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AEDP for Couples Hybrid Course: Immersion + Essential Skills • July 2016

Retreat Style 5-Day Course

At the Columbia School of Social Work, New York, NY

July 11 – 15, 2016

 

 

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This new AEDP for Couples course is a five-day, retreat style course that is a hybrid of our “traditional” Immersion and Essential Skills courses. This intensive course is designed to introduce this method that often leads to fast transformation of the internal working model of couples. The skill sets necessary to practice AEDP for Couples will be introduced with theoretical foundations and videotape illustrations in the morning, followed by group experiential exercises in the afternoon.

AEDP for Couples harnesses powerful biological drives to heal. The method, guided by the AEDP model, incorporates attachment research and Polyvagal theory. It creates a somatic holding of each of the couple members through the Seven Channels of Experience: Sensation, Emotion, Energetic, Movement, Auditory, Visual and Imaginal. From this place of safety, new experiences of love – and the longing to be loved – emerge and guide both the therapist and the couple to transformation.

The course will be co-taught by beloved teachers David Mars, Ph.D. and Karen Pando-Mars, MFT both senior faculty of the AEDP Institute. David Mars is the developer of AEDP for Couples.

In addition to presenting the theory and practice of AEDP for Couples this course will provide experiential exercises including small group supervision to help participants somatically track and affectively regulate two people at a time in couple treatment. Our goal is to equip therapists to effectively treat couples with greater confidence, enjoyment and ease.

Course Objectives: Participants will learn how to

  • Distinguish the four states of AEDP in couple treatment
  • Identify three ways to reduce defenses to build an atmosphere of safety
  • Detect and follow the healthiest aspects of each couple member
  • Demonstrate skills to regulate emotional reactivity in each couple member
  • Define and be able to regulate at least three early signs of dorsal vagal response (Porges’ Polyvagal Theory)
  • Utilize methods to assist couple members to process emotional experience to completion
  • Apply three types of healing portrayals to treat trauma in couple treatment
  • Recognize and use each of the Seven Channels of Experience (Sensation, Emotion, Energetic, Movement, Auditory, Visual and Imaginal)

Further Objectives: By the end of this program participants will be able to:

  • Recognize and facilitate the AEDP Four State model of transformation in the context of couple treatment.
  • Navigate defenses and anxiety to build an atmosphere for sharing regulated affective experiences in couples treatment.
  • Detect and follow transformance drives and selectively amplify positive affective experiences between the couple members.
  • Expand each partner’s receptive affective capacity.
  • Broaden the window of affect tolerance by addressing both deactivating (avoidant) and hyperactivating (anxious/ambivalent) attachment strategies.
  • Recognize and regulate the early signs of dorsal vagal response (Porges’ Polyvagal Theory) and dissociation related to unresolved trauma.
  • Help each couple member process emotional experience to completion in the presence of and accompanied by his or her partner.
  • Facilitate a range of healing portrayals to treat the trauma that underlies the stuckness and reactivity in each couples’ patterning.
  • Metaprocess change moments through all Seven Channels of Experience (Mars) to help transform each couple member’s internal working model to integrate and stabilize gains.

The clinical video featured each day will include heterosexual and same-sex couples in treatment for the following:

  • Chronic Dissociation and Distancing
  • Sexual abuse and neglect
  • Hot and Cold Conflict including the threat of divorce
  • Addiction issues
  • Infidelity
  • Sexual dysfunction

Meet the Trainers:

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Course Location

Columbia School of Social Work in NYC
1255 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10027

Other Things You May Need to Know

Local Accommodation Recommendations:

(The Excelsior is experiencing some difficulty with the discount savings on their website, to receive the discount, please contact the hotel directly to book you reservation)

Fee and Credits

  • $1,399
  • $50 discount for AEDP Institute Members
Register Now!

Course size limited to 64 participants.

Questions about this Training?

Contact Us

Accreditations:

This event is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Psychologists
R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. (32.5) hours.

Social Workers
R. Cassidy Seminars, ACE provider #1082, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program. Approval Period: April 15, 2015-April 15, 2018. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive 32.5 continuing education clock hours.

CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers
NJ: This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #31 Course #683 from 03/30/2016 to 03/30/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 32.5  
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is approved for 32.5 contact hours live
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (32.5) clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.
Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure. The Ohio Board includes Counselors and MFTs.
IL: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141.  (32.5) hours.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (32.5) clock hours, #RCST110701
TX: Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. Provider #151 (32.5) CE hours.

