Workshops/Seminars

SEMINAR: Ronald J. Frederick and Tim Beyer - Stockbridge, MA

Emotional Mindfulness, Connection, and Healing: Befriending the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions
Sponsored by: Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, MA
Presented by: Ronald J. Frederick, PhD and Tim Beyer, PhD
Stockbridge, MA | December 7 – 9, 2018
Learn more & Register

Dec 7 – Dec 9, 2018.

SEMINAR: SueAnne Piliero, Paris France

The Transformation of Emotional Suffering: Undoing Aloneness & Reclaiming One’s Core Authentic Self in AEDP

(with extensive use of videotaped clinical sessions)

an AEDP Europe Seminar
with SueAnne Piliero, PhD

This course is for Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists, Masters and Doctoral students and interns in mental health and the healing arts and sciences.

---

AEDP is one of the fastest growing therapeutic approaches to working with attachment trauma. Its transformational theory, a basis for putting neuroplasticity and attachment theory into clinical action, is receiving increasing recognition worldwide.

Why is AEDP gaining popularity around the world?  Until recently, the mental health field focused on pathology and lacked concepts to capture the motivational strivings for health. Drawing on neuroscience and developmental research, AEDP rectifies this bias towards pathology. AEDP asserts that we are wired for healing, self-righting and for resuming impeded growth.

Building on our natural resilience, AEDP’S therapeutics is based on these innate healing capacities. AEDP’s clinical model shows how to entrain our innate resilience and harness it in treatment. Emphasizing the importance of experiential work with attachment, emotion and transformation, AEDP leverages safety and connection within the therapist-client relationship to facilitate healing through moment-to-moment tracking of the therapeutic process and innovative, experiential intervention strategies.

Videtapes of actual clinical AEDP sessions will be viewed to demonstrate how (i) through the moment-to-moment tracking of bodily rooted experience and dyadic affect regulation (ii) in the context of a relationship in which the individual feels safe and known, (iii) the processing of suffering, i.e., stress-based, traumatizing, painful emotional experiences,  (iv) repairs relational trauma, frees the patient’s fully functioning core self, and (v) naturally culminates in flourishing, i.e., deeply positive experiences of aliveness, hope, faith, clarity, agency, simplicity, compassion, joy, and truth. Key to this is the focus on and experiential processing of the experience of healing transformation in the context of a healing dyad.

In this two-day training, therapists will learn how to:

• Rapidly promote the development of a secure attachment relationship
• Transform anxiety and shame and work with defenses
• Facilitate and regulate a client’s body-based experiencing of emotion
• Target and repair relational pathology and reconnect patients to their core authentic self
• Identify the phenomenology of transformational experience

This two-day workshop will be simultaniaously translated from English into French by bilingual psychologists trained in AEDP for those participants who will wish to (translation helmets).  Participants understanding English well can listen to the event directly in english.

---

Meet the Presenter

SueAnne Piliero, PhD

SueAnne Piliero, Ph.D. is senior faculty and a founding member of the AEDP Institute. Dr. Piliero travels nationally and internationally to teach AEDP to a broad range of clinical audiences. She has given seminars and experiential workshops to various universities and health organizations nationwide.

Dr. Piliero is a lead trainer and a sought-after individual and small group consultant for clinicians around the world. She is known for her warm, engaging teaching style and her ability to communicate complex topics with humor and clarity.  She is also known for her powerful clinical work.  Her clinical videotapes demonstrate how even the most traumatized individuals can be transformed.

Dr. Piliero received her doctorate from Adelphi University, and her master’s degree in human development and psychology from Harvard. Her clinical interests and specialties are in trauma, PTSD, dissociation, and the ways in which the mind, body, and spirit are powerfully poised to transform them. She teaches, supervises and is in private practice in New York City.

---

Date, Time and Location

Date: Friday, December 14 – Saturday, December 15, 2018

Time:  9:00am – 5:00pm

Location:
Paris, 13e arrondissement
(the exact adress will be communicated once you subscribe to the event)

---

Agenda

Friday, December 14, 2018

9:00 – 9:15am
Welcome and Introduction

9:15 – 10:15am
Fundamental Aspects of AEDP
Undoing aloneness, creating a secure base from which previously feared unbearable affects can be accessed and felt, privileging self-righting tendencies, explicit experiential work with relational experience, building receptive affective capacity, are among the many cutting edge theoretical and clinical applications that make AEDP one of the fastest growing approaches to healing attachment trauma.  Clinical videotapes.

