AEDP™ Institute Advanced Skills Course (ASM)
with Kari Gleiser, PhD
September 29-30, 2023
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time USA
Who Advanced Skills Courses are for:
Advanced Skills is for: AEDP Level 2 practitioners who have completed Immersion and Essential Skills (ES1), or Immersion and a Supervision option ( Core training, 20 hours individual supervision, 30 hours group supervision).
Level 3 practitioners are encouraged to participate to refresh AEDP skills and reconnect with faculty and community.
Course Description
Complex attachment trauma can sever and/or inhibit the formation of deep and lasting bonds between self and other, self and self, self and emotion. The practice of AEDP, an empirically-supported treatment model, includes key elements to foster the healing of trauma, the integration of dissociated parts and the rekindling of deep, trusting relationships. Such trusting relationships can rekindle neuroplasticity to restructure insecure attachment patterns, promote safe emotional processing and transform trauma into flourishing. We will explore, in depth, elements such as the explicit use of relational interventions to build safety and containment, dyadic regulation of intense traumatic affects of fear, shame, and overwhelm, as well as reconnection to healing emotion via processing of core affect – all in the context of patients with severe trauma histories and dissociative symptoms. We will view these cases through the lens of intra-relational interventions, which place dual emphasis on internal attachment relationships formed through affective interchanges between distinct parts of the self, and on the intrinsic healing power of new emotional experiences. Parallel relational processes unfolding simultaneously within the external dyad (i.e. therapist/client) and internal dyads (i.e. client/dissociated ego-states) facilitates and accelerates the internalization of secure attachment dynamics. Strengthening these connections instills safety and containment which, in turn, segue ways into transformative affect work and deep processing of traumatic memories.
Furthermore, we will hone more advanced applications of AEDP with complex trauma survivors by examining questions such as: How do we navigate deep emotional processing with patients who have tendency to fall into traumatic flashbacks? How to forge a secure attachment with someone who has never been securely attached to anyone? How to reconcile emotion-focused, experiential therapy goals with some complex trauma survivors’ view of emotions as traumatizing? How can AEDP be applied to working with patients who have more severe spectrum dissociative disorders, including Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
Main Points:
- Explore, in depth, in the context of patients with severe trauma histories and dissociative disorders: the explicit use of relational interventions to build safety and containment – dyadic regulation of intense traumatic affects of fear, shame, and overwhelm – reconnection to healing emotion via processing of core affect.
- View cases through the lens of intra-relational interventions, which place dual emphasis on internal attachment relationships formed through affective interchanges between distinct parts of the self, and on the intrinsic healing power of new emotional experiences.
- Hone more advanced applications of AEDP with complex trauma survivors
- How to navigate deep emotional processing with patients who have tendency to fall into traumatic flashbacks.
- How to forge a secure attachment with someone who has never been securely attached to anyone.
- How to reconcile emotion-focused, experiential therapy goals with some complex trauma survivors’ view of emotions as traumatizing.
- How can AEDP be applied to working with patients who have more severe spectrum dissociative disorders, including Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
Agenda
Learning Objectives
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Location, Dates & Times
Location: Live Online and highly interactive
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Dates:
Friday / Saturday, September 29-30, 2023
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Times: Daily (Hours per day)
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time USA
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Fees & Scholarships
We are no longer accepting scholarship applications for this course.
Non-Member $679 USD | Members $649 USD (must be logged in to register)
Non-Member Course Fee $679 USD
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Scholarships applications are no longer being accepted for this course.
Meet the Presenter
Kari Gleiser, PhD
Kari is a senior faculty member of the AEDP Institute. In her private practice, she specializes in applying AEDP to the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation. For 14 years, Dr. Gleiser was the co-founder/co-director of the Center for Integrative Health in Hanover, NH, a trauma center dedicated to multi-modal healing of mind, body and spirit. Dr. Gleiser has co-developed an “intra-relational” model of therapy that imports AEDP’s relational and experiential interventions to patients’ internal systems of dissociated self-states. Dr. Gleiser has written clinical papers and book chapters and presents internationally on trauma treatment. She also explores the intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality, as well as the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. She now lives in Tuscany, Italy.ADA Accommodations | Attendance | Refund Policy | Questions
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