Disability Access – If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 10 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

Grievance Procedure: “If you are not completely satisfied with this seminar and wish to withdraw from the program, just notify our onsite staff of your intention to leave prior to the first morning break and we will mail you 100% of your registration fee – no questions asked. ”For complaints received after the completion of the event our customer service department will:

1. note the complaint in the participants file
2. offer a credit to a future event or a refund
3. notify the CE Coordinator of the complaint

The CE Coordinator will take necessary action to prevent future dissatisfaction
Participants of approved continuing education courses by The New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiners have the option to appeal to the Board if an attendee is displeased with the results of the process. Phone: 973-504-6495.

AEDP Institute Refund and Cancellation Policy: If you wish to withdraw from the Hybrid-Immersion/Essential Skills Course, you must do so in writing. Full amount, less a $100 administrative fee, is refundable if written notice of withdrawal is received by the AEDP Institute 60 or more calendar days before the program begins. If you withdraw 30 to 59 calendar days before the program begins, the tuition fee paid will be refunded less a $500 fee. This $500 fee can be transferred to another AEDP Institute organized program and must be used within 18 months of withdrawal or else it is forfeited. The full tuition is forfeited if written notice of withdrawal is received less than 30 calendar days prior to the start of the course or if withdrawal occurs after the program begins.

Program Cancellation/Changes: The AEDP Institute reserves the right to cancel a program prior to its start, in which case a full refund will be issued to participants for any tuition fees paid for the course. The AEDP Institute is not responsible for any non-refundable attendee expenses/fees (such as travel, hotel arrangements) associated with the course. In the rare situation that the AEDP Institute needs to make changes to an advertised faculty presenter or course module, tuition fees will not be refunded.

Immersion Course • 2016 • New York City

SOLD OUT!

REGISTRATION CLOSED – WAITLIST OPEN: We would be happy to add your name to the wait list. Please email Carrie at admin@beta.aedpinstitute.org.

There are still a few seats available in Durham, N.C. at the tranquil and beautiful Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, June 20-24, 2016. Learn More and Register Here

 

AEDP Immersion in New York City
July 25th – July 29th, 2016

The Dyadic Repair of Attachment Trauma:
Healing at the Edge of Transformational Experience

Diana Fosha, Ph.D.
with members of the AEDP Institute Faculty

at the Columbia School of Social Work

This 5-Day Immersion Course in AEDP is intended for practitioners interested in AEDP, in its transformational theory, and in exploring its applications to the treatment of attachment trauma. Our focus is on AEDP and the theory and practice informing AEDP work at the edge of healing experience to repair attachment trauma. Making extensive use of clinical videotapes of actual therapy sessions, the aim of this course is to foster proficiency in the practice of AEDP, as well as facilitate its integration into clinical practices that make use of other experiential, body-focused, trauma-based, relational and/or psychodynamic methods.

Click here to learn more about the AEDP Immersion course.

Course Fee and CE Credits

Fee: $1,399
Early Bird Savings: $1299 paid in full (offer expires May 20, 2016)
An early bird savings of $100 is available until May 20, 2016 if tuition is paid in full at the time of registration.

There is no student rate as the course is intended for practicing clinicians who have completed their post-graduate professional training.

CE Credits: This program is eligible for 32.5 CE Hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars. To view the CE accreditation statement click here.  CE Credits are included in the course fee.

For our cancellation/refund policy click here.

Course size is limited to 85 participants and our Immersion Course almost always sells out.  We recommend early registration to ensure your spot!

Course Location

Columbia School of Social Work in NYC
1255 Amsterdam Ave
(between 121st and 122nd Streets)
New York, NY 10027
Course Room: 311 & 312

SOLD OUT!

REGISTRATION CLOSED – WAITLIST OPEN: We would be happy to add your name to the wait list. Please email Carrie at admin@beta.aedpinstitute.org.

There are still a few seats available in Durham, N.C. at the tranquil and beautiful Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, June 20-24, 2016. Learn More and Register Here

Questions about this course?

Email us or call 866-992-9399 x105.

