Date and Time: Eastern Standard Time USA + Canada
Session 1 of 6: March 5, 2024 (CE: 3.25)
12:00 – 12:30 I: Course overview and group orientation
12:30 – 12:40 II: Icebreaker in pairs, break out rooms
12:40 – 1:15 III: Didactic Presentation:
a. Brief overview of AEDP’s Conceptual Framework and Foundational Principles
b. AEDP Psychotherapy’s Four State Map of the Transformational Process
c. Therapist Stance
1:15 – 1:30 IV: Break
1:30 – 2:00 V: Case Presentation and Video Demonstration of First Sessions
a. Transformance Detection & amp; Affirmation
b. Choosing an Entry Point
c. Experiential Focus
d. Metatherapeutic processing of moments of positive change
2:00 – 2:10 VI. Large group discussion and Reflections
2:10 – 2:40 VII: Clinical Video of First Session- Part Two
a. Processing Core Affective Experience (State 2)
b. Post-breakthrough affect
c. Metaprocessing ushers in State 3
2:40 – 3:00 VII: Small group discussions of video demonstration in breakout rooms
3:00 – 3:30 VIII: Large group discussion and Q&A
AEDP™ in Action: Moving Through Emotional Suffering into Transformational Change
Session 2 of 6: March 19, 2024 (CE: 3.25)
12:00 – 12:15 I: Review Session 1 and Overview of Session 2
12:15 – 1:00 II: Didactic Presentation:
- Four State Map revisited, with State Specific Goals
- Moment-to-Moment Tracking, the Triangle of Experience, and therapist choice points that arise in clinical work
- Clinical interventions to access, deepen, and process emotion to completion
1:00 – 1:15 III: Large Group Discussion: Comments & Questions
1:15 – 1:30 IV: Break
1:30 – 2:00 V: Case Presentation & Video Demonstration: Emotion Processing
a. Choosing an Entry Point
b. Experiential Focus
c. State 2 processing of core affect (anger) to affective shift
2:00- 2:15 VI: Large group discussion: Q & A, Reflections
2:15 – 2:45 VII: Clinical Video Demonstration (continued)
a. Metatherapeutic processing of moments of positive change yields State 3 transformational affects
b. We will witness, track, and discuss:
- Mastery Affects: Pride & Joy
- Tremulousness: Positive change is unsettling
- Mourning the Self: Grief
- Healing Affects: Gratitude, poignancy
2:45 – 3:10 VIII: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing the video case presentation
3:10 – 3:30 IX: Large group discussion: Q & A
Session 3 of 6: April 2, 2024 (CE: 3.25)
12:00 – 12:15 I: Review Session 2 and Overview of Session 3
12:15 – 1:00 II: Didactic Presentation: State 2 Emotion processing yields State 3 Transformational Affects
- Differentiating the Clinical interventions of AEDP State 2 and State 3
- Metatherapeutic Processing revisited: Alternating rounds of experiential exploration of emergent positive affective experience and reflection on novel experience — an interative, expansive process
- The clinical landscape of State 3: Characteristics of six phenomenologically distinct transformational affects
1:00 – 1:15 III: Large Group Discussion: Comments & Questions
1:15 – 1:30 IV: Break
1:30 – 2:00 V: Case Presentation & Video Demonstration: State 2 Emotion Processing Yields State 3 Transformational Affects
a. Choosing an Entry Point
b. Experiential Focus
c. Processing Core Affective Experience (Sadness, Anger, Disgust)
d. Post-breakthrough affect
2:00- 2:15 VI: Large group discussion: Q & A, Reflections
2:15 – 2:45 VII: Video Demonstration (Part 2): Metaprocessing cultivates flourishing
a. Metaprocessing ushers in State 3
b. Extending and expanding State 3 positive affective states
c. We will witness, track, and discuss emergent State 3 transformational affects:
• Realization affects: surprise, awe
- Mastery affects of pride and joy
- Healing affects: gratitude; poignancy
- Enlivenment affects: exuberance, delight
2:45 – 3:10 VIII: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing the video case presentation
3:10 – 3:30 IX: Large group discussion: Q & A
