An AEDP™ SEMINAR LIVE ONLINE 2023 presented by AEDP Faculty:
Mary Androff, MD
This seminar is intended for Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage
and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists. Course Content Level: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced
Note: There will be a brief introduction to AEDP. If you are new to AEDP and would like to learn more about the model, consider purchasing the On Demand recording, Intro to AEDP by Diana Fosha, PhD and/or consider reading “Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0“.
Description
“When the Soul wants to experience something, she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.” (Meister Eckhart)
As AEDP therapists, we are on the lookout for glimmers of transformance, for ways to access and deepen affect. Spontaneous images, recurrent symbols and dream fragments often emerge as heralding affects and potential entry points for work with core affective experience. Exploration of imagery, a largely right brain mediated process, may have unique potential to tap into unconscious meaning and to birth new narratives. Many patients have more access to visual mental imagery than to somatic and/or emotional channels of experience, and for all patients increased use of the imaginal channel may accelerate therapeutic work.
Visual mental imagery utilizes multiple brain regions and networks and it plays an important role in many cognitive processes. Exploration of imagery can help organize internal experience and increase access to coherence, vitality and recognition: to the neurobiological core self. Therapeutic work with emergent imagery engages creative processes and often brings forth an element of play. Because imagery hangs in a type of “third space” between the patient and the therapist, we have an opportunity to deepen relational experience and to promote our patients’ sense of agency through our authentic demonstration of their existence in our hearts and minds.
This seminar will help you to utilize visual mental imagery in clinical practice, attune to right brain mediated communication, deepen your grasp of relevant neurobiology, and increase your capacity to promote agency in your patients.
Main Points:
- Elevate awareness of mental imagery as a frequently available entry point to access affect, the unconscious and right brain mediated processes
- Discuss the importance of visual mental imagery in cognitive functioning and its ability to access multiple brain regions and networks
- Expand use of imagery beyond portrayals to include exploration of emergent imagery as a heralding affect and as a state 2 core affective experience which may develop into a more organic and less scripted portrayal; review formal portrayals
- Review AEDP’s 4 State/3 State Transformation model of change and discuss how therapeutic work with imagery can be utilized with each state/state transformation
- Highlight differences in hemispheric functions, the emergent nature of left brain-right brain coordination, and the role of right brain mediated processes in affect regulation, communication and healing
- Discuss the neurobiological core self and the potential of imagery to access this
- Review the neurobiology of the “smart vagus”/social engagement system, its association with affect regulation and the impact of play
- Explore the neurobiology of PLAY and cultivate more ease incorporating elements of play through the use of emergent imagery
- Discuss the potential of imagery to deepen relational experience, promote agency and bring new autobiographical narratives into being
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Compare exploration of emergent imagery with formal portrayals.
- Identify 2 brain regions or networks which are engaged with visual mental imagery tasks.
- Discuss how exploration of emergent imagery can promote a patient’s sense of agency.
- Discuss the relationship between right and left hemispheric functioning.
- Highlight differences in hemispheric functions, the emergent nature of left brain-right brain coordination, and the role of right brain mediated processes in affect regulation, communication and healing.
- Discuss the neurobiological core self and the potential of imagery to access this.
- Review the neurobiology of the “smart vagus”/social engagement system, its association with affect regulation and the impact of play.
- Explore the neurobiology of PLAY and cultivate more ease incorporating elements of play through the use of emergent imagery
- Discuss the potential of imagery to deepen relational experience, promote agency and bring new autobiographical narratives into being.
Agenda
Meet the Presenter
Mary Androff, MD
Dates, Times, Location
Dates:
Friday August 25 and Saturday August 26, 2023
Times for each session:
12:00 PM – 4:15 pm Eastern Time USA + Canada
Please double check the meeting times for your local time zone if not Eastern Time USA
Location: Live, Online
Fees, Registration and Continuing Education (CE):
Pricing includes 8 CE – you must create an account with Heisel and Associates -see details below.
AEDP Member: $259 USD
Non-Member: $279 USD
- Non Member Pricing
Scholarships are available. To learn more and apply, please go here.
Continuing Education: This training is eligible for 8 CE
Note: Outside of the U.S. and Canada:
Heisel and Associates holds no CE provider status with any other non-U.S. licensing/certification boards.
U.S. and Canada: This training is co-sponsored by AEDP Institute and Heisel and Associates. To receive CE Participants must have:
- Registered an account on the Heisel and Associates website (see below)
- Attended the entire session (partial credit is not available)
- Completed an evaluation
CE: If you would like CE credit for this training, you must create an account here or click on the button below. You will need your license information to create your account. You only need to create one account for all AEDP trainings.
Upon completion of the training complete these 5 easy steps to receive your CE certificate:
1. Log onto your Heisel and Associates account
2. Go to “My Account”
3. Click on “My Webinars”
4. Complete the eval
5. Download the certificate
APA
Heisel and Associates is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Heisel and Associates maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
ASWB + ACE
Heisel and Associates, Provider Number 1253, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Heisel and Associates maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/3/2023 to 5/3/2026.
NBCC
Heisel and Associates has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #6603. Programs that do not quality for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Heisel and Associates is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
NAADAC
This course has been approved by Heisel and Associates, an NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #111326, Heisel and Associates is responsible for all aspects of the programs.
New York:
New York Department of Education State Board for Psychology
New York Department of Education State Board for Social Work
New York Department of Education State Board for Mental Health Practitioners
Florida
Florida Board of Psychology
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling
Ohio
Ohio Psychological Association
Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, Marriage & Family Therapists BoardOhio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board
Kentucky
Kentucky Board of Examiners in Psychology
Kentucky Board of Social Work
Kentucky Board of Licensure of Marriage and Family Therapists
Indiana
Indiana State Board of Psychology
Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board
Canada
Heisel and Associates holds CE provider status for Canada.
Outside of the U.S. and Canada:
Heisel and Associates holds no CE provider status with any other non-U.S. licensing/certification boards.
It is the responsibility of attendees to contact their state licensing/certification board to determine if CE credit offered by Heisel and Associates meets the regulations of their state licensing/certification board.
ADA Accommodations | Attendance | Refund Policy | Questions
ADA Accommodations
All AEDP Institute Trainings are offered Live Online.
Should you need any modification or accommodation to allow you to effectively
participate, please contact Marilia Rodriguez, admin@aedpinstitute.org or call
813-5553-1294 thirty days or more before the event so we can be sure to accommodate
you.
Attendance and Makeup Policy & Refunds:
Course and all customer service related questions:
Please contact Customer Service Administrator
Marilia Rodriguez
admin@aedpinstitute.org
813-553-1294
Office Hours: 9:00 – 5:00 PM Eastern Time USA