AEDP® Immersion
January 2025
Presented by Diana Fosha, PhD
Wednesday – Monday | January 22 – January 27, 2025
Live, Online & Highly Interactive
Begin your Transformative Journey with AEDP
The dyadic repair of attachment trauma: healing at the edge of transformational experience
Course Description
The AEDP™ Immersion course is a powerful, multi-day experience for therapists at any stage of their professional lives. Many who complete the training find their ‘perfect fit’ professional home in the AEDP model – and the AEDP community.
The Immersion course offers an in-depth exploration of AEDP psychotherapy’s transformative theory and practice. It includes not only lecture style didactic teaching but extensive use of real therapy video demonstrations plus one half day of small group experiential exercises accompanied by assistants, and opportunity for Q&A.
Participants can expect to graduate Immersion with both an understanding of the AEDP theory and hands-on skills to immediately put into practice with clients. It is an in-depth professional training that equips professionals to apply beginner level AEDP therapeutic techniques across diverse clinical populations.
And Immersion not only introduces AEDP psychotherapy, it explicitly facilitates the integration of the model into participants’ multi-modal clinical practices; this is especially true for those whose practices use other experiential, body-focused, trauma-based, relational and/or psychodynamic methods.
Hallmarks of Training
Faculty, experiential assistants and clinical video. These are the hallmarks of AEDP training. In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and deeply we seek to both undo professional aloneness and engage in rigorous clinical teaching. Our faculty are excellent as academics, clinicians and teachers.
Prerequisites
Immersion is open to all licensed mental health practitioners – see course pages for more details. This course is a prerequisite for the Essential Skills training. While it counts toward certification, you don’t need to be pursuing certification to attend.
Learning Objectives and Course Agenda
- State five foundational elements of AEDP.
- Demonstrate the AEDP concept of how to welcome, affirm, validate, and offer encouragement to their clients.
- Describe the AEDP concepts of “core affect”, “inhibitory affect” and “defensive affect”.
- Formulate moment-to-moment clinical interventions in sessions.
- Explain the AEDP Triangle of Experience and identify the three main categories of experience represented by the Triangle.
- Describe 3 aspects of the AEDP therapeutic stance aimed at building safety and trust between patient and therapist.
- Define the AEDP term, “transformance”.
- Utilize three interventions relevant to addressing defensive responses to feeling & connecting.
- Name three interventions used to regulate anxiety and overwhelming affect.
- Illustrate how to encourage clients to stay with their experience.
- Summarize AEDP integrated from a cultural point of view and AEDP in the context of the Black experience.
- Utilize “meta-therapeutic processing” (exploring the patient’s experience of having a therapeutic experience) as an intervention to deepen and broaden the treatment’s effectiveness and name three examples of meta-processing questions.
- Describe therapeutic tasks and interventions to help patients tolerate, experience, and express emotional experience.
- Role-play and practice emerging skills, developing competence with AEDP.
- Demonstrate an enhanced understanding of the AEDP model, use small groups to appraise, process and review the AEDP Model of therapy
- Cite the history and development of the AEDP Model of psychotherapy.
Wednesday
Understanding AEDP Psychotherapy’s theoretical foundation that integrates neuroplasticity and emotion research, emphasizing dyadic regulation and affect processing through a progressive therapeutic model. The framework addresses stress, distress, symptoms, and defenses while processing emotional experiences, ultimately working toward the development of coherent self-narratives through evidence-based interventions.
Introduction to AEDP Theoretical Roots – (Part I)
Metapsychology
Neuroplasticity
Positive Emotion
Introduction to AEDP Theoretical Roots – (Part II)
The Drive to Heal and Grow
Relational Accompaniment
Dyadic Regulation
Processing Affect and Positive Emotions
The Experience of Change Itself
The AEDP Four State Model of Transformation (Part I)
State 1: Stress, Distress, Symptoms Defenses, Inhibitory Affect
Mental Phenomena of State 1
Interventions for State 1
State 2: The Processing of Emotional Experience
Mental Phenomena of State 2
Interventions for State 2
The AEDP Four State Model of Transformation (Part II)
State 3 – The Metatherapeutic Processing of What has Just Occurred in the Progression from states 1 to 2.
