Sold Out – to join the waiting list email us: admin@aedpinstitute.org
This online course is to be presented during hours that work well for North & South America, east, central and west coast time zones.
This course is for AEDP Level 2 Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists, in mental health and the healing arts and sciences.
About AEDP: Healing-oriented and attachment-based, AEDP’s practice translates current neuroscience and developmental research into moment-to-moment clinical practice. Simultaneously experiential and relational in its in-depth emotional explorations, AEDP’s interventions are deeply rooted in the dynamics of the transformational process that emerges in environments where the individual feels safe and known.
Prerequisites: AEDP Advanced Skills is for AEDP Level 2 licensed practitioners who have completed AEDP Immersion plus either Essential Skills (ES1) or Core Training or 30 hours Small Group Supervision or 20 Hours Individual Supervision. Questions? please contact admin@aedpinstitute.org.
About Advanced Skills (ES2): Practical in its orientation, Advanced Skills (ES2) focuses on helping you both learn new, advanced AEDP skills, and cultivate and fine-tune the AEDP skills you already have. Each day’s teaching will include didactic presentations of theory along with video of actual clinical sessions conducted by AEDP Faculty followed by small group experiential exercises.
In both left-brained and right-brained ways, our Advanced Skills faculty will teach concrete, specific interventions and techniques that will help you with the in-depth practice of AEDP and help you with your more challenging clients.
Daily routine: AEDP skills are introduced each morning first with their theoretical foundations and then with illustrations by way of clinical videotapes; skills are then practiced in group experiential exercises each afternoon.
Faculty, Experiential Assistants and Clinical Video: These are the hallmarks of all AEDP trainings. In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and deeply we seek to both undo professional aloneness and engage in rigorous clinical teaching. Our faculty are excellent as academics, clinicians and teachers. Participants deeply appreciate how effectively faculty presenters’ clinical video demonstrates “AEDP in action.” And faculty have skilled accompaniment from a large number of Experiential Assistants – up to and often including one Experiential Assistant for every three participants. Participants rave about the excellent attention and support they receive in this unique learning environment.
To see a listing of AEDP therapists who act as Experiential Assistants, click here.
Course Co-Helms: Benjamin Lipton, LCSW and Ron Frederick, PhD
As course helms, Benjamin and Ron will serve to ensure continuity across and between days and weeks of the course and as such be the de facto course co-leads. Ron will guest present during Benjamin’s helm week and Ron with guest present during Ron’s helm week. They will also host at least one more guest presenter during each week of the course.
Week One Presented Live, Online: October 2 – 6, 2020
Lead Faculty Ron Frederick, PhD + Guest Faculty: SueAnne Piliero, PhD and Diana Fosha, PhD
Week Two Presented Live, Online: April 16 – 20, 2021
Lead Faculty Benjamin Lipton, LCSW + Guest Faculty: Diana Fosha, PhD and Ron Frederick, PhD
Important: Benjamin Lipton will not be able to present. Sigal Bahat, MA will present Day 1 and Diana Fosha, PhD will present Day 5.
Daily Topics:
- “Oh, won’t you stay just a little bit longer:” Scaffolding and fine-tuning the experiential interventions of interpersonal and intrapsychic work.
- “What feeling?:” Working with patients who don’t easily take to AEDP
- Advanced Defense Work Part 1: Building self and self compassion.
- Advanced Defense Work Part 2: When defenses don’t melt and can’t easily be bypassed.
- Pathogenic Affects: Working with shame and guilt in AEDP.
- “It feels good like I know it should:” Increasing receptive affective capacities aka “taking it in.”
- Attunement, Co-regulation, and “Fierce Love:” 3 Essential skills in healing attachment trauma and transforming the self.
- Just Portrayals: An emotion processing option.
- When Positive Experiences Trigger Negative Reactions: Trauma, dissociation, ‘parts’ work; AEDP-IR.
