Essential Skills Agenda: Module 4 | State 2 work: The Processing of Core Affective Experience
9:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET
Day 1
9:00 – 9:30 AM
I: Course Overview and Orientation
9:30 – 11:15 AM
II: The Processing of Core Affective Experience
- Defining Core Affective Experience in AEDP
- Types of Core Affective Experience in AEDP
- Goals
- Deepening the Emotional Experience
11:15 – 11:30 AM
III: Break
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
IV: The Processing of Core Affective Experience continued
- Therapeutic Tasks
- Corrective Emotional Experience Patterns and Defenses
- AEDP Techniques for Emotion Processing
- Processing Emotions to Completion and Developing New Perspectives and Emotional Responses
- Assessing the Client’s Experience
Day 2
9:00 – 9:55 AM
I: Review of Day 1 and Overview of Day 2
9:55 – 10:00 AM
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
10:00 – 11:00 AM
III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Participants Will Roleplay:
- Creating an environment where clients can have new emotional experiences
- Deepening the emotional experience
- Processing core affective experiences (e.g., anger, sadness, fear, joy, guilt; relational experience of attachment/connection, true self states, etc.) 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 of Day 2 and Overview of Day 3
9:30 – 11:15 AM
II: Portrayals
- Defining the technique of Using a Portrayal in the Therapy Session
- Types of Portrayals in AEDP and Guidelines
- How to Initiate a Portrayal: Steps and Entry Points
11:15 – 11:30 AM
III: Break
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
IV: Portrayals – Continued
- Using Portrayals to Process Emotion (anger, fear, grief)
- Inner Child Work Portrayals
- Intra-Relational Portrayals
- When the Portrayal Involves Aggression or Violent Impulses
- Markers of Completion
- Assessing the Client’s Experience
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: The Participant Will Choose a Portrayal to Work on; Grief, Reparative, Anger and Role-Play How to:
- Set up the portrayal
- Stay with the client’s emerging feelings
- Deepen the emotional experience
- Encourage and validate the experience
- Process the portrayal 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