Foundation Institutes

Summer Institute 2013

Nurturing Wholeness in a Fractured World

Dates: June 10 - 14, 2013

Faculty: Dr. John H. Morgan, Karl Mannheim Professor of the History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Profile)

Description:

This Institute is designed to address the issue of personal wholeness in the modern world with special emphasis upon the fractured nature of human experience and our personal quest for spiritual nurture. The exploration will be by means of provocative thought systems developed during the late 19th century and fully expanded into the 20th and 21st centuries. Special consideration will be given to the thought systems of the classical schools of psychotherapy including Freud, Sartre, Frankl, and Heschel and some thought will be given to the rise of "secular spirituality" and the "new humanism" of Huxley and Wilson as relates to our modern quest for spiritual wholeness both inside and outside institutional religious systems.

This Institute will earn Foundation students two Units of Study or may serve as the Non-Project Option for professional degree candidates. Because it cannot function for both NPO and Units of Study credits, the participant must designate for which it is being taken.

Seminar Titles:

Morning: “Defining Wholeness in a Troubled World”
Afternoon: “Pastoral Nurture in a Matrix of Competing World Views”

Location: Mishawaka, Indiana 

Registration Deadline: May 28, 2013
 
Students accepted after January 1, 2012 are not required to pay institute fees.
 
Students accepted to the Foundation before January 1, 2012 must submit institute fees as follows:
 
May 28, 2013:  $300 deposit due with registration
June 3, 2013:   $900 final balance due 

To download a registration form, please click here.

Daily Agenda:

Morning seminar (9:15-11:45 a.m.) / Afternoon seminar (1:00-3:30 p.m.)

MONDAY (Sessions 1 & 2): Sigmund Freud and the Dynamics of Religious Consciousness

TUESDAY (Sessions 3 & 4): Jean-Paul Sartre and Personal Responsibility

WEDNESDAY (Sessions 5 & 6): Viktor Frankl and the Search for Meaning

THURSDAY (Sessions 7 & 8): Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Meaning of Being Human

FRIDAY (Session 9): Huxley and Wilson: Secular Spirituality and Religious Humanism

Required Text:

Students are encouraged to read one or two primary texts from a selected thinker. The primary texts for each of the figures to be studied are available as used paperbacks from several online booksellers.

Morgan, John H. Naturally Good: A Behavioral History of Moral Development (From Charles Darwin to E. O. Wilson) (Cloverdale Books: South Bend, Indiana, 2005)

Upon request, Dr. John Morgan’s books are provided by the Foundation (free of charge) at the time of registration.

Suggested Supplementary Reading:

Morgan, John H. In the Absence of God: Religious Humanism and Spiritual Journey (Cloverdale Books: South Bend, Indiana, 2006).

Written Requirements: 

Students are required to prepare a 500-1,000 word response to the assigned readings for each seminar (nine in total). Sessions 1, 3, 5 and 7 are morning papers and will focus on the biography of the designated psychotherapist of the day, and sessions 2, 4, 6 and 8 are afternoon papers and will concentrate on the key concepts and theories of their systems and modalities of treatment.  The Friday morning paper will be a look at “secular spirituality and religious humanism” and an overview of the Institute.  At the end of the Institute, the student will have written between 4,500 and 9,000 words. The final paper is to be a compilation of these nine short papers including refinements resulting from the tutorial experience itself.  These short session papers constitute an opportunity for participants to relate their own professional work to the topic (biographies and theories of the key figures being discussed during the week) by way of identifying points of continuity, convergence, divergence, and refutation with the theorists under consideration.  The intent is to engage with these classical thinkers at the juncture of both existential and professional relevance.

The final paper must be between 4,500 and 9,000 words and submitted electronically as an email or a Word document by September 16, 2013.

Writing and Presenting:

Participants in the Institute may choose to write the nine short required papers prior to their arrival in Mishawaka or each day prior to the seminar for which the paper is due to be presented. Institute participants should not write the final paper until after the Institute is completed as they will need to incorporate information gleaned from the week's discussions into the final paper. The final paper may include the nine short required papers written for each of the presentations.

Each participant will orally present papers for seminar discussion, feedback, etc. The presentation is made informally, sitting, and reading from one's laptop or written paper. There is no getting it wrong or right in terms of the presentation's content. The intent is for each participant to present a personal response to the readings for the day from one's own professional perspective, indicating the relevance (or lack thereof) of each thinker and theory system espoused by the person being discussed during that particular session of the seminar. Every participant brings something different to the table for discussion based upon his/her personal background, experience, professional engagement, faith commitments, etc. Participants should feel encouraged to share who they are and what they have to say.

