Conference Resources
Welcome to the AEDP Conference Resource Hub
This is your go-to page for everything you need to navigate and make the most of the conference. Below, you’ll find key details, session materials, and ways to stay connected with the AEDP community.
The AEDP Conference is just around the corner
3 days: Friday – Sunday, April 4 – 6, 2025
Live Online In-Person
If you are participating Online login starts at 8:30- make sure you have logged into zoom using the same email address that you registered for the conference with.
Full Conference Schedule: [Day 1, Friday April 4]
| Full Conference Schedule: [Day 1, Friday April 4] | ||
| Time | Presenter(s) | Topic |
| 8:00 – 8:45 am EST | Breakfast and Registration | Get your badge. Come early to avoid the last minute rush, enjoy a nice breakfast, find your seat! |
| 8:45 – 9:00 am EST | Ben Medley | Welcome, housekeeping, logistics. |
| 9:00 – 9:30 am EST | Diana Fosha | Opening Remarks |
| 9:30 – 10:30 am EST | Benjamin Lipton | The ABC’s of AEDP: Acronyms to get you started or keep you on track … read more |
| 10:30 – 11:30 am EST | Gul Dolen | Keynote # 1: Neuroscience, Critical Periods, Psychedelics Research … read more |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 pm EST | Panel: Diana Fosha, Kari Gleiser, Lauren Lebow and Gul Dolen | Panel discussion … read more |
| 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm EST | Lunch | Connect with a friend, find a companion at the Lunch Buddy table or have some quiet time. Suggestions HERE for Lunch Spots |
| 1:15 – 2:15 pm EST | Natasha Prenn | Put Deliberate Practice into your AEDP Practice … read more |
| 2:15 – 3:00 pm EST | 1. Danny Yeung 2. Gerald Brooks | Two “SHORTS” 1. Hearkening Together in One Spirit … read more 2. Black Men Do Cry … read more |
| 3:00 – 3:30 pm EST | Break | Snacks and soft drinks available on main level and balcony. |
| 3:30 – 4:20 pm EST | 1. Kate Halliday & Andrea Northwood 2. Yuval Moses | Two “SHORTS” 1. Championing and Celebrating the True Self … read more 2. In Defense of Defenses … read more |
| 4:20 – 5:20 pm EST | Sigal Bahat | Pressing One’s Edges – Core State … read more |
| 5:20 – 5:30 pm EST | Diana Fosha | Day 1 Closing Remarks |
| 5:30 – 7:00 pm EST | Welcome Reception | Appetizers, Cocktails & Mocktails, Mingling in “The Ritz” on the lobby level of Webster Hall |
| Visit the bookstore on your break and throughout the day! |
Full Conference Schedule: [Day two Saturday April 5]
If you are participating Online login starts at 8:30- make sure you have logged into zoom using the same email address that you registered for the conference with.
| Full Conference Schedule: [Day 2, Saturday April 5] | ||
| Time | Presenter(s) | Topic |
| 8:00–8:45 AM EST | BREAKFAST | Enjoy a nice breakfast, find your seat! |
| 8:45–9:00 AM EST | Ben Medley | Welcome, housekeeping, logistics. |
| 9:00–9:10 AM EST | Hello from our Regional Communities | Undoing aloneness in different languages |
| 9:10–10:00 AM EST | Vision Collective Panel | Transforming Racialized Trauma: Black belonging in AEDP…rread more |
| 10:00–10:30 AM EST | Break | Snacks and soft drinks available on main level and balcony. |
| 10:30–11:30 AM EST | Ben Medley | Navigating differences in social experiences in the therapeutic dyad using the Triangle of Social Experience…read more |
| 11:30–12:30 PM EST | Eileen Russell | When Empathy and Authenticity Collide in AEDP…read more |
| 12:30–1:45 PM EST | Lunch | Connect with a friend, find a companion at the Lunch Buddy table or have some quiet time. Suggestions HERE for Lunch Spots |
| 1:45–2:45 PM EST | Kari Kleiser, Mark Green., Emily Bilbao and Liz Perkins | Undoing Aloneness in Intra-relational Interpersonal and Trans Personal Realms with AEDP and Psychedelics… read more |
| 2:45–3:45 PM EST | Shigeru Iwakabe | 16 Session AEDP & the AEDP Research Project: bridging the clinician researcher divide…read more |
| 3:45–4:00 PM EST | Break | Snacks and soft drinks available on main level and balcony. |
| 4:00–5:30 PM EST | Diana Fosha, PhD with Trisha Bell, Facilitated by Andrew Joseph | Keynote 2: Tell the Deep I’m New Freedom and Transformation in Connection…read more |
| Closing for day | Closing for day | |
| Saturday night Event: Dinner Cruise: Click here | Visit the bookstore on your break and throughout the day! |
Full Conference Schedule: [Day three Sunday April 6]
If you are participating Online login starts at 8:30- make sure you have logged into zoom using the same email address that you registered for the conference with.
| Full Conference Schedule: [Day 3, Sunday April 6] | ||
| Time | Presenter (s) | Title / Topics |
| 8:00- 8:45 am EST | BREAKFAST | Enjoy a nice breakfast, find your seat! |
| 8:45– 9:00 am EST | Ben Medley | Welcome, housekeeping, logistics. |
| 9:00-10:00 am EST | Kari Gleiser and Jason Trowbridge | Feeling in Synch: Core state accelerates integration in patients with dissociative parts…read more |
| 10:00-11:05 am EST | 1.Jaquie Perman 2.Heather Sanford 3.Kev Kokoska | Three “Shorts” 1. AEDP Reaches out in Zimbabwe…read more 2. Maximizing the Transformational Power of AEDP: Using Groups in the Community Mental Health Setting…read more 3. Responses To Constraint: Relational Prisms in Prisons…read more |
| 11:05 -11:35 am EST | Break | Snacks and soft drinks available on main level and balcony. |
| 11:35 -12:35 pm EST | Jerry Lamagna | When therapy gets stuck: Addressing therapeutic impasses in AEDP treatment… read more |
| 12:35 -1:35 pm EST | Karen Pando Mars | Flavors of Relational Work Across Attachment Patterns…read more |
| 1:35 -2:00 pm EST | Diana Fosha | Closing remarks. |
| THANK YOU! |
Special Post-Conference Event for Online Attendees Only
I’m also delighted to invite you to join me and special guests for an exclusive post-conference gathering on Tuesday, April 8th, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM EST. INFORMATION WILL BE GIVEN AT THE CONFERENCE