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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.

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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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Core Training • 2013-2014 • Boston II

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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?

Questions about this course? Click here to email us or call 866-992-9399.

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Advanced Skills • 2012-2013 • East Coast

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