Agenda: Befriending the AEDP Triangles

Course Schedule

Friday, December 8, 2023, 12pm -5pm EST

12:00 – 12:30 I. Welcome. Course Overview and Orientation. 

12:30 – 2:15    II. Using the Triangle of Experience – AEDP’s central representational   schema and its categories

  1. Defense
  2. Anxiety
  3. Core affective experience
  4. Self-at-Best version of the triangle
  5. Self-at-Worst versions of the triangle

i. Avoidant Triangle of Experience
ii. Ambivalent/Resistant Triangle of Experience
iii. Disorganized Triangle of Experience

    2:15 – 2:45 III. Break

    2:45 – 4:15 IV. Working with Ambivalent/Resistant Pattern of attachment

    1. Defining hyperactivating strategy
    2. Defining anxiety
    3. Identifying emotionality 
    4. Processing anger
    5. New experience that emerges after expression of anger

    4:15 – 5:00   V. Small group experiential practice

    1. Experiential Interventions 
    2. Moment-to-moment tracking using Triangle of Experience

    Saturday, December 9, 2023, 12pm – 5pm EST

    12:00 – 12:30  I. Review Prior Day Learning 

    12:30 – 1:00 II. Using AEDP’s Self-Other Emotion Triangle

    1. Defining internal working model
    2. Self-at-Best version of the Self-Other-Emotion triangle
    3. Self-at-Worst versions of the Self-at-Worst Self-Other-Emotion triangle

    i. Avoidant Self-Other-Emotion triangle
    ii. Ambivalent Self-Other-Emotion triangle
    iii. Disorganized Self-Other-Emotion triangle

    1:00 – 1:30   III. Working with Avoidant relational defenses

    1. Defining deactivating strategy
    2. Defining avoidant relational defenses
    3. Identifying markers of avoidant relational defenses
    4. Interventions to treat avoidant relational defenses

    1:30 – 2:00   IV. Working with Ambivalent/Resistant relational defenses

    1. Defining ambivalent/resistant relational defenses
    2. Identifying markers of ambivalent/resistant relational defenses
    3. Interventions to treat ambivalent relational defenses

    2:00 – 2:30   V. BREAK

    2:30 – 2:35  VI. Directions for Experiential Exercises

    2:35 – 5:00  VII. Therapist/Client Role Play to practice the following skills   

    1. Interventions to reduce relational defenses
    2. Interventions to treat avoidant relational defenses 
    3. Interventions to treat ambivalent/resistant relational defenses

    Sunday, December 10, 2023, 12pm – 5pm EST

    12:00 – 12:30  I. Review Prior Day Learning 

    12:30 – 12:50 II. AEDP’s Triangle of Relational Comparisons

    1. Defining its categories:

    i. Therapeutic relationship
    ii. Current Relationship
    iii. Past Relationship

    1. Defining Repetition
    2. Defining Corrective Experiences
    3. Defining Neuroplasticity

    12:50 – 1:50 III. Working with Unresolved Trauma

    1. Identifying origin of disorganization (trigger)
    2. Interventions to reduce anxiety
    3. Interventions to process unresolved emotion
    4. Interventions to build reflective capacity 
    5. Interventions to harness neuroplasticity

    1:50 – 2:20  IV. BREAK

    2:20 – 2:25  VI. Directions for Experiential Exercises

    2:25 – 4:40  VII. Therapist/Client Role Play to practice the following skills   

    1. Interventions to practice reducing anxiety
    2. Interventions to process unresolved emotion
    3. Interventions to build understanding/reflective capacity
    4. Interventions to harness neuroplasticity

    4:40 – 5:00 Large group CLOSURE