Mental Phenomena
Interventions
State 4 – Core State; Constructing a “coherent and cohesive” Self-Narrative
Mental Phenomena
Interventions
Thursday
In Part 1 of Attachment: Working Experientially With Relatedness, the focus is on undoing aloneness by addressing profound isolation and loneliness that often accompanies trauma through creating a supportive, connected environment, implementing dyadic regulation, and facilitating corrective experiences. Part 2 builds on this foundation by establishing trust and safety in the client-therapist relationship through dyadic regulation and corrective experiences. The Triangle of Experience Graph examines anxiety-provoking phenomena in patients by analyzing how emotional experience is structured, including defense mechanisms, anxiety responses, and core affective experiences that manifest as momentary feelings of pleasure/displeasure and activation/deactivation.
Attachment: Working Experientially With Relatedness (Part 1)
Undo Aloneness; Addressing the Profound Sense of Isolation and Loneliness That Often Accompanies Traumatic Experiences
Creating a Supportive and Connected Environment
Dyadic Regulation
Corrective Experiences
Attachment: Working Experientially With Relatedness (Part 2)
Establishing Trust/Safety Between Client and Therapist Dyadic Regulation
Corrective Experiences
The Triangle of Experience Graph and its Categories; What Happens When Anxiety Provoking Phenomena get Activated in the Patient
How Emotional Experience Comes to be Structured
Defense
Anxiety
Core Affective Experience; Momentary, Elementary Feelings of Pleasure or Displeasure and of Activation or Deactivation
The Triangle of Experience (continued)
DAY 3
10:30 to 11:00 PM
I: Review and Provide Needed Clarification of Material From Day 1. Course Overview for Day 3.
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
II: Working With Transformation: The Positive Affective Experiences
a. Positive Emotions and Affect Associated With Experiences of Transformation
b. Affective States
c. Interventions
12:15 to 12:30 PM
III: Break
12:30 to 2:15 PM
IV: Addressing Blocks to Change: Inhibitory Affects and Defenses.
a. Ways to Restructure Defenses
b. Interventions for Defensive Responses
c. Interventions to Regulate Anxiety and Affect
2:15 to 3:15 PM
V: Lunch
3:15 to 5:00 PM
VI: AEDP Integrated From a Cultural Point of View Part 1
5:00 to 5:15 PM
VII: Break
5:15 to 6:45 PM
VIII: AEDP Integrated From a Cultural Point of View Part 2
6:45 to 7:00 PM
IX: Summary, Questions, Reflections From Participants
DAY 4
10:30 to 11:00 AM
I: Review and Provide Needed Clarification of Material From Day 3. Course Overview for Day 4.
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
II: AEDP in the Context of the Black Experience Part 1
12:30 to 12:45 PM
III: Break
12:45 to 2:15 PM
IV: AEDP in the Context of the Black Experience Part 2
2:45 – 3:15 PM
V: Lunch
3:15 -3:30 PM
VI: Introduction to Role-play Experiential Exercises – Review Instructions
3:30 – 7:00 PM
VII: Therapist/Client Role Play to Practice: – An Affirmative Intervention: Welcome/Affirm/Validate/Offer Encouragement.
– How to Invite the Client to Stay With the Emotional and Somatic Experience.
– Interventions for Defensive Responses and for Regulating Anxiety.
– Practice Utilizing the “I” Statement Style of Communication “a tool in which the first person pronoun is used in talking about relationship issues.” (APA dictionary)
DAY 5
10:30 to 11:00 AM
I: Review and Provide Needed Clarification of Material From Day 4. Course Overview for Day 5.
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
II: Integration: (Part I)
a. Review of the Information from the Previous Four Days Through a Micro-Analysis of a Videotaped Session.
12:30 to 1:30 PM
III: Lunch
1:30 to 2:30 PM
IV: Integration: (Part II)
a. Review of the Information from the Previous Four Days Through a Micro-Analysis of a Videotaped Session.
2:30 to 4:00 PM
V: Review of the AEDP Modality, Q&A
AEDP psychotherapy is an empirically supported model that heals trauma and helps to undo aloneness by championing the innate healing capacity of neuroplasticity in a safe, attached therapeutic relationship.
Through moment-to-moment, in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences, AEDP clinicians help clients recover their sense of core self and experience increased resilience and a renewed zest for life.
