Essential Skills Agenda: Module 1
12:00 – 4:30 PM EST
Day 1
12:00 – 12:30
I: Module 1 Course Overview and Orientation
12:30 – 2:15
II: 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
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
IV: Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP (continued)
- Review from Immersion: The AEDP Therapeutic Stance: Welcome, Empathy, Affirmation, Explicit Recognition, Cultural Humility
- “Metaprocessing”
Day 2
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review from Day 1 and Role-play
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:00
III: 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
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
- 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
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience
Day 3
12:00 – 12:30
I: Review Day 2 and Overview of Day 3
12:30 – 2:15
II: Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP (continued)
- “Meta-processing” as an intervention as a basic tool – 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
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
IV: 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
I: Review Prior Day Learning
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:00
III: 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 meta-processing
- Participants will role-play interventions based on the AEDP 4 States
2:00 – 2:15
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing