This is the final course in a required series of three courses that provides a touchstone for students to meet in a community as they progress through their individualized programs. This course addresses the elements of writing a position paper. The course provides the student with a review of APA style and skill development in stating and defending a position, conducting research, and professional writing. The course emphasizes applied ethics as an essential component of the position paper. Planning the student's own position paper and colloquium are featured.

Prerequisite: Completion of at least 16 credits.

Prerequisites:

HD690 The Process of Human Development

HD691 Ethics and Social Responsibility

This course is the second in a series of three required courses that provides a touchstone for students to meet in community as they progress through their individualized programs. This course integrates a deeper examination of the Lasallian philosophy, ethics, and social responsibility into an application to the student's field. This course environment fosters a renewal of meaning and purpose in the student's graduate work alon with a further articulation of vocation and service to the community.

Prerequisite: 8 credits completed in the program.

Prerequisites:

HD690 The Process of Human Development

This course is the first in a series of three required courses that provides a touchstone for students to meet in community as they progress through their individualized programs. This first course covers the history, Lasallian charism, philosophy, ethical expectations, and design of the program; the structure of learning contracts; the delineation and evaluation of learning objectives; the use of appropriate graduate level resources; guidelines for graduate level work and credits; reflective writing; and the establishment of professional, educational, and personal goals/vocation. This course is a prerequisite for all other courses.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Human Development program.

This course is an overview of ethics and ethical principles in the context of social responsibility. The course also places ethics in a context of spiritual values including the dignity of each person as made in the image and likeness of the Creator, respect for each person's talents contribute to the common good of the community, and obligations to investors for an equitable return on their investment.

This course defines executive coaching and compares it to other forms of executive training and development. The rationale for using executive coaching in light of adult learning theories is discussed. A model of executive coaching is presented along with various methodologies and approaches currently used. The benefits of executive coaching to the individual and the organization are highlighted.

This course explores the human development process in development of the organizational leader or consultant. It addresses techiques for acting as effective facilitators of employee growth and development in organizational settings, with particular focus on coaching and team building in organizations.

This course offers participants a framework through which to view the nature of conflict and their relationship with it. The nature of conflict and strategies for resolving it are explored from the perspective of conflict as a block to the natural flow of energy, or chi between people. The extent to which conflict represents imbalance and energy are examined. Strategies for resolving conflict by addressing imbalances or disease at the mental, emotional and spiritual levels are explored.

This course explains the basics of getting published and helps participants define possible projects, identify publications and publishers, and prepare a draft of a proposal that might be submitted to a publisher.

This course addresses the role of human development, the arts, and the creative process for enhancing leadership in intrapersonal, community and organizational contexts. The course draws upon brain-compatible learning research. This course explores student's internal development and creative leadership competencies such as attention, presence, collaborative inquiry, and applies these competencies to complex challenges.

This course examines the tools, techniques and knowledge necessary to create corporate and industrial training programs and professional development seminars and workshops. It considers ways to design, develop and deliver programs efficiently and in a way that maximizes adult learning.

This course explores the holistic wisdom embedded in Eastern movement forms such as Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Akido, or Yoga. Students are introduced to several different forms with a focus on the beginning practice of depending on the instructor's expertise. The Eastern philosophy underlying the movement form is discussed as well as health benefits and the translation of Eastern movement forms into a Western lifestyle.

This course introduces the student to transpersonal bodywork, an holistic approach which integrates physical, emotional, mental and spiritual processes. The course includes such concepts as the holistic paradigm of health and healing, models of transformation, the new science, and the body as an energy system. Students are introduced to techniques including therapeutic touch, imagery and the expressive therapies as related to transpersonal bodywork. The experiential component of the course gives students an opportunity for personal exploration in relation to course topics.

This course explores issues related to counseling the child of addiction. It offers a preliminary overview of some of the current effects experienced by many adults who have been raised in such a setting. It also considers strategies for fostering a path of recovery for those who find themselves suffering the lingering effects of an addiction-based childhood.

This course presents an overview of contemporary trends in holistic health and wellness and gives students an opportunity to explore the mind-body connection in healing and wellness.

This course explores the relationship between creativity, holistic health, and artistic expression. Elements of the creative process are articulated and compared to that of an holistic lifestyle. Impediments to creative expression are identified along with methods that free creativity for expression in one's personal and professional life.

This course focuses on the effects of the religious traditions and contemporary culture on women's self-esteem and spirituality. Issues surrounding women's development of adequate self-esteem and spiritual maturity are addressed. Alternative visions for women's self affirmation, full human development, and spirituality are investigated in theoretical and practical ways.

This course examines the psychology of meditation, modes of meditation, and uses of meditation for personal growth, in therapy, and in spiritual direction. Emphasis is on understanding and practicing various modes of meditation, mindful action, and meditative reading.

This course focuses on persons as communal individuals who live in relationship with others, nature, and the cosmos. It explores the integral nature of relationships and how we can grow as relational, communal, and spiritual individuals.

This course offers a multidimensional approach to the spirituality of suffering, death, grief and bereavement in the context of participant's own experience of profound loss. Participants focus on their assumptions, beliefs, and experiences in the context of their own spiritual and healing processes as well as those of other cultures.

This course focuses on cross-cultural patterns of ritual and their religious as well as spiritual implications. Participants consider Greco-European, Asian-Buddhist (esp. Tibetan), American Plains and Woodland Indian, African (Bemba) , Hispanic and Hmong cultural patterns of ritual.

This course explores both the exploitation of and return towards a sustainable human/earth balance. An inter-religious approach to scriptural, ethical, liturgical and spiritual traditions which call for greater human accountability toward earth is used.

The tradition of depth psychology describes a pattern of individual interior evolution that is reflected in changes in our external life. This course explores the interior process of making significant changes in one's life, direction, career, or relationships and resonance between our exterior lives and interior development.

This experiential course gives the student an opportunity to journal as a means of self-discovery. After outlining a rationale for the process and psychology of journal writing, this course assists participants in learning and employing a wide variety of journaling techniques for their personal growth.

This course focuses on psychological aspects of the visual arts. Topics include the normative development of artistic ability, the impact of developmental and environmental challenges, mental illness, and health related issues on the production of visual art. Relevant theory and artistic production are examined.

This course explores major symbols of the spiritual journey in mystical literature of diverse times and places. It examines a variety of literary genre to explore themes inherent in spiritual life and the value of taking the spiritual journey and communicating it in the context of time and place.

This course presents significant subjects of religious and spiritual exploration. It examines qualitative methodologies within human science that permit systematic and rigorous exploration of them. The course reviews contemplative, phenomenological and systems approaches and ways to select a particular methodology appropriate to the exploration of a particular religious or spiritual concern.

This course examines the memoir as narrative that captures and communicates one's own specific life experience and its individual, social, personal, and communal significance. It studies the myriad forms of techniques for composing a memoir.

This course examines the theory and practice of imagery as a technique for psychological and spiritual growth. An overview of the therapeutic use of imagery is presented as well as how this approach fits into a transpersonal therapeutic model. Topics include use of imagery in psychosynthesis, Progoff's twilight imagery technique, Jungian active imagination, and Sheihk's use of death imagery.