This talk will explore the addition of the experiences of agency, will, and desire to State 2 Core Affective Experiencing, as outlined in Eileen’s chapter 9 of the AEDP 2.0 book. We will discuss the development of the agentic self, and the manifestations of thwarted agency as is often seen in people who have been traumatized or chronically disempowered. Additionally we will discuss relational interventions that are essential to birthing this agency and transforming the patient’s experience from a maladaptive self-state 2 to an adaptive state 2 core affective self-state. We will explore the relational configurations that promote differentiation and effectively nurture the agentic self. This exploration will include Eileen’s concept of “attuned disruption” as opposed to the in-syncness that we prize in AEDP.

Transformance: The AEDP Journal is the official journal of the AEDP Institute. Transformance has been published yearly since it’s inaugral  September 2010 and has published yearly since. It represented a quantum leap into a new era for a groundbreaking model of therapy that was introduced only 10 years earlier by Diana Fosha’s influential book, The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change. The publication also provided a much needed platform for disseminating the ever evolving advances, applications, and inspirations for the rapidly growing and highly productive AEDP community.   A quick scan of the titles will reveal the vast array of topics and the tremendous fount of clinical material, in the form of session transcripts, demonstrating the application of AEDP to clinical issues such as, eating disorders, sexual abuse, work with couples, addiction, racial trauma; methodological refinements such as, adjustments to attachment style, cultivating therapeutic presence; and innovation benefitting the general field of psychotherapy such as, harnessing termination as component of the healing process and the creation of an empirically validated model of short-term AEDP.  Additionally, Transformance has featured articles on cutting edge applications of neuroscience research as well as commentary on books and movies.