DAY 1
10:30 AM to 12:15 PM
I: Introduction to AEDP Theoretical Roots – (Part I)
a. Metapsychology
b. Neuroplasticity
c. Positive Emotion
12:15 to 12:30 PM
II: Break
12:30 to 2:00 PM
III: Transformance: Introduction to AEDP Theoretical Roots – (Part II)
a. The Drive to Heal and Grow
b. Relational Accompaniment
c. Dyadic Regulation
d. Processing Affect and Positive Emotions
e. The Experience of Change Itself
2:00 to 3:00 PM
IV: Lunch
3:00 to 4:45
V: The AEDP Four State Model of Transformation (Part I)
a. State 1: Stress, Distress, Symptoms Defenses, Inhibitory Affect
b. Mental Phenomena of State 1
c. Interventions for State 1
d. State 2: The Processing of Emotional Experience
e. Mental Phenomena of State 2
f. Interventions for State 2
4:45 to 5:00 PM
VI: Break
5:00 to 6:45 PM
VII: The AEDP Four State Model of Transformation (Part II)
a. State 3 – The Metatherapeutic Processing of What has Just Occurred in the Progression from states 1 to 2.
b. Mental Phenomena
c. Interventions
d. State 4 – Core State; Constructing a “coherent and cohesive” Self-Narrative
e. Mental Phenomena
f. Interventions
6:45 to 7:00 PM
VIII: Summary, Q&A
DAY 2
10:30 to 11:00 AM
I: Review and Provide Needed Clarification of Material From Day 1. Course Overview for Day 2.
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
II: Attachment: Working Experientially With Relatedness (Part I)
a. Undo Aloneness; Addressing the Profound Sense of Isolation and Loneliness That Often Accompanies Traumatic Experiences
b. A Supportive and Connected Environment
c. Dyadic Regulation
d. Corrective Experiences
12:30 to 12:45 PM
III: Break
12:45 to 2:00 PM
IV: Attachment: Working Experientially With Relatedness (Part II)
a. Establishing Trust/Safety Between Client and Therapist Dyadic Regulation
b. Corrective Experiences
2:00 to 3:00 PM
V: Lunch
3:00 to 4:45 PM
VI: The Triangle of Experience Graph and its Categories; What Happens When Anxiety Provoking Phenomena get Activated in the Patient.
a. How Emotional Experience Comes to be Structured
b. Defense
c. Anxiety
d. Core Affective Experience; Momentary, Elementary Feelings of Pleasure or Displeasure and of Activation or Deactivation
4:45 to 5:00 PM
VII: Break
5:00 to 6:45 PM
VIII: The Triangle of Experience (continued)
6:45 to 7:00 PM
IX: Summary, Q&A
DAY 3
10:30 to 11:00 PM
I: Review and Provide Needed Clarification of Material From Day 1. Course Overview for Day 3.
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
II: Working With Transformation: The Positive Affective Experiences
a. Positive Emotions and Affect Associated With Experiences of Transformation
b. Affective States
c. Interventions
12:15 to 12:30 PM
III: Break
12:30 to 2:15 PM
IV: Addressing Blocks to Change: Inhibitory Affects and Defenses.
a. Ways to Restructure Defenses
b. Interventions for Defensive Responses
c. Interventions to Regulate Anxiety and Affect
2:15 to 3:15 PM
V: Lunch
3:15 to 5:00 PM
VI: AEDP Integrated From a Cultural Point of View Part 1
5:00 to 5:15 PM
VII: Break
5:15 to 6:45 PM
VIII: AEDP Integrated From a Cultural Point of View Part 2
6:45 to 7:00 PM
IX: Summary, Questions, Reflections From Participants
DAY 4
10:30 to 11:00 AM
I: Review and Provide Needed Clarification of Material From Day 3. Course Overview for Day 4.
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
II: AEDP in the Context of the Black Experience Part 1
12:30 to 12:45 PM
III: Break
12:45 to 2:15 PM
IV: AEDP in the Context of the Black Experience Part 2
2:45 – 3:15 PM
V: Lunch
3:15 -3:30 PM
VI: Introduction to Role-play Experiential Exercises – Review Instructions
3:30 – 7:00 PM
VII: Therapist/Client Role Play to Practice: – An Affirmative Intervention: Welcome/Affirm/Validate/Offer Encouragement.
– How to Invite the Client to Stay With the Emotional and Somatic Experience.
– Interventions for Defensive Responses and for Regulating Anxiety.
– Practice Utilizing the “I” Statement Style of Communication “a tool in which the first person pronoun is used in talking about relationship issues.” (APA dictionary)
DAY 5
10:30 to 11:00 AM
I: Review and Provide Needed Clarification of Material From Day 4. Course Overview for Day 5.
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
II: Integration: (Part I)
a. Review of the Information from the Previous Four Days Through a Micro-Analysis of a Videotaped Session.
12:30 to 1:30 PM
III: Lunch
1:30 to 2:30 PM
IV: Integration: (Part II)
a. Review of the Information from the Previous Four Days Through a Micro-Analysis of a Videotaped Session.
2:30 to 4:00 PM
V: Review of the AEDP Modality, Q&A
Learning Objectives | Participants will be able to:
- Cite the history and development of the AEDP Model of psychotherapy.
- State five foundational elements of AEDP.
- Demonstrate the AEDP concept of how to welcome, affirm, validate, and offer encouragement to their clients.
- Describe the AEDP concepts of “core affect”, “inhibitory affect” and “defensive affect”.
- Formulate moment-to-moment clinical interventions in sessions.
- Explain the AEDP Triangle of Experience and identify the three main categories of experience represented by the Triangle.
- Describe 3 aspects of the AEDP therapeutic stance aimed at building safety and trust between patient and therapist.
- Define the AEDP term, “transformance”.
- Utilize three interventions relevant to addressing defensive responses to feeling & connecting.
- Name three interventions used to regulate anxiety and overwhelming affect.
- Illustrate how to encourageclients to stay with their experience.
- Summarize AEDP integrated from a cultural point of view and AEDP in the context of the Black experience.
- Utilize “meta-therapeutic processing” (exploring the patient’s experience of having a therapeutic experience) as an intervention to deepen and broaden the treatment’s effectiveness and, name three examples of meta-processing questions.
- Describe therapeutic tasks and interventions to help patients tolerate, experience, and express emotional experience.
- Role-play and practice emerging skills, developing competence with AEDP.
- Demonstrate an enhanced understanding of the AEDP model, use small groups to appraise, process and review the AEDP Model of therapy