AEDP Essential Skills (ES1) Five Modules: February – June 2021; Live & Highly Interactive Online, co-sponsored with AEDP Australia

This course is sold out with a waitlist. Please email admin@aedpinstitute.org to add your name to the waitlist.

This live online Essential Skills course is being presented in Five Modules (4 hr. days) during hours that work for both Australia/New Zealand and American time zones. It is co-sponsored by AEDP Australia.

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.”

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. 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 (you must be licensed to attend) 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 AEDP Immersion.

Course Summary,  Objectives

Course Summary: 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 Pando-Mars, MFT will teach modules 1, 3 & 5 and serve to ensure continuity across modules. Kate Halliday, LCSW and Dale Trimble, MA will teach modules 2 & 4.

Note: dates are different in Australia/New Zealand vs. the Americas 

In the Americas: Tuesday – Friday | Module 1: February 9-12 | Module 2: March 16-19 | Module 3: April 20 – 23 | Module 4: May 18-21 | Module 5: June 15-18, 2021
In Australia/New Zealand: Wednesday – Saturday | Module 1: February 10-13 | Module 2: March 17-20 | Module 3: April 21 – 24 |  Module 4: May 19-22 | Module 5: June 16-19, 2021

Module 1 taught by course helm Karen Pando-Mars, MFT
1a: HEALING FROM THE GET GO! The ABC’s of AEDP including our Transformance stance, moment to moment tracking, & experiencing over explaining.
1b: THE CLINICAL ROADMAP OF AEDP We are a 4-State Model with intentional experiential language for AEDP interventions.

Module 2 taught by Kate Halliday, LCSW
2a: AEDP AND ATTACHMENT  Using AEDP’s relational focus to build, renovate & reconstruct a secure therapeutic attachment.
2b: STATE 1: THE TOP OF THE TRIANGLE Working with Anxiety and Defense

Module 3 taught by course helm Karen Pando-Mars, MFT
3a: STATE 2: EXPANDED ADAPTIVE AND MALADAPTIVE CORE AFFECT How we recognize these Affects and what we do.
3b: METAPROCESSING – AN AEDP HALLMARK Capitalizing on the experience in the room to integrate and cement transformational processes.

Module 4 taught by Dale Trimble, MFT
4a: STATE 1, DEFENSES, IN DETAIL  Transforming resistance and high anxiety.
4b: STATE 2 TO STATE 3: EMOTION PROCESSING AND PORTRAYALS How to access, deepen and process core affect to completion.

Module 5 taught by course helm Karen Pando-Mars, MFT
5a: STATE 3 TO STATE 4: TRANSFORMANCE   Working with Transformational affects and core state
5b: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER Reviewing and metaprocessing together what we’ve learned.

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, Attendance & Makeup Policy

Prerequisites:
In addition to being a licensed therapist, before taking this Essential Skills (ES1) course you must have completed AEDP Immersion. 

Attendance: Per APA rules and AEDP policy, full attendance is required to obtain CE – no partial credit will be given. Those who attend the course and complete the evaluation form will receive continuing education credits.

Makeup policy:  Make-ups and switching between ES1 courses is not allowed in order to preserve and support the group dynamics that develop between course colleagues.

Course Location, Dates and Times  

Location: Live Online and highly interactive

Dates: Different in Australia/New Zealand vs. the Americas

In the Americas: Tuesday – Friday |February 9-12,  March 16-19,  April 20 – 23, May 18-21, June 15-18, 2021
In Australia/New Zealand: Wednesday – Saturday | February 10-13,  March 17-20, April 21 – 24, May 19-22, June 16-19, 2021

Times: Daily (4 hour days)
In the Americas: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Eastern time USA

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 Immersion Online.

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

Registration and Course Fee (includes 75 CE)

Meet the Faculty:

Course Helm: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT

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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.