AEDP has roots in many disciplines including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, emotion theory and affective neuroscience, body-focused approaches as well as transformational studies.
As a clinical treatment, AEDP is effective with a variety of psychological symptoms and issues, including depression, emotion dysregulation, negative thoughts, experiential avoidance, and interpersonal problems. AEDP is also effective in enhancing positive functioning such as self-compassion, well-being, and self-esteem.
Meet the Presenter: Diana Fosha, PhD
Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP™ psychotherapy, a healing-based, transformation-oriented treatment model. And she is Founder and Director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha’s work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of the AEDP therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP is an experiential clinical practice which reflects the integration of science,research and practice in psychotherapy.
Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York. Read More >>
Dates, Times & Setting
Please check all dates and times closely for conflicts with local holidays, religious holidays, etc.
All time are Eastern Standard Time (New York)
Dates
Wednesday, January 22
Thursday, January 23
Friday January 24
Saturday January 25
Sunday, January 26
Monday, January 27
Times
10:30 AM – 7:00 PM
10:30 AM – 7:00 PM
10:30 AM – 4:00 PM
no Session
l0:30 AM – 7:00 PM
l0:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Registration, Fees & Scholarships
Registration
Single Payment
$1659
Registration
Payment Plan
$1699
$500 deposit due at registrations + 4 payments of 299.75
Scholarships
Limited Scholarships available
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To be Eligible to Attend
Therapists must have the following Licensing credentials:
North America: Licensed mental health practitioners as well as therapists practicing under the license of a supervising professional.
Beyond North America: Mental health professionals who hold licensure equivalent to North American standards including ongoing affiliation with an organization responsible for issuing and overseeing mental health credentials in their country or region.
Important Notes:
Coaching and other non-psychotherapy specific licenses are not eligible.
If you’re unsure about the relevance of this course for you, or your eligibility, please contact admin@aedpinstitute.org with your credentials before registering.
Attendance and Make up Policy
Institute Sponsored Courses Including Immersion, Essential Skills, Advanced Skill Modules, Seminars/Webinars and Institute Sponsored Core Trainings
The AEDP Institute does not offer make-ups for missed course days. In the rare case where someone joins a course late, or misses a session in the middle of a course, the hour(s) or day(s) that person misses cannot be made up. Why? Group dynamics developed during a course are essential to the course’s success; so someone coming into a course for a short period of time is – regardless of their best intentions – disruptive to other participants and the course’s overall success. The Institute will, however, provide handouts from missed hours or days but will not allow a person to make up the hours or days they miss in another course.
AEDP Level credit: if a participant attends 80% or more of a course, the Institute will apply the course towards AEDP Level advancement
Refunds and Cancellations
Program Cancellation/Changes
The AEDP Institute reserves the right to cancel a training/ program prior to its start, in which case full refunds will be issued to participants for any tuition fees paid for the program. The AEDP Institute is not responsible for participant expenses including travel, childcare, missed practice sessions, etc.
In the rare situation that the AEDP Institute makes changes to advertised presenter(s), tuition fees will not be refunded.
By adhering to these policies, we aim to ensure a fair and consistent approach to cancellations, refunds, and transfer requests.
Canceling 16 or More Days Before a Course or Seminar:
- Refund: 85% of your course fee.
Canceling 1-15 Days Before a Course or Seminar:
- No Refund
- An Institute credit of 85% of your course fee will be provided for use towards a future course.
Canceling / Withdrawing / No Show on the 1st Day or During a Course or Seminar:
- No refund
- No credit
Transfer Requests Made 45+ Days Before Course Start:
- Requests will be accommodated wherever possible without financial penalty.
Transfer Requests Made 44-1 Days Before Course Start:
- $200 Transfer fee Applied to new course
Participants in Multi-Module Essential Skills (ES1) Courses:
- Requests to transfer from one ES1 course series to another are highly disruptive and rarely possible.
- Exception: In rare and extreme circumstances where an exception is made, a $200 transfer fee will be charged
Refund Policy for Institute Sponsored On Demand (recorded) Seminars
If for any reason you are unsatisfied with an Institute sponsored (recorded) On Demand Seminar, please email admin@aedpinstitute.org with an explanation of why you are dissatisfied. We will offer, one time per person, a credit for your payment, less a 15% banking and administrative fee that you may apply to a different (recorded) On Demand seminar.
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