Essential Skills Agenda: Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action | 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EST
Day 1
11:00 – 11:30 I: Module 2 Course Overview and Orientation
11:30 – 1:15 II: Attachment & Relational Work
- How Attachment History Informs Emotional Experience and Sense of Self
- Attachment Styles/States
- Building Emotional Safety and Secure Attachment in Therapy
- Co-Created Safety
1:15 – 1:30 III: Break
1:30 – 3:30 IV: Attachment & Relational Work (continued)
- Using the Present Moment Experience of the Therapeutic Relationship as a Healing Tool
- Authenticity, Self-Disclosure and Therapist True Self as Interventions
- Learning to Recognize and Work With “Relational affects”
- Self-Other-Emotion Triangle, as a Framework for Guiding Relational Interventions
Day 2
11:00 – 11:55 I: Review from Day 1 and Role-play
11:55 – 12:00 II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
12:00 – 1:00 III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises Therapist/Client Role Play to Practice the Following Skills:
- Track Emergent Emotions, Sensations, Feelings, in Both Yourself and Your Patient
- Making the Process Relational – Using the “We” Language
1:00 – 1:15 IV: Break
1:15 – 2:45 V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
2:45 – 3:30 VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience
Day 3
11:00 – 11:30 I: Review Day 2 and Overview of Day 3
11:30 – 1:15 II: Attachment & Relational Work Continued
- Relational Strategies: Establishing Safety
- Creation of a Safe Emotional Holding Environment and Secure Attachment
- Active Emotional Engagement With Client
1:15 – 1:30 III: Break
1:30 – 3:30 IV: Attachment & Relational Work Continued
- Provision of Corrective Emotional Experiences: Empathy, Validation, Affirmation, Rupture/Repair/Re-Coordination Sequences
- Interventions Associated With Intense, Frightening, Aversive Life Events
Day 4
11:00 – 11:55 I: Review Prior Day Learning
11:55 – 12:00 II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
12:00 – 1:00 III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
- Self-Disclose Something About Your Experience of Your Patient in the Moment
- The Patient’s Experience of Therapeutic Processes
1:00 – 1:15 IV: Break
1:15 – 2:45 V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
2:45 – 3:30 VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience