AGENDA DAYS AND TIMES:
Times: for all eight 4.5 hour days:
In Australia/New Zealand: 8.00 am – 12.30 pm Sydney time
In the Americas: 3 pm – 7:30 pm Pacific time
In the Americas: 6 pm – 10:30 pm Eastern time
Please be sure to re-calculate times for your local timezone
All times below are shown in Sydney, Australia time
DAY 1 & 2
TRANSFORMANCE: Introduction to AEDP’s theoretical roots with a broad sweep through the neurobiology of healing: Transformance, Flourishing, Neuroplasticity, Emergent Experience, Transformational Experience, Attachment, Experiential Work, and Core Self.
Diving deeper and putting neuroplasticity into dyadic clinical action through the Phenomenology of the Transformational Process: What happens in each of the 4 States and 3 state Transformations and Metatherapeutic Processing & The Transformational Affects
DAY 1
7:15-8:00 Tech Orientation for Participants, Faculty, Experiential Assistants (EAs)
8:00 – 9:30 Welcome, Course Overview
9:30 – 9:50 Coffee Break
9:50 – 10:50 Introduction to AEDP
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 10:55 – 11:10
11:10 – 12:10 Introduction to AEDP cont’d
12:10 – 12:30 Closing
DAY 2
7:15 – 8:00 Breakout Rooms Open
8:00 – 8:30 Questions and reflections
8:30 – 10:00 The 4 State Transformational Process – Round 1
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 10:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:00 Working with attachment trauma in a first session
12:00 – 12:30 Closing – breakout rooms available until 1:00
DAY 3 & Day 4
ATTACHMENT: How to undo aloneness & how work experientially with attachment. Diving deeper into the origins of psychopathology and one of AEDP’s schemas, The Triangle of Experience. Healing trauma through portrayals.
Day 3
7:15-8:00 Breakout Rooms Open
8:00 – 8:30 Questions and reflections
8:30 – 10:00 Attachment as a Transformative Process
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 10:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:00 Clinical work with Anxious Attachment
12:00 – 12:30 Closing – breakout rooms available until 1:00
Day 4
7:15-8:00 Breakout Rooms Open
8:00 – 8:30 Questions and reflections
8:30 – 10:00 The Triangle of Experience, Development of Psychopathology
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 10:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:00 Working Experientially with Attachment Trauma through Portrayals
12:00 – 12:30 Closing – breakout rooms available until 1:00
DAY 5 and Day 6
EMOTION: Working with the intense emotional experiences associated with trauma. METAPROCESSING: Harnessing the positive affective experiences associated with healing and transformation.
Day 5
7:15-8:00 Breakout Rooms Open
8:00 – 8:30 Questions and reflections
8:30 – 10:00 Ron Frederick: Working with Portrayals
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 10:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:00 Positive Affective Experience and Transforming Suffering into Flourishing
12:00 – 12:30 Closing – breakout rooms available until 1:00
Day 6
7:15-8:00 Breakout Rooms Open
8:00 – 8:30 Questions and reflections
8:30 – 10:00 Yuko Hanakowa: Working with severe trauma and serious mental illness in AEDP
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 10:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:00 Emotional Processing to Completion
12:00 – 12:30 Closing – breakout rooms available until 1:00
DAY 7
EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISES: Bringing AEDP theory to life. Participants practice AEDP interventions in groups of 3 or 4 guided by experiential assistants.
7:15-8:00 Breakout Rooms Open
8:00 – 8:30 Questions and reflections
8:30 – 9:30 Use of the Therapist’s Self with More Defended Clients
9:30-12:30 Experiential Exercise in Groups of 3 or 4 participants with an Experiential Assistant (EA) – breakout rooms available until 1:00
DAY 8
INTEGRATION
7:15-8:00 Breakout Rooms Open
8:00 – 8:30 Questions and reflections
8:30 – 9:45 Therapist Aims and Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process
9:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 10:00 – 10:15
10:15 – 11:30 The 4 State Transformational Process – Round 2
11:30 – 12:30 breakout rooms available until 1:00