 1st talk of the 2024-2025 Conference Series by Bob Fox, LICSW. NECET founder, Bob Fox’s presentation emerges from his experience caring for his wife, who was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer late last year. The talk will center on the shifts of identity that arise when suddenly and unalterably thrown into this role. Identity in relation to caregiving for the dying other will be explored from multiple perspectives, including psychodynamic, existential, and cultural. The dialectics of reliance and burden will be explored with particular attention to issues of dependency, guilt and resentment, and grief and appreciation. As always at NECET, the personal will be used as a way to illustrate and explore these philosophical and psychological themes. https://www.necet.net/events/announcing-the-2024-2025-conference-series monthly 0.5 2024-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/aaaccf7a-f4aa-46a9-957c-24cf7fa2d10a/NECET+2024-2025+cover_small.jpg Events - Announcing the 2024-2025 Conference Series - Click on this image for the PDF of the full newsletter! Click on the above image to open and download the full announcement and schedule. https://www.necet.net/events/residing-in-the-space-between monthly 0.5 2024-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/defcd607-9b48-4510-9fac-bd51fc338ddf/Karley+Peterson+photo.png Events - Residing in the Space Between: Suffering and the Dialectic of Hope and Dread - 4th and final talk of the 2023-2024 NECET Conference Series by Karley Guterres, MA, MTS. Responses by Allison Slocum and Bob Fox, LICSW. 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. https://www.necet.net/events/who-are-you-who-am-i monthly 0.5 2024-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/996ec9f7-cc53-48fc-a015-134cb1f54fc2/Lisa+Moore+photo.png Events - Who Are You? Who Am I?: Reflections on boundaries of self in postmodernity - 3rd talk of the 2023-2024 NECET Conference Series by Lisa Moore, PhD. Responses by AndreAs Neumann-Mascis, PhD and Brianna Suslovic, LSW. 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. https://www.necet.net/events/heidegger-s-openness monthly 0.5 2024-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/fa4f5377-7161-43b2-bef0-dfba03f1b14b/Richard+photo.jpg Events - Heidegger's Openness: The Space Between Identity and Difference - 2nd talk of the 2023-2024 NECET Conference Series by Richard Freid, LMHC. Responses by Lynn O’Neal, LMHC and Sam Aston, MHC. 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. 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One of the only universal human certainties is facing death: the death of others, loved ones’ and our own. How do we “do” this? The master-apprentice relationship and its language are almost anachronistic in the United States, and we believe that may leave gaping holes in our relational, psychological and vocational developments. By comparison, in cultures where the words “master” and “apprentice” are ubiquitous, we may observe how these relationships provide the psychological infrastructure to be in-the- world, especially when the illusion of control and perfect safety are stripped away. This has implications for our individual lives and our clinical work. 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How can I be truly free? https://www.necet.net/events/bob-fox-takes-us-through-paterson monthly 0.5 2023-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/624dc063932d601fd32d7118/1661987072895-FJISNJTS25V1QSMHMYHO/Bob_film.png Events - Bob Fox presents "Paterson" - Bob Fox takes us through the existentials of Paterson (2010), directed by Jim Jarmusch. Why pay attention to the everyday small things? Watch this film to find out the dangers of not paying attention to those things, and not cultivating the practices which make such profundities possible. 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