 

Core Training • 2015-2016 • New York

with Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA

Weekend 1: September 26-27, 2015

Weekend 2: November 7-8, 2015

Weekend 3: January 9-10, 2016

Weekend 4: February 27-28, 2016

Weekend 5: April 9-10, 2016

Meet the Trainer:

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Training Location

The Offices of Jeanne Newhouse NCPsyA
680 West End Avenue Suite 1A
New York, NY 10025

Course Fee

  • The fee for the AEDP Couples Core Training is $3,300.
  • A $200 discount is available if you pay in full when you register.
  • The course is limited to 10 participants.
  • A one-year financial commitment is required. View our cancellation/refund policy.

Register

Continuing Education Credits

This program is eligible for 75 hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars. To view the CE accreditation statement click here. CE Credits are included in the fee.

Advanced Skills • 2015-2016 • New York

CHANGE IN VENUE: please scroll down for details.

Especially designed for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers and Counselors, AEDP Advanced Skills is aimed at practitioners with some experience of AEDP work already established. Practical in its orientation, this course focuses both on helping you (i) learn new advanced AEDP skills, and (ii) cultivate and fine-tune the AEDP skills you already have. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, specific interventions and techniques that are concrete and specific. Participants will emerge with strategies for doing AEDP with our more challenging clients. While reviewing and deepening your AEDP essential skills throughout, the Advanced Training will teach the different advanced skill sets necessary to the in-depth practice of AEDP, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes, as well as with group experiential exercises.

The AEDP Advanced Skills course aims to help you take your AEDP learning and practice to the next level. This course focuses on learning new advanced skills and reviewing, deepening and improving basic AEDP skills. You will develop more of a felt sense of how to entrain the quintessentially AEDP practice of “stay with it and stay with me” and how to keep the transformational process unfolding in all states. Learn to really “work it,” AEDP style, while troubleshooting what stands in the way of your doing so.

AEDP Institute Senior Faculty Natasha Prenn, LCSW will helm the course. As course leader she will teach Module 1 and co-teach the remaining modules with other AEDP Institute Faculty members. Experienced AEDP practitioners will assist with the experiential practices.

Please note: Essential Skills is a prerequisite for this course.

Module 1: I know What To Do – How Can I Do It Better?
Friday, October 23 – Sunday, October 25, 2015
with Natasha Prenn, LCSW, Course Leader, Senior Faculty

Module Two: Trauma, Dissociation and Fragmentation
Friday, December 4 – Sunday, December 6, 2015
with Guest Faculty: Kari Gleiser, Ph.D.

Module Three: Advanced Defense Work
Friday, February 5 – Sunday, February 7, 2016
with Guest Faculty: Karen Pando-Mars, LMFT

Module Four: Pathogenic Affects, Shame and Guilt
Friday, April 1 – Sunday, April 3, 2016
with Guest Faculty: Ben Lipton, LCSW

Module Five: Advanced Metaprocessing & Transformational Affects
Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 2016
with Guest Faculty: Jerry Lamagna, LCSW

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Training Location:

CHANGE IN VENUE: This course will NOT be held at Friends in Deed.

Advanced Skills Module III, Module IV and Module V will be held at:

Birch Family Services 
104 West 29th Street
New York, NY 10001
Course Room: Conference Rooms A & B
Fridays and Saturdays: Take elevator to 2nd floor, conference room is directly to the right.
Sundays only: Take elevator to 3rd floor, enter at Birch Family Services reception area and walk down Birch’s staircase to the 2nd floor, Conference Rooms A & B.

Registration

Full fee: $3,400
AEDP Institute Member fee: $3,350
*Pay in full to get an additional $200 off
To Register please contact Carrie at ckarmen@beta.aedpinstitute.org

Continuing Education

This event is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Psychologists; R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  R Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content.   82.5 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.

Social Workers:

R. Cassidy Seminars, ACE Provider #1082 is an approved provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. Social workers will receive 82.5 continuing education clinical social work clock hours for participating in this course.

CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.

NJ: This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #31 Course #512 from 08/26/2015 to 08/26/2017. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 82.5

N.Y.: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is approved for 82.5 contact hours live.

OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 82.5 clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/ Marriage and Family Therapists:

CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.

Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure. The Ohio Board includes Counselors and MFTs.

IL:  R. Cassidy Seminars is approved to offer continuing education to Marriage and Family Therapists by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation provider #168000141.  82.5 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.

OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 82.5 clock hours, #RCST110701

TX: R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists to provide CE offerings for MFTs.  Provider Number 151.  82.5 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.

Disability Access – If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 10 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

To see our Refund Policy or to file a Grievance, see link below:

https://aedpinstitute.org/about-aedp/aedp-institute-online-privacy-and-refund-policy/

Essential Skills • 2015-2016 • Retreat Style Course in NYC (Sold Out!)

This retreat style ES course arose in response to requests over the years from people – both in the US and throughout out the world — for whom the 5 weekends of travel a year required by the standard ES course was just not feasible.  So in response to popular demand, we now launch the Retreat-style Essential Skills course. It. will be offered in two parts over two separate weeks in New York City.

In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and  deeply we seek to both (i) undo aloneness and  (ii) engage in rigorous clinical teaching with skilled accompaniment. We are proud to say that our  ES  courses feature a high number of highly skilled assistants – and this course is no different.

AEDP Essential Skills, aimed at practitioners, will be practical. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, skill sets, concrete and specific. Different skill sets will be introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced each weekend, so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP. The basic skill sets necessary to practice AEDP will be introduced each weekend, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes and group experiential exercises in the afternoon.

Module details to follow; Ben Lipton, LCSW will helm Week 1 and Eileen M. Russell, Ph.D. will helm Week 2.  Guest presenters TBA.

COURSE DATES AND TIMES:

Week 1:
August 23rd 2015 – August 28th 2015
Ben Lipton, LCSW  – Helm
Sunday, August 23rd 2015:  7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Monday, August 24th through Friday, August 28th, 2015:  9:00 am-5:00 pm

Week 2:
April 24th 2016 – April 29th, 2016
Eileen M. Russell, Ph.D. – Helm
Sunday, April 24th, 2016:  7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Monday, April 25th through Friday, April 29th, 2016:  9:00 am-5:00 pm

WORKSHOP LOCATION:
The New York Open Center, Inc
22 East 30th Street
New York, NY 10016

Healing-oriented and attachment based, AEDP’s practice translates current neuroscience and developmental research into moment-to-moment clinical practice. Simultaneously experiential and relational in its in-depth emotional explorations, AEDP’s interventions are deeply rooted in the phenomenology and dynamics of the transformational process that emerge in environments where the individual feels safe and known. Intuitively resonant, AEDP has been called “deceptively simple.”

Essential skills will be experientially explored and didactically demonstrated so that participants will develop both a (right brain mediated) felt sense as well as a (left brain mediated) understanding of them. The training will include didactic material, clinical videotapes of actual sessions from AEDP faculty members and Dr. Diana Fosha, daily experiential exercises, and small and large group processing. A key component of the experiential practices is the opportunity to “try on” sets of interventions as a therapist and to receive them as a client. So learning new skills can give rise to experiences of safety, attachment security, transformation, and related phenomena that occur with AEDP treatment. The concentrated time that participants spend together immersed in learning AEDP aims to foster a culture of trust and generosity that allows for risk-taking and a supportive environment that is uniquely suited for optimal learning.

Objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • accurately moment-to-moment track and differentiate different aspects within the Triangle of Experience, including both verbal and somatic processes, to optimize attunement and accelerate the healing process
  • nderstand different attachment styles and utilize different interventions according to attachment style
  • understand various ways to regulate anxiety, bypass defenses and other inhibitory forces which block progress in therapy
  • access core affective experiences
  • utilize the healing potential of innate transformance strivings as a catalyst to maximize patient’s healing

Local Accommodations:

Click the appropriate link to make a reservation or learn more:

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Make a one time payment of $2,750.

Advanced Skills • 2014-2015 • New York

AEDP Advanced Skills is aimed at practitioners with some experience of AEDP work already established. Practical in its orientation, this course focuses both on helping you (i) learn new advanced AEDP skills, and (ii) cultivate and fine-tune the AEDP skills you already have. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, specific interventions and techniques that are concrete and specific. Participants will emerge with strategies for doing AEDP with our more challenging clients. While reviewing and deepening your AEDP essential skills throughout, the Advanced Skills course will teach the different advanced skill sets necessary to the in-depth practice of AEDP, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes, as well as with group experiential exercises.

The upcoming New York Advanced Essential Skills course will be led by Natasha Prenn, LCSW, along with guest faculty from the AEDP Institute. The course takes place at Friends In Deed in New York City over five weekends and is a great hands-on experience for anyone furthering their AEDP training.

