Essential Skills (ES1) Five Modules November 2022 – June 2023

Co-Sponsored by AEDP Italy and AEDP Sweden – Welcoming participants worldwide!

Ben Medley, LCSW, Anna Christina Sundgren, MA, Kate Halliday, LCSW, Diana Fosha, PhD, Annika Medbo, MA

Five Friday – Monday Modules
November 4, 2022 thru June 12, 2023
9:00 am – 1:30 pm Eastern US & Canada


Pre-requisite: Level 1 AEDPers: licensed therapists who have taken AEDP Immersion.
This ES1 counts toward AEDP certification

This AEDP course is open to AEDP Immersion Grads: Licensed Mental Health Providers practicing legally in your state, province, or countryincluding Counselors, Doctors, Nurses, Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, other Behavioral Health Therapists and related professionals. If you have a question about the relevance of this course for you and/or your eligibility for this course please contact admin@aedpinstitute.org with your credentials before registering. For information about whether this course offers Continuing Education credits for your license, see the bottom of the page.

About Essential Skills (ES1): AEDP Essential Skills course will provide practical skills for the application of AEDP as well as a thorough immersion in the theory underlying the practice. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, different types of clinical interventions so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to “do” AEDP. Each day’s teaching will include didactic presentations of theory along with video of actual sessions conducted by AEDP Faculty followed by small group experiential exercises.

Routine for each module: 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 four 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.


Course Description

Description: AEDP Essential Skills, aimed at practitioners, will provide practical skills for the application of AEDP. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, skill sets, concrete and specific. Different skill sets will be introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced each week, so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP. The basic skill sets necessary to practice AEDP will be introduced each week, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes and group experiential exercises in the afternoon.

In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and deeply we seek to both (i) undo professional aloneness and (ii) engage in rigorous clinical teaching with skilled accompaniment. We are proud to say that our ES courses feature a high number of highly skilled assistants.

What we consider AEDP’s “essential skills” will be didactically demonstrated and experientially explored so that participants develop both a felt sense and a cognitive understanding of them. A key component of the experiential practices is the opportunity to “try on” sets of interventions as a therapist and to receive them as a client. We have found that learning new skills can give rise to experiences of safety, attachment security, transformation, increased therapeutic courage, and related phenomena; precisely the kinds of experiences AEDP facilitates for its clients. Each module participants spend time in small groups practicing essential AEDP skills they have just learned. The concentrated time that participants spend together immersed in learning inevitably leads to the development of a culture of trust and generosity that allows for risk-taking and a supportive environment that is uniquely suited for this type of learning.

Course Topics

Module 1: November 4 – 7, 2022 | Ben Medley, LCSW
HEALING FROM THE GET-GO, UNDOING ALONENESS & THE CLINICAL ROADMAP for AEDP’s TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY

Module 2: January 13 – 16, 2022| Anna Christina Sundgren, MA
ATTACHMENT & RELATIONAL WORK: UNDOING ALONENESS IN CLINICAL ACTION

Module 3: February 24 – 27, 2023 | Kate Halliday, LCSW (formerly Diana Fosha, PhD)
STATE 1: THE TOP OF THE TRIANGLE of EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH DEFENSE AND ANXIETY

Module 4: April 14 – 17, 2023 | Annika Medbo, MA
STATE 2 WORK: THE PROCESSING of CORE AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCE

Module 5: June 9 – 12, 2023 | Ben Medley, LCSW and Diana Fosha, PhD
THE PROCESSING of TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCE & THE INTEGRATION OF TRANSFORMATION INTO SELF STATE 3 & STATE 4 Work

Course Objectives

  • Demonstrate an AEDP therapist stance: welcome, affirm, validate, orient
  • Construct safety and undo aloneness
  • Apply moment-to-moment tracking to clinical practice
  • Construct dyadic safety and connection
  • Build and rebuild a secure attachment
  • Integrate healing and transformance from the get-go
  • Classify different aspects within the Triangle of Experience, including both verbal and somatic processes, to optimize attunement and accelerate the healing process
  • Analyze the 4 State Transformational Process: Working with relational trauma in a first session
  • Integrate Meta-therapeutic processing and transformational processes
  • Relate the experience of emotional experience: processing emotions to completion
  • Define attachment styles and utilize different interventions according to attachment style
  • Utilize various ways to regulate anxiety, bypass defenses and other inhibitory forces which block progress in therapy
  • Describe how to regulate/alleviate anxiety and traces of shame
  • Identify and access core affective experiences
  • Identify expressions of transformance in clients
  • Practice utilizing transformance strivings as a catalyst to maximize patient’s healing

Location, Dates & Times

Please check 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

Dates:
Friday – Monday
2022: November 4 – 7
2023: January 13 – 16, February 24 – 27, April 14 – 17, June 9 – 12

Times: Daily
North Americans: 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (Eastern)

Italians & Swedes: 3:00* p.m. – 7:30 p.m, *except for the first two days of module one. Note that European clocks change in October; U.S. clocks change during module one on November 6.

All participants: please check all meeting times for your time zone. We use US Eastern time zone in all of our communications.


Prerequisites and Continuing Education (CE)

Prerequisite: to attend ES1 you must have completed AEDP Immersion

Continuing Education: A Certificate of Completion for the course will be provided by the AEDP Institute.

Course includes 80 CE hours (certificates provided by AEDP’s CE partner R Cassidy Seminars) for many/most US practitioners. It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if the CE credit offered meets the regulations of their state licensing/certification board. Click here to see details and requirements for earning CE.

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.


Fees, Registration and Scholarships

This course is Sold Out. Please email admin@aedpinstitute.org to be added to the waitlist.

Italians Sold Out


Swedes and Norwegians Sold Out

  • Course includes 80 CE*
  • $3,200 USD Non-Member Course Fee

Payment plan: $500 due at registration – Call Karen Newell 866-992-9399

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Non-Member Worldwide Click Here

Scholarships are available. To learn more and apply, please go here.


Meet the Presenter

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Diana Fosha, PhD

Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP™ psychotherapy, a healing-based, transformation-oriented treatment model. And she is Founder and Director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha’s work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of the AEDP therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP is an experiential clinical practice which reflects the integration of science, (Read More…)

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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 – generally including one Experiential Assistant for every four 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

AEDP 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 and all customer service related questions:
Please contact Customer Service Administrator
Marilia Rodriguez
admin@aedpinstitute.org
813-553-1294

Billing, Receipts, Credit Card matters, Payment Plans:
Please contact our CE and Registration Partner, R. Cassidy Seminars
Karen Newell
karen@rcassidy.com
866-992-9399 x 105
707-566-7470 x 105
Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 2:00 pm PST