AEDP Essential Skills (ES1) Five Modules: November 2020 – June 2021 ; Live & Highly Interactive Online, Co-sponsored with AEDP Brazil

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This  course is sold out. To join the waitlist, please email admin@aedpinstitute.org Important note, you must be an Immersion Grad to attend this ES1. 

This online course is to be presented in English with simultaneous translation in Portuguese during hours that work well for Brazil and all of the Americas. 

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.

About Essential Skills (ES1): AEDP Essential Skills course will provide practical skills for the application of AEDP as well as a thorough immersion in the theory underlying the practice. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, different types of clinical interventions so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to “do” AEDP. Each day’s teaching will include didactic presentations of theory along with video of actual sessions conducted by AEDP Faculty followed by small group experiential exercises.

Routine for each module: AEDP skills are introduced with their theoretical foundations and then with illustrations by way of clinical videotapes; skills are then practiced in group experiential exercises. In online courses, exceptionally effective experiential exercises are held in online “breakout rooms” with, for this course, colleagues who speak either English or Protuguese.

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 four participants – again, fluent in English for English speakers and in Portugues for Portuguese speakers. 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.

This AEDP course is open to all Licensed Mental Health Providers including Counselors, Doctors, Nurses, Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, other Behavioral Health Therapists and related professionals. If you have a question about the relevance of this course for you and/or your eligibility for this course please contact admin@aedpinstitute.org with your credentials before registering. For information about whether this course offers Continuing Education credits for your license, see the bottom of the page.

Prerequisites:
In addition to being a licensed therapist, before taking this Essential Skills (ES1) course you must have completed either AEDP Immersion or be a participant or graduate of the Brazilian course, “Formação em AEDP.”

Course Summary, Objectives and Prerequisites

What we consider AEDP’s “essential skills” will be didactically demonstrated and experientially explored so that participants develop both a felt sense and a cognitive understanding of them.  A key component of the experiential practices is the opportunity to “try on” sets of interventions as a therapist and to receive them as a client. We have found that learning new skills can give rise to experiences of safety, attachment security, transformation, increased therapeutic courage, and related phenomena; precisely the kinds of experiences AEDP facilitates for its clients. Each day course faculty lead small groups in practicing essential AEDP skills.  The concentrated time that participants spend together immersed in learning inevitably leads to the development of a culture of trust and generosity that allows for risk-taking and a supportive environment that is uniquely suited for optimal learning.

Topics and Faculty by Module

AEDP Sr. Faculty Member Karen Kranz, PhD, RPsych will teach modules 1, 3 & 5 and serve to ensure continuity across modules. Dr. SueAnne Piliero and other AEDP faculty (TBA) will teach modules 2 & 4.

Module 1 taught by course helm Karen Kranz, PhD, RPsych
1a: Healing from the Get-Go: Transformance, Stance and Moment-to-Moment Tracking
1b: The 4 State Model, Experiential Language and Use of Self

Module 2 taught by SueAnne Piliero, PhD
2a: Building, Renovating and Reconstructing a Secure Therapeutic Attachment:  It’s Not a Once and for All Kind of Deal
2b: Working with Defense & Anxiety Part 1

Module 3 taught by course helm Karen Kranz, PhD, RPsych
3a: Integration in Action: Meta-therapeutic processing and transformational processes
3b: Reviewing and Anticipating: Special Attention to State 2 Adaptive and Maladaptive Core Affective Experience

Module 4 taught by Jerry Lamagna, LCSW
4a: Working with Defense and Anxiety Part 2
4b: The Experience of Emotional Experience:  Processing Emotions to Completion

Module 5 taught by course helm Karen Kranz, PhD, RPsych
5a: Working with Transformational Experience: Transformational Affects and Core State
5b: Reviewing What We’ve Learned: Watching and Tracking Together

For daily agenda click here.

Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate an AEDP therapist stance: welcome, affirm, validate, orient
• Construct safety and undo aloneness
• Apply moment-to-moment tracking to clinical practice
• Construct dyadic safety and connection
• Build and rebuild a secure attachment
• Integrate healing and transformance from the get-go
• Classify different aspects within the Triangle of Experience, including both verbal and somatic processes, to optimize attunement and accelerate the healing process
• Analyze the 4 State Transformational Process: Working with relational trauma in a first session
• Integrate Meta-therapeutic processing and transformational processes
• Relate the experience of emotional experience: processing emotions to completion
• Define attachment styles and utilize different interventions according to attachment style
• Utilize various ways to regulate anxiety, bypass defenses and other inhibitory forces which block progress in therapy
• Describe how to regulate/alleviate anxiety and traces of shame
• Identify and access core affective experiences
• Identify expressions of transformance in clients
• Practice utilizing transformance strivings as a catalyst to maximize patient’s healing

Prerequisites:
In addition to being a licensed therapist, before taking this Essential Skills (ES1) course you must have completed either AEDP Immersion or be a participant or graduate of the Brazilian course, “Formação em AEDP.” 

Course Location, Dates and Times  

Location: Online

Daily Times – designed to accommodate Brazil & all of the Americas:

Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: 1pm – 5 pm 2 pm – 6 pm
North America, Eastern: 12 pm- 4 pm
North America, Pacific: 9 am – 1 pm

Dates:

Module 1:  4 hrs/day, Friday – Monday: November 6 – November 9 
Module 2: 4 hrs/day, Friday – Monday: March 5 – March 8 
Module 3: 4 hrs/day, Friday – Monday: April 9 – April 12 
Module 4: 4 hrs/day, Friday – Monday: May 21 – May 24 
Module 5: 4 hrs/day, Friday – Monday: June 25 – June 28 

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 the course.

Click HERE for AEDP’s Live, Online Learning Requirements & FAQ’s.

Registration and Course Fee

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Non-Brazilians: Registration prequisites and fees:
Licensed therapists who have completed AEDP Immersion are welcome to register. See bottom of page for qualifying therapists and please call RCassidy (AEDP’s CE and registration partner) prior to registering if you are not sure you qualify. 

Meet the Faculty:

Course Helm: Karen Kranz, PhD, RPsych 

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Additional guest presenters to be announced.

Continuing Education 

This course is for Psychologists (Introductory-Intermediate Level), Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers (Beginning-Intermediate Level), Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists.

Continuing Education: This program is generally eligible for 75 CE hours of continuing professional development credit. Participants must have paid course fee, attended the entire course and completed an evaluation to receive CE. RCassidy, is our CE partner and will provide CE certificates. In addition a certificate of completion will be provides by the AEDP Institute. Partial credit is not available.

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.