HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT
Our objective in the study courses we offer is
to help you
live so satisfying a life
you want it to last forever.
Hello, we
are Jard and Roberta DeVille. We have invested half a
century in the various aspects of psychospiritual
health which is represented by our logo. It represents
the personality pyramid with it's three tiers representing
the physical, psychological
and philosophical or the pleasure/pain,
power/prestige and the purpose/permanence
principles of life.
For
over half a century we have helped a great many people
like yourself, from different walks of life, make their
lives fulfilling and meaningful through teaching,
counseling; and by publishing powerful books, tests and
seminars.
For, while some individuals perceive a conflict between psychology and
religion, between worship and psychotherapy, both disciplines stem
from the same roots, from the same human needs for faith, hope and
love in a community of men and women with whom we share life.
It is when crucial needs go unmet that our lives turn barren and
become as dry as dust, leaving us existentially frustrated, stuck in
the midst of life and prone to aggressive and self-defeating choices.
We married as college
sweethearts and our family has grown to include three grown children, seven
grandchildren, six great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Indisputably, we have
put
enough miles on our
personal odometers and had enough experiences to learn what is
important in virtually every aspect of life. This is why our
e-book study courses cover the gamut of human activities --
from worshipping and working, to loving and
learning, to persevering and playing.
We spent
some thirty years learning from and consulting with our mentor
and friend Viktor Frankl, who made his life meaningful through
a covenant relationship with God by loyally treating patients
even while he was a prisoner in the anteroom of hell. He
suffered for over three years in the German death factory at
Auschwitz during the Nazi Holocaust and emerged as virtually a
saint. Viktor (he earned dual doctorates in medicine and
psychology) developed the powerful life-focusing and
soul-healing system he called
Logotherapy
or spirit-healing,
to help existentially frustrated or spiritually bankrupt
persons.
As we matured intellectually and spiritually, we researched and
published more books, test instruments and seminars than Viktor
himself wrote and discovered additional elements about living
successfully. While our mentor focused on creating a
crucial sense of meaning to enhance one’s life, we took his
concepts to a still higher level -- which is what researchers
and writers do when contributing to human knowledge.
We combine Viktor’s concept of
seeking individual meaning --with a communal search for
belonging with the people with whom we share love. We
have gone on to promote the wisdom of opening avenues of
meaning and purpose -- within the places of the heart with the
men and women with whom we share love and support. This
is represented in the following equation.
FULFILLMENT
= f (Meaning X Belonging)
For it is the balanced way we
work and play, love and learn, persevere and worship; our maturing choices,
that determine the depth of our fulfillment and the consistent
satisfaction that follows.
Some of our published books that so
many persons have found extremely valuable include:
and others in English, Spanish and Japanese. They were
originally published as major offerings by several first line
book companies.
PARENTING WINNING CHILDREN
was
developed as a guide for parents when Jard was the Director of a
learning and learning disabilities clinic for dyslexic children
in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT
and
THE LIBERATED SOUL, were
developed and piloted as religious education seminars and
liberal arts college short classes for some hundred schools and
churches.
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE was
written as his textbook when he was adjunct Professor of
Leadership in the Executive Development Conference at the
University of Arizona in Tucson. Roberta is his full partner and
co-author in all of this research and development.
These book length
courses range in length from 110 single spaced, letter size
pages for
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE -- to 315 pages for
THE LIBERATED SOUL.
In order to help you
make your life
deeply successful --
we have transformed these many books, projects, exercises and
tests into superior e-book study courses that enable men and
women to find greater and greater satisfaction in several
crucial aspects of life.
We offer to help you, as we have
assisted so many others -- so that you use our virtual
library of psychospiritual programs -- developed from the
research and clinical experiences of many world class
psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists,
philosophers and theologians -- along with our own research,
counseling, teaching and interpretations -- to make your life
consistently meaningful.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL
LIST
FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT
The Joyous Psychology Of Meaning
And Belonging
This course of narratives, self
improvement exercises, tests and projects that teach the
practice of Logotherapy, a powerful approach to life that
enables you to meet your deepest longings through sound
psychospiritual attitudes, activities and relationships.
“For ten thousand years suffering humanity has been laboriously climbing a vast black tower of ignorance,
superstition and narcissism. And when some of our scientists
finally reached the top, they found a colony of philosophers and
theologians awaiting them in God’s sunlight.”
Viktor Frankl, Psychiatrist, Author and Virtual Saint
THE LIBERATED SOUL
The
Cosmic Psychology Of Psychospiritual Deliverance
This course teaches you methods
that a score of the world’s finest counselors and therapists
offer physical, emotional and spiritual freedom from the many
stresses of life.