Please note: Essential Skills is a prerequisite for this course.

Module 1: Seven Channels of Experience
Friday, October 24th- Sunday, October 26, 2014
with David Mars, PhD
Seven Channels of Experience

In this first module we will be delving into deepening affective somatic experience beyond a focus on emotion. We will explore the question, “How do we empathize with a feeling that has not been expressed?”

We will experience how to deepen the patient’s and our own Seven Channels of Experience (energetic, sensation, emotional, imaginal, visual, auditory, movement) to bypass defense and move into a broader band, bottom-up core affect. We will experience together through lively exchanges and vivid videotaped clips how to expand our connection to our own channels. We will see, hear, sense, move into, energetically track, open and amplify our imaginal channel to “find” and “bridge to” the channels our patient already occupies. We will learn how to select for and deepen this practice of whole body attunement. In your experiential practice sessions you will discover how you bring your own gifts and former defensively excluded blocks to bear fresh, real and healing fruit.

Module 2: Advanced Defense Work
Friday, December 5th-Sunday, December 7th, 2014
Guest Faculty: Steve Shapiro, PhD
Advanced Defense Work: How to Help Patients who do Not Take Easily to AEDP

The focus of the module will be advanced defense work, learning to restructure mechanisms such as denial, splitting, projection, and dissociation. Specific techniques will be reviewed such as: transforming resistance, regulating anxiety and other inhibitory forces; separating anxiety and defense from expressive core affective phenomena; encouraging a new and corrective experience; utilizing the therapy relationship and relational interventions to access underlying healing resources and their associated adaptive action tendencies, restructuring defenses.

Module 3: Working with Trauma & Dissociation
Friday, February 6th- Sunday, February 8th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Kari Gleiser, PhD
Transforming Trauma, Dissociation and Fragmentation with AEDP

Complex attachment trauma can sever and/or inhibit the formation of deep and lasting bonds between self and other, self and self, self and emotion. In this module, we will explore, in depth, the explicit use of relational interventions to build safety and containment, dyadic regulation of intense traumatic affects of fear, shame, and overwhelm, as well as reconnection to healing emotion via processing of core affect – all in the context of patients with severe trauma histories and dissociative disorders. We will also view these cases through the lens of intra-relational interventions, which place dual emphasis on internal attachment relationships formed through affective interchanges between distinct parts of the self, and on the intrinsic healing power of new emotional experiences. Parallel relational processes unfolding simultaneously within the external dyad (i.e., therapist/client) and internal dyads (i.e., client/dissociated ego-states) facilitates and accelerates the internalization of secure attachment dynamics.

Module 4: Transforming Pathogenic Affects
Friday, April 17th- Sunday, April 19th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Jerry Lamagna, LCSW
Working with Pathogenic Affects

“Pathogenic affects,” overwhelming states of distress, shame, guilt, anxiety and existential loneliness will be the focus. Learn to help patients to manage their emotions and gain important insight into the nature of their suffering. Learn to detect where such unwanted, overwhelming experiences can provide “compost” for the transformation process. Interventions involving somatic grounding, explicit relational engagement and empathic reflection and intra-relational (ego state) work with resonance and compassion will be demonstrated as skillful means for fostering self- building, self-regulation and integration.

Module 5: Advanced Metaprocessing
Friday, May 15th- Sunday, May 17th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
Advanced Metaprocessing

Reflecting upon the experience of change for the better is in and of itself a transformational process that fosters resilience and flourishing. In this module, we will delve into AEDP’s State 3 (metaprocessing) and State 4 (core state) phenomenology to ensure that you have a clear and detailed roadmap for the unfolding and thorough processing of transformational phenomena as they emerge in the practice of AEDP. Didactic and video examples will provide you with a roadmap to help you both sharpen and expand your technique for both “Big M” and “Small m” meta-therapeutic processing in the service of helping you and your patients to thrive.

Pay In Full

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Payment Plan

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Essential Skills • 2014-2015 • New York

AEDP Essential Skills, aimed at practitioners, will be practical. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, skill sets, concrete and specific. Different skill sets will be introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced each weekend, so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP. The basic skill sets necessary to practice AEDP will be introduced each weekend, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes and group experiential exercises in the afternoon.

