AEDP® Essential Skills April 2025
Nickname: Northern Cross
Presented by AEDP™ Institute Faculty
Five 4 -day Modules
Starting April 11, 2025- January 12, 2026
Live Online & Highly Interactive
Take your Skills to the Next Level
Participants emerge from Essential Skills with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to “do” AEDP.
Description
AEDP Essential Skills provides practical skills for the application of AEDP as well as a thorough immersion in the theory underlying the practice.
In each module AEDP skills are introduced with their theoretical foundations and with illustrations by way of clinical videotapes. Skills are then practiced in small group experiential exercises. Experiential practice time makes up roughly 40% of the course.
- Module 1: Healing from the Get-Go: a Clinical Roadmap for the AEDP Transformational Journey
- Module 2: Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action
- Module 3: State 1: The Top of the Triangle of Experience Working with Defense and Anxiety
- Module 4: State 2 Work: The Processing of Core Affective Experience
- Module 5: State 3 & State 4 Work: The Processing of Transformational Experience & The Integration of Transformation into Self
Hallmarks of Training
Faculty, experiential assistants and clinical video. These are the hallmarks of AEDP training. In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and deeply we seek to both undo professional aloneness and engage in rigorous clinical teaching. Our faculty are excellent as academics, clinicians and teachers.
Prerequisites
Essential skills is open to all licensed mental health practitioners who have completed the Immersion Course – see course pages for more details. This course is a prerequisite for the Advanced Skills training. While it counts toward certification, you don’t need to be pursuing certification to attend.
Target Audience
This program was developed for members of a licensed profession: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Work, Marriage and Family Counselors, Counselors, Art Therapists, Psychiatrists, Nursing, Medicine, Addiction Counselors.
Course Objectives, Agenda & CE Information
Presented by H. Jacquie Ye-Perman, PhD.
Healing from the Get-Go, Undoing Aloneness & the Clinical Roadmap for the AEDP Transformation Journey
Module 1 lays the groundwork for AEDP by establishing its essential foundations. This session highlights two core principles: “healing from the get-go” and “undoing aloneness.” Additionally, the AEDP 4-State Transformational Model is introduced—the guiding framework for understanding the therapeutic process.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Demonstrate moment-to-moment tracking.
Describe how transformance, a central construct in AEDP psychotherapy, drives positive change.
Explain the AEDP 4-State Transformational Model and cite each of the 4 states.
Describe the concept of ‘undoing aloneness’ and how it gets put into practice in the relational co-creation of safety.
Explain the vitality affects of transformative change which occurs during therapy.
Role-play “meta-therapeutic” processing from a client’s perspective.
Day 1
12:00 – 12:30
I: Module 1 Course Overview and Orientation
12:30 – 2:15
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
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
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
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review from Day 1 and Role-play
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:00
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
2:00 – 2:15
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
- 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
2:00 – 2:15
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience
Day 3
12:00 – 12:30
I: Review Day 2 and Overview of Day 3
12:30 – 2:15
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
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
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
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review Prior Day Learning
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:00
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
2:00 – 2:15
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing
Presented by Richard Harrison, PhD.
Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action
Module 2 examines the AEDP fundamental commitment to a relational stance and the experiential exploration of here-and-now relational experience, deeply rooted in attachment theory. Particular emphasis is placed on the crucial role of receptive affective experience within the therapeutic relationship.
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OBJECTIVES
Analyze how attachment history influences emotional experience and sense of self.
Implement the Self-Other-Emotion Triangle as a framework for designing appropriate relational interventions.
Choose and demonstrate relational interventions based on the client’s position within the Self-Other-Emotion Triangle.
Demonstrate how to effectively embody the AEDP stance of explicit care and compassion for the client.
Identify and distinguish between receptive affective experiences and the defensive mechanisms that block them.
Day 1
12:00 – 12:30
I: Module 2 Course Overview and Orientation
Assess client attachment styles and design tailored therapeutic interventions appropriate to each style.
12:30 – 2:15
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
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
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
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review from Day 1 and Role-play
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:00
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
2:00 – 2:15
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience
Day 3
12:00 – 12:30
I: Review Day 2 and Overview of Day 3
12:30 – 2:15
II: Attachment & Relational Work Continued
- Relational Strategies: Establishing Safety
- Creation of a Safe Emotional Holding Environment and Secure Attachment
- Active Emotional Engagement With Client
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
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
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review Prior Day Learning
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:00
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
2:00 – 2:15
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
Assess client attachment styles and design tailored therapeutic interventions appropriate to each style.