NOTE: The final paper must be submitted electronically as an email or Word document by September 16, 2013.

Registration Form:

To download a registration form, please click here.

Contact:

For further information on attending this Foundation Institute, please contact the Foundation. 

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Fall Institute 2013

Clinical Psychotherapy and the Nature of Ministry

Dates: November 4-8, 2013

Faculty: Dr. John H. Morgan, Karl Mannheim Professor of the History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Profile)

Description:

This Institute is built around a two-fold emphasis, namely, a review of the eight major schools of psychotherapy and a probing inquiry into their viability in the exercise of ministry. Participants will be given an opportunity to acquaint themselves (or, in some cases, re-acquaint themselves) with the major theoreticians in the development of the various schools of psychotherapy. Participants will then explore the ways and means whereby these various schools of thought may be applied, and their relevance for the exercise of ministry in all of its various forms: pastoral, educational, chaplaincy, counseling, etc.

This Institute will earn Foundation students two Units of Study or may serve as the Non-Project Option for professional degree candidates. Because it cannot function for both NPO and Units of Study credits, the participant must designate for which it is being taken.

Seminar titles:

Morning: “Clinical Psychotherapy in the Pastoral Setting”
Afternoon: “The Nature of Ministry in Pastoral Care Professions”

Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
 
Registration Deadline: October 7, 2013
 
Students accepted after January 1, 2012 are not required to pay institute fees.
 
Students accepted to the Foundation before January 1, 2012 must submit institute fees as follows:
 
October 7, 2013:  $300 deposit due with registration
October 21, 2013:   $900 final balance due
 
NOTE: Students accepted to the Foundation after January 1, 2012, will have the cost of the Institute applied toward their tuition.

To download a registration form, please click here.

Daily agenda:

Morning seminar (9:15-11:30 a.m.) / Afternoon seminar (1:15-3:30 p.m.)

MONDAY (Sessions 1 & 2): Freud and Adler
TUESDAY (Sessions 3 & 4): Jung and Frankl
WEDNESDAY (Sessions 5 & 6): Maslow and Erikson
THURSDAY (Sessions 7 & 8): Rogers and Sullivan
FRIDAY (Session 9): Clinical Psychotherapy in Review

Required Texts:

Texts may be available as used paperbacks from several online booksellers.

Morgan, John H. Beginning With Freud: The Classical Schools of Psychotherapy (Wyndham Hall Press: Lima, Ohio, 2010).

Morgan, John H. Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Handbook for Ministry Professionals (GTF: Mishawaka, Indiana, 2010).

Upon request, Dr. John Morgan’s books are provided by the Foundation (free of charge) at the time of registration.

Written Requirements:
Students are required to prepare a 500-1,000 word response to the assigned readings for each seminar (nine in total).  At the end of the Institute, the student will have written between 4,500 and 9,000 words. The final paper is to be a compilation of these nine short papers including refinements resulting from the tutorial experience itself.

The final paper must be between 4,500 and 9,000 words and submitted electronically as an email or a Word document by February 1, 2014.

Writing and Presenting:

Participants in the Institute may choose to write the nine short required papers prior to their arrival in Mishawaka or each day prior to the seminar for which the paper is due to be presented. Institute participants should not write the final paper until after the Institute is completed as they will need to incorporate information gleaned from the week's discussions into the final paper. The final paper may include the nine short required papers written for each of the presentations.

Each participant will orally present papers for seminar discussion, feedback, etc. The presentation is made informally, sitting, and reading from one's laptop or written paper. There is no getting it wrong or right in terms of the presentation's content. The intent is for each participant to present a personal response to the readings for the day from one's own professional perspective, indicating the relevance (or lack thereof) of each thinker and theory system espoused by the person being discussed during that particular session of the seminar. Every participant brings something different to the table for discussion based upon his/her personal background, experience, professional engagement, faith commitments, etc. Participants should feel encouraged to share who they are and what they have to say.

NOTE: The final paper must be submitted electronically as an email or Word document by February 1, 2014.

Registration Form:

To download a registration form, please click here.

Contact:

For further information on attending this Foundation Institute, please contact the Foundation.

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