Essential Skills Agenda: Module 1 | Healing from the Get-Go, Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap for the AEDP Transformation Journey
9:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET


Day 1
9:00 – 9:30
AM
I: Module 1 Course Overview and Orientation

9:30 – 11:15 AM
II: Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP

  • The Capacity for Secure Attachment
  • Transformance
  • The Vitality Affects of Transformance
  • Detecting Transformance
  • Undoing Aloneness & Co-Creating Safety Relationally
  • Dyadic Affect Regulation; Presence, Emotional Engagement, Accessibility, Responsiveness
  • Co-Regulation


11:15 – 11:30 AM
III: Break

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
IV: Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP (continued)

  • Review from Immersion: The AEDP Therapeutic Stance: Welcome, Empathy, Affirmation, Explicit Recognition, Cultural Humility
  • “Metaprocessing”


Day 2

9:00 – 9:55 AM
I: Review from Day 1 and Role-play

9:55 – 10:00 AM
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises

10:00 – 11:00 AM
III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Therapist/Client Role play to practice the following skills:

  • AEDP Stance of Affirmation
  • Transformance Detection
  • Moment-to-Moment Tracking of the therapeutic Process
  • Staying with the Client’s Emotional Experience – Processing emotions to completion

11:00 – 11:15 AM
IV: Break

11:15 AM– 12:45 PM
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued

12:45 – 1:30 PM
VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience



Day 3

9:00 – 9:30 AM
I: Review Day 2 and Overview of Day 3

9:30 – 11:15 AM
II: Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP (continued)

  • “Meta-processing” as an intervention as a basic tool – continued
  • The AEDP 4 State Process
  • Building a Strong and Trusting Therapeutic Alliance
  • Facilitating the Transformation of Emotional Experiences
  • Developing Resilience and a Stronger Sense of Self


11:15 – 11:30 AM
III: Break

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
IV: Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap of AEDP (continued)

  • Language for AEDP Intervention and Cultural humility
  • Slowing Down as an Intervention
  • Working Experientially
  • Experiential Protocol; Language, Interventions and Anxiety Regulation
  • Attunement: Tracking Patient’s Verbal and Non-Verbal, Moment-to-Moment Communications and its Benefits

Day 4

9:00 – 9:55 AM
I: Review Prior Day Learning

9:55 – 10:00 AM
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises

10:00 – 11:00 AM
III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises

  • Participants will role-play how to apply skills of slowing down and moment-to-moment tracking for assessing the client’s experience
  • Participants will role-play how to apply skills of using the intentionally experiential language of AEDP interventions for regulating anxiety
  • Participants will role-play meta-processing
  • Participants will role-play interventions based on the AEDP 4 States


11:00 – 11:15
AM
IV: Break

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued

12:45 – 1:30 PM
VI: Large Group Processing