Attention, Manchester UK colleagues! Join me for a certification course in logotherapy for clinical and non-clinical practitioners. Click on the link to see the full course description, and contact me with interest.

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Certification Course in
Logotherapy
The Jerusalem Institute for Behavioral Health in partnership with Pathways is pleased to
announce the commencement of a course leading to certification through the Viktor Frankl
Institute of Logotherapy in Israel. The full course, approximately two years in length, leads the
student to the Associate Level in Logotherapy, after which point the student may choose to
continue towards the Diplomate Level, which involves a thesis or project and intensive
mentoring.
The Art of Optimal Living: Introductory Course in Logotherapy
Course Objectives
The Introductory Course, entitled “The Art of Optimal Living”, will be the foundation of your
training in logotherapy. The course offers personal and professional enrichment through on-site
training and group process (one Sunday per month), as well as required readings and essay
assignments that will enable you to explore the basic principles of logotherapy. You will
discover how these principles operate in your life and in the lives of your clients.
Topics to be covered in this course:
 The power of choice and making right choices
 The meaning of suffering, and the “capacity to suffer”
 Meaning in life, and the “meaning of the moment”
 Finding mission and purpose in life
 Human nature: is man motivated by drives or pulled by values?
 Responsibility and freedom
 Authentic living
 Frankl’s definition of conscience as compared to Freud’s concept of superego
 Logotherapy as compared to other major schools of psychology
 Logotherapy as a compliment to other methods of treatment
 The three-dimensional view of the person in logotherapy
Course Schedule
The introductory course will be given over five months, with reading and essay assignments to
be completed before each monthly on-site training session.
Required reading for the introductory course:
 Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning
 Shantall, Teria. The Quest for Destiny

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Course Fees
£620 per person. The fee covers on-site trainings, ongoing academic advising and assignment
supervision, and any handouts related to the course. Cost of books not included in the fee. The
Quest for Destiny will be purchased directly from Tani Burton.

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Certification Course in
Logotherapy
The Methods and Techniques of Logotherapy: Intermediate Course
Course Objectives
The introductory course focuses primarily on the principles of logotherapy and how they apply
in your own life. The intermediate course shifts the discussion to how logotherapy is
incorporated into therapeutic work with clients. At this level, you will build upon your
theoretical orientation in logotherapy with the methods and techniques of logotherapy,
enabling you to use these in your work. With these tools, you will be able to help others in a
very unique way, helping them to discover their spiritual selves amidst challenging
circumstances. You will enable people to live their values, to strive for meaning and purpose, to
live full, authentic lives.
Topics to be covered in the course
 Tension, boredom and despair
 Gaining a perspective on the past
 Attitude modulation
 Noogenic (spiritual) neuroses and depression
 Conducting a logotherapy session
 Meaning-centeredness versus problem-centeredness
 Fate and freedom
 Techniques of Socratic dialogue, paradoxical intention and dereflection
 Humor and self-detachment
Course Structure
 Reading and “self-task” essay assignments related to the required course reading
 Participation in monthly on-site training on Sundays
 Examination project
The course will take place over a period of five months.
Required Reading
 Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning
 Elizabeth Lukas, Logotherapy Textbook

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Fees
£660 per person. The fee covers on-site trainings, ongoing academic advising and assignment
supervision, and any handouts related to the course. Cost of books not included in the fee.
Course Schedule
The intermediate course will be given over five months, with reading and essay assignments to
be completed before each monthly on-site training session.

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Certification Course in
Logotherapy
The Application of Logotherapy: Advanced Course
At this point in the training the course is divided into two tracks, the clinical and educational
applications of logotherapy.
Clinical: The clinical track is intended for students who:
 Possess training and experience in counselling
 Strive to become competent therapists in the field of logotherapy
 Have access to an available client base
Students in the clinical track will learn how to utilize logotherapy with individuals,
couples, families and groups, and in all areas of the mental health field, whether in a
private, agency-based or medical context. Emphasis will be on the therapist’s ability to
enable the client to discover the power of his or her own human spirit. The
logotherapist’s unique commission is to empower his or her client to face any
circumstance with dignity, strength and purpose, turning setbacks into
accomplishments, tragedies into triumphs, and reclaiming the meaning of his or her life.
These skills will be gained through hands-on, supervised experience with clients.
Educational: The educational track is an opportunity to apply the principles of
logotherapy beyond the context of mental health and counselling, whether in
educational, corporate or organizational settings. Emphasis will be on the promotion of
quality, meaning-centered and purposeful living in all areas of human endeavor.
Students will be trained in the presentation of logotherapeutic principles in workshops,
motivational speaking and educational seminars. Through these venues, the
logotherapist becomes an agent in societal transformation, creating a world that
recognizes the worth, freedom and dignity of all of its members.
The educational track is well-suited for students who:
 Do not have training or experience in counselling and whose primary
focus is not the clinical application of logotherapy
 Are actively involved in non-clinical fields, such as business, education
or community service
 Are creative and entrepreneurial, and can chart new frontiers for the
application of logotherapeutic principles

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Topics to be covered in the course
 Ultimate meaning, faith and religion
 Conscience as a meaning organ
 Theory and therapy of mental disorders in logotherapy
 Frankl’s system of classification
 Establishing rapport, conducting and recording sessions
 Professional ethics
 Perception and its role in mental health
 Mental vitality versus psychopathology
 Logotherapeutic technique with individuals, couples, families and groups
 Logotherapy for somatic, psychological and noogenic neuroses
 Collective (societal) neuroses, and the challenges of our times
 Authentic being
 Working with children and teenagers
 Midlife crises
 Geriatric work
Throughout the advanced course, participants will be asked to transcribe and present sessions
for group supervision.
Required Reading
 Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning
 Viktor Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul
 Teria Shantall, Life’s Meaning in the Face of Suffering
Fees
£1150 per person. The fee covers on-site trainings, ongoing academic advising and assignment
supervision, and any handouts related to the course. Cost of books not included in the fee.
Course Schedule
The intermediate course will be given over ten months, with reading and essay assignments to
be completed before each monthly on-site training session.
To Register:
Contact Elimelech Dovid Kanter at 07806 822644 or email md@pathwaysuk.org