DeVille Logotherapy Learning Center Seminars and Speaker Services

SOME PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS of JARD DeVILLE’S
SEMINARS, SHORT COURSES AND KEYNOTE SPEECHES

“When we were teaching in the summer session at his dyslexic clinic connected with the University of Wisconsin, I soon decided that Jard combines interpersonal and technical skills better than anyone I’ve known personally since Albert Einstein.” Dugald Arbuckle, Chairman of Counselor, Psychotherapist Education and Existential Psychology author – Boston University

“Jard’s keynote dinner presentation with his FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT speech – followed by his NICE GUYS seminar the next day, was the finest program we have ever presented.” M.E Olson, Digital Inc., Midwest Regional Conference

“We learned as we were producing Jard’s and Roberta’s FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT videos that Professor DeVille is the best communicator we have ever taped. The material is cutting edge and Jard’s warm audience contact is uncanny.” Ian Forrester — Forrester Ltd. Adelaid, Sydney and Brisbane.

“With your 3.68 approval rating over the years, you have always brought us the level of excellence we wanted. You really are the successor to Frankl in Logotherapy.” Joseph Hrabosky, Director Executive Programs, University of Arizona, Tucson  – more testimonials

Professor Jard DeVille and his associates have learned from decades of coaching, teaching and writing to use potent concepts from their books in seminars and presentations.  Some examples of these books are NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST, LOVERS FOR LIFE, PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP, THE LIBERATED SOUL, FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT, GRACE UNDER PRESSURE, WINNING REPEAT SALES, THE PASTOR’S HANDBOOK On Interpersonal Relations located at fulfillmentforum.com, and libraries and bookstores.

We use real world knowledge and wisdom to conduct Logotherapy speaking programs that rang from lunch or after-dinner motivational and inspirational speeches to a variety of half-day or full-day seminars, retreats and short courses. Corporations, faith communities, colleges, universities and all types of organizations world wide have benefited from these presentations. Our work is universally approved for all types of groups and events.

DeVille Logotherapy speaker presentations ranging from teen-camps and adult retreats; seminars, short college and university courses, radio and television programs about human meaning and belonging — have improved the lives of multitudes of humans. In decades of spreading the knowledge and wisdom of Logotherapy personally, in print and through the print electronic media – Professor Jard DeVille and his staff have never disappointed an organizer or his or her audience. Not once did a program or speech receive less than an excellent rating. Every program grips the audience because it reaches into the very souls of the people present.

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YOUR SEARCH FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE – Book REVIEW

YOUR SEARCH FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE - Logotherapy Book One

“Jard’s Logotherapy books and speeches contain sticks of dynamite that explode management myths and at the same time assure me that I can improve.” Fred Nordstrom, VP – World Poultry Operations — Cargill Corporation

“With your great 3.68 approval rating over the years, you have always brought us the level of excellence we wanted. You really are the successor to Viktor Frankl.” Joseph Hrabosky, Director Of Executive Programs – University of Arizona

This extraordinary well researched and written ninety thousand word introductory E-book and embedded course of the DeVILLE LOGOTHERAPY LEARNING CENTER’S graduate curriculum, lifts our pragmatic interpretations of and additions to our old friend and tutor’s life-enhancing love, labor and leadership logotherapy to a 21st century level. Viktor Frankl was the mid 20th century successor to Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler in the Third Viennese School Of Psychotherapy, while Professor Jard A. DeVille, with his twenty books and graduate courses about logotherapy, is Viktor’s most prolific and innovative disciple. But — while Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler treated mentally disturbed persons,  Frankl and DeVille have counseled, written for and taught normal, reasonably well adjusted persons who are frustrated by and disappointed in a complicated life in which most existential problems are philosophical rather than mental health issues.

Viktor Frankl focused largely on finding sources of meaning, we have added a second vital element in meeting crucial human needs by belonging peacefully among people with whom we share mutual support and respect.

LOGOTHERAPY (Spirit Wellness) = f (Personal Meaning x Communal Belonging)

Free Download  – YOUR SEARCH FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE

Our homosapien species has evolved with crucial spiritual yearnings that are often ignored or frustrated in a secular and materialistic society that fails to meet our philosophical needs. We are also buffeted emotionally by the swift and unrelenting changes that sweep over us, leaving many souls unable to adapt wisely and well. For example — almost thirty percent of Harvard, Southern Methodist and several other major university graduates twenty years later, say that their adult selves are stuck on hold — that their lives, accomplishments, self-esteem and careers have been far less satisfying than they had expected. Fully half of contemporary college juniors and seniors doubt that their lives and careers will ever be as fulfilling as their parents’ and grandparents’ of the Greatest American Generation. And almost eighty percent of Americans during the disastrous 2007 and 2008 financial scam, say that the United States has strayed far off course — while sixty percent fear that the country shall never recover. These are the multitudes of persons suffering from the spiritual ailments Sigmund Freud called civilization’s discontents, Viktor Frankl named it existential frustration and Professor DeVille thinks of as it psychospiritual bankruptcy. We have created a civilization that often rubs against the grain of human satisfaction. And while the LOGOTHERAPY LEARNING CENTER staff neither conducts psychotherapy nor recommends psychotropic medications for spiritual relief — because this unhappiness isn’t mental illness or neuroticism — it does teach pragmatic attitudes and methods to produce satisfaction for persons suffering from life’s many pressures.

Logotherapy addresses and resolves many of life’s anxieties and disappointments — as presented in YOUR SEARCH FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE and its successor courses in two graduate degree programs. Viktor Frankl and Jard DeVille Logotherapy or Spirit Wellness, is the synthesis of existential psychology and metaphysical philosophy that offers you pleasurable, powerful and permanent enough benefits to create and sustain a satisfying life in good times and bad. It also offers you the opportunity to master and apply these potent methods in your chosen field of service — or in a private Logotherapy practice of your own.

