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Week 2 – Type A Courses – Afternoons (14:30-16:30)

Afternoons (14:30 – 16:30)


A501, Abramson, Zivit – Understanding and Helping Couples
We shall follow the development of couplehood, beginning with the partners’ choice of each other, understanding their “hidden contract”, continuing with the conflicts they get into, and showing the way they can resolve these conflicts and create a life-long satisfying new contract. The course will include lectures, discussions and demonstrations. Open to Youth.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Be able to pinpoint the elements of the partners’ life styles that attracted them to each other. Lay people will be able to tell what attracted them to each other
  2. Practice eliciting the hidden Psychological contract of a couple, using a specific technique
  3. Identify three typical situations in which the original contract of couples often does not work
  4. Be able to apply principles of bringing the relationship back with a new contract based on more equality
  5. Professionals will be able to create a therapeutic relationship with both partners even when they are involved in a power struggle
  6. Through demonstrations participants will analyze the structure of couple therapy
  7. Lay people will be able to understand their own relationship in terms of their contract
  8. Lay people will be able to improve their couple relation

A502, Armerding, Calvin – Cooperation in Families
Families are vulnerable to competitive striving in marriages/partnerships, as well as parent-child, sibling, and intergenerational relationships. Competitions disrupt community feeling, moving families into the “useless side of life.” Adlerian lifestyle investigation exposes competitive dynamics and allows reorientation toward cooperation. This fosters community feeling, minimizes conflict, and avoids discouragement. This course includes demonstrations, case studies, and practical counsel for families. Open to Youth.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will compare and contrast competitive and cooperative striving
  2. Participants will identify competitions using Adlerian lifestyle investigation
  3. Participants will participate (voluntarily) in lifestyle investigation exercises
  4. Participants will discuss case studies that demonstrate competitive striving in families
  5. Participants will discuss common types of competitions within families
  6. Participants will assess their own vulnerabilities to competition and private logic in family life
  7. Participants will apply insights from lifestyle investigation to everyday choices in family life
  8. Participants will explain how to reorient their families and themselves towards cooperative striving.

A503, Balla, Marion – Building Resilience and Self Care at Work and at Home 
Addressing compassion fatigue and burnout requires tangible, proactive strategies for building resilience and creating space for self-care. Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout, assess stress/distress levels at home and at work, create a self-care plan based on strategies to increase balance and reduce negative thinking and feelings, and develop skills to increase well-being and enhance supportive relationships. Open to Youth.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to describe the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout
  2. Participants will be able to apply the latest brain research on compassion fatigue to create options for self care
  3. Participants will be able to assess stress levels to determine vulnerability to compassion fatigue
  4. Participants will be able to create a self care plan based on strategies to increase balance and reduce negative thinking and feelings.
  5. Participants will be able to integrate techniques for balance and equilibrium in daily routines, eg. mindfulness, energy management
  6. Participants will be able to outline the impact of negative thinking/feelings on the resilience levels of caregivers
  7. Participants will be able to use stress reduction techniques in daily life to increase wellbeing and enhance supportive relationships.
  8. Participants will be able to use encouragement of self and others to promote wellness and enhanced supportive relationships.

A504, Hofstra, Pauline – Self Disclosure: Movement & Boundaries
As humans we are both ‘a part of’ and ‘a-part from’ the social world. We have our own inner world of experience (supervised by our private logic), with psychological boundaries that separate us from the outside world and the inner world of others. This course examines how boundary awareness of our inner world can enhance self-esteem, autonomy, compassion, and respect in our relationships with others.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to describe 3 functions of psychological boundaries in social life
  2. Participants will be able to describe the 3 locations of attention: the intrapersonal space, the intrapersonal space of another person and the extra personal space between (i.e. the interpersonal space).
  3. Participants will be able to describe and analyze their own movement between the 3 locations of attention
  4. Participants will be able to explain the relationship between lifestyle and private logic and the concept of psychological inner world and psychological boundaries
  5. Participants will be able to describe and demonstrate the differences between compassion and empathy using the 3 locations of attention
  6. Participants will be able to use the metaphor of ‘the inner garden’ for the inner psychological world and ‘garden fence’ for the psychological boundaries
  7. Participants will be able to use and practice the 3-dimensional boundary projective method using colored wool felt figures, the wooden sticks and basic wooden figures in dyads
  8. Participants will be able to explain how they can use the metaphor of ‘the inner garden’ and corresponding psychological movements in their own private and working life

A505, Levitt-Frank, Mia – Adlerian Coaching – Realizing Potential and Creating Significant Results
Coaching is a focused process designed to create significant and outstanding results for the client. In Adlerian coaching, movement is directed towards realizing personal or professional goals and integrates personal movement with social interest. Employing deep listening, powerful questions, and encouragement, we create a unique conversation. In this workshop, participants will set themselves a meaningful goal and will be coached to create the path to realize it. Participants will acquire knowledge and tools that will enrich communication skills and maximize results in working with clients. Open to Youth

Learning Objectives:

  1. Define personal coaching based on the Adlerian principles
  2. Create personal vision
  3. Compile a personal value compass
  4. Practice active listening, asking powerful questions and encouragement
  5. Create a personal goal based on social interest
  6. Identify components of a coaching conversation
  7. State how coaching skills will be integrated in personal and professional life
  8. Acquire practical tools for making meaningful choices based on Adlerian principles