10:15 – 10:30am
Break

10:30 – 12:00pm
Clinical Videotape demonstrating AEDP in action

12:00 – 12:30pm
Q&A; Discussion

12:30 – 1:30pm
Lunch

1:30 – 3:15pm
The Phenomenology of Transformational Experience
The main clinical schemas that guide our work in AEDP will be taught, with a special emphasis on The 4 states and 3 state transformations of AEDP and their somatic/affective markers. Clinical videotapes.

3:15 – 3:30pm
Break

3:30 – 4:30pm
Dyadic Mindfulness: Existing in the Heart and Mind of the Other
How metaprocessing of relational experience can be used to deepen therapeutic gains, foster resilience, expand relational capacity and deepen receptive experiences of feeling seen, felt, recognized, and understood. Clinical videotapes

4:30 – 5:00pm
Discussion

Saturday, December, 2018

9:00 – 9:15am
Reflections from Day 1

9:15 – 11:00pm
Working with Resistance in AEDP
Resistance and deep-seated character armor are major obstacles to accessing one’s core authentic self.  We will explore the various ways in which we work with anxiety, activated states, and staunch defenses in AEDP.  Clinical videotapes.

11:00 – 11:15pm
Break

11:15 – 12:30pm
Working with Intense Emotional Experience in AEDP
The accessing, facilitation, and working through of intense emotional experiences. Processing to completion and the emergence of resilience. Clinical videotapes

12:30 – 1:30pm
Lunch

1:30 – 3:00pm
The Power of the Therapist’s Bold, Embodied Presence
In AEDP the therapist IS the intervention.  See how the therapist’s active engagement, her constant lending of her self and “going beyond mirroring” leads to deep healing.  Clinical videotape.

3:00 – 3:15pm
Break

3:15 – 4:30pm
Experiential Exercises
Participants will get a chance to try their skills at AEDP through breaking up into small groups and conducting mini therapy sessions.

4:30 – 5:00pm
Discussion, Q & A, Metaprocessing of Workshop Experience

---

Fees and Registration

• 350 euros

Event Registration

---

La Transformation de la Souffrance Emotionnelle : Dénouer le sentiment de solitude & recouvrer son Soi authentique avec l’AEDP

(nombreuses présentations de séances de thérapie vidéo)

Participants : cette formation est réservée à tous les professionnels de la santé mentale (médecins, psychiatres, psychologues, psychothérapeutes, psychanalystes….) indépendamment du leur niveau de compétence et/ou expertise.

---

L’AEDP  représente l’une des approches psychothérapeutiques, qui connaît l’un des développements les plus rapides pour travailler avec les traumatismes liés à l’attachement. Sa théorie sur la transformation, qui place neuroplasticité et théorie de l’attachement au sein de l’action clinique, rencontre une reconnaissance mondiale de plus en plus forte.

Quelles sont les raisons de cette popularité à travers le monde ? Jusqu’à récemment le monde de la santé mentale se focalisait sur la pathologie et était dépourvu de concepts pour saisir les forces motrices du bien être physique et mental. S’appuyant sur la recherche en neurosciences et en psychologie du développement, l’AEDP réforme les biais attribués à la pathologie. L’AEDP affirme que nous possédons biologiquement les ressources pour guérir, pour nous relever et reprendre tout développement interrompu.

Fort de cette résilience naturelle, la thérapeutique AEDP est fondée sur les capacités innées de guérison. Le modèle clinique de l’AEDP indique la manière d’entraîner notre résilience innée et l’arrimer au traitement. En mettant l’emphase sur l’importance du travail expérientiel lié à l’attachement, l’émotion et la transformation, l’AEDP tire parti de la sécurité et de la connexion développées au sein de la relation entre le thérapeute et le patient pour faciliter le mieux-être. Celui-ci se développe à travers le suivi minute après minute du processus thérapeutique et des stratégies d’interventions expérientielles.

