Atlantic University Announces Residential Course The Examined Life

Virginia Beach, Va. – Atlantic University presents The Examined Life, a residential 15-week course taught by local psychotherapist Tom Baker, on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m., beginning September 1. Baker will help individuals examine their lives from the perspective of a spiritual journey, exploring patterns in one’s present life that may be part of an over- arching spiritual purpose throughout a person’s many lives. Individuals will also examine the deficits found in each life that may be providing challenges and motivations in accomplishing one’s life purpose or mission. By the completion of the course, students will have a detailed template of their life to work with so that further spiritual growth can be achieved.

This interactive classroom course will include such topics as the Enneagram, and Jungian preference types of introversion/extroversion, intuition/sensory, feeling/thinking, and process/judgment to show how each of these may reveal the individuality of the soul. Students will also examine the deficits and traumas of their childhood and adolescence to see how these shaped their determination in their growth toward their ideal.

Tom Baker, MDiv, MSW, is a licensed social worker and psychotherapist in Virginia Beach who conducts individual, couples, and group counseling sessions. He holds a Masters Degree in Divinity from St. Meinrad School of Theology and a MSW from Norfolk State University.

This course will be held on Tuesdays from September 1 to December 15, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Edgar Cayce Visitor Center at 215 67th Street, in Virginia Beach, Va. The tuition for the full course—fifteen (15) 2-hour sessions and assigned reading—for enrolled Atlantic University M.A. students who will earn 3 credits toward their degree will be $750. For non-credit students the enrollment fee is $500. To learn more and register for the course, please call the Atlantic University Registrar at 757-631-8101.

Atlantic University (AU) is an accredited graduate-level institution offering a Master of Arts in Transformative Theories and Practices. In addition, AU offers continuing education courses and certificates in personal growth designed to augment various professional career paths. This distance-learning school provides a unique educational curriculum and a learning environment that helps people transform their lives. The AU faculty is composed of highly acclaimed and qualified professionals including well-known authors and national lecturers. Founded in 1930 by spiritual philosopher and holistic healing pioneer Edgar Cayce, AU maintains an affiliation with Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.). Further information can be obtained on their Web site at AtlanticUniv.edu.

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