Essential Skills: Module 5 State 3 and 4: The Processing of Transformational Experience & The Integration of Transformation into Self
11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EST
Day 1
11:00 – 11:30 I: Module 5 Overview
11:30 – 1:15 II: The Processing of Transformational Experience & the Integration of Transformation – Part 1. —The AEDP state 4 Map Metatherapeutic Processing / Big “M” and little “m” Metaprocessing —Focusing on “What went right.” in the new, emergent, adaptive, “better” experience of the therapeutic process
1:15 – 1:30 III: Break
1:30 – 3:30 IV: The Processing of Transformational Experience & and the Integration of Transformation – Part 2 —Detailed exploration of the phenomenology of States 3 and 4 —Defining the neurobiological Core Self —Description of the 6 transformational affects in AEDP —Experiential processing of the experience of change for the better —Exploration of the Transformational Spiral between experience and reflection on experience
Day 2
11:00 – 11:55 I: Review Prior Day Learning
11:55 – 12:00 II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
12:00 – 1:15 III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises Therapist/Client Roleplay to practice the following skills: how to track what is happening moment to moment, how to regulate anxiety and soften/bypass defenses in the client, how to apply skills of metaprocessing to process and encode in memory what just happened in the session.
1:15 – 1:30 IV: Break
1:30 – 2:45 V: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises Therapist/Client Roleplay to practice the following skills: how to track what is happening moment to moment, how to regulate anxiety and soften/bypass defenses in the client, how to apply skills of metaprocessing to process and encode in memory what just happened in the session.
2:45 – 3:30 VI: Large Group Processing of Roleplay experience
Day 3
11:00 – 11:30 I: Overview
11:30 – 1:15 II: Bringing It All Together: Reviewing and Metaprocessing Together What Was Learned. Part 1 —AEDP Therapist Stance —AEDP 4 State Map and state specific phenomenology and therapeutic tasks —Transformance, the overarching motivational force driving positive change. —Moment-to-Moment Tracking —Experiential work with Attachment —Making the Implicit Explicit —Going Beyond Mirroring —Defense Restructuring by bypassing and softening defenses —Undoing Aloneness
1:15 – 1:30 III: Break
1:30 – 3:30 IV: Bringing It All Together: Reviewing and Metaprocessing Together What Was Learned. Part 2 —Processing affective experiences to completion —Attending to and making use of somatic experience —Recognizing and working with Pathogenic Affects —Portrayals —Intra-relational AEDP parts work —Facilitating and tracking state transformations —Metaprocessing, both ‘M” and “m” —Facilitating the Transformational Spiral —Recognize the essential therapeutic value of the therapists’ receptive affective capacity, i.e. ability to receive and process client’s gratitude
Day 4
11:00 – 11:55 I: Review Prior Day Learning
11:55 – 12:00 II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
12:00 – 1:15 III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises Therapist/Client Roleplay to consolidate learning from entire course by practicing 3 or more of the following skills learned throughout the course: —Embodying AEDP Stance —Moment-to-Moment Tracking across 4 State Map —Identifying Experiential Target —Making Implicit Explicit —Softening Defenses —Regulating Anxiety —Somatic Attunement and Resonance —Processing State 2 Core Experiences —Facilitating a portrayal —Metaprocessing State 2 Experiences —Facilitating a Transformational Spiral —Expanding upon Therapist’s Receptive Affective Capacity to receive and experientially process gratitude
1:15 – 1:30 IV: Break
1:30 – 2:45 V: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises Therapist/Client Roleplay to consolidate learning from entire course by practicing 3 or more of the following skills learned throughout the course: —Embodying AEDP Stance —Moment-to-Moment Tracking across 4 State Map —Identifying Experiential Target —Making Implicit Explicit —Softening Defenses —Regulating Anxiety —Somatic Attunement and Resonance —Processing State 2 Core Experiences —Facilitating a Portrayal —Metaprocessing State 2 Experiences —Facilitating a Transformational Spiral —Expanding upon Therapist’s Receptive Affective Capacity to receive and experientially process gratitude
2:45 – 3:30 VI: Large Group Processing of Roleplay experience