I'll show you my essay which I wrote down for JFKU admission. I'd like you to know me more reading this. I'm very happy that you read the following my personal statement.
1. What brought you to apply to the MA in Integral Psychology?
There are mainly two reasons for applying to the MA in Integral Psychology at John F. Kennedy University.
The first reason for my application is that I would like to study Integral Theory which Ken Wilber proposed. In our own day, I think that there are multitudes of problems all over the world. For example, cruel wars, disastrous environmental problems, financial crisis, etc. In regard to these problems, I have had some internal conversations with myself, for example- “What can I do for these problems?” or “How can we solve these problems?” However, I did not have any clear answers for these questions, and for me, these problems seemed to be very difficult to tackle. When I was feeling short on my ideas, I came across Ken Wilber’s book- A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by accident, and I was very impressed with his theory and his way of looking at the world. Therefore, I became keen to study Integral Theory in a proper and more detailed way.
The second reason for my application is that I would like to apply psychological theories and integral theory into the business field in order to build a better business world. I have had an experience of working for one of the biggest accounting firms in the world- Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, for around two years and I noticed that there were a lot of areas in the workplace where I could apply psychological approaches. For instance, I noticed that psychological approaches could be applied on areas of employee motivation, stress management, management of a team, etc. More specifically, I think that I can apply some of the humanistic psychology’s theories such as hierarchy of needs theory of Abraham Maslow to motivate employees, apply some of the social psychology’s theories to analyze the corporate culture, or apply some developmental psychology’s theories to evaluate the consciousness levels of CEO or employees. In addition to the above ideas, I also have some other ideas of applying psychology to the business world. Integral Psychology’s program at your prestigious university covers a variety of psychology areas, and being able to study the same will be very fascinating for me.
With the above mentioned reasons, I am applying to the MA in Integral Psychology at John F. Kennedy University to gain a deeper understanding of psychology, not only theoretically, but also to implement the same in the business world and elsewhere.