“In an adult lifetime of treating a great
many unhappy men and women, I’ve never known a conflicted person
of middle age or older who recovered emotionally without
accepting what the living religions of the world teach about
spirituality.” Carl G. Jung, World Class Psychotherapist/Author
NICE GUYS
FINISH FIRST
The Persuasive Psychology Of A
Cooperative
Lifestyle
This course
teaches you methods and shows you how to be successful by developing
accepting and rewarding attitudes; activities and
relationships with which to persuade others to do what you want
and then thank you for the privilege.
"Nice guys finish first? How can anyone with
the brain of an insect make such a stupid statement? Everyone
knows that nice guys finish last." John Kelly, Talk Show host on a book
promotion tour.
LOVERS FOR LIFE
The Loving Psychology Of Life-Long Sexual Intimacy
This course teaches
you how to preserve consistent love,
tolerance and rewarding sexual intimacy between you and your
partner throughout your entire lives.
“We are indebted to and deeply appreciative of the
contributions our many friends and relatives made to our
own love and passion. They have given much meaning to our
relationship. We especially thank those friends at
Aldersgate Church who shared their relationships with us
as this work was taking shape. The years we have spent
there greatly enriched our lives.”
Roberta And
Jard DeVille, Teachers And Authors
 PARENTING WINNING CHILDREN
The Guidance Psychology Of High Expectations
This course
which includes: The Power Of Expectations, Starting A Game
Plan, Game Plans That Work, and much more for rearing
physically, psychologically and spiritually successful
children and adolescents.
“I worried about my oldest daughter
keeping her virginity while she was in high school. Now,
just ten years later, I lay awake nights, anxious that my
youngest girl will be crippled by AIDS or become addicted to
life-devouring drugs.”
Mary Ellen Fitzsimmons, Single Mother
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
The Integrated Psychology Of World Class Leadership
This course of
insights and projects will explode your leadership potential.
Learn what the authors means when he writes that
every management team receives the level of
commitment that their leaders consistently reward.
“There are no bad regiments in the
French Army -- although some regiments fail because they are
commanded by bad colonels.”
Napoleon
Bonaparte -- Maxims Of War
GREAT FICTION
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TESTIMONIALS AND
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These courses have proven so interesting and so valuable that
for two decades the participants gave them an incredible 3.50
average approval rating on a four point scale.
Jard’s decade of leadership programs for the
University of Arizona were rated at 3.68 by twenty different
classes of ambitious and intelligent corporate executives who
found his insights very useful. In addition, during one ten year
period, we appeared on so many talk shows, in lecture sessions
and in classes -- that we helped literally millions of persons
around the world -- from London to Singapore, from Tokyo to
Brisbane and Auckland and from coast to coast and border to
border within the United States.
Here are what some very
perceptive persons write about these amazing life enhancing
programs.
From everything I’ve seen and heard, Jard DeVille is
indeed the world’s foremost motivational psychology author. LEOPOLD HAUSER, President - International Federation of Training
Organizations.
Jard’s work contains sticks of dynamite that explode old
myths while assuring me that I really can improve my life. FRED
NORDSTROM, V P - Cargill Corporation.
Jard’s work contains sticks of dynamite that explode old
myths while assuring me that I really can improve my life. FRED
NORDSTROM, V P - Cargill Corporation.
Following Jard’s recommendations will result in greater
commitment and a deepened sense of fulfillment for our
membership. EMERSON COLAW, Bishop -- The United Methodist
Church.
Jard DeVille, for years, has used his writing and speaking
skills to give us the excellence we want in our programs. JOSEPH
HRABOSKI, Executive Programs Director - University Of Arizona,
Tucson.
Jard DeVille combines psychological and scientific knowledge
better than anyone I’ve known personally since Albert Einstein.
DUGAL ARBUCKLE, Professor/Counseling Chairman - Boston
University.
Excellence could be measured by a willingness to learn and
use the powerful concepts taught by Jard DeVille. ROBERT CONKLIN
- Chairman, The Conklin Chemical Company.
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YOUR
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
We
have discovered that there is hardly a person in America who
couldn’t profit from these extraordinary studies of satisfactory
marriage, successful career, leadership, rearing healthy and
happy children and living a life of fulfillment and consistent
independence -- for as one famous Harvard philosopher said;
Life is neither a party nor a performance but a painful
predicament that must be resolved with great difficulty by every
man or woman who hopes to survive with a modicum of
satisfaction.
A Hollywood actor was less
sophisticated when someone asked how he was getting along in his
relationships -- but he made much the same point that we do. He
quipped:
Nasty stuff always happens in every
life!
