In search of meaning - course 3300 rub. from MIF, training 4 online meetings, Date: December 4, 2023.

Life can be difficult. Or empty. We lose money, jobs, loved ones, and become disillusioned with our ideals. At such a moment it is easy to decide: everything is meaningless, and we have no influence on anything.
But that's not true.

Psychotherapist Viktor Frankl, who went through three concentration camps, believed that in order to live, we need meaning. In both dark and bright times. Meaning makes life complete and makes us strong.

This series of meetings will help you find it and give your answer to the question “What is all this for?” We will rely on logotherapy, a method developed by Frankl. And the guide will be psychologist and coach Yulia Tertyshnaya.

If you feel sad and anxious, if sometimes the ground disappears from under your feet, come. It will become easier.

This course is for you if

• achieved success, but no happiness
• life feels empty, like you're missing something
• survived a difficult period, grief, loss and learn to move on
• feel responsible for everything and everyone
• feeling apathetic, burnt out, or disgusted with everything

The course will help:

• understand what makes you feel unhappy and happy
• awaken inner resources
• find motivation for life, study, communication
• cope with the blows of fate
• learn to understand the extent of your responsibility: “no more” and “no less”

3 pillars of logotherapy

Logotherapy (literally “healing with meaning”) was developed by Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist, philosopher and neurologist. During the war he was a prisoner of Nazi concentration camps. There he provided psychological assistance to other prisoners, helping them find meaning and survive in inhumane conditions.

The will to meaning
Every person strives for meaning. Even if we are limited by illness, circumstances, age. Take Stephen Hawking, for example: while confined to a wheelchair, he made great discoveries. No matter who you are, you can make life full and meaningful.

free will
We cannot always choose in what conditions to live, but we can always choose how to relate to these conditions. You can say: “I have to take care of my parents.” It sounds like we have no choice. But he is. Analyze other options. If you are not satisfied with them, you can say: “Taking care of my parents is my choice.”

Meaning of life
A person can search for meaning in three ways. First, see it in action, in the creation of something. Secondly, to see in experiencing something - love, admiration, reverence. Thirdly, find meaning in the very circumstances of your life, its difficulties and joys. In any case, finding meaning gives us the strength to both survive misfortune and enjoy the bright moments.