Des vidéos de réelles séances cliniques seront présentées pour démontrer le suivi minute après minute de l’expérience ancrée physiquement et de la régulation (ii) de l’affect au sein de la dyade relationnelle. Ainsi, l’AEDP permet à la personne de se sentir en sécurité et reconnue, (iii) d’élaborer toute souffrance par exemple stress, traumatisme, expériences émotionnelles douloureuses, (iv) de réparer le traumatisme relationnel, de libèrer pleinement le fonctionnement fondamental de son Self et (v) d’aboutir naturellement à son point culminant pour éclore, par exemple en expériences profondément positives telles que la vivacité, l’espoir, la foi, la clarté, le sentiment d’être acteur, la simplicité, la compassion, la joie et la vérité. Le focus et l’élaboration expérientiels du vécu de la transformation au sein de la dyade, qui soigne, s’avèrent clés pour y parvenir.

Dans cette formation de deux jours, les thérapeutes apprendront à :

• rapidement développer une relation d’attachement sécure
• transformer l’anxiété et la honte en travaillant avec les défenses
• faciliter et réguler le patient dans son expérience émotionnelle ancrée physiquement
• cibler et réparer la pathologie relationnelle et renouer le patient avec son Self authentique et fondamental
• identifier la phénoménologie de l’expérience de transformation

Ce séminaire de deux jours sera traduit de l’anglais en français par des professionnels bilingues formés à l’AEDP.

---

Agenda

Jour 1 : vendredi 14 déc 2018

9h00 Bienvenue et introduction

9h15 Aspects fondamentaux de l’AEDP
Défaire la solitude, créer une base de sécurité de laquelle des émotions insupportables -et préalablement craintes/évitées- peuvent être accédées et vécues,  privilégier des tendances actualisantes, travail expérientiel explicite avec l’expérience relationnelle,  construire/favoriser la capacité réceptive sont certains des aspects théoriques et cliniques à la pointe, qui font de l’AEDP une des approches pour guérir les traumas d’attachement qui se développe le plus rapidement.

10h15 pause

10h30  Video clinique pour démontrer l’AEDP en action

12h00  questions & réponses, discussion

12h30  Pause de midi/repas

14h00  La phénoménologie de l’expérience transformationnelle
Les schémas cliniques principaux qui guident notre travail seront enseignés, avec un accent sur les 4 états et les 3 transformations AEDP d’états et leurs marqueurs somatiques/affectifs.  Vidéos cliniques.

15h30  Pause

15h45 Pleine conscience dydique : exister dans le cœur et l’esprit de l’autre
Comment le metaprocessing de l’expérience relationnelle peut être utilisée pour approfondir les gains thérapeutiques, promouvoir la résilience, augmenter la capacité relationnelle et approfondir les expériences réceptives d’être vu, senti, reconnu et compris.  Vidéos cliniques.

17h00  Discussion

 

Jour 2. Samedi 15 décembre 2018

9h00  Reflections du jour 1

9h15  Travailler avec la résistance en AEDP
La résistance et l’armure caractérielle profondément ancrée sont des obstacles majeurs à l’accès de son soi profond/nucléaire et authentique.  Nous allons explorer les différentes façons avec lesquelles nous travaillons  en AEDP avec l’anxiété, les état activés, et des défenses étanches.  Vidéos cliniques.

11h00 Pause

11h15 Travailler avec des expériences émotionnelles intenses en AEDP
L’accès, la facilitation et le « working through » d’expériences émotionnelles intenses.  Processer jusqu’à la complétion et émergence de la résilience.  Vidéos cliniques.

12h30 Pause de midi/repas.

14h00  Le pouvoir de la présence assurée et incarnée du thérapeute
En AEDP, le thérapeute est l’intervention.  Voir comment l’engagement actif du thérapeute, sa contante mise à disposition et « aller au-delà de refléter » conduit à des processus de guérison profonde.  Vidéos cliniques.

