Transform Trauma through “Fierce Love:” Using the AEDP Therapist’s Bold, Embodied Presence

LIVE DEMOS and more help you learn how to bring your SELF more fully into the therapy dyad

an AEDP 2-Day Seminar

at San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, CA

with SueAnne Piliero, Ph.D.

Being an AEDP therapist requires not just learning the theory or the techniques, but also building the internal capacity within our SELFs to “be with” and “stay with,” deep emotional pain, shame, anger, grief, unbearable aloneness…

Being an AEDP therapist requires a strong therapeutic presence; leading boldly, co-regulating, psychobiologically attuning to our patients, our Self, the relationship and the “space between us.”

Being an AEDP therapist requires advocating and championing our patients’ capacity to heal and be whole when they see and feel nothing but darkness and emptiness. It requires accompanying our patients on emotional journeys that we ourselves may never have been on (and perhaps avoiding because we, too, are afraid to touch that guarded space within us). Being an AEDP requires that we tend to not just our patients’ affective and relational wounds, but also our own.

In short, being an AEDP therapist requires the courage to practice from the “inside out.”

Not an easy task.

In this workshop, we will explore in-depth how to bring our SELFs more fully into the therapeutic relationship—and what stands in the way— in order to enhance, deepen and accelerate the healing process.

Through lecture, videotape, and live demos you will see, hear, and witness how the most powerful tool in our clinical toolkit is our own strong, embodied presence.

Main Points:

• Practice your ability to more present, engaged, and psychobiologically attuned to your patients
• Recognize your own “affect phobias” that get in the way of your patient’s healing journey
• Enhance your ability to Use your Self as a Healing Mechanism (e.g. through self disclosure of feelings and patient’s impact on you, etc.)
• Accelerate, enhance and complete the healing process by “leading” more and advocating more fiercely on behalf of your patients
• Sharpen your moment-to-moment tracking skills focusing on words, affect, resonance, and the body
• Transform shame, pathogenic affects, core erroneous beliefs about the self and other

Course Objectives:

• Identify the ways in which your own “affect phobias” can get in the way of doing deep, emotional work
• Formulate and utilize portrayals in transforming trauma
• Access and utilize your own healing journey to benefit your patients’ healing journeys
• Integrate the power of your whole Self, viscerally impacted by your patients’ histories and core affective experiences, to guide your interventions
• Construct explicit and experiential work with the experience of attachment and intersubjective delight

Meet the Presenter

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Date, Time and Location

Date: Saturday, June 22 – Sunday, June 23, 2019
(must register for both days, cannot attend one day only).

Time: 9:00am – 5:00 pm

Updated Location:
San Francisco Theological Seminary

Alexander Hall

105 Seminary Rd.

San Anselmo, CA  94960

Agenda

June 22, 2019

9:00 – 10:45       Video and Didactic on the key ingredients to developing a strong, embodied therapeutic Presence

10:45 – 11:00     Break

11:00 – 12:30     The Intimacy of Moment-to-Moment Relational Work: Explicit and experiential work with the experience of attachment and intersubjective delight

12:30 – 2:00       Lunch

2:00 – 3:30         Clinical Videotape

3:30 – 3:45         Break

3:45 – 4:30         Live Demo and/or Clinical videotape

4:30 – 5:00         Wrap-up

June 23, 2019

9:00 – 10:45       What’s required of us? And what gets in the way?

10:45 – 11:00     Break

11:00 – 12:30     Transforming Shame, Pathogenic Affects, Unbearable Aloneness through the Therapist’s ‘Fierce Love”

12:30 – 2:00       Lunch

2:00 – 3:30         Clinical Videotape

3:30 – 3:45         Break

3:45 – 4:30         Live Demo and/or Clinical videotape

4:30 – 5:00         Wrap-up

Fees, Credits and Registration: 

• Member Price $300
• Non-Member Price $390
• Registration day of: $450

Special pricing – limited seats available:    

• Masters & Doctoral Students as well as soon-to-be-licensed Interns & Trainees: $50 Student Discount Seats Have Been Filled. Please email admin@aedpinstitute.org to be waitlisted.
  • must email copy of student ID or proof of Internship/Trainee Program to admin@aedpinstitute.org
• Diversity Scholarships: $150
  • must 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
• Please note that the focus of the AEDP Diversity Initiative is to enable training for therapists coming from marginalized communities, who work with patients from those communities and intend to continue to do so, and who also evidence clear financial hardship.

Continuing Education

Disability Access – If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 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.

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