AEDP™ Psychotherapy’s Magnificent ‘9+1’ Affective Change Mechanisms: The Theory and Practice of AEDP Described and Presented Through the Lens of Its Affective Change Mechanisms, One at a Time
An AEDP™ Institute Sponsored, Live Online Learning Series with Diana Fosha, PhD plus Institute Faculty Guest Presenters
This course is open to:
Licensed Mental Health Providers practicing legally in your state, province, or country, including Counselors, Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, other Behavioral Health Therapists and related professionals. For information about whether this course offers Continuing Education credits for your license, see the bottom of the page.
AEDP Level Prerequisite: Advanced AEDP practitioners who meet the following criteria
– Must have completed Immersion and Essential Skills (ES1) and 5 hours of supervision and/or have been an Experiential Assistant in at least three ES1 modules
– Or completed Immersion and 20 hours of supervision and a letter of recommendation from a supervisor
To get the most out of this course we recommend that participants be in AEDP clinical supervision during the course.
If you have a question about the relevance of this course for you and/or your eligibility for this course please contact admin@aedpinstitute.org with your credentials before registering.
Course Description
This is a THEORY-forward course presented by Diana Fosha, PhD, developer of AEDP psychotherapy and founder and director of the AEDP Institute.
Twenty-one years after the publication of her 1st book, The Transforming Power of Affect, the book that launched AEDP, there is a new book on the model. The new book, titled “Undoing Aloneness & The Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (APA, 2021)” which came out in the summer of 2021, features the latest thinking on AEDP psychotherapy’s theory and practice; it is a book that Diana and her Institute Faculty colleagues fondly refer to as the “AEDP 2.0” book.
The latest thinking in AEDP theory and practice”, is, in essence, what this, Diana’s online 9 +1 course -with its focus on AEDP’s affective change processes- is about.
Naturally occurring, adaptive, affective change processes have always been at the heart of AEDP’s healing oriented, radically relational, transformational practice. In the two decades between the two books, the clinical, practice-based theory of AEDP has grown, expanded, and deepened. And it has been put to the test hundreds of thousands of times worldwide in transformational moments between patients and us, their AEDP therapists, worldwide.
In addition, empirical support on the effectiveness of AEDP has also arrived on the scene. The need to systematize, codify and measure both outcome and process in AEDP therapy sessions has led to the development of a number of AEDP Scales. Amongst them is what we have come to call “The Magnificent 9 +1 Affective Change Processes Scale,” developed by Diana Fosha and codified with her AEDP Research Team colleagues, Jennifer Edlin, MFT and Shigeru Iwakabe, PhD. This scale describes what makes AEDP AEDP: it attempts to capture the processes that make AEDP effective for so many patients. These AEDP affective change processes provide the scaffolding for exploring AEDP 2.0 theory and clinical practice in this online course that Diana is teaching.
Unlike many of the other AEDP courses that have a strong experiential component, this 9+1 course will focus on the theory underlying AEDP’s clinical practice.
Through assigned readings; didactic presentations; clinical video from Diana Fosha and her guest presenters’ actual clinical sessions; in class discussion (as well as optional study group discussion), participants will deepen their understanding of the theory of AEDP, in a way that will add depth and precision to their clinical practice.
In a series of thirteen 3-hour online classes from January – June, 2023 Diana will elaborate AEDP 2.0’s theory and clinical framework organized around AEDP’s Magnificent ‘9 + 1’ Affective Change Processes.
What to Expect in the Thirteen Sessions
Reading:
Participants will be expected to complete readings for each session, in addition to attending all 13 live sessions. There is a lot of reading..
READING GROUPS and COURSE LISTSERV: Not required, but we strongly suggest that participants meet with a “reading group” in the off weeks between class sessions. Reading groups will not be monitored and there are no CE’s given for this time. Participants will be asked to form and maintain reading groups largely on their own. The course will have its own listserv for additional course discussion and for communicating needs around meeting with reading groups.
Topics and Format of each Session:
Each session will consist of a mix of (i) didactic presentation and discussion of the readings; (ii) showing and discussing clinical tape relevant to that topic; and integrative discussions with fellow AEDPers, some in breakout rooms and some led by Diana in the main room.
