Therapeutic Presence in AEDP
Friday – Sunday October 15 – 17, 2021
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time USA + Canada
Who the Advanced Skills Course is for:
AEDP Level 2 clinicians who have completed Immersion plus either Essential Skills (ES1), or Core Training, or the equivalent in AEDP supervision (30 hours Small Group or 20 hours Individual).
Level 3+ AEDPers are encouraged to participate to earn CE’s while refreshing AEDP skills and reconnecting with faculty and community.
Course Description:
This Advanced Skills Module will address the role of Therapeutic Presence in the service of psychological healing and provide participants with specific tools to cultivate and strengthen their Therapeutic Presence. We will learn effective clinical strategies for using Therapeutic Presence to help clients transform unbearable aloneness and psychic danger into a felt sense of accompaniment and capacity in their movement toward thriving and resilience. In this era in which online therapy is now commonplace and necessary, particular attention will be paid to the unique demands related to Therapeutic Presence in the context of providing online psychotherapy.
AEDP considers therapeutic presence not only as a relational precondition to therapy, but also as a specific, healing, affective change process in its own right. From the get-go, AEDP therapists strive to actively and explicitly foster secure attachment by offering a new experience of emotional safety. An AEDP therapist cultivates Therapeutic Presence in order to embody the characteristics of a loving, attuned and self-possessed Other. And the AEDP therapeutic stance is welcoming, encouraging, affirming, transparent and explicitly emotionally engaged. It is focused not only on the patient’s intrapsychic experience, but also on the relational “we-ness” of the therapeutic process. The therapeutic emphasis is on “being there” and becoming a trusted companion in a shared, affective exploratory journey that promotes a client’s mastery and experientially heals trauma.
In this Advanced Skills Module, we will walk the talk of healing, in heart and mind and body, by helping you to develop and deepen your own capacities for Therapeutic Presence and practice using them in clinical work through experiential modules on each day of the training.
Course Objectives:
- Define the foundational components of Therapeutic Presence in clinical work.
- Develop Therapeutic Presence to inform your AEDP clinical stance.
- Develop Therapeutic Presence to increase effectiveness of affect regulation (both self and client).
- Utilize Therapeutic Presence to track the process of attunement, rupture, repair and re-coordination.
- Apply Therapeutic Presence across the 4 state model of AEDP.
- Apply the concept of “Being is the Doing.”
- Apply the PAIR model to clinical practice.
- Recognize the impact of intersectionality on Therapeutic Presence
Agenda
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Location: Live Online and highly interactive
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Times: Daily (5 hour days)
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Eastern time USA + Canada
Dates: Friday – Sunday
October 15 – 17, 2021
Fees, Scholarships & CE
Non-Member Course Fee (includes 13 CE) | $640 USD
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Member Course Fee (includes 13 CE) | $590 USD One time payment
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Scholarships
Learn about our ‘pay-what-you-wish’ pilot program for self-identifying Black mental health professionals here.
Diversity Scholarships: For more information and to download an application please click here.
CovidScholarships: If you are unable to afford the full course fee because you have been especially hard hit by the Covid pandemic, please contact us at admin@aedpinstitute.org with Covid Scholarship in the subject line and briefly tell us why you need the scholarship.
Continuing Education: This program is generally eligible for 13.5 CE hours of continuing professional development credit.* Participants must have paid course fee, attended the entire course and completed an evaluation to receive CE. RCassidy, is our CE partner and will provide CE certificates. In addition a certificate of completion will be provides by the AEDP Institute. Partial credit is not available.
NOTE: It is the responsibility of the Attendee to determine if the CE credit offered by R.Cassidy Seminars meets the regulations of their state licensing/certification board.
Go here for a list of professions included, state approval and other details on CEs for this course.
Meet the Presenter
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Level 3+ AEDPers are encouraged to participate to earn CE’s while refreshing AEDP skills and reconnecting with faculty and community.
Advanced Skills Course Overview: Practical in orientation, every Advanced Skills Course focuses on helping you both learn new, Advanced AEDP skills, and cultivate and fine-tune the AEDP skills you already have. Each course will include didactic presentations of theory along with video of actual clinical sessions conducted by AEDP Faculty followed by an afternoon of small group experiential exercises.
In both left-brained and right-brained ways, our Advanced Skills faculty will teach concrete, specific interventions and techniques that will help you with the in-depth practice of AEDP and help you with your more challenging clients.
Instructional Methodology: AEDP skills are introduced with their theoretical foundations and then with illustrations by way of clinical videotapes; skills are then practiced in group experiential exercises. In online courses, exceptionally effective experiential exercises are held in online “breakout rooms.”
Faculty, Experiential Assistants and Clinical Video: These are the hallmarks of all AEDP trainings. In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and deeply we seek to both undo professional aloneness and engage in rigorous clinical teaching. Our faculty are excellent as academics, clinicians and teachers. Participants deeply appreciate how effectively faculty presenters’ clinical video demonstrates “AEDP in action.” And faculty have skilled accompaniment from a large number of Experiential Assistants – up to and often including one Experiential Assistant for every three participants. Participants rave about the excellent attention and support they receive in this unique learning environment.
To see a listing of AEDP therapists who act as Experiential Assistants, click here.
Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days Or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification
Certification: Completion of this course does not guarantee certification. To be eligible for AEDP Certification, clinicians must demonstrate an understanding of the theoretical model and proficiency in applying AEDP interventions to diverse clinical populations, and an overall commitment to the AEDP mission, ethos and values. Certification requirements.
Attendance and Makeup Policy & Refunds:
Questions:
Course Questions: Contact admin@aedpinstitute.org
Payment, CE and Registration Questions: Contact Karen Newell at R. Cassidy Seminars: AEDP’s CE and Registration Partner
karen@rcassidy.com
866-992-9399 X105
Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 2:00 pm PST