What is existential or lifestyle psychology?
It is about the human centered lifestyle study and application of ethical values, positive attitudes, high expectations, mature beliefs and responsible choices that make life rewarding and fulfilling.
Existentialism is an attempt to understand humanity and interpersonal relationships by eliminating the cleavage between individuals and their environment. This separation between the subjective person and the objective world has bedeviled our society since the renaissance. This intellectual split forces us to think of ourselves as separate from the events and relationships that shape our destiny.
Existentialism is the attempt by many perceptive scholars in a number of disciplines to reconnect individuals with the existence in which they live and move and have their being.
Existential or lifestyle psychology is in the forefront of this movement to reconnect humanity to its emotional roots.
Action Logotherapy constructs re-establish the I THOU relationship to our world
and environment as opposed to the I IT which alienates and disconnects us.
What is Logotherapy (Spirit-Wellness)?
Logotherapy has become the action arm of existential or lifestyle psychology that enables perceptive men and women to make their lives meaningful and fulfilling.
Logotherapy (Spirit-Wellness) is the synthesis of existential psychology and metaphysical philosophy that is pleasurable, powerful and
permanent enough to sustain your life along lines of
excellence in good times and bad.
It is based on the fact that all normal persons have the freedom of will to make wise and productive choices because every aspect of life can be improved by
maintaining a positive attitude, reasonable expectations and responsible choices.
Logotherapy (Spirit Wellness) is the existential or lifestyle approach for
developing a life filled with meaning and significance in well functioning
families, faith communities, companies and neighborhoods where we find a lasting
sense of belonging among the good people with whom we share faith, hope and
love.
Logotherapy is the world class psychospiritual system for winning a satisfying life by normal persons who apply existential psychology and mystical philosophy
in the best approach to living, loving, laboring and leading well yet identified by the human race.
spiritual values
positive attitudes
high expectations
mature beliefs
responsible choices
The five key aspects of Logotherapy above offer brilliant solutions to life’s
challenges that Mahatma Gandhi called the most meaningful discourse about living
with satisfaction and joy taught by any learning master. The very fact that
world class scholars are still praising Jesus’ constructs two thousand years
after the wandering rabbi and field preacher first uttered them in a primitive
land to simple farmers and shepherds – verifies their world class value.
Logotherapy does indeed strike a resounding cord in contemporary minds and
hearts for millions of normal souls who struggle to make life come out right.
Through the last half century Logotherapy has become the action arm of
existential psychology -- although it goes much further in serving thoughtful
persons than psychology alone.
What do we mean by psychospiritual?
It relates to the human motivational pyramid to combine the physical,
psychological and philosophical drives of life.
How do the physical, psychological and philosophical levels of the pyramid
relate to each other?
Although we are forced by our limitations to discuss these three elements individually, in our activities and attitudes they are as combined as the ingredients of a cake after it has been baked. The crucial aspects of human motivation virtually always function in
cooperation with each other.
Who is Viktor Frankl?
He was the brilliant successor to Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler as the
spiritual head of the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy. Viktor wrote about
thirty books about Logotherapy, the most successful of which was MAN'S SEARCH
FOR MEANING which was read by about thirty million men and women in
thirty-four languages. But while Freud thought the avoidance of pain and the
search for pleasure and Adler considered the yearning for potency and power
basic of human motivation, Frankl learned that the need for meaning and a sense
of purpose was most important to we humans.
What are his main books?
MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING, THE DOCTOR AND THE SOUL, THE UNCONSCIOUS GOD,
LOGOTHERAPY AND EXISTENTIALISM
Who is Jard DeVille?
He is the most prolific and innovative interpreter of FRANKLIAN
LOGOTHERAPY with a graduate curriculum of Logotherapy courses available in The Fulfillment Forum, DeVille Logotherapy Learning Center and The Learning
Center's Speakers Service. His books, graduate courses, seminars, assessment
instruments and presentations are considered world class by university
professors and deans, corporate CEO's, church leaders and a wide variety of
participants in his programs around the world.
What are his books and graduate courses?
NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST, LOVERS FOR LIFE, FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT, THE
LIBERATED SOUL, GRACE UNDER LEADERSHIP PRESSURE, PARENTING WINNING CHILDREN
and many more.
How has he gone beyond his mentor Viktor Frankl?
While Viktor Frankl taught about our human yearning for meaning,
Jard DeVille added the longing for belonging with the men and women with whom we share faith, hope and love.
Jard combined Viktor’s focus on personal meaning with his
own emphasis on situations and relationships where one belongs emotionally -- where good people are accepted, loved
and trusted in places of the heart.
How would a Logotherapy degree benefit my career?
Special Benefit Number One - (Empowering Your Love, Labor And Leadership) The Center’s MS and PhD programs have been developed for persons such as yourself to complete sound life tasks and enjoy rewarding relationships with consistent satisfaction within their homes, churches, schools, communities, professional associations and companies. Logotherapy is powerful indeed for ambitious persons who strive to make their lives purposeful and significant. Rather than training Logotherapy Learning Center degree candidates in the practice of psychiatry or psychotherapy, we educate scholars to live meaningful lives and to guide others with sound behavioral knowledge and deep philosophical wisdom.
Special Benefit Number Two – While Viktor Frankl taught about our human yearning for meaning,
Jard DeVille added the longing for belonging with the men and women with whom we
share faith, hope and love. He combined Viktor’s focus on personal meaning
with his own emphasis on situations and relationships where one belongs
emotionally where good people are accepted, loved and trusted in places of the
heart.
