Essential Skills Agenda: Module 2 | Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Essential Skills: Aloneness in Clinical Action
9:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET

Day 1
9:00 – 9:30 AM
I: Module 2 Course Overview and Orientation

9:30 – 11:15 AM
II: Attachment & Relational Work

• How Attachment History Informs Emotional Experience and Sense of Self
• Attachment Styles/States
• Building Emotional Safety and Secure Attachment in Therapy
• Co-Created Safety

11:15 – 11:30 AM
III: Break

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
IV: Attachment & Relational Work (continued)

• Using the Present Moment Experience of the Therapeutic Relationship as a Healing Tool
• Authenticity, Self-Disclosure and Therapist True Self as Interventions
• Learning to Recognize and Work With “Relational affects”
• Self-Other-Emotion Triangle, as a Framework for Guiding Relational Interventions

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:

• Track Emergent Emotions, Sensations, Feelings, in Both Yourself and Your Patient
• Making the Process Relational – Using the “We” Language

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: Attachment & Relational Work Continued

• Relational Strategies: Establishing Safety
• Creation of a Safe Emotional Holding Environment and Secure Attachment
• Active Emotional Engagement With Client

11:15 – 11:30 AM
III: Break

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
IV: Attachment & Relational Work Continued

• Provision of Corrective Emotional Experiences: Empathy, Validation, Affirmation, Rupture/Repair/Re-Coordination Sequences
• Interventions Associated With Intense, Frightening, Aversive Life Events

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

• Self-Disclose Something About Your Experience of Your Patient in the Moment
• The Patient’s Experience of Therapeutic Processes

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