- Pathogenic/Maladaptive Affects: Extended state 1 work; use of self; top-down as well as bottom-up restructuring strategies.
- Advanced Metaprocessing: Memory reconsolidation at work.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Identify the specific clinical markers of each of the 4 states in the AEDP Model of Emotion Processing
- Utilize the skill of moment-to-moment tracking to facilitate processing core affects to completion
- Demonstrate two techniques for deepening a client’s access to adaptive core affects
- Distinguish adaptive from maladaptive core affects
- Define “portrayal” and identify different types of portrayals
- Demonstrate understanding of how to utilize portrayals in clinical work to process core affect
- Discover the central place of pathogenic affects (e.g. feelings of worthlessness, shame, unbearable aloneness, etc.) in trauma.
- Explain what therapeutic presence really means—being inside the patient’s world and our patients knowing it, feeling it, and viscerally registering it—and the integral part it plays in transforming pathogenic affects.
- Show what we really mean by “undoing aloneness”, how to regulate fear and shame, champion the patient’s self-at-best, and experiential work with relational experience—all key ingredients in transforming trauma and the self.
- Describe how to be more affectively engaged, relationally courageous (i.e. “fierce love”) and make more purposeful use of their own emotional experience in their work with clients.
- Identify three phobias associated with trauma work based on the Structural model of dissociation.
- Describe two AEDP-based therapeutic interventions that aid in the patient’s development of emotion regulation.
- Name two affective change processes in AEDP that can help stabilize patients in early trauma treatment.
- Define “Intra-relational AEDP” and identify two goals associated with its use.
- Explain how to reliably track patients’ position on the triangles and determine when the patient is functioning in the realm of feeling, defense or anxiety.
- Designate the different levels or subcategories of feeling, defense and anxiety.
- Demonstrate how to use knowledge about the patients position to guide therapeutic interventions.
- Explain concrete steps to restructure defenses and reduce barriers to connection in the therapy relationship.
- Establish ways to track and regulate anxiety so that it is in an optimal range.
- Demonstrate skills for accessing internal affective resources and unconscious material so they are available for therapeutic exploration.
- Differentiate between empathy and affirmation
- Explain the the importance of metatherapeutic processing
- Integrate affirmation into their technical repertoire of interventions
Course Location, Dates and Times:
Location: Presented Live, ONLINE
Dates and Times:
Week 1: October 2020
Friday, October 2, 2020 – Tuesday, October 6, 2020: U.S. Pacific Standard Time: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm (formerly 9:00 am – 5:00 pm)
Week 2: April 2021
Friday, April 16, 2021 – Tuesday, April 20, 2021: U.S. Pacific Standard Time: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm (formerly 9:00 am – 5:00 pm)
- Morning Sessions: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm (4 hrs with one 15-min break)
- Afternoon Session: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (3 hrs with one 15-min break)
Calculate your time zone HERE
Requirements to Participate Effectively Online:
You will need a private space with a reliable Internet connection for a desktop/laptop computer that has video and microphone. New to Online Learning? Basic technical training and support is provided in advance of and throughout Advanced Skills Online.
Click HERE for AEDP’s Live, Online Learning: Requirements & FAQ’s.
Course Fee and Registration
Sold Out – to join the waiting list email us: admin@aedpinstitute.org
Course Fee includes 65 CE Credits
- $3,200 One payment, non-members*
- $3,250 Payment plan, non-members* requires $500 deposit
*AEDP Institute Members save $50. Log in to access the discounted Member Registration button.
Diversity Scholarships are available for this course. For more information and to download an application please click here.
Extra Help During the Pandemic:
- Covid Scholarships: A limited number of partial scholarships are available for licensed therapists in practice. If you are unable to afford the full course fee because you have been especially hard hit by the Covid virus, please contact us at admin@aedpinstitute.org with Covid Scholarship in the subject line and briefly tell us why you need the scholarship.