Analyze how attachment history influences emotional experience and sense of self.
Implement the Self-Other-Emotion Triangle as a framework for designing appropriate relational interventions.
Choose and demonstrate relational interventions based on the client’s position within the Self-Other-Emotion Triangle.
Demonstrate how to effectively embody the AEDP stance of explicit care and compassion for the client.
Identify and distinguish between receptive affective experiences and the defensive mechanisms that block them.
Presented by Kate Halliday, LCSW.
The Top of the Triangle of Experience Working with Defense and Anxiety
Module 3 focuses on defense work and anxiety regulation in AEDP practice. It examines defenses and techniques for melting, bypassing, and restructuring them. Additionally, the module explores the nature of anxiety, its origins, and techniques for working with and regulating it.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Demonstrate specific intervention strategies for reducing defenses and anxiety in clinical settings.
Explain the components and function of the AEDP Triangle of Experience.
Differentiate between various types of defense mechanisms within the AEDP framework.
Evaluate the costs and benefits of defense mechanisms and analyze their therapeutic consequences.
Apply specific interventions designed to soften and bypass client defenses.
Relate the AEDP Self-at-Best versions of the triangle and apply them to case conceptualization.
Select and utilize multiple AEDP-specific interventions to reduce client anxiety.
Day 1
12:00 – 12:30
I: Course Overview and Orientation
12:30 – 2:15
II: Working with Defense and Anxiety
- Triangle of Experience – the AEDP Central Representational Schema and its Categories
- Defense
- Anxiety
- Core Affective Experience
- Self-at-Worst and Self-at-Best Versions of the Triangle
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
IV: Working with Defense and Anxiety – Continued
- Defining Defenses
- Types of Defenses
- Function of Defenses
- AEDP Techniques for Softening Defenses; Bypassing Defenses; Putting Defenses to the Side
- The Somatic Experience of Defense
- Using Parts Work
- Cost/benefit Analysis of Defenses and Their Consequences
- Relinquishing the Defenses
- Bypassing Defenses
- The Protective/Adaptive Nature of Defenses
- Affirming Defenses and the Important Role They Played in the Past
- Restructuring Defenses
Day 2
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review Prior Day Learning and Role-play
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:15
III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Therapist/Client Role Play to Practice the Following Skills:
- Interventions to Reduce or Bypass Defenses
- Defense Restructuring
Day 3
12:00 – 12:30
I: Working With Defense and Anxiety – Review of Day 2 and Overview of Day 3
12:30 – 2:15
II: STATE 1: The top of the Triangle of the Experience: Working With Defense and Anxiety – Continued
- Defining Anxiety
- Implicit Origins of Anxiety
- The Signal Function of Anxiety
- Anxiety in the Mind and Body
- Voicing Anxiety
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
IV: STATE 1: The Top of the Triangle of the Experience: Working With Defense and Anxiety – Continued
- Defense Combined With Anxiety
- Dysregulation
- Undoing Aloneness
- Social Engagement as a Way to Reduce Fear and Anxiety
- Self-Regulation
- New Experience That Emerges When Anxiety Decreases
Day 4
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review Prior Day Learning
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:15
III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Therapist/Client Role Play to Practice Interventions for Regulating Anxiety
Presented by Ben Medley, LCSW
The Processing of Core Affective Experience
Module 4 explores core affective experience and the process of working through emotions to completion. It differentiates between various types of affective experiences while highlighting portrayals as a key technique for deep emotional processing.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Identify 3 different types of portrayals used to process core affective experience.
Identify the different kinds of core affective experiences and different kind of experiential processing that can be used to work with them.
Utilize moment-to-moment tracking, a foundational AEDP skill, to assess the client’s experience State 2 therapeutic interventions, and their effectiveness.
Describe and process a core affective experience to completion, or to a corrective emotional experience.
Define the technique of “portrayal” and describe its clinical uses in facilitating the processing of affective experiences to completion.
