Alumni of Seattle University's Master of Arts in Existential Phenomenological Psychology

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Phenomenological Research

Phenomenological research has value and resonance for our work as professionals in the area of psychotherapy and related professions as well as to our personal lives.  Since 1985, students and graduates of the MAP program have been engaged in qualitative research, some in collaboration with faculty.

In support of this, faculty and alumni of the Graduate Program present an annual conference to showcase research conducted by Seattle University graduates in a public forum of learning and dialogue and to think about our own possible research questions and interests.  On this site, we will post events and opportunities in support of qualitative and phenomenological research for professionals among alums and their colleagues.

Giving Voice to Experience:  How Experience Becomes Evidence

  • Saturday, May 9, 2009:  9:00am to 6:00pm
  • Seattle University Campus: Casey Commons (5th floor) Casey Building
  • Cost: $45 postmarked by April 20 / $55 postmarked by April 30th: includes morning snacks, lunch, dinner, coffee and tea, wine and cheese and a maximum of 5 CEUs
  • Pre-Registration is Required.  Registration Deadline is April 30, 2009.

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Schedule:

Opening Presentation - Experience as Evidence: Phenomenology, Receptivity and Discovery
Steen Halling

  1. Intuitive Moments: A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Intuition during Psychotherapy.
    Melissa J. Kennedy and Kathleen Pape
  2. A Phenomenological Exploration of Difficult Conversations
    Kevin Krycka
  3. The Emperor’s New Clothes: What You See Depends upon How You Look—An Emerging Paradigm in Multicultural Competency Training
    Liang Tien
    Jude Bergkamp
    Ariel Caspe-Detzer
  4. A Prostitutes’ Lived Experiences of Stigma
    Miyuki Tomura
  5. Reclaiming the Aesthetic
    Joanne Halverson and Adair Hinds

Capstone Presentation: Art and Phenomenology
Barbara Fugate 

We are pleased to present Barbara Fugate as our capstone speaker: a Seattle-based artist who understands her art, and her process as an artist and teacher, as phenomenological, experiential, and empirical. The artistic and creative process resonates with the challenges of phenomenological research: To say something fundamental and new about phenomenon, something that resonates with our shared experience.

“If Fine Art is to be a direct and relevant experience of life, I remain committed to working directing from life in order to find it. My artwork is mostly figurative and is as much about the sitter as it is about my thoughts, feelings, and actions in response to them.” -Barbara Fugate.

The Organizing Committee

Research Participation Opportunity

Research participants are needed for a research project being conducted on the experience of life restoration, resilience, and wisdom. Participants will be in a positive state of renewal after having suffered the murder of a loved one five years ago or more, be an adult, and not currently in therapy. If the perpetrator is known, he or she must be either in prison, deceased, recovered, or otherwise not a possible threat to the participant. Victims will not have been involved in organized crime. A one hour interview is the total time of participation and information will be confidential. Please contact Christine A. Mackie, MS, MA, LMHC, NCC, Doctoral Candidate at Saybrook Graduate School, 425-653-2416, research@cougarpeak.com, http://www.nettherapy.org