15h15 Pause

15h30  Exercices expérientiels
Les participants auront l’occasion d’essayer des habiletés en AEDP en petits groupes et en expérimentant de mini-séances thérapeutiques

16h00  Discussion, questions et réponses , métaprocessing de l’expérience de l’atelier

---

Fees and Registration

• 350 euros

Event Registration

Dec 14 – Dec 15, 2018.

SEMINAR: Benjamin Lipton and Ben Medley - Lexington, MA

at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum in Lexington, MA with SueAnne Piliero, PhD

Jan 25 , 2019. Lexington

SEMINAR: New York, NY

an AEDP NYC Seminar at Mt. Sinai West in NYC with Benjamin Lipton, LCSW and Shari Geller, PhD, C.Psych

Jan 27 , 2019. New York

SEM: David Mars - Vancouver, BC

AEDP for Couples: Transforming Relationships through Healing Relational Deprivation and Trauma

an AEDP Vancouver Seminar
with David Mars, PhD

 

This course is for Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists, Masters and Doctoral students and interns in mental health and the healing arts and sciences.

---

The movement from fear to love and from survival to thriving, is the expression of transformance: the indwelling biological drive to evolve. (Fosha 2008, Mars 2011).

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a somatically-based model of psychotherapy with roots in attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, emotion theory and transformational studies.  David Mars, Ph.D. has expanded upon Dr. Diana Fosha’s model to develop AEDP for Couples, which treats the relational trauma and deprivation that often underlies dysfunctional patterns in couple’s lives. By creating a safe container within which even highly dysregulated couples can learn to thrive together, AEDPfC helps to create nutritive experiences of somatically-based responsiveness between partners that begin in the first session.

David will illustrate how to work with couples to build bridges of relational safety and intimacy that generate increased earned secure attachment. Clinical videotapes of treatment sessions over time will demonstrate the transformative processes central to AEDPfC. David will help you to quickly identify and more effectively treat deactivating (avoidant) and hyper-activating (anxious/ambivalent) attachment patterns.  He will highlight the therapist’s use of self in working with chronically traumatized and reactive couples. This workshop will feature unique methods of detecting and amplifying the greatest strengths of each couple member through cultivating moment-to-moment whole body awareness within each couple member and the therapist as well.  In these ways the therapist’s own somatic awareness and joy in the work grows and thrives right along with the couple.

By attending this seminar, you will be able to:

• Name the four states of AEDP
• Identify three ways to begin to establish a secure base in the first session of treatment
• Describe two ways to regulate emotional reactivity in each couple member when either is triggered
• Name the Seven Channels of Experience (Sensation, Emotion, Energetic, Movement, Auditory, Visual and Imaginal)

By attending this seminar, you will be able to:

• Use the earliest signs of hyper-reactivity and dorsal vagal response to discover the access points to treat underlying trauma.
• Cultivate and expand upon your own inner gifts as a therapist.
• Facilitate healing portrayals that can bring lasting relief of buried traumatic wounding.
• Bring more peace, justice and respectful recognition into couples daily lives.

Feb 2 , 2019. Vancouver, BC V6M 4M5

SEMINAR: Steve Shapiro, PhD - San Francisco, CA

Transforming Resistance: Working with the Challenges of Defense & Anxiety

an AEDP Seminar
at Hospice by the Bay, Larkspur, CA
with Steve Shapiro, PhD

This course is for Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists, Masters and Doctoral students and interns in mental health and the healing arts and sciences.

---

---

Meet the Presenters

Steve Shapiro, PhD

Steve Shapiro, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who maintains a full-time private practice in suburban Philadelphia and has over twenty years clinical and teaching experience.  He has been practicing various forms of Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT), such as Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), since the mid-1990’s. He is a Senior Faculty and founding member of the AEDP Institute and has been studying with Dr. Diana Fosha, the developer of AEDP, since 2003

Dr. Shapiro conducts lectures, workshops and ongoing training internationally.  His presentations are often commended for translating complex clinical theory into clear, precise, and practical techniques which are easily understandable and readily applied immediately in clinical settings by therapists of all orientations.