How would a Logotherapy degree benefit my career?u shall be reaching into the very center of virtually every person’s soul!
Special Benefit Number Three – (Establishing A Logotherapy Service)
We offer you the opportunity to meet a troubled society’s nearly universal
existential needs directly through an organizational or private practice of
Logotherapy. Enhance your professional significance, satisfaction and earnings
by teaching Logotherapy classes, making compelling speeches, writing a blog and
counseling or coaching individuals and groups for your own esteem and income
during the painful lifestyle changes overwhelming so many persons. Your practice
could become invaluable as career level jobs vanish almost overnight and most
people are forced to change employers six or eight times during their adult
lives with absolutely no security. As a pastor or personnel trainer; a teacher or social worker as a company manager or executive – or a Logotherapy consultant - you can teach, write to and coach others to develop their best sources of meaning and belonging with individual and group counseling services, seminars and motivational presentations through the spiritual values, positive attitudes, high expectations, mature beliefs and responsible choices that make life most meaningful and successful.
Evidence of Achievement -- Which includes transcripts, attractive diplomas, letters of recommendation, signet rings if desired and especially a powerful positive attitude and high expectation of competence and successful service.
How does a Logotherapy degree compare in effort and cost to a traditional degree?
Registration, PAYMENT WITH MINIMAL PAIN - A master’s scholar can pay tuition as he or she progresses toward a degree by submitting a five hundred dollar initial payment and following that with a two hundred fifty dollars per month for twelve months or until the remaining three thousand dollars is paid.
We are flexible with payment. Please contact us if you need additional information or need to arrange a payment plan different from those discribed.
Pre-Paid Discount for Masters Degrees - When the entire tuition package is pre-paid while selecting the course work or within two months after registering, the complete Master’s fee is three thousand for the six courses which amounts to a significant savings.
For doctoral courses, the monthly payment plan for the tuition package for the eight post-introduction courses is forty-five hundred dollars with a five hundred dollar deposit plus two hundred fifty dollars per month until the remaining four thousand dollars are paid.
Pre-Paid Discount for Doctoral Degrees - The prepaid doctoral plan is four thousand dollars total providing it is paid when registering or within the two months following.
For international scholars, the course fees are the same as for American nationals but in American money. We charge no interest on monthly payments.
This will take you through the first step in your graduate degree program, which you are cordially invited to continue with your academic don’s guidance.
We wish you consistent meaning and achievement for yourself and for those persons with whom you share faith, hope, love and mutual support.
How much time is needed to earn an online Logotherapy degree?
There is either a thesis or a practicum requirement and our programs require about twelve months of spare time effort for the masters and fourteen to sixteen months for the doctorate.
Choose the major and Core courses and Collateral volumes that are most appropriate for reaching your goals.
We estimate, 2 hours a day four days a week, saturday morning - Masters 12 months, PhD 15 months.
Thesis, Dissertation or Practicum
You can research and write a minimum thirty page thesis for the master’s degree or a minimum fifty page dissertation for the doctorate or you can do a thirty hour master’s or a fifty hour doctoral practicum instead. If you choose to write a thesis, you should set up a document file early in your study in which to keep and organize your thesis or dissertation notes with page, paragraph and sentence numbers so they can easily be relocated.
The practicum can also be discussed with your don and can be a volunteer service for a group of people such as a scout troop, a nursing home, a hospital or jail, a school or church or some other service organization where you shall interact with people and apply your increasing Logotherapy skills for their benefit and your growing wisdom. Service societies of all kinds are always seeking speakers for their programs and will offer a free lunch and sometimes a small fee.
How are the Master and PhD Logotherapy Degrees Individualized?
We use online academic dons and chat room study groups This approach allows each scholar to learn at his or her own pace in one’s own space. We offer eighteen book length DVDs
or downloads (with two more coming) in five academic majors as our Core Curriculum.
Majors are Personal Logotherapy, Wellness Logotherapy, Leadership Logotherapy, Family Logotherapy and Faith Logotherapy. We reinforce those mega
Core courses with almost a hundred classic volumes from thirty or so world class scholars in our Collateral Curriculum. You choose your own major and courses -- except for the introductory Core course – our
YOUR
SEARCH FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE and Viktor Frankl’s MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING from the Collateral list that sets the stage for Logotherapy.
Each Learning Center graduate scholar is free to choose any six of the eighteen courses to be studied for the master’s program or any eight for the doctoral degree.
Each master’s scholar also selects two collateral volumes to be read with each Core course while the doctoral candidate selects three classics from the collateral list for each Core course.
If you have any questions or experience some difficulty in choosing a major or with specific courses, your academic don is only an email
or chat away to help you.
There is either a thesis or a practicum requirement and our programs require about twelve months of spare time effort for the masters and fourteen to sixteen months for the doctorate.
Choose the major and Core courses and Collateral volumes that are most appropriate for reaching your goals.
All of our Core courses have been previously published as successful books by major book houses such as Morrow and New American Library, by Lasser in Mexico City and Yanagadiara of Tokyo, as graduate courses for the Universities of Arizona and Wisconsin students or for corporate managers and executive seminars
throughout the United States and the world.
Please
contact us if you have any questions,
we would love to hear from you.