Logotherapy is so powerful that Frankl’s book MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING sold tens of millions of copies in more than thirty languages in just a few years. It was so potent in helping empower the Greatest Generation that defeated the Great Depression, won World War II against fascism, created a strong middle class with its enormous purchasing power and spread democracy worldwide, that the United States Library of Congress rated it one of the ten most influential books of all times. There was hardly a college student or social science professor in America who wasn’t exposed to Frankl and Logotherapy in the middle and latter decades of the 20th Century. And now — the authors under the supervision of their founding director and senior scholar, Professor DeVille, — have taken Viktor’s constructs to their highest level yet. It is entirely possible that there is hardly a normal soul in the Western World who wouldn’t benefit psychospiritually by reading YOUR SEARCH FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE and completing the embedded workbook. This book is first and foremost a supremely well written and positively pragmatic approach to life saving and serving love, labor and leadership with the spiritual values, positive attitudes, high expectations, mature beliefs and responsible choices that can change your world.
Now — for a limited time, you can download your free complementary copy of YOUR SEARCH for the asking. If you are committed to making your life and career as rewarding as you possibly can — or if you would like to establish a private practice in Frankl/DeVille Logotherapy counseling, teaching, public speaking and writing that is always well received — download your gratis copy of YOUR SEARCH now. You shall never find a better way to progress along lines of excellence.

What is Existential Logotherapy?

The following statements express our basic concepts regarding the extraordinary value of Franklian Existential Logotherapy as interpreted and modified by Professor Jard DeVille.  Life can be filled with meaning, although there is no one great MEANING OF LIFE written in letters of fire across the sky and valid for all persons in all times and places.  Humans, who haven’t even had two identical fingerprints since the beginning of time, are much too individually complex for a one size fits everyone approach.

1. Every authentic or emotionally honest life can become meaningful and mature during the most rewarding and challenging of times.

2. Our basic human motivation is our consistent need to find sound sources of meaning for ourselves in places of the heart where we belong among good souls with whom we share faith, hope and love.

3. Liberated souls have the freedom and ability needed to find a sense of purpose in all we do for the society in which we live, love and existence.

We hold the following assumptions about life and love.

1.  Our first assumption is that each person is a subjective soul consisting of body (soma), mind (psyche), and spirit (logos).  Our bodies and minds supply the tools and attitudes through which we function while our spirits express what we really are in the greater scheme of life and love.

2.  Life has potential meaning under all circumstances – granted to all persons through God /Nature’s grace.  This grace is something mystical all persons will experience consistently when we identify with the Cosmos and embrace life and love with a psychospiritual mindset.

3.  A purposeful life has requirements which persons must fulfill if our choices are to be meaningful.  This third assumption, existential or life-style meaning focuses our daily choices. When embedded in ultimate or existential meaning — this working meaning can be expressed pragmatically.   This is done by projecting the realities of faith, hope and love into society through our spiritual virtues and responsible choices and by following the promptings of an awakened conscience.

4.  People have a persisting need for meaning although we often must discover or even create the truest purposes of life for ourselves.  This fourth assumption is that our search for meaning is the main motivating factor of our attitudes and activities.  Living meaningfully is more important than grubbing ruthlessly for possessions, prestige, pleasure and power.  When we live with a sense of purpose in our activities and attitudes, we can persevere through life’s bad days as well as enjoying satisfying times.

5.  Women and men retain their yearning for spiritual meaning throughout their entire lives.  Assumption five is that we are free to focus our need to find meaning and that this can be done under any and all circumstances.  It includes a victory of positive attitudes, high expectations and responsible choices – despite any and all painful events.  Jesus, the first and finest Logotherapy counselor demonstrated this when he courageously faced suffering and an ignominious death because the self-evident truth of his ministry angered the religious and political establishments of his day.

6.  Each individual is a unique soul consisting of his or her own physical, psychological and philosophical values, attitudes, expectations, beliefs and choices.  While we speak of these three traits individually because we cannot write about all of them at once — in each person’s life they are as inextricably linked together as the ingredients of a cake after it has been baked.

A Cautionary Note – When we use the word existential, as in existential psychology or existential frustration – we are referring to the existence or the life-style we persons have chosen or had thrust upon us by society. Contemporary existential psychology that comes from the words “to emerge” or “to become” has nothing to do with the bitter and secular European philosophy called “existentialism, secular humanism, nihilism or scientism.”

This belief in disbelief emerged during the ghastly World Wars, the Spanish Flu Epidemic, the Great Depression, the almost inconceivable Holocaust, a half century of the debilitating Cold War and the brutal secular greed of Global Capitalism that ravaged the world from 2007 to the present.  Pessimistic authors such as Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus were reacting to the stark horrors of their era during which almost a hundred million persons were slain in the brutal 19th and 20th century wars.  It was impossible for honest European philosophers to find a silver lining to the orgy of blood and fire in which their people were trapped for three full generations.  Nevertheless — we cannot abandon so meaningful a system as existential psychology or Logotherapy because some poorly informed souls confuse the term with a similar sounding self-defeating philosophy.

Existential psychology, whose action element we apply as Logotherapy, is something entirely different.   It is best understood as a study of the way we exist or live while seeking individual and group satisfaction as humans, including our loving relationships and our purposeful careers, along with the entertaining choices through which we seek meaning among the persons with whom we belong.

Existential Logotherapy is about the way we can live, love and labor, lead and cope with both the pleasure and pain of human existence.