AEDP Immersion Agenda
DAY 1 — Wednesday
TRANSFORMANCE: Introduction to AEDP’s Theoretical Roots
A broad sweep through the neurobiology of healing: Transformance, Flourishing, Neuroplasticity, Emergent Experience, Transformational Experience, Attachment, Experiential Work, and Core Self.
10:30 – 11:00 AM Course Overview
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Introduction to AEDP Psychotherapy’s Theoretical Roots (Part 1)
12:30 – 12:45 PM Break
12:45 – 2:15 PM Introduction to AEDP Psychotherapy’s Theoretical Roots (Part 2)
2:15 – 3:15 PM Lunch
THE AEDP FOUR STATE MODEL OF TRANSFORMATION
Diving deeper and putting neuroplasticity into dyadic clinical action through the Phenomenology of the Transformational Process: What happens in each of the 4 States and 3 State Transformations, Meta-therapeutic Processing, and The Transformational Affect.
3:15 – 4:45 PM The 4 State Transformational Process: The Phenomenology of Change (Part 1)
4:45 – 5:00 PM Break
5:00 – 6:30 PM The 4 State Transformational Process: The Phenomenology of Change (Part 2)
6:30 – 7:00 PM Summary, Q&A, Personal Reflections
DAY 2 — Thursday
Experiential Work in AEDP: Bringing the Mind and Body Together
ATTACHMENT: Working Experientially with Relatedness
Undoing aloneness, dyadic regulation, and corrective experiences.
10:30 – 11:00 AM Reflections & Questions from Day 1
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Experiential Work in AEDP: Bringing the Mind and Body Together (Part 1)
12:30 – 12:45 PM Break
12:45 – 2:15 PM Experiential Work in AEDP: Bringing the Mind and Body Together (Part 2) — Introducing Portrayals
2:15 – 3:15 PM Lunch
3:15 – 4:45 PM Working Experientially with Relatedness: Undoing Aloneness, Dyadic Regulation & Corrective Experiences (Part 1)
4:45 – 5:00 PM Break
5:00 – 6:45 PM Working Experientially with Relatedness: Undoing Aloneness, Dyadic Regulation & Corrective Experiences (Part 2)
6:45 – 7:00 PM Summary, Q&A, Personal Reflections
DAY 3 — Friday
Guest Presentations
Diving deep into the origins of psychopathology and AEDP’s schemas designed to inform case conceptualization.
10:30 – 11:00 AM Reflections & Questions from Day 2
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Moment to Moment Tracking
12:30 – 12:45 PM Break
12:45 – 2:15 PM Guest Presentation
2:15 – 3:00 PM Lunch
3:00 – 4:00 PM Guest Presentation
End of Day — 4:00 PM
DAY 4 — Sunday
Addressing Blocks to Change and Facilitating Transformational Experience
Working the Top of the Triangle in AEDP: Inhibitory Affects and Defenses.
10:30 – 11:00 AM Reflections & Questions from Day 3
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Working the Top of the Triangle in AEDP: Addressing Inhibitory Affects & Defense
12:30 – 12:45 PM Break
12:45 – 2:15 PM Working with Transformation: Thriving, Flourishing, and Positive Affect
2:15 – 3:15 PM Lunch
3:15 – 3:30 PM Introduction to Role-Play Experiential Exercises — Review Instructions
3:30 – 7:00 PM Role-Play Experiential Exercises
DAY 5 — Monday
10:30 – 11:00 AM Reflections & Questions from Day 4
THE TRIANGLE OF EXPERIENCE & RELATED SCHEMAS
An introduction to AEDP maps designed to inform case conceptualization.
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM The Triangle of Experience & Related Schemas: An Intro to AEDP Maps for Case Conceptualization
12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch
INTEGRATION: Bringing together the learning through micro-analysis of a videotaped session
Exploring AEDP’s therapeutic aims and activities.
1:30 – 3:00 PM Therapist Aims & Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process (pt. 1)
3:00 – 3:15 PM Break
3:15 – 4:45 PM Therapist Aims & Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process (pt. 2)
4:45 – 5:00 PM Break
5:00 – 6:00 PM Review of Training
6:00 – 7:00 PM Closing
End of Course — 7:00 PM