DAY 1
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.
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Welcome, In-it-Together, Course Overview
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Introduction to AEDP
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM Break
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Introduction to AEDP cont’d
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Metaprocessing the day
DAY 2
THE AEDP FOUR STATE MODEL OF TRANSFORMATION
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 Meta-therapeutic Processing & The Transformational Affects
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections
11:45 – 1:15 PM The 4 State Transformational Process: The Phenomenology of Change
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM Break
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Working with attachment trauma
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Metaprocessing the day
DAY 3
ATTACHMENT: Working experientially with Relatedness: Undo aloneness, dyadic regulation and corrective experiences
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections
11:20 AM – 11:45 AM Attachment exercise
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Attachment as a Transformative Process
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM Break
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Case Presentation (Video)
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Metaprocessing the day
DAY 4
THE TRIANGLE OF EXPERIENCE (and related schemas)
Diving deep into the origins of psychopathology and a number of AEDP’s schemas designed to inform case conceptualization.
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Development of Psychopathology – Mapping with
The Triangle of Experience, Self-other-emotion Triangle, Triangle of Social Experience
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM Break
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Case Presentation
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Metaprocessing the day
DAY 5
WORKING WITH TRANSFORMATION: Harnessing the positive affective experiences associated with healing and change-for-the-better
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections
11:30 – 1:15 PM Thriving, Flourishing and Positive Affect: Working with Transformation
1:15 PM – 1:30 AM Break
1:30 – 3:00 PM Guest Presenter, Ben Medley
3:00 – 3:30 PM Metaprocessing the day
DAY 6
ADDRESSING BLOCKS TO CHANGE: Working the Top of the Triangle in
AEDP: Inhibitory Affects and Defenses.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections
11:30 – 1:15 PM Working the Top of the Triangle in AEDP: Addressing Inhibitory Affects & Defense
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM Break
1:30 – 3:00 PM Guest Presenter, Nicky Cameron
3:00 – 3:30 PM Metaprocessing the day
DAY 7
EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISES: Bringing AEDP theory to life. Participants practice AEDP interventions in groups of 3 or 4 guided by experiential assistants.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Use of Portrayals in AEDP Clinical work
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM Break
12:45-3:30 PM Experiential Exercise in Groups 3 – 4 participants with an Experiential Assistant (EA)
DAY 8
INTEGRATION: Bringing together the learning through a micro-analysis of
a videotaped session exploring AEDP’s therapeutic aims and activities.
11:00 – 12:00 PM Opening, Questions and Reflections
12:00 – 1:15 PM Therapist Aims & Activities of the 4 State
Transformational Process
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM Evals
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM Break
1:45 PM– 2:45 PM Therapist Aims & Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process Part 2
2:45 PM– 3:30 PM Closing