Indeed it does! During a FULFILLMENT seminar, at the University
of Arizona for the Affiliated Women’s Clubs of Arizona, a
charming and successful woman unintentionally made our point
about existential or life-style caused frustration and
satisfaction. Catherine Hendricks spoke about several major
problems that are caused by living too secular a life-style in
this period of swift, destabilizing and often disconcerting
change. Catherine lamented;
"I’m one woman who did everything well. I stayed out of
trouble in school, married the right guy and joined a great
company when it started taking women seriously. I’ve made
sound business decisions along the way and shall surely
become a V P before I’m forty. I live in a home my parents
think a mansion and have two beautiful children. I do a job
thousands envy. Obviously, I have everything. Right? Wrong!
Much of my life feels incomplete and caught up in trivia.
My kids are rebelling with sex and drugs and I’m almost
certain my husband is having an affair with a little twerp.
I feel deeply dissatisfied at the most inopportune times, as
if nothing counts except for my sixty hour work weeks and
paying for the house and the Mercedes. There must be more to
life than this but when my therapist asks what‘s missing, I
can’t even tell her. I worry that I’m going mad to feel this
way despite my accomplishments in the company and my
prestige in my community. What do I do when I’ve won
everything I’ve ever wanted and it isn’t enough to keep me
happy?"
What, indeed -- and what of the many persons who fall far
short of her achievements, ordinary men and women who fear
that life is passing them by, who feel stuck in their careers
or lonely in their intimate relationships? They are not
becoming mentally ill as Catherine feared but are spiritually
maladjusted or existentially frustrated through clinging to
secular values, negative attitudes, low expectations, immature
beliefs and irresponsible choices. They are left wondering how
they can become happy when they should be seeking a consistent
sense of meaning and belonging through sound relationships and
activities.
To state it simply, life in this computerized world has become
so complex, so filled with swiftly shifting commercial,
political, family and religious challenges, that many men and
women become confused and disoriented enough psychospiritually
to feel stuck in the midst of life. No sooner do we create a
place from which to capture a portion of life and love for
ourselves, than society itself shifts into a new and often
distressing mode. We don’t need to describe this difficult era
for you.
You learn about a collapsing middle class,
careers exported overseas, stolen retirement plans, lost
medical insurance, terrorist attacks, bloody wars against the
wrong people with tens of thousands wounded and dead, threats
of more wars to come and the wasting of more boys and girls as
cannon fodder. Terrible viruses are spread overnight by jet
transports, we have a suicidal national debt, a horrendous
cost for housing and endless scams originating from the halls
of Congress and within the White House. Violent twenty-first
century changes batter us continually, crashing over us like
great Pacific waves on a rocky atoll.
A great many men and women remain alienated and unhappy
because it is a risky business to rely on the luck of the
genetic and environmental draw, as we make thoughtless choices
that determine how well we and our children shall live. Our
parents’ and grandparents’ traditions and ideologies are
doomed to fail society -- because the circumstances that
created them no longer exist. Brilliant scholars such as Soren
Kierkegaard, Viktor Frankl, Otto Rank and Ernest Becker,
report that we humans who evolved slowly over long static eons
on the African Savannah, hate and resist change unless it is
to our immediate and obvious advantage.
No sooner do we who
resist change become comfortable in new situations -- than
life shifts into a new mode and we are forced to scramble into
another comfort zone, to rethink conclusions we’d thought
settled for life. Virtually every man and woman in every
commercial nation suffers from some degree of existential
alienation and spiritual bankruptcy that is caused by swift
and painful changes that batter us ceaselessly.
The
Fulfillment Forum offers you a psychospiritual approach that
transcends much of the luck of the draw, that enables you to
live and love through effective and efficient processes. We no
longer need to automatically accept whatever nature and
society gives us. We really can bypass the attitudes,
expectations and choices that served our ancestors reasonably
well a century or so ago but have become disastrous today.
After all -- if you don’t believe the clergy should determine
the size or the spacing of your family, have never enslaved
Africans to grow cane and hoe cotton, crossed the Pacific
aboard a Clipper sailing ship or consulted a doctor who uses
leeches to bleed children who need a blood transfusion -- it
is time to learn sound ways of coping with change, managing
interpersonal relationships successfully and ending the
crippling existential frustrations that make life disastrous
for so many men and women.
We,
Jard and Roberta, answer Catherine’s Hendricks’ troubling
questions along with a great many more in this series of life
saving courses that we offer people intelligent enough to use
them. Our emphasis is on joyful living through spiritual
values (or ethical virtues), positive attitudes, high
expectations, mature beliefs and responsible choices. We have
learned as Soren Kierkegaard, Viktor Frankl, Karen Horney,
Otto Rank, Laura Perle and many other brilliant practitioners
and scholars wrote -- that many disappointed souls are
suffering from neurotic ailments and frustrations caused by
their counter productive or secular life-styles.