Session 4 of 6: April 16, 2024 (CE: 3.25)
12:00 – 12:15 I: Review Session 3 and Overview of Session 4
12:15 – 1:00 II: Didactic Presentation: Revisiting States 2-4
- Categories of State 2 Core Affective Experience (State 2 can encompass more than emotion processing)
- Differentiating State 3 from State 4 (Core State)
- The potential value of judicious affective self-disclosure
1:00 – 1:15 III: Large Group Discussion: Comments & Questions
1:15 – 1:30 IV: Break
1:30 – 2:00 V: Case Presentation & Video Demonstration: Judicious Self-Disclosure Deepens Transformational Process
a. Affective Self-Disclosure
b. Receptive experience and receptive affective capacity
c. Metaprocessing to expand moments of positive change
d. Core State calm, integration, and subjective sense of truth
d. Non-linearity of transformational process in AEDP
2:00- 2:15 VI: Large group discussion: Q & A, Reflections
2:15 – 2:45 VII: Video Demonstration (Continued)
2:45 – 3:10 VIII: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing the video case presentation
3:10 – 3:30 IX: Large group discussion: Q & A, and closing the day
Session 5 of 6: April 30, 2024 (CE: 3.25)
12:00 – 12:15 I: Review Session 4 and Overview of Session 5
12:15 – 1:00 II: Didactic Presentation: Further Strategies for facilitating AEDP’s Transformational Arc and Working within Traumatized Patients’ Window of Tolerance
- Working with blocks to receptive experience
- Moment-to-moment tracking and dyadic affect regulation
- AEDP Therapist Stance: Beyond Empathy & Actively helping
- Use of self & self-disclosure
- Willingness to adapt and repair rupture(s)
d. Intra-relational Portrayals: Self-to-part
1:00 – 1:15 III: Large Group Discussion: Comments & Questions
1:15 – 1:30 IV: Break
1:30 – 2:00 V: Case Presentation & Video Demonstration: Working within traumatized patient’s window of tolerance to undo unbearable states of aloneness and process core affective experience
2:00- 2:15 VI: Large group discussion: Q & A, Reflections
2:15 – 2:45 VII: Video Demonstration (Part 2): State 2 Processing of Core Affective Experience yields Core State Integration and Unity
2:45 – 3:10 VIII: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing the video case presentation
3:10 – 3:30 IX: Large group discussion: Q & A, and closing the day
Session 6 of 6: May 14, 2024 (CE: 3.25)
12:00 – 12:15 I: Review Session 5 and Overview of Session 6
12:15 – 1:00 II: Didactic Presentation: Deepening and expanding transformational experience in the wake of suffering and loss
- Experiential arc from State 2 through State 3
- Privileging & supporting the emergence of new, positive experience
- State 3 transformational affects revisited: The realm of flourishing
- Key quality of the transformational affects is contrast
- Metatherapeutic processing, revisited: Each new experience is a new departure point
- Therapist use of self, revisited: Recognition ofpatient’s emerging authenticity and therapist affective response(s) to the patient’s change process expand, and deepen the transformational process
- Art and timing of affective self-disclosure
1:00 – 1:15 III: Large Group Discussion: Comments & Questions
1:15 – 1:30 IV: Break
1:30 – 2:00 V: Case Presentation & Video Demonstration: Moving through Emo- tional Suffering into Transformational Change, with a traumatized patient
a. Imaginal work (portrayal) to facilitate emotion processing of past trauma – Inviting the impulse in patient’s affect
b. Upregulating disgust and anger
c. State 3 involves contrast between the emergent new and previous pain
d. Therapist use of self to expand positive affective experience
2:00- 2:15 VI: Large group discussion: Q & A, Reflections
2:15 – 2:45 VII: Video Demonstration (Part 2):
2:45 – 3:00 VIII: Small group activity in breakout rooms (with prompt)
3:00 – 3:30 IX: Large group discussion: Q & A, reflections on the course, Evaluations