Essential Skills Agenda: Module 1 | Healing from the Get-Go, Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap for the AEDP Transformation Journey
9:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET
Day 1
9:00 – 9:30 AM
I: Module 1 Course Overview and Orientation
9:30 – 11:15 AM
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
11:15 – 11:30 AM
III: Break
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
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
9:00 – 9:55 AM
I: Review from Day 1 and Role-play
9:55 – 10:00 AM
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
10:00 – 11:00 AM
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
11:00 – 11:15 AM
IV: Break
11:15 AM– 12:45 PM
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
12:45 – 1:30 PM
VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience
Day 3
9:00 – 9:30 AM
I: Review Day 2 and Overview of Day 3
9:30 – 11:15 AM
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
11:15 – 11:30 AM
III: Break
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
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
9:00 – 9:55 AM
I: Review Prior Day Learning
9:55 – 10:00 AM
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
10:00 – 11:00 AM
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
11:00 – 11:15 AM
IV: Break
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
12:45 – 1:30 PM
VI: Large Group Processing