Day 1

Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap for AEDP

12:00 – 12:30 | Module 1 Course Overview and Orientation

12:30 – 2:15 | Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP

  • The Capacity for Secure Attachment
  • Transformance
  • The Vitality Affects of Transformance
  • Detecting Transformance
  • Undoing Aloneness & Co-Creating Safety Relationally
  • Dyadic Affect Regulation; Presence, Emotional Engagement, Accessibility, Responsiveness
  • Co-Regulation

2:15 – 2:30 | Break

2:30 – 4:30 | Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP (continued)

  • Review from Immersion: The AEDP Therapeutic Stance: Welcome, Empathy, Affirmation, Explicit Recognition, Cultural Humility
  • Metatherapeutic processing as an intervention

Day 2

12:00 – 12:55 | Review from Day 1 and Role-play

12:55 – 1:00 | Directions for Experiential Exercises

1:00 – 2:00 | Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises Therapist/Client Role play to practice the following skills:

  • AEDP Stance of Affirmation
  • Transformance Detection
  • Moment-to-Moment Tracking of the therapeutic Process
  • Staying with the Client’s Emotional Experience – Processing emotions to completion

2:00 – 2:15 | Break

2:15 – 3:45 | Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued

3:45 – 4:30 | Large Group Processing of Role-play experience

Day 3

12:00 – 12:30 | Review Day 2 and Overview of Day 3

12:30 – 2:15 | Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP (continued)

  • Metatherapeutic processing as an intervention (continued)
  • The AEDP 4 State Process
    • Building a Strong and Trusting Therapeutic Alliance
    • Facilitating the Transformation of Emotional Experiences
    • Developing Resilience and a Stronger Sense of Self

2:15 – 2:30 | Break

2:30 – 4:30 | Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP (continued)

  • Language for AEDP Intervention and Cultural humility
  • Slowing Down as an Intervention
  • Working Experientially
  • Experiential Protocol; Language, Interventions and Anxiety Regulation
  • Attunement: Tracking Patient’s Verbal and Non-Verbal, Moment-to-Moment Communications and its Benefits

Day 4

12:00 – 12:55 | Review Prior Day Learning

12:55 – 1:00 | Directions for Experiential Exercises

1:00 – 2:00 | Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises

  • Participants will role-play how to apply skills of slowing down and moment-to-moment tracking for assessing the client’s experience
  • Participants will role-play how to apply skills of using the intentionally experiential language of AEDP interventions for regulating anxiety
  • Participants will role-play metatherapeutic processing
  • Participants will role-play interventions based on the AEDP 4 States

2:00 – 2:15 | Break

2:15 – 3:45 | Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued

3:45 – 4:30 | Large Group Processing of Role-play experience