Essential Skills (ES1) and Advanced Skills (ES2)
“The AEDP Essential Skills course is absolutely one of the best psychotherapy trainings I have ever done. The format is a perfect balance of didactics, video observation and experiential practice (doing it!), with loads of supportive individual attention and feedback. I can’t recommend this training enough!”
– Victoria Lemie Beckner, PhD
What you will learn: AEDP Skills courses, Essential Skills (ES1) and Advanced Skills (ES2), provide therapists with practical skills for “doing” AEDP. Our aim is to teach concrete and specific skills in both left-brained and right-brained ways. Different skills are introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced each day so that participants emerge with both an intellectual understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP.
Daily routine: AEDP skills are introduced each morning first with their theoretical foundations and then with illustrations by way of clinical videotapes; skills are then practiced in group experiential exercises each afternoon.
Faculty and Experiential Assistants: In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and deeply we seek to both undo professional aloneness and engage in rigorous clinical teaching from excellent faculty: at least two and more often three or more faculty present their work in a given Skills course. And Faculty and students receive skilled accompaniment from committed assistants: all AEDP Skills courses feature a large number of Experiential Assistants – up to and most often including one Experiential Assistant for every three participants. To see a listing of AEDP therapists who act as Experiential Assistants, click here.
To learn more about AEDP Essential Skills and Advanced Skills courses, click on a course listed below:
Essential Skills (ES1)
Prerequisites:
We highly recommend that you complete Immersion before taking Essential Skills (ES1). If you are committed to learning AEDP and have not yet taken Immersion, please complete the recorded webinar Intro to AEDP prior to starting ES1. Note, however, that Intro to AEDP is by no means a substitute for Immersion and Immersion is a requirement for AEDP certification. You will earn 6 CE for taking the Intro webinar and when you complete it you will be eligible for a $100 credit towards a future Immersion course.
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in Denver Registration is open
March 2020 / July 2020
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in New York City NEW! Registration is open
April 2020 / August 2020
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in Los Angeles, CA, USA NEW! Registration is open
June 2020 / October 2020
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in London, England, UK NEW! Registration is open
July 2020 / November 2020
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in Vancouver, BC, Canada Coming Soon
Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 – Stay Tuned for Dates and Registration
Essential Skills (ES1) Courses In Progress, Registration is Closed
ES1 Three-Long-Weekends Course in New York City SOLD OUT! In progress, registration is closed
October 2019 / January 2020 / May 2020
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in New York City SOLD OUT! In progress, registration is closed
November 2019 / March 2020
Advanced Skills (ES2)
Prerequisites:
ES2 is for those who have achieved AEDP Level 2: licensed practitioners who have completed Immersion plus either ES1 or Core Training or 30 hours Small Group Supervision or 20 Hours Individual Supervision. For more information on AEDP Levels, click here.
ES2 Retreat-Style Course in Los Angeles Registration is open
March 2020 / October 2020
ES2 2-Day Course in New York City Registration is open
May 2020
ES2 2-Day Course in Boston Metro-Area Registration is open
June 2020
ES2 2-Day Course in Boston Metro-Area Coming Soon
Stay Tuned for Dates and Registration
ES2 Advanced Skills Weekends in Boston, NYC, more Coming Soon
Throughout 2020
Advanced Skills (ES2) Courses in Progress, Registration is Closed
ES2 Retreat-Style Course in Stockholm SOLD OUT! In progress, registration is closed
October 2019 / March 2020
Hear and see what a recent participant has to say about:
how inspiring and effective that ES1 course was for him…
what Advanced Skills did for her…
Past AEDP Essential Skills (ES1) Courses
ES1 Three-Long-Weekends Course in Boston, MA, USA: March 2019 / June 2019 / October 2019
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in Los Angeles, CA, USA: January 2019 / May 2019
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in London, UK : December 2018 / April 2019
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in New York City, NY, USA: August 2018 / December 2018
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in New York City, NY, USA: May 2018 / October 2018
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in San Francisco, CA, USA: March 2018 / July 2018
ES1 Retreat-Style Course in Denver, CO, USA: 2017 – 2018
ES1 Essential Skills Retreat-Style Course in Vancouver, BC, CA: July 2017 / December 2017
ES1 Retreat Style Course in Durham, NC, USA: February 2017 / June 2017
ES1 Essential Skills Retreat-Style Course in New York City, NY, USA: 2016 – 2017
ES1 Essential Skills 5-weekends in New York City, NY, USA: 2016 – 2017
ES1 Retreat Style Course in Shanghai, China: 2016 – 2017
ES1 Essential Skills Course in Europe: Stockholm, Sweden & Parma Italy: 2016 – 2017
ES1 Essential Skills San Francisco Bay, CA, USA: 2015 – 2016
ES1 Essential Skills Course in Boston, MA, USA: 2015 – 2016
ES1 Essential Skills Retreat Style Course in New York City, NY, USA: 2015 – 2016
ES1 Essential Skills Course in Vancouver, BC, USA: 2014 – 2015
ES1 Essential Skills Course in New York City, NY, USA: 2014 – 2015
Essential Skills • 2013-2014 • New York
Essential Skills • 2013-2014 • West Coast
Essential Skills • 2012-2013 • Vancouver, BC
Past AEDP Advanced Skills (ES2) Courses
ES2 Retreat-Style Course in Israel May 2019 / November 2019
ES2 Retreat-Style Course in New York City April 2019 / September 2019
ES2 5-Weekend Course in New York City January 2019 thru May 2019
ES2 Advanced Skills Retreat-Style Course in Vancouver & Denver 2018 July 2018 / November 2018
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