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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AHC Emerging Leaders Program <span class="gmaildefault">2025-26</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you for considering t<span class="gmaildefault">he Association for Humanistic Counseling's </span>Emerging Leaders Program!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The AHC Emerging Leaders program was developed to allow students and new professionals to participate in AHC activities, receive mentorship, and connect with professional networking
opportunities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Emerging Leaders will be selected to serve for the 2025-26 term (July 2025 to June 2026). Master’s level students, doctoral level students, and new professionals </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">(having
graduated in the past year) </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">will be selected as AHC emerging leaders. Recipients must be an AHC member at the time of award and fall into the master’s, doctoral, or new professional
categories. Emerging Leaders choose an area of interest within the division and receive mentoring related to that area. Emerging Leaders will provide a minimum of 50 hours of service to an AHC committee, project, or task. Emerging Leaders will also have opportunities
to learn the responsibilities associated with serving in elected leadership positions within our association. They will also receive FREE conference registration for the 2025 AHC conference.</span><span style="color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Emerging Leaders will receive a free conference registration for the 2025 AHC Conference in Tampa, Florida that will include a leadership training and recognition
at the AHC Awards Ceremony.</span><span style="color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Interested applicants should submit:</span><span style="color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> 1) A completed Emerging Leaders application</span><span style="color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2) Your Curriculum vitae</span><span style="color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3) Two letters of reference describing your leadership skills and experiences, and your value of humanistic practices (letters cannot come from members of the
AHC selection committee) to <a href="mailto:ahcemergingleaders@gmail.com">ahcemergingleaders@gmail.com</a> no later than <b>November 1, 2024.</b> The selection committee will notify applicants of the status of their application by November 22, 2024. </span><span style="color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are eager to develop leadership skills and are deeply committed to AHC's vision of inclusivity, community,
and social justice. The review committee is especially interested in candidates who identify with historically marginalized groups and will give strong consideration to applications that reflect a range of diverse experiences. Selection criteria include:</span><span style="color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Applications can be found here: </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.humanisticcounseling.org%2Femerging-leaders-program&data=05%7C02%7Ccounselor_educ%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C0bcd1074d59e43b0e49208dcd0e70acc%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C638614937954244422%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YO7YdJhpvIdB7sC91cHZYKsdkTTR2RT6ZWALajRpcYQ%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.humanisticcounseling.org/emerging-leaders-program" shash="YsO944w/4CwkWvitw5eBYyMb+WytEqutu3MiixduxOdWpDUVguGFi4x6nhF0i3YXeaJGNnw5hAmAMovoAHzTbBIKBaFXMKkC6gWU/dJUlmvkZrLbJRGPMW9JxMc6WBGwvrXprpEEw4pYLSWJ6HD2KEk/xC1HoIbE2uSn9iYDBR4=" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">AHC
Emerging Leaders Program 2025-2026</span></a></span><span style="color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you have any questions, please contact the Emerging Leaders Committee chairs: Dr. Amanda M. Evans and Dr. Bogusia Skudrzyk at
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