The upcoming New York Essential Skills course will be led by SueAnne Piliero, PhD, along with guest faculty from the AEDP Institute. The course takes place over five weekends (Friday 1:00-7:00, Saturday 9:00-5:00 and Sunday 9:00-2:00) at Friends in Deed in New York City and is a great hands-on experience for anyone interested in AEDP training.

Module 1: AEDP 101: Healing from the Get-Go
Friday, September 19 – Sunday, September 21, 2014
SueAnne Piliero, PhD
Title: The Roadmap to AEDP: How We Think and How We Do

Module 2: Attachment
Friday, November 14th-Sunday, November 16th, 2014
Guest Faculty: Ron Frederick, PhD
Title: The Bonds that Free Us: Working with Attachment Explicitly and Experientially in AEDP

Module 3: Defenses & Anxiety
Friday, January 16th- Sunday, January 18th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Steve Shapiro, PhD
Title: Working With Defenses in AEDP

Module 4: Processing Emotional Experience
Friday, March 13th- Sunday, March 15th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Diana Fosha, PhD
Title: How to Work With Emotion in AEDP: Accessing, Experiencing and Processing Emotions to Completion

Module 5: Metaprocessing Transformational Experience
Friday, May 1st- Sunday, May 3rd, 2015
Guest Faculty: Eileen Russell, PhD
Title: Transformational Affects, Positive Affects, Core State and Engendering Resilience: The Fruits of Metaprocessing

Registration

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Essential Skills • 2013-2014 • New York

Our 2013-14 Essential Skills Course will be held in New York City and begins in October.  AEDP Essential Skills, aimed at practitioners, will be practical. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, skill sets, concrete and specific. Different skill sets will be introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced each weekend, so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP.

This course has reached capacity and registration is now closed.

Meet Course Leader, Natasha Prenn, LCSW

Natasha is a Senior Faculty member of the AEDP Institute. She will teach the first weekend and then be joined by a stellar group of AEDP Institute Senior Faculty, including AEDP Director, Diana Fosha, for the final four weekends.

Course Dates and Faculty

Weekend 1: October 4th-6th
What Do I Say & How Do I Say It? And Then What Do I Do?
Natasha Prenn, LCSW
In our first weekend we will practice the language of actual interventions, we will introduce the steps and sequences that allow the work to flow, and the maps and protocols that inform our decision-making. The Essential Skills include: The experiential language of AEDP; Entry points: how and where to intervene; moment-to-moment tracking: what are we tracking and why; self-disclosure and its metaprocessing; and anxiety regulation and defense recognition.

Weekend 2: December 6th-8th
The Bonds That Free Us:  Working With Attachment Explicitly & Experientially In AEDP
Guest Faculty: Kari Gleiser, PhD
In the past decade, the rapidly evolving fields of attachment studies and developmental neuroscience have revolutionized our conceptualization of how relationships shape the human mind from infancy through adulthood. These theories now inform our understanding of psychopathology as well the transformative potential of the therapeutic relationship. However, theories don’t automatically translate into practice; specific clinical interventions are necessary to harness the power of the therapy relationship to effect healing and change. In this module, we will focus on learning and practicing AEDP’s explicit relational interventions such as: recognizing and bypassing relational defenses, enhancing receptive capacity, fostering safety and intimacy from the get-go, using therapeutic self-disclosure, processing relational affects, and meta-processing present moment relational experiences.

Weekend 3: January 24th-26th
Working With Defenses In AEDP
Guest Faculty: Diana Fosha, PhD
This module will be devoted to exploring what in AEDP we call “top of the triangle of experience” work or State 1 work, i.e., working with everything that stands in the way of dropping down into core affective experience. We will explore different AEDP strategies for working with defenses such as bypassing defenses; affirming defenses; working with defenses as a category of experience; restructuring defenses; and using intra-relational intervention (parts work) to work with defenses. We will also explore different AEDP strategies for anxiety regulation, for example how to use relational experience for anxiety regulation, and also what to so when using relational experience for anxiety regulation doesn’t do the trick.

