Courses and seminars

Four meetings on grief, education, ageing and care.

Explore logotherapeutic support in grief, honouring love, memory and meaning. The ritual of the remembering heart offers a symbolic way to integrate absence while preserving an inner bond.

Meaning-centred education supports responsibility, resilience, self-awareness and purposeful goals through experiential work and reflection.

The hole and the doughnut explores how attention can move from what is missing towards values and possibilities, without denying suffering.

Ageing and care invite reflection on vulnerability, dignity, receiving help and the possibilities for meaning in caring for another person.

Topics

• Grief and the ritual of the remembering heart
• Meaning-centred education
• The hole and the doughnut
• Ageing, dependence and care

An introduction to psychopathology and the clinical presentation of psychiatric disorders, focusing on symptoms and syndromes. Topics include psychoses, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A course on understanding addictions, treatment and logotherapeutic approaches.

Topics

• The nature of addiction
• Effects on the brain, body and behaviour
• Types of addiction
• Clinical presentation
• Comorbid conditions
• Treatment approaches
• Core skills
• Individual and group therapy
• Harm reduction
• Crisis intervention and relapse prevention
• Family dynamics
• Reintegration
• Ethics
• Practitioner self-care

An experiential course with diagnostic exercises and demonstrations of work with the punitive critic and vulnerable child, alongside cognitive techniques for schemas and modes.

Topics

• Schemas and schema therapy
• Unmet basic needs and schema formation
• Coping styles
• Assessment through questionnaires, imagery, interviews and observation
• Modes and working with them
• Imagery and rescripting
• Limited reparenting
• Empty-chair work
• Flashcards and diaries

An integrative perspective on the person through logotherapy and existential analysis, connecting psychological, biological and noetic dimensions.

The course explores the development and disruption of basic trust, and the interaction of heredity, environment, experiences and lifestyle.

It considers depressive states, suffering, loss of meaning and the recovery of inner resources.

Family life is approached through relationships, values, responsibility and growth, with attention to conflict and communication.

The central focus is the person’s freedom, responsibility, values and will to meaning.

Topics

• Logotherapeutic anthropology
• Basic trust
• Epigenetics
• Depression
• Meaning-oriented family therapy

Does it feel as though you are working at full speed while your energy keeps draining away? An experiential course exploring the causes of professional burnout.

Participants explore attitudes, realistic expectations and a personal coping plan.

Topics

• Constructive and destructive stress and the body’s signals
• Procrastination and time management
• Meaning-centred management in times of change
• Individual and team strategies for resilience

How can logotherapy support children and teenagers? Meaning, case studies and practical techniques.

Topics

• Viktor Frankl’s ten theses through logopedagogy
• Building self-respect
• Decision-making and responsibility
• From chrysalis to butterfly

A seminar for young artists that turns logotherapeutic ideas into a creative experience of meaning and values.

“A deep and uplifting experience, full of meaning — the meaning of the moment, of the day and of life.” — Theatre Workshop for Dreams

Topics

• Creative, experiential and attitudinal values
• Meaning, balance and resilience
• Discussion: when the stage shines but words hurt
• Techniques for discovering meaning in life and art

Four meetings exploring the meaning of love, sexuality, faith and hope.

What remains when falling in love gives way to a lasting relationship? This course draws on Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy and invites participants to experience and share love, faith and hope.

Topics

• The meaning of love
• Love, sexuality and eros
• Faith
• Hope

Meaning differs between people and changes throughout a person’s life. It is discovered rather than prescribed.

Topics

• Creative, experiential and attitudinal values
• External measures of success and an inner compass of values
• Ultimate, universal and situational meaning
• Challenges as sources of meaning and balance

A course on working with couples: what sustains a marriage, what wears it down, and what lies beneath recurring disagreements.

For counsellors, psychologists, social workers, therapists and mentors working with couples and families, and anyone seeking a better understanding of marriage.

Topics

• Relationship dynamics and common marital crises
• Breaking cycles of conflict
• Working with feelings and needs
• Understanding family systems
• Practical tools for working with couples

A seminar on difficult conversations in close relationships: expressing pain without causing harm, and finding connection through inevitable disagreements.

Topics

• Different communication styles
• Approaching difficult conversations with empathy
• Rebuilding trust
• Turning conflict into opportunities for growth

Trust is often lost after loss, betrayal or serious illness, and can take time to return.

Basic trust, in Viktor Frankl’s approach, is the underlying attitude that life has meaning even when we cannot see it. It is a source of support that can be built, lost and restored.

Topics

• Building trust in oneself and understanding what undermines it
• Rebuilding trust in others
• Trust in life itself
• Practical techniques for strengthening trust

A course on sexual difficulties and their place in a person’s life. It explores healthy sexuality, expectations, sexual identity and barriers to intimacy, including the person’s attitude towards the difficulty.

Topics

• Healthy sexuality
• Cultural expectations and their influence
• The practitioner’s attitudes to sexuality
• Sexual biography
• Sexual identity
• Beliefs about sexuality
• The origins of difficulties and possible responses
• Hyperintention and hyperreflection
• Premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction
• Reduced desire and difficulties with arousal
• Compulsive sexual behaviour and problematic pornography use
• Responsibility and boundaries
• Guilt and self-forgiveness
• Attitude modulation and dereflection
• Meaning in intimacy and relationships

A course with Dr Kameliya Slavcheva and Slavica Stoevska on grief, sexual violence and abortion.

A course on the counselling process with Dr Kameliya Slavcheva and Slavica Stoevska. Held over four sessions, in person and via Zoom.

A course on working with families in crisis. It introduces family therapy approaches and considers the family as a whole, alongside the person seeking help.

Topics

• Assessing a family crisis
• Choosing useful interventions and their timing
• Referral to another specialist and ending therapy
• The therapist’s own beliefs, values and experience
• Day 1: understanding and assessing family crises
• Day 2: family therapy techniques
• Day 3: the self of the therapist
• Day 4: ending therapy

A course on logotherapeutic support for people with cancer and their loved ones.

Topics

• Can we live a fulfilling life with a cancer diagnosis?
• How do we live while facing death?
• How can we help those who suffer and their loved ones improve their quality of life?
• Where can we find hope and strengthen it in the face of despair?
• How can we strengthen meaning, spiritual well-being and hope?
• Can we turn tragedy into triumph?
• How can we remain optimistic amid tragedy?
• Can we find meaning in suffering?