with Danny Yeung, MD
A 6 hour recorded seminar originally presented on Friday March 15 and Saturday March 16, 2024
[A]rt is something which, although produced by human hands, is not created by these hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source in our souls. — Vincent Van Gogh
The spirit of AEDP is something that is greater than the sum of all of the parts. It is a felt sense, the way AEDP lives in the therapist’s heart and mind and body and soul – something that informs their being with the patient in a way that is more fundamental than the application of specific interventions to the clinical situation…Danny, you take the spirit of the spirit of AEDP, and embody it, and give it life, seamlessly integrating and referencing concepts from Eastern contemplative practices of Daoism and Confucianism with Western humanistic writers and philosophers (Buber, Schweitzer, Levinas). Your work here is original and brilliant, and I am honored to have your contributions to the growth and emergent development of AEDP theory and practice. — Diana Fosha, 2022
Description of Training:
This seminar aims to address three sets of inter-related questions: What is the Spirit of AEDP? How do we cultivate the spirit of AEDP? Is it only for AEDP therapist? Or is it applicable for humanity at large? Why care about the spirit of AEDP? Is it specific only to AEDP treatment? Or could it be humanity’s way of being in the world?
Going beyond the therapeutic skills and stance, or the doing of AEDP, this spirit of AEDP is the being of the AEDP therapist, that which wells up from one’s deep soulful place. This embodied spirit is that which fundamentally inspires the person’s art of being-in-the-world and only secondarily informs the person’s therapeutic way of being-with-the-other in the clinical context.
Interhuman and humanizing, Buber’s I-and-Thou experience, emerging as AEDP State 4 phenomenology, could be deepened by and expanded with the Zhuangzian inspired I-and-Dao experience. Intersubjective and ecologically oriented, the sense of I-and-Dao experience opens one to spirituality – the transcendent sensibility to the higher dimensions of reality.
Dao, conceptualized 1 as the “infinite generative field”, manifests at two levels of reality: the cosmic/transcendent/universal and the personal/immanent/existential. It is the personal level or the immanent/existential Dao that is near identical to AEDP Psychotherapy’s transformance.
I-and-Dao experience, referring to an intersubjective encounter to all of existence, is situated in that which is emergent “here” and that is in the present “now” moment. It is this sense and sensibility of the I-and-Dao in the Here-and-Now that the person of the AEDP therapist cultivates as the art of being-in-the-world.
Why so passionate about the Spirit of AEDP? I-and-Dao in the Here-and-Now: exemplified by the intersubjective encounter emergent in each present moment, through an AEDP therapist’s soulful way of being-in-the-world, is the most powerful antidote against the objectifying, dehumanizing fragmentation and alienation of our contemporary narcissistic anthropocentric civilization.
Heartfelt listening, a coined equivalent of AEDP Psychotherapy’s “drawing attention inwardly”, is the way or how to cultivate contact with our innermost self. The phenomenology of heartfelt listening is consonant with the interoceptive self, neuroanatomically situated on the heart wall and the gut wall. And it is this interoceptive self that is connected directly with the neurobiological core self.
Ultimately, heartfelt listening is the AEDP therapist’s soulful cultivation of I-and-Dao in the Here-and-Now, an embodied art of being-in-the-world and exemplified as the spirit of AEDP in the clinical situation.
Two clinical videos titled “The Man Who Has Beauty Within” and “The Kind Queen Who Feels At Ease” will be shown to illustrate these felt sensible and experiential concepts.
Course Content Level: Intermediate
The seminar content will be most optimal for participants with a working knowledge and experience in AEDP’s Phenomenology of 4 States and 3 States Transformation. Participants with no prior experience with AEDP will be introduced to this unique model that goes beyond working with repairing what went wrong, and privileges working with positivity and emergence.
Requirements
AEDP Institute On Demand Trainings are to be viewed on your private computer or smart device. They are intentionally not downloadable; we “stream” them. So, having a high speed Internet connection is important to having a good learning experience.
This training is intended to be viewed only by mental health professionals and students in mental health or related fields. You will be asked to provide evidence of and swear to uphold your professional credentials before completing registration and payment and receiving access to the materials.
Meet the Presenter
Danny Yeung, MD, CCFP, MDPAC(C), FCFP
Danny is Chair of International Development and Senior Faculty of the AEDP Institute, is a trainer and supervisor of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) for post-graduate mental health professionals in Hong Kong, China, South Korea, United States and Canada. Danny is the author of The Instinct to Heal: Practicing Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, the first original AEDP book to be published in China. Danny is a contributor of a chapter titled What Went Right: What Happens in the Brain During AEDP’s Metatherapeutic Processing, in the award winning book Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 and has served as the Translation Reviewer for the Chinese version of The Transforming Power of Affect and Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0. He is also the lead author of The Rainbow After: Psychological Trauma and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, arguably one of the original trauma treatment manual published in Chinese. (Read More…)Fees and Registration:
$129 Members only (must be logged in)
$149 Non Members
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