AEDP® Advanced Skills July 2026: Feeling Felt; Expanding Receptive Affective Capacity

On 9 and 11 July 2026, the AEDP Institute will host Feeling Felt: Expanding Receptive Affective Capacity, an Intermediate seminar presented live online by Senior Faculty member Kate Halliday, LCSW.

At the heart of the seminar is a simple but powerful premise: expanding and deepening Receptive Affective Capacity, the experience of “feeling felt,” turbo-charges AEDP’s consolidation of brain growth and neural integration. Many clinicians notice that after a full day of intense AEDP sessions they emerge not depleted but invigorated, and that the transformative qualities of authentic relational experience begin to find their way into everyday life with friends, family, and colleagues.

This seminar offers an opportunity to integrate theoretical knowledge of AEDP and to deepen understanding of how the model works from the bottom up and inside out, beginning with the clinician’s own experience. Through didactic and video presentations, participants strengthen their clinical application of AEDP principles and build confidence and effectiveness in practice, while connecting with a wider AEDP community.

Offered across two half-days of seminar instruction, this track is ideal for those who prefer focused learning without experiential practice. It is open to AEDP Level 1 graduates of Immersion, and those who have also completed Essential Skills may find it easier to grasp the more advanced AEDP content.

For therapists who want to deepen their understanding of AEDP and their capacity for authentic relational connection, this is a rich invitation to learn from one of the model’s most experienced teachers.

Event Details

  • Dates: Thursday and Saturday, 9 and 11 July 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM to 3:30 PM EST
  • Format: Live online
  • Presenter: Kate Halliday, LCSW, Senior Faculty, AEDP Institute
  • Continuing Education: Up to 8 CE credits; ASWB, APA, NBCC, and New York approvals
  • Eligibility: AEDP Level 1+ (Immersion graduates) with qualifying licensing credentials
  • Fee: $399 USD (registration closes 2 July 2026); limited scholarships and payment plans available

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Diana Fosha Live Online: Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering

Diana Fosha, PhD, developer of AEDP

On 21 May 2026, MINDinMIND will host a live online Legacy Interview with Diana Fosha, developer of AEDP, joined by Stephen Porges, Ed Tronick, and Shigeru Iwakabe.

At the heart of Fosha’s work is a clinically precise idea: that aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotion is not just part of a patient’s history but part of the suffering itself. AEDP places the therapeutic relationship at the centre of transformation, creating the safety, warmth, and attunement in which the undoing of aloneness becomes possible.

This conversation, hosted by Jane O’Rourke, will move across the personal, theoretical, and clinical turning points that shaped AEDP. Expect reflections on transformance, metatherapeutic processing, and why noticing vitality from the very first session matters so much. The presence of Porges, Tronick, and Iwakabe brings the polyvagal, developmental, and empirical threads of AEDP into the same room.

For therapists working with trauma, attachment disturbance, and dissociation, this is a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of the most original thinkers in contemporary psychotherapy.

Event Details

  • Date: 21 May 2026
  • Time: 6PM to 8PM UK / 1PM to 3PM ET / 10AM to 12PM PT
  • Format: Live online, recording available to all ticket holders
  • CPD/CE: Two-hour certificate included

A subsidised ticket option is available, with further support for those in low income countries or experiencing financial hardship.

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Seminar: Undoing Disempowerment | Cultivating Agency in AEDP®

Presented by Eileen Russell, PhD

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Friday January 24, 2024- Monday 27, 2025
Live Online and Highly Interactive

Course Description:

Internalized experiences of trauma, neglect, or oppression can severely impair one’s access to and expression of one’s emotions, as well as the sense of safety with oneself and others. But these experiences, as well as subtler, but chronic, experiences of not being seen or recognized, can also impair the development of the sense of the self being an agent in the world and in one’s own life. Even as one develops a connection to and capacity for one’s own feelings, people can still feel like “guests in their own lives.” 

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