A Soulful Warrior’s Six Session Journey to Transformation Through AEDP 

An AEDP Institute Sponsored, AEDP Cascadia Seminar Presentation
with AEDP Faculty Member Jerry Lamagna, LCSW

This seminar is intended for professionals in mental health and the healing arts and sciences. 

This first of its kind, two day seminar takes attendees through an ex-army commander’s first six sessions of treatment with Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). Through lecture and the extensive use of video footage from each session, the presenter will recount their therapeutic journey, offering an extensive, naturalistic study of the experiential, relational, psychodynamic, healing centered elements of AEDP. AEDP schemas such as the four state model of change, the triangle of experience, the self-other-emotion triangle will be explored within the context of a sequential series of actual sessions. In addition to surveying the AEDP model specifically, the seminar will also illustrate the emergent, serpentine nature of therapeutic change and the dilemmas, errors and missed opportunities that typically occur in treatment.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the term “transformance” and identify three experiential markers that indicate an impetus to change.
• Name three interventions that help foster a client’s focus on their felt experience.
• List four characteristics of AEDP’s therapeutic stance.
• Contrast the verbal/nonverbal markers of core affect vs. defensive affect.
• Give examples of techniques used to facilitate the thorough processing of core affective experience.
• Demonstrate an understanding of AEDP’s four state model of change by distinguishing the distinct therapeutic intentions and interventions for each state.
• Compare the use/advantages of relational interventions vs. emotion processing interventions when tracking the client’s affect in the video sessions
• Describe 3-4 ways of neutralizing defenses in order to access, process and resolve underlying symptom-generating emotions.
• Compare the utility of using affect deepening interventions vs. reflecting interventions when tracking the client’s experience in the video sessions
• Explain the procedures associated with facilitated imaginal encounters with family and other significant people (“portrayals”) and differentiate interventions involving work with expressions of anger/assertion vs. those involving reparative experiences (compassion, understanding, gratitude, care).
• Explain how the AEDP schema known as the “Self-other-emotion triangle” can be used to delineate clinical entry points for experiential work with clients.
• Describe ways of addressing affect associated with shame and aloneness using relational and parts-work informed interventions as modeled in the presented video sessions
• Demonstrate an understanding of AEDP interventions designed to deepen and prolong positive affective states.

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Meet the Presenter

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Dates, Time and Location

Dates: Friday & Saturday, February 21 – February 22, 2020

Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Location:
Simon Fraser University
Room: Labatt Hall – #1700
515 West Hastings St
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 5K3

Fees, Registration and Continuing Education (CE):

CE credits: 13

Registration Fees (including CEs):

• $325 USD Member Price (must be logged in to register)
• $350 USD Non-Member Early Bird (ends January 21, 2020)
• $390 USD Non-Member Regular Price (begins January 22, 2020)

Special pricing – limited seats available:    

• Graduate Students in their last year of training as well as soon-to-be-licensed Interns & Trainees: A limited number of $162.50 USD Scholarship Seats are available. Candidates are encouraged to apply if they have financial needs such that they could not attend without the discount. For verification, please email copy of a current student ID or proof of Internship/Trainee Program to admin@aedpinstitute.org to begin the application process. If you do not meet the criteria you may qualify for a Diversity Scholarships (below).
• Diversity Scholarships: a limited number of $162.50 USD Diversity Scholarships are available
  • please email:  Matt Fried and Yuko Hanakawa, Co-Chairs, The Diversity Committee at aedp.dscholarship@gmail.com with the name of this seminar, applicant name and license type, license number, and name of agency/hospital if applicable.
  • Please note that the focus of the AEDP Diversity Initiative is to enable training for therapists coming from marginalized communities, who work with patients from those communities and intend to continue to do so, and who also evidence clear financial hardship.

SEMINAR QUESTIONS & REGISTRATION CONTACT

Contact Karen Newell at R. Cassidy Seminars: AEDP’s CE and Registration Partner:

karen@rcassidy.com
866-992-9399  X105
Office Hours:  Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 2:00 pm PST

ADA ACCOMODATIONS:

Please contact our office 866-992-9399 if you have questions about disability access or accommodations.

Continuing Education

This seminar is for Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists, and other therapists in mental health and the healing arts and sciences. 

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402

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.

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