Key Links & Handouts: Essential Skills (ES1) Online 5 Modules | with Guest Presenters | June 2022- March 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 5: Presented by Kari Gleiser, PhD

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Intra-relational AEDP: Avenues of Connectivity: here

State 3 & 4 Checklist (please print): here

Experiential Exercise #1 (please print): here

Experiential Exercise #2 (please print): here

Poem by Kari Gleiser, Surrender: here

Shining the Light of Meta-processing: Harnessing and deepening transformational processes

1 slide per page, 29 pages: here

Module 4: Presented by Richard Harrison, PhD

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercise #1 (please print): here

Experiential Exercise #2 (please print): here

S.P.A.C.E. Intervention Set: here

State 2 Work in AEDP: Processing Core Affective Experience

1 slide per page, 49 pages: here (updated 1/23/2023, 2:15pm EST) 1 slide per page, 47 pages: here

(USE THESE PRESENTATION SLIDES, updated 1/26/2023 7:30pm) 1 slide per page, 51 pages: here

3 slides per page, 17 pages: here (updated 1/23/2023, 2:15 EST) 3 slides per page, 16 pages: here

(USE THESE PRESENTATON SLIDES, updated 1/26/2023 7:30pm) 3 slides per page, 17 pages: here

State 2 Work in AEDP: Portrayals

1 slide per page, 33 pages: here

3 slides per page, 11 pages: here

Self Experience is Nested in Social Context: Incorporating Ben Medley’s Triangle of Social Experience

1 slide per page, 10 pages:here (added 1/31/2023 10:30am)

Module 3: Presented by Ronald J. Frederick, PhD

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercise #1 (please print): here

Experiential Exercise #2 (please print): here

Defense Restructuring Guidelines: here

The Experiential Process

1 slide per page, 60 pages: here

3 slides per page, 20 pages: here

Module 2: Presented by Sigal Bahat, MA

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercise #1 (please print): here

Experiential Exercise #2 (please print): here

2A – Attachment & Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action

1 slide per page, 68 pages: here

3 slides per page, 23 pages: here

2B – Attachment & Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action

1 slide per page, 48 pages: here

3 slides per page, 16 pages: here

Module 1: Presented by Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA and Guest Presenter Kaori Stram, LMHC

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Meet your Presenters: here

Meet your Experiential Assistants: here

Letter from Jeanne: here

Schedule: here

Meditation for Coming Together: here

Experiential Exercises: Healing from the Get-go in AEDP (please print): here

Experiential Exercise #1 day 2 Getting Started (please print): here USE THIS ONE

Experiential Exercises: The Clinical Roadmap in AEDP (please print): here

Experiential Exercises #2 day 4 The Four States (please print): here USE THIS ONE

State Intervention Prompts – The Cheat Sheets: here

On the Lookout: Healing from the Get-Go | Undoing Aloneness | Co-Creating Safety: here

Day 1

Jeanne’s slide presentations:

Healing From the Get-Go: The Basic Skills of AEDP Deliberate Practice

1 slide per page, 76 pages: here

3 slides per page, 26 pages: here

Kaori’s slide presentation:

Healing From the Get-go in AEDP

1 slide per page, 14 pages: here

Kaori’s Transcript: Finding the Light in Self Through a Secure Relationship: here

Day 3

The Four State Model: A Travelogue

1 slide per page, 43 pages: here

3 slides per page, 15 pages: here

The Magnificent 9: here

Day 5 Monday

Shorthand version of Monday June 13th: here

Maladaptive and Adaptive Core Affect

4 slides per page, 14 pages: here

Maladaptive Core Affect: here

Transformational Processes

1 slide per page, 26 pages: here

3 slides per page, 9 pages: here

In a Nutshell What we do in AEDP: here

Therapist Evaluation Sheet: here

Jeanne’s Goodie Bag:

AEDP Songbook: here

Diana’s Magnificent 9: here

My Personal Four State Experience:

1 slide per page, 11 pages: here

4 slides per page, 3 pages: here

Self Disclosure In AEDP: here

ON THE LOOKOUT and LISTENING IN States, How Shall We Begin: here

ON THE LOOKOUT and LISTENING IN States 3 and 4: here


Essential Skills (ES1) Recommended Readings: 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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