DAY 1 (Wednesday, March 4th, 2026)
TRANSFORMANCE: Introduction to AEDP’s theoretical roots with a broad sweep through the neurobiology of healing: Transformance, Flourishing, Neuroplasticity, Emergent Experience, Transformational Experience, Attachment, Experiential Work, and Core Self.
10:15-10:30AM Tech Orientation
10:30 -11:00 AM Welcome, In-it-Together, Course Overview
11:00 – 12:30 PM Introduction to AEDP’s Theoretical Roots (pt. 1)
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM Break
12:45 PM – 2:15 PM Introduction to AEDP’s Theoretical Roots (pt.2)
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Lunch
THE AEDP FOUR STATE MODEL OF TRANSFORMATION
Diving deeper and putting neuroplasticity into dyadic clinical action through the Phenomenology of the Transformational Process: What happens in each of the 4 States and 3 state Transformations and Meta-therapeutic Processing & The Transformational Affect 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM The 4 State Transformational Process: The Phenomenology of Change (pt 1)
4:45 PM- 5:00 PM break
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM The 4 State Transformational Process: The Phenomenology of Change (pt 2)
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM Summary, Q&A, personal reflections

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DAY 2 (Thursday, March 5th, 2026)
Experiential Work in AEDP: Bringing the Mind and Body Together ATTACHMENT: Working experientially with Relatedness: Undoing
aloneness, dyadic regulation and corrective experiences
10:15-10:30AM Tech Orientation
10:30 -11:00 AM Reflections & Questions from Day 1
11:00 – 12:30 PM Experiential Work in AEDP: Bringing the Mind and Body Together (Pt.1)
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM Break
12:45 PM – 2:15 PM Experiential Work in AEDP: Bringing the Mind and Body Together (pt. 2) (Introducing Portrayals)
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Lunch
3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Working Experientially with Relatedness: Undoing aloneness, dyadic regulation and corrective experiences
(pt. 1)
4:45 PM- 5:00 PM break
5:00 PM – 6:45 PM Working Experientially with Relatedness: Undoing aloneness, dyadic regulation and corrective experiences
(pt. 2)
6:45 PM – 7:00 PM Summary, Q&A, personal reflections

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DAY 3 (Friday, March 6th, 2026)
Guest Presentations: The Triangle of Experience (and related schemas) Diving deep into the origins of psychopathology and a number of AEDP’s schemas designed to inform case conceptualization
10:30 -11:00 AM Reflections & Questions from Day 2
11:00 – 12:30 PM James Santos (Guest Presenter)
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM Break
12:45 PM – 2:15 PM (Guest Presenter)
2:15 PM -3:15 PM Lunch
3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Nicky Cameron (Guest Presenter)
4:45 PM- 5:00 PM break
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM The Triangle of Experience & Related Schemas: An Intro to AEDP Maps designed to inform case
conceptualization
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM Summary, Q&A, personal reflections

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DAY 4 (Sunday, March 8th, 2026)
Addressing Blocks to Change and Facilitating Transformational Experience: Working the Top of the Triangle in AEDP: Inhibitory Affects and Defenses.
10:30 -11:00 AM Reflections & Questions from Day 3
11:00 – 12:30 PM Working the Top of the Triangle in AEDP: Addressing Inhibitory Affects & Defense
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM Break
12:45 PM – 2:15 PM Working with Transformation Thriving, Flourishing and Positive Affect: Working with Transformation
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Lunch
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Introduction to role-play experiential exercises – review instructions
3:30 PM – 7:00 PM Role Play Experiential Exercises

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Day 5 (Monday, March 9th, 2026)
10:30 -11:00 AM Reflections & Questions from Day 4
INTEGRATION: Bringing together the learning through a micro-analysis of a videotaped session exploring AEDP’s therapeutic aims and activities. Integration
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Therapist Aims & Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process (pt. 1)
12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Therapist Aims & Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process (pt. 2)
2:30 – 2:45 PM Course Evaluations
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM Review of training
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Closing