Identity and mission – Who are we and what do we do?
 

The Institute for Logotherapy & Existential Analysis Salzburg was founded in 2001 by Christoph Schlick as an independent private educational institution and has since developed into an important institution for personal development, scientific work, and sound training and further education.

As an educational, counseling, seminar, and meeting center, we offer a wide variety of events that are always closely related to logotherapy and existential analysis. Our activities are based on the view of humanity and the teachings of logotherapy and existential analysis as developed by the Viennese physician and philosopher Univ. Prof. DDr. mult. Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997). We are committed to keeping his work—his spirit—alive and developing it further in our work.

We courageously continue on the path that Viktor Frankl trod and charted, and through teaching and encounters, exchange and research, we strive to contribute to the development, unfolding, consolidation, and enlivening of the potential that lies within all people. In this way, we want to live Frankl's mission of becoming whole, healing through meaning, bring it into the world, and thus contribute to the healing of individuals and the world.

We see ourselves as an institute that actively pursues the further development of logotherapy and existential analysis: in scientific research, in the development of new concepts of thinking and teaching, in special training, continuing education, and further education programs, and in personal counseling and support.

We promote this vitality and further development in four complementary and reinforcing areas:

• Counseling, coaching, personality development, self-awareness, therapy, and mediation
• Training, continuing education, and further education (post-graduate programs), supervision
• Further development and scientific foundation of LTEA (books, lectures, research projects)
• Opportunities for encounter: lectures, exchange, Thursday impulses and exchange via social media, encounter (impulses for meaning)

Frankl's impulse to complement rather than replace other concepts commits us to openness and exchange with all disciplines that show a serious interest in the comprehensive development of people, working environments, society, and culture.

We also voluntarily commit ourselves to the ethical guidelines of the “Professional Code of Conduct for Psychotherapists” (BM for Health, 2012).

The Institute for Logotherapy & Existential Analysis is part of the SinnZENTRUM Salzburg and at the same time represents the content and structural foundation for the SinnZENTRUM. The SinnZENTRUM also offers space for activities that go beyond logotherapy and existential analysis and the institute's narrower mission.

The achievement of our ever-evolving goals, the multifaceted teaching and further development of logotherapy, and the support and satisfaction of our clients and course participants are our central concerns and describe our daily purpose.

Who are we addressing?

Our educational offerings are aimed at people who are searching for meaning and consciously lived values in their lives, who want to grapple with ethical and social issues, and at all people who work with others and are seeking additional training in logotherapy and existential analysis or imaginative logotherapy and existential analysis. But also those who have completed logotherapeutic training and want to continue their education, who aspire to become certified life coaches (psychological counseling) and/or want to engage with the concept of humanity and the teachings of logotherapy and existential analysis and its further developments in a structured, practical, and scientific manner in seminars and lectures.

How do we work and what sets us apart?

We offer adult education through competent and high-quality teaching in small groups and attractive rooms. The institute has an excellent infrastructure that enables us to meet, teach, and exchange ideas online and in hybrid and asynchronous forms.

Our teachers are always up to date thanks to continuous further education and training. They are committed to our mission statement and take time for the individual needs of each and every student. They are highly motivated and have a wealth of personal logotherapeutic practical experience in a wide variety of settings and contexts (including coaching, counseling, therapy, couples counseling, business, education, elite sports, and pastoral care).

We fulfill our self-imposed educational mission on the one hand in the form of lectures, seminars, training courses, certified courses, and symposia, and on the other hand in individual and small group settings such as counseling, therapy, coaching, or mediation.

In addition to sharing and communicating the content of logotherapy and existential analysis, we are committed to creating spaces for encounter, development, exchange, joint research, and study. We are genuinely committed to jointly exploring the ideas of Viktor Frankl and his further developments, experiencing applied logotherapy and existential analysis in their current form, and experiencing collegial support.

In our group offerings and especially in our activities in individual and small group settings, we want to strengthen the personal responsibility of all participants and thus also their individual abilities for self-determination and self-care.

Our competent team, a training concept and curriculum that has grown, been evaluated, and well described since 2001, enables us to do what is so important to us: personal support, courageous and appreciative joint learning and development, and a high degree of flexibility. Our courses generally take place in person. However, in the spirit of a dual teaching program, we also offer events in a hybrid and/or online format with the same high quality.

More detailed information on the respective working methods can be found in the descriptions of individual courses, seminars, and training and continuing education programs.

How do we continue to develop?

With our comprehensive and structured quality management measures, we aim to continuously improve and further develop the institute. For our internal quality management, we rely on regular exchange, appreciative dialogue, and lively discussion of the content of logotherapy and existential analysis. To this end, we reflect on our own actions annually in a retreat and in regular team meetings, in which employees and senior staff are required to participate and freelance staff and speakers are invited to participate, based on feedback and input from the educational management and external speakers.

Feedback from our course participants and clients forms an essential basis for our reflections. This feedback is understood by the individual counselors, supervisors, and lecturers, both individually and as a team, as inspiration and an invitation to develop, and is incorporated into an appreciative dialogue. We gather this feedback through feedback, observation, and discussions during the courses, as well as regularly through evaluation forms that are individually tailored to the nature of the courses. In addition, we are open and interested in any kind of feedback about our actions in personal conversations.

Depending on the type of course and the progress of the training, the individual lecturers or the training management also give the individual participants feedback on the status of their development in learning and applying the content taught.

Values in practice: sustainability, social fairness, and appreciative and open cooperation

Our value- and meaning-oriented, social, sustainable, environmentally friendly, and holistic lifestyle-oriented corporate management goes so far as to take resource- and energy-saving technologies into account when making investments and to use only sustainable, energy-saving, organic, regional, and fair trade products whenever possible for purchases and acquisitions. Through our own sustainable actions, we want to set an example and make a conscious contribution to preserving a future-oriented ecological and social system in our world. Because, we cannot teach values, we can only live them (Frankl) and thus be a living example.

We are happy to help with organizational challenges, offer continuously updated learning materials and teaching materials, and inform you about subject-specific events both inside and outside our institute.

Interested parties are welcome to participate as guest students to get to know our range of events.

In the event of financial difficulties, special conditions can be arranged with us depending on the situation. We also provide information on applications for possible external funding for your training costs.

Our work at the institute is strongly value-oriented and is based on Viktor Frankl's view of humanity. We are particularly committed to the principle of open dialogue, both internally and externally. We carry out our daily work with a qualified and motivated team. We work with our employees in a spirit of partnership and in fair and secure working relationships. Respectful interaction with one another is a matter of course. We treat all people with interest and openness, consideration, and appreciation.

Christoph Schlick and the management team