IMMERSION COURSE in AEDP

Transformational Theory,
the Healing-Oriented Practice of AEDP
and the Treatment of Attachment Trauma

DIANA FOSHA, PH.D. & Members of The NYC AEDP Institute Faculty

2011 Dates and Locations (TBA)


This FIVE-DAY IMMERSION COURSE in AEDP is intended for practitioners interested in AEDP, and in exploring its applications to the treatment of attachment trauma. Making extensive use of clinical videotapes of actual therapy sessions, the aim of this course is to foster proficiency in the practice of AEDP, as well as facilitate its integration into clinical practices that make use of other experiential, body-focused, trauma-based, relational and/or psychodynamic methods.

THEORETICAL presentations will focus on presenting Transformational Theory, and articulating an emergent conceptual framework that integrates findings from affective neuroscience, attachment theory, emotion theory, somatic focusing, developmental studies of dyadic interaction, trauma studies, and transformational studies. Then, in order to walk the walk and not just talk the talk, we will translate the implications of these cutting-edge ideas into the specifics of stance, technique, and precisely attuned interventions to be used in day-to-day, moment-to-moment CLINICAL PRACTICE.

VIDEOTAPES of actual therapy cases will be used throughout to illustrate

  • work with the patient/therapist attachment relationship
  • techniques of intervention: how-toÕs of transformational work
  • phenomenology of transformational experience
  • moment-to-moment dyadic affect regulation
  • working with the pathogenic affects of fear and shame
  • bringing emotion work to completion
  • moment-to-moment tracking of somatic and dyadic experiencing
  • healing affects as somatic markers of transformational experiences
  • the fostering of True Self experience through being a True Other
  • receptive affective experiences: feeling seen, loved, understood
  • promoting core state: flow, ease, compassion, self-empathy

ABOUT THE IMMERSION COURSE Each day will begin with a 90-minute theoretical presentation, grounding the clinical work in a conceptual framework that integrates findings from affective neuroscience, attachment theory, emotion theory, somatic focusing, developmental studies of dyadic interaction, trauma studies, and transformational studies. The rest of the day will consist of clinical teaching revolving around clinical videotapes, with a focus both on (a) the phenomenology of the phenomena that the moment-to-moment tracking is tracking, and (b) on techniques and strategies of intervention. The format will be highly interactive and emphasize the back and forth with the group of participants, thus activating dyadic processes of communication. There will be on opportunity to also practice some aspects of AEDP through experiential exercises. It is the vision of the AEDP Immersion course that it would bring together clinicians from different perspectives, clinicians sharing an interest in AEDP specifically, but who would also each bring his or her own very special expertise, interest, and experiences. In this way, not only will the course be exciting and enlivening, but AEDP will continue to grow, enriched and enhanced by being in communication, or dyadic coordination, so to speak, with all these other lodes of knowledge and wisdom. Given the interest expressed in this course, it looks like that vision might be actualized, which is a very exciting prospect.

DIANA FOSHA, Ph.D., is the developer of AEDP, and the Director of the AEDP Institute in New York City. She is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and numerous papers and chapters on transformational studies, experiential process, and trauma treatment. Diana Fosha is the editor, along with Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon, of The Healing Power of Emotions: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice (Norton, 2009). A DVD of her AEDP work with a patient has been released by APA, as part of their Systems of Psychotherapy Video Series.

LOCATION:
TBA

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: In order to ensure the high quality of the learning for each participant, and to allow dialogue and interaction between course leader(s) and course participants, the AEDP Immersion course is limited to 75 participants.

FOR APPLICATIONS & APPLICATION PROCEDURE: TBA.

COURSE FEE:
The fee for the five-day AEDP Immersion course is $1400*

There is a $50 discount for members of the AEDP Institute. (For Membership info and to become a Member through this website, click on Membership/Listserve/Journal and follow the prompts).

Refund Policy:
Registration fees will be returned, minus a $75 processing fee, up until specified date (TBA). Thereafter, 25% of the fee will be non-refundable.

CEU:
CEU credits will be available to all interested licensed practitioners practicing in the U.S. for a fee of $50.00.

AEDP Therapist Directory:
Upon completion of the 2010 AEDP Immersion Course, participants will be eligible for being listed as Level I practitioners in the AEDP Therapist Directory of the AEDP website.