This course, designed for anyone interested in learning more about themselves, will offer hands-on exploration of each participants’ lifestyle. Using a simple, straightforward approach to lifestyle investigation, participants can gain insights from early recollections, dreams, family constellation, and more. While some theory and techniques will be discussed/demonstrated, this course will be highly experiential, with an emphasis on self-compassion and encouragement. Open to all.

Learning objectives:
1. Participants will analyze themselves using Adlerian lifestyle investigation.
2. Participants will identify numerous strategies for investigating the lifestyle from an Adlerian perspective.
3. Participants will develop insight about their patterns of movement and guiding ideals.
4. Participants will develop manageable plans for personal improvement based on their insights.

Dreams are one of the five windows into an individual’s lifestyle. Adlerians believe that dreams show how each person imagines their life path, the unfinished and unsolved problems they have, how a person rehearses their approaches to life’s challenges, and what strengths a person would carry in waking life following the dream. Yet, an individual themselves can never fully understand their own dream, the dreams’ content, and the feelings the dreams stir up. The workshop addresses dreams as a lifestyle metaphor, the upcoming life challenges a person may dream of solving, and the strengths hidden in the dreams. The workshop involves demonstrations, small groups, and dyadic dreamwork exercises.
This course is designed primarily for therapists and students, but others are welcome too.

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will identify a central lifestyle metaphor in an individual’s dreams
2. Participants explain the dream emotions in terms of an individual movement toward life mastery
3. Participants will reword the key dream symbols into lifestyle formulation
4. Participants will describe at least one rehearsed in each dream strength useful in solving the upcoming life challenges. 

The course is sponsored by Adler University for 10 continuing education hours for psychologists. The course is open to psychologists and non-psychologists.

Delve into the intricate dance of initial attractions and the ongoing influence they have on our relational strategies and life goals. Through a mix of demonstrations, case studies, and experiential activities, participants will examine how the traits that initially draw us to our partners mirror our deeper values and the strategies we employ to achieve happiness and fulfillment.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to identify how initial attractions and first impressions influence the development of the Life Style.
2. Participants will be able to analyze the role of daydreams and fantasies in intimate relationships and describe how these elements reveal underlying Life Style patterns and personal values.
3. Participants will be able to apply Adlerian theory to understand how initial attractions reflect deeper psychological strategies for navigating life’s challenges and achieving personal fulfillment.
4. Participants will be able to demonstrate therapeutic interventions aimed at helping clients explore the influence of first impressions and fantasies on their relationship dynamics, fostering emotional intimacy and cooperation.

This course is made possible through a grant from the Alfred Adler Institute of New York

The course is sponsored by Adler University for 10 continuing education hours for IL marriage and family therapists. The course is open to all.

Focus on the process of substance abuse, interventions, and finding the metaphor in early recollections that reinforce the beliefs, life themes, and lifestyles of addicted individuals. This course is designed for therapists, counselors, social workers.

Learning Objectives:
1. Critique three demonstrations of early recollection process as an assessment tool
2. Be able to identify the parts of an early recollection
3. Discuss how life themes reinforce substance use disorders
4. List two positive intents for early substance use as it relates to reorientation

In families, community or professional settings, people meet problems. This course will explore practical ways of helping each other find encouraging solutions to these social challenges. Respectful listening, personal attitude and the incident method will get special attention. Participants will be able to apply the incident method. Case examples provided by the participants will be used.

Learning objectives:

1. Mention an explantaion why problems are social problems
2. Give an example of reflective listening
3. Explain the steps of the incident method
4. Guide a problem solving session by using the incident method

We often try hard to reach our goals, to convince others to follow our direction or suggestion but fail. This happens with colleagues, family and friends. How can we improve our skills to communicate by watching with our third eye and listening with our third ear? By theory and exercises we learn to improve our communication for the benefit of everyone. Open for everyone interested

Learning Objectives:
1. be able to identify the language in communication
2. be able to identify the moment of failure in bad communication
3. be able to use the third eye to improve own communication
4. be able to use the third ear to improve own communication  

This workshop will focus on the utilization of Adlerian Counseling strategies that can be used with adolescents and adults. The workshop will include an overview of the theory and the practice of Adlerian counseling and will also review the four phases of Adlerian Counseling. Emphasis will be on techniques such as acting as-if, push button technique, constructive action, early recollections and lifestyle assessment. This course is designed for therapists only.

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn the four phases of Adlerian counseling
2. Participants will describe Adlerian conceptualization and understand how it informs intervention planning.
3. Participants will summarize and discuss the lifestyle assessment process as a core assessment and treatment intervention from this theoretical orientation.
4. Participants will learn Adlerian counseling techniques, including- acting as-if, push button technique, constructive action, early recollections and lifestyle assessment.

The course is sponsored by Adler University for 10 continuing education hours for psychologists. The course is open to psychologists and non-psychologists.

We will explore our private logic or core assumptions about ourselves, others, the world around us and how we find a way to fit in. Some of these beliefs might have been established at a young age and through developing self-awareness we are able to identify and try out alternative choices and opportunities for the benefit of ourselves and others. Both therapists and non-professionals. Beginners and those with more experience seeking to develop their personal self-awareness.

Learning Objectives:
1. Be able to identify 3 ways of identifying private logic
2. To identify basic mistakes/mistaken beliefs in personal private logic and the consequences of these
3. Be able to identify the components of syllogism and describe how to construct them
4. To state how insight gained from personal insight/awareness gained can be put to use in day-to-day life

This class is designed to explain Social Justice Issues through the theory of Individual Psychology. Adlerian Theory is more than a basis for understanding and treating mental illnesses. Adlerian Theory can also be used to explain how to coexist with each other and the issues of life that lead to mental illnesses.

Learning Objectives:
1. Analyze current social justice issues across the globe.
2. Create ways to become a more socially responsible Adlerian.
3. Analyze and compare Social Embeddedness with Social Justice.
4. Compare and contrast Social Justice and social exclusion.