Depth workshop to gain perspectives for supporting elder clients
Presented by Nader Shabahangi, Ph.D., MFT
Saturday, June 22nd 10:00am to 3:30pm
4 CEs available
Workshop Description
Drawing upon the philosophical roots, literature, and practices of humanistic psychology and philosophy, as well as the latest research in gerontology, participants will reflect on their own beliefs and fears of aging and their ideas of adulthood and elderhood, in the context of working with clients in this population.
Participants will be invited to explore their personal identities and work interactively in groups and dyads toward developing new identity constructions and frameworks for conceptualizing aging, meaning, and purpose for clients in old age.
This new perspective potentially nourishes personal well-being, enlarges the context of psychotherapy practice, and contributes to the health of each person’s inner and outer world.
Educational Goals
This workshop presents concepts and practices for treating clients through the perspective that moving away from the dominant decline narrative of aging, to a fuller understanding aging as eldering, creates a new attitude that welcomes aging as the maturation, deepening and development of each human being.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
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Describe the principle goals of eldership in the practice of psychotherapy.
- Explain about the history and ways in which the humanistic movement dovetails with the emergence of a new eldership concept.
- Describe of the concept of “eldering” as relevant to both personal health and well-being, and to psychotherapy practice.
- Apply skills through an eldership view of a human being’s life with oneself and with one’s clients.
- Name the individual and societal health implications of eldering and eldership, of a nonhierarchical, systemic view of humans in relationship with other forms of planetary life.
- Describe the concept of neurodiversity as a way to conceptualize different attitudes to life and the influence of culture on the way we understand aging and elders.
Presenter Dr. Nader Shabahangi
Nader Shabahangi, PhD., MFT, Nader received his training as an existential-humanistic therapist from Jim Bugental, a pioneer in existential humanistic thought and practice. He co-founded the Existential Humanistic Institute in 1997 to train therapists in an existential-humanistic approach to helping clients. At the same time, he embarked on becoming a diplomate in ProcessWork and began an innovative humanistic training program for beginning therapists working in eldercare communities. In 2003, Nader founded Eldership Academy which further focused his interest in working with elders and explores the meaning of our aging process as an inward journey connecting us to our inner nature or soul.
His current project is to re-conceptualize eldercare from a custodial model to a spiritual approach he calls Elder Ashram. He is a licensed psychotherapist in California. His love for the humanities, philosophy and psychology, earned him his doctorate from Stanford University.
PLEASE NOTE: This event will be recorded. By registering for this event you are consenting to a recording being made which may include your voice and/or image. This recording may be available for review and downloading. By registering for this event, you are agreeing for your likeliness to possibly be used by Marin CAMFT.
The Zoom link and password are provided in the registration confirmation email after sign-up is completed.
Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 4 hours of Continuing Education (4 CEUs).
Date: Saturday, June 22
Time: 10:00 am to 3:30 pm Pacific with time for breaks/lunch
Cost: $20 for Students/Associates; $59 for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $69 for non-members.
Location: Online via Zoom. Password and link sent upon registration.
Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs Norman Hering.
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Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
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