The Integrated Heart of Cultural and Mindfulness Meditation Practice in Existential Phenomenology and Humanistic Psychotherapy Andrew J. Felder University of California, Los Angeles Brent Dean Robbins Point Park University At this time, it does not appear that existential phenomenology and humanistic psychology (PHP) have formed inclusive, process-oriented frameworks that reference the sociocultural and contextual significations embedded in the flow of everyday human experience. And yet apart from the welcome variety of psychotherapy approaches comprising PHP, the founding existential phenomenological and humanistic thinkers had already addressed cultural issues in their writings. In addition, these same founding thinkers had already developed mindful- ness meditation perspectives well ahead of the mindfulness-based cognitive– behavioral therapy third wave. This article considers the link between PHP’s emphasis on attuned mindfulness and meditative sociocultural awareness as part of an emerging mindful and multicultural humanistic-existential psychotherapy (MMHEP) approach. MMHEP fluidly supports both mindfulness and meditative attunement to clients’ culture-near or context-near experiences as part of an experience-near attentiveness to the groundless ground of experi- ence. By reuniting the landscape of “inward” possibilities for bare and present moment mind- fulness with the meditative awareness of “outer” sociocultural realms, a client may integratively connect with a greater sense of wholeness as a sociocultural-being-in-the-world. Keywords: culture existential psychotherapy, person-centered therapy, existential humanistic therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, existential phenomenological psychotherapy Will we psychologists continue to be peripheral to our society, or will we risk the dangers of being a significant social factor? —Carl Rogers, A Way of Being (1980, p. 257) The vitalizing connection between mindfulness meditation and sociocultural contexts has yet to be articulated in a practically and philosophically grounded manner across the rich landscape of contemporary humanistic and existential phenomenological psychother- apy approaches. In this article, we begin to explore how and why an emerging mindful and Andrew J. Felder, Counseling and Psychological Services, University of California, Los Angeles; Brent Dean Robbins, Department of Humanities and Human Sciences, Point Park University. Special thanks to Julie Neudeck for her thoughtful reviews of this article. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Andrew J. Felder, Counseling and Psychological Services, University of California, Los Angeles, John Wooden Center West, Box 951556, Los Angeles, CA 90095. E-mail: andrfeld@aol.com This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly. The Humanistic Psychologist © 2016 American Psychological Association 2016, Vol. 44, No. 2, 105–126 0887-3267/16/$12.00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/hum0000021 105