VIKTOR FRANKL INSTITUTE COURSES

This course is an introduction to Viktor Frankl’s basic concepts, postulates, teachings and philosophy that comprise the Third School of Viennese Psychiatry undergirding the practice of Logotherapy.  The Will to Meaning is contrasted with the Will to Pleasure and the Will to Power.  Humans as conceptualized in three dimensions and ways the dynamic power of the human spirit are explored.  Three ways to find meaning are presented and examples given.  Socratic dialogue is practiced.  Contemporary uses of Frankl’s work is discussed.

Building upon information from the Foundations course, this course develops the concept of attitudinal change and its importance in the utilization of Frankl’s Logotherapy in understanding meaning.   Key techniques and methods are explored.  In addition, the concepts of Frankl’s phenomenological theory, existential vacuum, and the components of the tragic triad are explored.

This course involves a study of the affirmative, future oriented, holistic approach of Logotherapy that seeks to reverse the trend of meaninglessness, depersonalization, and nihilism. The course focuses on helping to facilitate an awareness of dignity and uniqueness within the individual as a source of strength and well-being for making choices and taking responsibility for one’s actions. 

This is a practically oriented course for licensed professionals that provides a contemporary focus on logotherapy for behavioral health disorders.  The course includes theoretical underpinnings, clinical applications, and clinical research. Broad concepts in ethics and culture are included.  The learner is guided in navigating the dialectical paradoxes of wholism and pluralism, objectivity and subjectivity, absurdity/facticity and meaning, and Frankl's dimensional ontology, in the unique phenomenologies of client life and existential distress. Emphasis will be on competency in case study analysis of creatively applying self-distancing and self-transcendence to support client's meaning-discovery.

This course is designed for those who are interested in the application of logotherapy and logophilosophy in spaces outside of direct health care settings, including but not limited to coaching, education, business, consulting, and organizational life. The course is focused on the philosophy and posture of Franklian approaches, and applications in various aspects of life. Ample attention is given to ethical considerations. The course has 10 modules and frames logo-philosophy application through the lens of maieutic presence, with attention to the importance of stillness, the awakening of conscience for its noetic discernment, techniques for values-discourse, and a variety of tools and interview-approaches to draw forth self-transcendence and self-distancing towards meaning-discovery. This course involves a study of the affirmative, future oriented, holistic approach of Logotherapy that seeks to reverse the trend of meaninglessness, depersonalization, and nihilism. The course focuses on helping to facilitate an awareness of dignity and uniqueness within the individual as a source of strength and well-being for making choices and taking responsibility for one’s actions.