A secular
fixation on possessions, power, prestige and power simply
cannot satisfy we who evolved with mystical, spiritual and
religious needs so deeply rooted in our souls that persons who
rely exclusively on secular values, attitudes and choices are
doomed to feel incomplete. They become existentially
frustrated or spiritually bankrupt as surely as a person who
lives with an unbalanced diet is doomed to become ill. Few
persons are going to simply get lucky and have satisfaction
handed to them on a silver platter. Life is filled with many
quid-pro-quos with which we must deal wisely and well to have
life become consistently satisfying as a by-product of our
responsible choices.
We
recently had this approach confirmed by an unlikely source in
an entirely unexpected setting. The carnival barker on the
Minnesota State Fair Midway didn't look like a philosopher.
His fingernails were ragged and dirty and a broken tooth gave
him a cynical and somewhat sinister leer. Tough-Tony Gallo
seemed too rough-hewn a man from whom to learn much about a
significant life. Nevertheless, Tony went right to a major
aspect of fulfillment when he told us;
Life’s sorta like ridin’ a bicycle uphill. Ya gotta
keep pedalin’ along or ya gotta stop and get off. There
ain’t no reverse gear and ya gotta keep yer balance.
How marvelously well expressed! There you have it -- much
knowledge and wisdom in a nutshell! Tough Tony had just
relieved Jard of six dollars in a futile attempt to win a
stuffed panda for a granddaughter at his milk bottle-toss
game. Neither Jard's arm nor his aim is what either was in
his youth but he was delighted with the transaction. After
all, in these days of expensive therapy, that was a bargain
for such excellent counsel about living successfully. As our
philosophical friend with dirty nails so succinctly said, a
satisfying life-style has an ongoing flow that must be
embraced if we are to find consistent meaning and belonging
with the powers that God through nature has given us to
invest in spiritual growth.
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EXISTENTIAL
PROBLEMS FOR YOU TO PONDER
We
have spent half a century helping men and women resolve serious
challenges in their careers, marriages, faith communities and in
their relationships with their relatives, friends and children.
Only the rarest of persons sail effortlessly through life as if
on gossamer wings, in glorious sunshine, with cooling breezes,
without defeats or regrets and never a challenge. Only a few
souls reach the heights of possessions, power, prestige and
pleasure from which no competitors appear to push one from his
or her lofty perch.
Therefore, we encourage you to download any or all of the
following partials for your better understanding of what we
offer you. Investigate our most immodest claims, as the
thousands of men and women, who have studied with us in classes
or now through our seminar courses.
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Vita
Jard and Roberta
DeVille pastored three churches. He taught psychology and
chaired the psychology departments at Olivet and Westminster
Colleges, and was director of the Child Conservation Center in
conjunction with the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was
also manager of Engineering Research, Methods and Training for
the 8,000 worker UniRoyal Corporation manufacturing facility at
Joliet, Illinois, V.P. of manufacturing for Deardean Tool
Corporation and Leadership Psychology Professor in the Executive
Development Program for the University of Arizona at Tucson.
Jard is considered by many educational experts to be the world’s
foremost leadership psychology author. According to psychology
chairman Dugal Arbuckle of Boston University, Jard combines
technical and human skills better than anyone Arbuckle’s known
since Albert Einstein. He is one of the true innovators in the
research and teaching of human satisfaction.
Roberta Howard DeVille spent her career teaching many topics in
the public schools of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
She’s always been a superb instructor and speaker, was
responsible for the Minneapolis American Cancer society’s
financial drive, and official board chairperson or
congregational president for her church. She is still a
Minnesota official for her denomination plus a first class
gospel singer. College sweethearts - married for over half a
century, we are full partners in the
FULFILLMENT FORUM.
Our fine book
LOVERS FOR LIFE
is a classic for couples who want to make marriage meaningful
and permanent.
We
have presented more than a hundred
FULFILLMENT
courses, seminars, retreats and motivational
sessions for colleges, universities, churches and commercial
organizations. These include Illinois Wesleyan, Olivet, Albion,
Mary, Westminster and other colleges -- the Universities of
Alaska, Indiana-Purdue in Indianapolis, Purdue, Nebraska,
Arizona, Minnesota and others -- Honeywell, Ford Motor Company,
First Banks, Intel, Digital, AT&T and other firms -- the
Institutes of Management in Adelaide, Brisbane, Singapore, Hong
Kong, Kuala Lumpur and others. The Alexander Hamilton Institute
of New York and The Winston Churchill Institute of London
published long articles from fulfillment classes for their
subscribers. And we have conducted too many church retreats,
forums, and classes about fulfillment to remember them all.
These courses are indeed well honed for your use in the
practical areas of life.
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