Key Links & Handouts: Essential Skills (ES1) Online, 5 Modules | Kate Halliday, LCSW | February – October, 2022

Welcome to Essential Skills ( ES1) 5 modules Course Directory!

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

Module 5: Presented by Kate Halliday, LCSW

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Letter from Kate: here

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercise day 2 (please print): here

Experiential Exercise day 4 (please print): here

State 3 to State 4: Transformance: 3 slides per page, 14 pages: here

Bringing it all together: 3 slides per page, 25 pages: here

** some of the poems I shared with you along the way: here

** “Next steps in your AEDP Journey: here

**A video about machismo (just sent with me by my client, Deb, who you saw in one of the recorded session I shared with you). It’s lovely.
https://youtu.be/tue7ECtTIMg

**Here’s the podcast with a very helpful summary from Dan Siegel…. The podcast by and for folks with D.I.D./ dissociative disorders:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/system-speak-dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple/id1445744201?i=1000446464525

Module 4: Presented by Annika Medbo, MA

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here (updated 7/30/2022 8:15am EST)

Experiential Exercise #1 (please print): here (updated 8/3/2022 5:15pm)

Experiential Exercise #1 (please print): here (updated 8/3/2022 5:15pm)

The PHENOMENOLOGY of TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESS including the Pathogenic Affects: here

THERAPEUTIC AIMS and ACTIVITIES associated with TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESS including the Pathogenic Affects: here

Day 1: STATE 2 WORK: The Processing of Core Affective Experience in AEDP

1 slide per page, 42 pages: here

3 slides per page, 14 pages: here

Day 2: STATE 2 WORK: The Use of Portrayals in AEDP

1 slide per page, 28 pages: here

3 slides per page, 10 pages: here

Module 3: Presented by Benjamin Lipton, LCSW

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercise #1 (please print): here

Experiential Exercise #2 (please print): here

Working With Defense and Anxiety in AEDP

1 slide per page, 39 pages: here

3 slides per page, 13 pages: here


Module 2: Presented by Kate Halliday, LCSW

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

AEDP 4-State Map: here

Language for each of the States: here

Appendix for Working with Anxiety & Defenses: here

Experiential Exercise (please print), Module 2A: here

Experiential Exercise (please print), Module 2B: here

Attachment Through the Lens of Transformance: Restoring Secure Attachment

Module 2A: 1 slide per page, 42 pages: here

Working at the Top of the Triangle of Experience: Anxiety & Defenses

Module 2B: 1 slide per page, 40 pages: here


Module 1: Presented by Kate Halliday, LCSW

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Meet your AEDP Faculty/Presenters: here

Meet your Experiential Assistants: here

Schedule: here

AEDP Basic Skills: here

Therapist Stance & Interventions: here

Experiential Exercises (please print):

Experiential Exercise, Module 1a, day 1, Healing from the Get-Go Therapist Stance: here

Experiential Exercise, Module 1b, day 2, The 4 States and the Experiential Roadmap: here

Presentation Slides:

Healing from the Get Go! The ABC’s of AEDP

Module 1A: 1 slide per page, 34 pages: here

The Clinical Road Map:

Module 1B: 1 slide per page, 25 pages: here

Experience Teaches:

1 slide per page, 33 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.


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