Day 1
12:00 – 12:30
I: Course Overview and Orientation
12:30 – 2:15
II: The Processing of Core Affective Experience
- Defining Core Affective Experience in AEDP
- Types of Core Affective Experience in AEDP
- Goals
- Deepening the Emotional Experience
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
IV: The Processing of Core Affective Experience continued
- Therapeutic Tasks
- Corrective Emotional Experience Patterns and Defenses
- AEDP Techniques for Emotion Processing
- Processing Emotions to Completion and Developing New Perspectives and Emotional Responses
- Assessing the Client’s Experience
Day 2
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review of Day 1 and Overview of Day 2
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:00
III: Small Group (Quad) Experiential Exercises
Participants Will Roleplay:
- Creating an environment where clients can have new emotional experiences
- Deepening the emotional experience
- Processing core affective experiences (e.g., anger, sadness, fear, joy, guilt; relational experience of attachment/connection, true self states, etc.) to completion
2:00 – 2:15
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience
Day 3
12:00 – 12:30
I: Review of Day 2 and Overview of Day 3
12:30 – 2:15
II: Portrayals
- Defining the technique of Using a Portrayal in the Therapy Session
- Types of Portrayals in AEDP and Guidelines
- How to Initiate a Portrayal: Steps and Entry Points
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
IV: Portrayals – Continued
- Using Portrayals to Process Emotion (anger, fear, grief)
- Inner Child Work Portrayals
- Intra-Relational Portrayals
- When the Portrayal Involves Aggression or Violent Impulses
- Markers of Completion
- Assessing the Client’s Experience
Day 4
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review Prior Day Learning
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:00
III: The Participant Will Choose a Portrayal to Work on; Grief, Reparative, Anger and Role-Play How to:
- Set up the portrayal
- Stay with the client’s emerging feelings
- Deepen the emotional experience
- Encourage and validate the experience
- Process the portrayal to completion
2:00 – 2:15
IV: Break
2:15 – 3:45
V: Small Group Experiential Exercises / Role-Plays Continued
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing of Role-play experience
Presented by Ronald J. Frederick, PhD.
The Processing of Transformational Experience & The Integration of Transformation into Self
Module 5 weaves together the methodology of metatherapeutic processing while simultaneously using these concepts to explore the group’s own transformational journey throughout the ES1 course. Through this parallel process, participants experience firsthand the very phenomena they are learning to facilitate, allowing for a deeper integration of course concepts.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Use moment-to-moment tracking to assess the client’s experience of the effectiveness of AEDP therapeutic interventions.
Apply the 4 state map of AEDP as a framework for processing the full range of affects
Describe transformational affects in AEDP that lead to transformative change to maximize patient’s healing.
Demonstrate how to help a client develop a new working model of secure attachment and relational capacity.
Describe how to facilitate state transformations.
Describe how transformance is the overarching motivational force driving positive change and assess markers of transformation in the client.
AGENDA
Day 1
12:00 – 12:30
I: Module 5 Overview
12:30 – 2:15
II: The Processing of Transformational Experience & the Integration of Transformation – Part 1
- The AEDP State 4 Map
- Meta-therapeutic Processing / Big “M” and Little “m” Meta-processing
- Focusing on “What went right.” in the new, emergent, adaptive, “better” experience of the therapeutic process
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
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
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review Prior Day Learning
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:15
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
2:15 – 2:30
IV: Break
2:30 – 3:45
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
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing of Roleplay Experience
Day 3
12:00 – 12:30
I: Overview
12:30 – 2:15
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
2:15 – 2:30
III: Break
2:30 – 4:30
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
12:00 – 12:55
I: Review Prior Day Learning
12:55 – 1:00
II: Directions for Experiential Exercises
1:00 – 2:15
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
2:15 – 2:30
IV: Break
2:30 – 3:45
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
3:45 – 4:30
VI: Large Group Processing of Roleplay experience
Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, Module 4, Module 5 are each eligible for: 17 Continuing Education Hours for a total of 85 hours
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Meet the Presenters
Ronald J. Frederick, PhD
Kate Halliday, LCSW
Richard Harrison, PhD
Ben Medley, LCSW
H. Jacquie Ye-Perman, PhD
Dates, Times & Setting
Participants must commit to all five modules
Please check all dates and times closely for conflicts with local holidays, religious holidays, etc.
Dates and Presenters
Module 1 | April 11- April 14 2025 | Jacquie Ye Perman, PhD
Module 2 | May 30 – June 2, 2025 | Richard Harrison, PhD
Module 3 | August 22 – 25, 2025 | Kate Halliday, LCSW
Module 4 | October 17 – 20, 2025 | Ben Medley, LCSW
Module 5 | January 9 – 12, 2026 | Ronald Frederick, PhD
Times
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12:00 – 4:30 PM EST
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Payment Plan
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Must be Level 1: a graduate of Immersion with the licensing credentials listed below.
Licensing Credentials
North America: Licensed mental health practitioners as well as therapists practicing under the license of a supervising professional.
Beyond North America: Mental health professionals who hold licensure equivalent to North American standards including ongoing affiliation with an organization responsible for issuing and overseeing mental health credentials in their country or region.
