Program

Day 1

Researching Meaning
10.15 – 11.00 What is meaning? Definitions, development, predictors (T. Schnell)
11.10 – 12.00 
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00 – 13.45 Crises of meaning (T. Schnell)
13.55 – 14.40 Existential indifference (T. Schnell)
15.00 – 15.40 Ways of enabling and exploring meaning (T. Schnell)
15.50 – 16.50 The four-dimensional model of health. Introducing the concept of existential health (Peter la Cour)             
16.50 – 17.00 Summing up (P. la Cour & T. Schnell)    

Day 2

Identifying and Exploring Sources of Meaning: The Sources of Meaning Card Method
10.15 – 11.00 The clinical challenge of existential talks (P. la Cour)
11.10 – 11.40 The sources of meaning in lived experience (T. Schnell)
11.40-12.40 LUNCH
12.40 – 13.40 The development of the SoMCaM card method, Norwegian version (P. la Cour)
13.40 – 15.10  Exercise (with coffee): Trying out the SoMCaM (P. la Cour)
15.10 – 15.40 Supervision and feedback on the method (P. la Cour)
15.40 – 16.00 Evaluation, final questions, summing up (P. la Cour & T. Schnell)