Fagdager i religionspsykologi

Memento Mori – On coping with pain, suffering and dying

Two-day course, MF Specialized University, April 2025

Existential psychology uses psychological and philosophical approaches to examine beliefs about life and death, meaning and suffering. These are particularly at stake in critical life situations, when individuals as well as groups can lose the “ground beneath their feet”.  This two-day course provides insights into how pain and suffering develop and how we can deal with them constructively. It sheds light on the basic question of mortality, how people with different worldviews approach it and what consequences death awareness can have. 

The course is relevant for psychologists, doctors, nurses, counsellors, pastors, chaplains and all others who accompany people in critical life situations.

Program

Day 1: Torsdag 24.april

11.30 – 13:00: On pain and suffering

Lunch

14.00 – 17.00: Facing death and dying

• Selfexploration
• Worldview and death anxiety
• Philosophical and psychological theories on dealing with death anxiety

Day 2: Fredag 25.april 

11.30 – 13:00: Grief, mourning 

• The significance of rituals
• The constructive potential of crises of meaning

Lunch

14.00 – 17.00: Consequences of critical life events

• Shattered “positive illusions”
• Positive disintegration and posttraumatic growth
• Consequences of death awareness
• Responding to Andrea Gjestvang: One day in history

Price: kr 1400 (including lunch) 

Registration deadline: 17.04.25 kl. 09:30