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By adhering to these policies, we aim to ensure a fair and consistent approach to cancellations, refunds, and transfer requests.
Canceling 16 or More Days Before a Course or Seminar:
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We will never sell your information to anyone.
We may also use this information in aggregate form in various ways; for example, to help us evaluate and modify existing services, and to help us develop additional services and training courses that are likely to interest other therapy professionals. The AEDP Institute may do research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files, and from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users.
Under confidentiality agreements, the AEDP Institute may share this aggregated data—not your personal information—with advertisers or business partners. Also, the AEDP Institute may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
With whom will we share this information? We will share your email with companies that assist in fulfilling our Listserve. We allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services, such as technical maintenance, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide you with those services. Any third party that has access to our database for this purpose is bound by the terms set forth in this policy.
If you opt in on the email form, we may share your personal information that we collect online with our current or future affiliated companies and with select third parties that may email you information or special offerings about products or services that we believe may interest you. It is your choice to allow us to disclose your personal information to third parties for this purpose, and your choice will not affect the cost of your service. This free choice also applies to personal information that we collect from you offline, and you can choose not to have information shared by us with third parties for marketing by calling, writing, or emailing us.
In any event, please note that we do not hold and will not share your credit card information for any purposes purposes. Finally, we may be required to disclose personal information by law or legal process, to protect and defend the rights or property of the AEDP Institute, or to protect the personal safety of our website users and customers. We reserve the right to contact appropriate authorities when activities that are illegal or violate our policies are taking place on our website.
How do we protect this information? We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access through the use of encryption and network firewalls. We also safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access by limiting the number of employees permitted to access such information and by having in place processes for disciplinary action where appropriate. However, as effective as these measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. We do not store credit card information in any form.
What non-personal information will we collect? In some instances, our site may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable, as described below.
Cookies . We may collect certain non-personal information through the use of “cookies” — small text files placed on your hard drive that recognize repeat visitors, facilitate ongoing access to the site, and allow the site to understand how and when pages are visited and by how many people. We use cookies primarily to make improvements and updates to our site based on which areas are popular and which are not. Cookies also make web-surfing easier by saving your passwords and preferences when you visit our site. Most browsers are designed to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies; however, some parts of our site may be considerably slower if you do so.
Internet Protocol Addresses. An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. If you request pages from this site, our server will enter your IP address into a log. We may use this information to measure site traffic for purposes of system administration. This information generally is not linked to any personal information, but in some cases, it may be possible to contact a user through his or her IP address. Although it is not our policy to attempt such contact, and we do not to release this information to third parties, we reserve the right to use this information to identify and, when appropriate, prosecute anyone who threatens our service, site, customers, and/or others. We also may release logged information to comply with any legal process.
What about kids? We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.
External Links . Our website may provide links to various websites that we do not control. When you click on one of these links, you will be transferred from our site and connected to the website of the organization or company that you selected. Even if an affiliation exists between this site and another site, we exercise no control over linked sites. Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy and data-collection policies and procedures. If you visit a website that is linked to this site, you should consult that site’s privacy policy before providing that site with any of your personal information.
Terms, Changes and Questions. By providing personal information through this website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our privacy policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not disclose any personal information through this site.
You will be responsible for all charges, if any, incurred while your account is being used, including payment for any goods or services.
This website service is available “as is.” We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We are not responsible for the availability or content of other services that may be linked to from this website. We do not make any warranties, express or implied with respect to this website service. We reserve the right to correct any errors or omissions. Although we take reasonable steps to prevent the introduction of viruses, worms, “Trojan horses,” or other destructive materials to this service, we do not guarantee or warrant that this service or materials that may be downloaded from this service do not contain such destructive features.
Technology on the Internet is developing at a rapid pace, and we need to maintain our flexibility in the online arena. If we need to change our policy in the future, we will post these changes as soon as they go into effect.
If you have any questions or comments about this policy or our use of personal information, please contact us. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly investigate any complaint you may have regarding our use of personal information or this website’s function.
Anonymous Suggestions or Grievances
To make an anonymous suggestion or file an anonymous grievance, please click here. Note that the system allows for you to include your email address if you want to engage with the Institute anonymously.
ADA
Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact Marilia Rodriguez, admin@aedpinstitute.org or call 813-553-1294 thirty days or more before the event so we can be sure to accommodate you.
Questions
Please contact Customer Service Administrator
Marilia Rodriguez
admin@aedpinstitute.org
813-553-1294
Office Hours: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern (USA)