A506, Oberst, Ursula – Using the Client’s Dreams as a Projective Technique in Counseling
Dreams are not very often used in Adlerian counseling and psychotherapy. But building on Adler’s early approach, Adlerian scholars like Shulman (1973) and Oberst (2002) have developed a comprehensive theory about the function of dreams that is consistent with current research. Research has shown that the client’s dreams can be used as a projective technique to achieve a better understanding of the client’s current issues and adaptive and maladaptive strategies. This workshop presents an approach to working with dreams in Adlerian counseling. Participants are encouraged to bring their own dreams or clients’ dreams into the workshop. Open to Youth.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to

  1. describe Adler’s early approach to dreams
  2. describe the current Adlerian theory to working with dreams
  3. analyze the differences of the Adlerian approach with other theories
  4. describe the contemporary research on the function of dreams
  5. relate the contemporary research to Adlerian theory
  6. use a technique of working with dreams with their clients
  7. develop their own creative work with dreams
  8. work with clients’ recurrent dreams and nightmares

A507, Pacurar, Anda – Understanding Adolescents

Using Adlerian-Dreikursian principles of understanding adolescents we will explore private logic, behaviors and search for meaning. We analyze typical modern challenges for adolescents like being independent, identity issues, social media, bullying (cyber bullying), adapting to the pandemic and how to develop resilience in general. The theory and technique will be taught by means of live demonstrations. Open to Youth.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain how private logic operates at adolescents
  2. Recognize and describe goals of behavior
  3. Analyze how virtual life has a real impact on their life
  4. Assess an identified client
  5. Demonstrate effective strategies in winning the cooperation
  6. Demonstrate effective strategies in winning the cooperation
  7. Practice problem-solve at home, at school or in other social environment
  8. Apply strategies to develop self-esteem, social interest and resilience

A508, Pollak, Peter – Freundschaft (German)
Durch die veränderten Lebensumstände – kaum noch Großfamilien, demografische Entwicklung, Familien leben oft sehr weit auseinander – haben Freundschaften eine zunehmend größere Bedeutung. Gute Freundschaften waren und sind schon immer eine wichtige Quelle der Zufriedenheit und des Wohlergehens. Heute übernehmen Freunde aber auch Aufgaben, die früher die Großfamilien übernommen haben. In dem Kurs beschäftigen wir uns mit der Definition von Freundschaften seit der Antike. Der Schwerpunkt liegt aber darauf, was wir tun können, um Freundschaften zu pflegen, neue zu gewinnen und Freundschaften zu beiderseitigem Nutzen zu erhalten.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Recognize the importance of friendships for us humans
  2. To recognize friendships as an important part of the life Task social
  3. To learn definitions of friendships since ancient times
  4. Understanding changed social conditions that assign a new role to friendships
  5. To learn to cultivate friendships
  6. To know the prerequisites for good friendships
  7. Understanding the emergence of friendships
  8. Learning what can I do myself to be a good friend

A509, Schläpfer, Christelle – Counselling in Education/Beraten im Erziehungsbereich (English/ German)
Unlike in parenting courses, where attitude and techniques are a main theme, educational counselling helps parents to detect unconscious patterns (which often hinder the implementation of positive parenting techniques) and to develop individual solutions. In this course, participants learn about the concept, the phases and techniques of educational counseling.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will understand the concept of Adlerian educational counselling
  2. Participants will know the phases of the Adlerian educational counselling
  3. Participants will understand how lifestyle influences the parenting style
  4. Participants will know how to identify unconscious processes in family conflicts
  5. Participants will know how to analyse the processes that hinder the implementation of 
positive parenting techniques and how to intervene (using for example early recollection)
  6. Participants will know how to develop solutions with parents (or teachers) through 
techniques such as role-playing, symbolic or metaphorical work
  7. Participants will know how to include children in the educational counselling
  8. Participants will know how to advise parents and teachers on individual and collective way using Adlerian Psychology

A510, Shoham, Yoav – Encouragement: Overcoming Stressful Situations
This program is designed to teach coping strategies in daily stressful situations. Using Adlerian encouragement principles in various creative ways, enables us to deal with daily life pressures.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstration of the model of BASIC PH
  2. Comparison of the model of BASIC PH with the principles of encouragement
  3. Practice of meditation as a principle of encouragement
  4. Invent creative tools to deal with stress
  5. Usage of imagination to deal with stress
  6. Discussion as a tool to ease stress
  7. Usage of games as a way to cope
  8. Practice the choice of feelings as ways to deal with stress

A511, Tate, Bruce – Introduction to Early Recollections
Early Recollections (ERs) play a central role in Adlerian therapy. In ERs we uncover strengths and resources alongside nonverbal messages and descriptions of how we view ourselves, others and life (Private Logic). We might also gain insight, including about our movement and priorities in life. Working with ERs helps to develop personal awareness and insight. Through this exploration we can identify personal strengths, creativity and resources which in turn can help promote choice and an improved sense of personal well-being.

Learning Objectives:

  1. To be able to explain three theoretical aspects of the importance of working with ERs in Adlerian therapy
  2. To be able to describe the individual components within an ER
  3. To be able to work in pairs as therapist and client to elicit ERs
  4. To be able to identify strengths within an ER
  5. To be able to elicit a key focus and associated feelings within an ER
  6. To be able to identify the movement and social interest within an ER
  7. To be able to work with the client to identify links to and contrasts with current life situations
  8. To summarize how to use or develop the use of ERs

A512, Williams, Hallie – Social Justice and Individual Psychology
This course is designed to explain Social Justice 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. Open to Youth.

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
  5. Analyze Adler’s position on Social Justice
  6. Analyze and differentiate diversity and inclusion
  7. Apply Adler’s tasks of life to Social Justice
  8. Create and justify an Adlerian class statement on Social Justice

 

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