An Advanced Skills Course with KATE HALLIDAY, LCSW
Friday – Monday, June 7 – 10, 2024 | 11:00 am – 3:30 pm EST USA
Two Registration Options:
• Attend the didactic and small group experiential practice (counts toward certification)
• Attend the didactic only, skip the small group experiential work (does not count toward certification)
Prerequisites: Must have completed Immersion and Essential Skills
How can we engage bravely with even the most painful and terrifying material?
This course will explore and expand your capacity for affective bravery and build greater trust in the process of AEDP to activate our inherent human potential for joy, even in the face of pain.
Course Description
Whether through departure or death, endings and loss are an unavoidable part of human experience. We want everything good to go on forever; staying present to both love and the inevitability of loss is an act of bravery. Avoidance of affective distress, especially relational pain and grief, means that many people are unprepared for inevitable experiences of separation and endings in life, and best efforts at adaptation to this reality have often imprisoned them in defensive or maladaptive patterns and suffering.
A deep unacknowledged existential dread of death is a reality most people strive to deny. Pema Chödrön’s insight that “only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us,” resonates with the AEDP position about engagement with suffering: “The AEDP transformational process organically links emotional suffering with flourishing. It connects a biopsychoevolutionary perspective at one end with acceptance, wisdom, aesthetics, spirituality, and the quest for personal truth at the other” (DF, 2020)
As findings in the AEDP research project have shown, explicit in vivo exploration of experiences of relational loss is in itself an opportunity for profound healing.
It is worth our efforts, for ourselves and for our clients, to engage bravely with even the most painful and terrifying material: to thrive in the present moment demands an open-eyed recognition of impermanence. Metaprocessing what changes as a result of explicit focus on loss in the therapeutic relationship invites multiple layers of unfolding self awareness, and jumpstarts the Transformational spiral into State four, Core State, where we connect to compassion for self and others. This self-transcendence (Danny Young 2010) in turn frees our access to the “big” relationship with Mystery; the ineffable. Not only do compassion and self compassion, but joy and some liberation from fear flow out of this leap into core state.
Although our clinical focus begins with loss and grief, joy and liberation are the true heroes of this course. Please join me as we explore and expand our capacities for affective bravery and delight. My intention is that participants of this course build greater trust in the process of AEDP to activate our inherent human potential for joy, even in the face of pain. (There’s a reason a common visual metaphor in AEDP is the vibrant green sprout emerging from concrete.)
Course Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the psychological impact of loss and endings on individuals, and recognize the costs associated with avoidance of affective distress, particularly relational pain and grief.
- Define the concept of existential dread of death and describe its influence on individuals’ coping mechanisms and psychological well-being.
- Explain the theoretical schemata provided by AEDP to guide therapist interventions that address existential fear and lived experiences of loss.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the potential therapeutic benefits of explicit in vivo exploration of experiences of relational loss.
- Define the role of therapeutic presence and bravery in engaging with painful material, and their significance in facilitating client growth and healing.
- Develop strategies for integrating AEDP principles into clinical practice to facilitate clients’ engagement with experiences of loss; be able to explain how this promotes emotional resilience and well-being.
- Explain the concept of self-transcendence as it emerges in AEDP’s State 4, Core State, including its relationship to compassion, self-compassion, and liberation from fear.
- Demonstrate skills that facilitate affective experience, invite multiple layers of unfolding self awareness, and jumpstart the Transformational spiral into Core Self.
Agenda
Meet the Presenter
Kate Halliday, LCSW
Kate Halliday, LCSW, is Senior Faculty, AEDP Institute from Ithaca, New York. Throughout Kate’s nearly 30 years as a psychotherapist, She has always been better at noticing the ways her clients are remarkable, resilient, and lovable than theorizing about the ways they are wounded. Kate has always been drawn to images, representations, and experiences of transformation. Music, poetry, literature, the natural world, and emotional relationships have always been her education. When Kate started learning to be a teacher of young children (in her first career she worked for Head Start and in elementary schools), and then to be a therapist, it was the magic of witnessing change and growth in other human beings that enlivened the experience for her. In psychotherapy, this led Kate to study Family Systems Theory and Narrative Therapy, then EMDR, and finally AEDP. (Read More…)Registration Options, Location, Dates & Times
- Online sessions use the U.S. Eastern Time Zone
- Please double check the meeting times for your local time zone if not U.S. Eastern Time Zone by visiting http://www.24timezones.com/ or your resource of preference.
- Please check the dates and times closely for conflicts with Local Holidays, Religious Holidays, etc.
Location: Live Online and highly interactive
AEDP’s Live, Online Learning: Requirements & FAQ’s
Option 1: Course (didactic plus experiential practice) | Friday – Monday, June 7 – 10, 2024
- Attend all four days
- Will count toward certification
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM Eastern time USA + Canada
- $649 USD Member (must be logged in to register)
- $679 USD Non-Member
Option 2: Seminar (no experiential practice) | Friday + Sunday (only) June 7 + 9
- Attend the didactic, skip the small group experiential work
- Will not count toward certification
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM Eastern time USA + Canada
- $379 USD Member (must be logged in to register)
- $399 USD Non-Member
Limited seats available please register early.
Fees & Scholarships
Non-Member Course Fee:
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Sorry, we are no longer accepting scholarship applications for this course
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
ADA Accommodations | Attendance | Refund Policy | Questions
Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact Marilia Rodriguez, admin@aedpinstitute.org or call 813-553-1294 thirty days or more before the event so we can be sure to accommodate you.
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