Live Legacy Interview: Online Event via Zoom Diana Fosha, PhD and Special Guests Thursday May 21, 2026 | 6:00–8:00 PM (UK) | 1:00–3:00 PM (ET)

Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Emotional Suffering

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Join us for this rare and intimate conversation, with Diana

Diana is sitting down with Jane O’Rourke for a live online Legacy Interview, joined by three special guests: Stephen Porges, PhD, Ed Tronick, PhD,  and Shigeru Iwakabe, PhD.

This is a chance to witness a conversation that explores Diana Fosha’s AEDP legacy and thus traces the intellectual and relational roots of AEDP — the undoing of aloneness, the healing power of emotional accompaniment, and the hopeful premise at its heart: that human beings are fundamentally wired for flourishing, and that movement towards healing, integration, and renewed vitality is possible even after overwhelming experience.

Jane O’Rourke, psychotherapist, former BBC broadcaster and founder of MindInMind, will guide the conversation through the personal, theoretical, and clinical turning points in Diana’s life and thinking that contributed to her creating one of the field’s most distinctive approaches. Steve Porges (polyvagal theory), Ed Tronick (Still Face protocol) and Shigeru Iwakabe (research into psychotherapy mechanisms of change) will offer their reflections on Diana’s legacy from the vantage point of their own powerful bodies of work.

What This Conversation Will Add to Your Thinking

• How undoing aloneness, and experiential work with the patient’s receptivity, can lie at the centre of trauma work and therapeutic change
• How experiential work integrates with a developmental/relational/psychoanalytic perspective
• How to think clinically about patients who can speak about traumatic experience yet still cannot bear, process or integrate it
• What an emotionally engaged therapeutic stance asks of the therapist, and how it differs from approaches that become confrontational or overly procedural
• How Diana coined the term transformance, and why it matters to notice signs of vitality, emergence and change from the very beginning
• How Diana understands what happens during and after a therapeutic shift, and how the experience of change itself becomes a catalyst for further change
• How Diana’s work helps us think more deeply about trauma, dissociation, the core self and the return of vitality that marks healing

Jane will guide the conversation through the personal, theoretical, and clinical turning points in Diana’s life and thinking that contributed to her creating one of the field’s most distinctive approaches.

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$52.37 USD Event Ticket Includes access to recording after the event
$26.19 USD Subsidized Ticket: A limited number available for genuine applications. 
CPD/CE certificate and related resources are included

 Book your ticket — register here $36.66 USD when you enter code AEDP30 at checkout

If you have any issues with booking please email website@mindinmind.org.uk

Jane O’Rourke, Host

Stephen Porges, PhD

Ed Tronick, PhD

Shigeru Iwakabe, PhD