- Extended Payment Plans: Take up to 12 months to pay for the course: 12 month Payment Plan: $500 deposit + 11 monthly payments of $250 = $3250 USD. For information, call our registration partner Karen Newell at R Cassidy Seminars: 866-992-9399 X105 (Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 2:00 pm PST)
AEDP Member Course Fee includes 65 CE Credits
- $3,150 One payment (this is our discounted member price)
- $3,200 Payment plan, requires $500 deposit (member price)
Diversity Scholarships are available for this course! For more information and to download an application please click here.
Extra Help During the Pandemic:
- Covid Scholarships: A limited number of partial scholarships are available for licensed therapists in practice. If you are unable to afford the full course fee because you have been especially hard hit by the Covid virus, please contact us at admin@aedpinstitute.org with Covid Scholarship in the subject line and briefly tell us why you need the scholarship.
- Extended Payment Plans: Take up to 12 months to pay for the course: 12 month Payment Plan: $500 deposit + 11 monthly payments of $250 = $3250 USD. For information, call our registration partner Karen Newell at R Cassidy Seminars: 866-992-9399 X105 (Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 2:00 pm PST)
COURSE QUESTIONS, REGISTRATION and PAYMENT PLANS CONTACT
AEDP Institute
Karen Newell
karen@rcassidy.com
866-992-9399 x 105
ADA ACCOMODATIONS:
Please contact our office 866-992-9399 if you have questions about disability access or accommodations.
Meet the Lead Faculty:
[loop type=”faculty” taxonomy=”members” term=”senior-faculty” name=”benjamin-lipton-lcsw”][field title]
[content] [/loop] [loop type=”faculty” taxonomy=”members” term=”senior-faculty” name=”ronald-j-frederick-phd”][field title]
[content] [/loop]Meet the Guest Faculty:
[loop type=”faculty” taxonomy=”members” term=”senior-faculty” name=”Diana-Fosha-phd”][field title]
[content] [/loop] [loop type=”faculty” taxonomy=”members” term=”senior-faculty” name=”SueAnne-Piliero-phd”][field title]
[content] [/loop]Continuing Education
Cosponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402. CE Credits are included in the course fee.
A link to your evaluation and certificate will be emailed to you from R. Cassidy a few days after the event’s completion.
Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in each day, attended the entire course, completed an evaluation, and signed out each day in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be available following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com.
Psychologists
R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 65 CE hours
Psychoanalysts
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0005. 65 clock hours.
Social Workers
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and other states’ licensing board approvals for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is approved for 65 contact hours live
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 65 clock hours, #RCST110701
Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
CA: CA and Other States: Most states accept continuing education courses offered by approved providers with national providerships or will accept the approvals of other state licensing boards of the same license type. Others, either do not require pre-approval of courses, or will allow licensees to retroactively file for course approval themselves. R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider with two national providerships, as well as holding many individual state license type approvals. Check with your board to obtain a final ruling.
IL: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141. 65 hours.
NY-LMHCs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0015. 65 contact hours.
NY-LMFTs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0011. 65 contact hours.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 65 clock hours, #RCST110701
TX: Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. Provider #151 65 CE hours.
Creative Arts Therapists
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0005. 65 contact hours.
Chemical Dependency Counselors
CA: Provider approved by CCAPP, Provider #4N-00-434-0220 for 65 CEHs. CCAPP is an ICRC member which has reciprocity with most ICRC member states
TX: Provider approved by the TCBAP Standards Committee, Provider No. 1749-06, 65 hours general. Expires 3/31/2019. Complaints about provider or workshop content may be directed to the TCBAP Standards Committee, 1005 Congress Avenue, Ste. 460, Austin, Texas 78701, Fax Number (512) 476-7297.
Educators
TX: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider with the Texas Education Agency CPE# 501456. This course is 65 CE Hours.
Nurses
CA: Provider approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CeP12224, for 65 contact hours
Disability Access
If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.
To see our Refund Policy or to file a Grievance, click here.