DATO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE, LLC
PSYCHOANALYTIC COACHING, TRAINING & CONSULTING PROGRAMS


900 Cloverhill Road - Wynnewood, PA 19096
drdato@datopsychoanalyticinstitute.com 
Confidential inquiries and participation

Programs are held at Institute or by phone
Monday thru Friday, 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Free Intitial Consultation: 610-649-6270

  

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INSTITUTE

The Dato Psychoanalytic Institute provides psychoanalytic coaching, training, and consulting programs for experienced business and professional leaders. The Institute was established in 1974 by Robert Dato, Ph.D., NCPsyA, Psychoanalytic Coach and Trainer. Our Psychoanalytic Coaching Program is designed to significantly improve a leader's professional performance, productivity, and profitability and clarify his personal identity, purpose, and commitment. Our Psychoanalytic Training Program is designed for experienced coaches who want to transform their traditional non-analytic coaching practices into psychoanalytic coaching practices. Our Psychoanalytic Consulting Program is designed for motivated coaching and training students who have successfully completed their programs and who need to periodically strengthen their psychoanalytic skills, strategies, and tactics.

PSYCHOANALYTIC COACHING PROGRAM

Our Psychoanalytic Coaching Program is custom designed to accommodate the general and specific needs of our students. Each program has common features and important options that offer a range of flexibility. These features and options include: (1) Sessions conducted at the Institute and/or by telephone; (2) Weekly or biweekly session frequency options; (3) Optional self-assessment at the beginning of each session using one or more of the Institute's six assessment/evaluation instruments; (4) Telephone and email consultations between coaching sessions for urgent problems that require immediate input from the psychoanalytic coach; (5) A copy of Dimensions of the Mind, a book of key mental concepts; (6) Supplementary  and/or revised conceptual models, articles, readings, epigrams, poems and other materials that are relevant to the student's development.

PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING PROGRAM

Our Psychoanalytic Training Program offers rigorous training in psychoanalytic coaching for qualified, experienced, and committed coaches who are currently practicing either internally or externally. Psychoanalytic training introduces a unique coaching orientation that is significantly broader and deeper than the nonanalytic coaching orientations. Our students learn how to conduct psychoanalytic coaching by mastering the psychoanalytic principles, concepts, strategies, tactics, and skills that are relevant to psychoanalytic coaching. Our students must be ready, willing, and able to analyze and to resolve any and all personal obstacles to their professional development. We expect our students to achieve a superior level of personal and professional development before we consider them qualified to practice. Students receive a copy of The Science of Psychoanalytic Coaching.

PSYCHOANALYTIC CONSULTING PROGRAM

Our Psychoanalytic Consulting Program is a maintenance program that we provide for our coaching and training students. After the coaching or training program is completed, there is still a need for reinforcement. Students apply what they have learned, but many wish to have ongoing contact with their coach or trainer to maintain the quality of their knowledge, skills, strategies, and tactics. They occasionally are confronted with complex situations that require considerable expertise and experience to resolve. This program allows analytic students to work at a regular session frequency of once a month and/or on a need basis. Students in the consultation program enjoy a higher level of confidence because they always have a safety net available that offers them the protection, direction, and support they need to address and resolve the problems they encounter.

HOW TO APPLY TO OUR ANALYTIC PROGRAMS

Qualified individuals who want to apply to one of our three psychoanalytic programs are invited to participate in a Free Initial Consultation. This free consultation is conducted at the Institute for local applicants, and by telephone for applicants who live at a great distance from the Institute.  All information that is provided by the applicant is considered strictly confidential. The four goals of the this initial consultation are to: (1) Summarize the applicant's personal and professional background; (2) Identify his current personal and career challenges; (3) Develop and prioritize his program goals; (4) Assess comfort and compatibility between the applicant and coach. If there is a firm mutual agreement to work collaboratively, the coach reviews the Institute contract with the applicant, and if the applicant accepts all contractual terms, then he or she becomes a student of the Institute.

PROFILE OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE

Dr. Robert Dato is a pioneer in the development of psychoanalytic coaching. During the past thirty-eight years, he has coached, trained, or consulted with hundreds of leaders. He served successfully in executive, managerial, supervisory, training, clinical, and research roles in four Pennsylvania psychiatric hospitals during the ten year period preceding his establishment of the Institute. Dr. Dato completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Clinical and Experimental Psychology, earned Masters level Certifications in Psychoanalysis, Family Therapy, and Group Therapy, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Psychoanalysis. He has written many articles, papers, and essays, and four professional books: Strategic Stress Management (1994), Tao Te Ching: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times (2006), Dimensions of the Mind (2007), and The Science of Psychoanalytic Coaching (2009). 

                                              © 1974-2010 Robert Dato, Ph.D., NCPsyA.  Effective as of January 1, 2012.