Session 1: February 14, 2023
Course Introduction “We Are Organized To Be Better Than Fine” and AEDP’s 9+1 Scale
Transformational Studies, AEDP’s Transformational Theory and the 9 Affective Change Processes
Session 2: February 21, 2023
Transformance Detection & Affirmation: Healing from the Get-Go AND Putting Positive Neuroplasticity into Clinical Action
Session 3: March 7, 2023
Recognition: The Process and Experience of Recognition: “I see you” and Feeling Seen
Session 4: March 21, 2023
Undoing Aloneness: The Attachment Strand & the Intersubjective Strand in AEDP. OR Attachment Sprinkled with Intersubjective Delight; Dyadic Affect Regulation: “Stay with It and Stay with Me”
Session 5: March 28, 2023
Relational Processing to Rewire the Internal Working Model; Relational Work with Receptive Affective Experience
Guest Presenter: Ronald Frederick, PhD
Session 6: April 11, 2023
Affirmative Work with Defenses and the Updated (2021 version) of AEDP’s Representational Schemas
Guest Presenter: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT
Session 7: April 18, 2023
The Triangle of Social Change: A New AEDP Schema Schemas to Ground our AEDP work with the Trauma of Oppression and the Experience of Liberation
Guest Presenter: Ben Medley, LCSW
Session 8: May 2, 2023
Recognition, The Invisibility Syndrome and Neglect: The Healing Power of Feeling Seen
Guest Presenter: Michaela Simpson, PhD
Session 9: May 16, 2023
Trauma Processing and Work with the Maladaptive Affective Experiences, i.e, the Pathogenic Affects & the Unbearable States of Traumatic Aloneness
Guest Presenter: Jerry Lamagna, LCSW
Session 10: May 30, 2023
Agency, Will and Desire as Core Affective Experiences
Guest Presenter: Eileen Russell, PhD
Session 11: June 13, 2023
Metatherapeutic Processing: Privileging Emergence of the New (and Good) Experience: The Transformational Affects; The Broaden and Build Theory of Emotion; Bringing About In-Session Flourishing; Setting the Upward Spiral in Motion
Session 12: June 27, 2023
The Neurobiological Core Self, I/Thou Relating and Core State: “This is Me:” Integration and the Creation of New Meaning; Re-writing One’s Autobiographical Story
Session 13: July 11, 2023
The “+1” Unmasked: The Spirit of AEDP
Course Objectives
- Explain Transformance Detection
- List tools for Healing From the Get-Go
- Summarize Undoing AlonenessExplain the results of using Affirmation & Emotional Engagement; Attachment Sprinkled with Intersubjective Delight: The Attachment Strand & The Intersubjective Strand
- Apply Experiential Focus.
- Discover its Rootedness in Neurobiology
- Demonstrate Working with the Felt Sense and Moment-to-Moment Tracking
- Utilize Relational Processing to Rewire the Internal Working Model
- Explain Relational Work with Receptive Affective ExperienceInterpret Affirmative Work with Defenses and the Updated (2020 version) of AEDP’s Representational Schemas
- Examine Emotion Processing, Part 1: Work with Adaptive Core Affective Experiences
- Predict Dyadic Affect Regulation: Stay with It and Stay with Me
- Examine Emotion Processing, Part 2: Work with the Pathogenic Affects & the Unbearable States of Traumatic Aloneness
- Diagram Metaprocessing, Part 1: The Broaden and Build Theory of Emotion; Bringing About In-Session Flourishing; Setting the Upward Spiral in Motion
- Subdivide Metaprocessing, Part 2: Privileging Emergence of the New (and Good) Experience: The
- Analyze Tremulous Affects the Neurobiological Core Self and Core State: “This is Me:”
- Describe Integration and the Creation of New Meaning
- Relate Re-writing One’s Autobiographical Story
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. She is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000); (Read More…)2023 Dates | Tuesdays:
February 14 & 21
March 7, 21 & 28
April 11 & 18
May, 2 & 16 & 30
June, 13 & 27
July, 11
Time:
6:00 – 9:00 pm Eastern Time USA + Canada
Please be sure to calculate your local time zone if it is not US Eastern Time
Requirements to Participate Effectively Online: You will need a private space with a reliable Internet connection for a desktop/laptop computer that has video and microphone. Click here for AEDP’s Live, Online Learning: Requirements & FAQ’s.
AEDP Level Prerequisite
Advanced AEDPers who meet the following criteria:
- Must have completed Immersion and Essential Skills (ES1) and 5 hours of supervision or have been an Experiential Assistant in at least three ES1 modules
- Or completed Immersion and 20 hours of supervision and a letter of recommendation from a supervisor
To get the most out of this course we recommend that participants be in supervision during the course.
AEDP Certification: This course does not count toward AEDP certification.
Fees:
$1950 USD Member Price (must be logged in to register)
$2000 USD Non-Member
$1,950 USD Member Course Fee (must be logged in to register)
Payment plan: $500 due at registration – Call Karen Newell 866-992-9399
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CE
Continuing Education: This program is generally eligible for 35.75 CE hours of continuing professional development credit.* Participants must have paid course fee, attended the entire course and completed an evaluation to receive CE. RCassidy, is our CE partner and will provide CE certificates. In addition a certificate of completion will be provides by the AEDP Institute. Partial credit is not available.
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