This practical course on psychological counseling within the existential analysis will be taught by the founder of the said approach, the Austrian psychotherapist Alfried Laengle and his followers.

This course unites Russian- and English-speaking colleagues from all over the world to help us gain support in times of utmost insecurity

You are going to be a part of the therapeutic process

and you will also learn by watching the work of a famous professional who is known all over the world – Alfried Laengle. 

This Course Is Suitable For:

Consulting psychotherapists,

who seek new ways to help their clients, who are choosing a psychotherapeutic method, and who would like to learn more about existential analysis

Therapists of all types,

who would like to improve their professional skills by learning from the masters of psychotherapy

Psychiatrists,

who strive to integrate psychological knowledge into their practice in order to help their patients more effectively

Coaches,

who are interested in working deeper and in seeing more, with the help of psychological knowledge and techniques.

Graduate students of Psychology,

who have already started their practice and wish to see how psychotherapy works in real time or learn more about existential analysis

Why Existential Analysis?

How can you benefit from participating in the one-year program?

How will the course go?

What methods will you master during the course?

The method of building courage (self-confidence)

Frequently a person hesitates over something not because of the challenge itself, but rather because they have excessive expectations of themselves.

The three steps of this method of working with insecurity can help the client clarify the situation, to find inner support, while also grounding themselves in reality, so that they can understand their own limits and then simply take the first step forward.

Additional steps here are to replay the situation of failure in mind, dereflexion ("take your attention off yourself, focus on the task"), appeal to the meaning beyond the moment, and others.

Psychological processing of guilt

The meaning of guilt from the existential analysis perspective is not to " exhaust" a person, but to lead them to a better quality of being.

The core of processing the guilt is to take a close and specific look at the circumstances and actions that caused the guilt (" Where was the mistake? Where exactly do I see the problem?"). At the same time you remain close to yourself and your intuition for what is right. And also find possible redemptions that can be very personal, individual, and private. 

The most important step which the therapist helps the client to take is to let the guilt go, after doing everything possible.

In this same way, the existential therapist works with forgiveness.

Finding a personal position

Existential analysis emphasizes the freedom and responsibility of a person. No matter what happens, we can always at least develop an attitude toward it.

The Personal Position method serves to process feelings that make a person passive (like fear, depression, generalized assumptions). It also serves to activate the Person.

The core of this method is rigorous concretization and practical anchoring of decisions in everyday life.

Dealing with aggression

Although aggression is a non-personal automatic reaction, it is still important. It signals that something that matters to me is in danger.

The core of working with aggression in existential analysis is not about ‘reacting’ or ‘damping it down’. The aim is to make it triple-visioned, to see both the external reasons for aggression and the internal ones, precisely in terms of:

Fear therapy method called ‘Gate of Death’

This is the very heart of anxiety therapy. The point is to imagine that the most terrible thing has happened and then stand next to it.

Anxiety can make fantasies scarier than reality. It is important to stay real and close to the client, without letting the feelings "swamp" them.

This method allows a person to find inner support and to activate their spiritual forces (Person forces) to stay true to themselves in any situation without being a victim, but rather a decision-maker. 

Even when it is very scary.

Personal Existential Analysis (PEA) method

This is phenomenology at work - a basic method of working with a wide variety of client situations and issues.

It is a technique that allows a person to identify the essentials in the flood of experiences, to adopt a personal position toward them and to develop the most appropriate behavior for that situation and the corresponding person. It is the method most frequently used in therapy.

Biographical Existential Analysis (BEA)

This is a look at biography from a special perspective - from the significance of events for a particular client's life. The object of the analysis is "live" and "personal" in the chronicle: where and how did this person come to life? Where did they fail? What did a certain event mean to them - like the war, their parents' divorce, their brother's wedding?

The biographical method helps to find a different, unusual way to deal with problems and conversely, to find a support for the present day in the way this person handled challenges in the past. It is also used for work with trauma. 

The method of building willpower

It is applicable in situations in which there is either no solution or this solution requires too much determination. A weak will is often rooted in a lack of values, so we carefully examine together with the person the things that really matter to them.

The method consists of five steps: from the factual level, through awakening of emotionality (what "attracts"), we gradually move to determination and realization.

The Method of Discovering Meaning, or the 4 W's

It is important in therapy of meaninglessness and/or when a person finds it difficult to choose one goal among many others.

The process of finding meaning as "the most valuable opportunity in a particular situation" is decomposed into four sequential steps.

The core of this method is to help the client to see and build their own hierarchy in the ocean of opportunities offered " right here and right now" by life, and dare to take the most valuable of them.

Plan

Professional

1600 EUR