Weekend 4: March 7th-9th
How To Work With Emotion In AEDP: Accessing, Experiencing & Processing Emotions To Completion
Guest Faculty: Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
In the context of a safe, secure therapeutic relationship, our facilitating a patient’s full, visceral experiencing of emotions and working together to process them through to completion is a foundational mechanism of therapeutic change for the better in AEDP. As a result of this process of feeling core emotions through to completion, patients consistently and predictably gain access to adaptive strategies for navigating life experiences and thriving in the world. In this module, we will focus on the specific skills required for working effectively with emotional experience. Participants will leave this weekend with a clear understanding of the landscape of emotion processing work in AEDP and the essential tools necessary to begin to facilitate this process in their own clinical work.

Weekend 5: April 25th-27th
Transformational Affects, Positive Affects, Core State & Engendering Resilience: The Fruits Of Metaprocessing
Guest Faculty: Eileen Russell, PhD
This module will focus how to pay attention to small and large transformations and what to do in the wake of them. Metaprocessing is one of AEDP’s most unique contributions to the field of psychotherapy and it is what facilitates the cascade of transformation. We will also look at AEDP’s model of resilience and how AEDP helps restore and enhance people’s capacities to be and act on behalf of their own selves. Finally, we will look at how to stay with intensely positive affects, sometimes directed toward the therapist, and how this part of the 4 States/3 State transformations shifts the dynamic between patient and therapist in important ways.   

Course Format
The course will be held over 5 three-day weekends according to the following schedule:  Fridays, 1 pm – 7 pm; Saturdays from 9 am – 5 pm; Sundays from 9 am – 2 pm. The basic skill sets necessary to practice AEDP will be introduced each weekend, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes, followed by live demonstrations and group experiential exercises in the afternoons.

Theory, Videotapes and Experiential Learning

Participants will learn the AEDP clinical roadmap, decision tree, protocol, and the right-brain language of experiential treatment. The training will include didactic material, clinical videotapes of actual sessions, experiential exercises, and small and large group processing.

Essential skills will be experientially explored and didactically demonstrated so that participants will develop both a (right brain mediated) felt sense as well as a (left brain mediated) understanding of them:

  • the entrainment of transformance and healing forces within the self
  • how to translate social engagement neuroscience to clinical work
  • how to engender secure attachment from the get-go, and thereafter
  • how to work with patients who do not take to AEDP
  • promoting right brain experience: gaze, contact, tone, lexicon
  • how to work with resistance to right-brain experience
  • self-at-best/self-at-worst
  • moment-to-moment tracking
  • the four state and three-state transformations of the transformational process
  • working with defenses: bypassing defenses, defense restructuring
  • undoing unbearable aloneness
  • pressuring with empathy
  • dyadic affect regulation: attunement, disruption, repair
  • phenomenology of affective experiences, transformational markers
  • metaprocessing: how AEDP interventions register inside the patient
  • metatherapeutic processing of transformational experience
  • the healing-oriented phenomenology of AEDP: categorical emotions, healing affects, receptive affective experiences
  • the integration of right-brain and left-brain experience to unleash cascading transformations, and solidify therapeutic gains

Course Readings

Continuing Education Credits

This program is eligible for 82.50 hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars.  To view the CE accreditation statement click here.  CE Credits are included in the course fee.

Course Fee

The fee for the AEDP Essential Skills course is $3,400.  Course size is limited to 50 participants. A $200 discount is available if full payment is made at the time of registration

Cancellation & Refund Policy

A one-year financial commitment is required.  View our cancellation/refund policy.

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Immersion Course • 2013 • East Coast

Join us for our 2013 Immersion Course
November 18th – November 22nd in New York City

Healing at the Edge of Transformational Experience:
The Transformation of Attachment Trauma

This 5-Day Immersion Course in AEDP is intended for practitioners interested in AEDP, in its transformational theory, and in exploring its applications to the treatment of attachment trauma. Our focus is on AEDP and the theory and practice informing AEDP work at the edge of healing experience to repair attachment trauma. Making extensive use of clinical videotapes of actual therapy sessions, the aim of this course is to foster proficiency in the practice of AEDP, as well as facilitate its integration into clinical practices that make use of other experiential, body-focused, trauma-based, relational and/or psychodynamic methods.

Theoretical Framework: Clinical Teaching from Videotapes

AEDP seeks to undo the patient’s aloneness in the face of overwhelming suffering and to engage innate healing forces within, i.e., transformance, so as to heal trauma, restore vitality to self experience, and engender resilience.

