Supervison Overview – What to expect in these two semesters?
A semester of supervision comprises five group meetings, each lasting four working hours. The supervision for the online course will also take place online, with dates being coordinated with the respective group.
During these sessions, participants present their supervision examples for discussion.
Our practical units, supervision and conversation training, are available only after successfully completing five semesters of foundational theoretical studies. This ensures that students have the necessary theoretical foundation to fully benefit from hands-on practice.
Course of study
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How do I find a supervision topic?
How can I find a supervision topic? For those working in therapy or counseling, it’s relatively straightforward as they encounter numerous themes in their daily professional lives. However, we also welcome any questions or issues arising from everyday life, whether in business, work, school, community, clubs, or elsewhere.
You can uncover topics by reading newspapers and encountering local human dramas, conflict situations, or exemplary actions. For instance, a Greek teacher once delved into myths and discovered timeless human issues.
You can also explore the life stories of individuals portrayed in film or literature.
Additionally, you can work on your own logotherapy project within a meditation circle or community group.
You have the option to present a successful or unsuccessful case study, a planned future intervention, or a logotherapeutic commentary on a topic.
The essence of all these topics should center around applied logotherapy, integrating theoretical knowledge with real-life situations or fundamental human questions. With a solid theoretical background, you should demonstrate your ability to connect your knowledge with practical inquiries.
How does it work in practice?
At least one week before the supervision session, you’ll submit your topic. You’ll introduce the theme you’ve been working on and illustrate how you’ve connected it with elements of logotherapy.
Please include two short or longer sections for this purpose, and feel free in their design. It’s crucial that you provide enough foundational information so that our meeting can immediately dive into a meaningful discussion based on your input.
Two main points should be prepared:
- A diagnostic examination of the topic, perhaps including the history of a mental illness or an analysis of the chosen issue. It’s essential to clarify: What precisely is the problem requiring a solution?
- The next step is: How can the problem be improved or solved using elements/methods/focus/thought from logotherapy? What assistance can be offered, and what solutions are suggested?
These two main points should be present in all materials submitted for group supervision, as they demonstrate precisely how Logo theory intersects with real-life situations.
As you open your „logotherapeutically trained eyes,“ you’ll soon realize that the world is brimming with topics where we can contribute from a logotherapy perspective. You’ll also encounter a plethora of human destinies and life stories to which logotherapy offers helpful, healing insights.
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Kerstin Leins
Teacher
Logotherapy is explained in the teaching videos in a very comprehensible and precise manner in understandable words. Miss Dr. Schönfeld's practical examples are lively and extremely helpful for understanding.
Laura Sebestyén-Kohler
Art and creativity promotion, art therapy
Logotherapy is a very enriching philosophy of life, close to people and friendly to people. In this lecture cycle you will receive a really well-founded explanation of the basics, completely unadulterated and still very close to Viktor Frankl's texts. You can build on this foundation wonderfully, enrich it with your own thinking, life and work and incorporate it into all areas of your life, private and professional. It's worth investing the time, you'll be rewarded richly.
Thank you for all your dedication and effort, Dr. Schönfeld!
Anne
(not real name)
If I hadn’t attended the part on “Medical Ministry”, I would never have met these enriching people, and I wouldn’t have been able to accompany my aunt—who is gradually saying goodbye to life—so well. Together, we lovingly revisited the high points of her life.“Alpenglow“ in old age, so to speak. Since she is the last person of her generation in my family, we were just able to discuss many things from the past—things only she knew—at the very last moment. From sexual abuse and suicide to my brother’s schizophrenia, everything was brought to light, discussed, and ultimately accepted. Without your wonderful introduction to the tragic triad of suffering, death, and guilt, these conversations with my aunt could not have taken place in this way. Yet through these talks, I sense that a bit of peace is returning to our family. And the coming generations may no longer have to inherit this burden. My sincere thanks, dear Dr. Schönfeld, for your generosity and for your passion for logotherapy, which is already spreading more and more.
I am deeply grateful to you both for running this wonderful course now also in English. Semester V. - Medical Ministry - was deeply profound and stimulating from the first minute to the last.
I kept on returning to the contents, the videos and the recommended books, and each time I felt their 'lifting power'.
I hope that one day I will become proficient at applying Logotherapy wherever my life will take me. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a student of Logotherapy wholeheartedly.
