Guidance Focusing, Existential Well-being, Meaning of Life, Spirituality.
Individual session, short-term guidance with an emphasis on focusing on existential themes. Also opportunities for supervision. In person in Keerbergen or online via Zoom.
Cost: 75 € for a 45-minute session. Appointments can be cancelled free of charge up to 24 hours before the start time.
You can make an appointment via: mia.leijssen@kuleuven.be
Experiential workshops on existential well-being, meaning of life, spirituality, etc.
In this personal quest, you will be handed maps that depict important routes for human existence. This allows you to find out which paths suit you and where there are pitfalls or stumbling blocks that prevent you from fully shaping your livelihood.
Awareness of what is essential to you and the universal values that you shape in your existence, result in rediscovering or living more deeply your life force. How you can use your inspiration, spirit, source, primordial ground … is partly determined by contexts with which you have come into contact. In these workshops there is room and respect for every form of belief or giving meaning.
Participants of a workshop choose which themes are in the foreground and are explored in depth with experiential exercises. An existing team or a group of colleagues can also request a workshop or supervision. Expansion to applications in specific work contexts is done at the request of participants or an organization.
Practical: workshops take place in Keerbergen or online via Zoom. Daily schedule to be determined by mutual agreement. Participants put together their own group. Number of participants in live workshop in Keerbergen: 4 – 6 people. Online: depending on the type of workshop or lecture that is desired: 4 – unlimited.
Cost: 2.5 hour workshop/half day online or live: 75 € per participant; full day 130 € per participant (drinks and snacks are included during live meeting, bring your own packed lunch). For a team of a non-profit organization, group rate is negotiable. For individuals, a lower rate is negotiable.
Gift idea: a workshop on existential well-being as food for the soul. Content ‘a la carte’.
Cost: 140 € for 1.5 hour online or in person workshop for 2 people. Various variants in terms of number of participants, duration of workshop and cost possible.
Addition to the free English Massive Open Online Course. Individually or in groups. Specific skills (e.g. Focusing) or themes from positive psychology and existential counseling can be further practiced or deepened. It can also be about supervision of your own practice or applications in specific fields.
If you want to know more about the themes offered, you can find various publications on this website.
Massive Open Online Course Existential Wellbeing Counseling on EdX platform.
In the first 5 sections the emphasis is on exploring existential challenges and developing strengths to enhance well-being and meaning in life. The last 4 sections focus more on developing therapeutic attitudes and counseling skills, based on Person-centered, Experiential and Emotion-focused therapy.
This course offers you a high degree of flexibility. You can take the course starting with section 1, but you can also choose another section to start with. It is also possible to concentrate on only a few sections. Be aware that it would be realistic to spend 6 to 8 hours on a section.
You can follow your own rhythm in studying and practicing what is offered in each section. The course will be available each year from October until the end of June. This gives you the freedom to give time to the course when it suits you best.
Our course is not only for advanced graduate students. We are convinced that it can be beneficial for anybody who cares about wellbeing and meaningful living. This course has particular added value for counselors and therapists who want to deepen their therapeutic approach and explore an Existential, a Person-centered and an Experiential perspective.
We will bring complex skills within your reach by means of simple exercises. Through examples and video-demonstrations we will illustrate how you can apply our existential well-being approach in your personal life and in a variety of helping contexts, including counselling and psychotherapy.
This course is taught by instructors with decades of experience in the field: Mia Leijssen, Siebrecht Vanhooren, Monica Gundrum, Chris van de Veire and others (Les Greenberg demonstrates Emotion-focused therapy in one of the many video’s).
This course is free of charge. We do offer you the possibility of receiving a certificate. You can earn this certificate by passing all the assessments. The price of the certificate is 45 US dollars.
Existential wellbeing workshops. In person or online.
In these trainings ‘existential wellbeing’ is the key element. It is considered to be a balance between the physical, the social, the psychological and the spiritual dimension of human existence. Read more
See one of my presentations/workshops at World Congress Existential Therapy, London 2015 Existential wellbeing London 2015 Leijssen