AEDP engages the process of deep emotional change and features a theoretical framework for transformational work. Seamlessly and organically integrative of attachment, emotion, affective neuroscience, mother infant studies, experiential techniques and body based trauma treatments, AEDP’s attachment based transformational framework scaffolds AEDP’s hallmark moment-to-moment to moment clinical work, which traces an arc whereby emotional suffering is seamlessly transformed into flourishing. This course will teach you how to work at the edge of transformational experience and how to use somatic-affective transformational markers to guide interventions. You will learn how to use AEDP’s rigorous transformational phenomenology to closely track clinical processes. Extensive use of clinical videotapes will demonstrate hallmark AEDP techniques such dyadic affect regulation; experiential work with attachment experience; working with receptive affective experience, such as feeling felt, feeling seen, and feeling cared for; processing emotion through to a transformational shift; and the metaprocessing of transformational experience. Experiential exercises will allow you to both practice AEDP interventions and experience how brain, body, psyche and the experience of human connection and transformation intertwine to unleash deep emotional change and heal attachment trauma.

What Does an Average Day Look Like?

  • Each day begins with a 90-minute theoretical presentation grounding the clinical work in the conceptual framework of AEDP’s healing oriented transformational theory.
  • The remainder of the day will consist of clinical teaching revolving around clinical videotapes, with a focus on the phenomenology of transformation and techniques, and strategies of intervention. Special attention will be accorded to working with the experience of transformation, the healing affects, offering and receiving affirmation, and promoting core state experiencing, all in the context of transforming attachment trauma. In essence, this Immersion course is a soup-to-nuts course in AEDP.
  • The format will be highly interactive and emphasize the back and forth with participants, thus activating dyadic processes of communication. There will be an opportunity to practice aspects of AEDP through structured-in experiential exercises.

Videotapes Will Help You Learn and Practice How To:

  • entrain neuroplasticity and harness healing forces from the get-go
  • be a transformance detective
  • work experientially with the experience of attachment in the here-and-now therapeutic relationship
  • use affective/somatic affective markers to moment-to-moment track clinical process and guide interventions
  • recognize the phenomenology of the transformational process: the 4 states and 3 state transformations of AEDP
  • use dyadic regulation to undo the patient’s aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotional experience
  • use dyadic affect regulation to transform shame and fear; restore connection, flow and awe
  • regulate and process emotion to a transformational shift, from negative to a point where positive affects and adaptive action tendencies are released
  • use healing affects to foster True Self experience through being a True Other
  • metaprocess transformational experiences to engender upward spirals of resilience, health, creativity, & well-being, i.e., flourishing
  • promote core state and experiences of openness, compassion, self-compassion, flow, ease, wisdom, generosity, and calm

It is the vision of the course to bring together clinicians from different perspectives who share an interest in AEDP specifically and/or in dynamic-experiential work in general, but who also each bring his or her own very special expertise, interest and experiences. In this way, not only will the course be exciting and enlivening, but AEDP will continue to grow, be enriched and enhanced by being in communication, or dyadic coordination with these other lodes of knowledge and wisdom. Given the interest expressed in this course, it looks like that vision might be actualized, which is a very exciting prospect.

Course Fee and CE Credits

The fee for the AEDP Immersion course is $1,500. An early bird savings of $100 is available until September 1st if tuition is paid in full at the time of registration. There is also a $50 discount for members of the AEDP Institute. There is not a student rate, as the course is intended for practicing clinicians who have completed their post-graduate professional training.

This program is eligible for 32.5 CE Hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars. To view the CE accreditation statement click here.  CE Credits are included in the course fee.

For our cancellation/refund policy click here.

Course Location and Lodging Information

Hotel Pennsylvania
401 Seventh Avenue (at 33rd Street)
New York, NY 10001

A block of hotel rooms has been reserved for our program attendees.  To reserve a room at our preferred rate of $165 (Single/King) or $195 (Double/2 Beds) please click here or call the hotel reservation office during business hours at 212-736-5000 ext. 8790 or toll free at 800-223-8585 and use the code AEDP.  You must make your room reservation by October 27, 2013 to take advantage of the discounted rate.

Registration

Course size is limited to 85 participants and our Immersion Course always sells out.  We recommend early registration to ensure your spot!

Registration is now open! Register online by clicking here or call 866-992-9399 or 707-566-7470 to sign up for the course.

Questions?

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Advanced Skills • 2012-2013 • East Coast

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