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

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 Benjamin Lipton, LCSW

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercises (please print): here

Experiential Exercises (please print): here

Small “m” Meta-processing: here

Processing Transformational Experiences

1 slide per page, 40 pages: here

3 slides per page, 14 pages: here

What Was It Like For Us To Do This Together?

1 slide per page, 38 pages: here

3 slides per page, 13 pages: here

What Have We Learned?

1 slide per page, 3 pages: here

Module 4 Presented by Ronald J. Frederick, PhD

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercises (please print) Portrayals in AEDP: here

Experiential Exercises (please print) Processing Core Affective Experience: here

Meditation Four Staying: here

State Two Work in AEDP Emotional Processing

1 slide per page, 24 pages: here

3 slides per page, 8 pages: here

Emotion Processing: Portrayals

1 slide per page, 24 pages: here

3 slides per page, 8 pages: here

Module 3 Presented by Diana Fosha, PhD

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule: here

Experiential Exercises: Working with Defenses vs. Emotion in AEDP (please print): here

Experiential Exercises: Day 4 (please print): here

The Triangle of Experience: here

STATE 1 WORK in AEDP:
Disarming Defenses & Regulating Anxiety to Access the Experiences that Gave Rise to Them
In Order To Process Them in a Corrective Manner

1 slide per page, 67 pages: here

1 slide per page. 79 pages: here (updated version 6/24/2022)

3 slides per page, 23 pages: here

3 slides per page, 27 pages: here (updated version 6/24/2022)

Day 3 Slide Presentation:

Working with Defenses vs. Relational Experience in AEDP

1 slide per page, 59 pages: here

3 slides per page, 20 pages: here

Module 2 Presented by Sigal Bahat, MA

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Schedule, updated May 14 2022: here

The Self-Other-Emotion Triangle: here

The Triangle of Experience: here

Extra maps: here

Experiential Exercises, updated schedule May 15th here

Experiential Exercises, updated schedule May 13th here

Experiential Exercises for 2A (May 13th) (please print): here

Experiential Exercises for 2B (May 15th) (please print): here

Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action (Module 2A)

3 slides per page updated May 14, 24 pages here

1 slide per page, updated May 14, 69 pages: here

Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action (Module 2B)

3 slides per page updated May 14, 15 pages: here

1 slide per page updated May 14, 45 pages: here

Module 1: Presented by Richard Harrison, PhD

Handouts & Presentation Slides

Meet your Presenters: here

Meet your Experiential Assistants: here

Schedule: here

S.P.A.: SPACE handout: here

Experiential Exercises (please print): here (Healing From The Get-Go)

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

The Triangle of Experience: here (added 3/29/2022)

The Self-Other-Emotion Triangle Two Versions: here (added 3/29/2022)

The 4-State Transformational Process is AEDP: here

HEALING FROM THE GET-GO

1 slide per page, 60 pages: here (updated 3/31/2022)

3 slides per page, 20 pages: here (updated 3/31/2022)

The Clinical Roadmap & Experiential Language of AEDP

1 slide per page, 57 pages: here (updated 3/29/2022)

3 slides per page, 19 pages: here (updated 3/29/2022)


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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