Essential Skills: Module 5
State 3 and 4: The Processing of Transformational Experience & The Integration of Transformation into Self
12:00 – 4:30 PM EST
Day 1
12:00 – 12:30 I: Module 5 Overview
12:30 – 2:15 II: The Processing of Transformational Experience & the
Integration of Transformation – Part 1.
—The AEDP state 4 Map
Metatherapeutic Processing / Big “M” and little “m”
Metaprocessing
—Focusing on “What went right.” in the new, emergent, adaptive,
“better” experience of the therapeutic process
2:15 – 2:30 III: Break
2:30 – 4:30 IV: The Processing of Transformational Experience & and the
Integration of Transformation – Part 2
—Detailed exploration of the phenomenology of States 3 and 4
—Defining the neurobiological Core Self
—Description of the 6 transformational affects in AEDP
—Experiential processing of the experience of change for the better
—Exploration of the Transformational Spiral between experience and
reflection on experience
Day 2
12:00 – 12:55 I: Review Prior Day Learning
12:55 – 1:00 II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:15 III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Therapist/Client Roleplay to practice the following skills: how to track what is happening
moment to moment, how to regulate anxiety and soften/bypass defenses in the client, how
to apply skills of metaprocessing to process and encode in memory what just happened in
the session.
2:15 to 2:30 IV: Break
2:30 to 3:45 V: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Therapist/Client Roleplay to practice the following skills: how to track what is happening
moment to moment, how to regulate anxiety and soften/bypass defenses in the client, how
to apply skills of metaprocessing to process and encode in memory what just happened in
the session.
3:45 – 4:30 VI: Large Group Processing of Roleplay experience
Day 3
12:00 – 12:30 I: Overview
12:30 – 2:15 II: Bringing It All Together: Reviewing and Metaprocessing Together
What Was Learned. Part 1
—AEDP Therapist Stance
—AEDP 4 State Map and state specific phenomenology and therapeutic tasks
—Transformance, the overarching motivational force driving positive change.
—Moment-to-Moment Tracking
—Experiential work with Attachment
—Making the Implicit Explicit
—Going Beyond Mirroring
—Defense Restructuring by bypassing and softening defenses
—Undoing Aloneness
2:15 – 2:30 III Break
2:30 – 4:30 IV: Bringing It All Together: Reviewing and Metaprocessing Together
What Was Learned. Part 2
—Processing affective experiences to completion
—Attending to and making use of somatic experience
—Recognizing and working with Pathogenic Affects
—Portrayals
—Intra-relational AEDP parts work
—Facilitating and tracking state transformations
—Metaprocessing, both ‘M” and “m”
—Facilitating the Transformational Spiral
—Recognize the essential therapeutic value of the therapists’ receptive affective
capacity, i.e. ability to receive and process client’s gratitude
Day 4
12:00 – 12:55 I: Review Prior Day Learning,
12:55 – 1:00 II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:15 III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Therapist/Client Roleplay to consolidate learning from entire course by practicing 3 or
more of the following skills learned throughout the course:
—Embodying AEDP Stance
—Moment-to-Moment Tracking across 4 State Map
—Identifying Experiential Target
—Making Implicit Explicit
—Softening Defenses
—Regulating Anxiety
—Somatic Attunement and Resonance
—Processing State 2 Core Experiences
—Facilitating a portrayal
—Metaprocessing State 2 Experiences
—Facilitating a Transformational Spiral
—Expanding upon Therapist’s Receptive Affective Capacity to receive and experientially
process gratitude
2:15 to 2:30 IV: Break
2:30 to 3:45 V: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Therapist/Client Roleplay to consolidate learning from entire course by practicing 3 or
more of the following skills learned throughout the course:
—Embodying AEDP Stance
—Moment-to-Moment Tracking across 4 State Map
—Identifying Experiential Target
—Making Implicit Explicit
—Softening Defenses
—Regulating Anxiety
—Somatic Attunement and Resonance
—Processing State 2 Core Experiences
—Facilitating a Portrayal
—Metaprocessing State 2 Experiences
—Facilitating a Transformational Spiral
—Expanding upon Therapist’s Receptive Affective Capacity to receive and experientially
process gratitude
3:45 – 4:30 VI: Large Group Processing of Roleplay experience