GOAL: Participants will be able to assess and intervene with individuals using AEDP intervention methods for working with healing attachment trauma and developing the Self.
METHODS: Lecture, PowerPoint Presentation, Video Presentation of case examples, Group
Discussion, Role-Play (experiential exercises), Bibliography, Handouts
INTENDED AUDIENCE: This training is an introduction to AEDP for licensed clinicians who have completed the AEDP Immersion and Essential Skills course.
OBJECTIVES:
- Participants will be able to identify key change processes in the process of healing attachment trauma and developing the Self.
- Participants will be able to practice how the use of the Therapist Self can work as a powerful tool to set change, healing and development in motion.
- Participants will be able to evaluate the impact of emotional exclusion.
- Participants will be able to analyze the developmental consequences of growing up in an environment lacking deeper care and recognition from caregivers.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the stages of therapeutic work involved in addressing deep-seated emotional wounds and relational deficits, particularly in the context of AEDP therapy.
- Participants will be able to describe the role of the therapist in creating a safe and nurturing therapeutic environment.
- Participants will identify AEDP interventions aimed at facilitating emotional processing, dismantling defenses, and fostering adaptive experiences in clients.
- Participants will be able to recognize the various stages of the therapeutic process, including the “rescuing part” and the “part of becoming,” to support clients in their journey towards self-discovery and emotional integration.
- Participants will be able to develop their capacity for empathic attunement and authentic presence with clients, enhancing their ability to establish and maintain therapeutic rapport.
- Participants will be able to explain the concept of “forming the unformed”.
- Participants will be able to integrate principles of self-compassion and mindfulness into their therapeutic approach.
- Participants will be able to apply the knowledge and skills gained from the training to their clinical practice, demonstrating competence in working with clients who struggle with feelings of disconnection, emotional numbness, and unresolved attachment trauma.
OUTLINE:
Date: July 19, 2024
10:00 – 12:00
I: The Use of the therapist Self in AEDP – the rescue for the deepest emotionally isolated clients
II: The development of attachment trauma
a. Defense – protection
b. The competent child
c. Holes in the development of Self
d. What is required of you (the therapist)
12:00 – 12:30
III: Break
12:30 – 1:30
IV: Main Topic – Therapeutic presence/AEDP Stance
a. Recognition/being independently there
b. Ways to “find the insulated Self”
c. Titrating experience
d. Being a “surrogate feeler” (feeling what the client yet cannot feel)
1:30 – 1:50
V: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing the
video case presentation of first part of the process. It´s about
“finding” the insulated Self/finding the deepest wound. How
and when to lead, follow and guide the client in the process.
1:50 – 2:30
VI: Large group discussion: Q & A
Date: July 21, 2024
10:00 – 12:00
I: The balancing between intrapsychic and interpsychic
experience
II: Looking for “calls” from the client´s core Self
a. The neurobiological Core Self
b. The development of agency, will and desire
c. Creative ways of promoting agency
d. Different channels of experience
12:00 – 12:30
III: Break
12:30 – 1:30
IV: Part two in the process – building the Self
a. Holding the space, titrate and help the patient organize experience
b. Challenges for the therapist
c. Identify and regulate tremulous affect and distinguish from maladaptive fear
d. Holding the Self in the process of becoming
1:30 – 1:50
V: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing the
video case presentation of healing attachment trauma and de-
veloping the Self by using the deepened “sharpened” AEDP stance
2:00 – 2:30
VI: Large group discussion: Q & A
CONTACT
For Information About Any of Our Services, Or For Accommodations for Disability, please contact:
AEDP Institute
Marilia Rodriguez
admin@aedpinstitute.org
(813)-553-1294