Key Links & Handouts: Essential Skills (ES1) Online 5 Modules | with Guest Presenters | September 2022 – June 2023

Welcome to Essential Skills (ES1) Online 5 Modules!

Whether you are a participant, experiential assistant, admin team member or faculty member for this course you will find this page to be a useful central resource for all links and handouts associated with the course.

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NOTE: Additional/revised handouts and presentation slides will be updated as received (the links below will not work until received)

Module 3: Presented by Karen Pando-Mars, MFT and Guest Presenter

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Participants Roles in Experiential Exercises: here

Process Language for AEDP Essential Skillshere

Process Language Short Overview: here

Experiential Exercise #1, day 2 (please print): here

Experiential Exercises #2, day 4 (please print): here

Affect Regulatory Difficulties: here 

Triangle of Experience – Self at Best and Self at Worst: here 

Self Other Emotion Triangle – Self at Worst and Self at Best: here 

Triangle of Relational Comparisons: here

Fig 1 Self-at Best: Configuration of Secure Attachment: here 

Fig 2 Self-at-Worst: Configurations of Avoidant, Ambivalent and Disorganized Attachment: here 

Fig 3 Clinical Interventions to Treat Patterns of Avoidant, Ambivalent and Disorganized Attachment: here 

The Seven Channels of Experience: here

Day 1: Working the Top of the Triangle: Intervening with defenses and anxiety
with specificity to patterns of attachment

1 slide per page, 61 pages: here (updated 2/3/2023 11:30am)

3 slides per page, 21 pages: here (updated 2/3/2023 11:30am)

Day 3: Working the Top of the Triangle: Intervening with defenses and anxiety
with specificity to patterns of attachment

1 slide per page, 46 pages: here

3 slides per page, 16 pages: here

Guest Presenter: Nicky Cameron, MSW,LCSW, CBHCMS

ByPassing Defenses Through The Healing Power of Presense

1 slide per page, 20 pages: here

3 slides per page, 7 pages: here

Karen Pando-Mars Goodie Bag

Song, Your Not Alone: https://youtu.be/YHzPT6bCGoQ

Song by Alexi Murdoch: here

“The Healing Time” by Pesha Gertler: here

“Allow” by Danna Faulds: here

Friday (February 3rd) Meditation: here

Saturday (February 4th) Meditation: here

Sunday (February 5th) Meditation: here

Monday (February 6th) Meditation: here

Module 2: Presented by Mary Androff, MD

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercise #1, day 2 (please print): here

Experiential Exercises #2, day 4 (please print): here

Triangle Handouts:

  • the triangle of experience + 2 versions: here
  • the two versions of the self-other-emotion triangle: here
  • the triangle of relational comparisons: here
  • the phenomenology of the 4 state process in AEDP including the maladaptive core affective experiences: here

Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action, Part A

1 slide per page, 64 pages: here

updated 12/16/2022, 1 slide per page, 92 pages: here

3 slides per page, 22 pages: here

Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action, Part B

1 slide per page, 51 pages: here

3 slides per page, 17 pages: here

Module 1: Presented by Ben Medley, LCSW

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Meet your Presenters: here

Meet your Experiential Assistants: here

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercises (please print): here

Experiential Exercises (please print): here

The Triangle of Experience: The Self-at-Worst and The Self-at-Best: here

The Phenomenology of the Four-State Transformational Process in AEDP: here

The Phenomenology of the Four-State Transformational Process In AEDP, Including the
Maladaptive Affective Experiences, i.e., the Pathogenic Affects and the Unbearable States of
Traumatic Aloneness: here

Day 1: Healing From the Get-Go, Undoing Aloneness & The Clinical Roadmap for AEDP’s Transformational Journey

1 slide per page, 56 pages: here

3 slides per page, 19 pages: here

Day 2: Healing From the Get-Go, Undoing Aloneness & The Clinical Roadmap for AEDP’s Transformational Journey

1 slide per page, 49 pages: here

3 slides per page, 17 pages: here


Microaggressions: Spotting them and repairing them here
Based on Kenneth Hardy’s presentation at Marin CAMFT October 23, 2021 as summarized by Karen
Pando Mars and amended by Jacqueline Lynch and Kate Halliday.

AEDP Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Supported Practice: here


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