AEDP Conference 2025: In It Together

Celebrating 25 years of AEDP
In-Person in New York City or Live Online
3 days: Friday – Sunday, April 4 – 6, 2025

In April, AEDP community from around the world will gather in New York City for 3 days of learning, laughing, and becoming inspired, TOGETHER at last!

The 2025 Conference, In It Together, will be held both online and in-person at the legendary Webster Hall in downtown Manhattan where invited speakers from within and beyond the AEDP community will grace the same stage that world famous musicians and speakers have performed on for more than 140 years.

The conference is designed in instruct and inspire AEDP therapists of all levels. Check out the agenda and list of speakers and topics below. Most presentations work to refresh, deepen and refine your AEDP practice and include illuminating clinical video, live demonstrations and / or in-person dialogues with clients reflecting on their treatments. In addition there will be two sciencey, research talks which will most definitely spark exciting conversations with your colleagues as they bridge the researcher-clinician divide. And finally you can expect to hear inspiring shorts – Ted Talk® style presentations that present AEDP treatment in a larger social context or in fascinating niche scenarios.

In-person seats are limited to 600, so it’s important to register early!



Why Register Now?

1) To be sure to get a seat. We sold out all 400 seats at our last conference 10 years ago. We are 50% sold out as of middle of November!

2) Start on a payment plan if that’s right for you – deadline for payment plans is December 31, 2024.

 3) Join the list of people we tap into about social events and opportunities to connect during conference breaks and evenings.

 5) Participate in the conference discussion on Listserv: connect with registered attendees from around the world, building excitement and make plans.

Picture yourself here with 600 other AEDP enthusiasts!

Non-Member Registration:


In-Person Conference $799 USD: One payment or payment plan
Payment Plan requires a $300 deposit by December 31, 2024 plus 4 payments of $124.75
Online Conference $599 USD: One payment or payment plan
Payment Plan requires a $300 deposit by December 31, 2024 plus 4 payments of $74.75

Are you a Member? Log in to get your Member discount

Extended payment plans are available until December 31 for past scholarship recipients. See FAQ’s below for more information.

I hope you are as excited as we are!!

Molly Eldridge
Chair of the AEDP Conference Committee 
theconference@aedpinstitute.org

Keynote Presenters

Diana Fosha

Gul Dolen

Solo Presenters

Benjamin Lipton

The ABC’s of AEDP: Acronyms to get you started or keep you on track with the practice of AEDP.

Jerry Lamagna

When Treatment Gets Stuck: Addressing therapeutic impasses in AEDP treatment.

Natasha Prenn

Put Deliberate Practice into your AEDP Practice.

Eileen Russell

When Empathy and Authenticity Collide in AEDP

Ben Medley

Navigating Differences in Social Experience in the Therapeutic Dyad

Karen Pando-Mars

Flavors of Relational Work Across Attachment Patterns

Sigal Bahat

Sigal Bahat

The Semi-Permeable Cell Membrane: The legitimacy of Personal Boundaries

H. Jacquie Ye-Perman

AEDP Reaches out in Zimbabwe.

Danny Yeung

Hearkening Together in One Spirit: I-and-Dao in the here-and-now as AEDP therapist’s transpersonal use of self

Heather Sanford

Maximizing the Transformational Power of AEDP: Using Groups in the Community Mental Health Setting.

Gerald Brooks

Gerald Brooks

Black Men Do Cry: The Transformational Tear, Father Wounds, and the Healing Power of AEDP.

Kev Kokoska

Responses To Constraint: Relational Prisms in Prisons

Yuval Moses

In Defense of Defenses: lessons from integrating DBT with AEDP when feeling emotions leads to high risk behaviors.

Shigeru Iwakabe

16 Session AEDP & the AEDP Research Project: bridging the clinician researcher divide.

Presenting in Duos

Kate Halliday and Andrea Northwood

Championing and Celebrating the True Self: An AEDP “True Other” is an agent for lesbian liberation.

Kari Gleiser and Jason Trowbridge

Feeling in Synch: Core state accelerates integration in patients with dissociative parts

Group Presentations

Conference Agenda

Friday April 4, 2025
8:00 amRegistration, Sign In, Coffee, Tea
8:45 amWelcome Remarks
9:00 – 12:00 pmKeynote #1, Panel, 1 Solo
12:00 – 1:15 pmLunch (on your own/ with friends)
1:15 – 5:30 pm2 Solos, 4 Shorts, Closing Remarks
5:30 – 7:00 pmIn It Together Evening Reception
Saturday April 5, 2025
8:00 amSign In, Coffee, Tea
8:45 – 12:30 pmWelcome, 1 Group Presentation, 2 Solos
12:30 – 1:45 pmLunch (on your own/ with friends)
1:45 – 5:30 pm 1 Solo, 1 Group Presentation, Keynote #2
6:30 – 11:00 pm (various)Separately Ticketed Social Events – Options TBA
Sunday April 6, 2025
8:00 amSign In, Coffee, Tea
8:45 – 11:00 amWelcome, 1 Solo, 3 Shorts
11:00 – 11:30 amBreak
11:30 – 1:30 pm2 Solos
1:30 – 2:00 pmClosing Remarks

Frequently Asked Questions

Accommodations: Webster Hall is located at 125 East 11th St in NYC, NY. A quick Google search will bring up LOTS of hotels nearby. We have secured a limited number of discounted rooms at a hotel right across the street from the venue. Early registrants for the In-person event will be given a link to access that room block. We anticipate it will sell out fast. For now we do not have plans to get additional discounted room blocks.

Limited Scholarships and Extended Payment Plans for AEDP Scholarship Recipients: If you have been a recipient of any scholarship from the AEDP Institute, you are eligible for an extended payment plan offered through December 31, 2024, and you may be eligible for one of the limited scholarships being offered for the conference. Please email Carolyn for more information:

Scholarships: November 30 was the deadline for conference scholarship applications. Past scholarship recipients please see extended payment plan options below – note the December 31 deadline.

Extended Payment Plans: While all registrants may take advantage of our basic payment plans offered above (see registration links above), all past course scholarship recipients are eligible for a special extended payment plan. This plan requires a $100 deposit by December 31, 2024, followed by $100 monthly payments until the total amount is paid. Please email Carolyn for more information.

Continuing Education Credits: We do not know at this time whether the AEDP Conference will be CE eligible.

Refund Policy: 10% charge on refunds requested prior to February 15, 2025 (covers our credit card fees). No refunds starting February 15, 2025.

ADA Information: Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact Marilia Rodriguez, admin@aedpinstitute.org or call 813-553-1294 thirty days or more before the event so we can be sure to accommodate you. 

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