For 16 years, Dr. Shapiro was the Director of Psychology and Education at Montgomery County Emergency Service (MCES), an emergency psychiatric hospital, where he worked with a range of severe disorders and those committed involuntarily to treatment. This intensive experience has helped inform Dr. Shapiro’s specializations and approach to transforming resistance with those who are considered challenging due to a history of trauma, a high degree of resistance, or excessive anxiety and dysregulation.

---

Date, Time and Location

Date: Saturday, February 9th thru Sunday, February 10th, 2019
(must register for both days, cannot attend one day only).

Time: 9:00am – 4:30pm

Location:
Hospice by the Bay
17 E Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
Larkspur, CA  94939

---

Agenda

February 9, 2019

9:00 – 9:30
Introduction/ overview

9:30 – 10:45
Moment to moment tracking

10:45 – 11:00
Break

11:00 – 12:30
Understanding high anxiety/dysregulation and high defense/resistance. Two different skill sets

12:30 – 1:30
Lunch

1:30 – 2:30
Treatment of high defense

2:30 – 3:45
Treatment of high defense: video demonstration and discussion

3:30 – 3:45
Break

3:45 – 4:00
Group exercises

4:00 – 4:30
Q&A/Wrap-up

 

February 10, 2019

9:00 – 9:30
Follow up from Day 1.Q & A

9:30 – 10:45
Understanding resistance to connection with therapist: Didactic and video demonstration

10:45 – 11:00
Break

11:00 – 12:30
Treatment of high anxiety

12:30 – 1:30
Lunch

1:30 – 3:30
Treatment of high anxiety: video demonstration and discussion

3:30 – 3:45
Break

3:45 – 4:00
Understanding portrayals

4:00 – 4:30
Q&A/Wrap-up

---

Fees, Credits and Registration:

• Member Price $300
• Non-Member Early Bird $375 (ends January 10, 2019)
• Non-Member Regular Price $390 (begins January 11, 2019)
• Registration Day of: $450
• Students and Interns: $50
  • (must email copy of student ID to lynne.e.hartwell@gmail.com)
• Diversity Scholarships: $150
  • (must email aedp.dscholarship@gmail.com with: Seminar Title, Full Name, License type, Agency/Hospital)

Event Registration

Diversity Scholarships:

To apply:
email:  Matt Fried and Yuko Hanakawa, Co-Chairs, The Diversity Committee at
aedp.dscholarship@gmail.com
with the name of this seminar, Applicants Name, license type, Agency/hospital

(D.S. criteria is listed below)

Diversity Scholarships (DS) are awarded primarily on the basis of financial need and membership in one or more diversity categories (listed at the bottom of the page).

All prospective trainees who have financial needs such that they could not take AEDP training without DS, are encouraged to apply. Those applicants who are ethnic/racial minority, sexual orientation minority, immigrants, and/or who work for underserved, financially struggling patient populations are given priority in receiving the DS. Socio-economic disadvantage is considered a legitimate and distinct diversity category while at the same time linked to other diversity categories.

---

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 offer continuing education for psychologists.R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. 13 CE hours.

Psychoanalysts
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0005.  13 clock 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, 2018-April 15, 2021. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive 13 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
NY:R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0006. This program is approved for 13 contact hours live in-person.
OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 13 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.  13 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.
NY-LMHCs:R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. FebHC-0015.  13 contact hours.
NY-LMFTs:R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. FebFT-0011. 13 contact hours.
OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 13 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.  13 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.

Creative Arts Therapists
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0005. 13 contact hours.

To see our Refund Policy or to file a Grievance, click here.

Questions about this Workshop?

Contact Us

Feb 9 – Feb 10, 2019. Larkspur, CA 94939

SEMINAR: AEDP: Undoing Aloneness

a European Workshop in Sitges (Barcelona) Spain with Diana Fosha, PhD

Oct 5 – Oct 6, 2019. Sitges, Barcelona 08870 Spain

 

To view our upcoming AEDP for Couples Courses and Live Events click here!

Events by Region

US & Canada, East

AEDP New England

AEDP NYC/Tristate

AEDP Southeast

AEDP Toronto

US & Canada, West

AEDP West

AEDP San Diego

US & Canada, Central

AEDP Rocky Mountains

AEDP New Mexico

AEDP Midwest

International

Asia

Europe

Latin America

Middle East