Transformance Journal: Training Location: New York

Core Training • 2015-2016 • New York

with Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA

Weekend 1: September 26-27, 2015

Weekend 2: November 7-8, 2015

Weekend 3: January 9-10, 2016

Weekend 4: February 27-28, 2016

Weekend 5: April 9-10, 2016

Meet the Trainer:

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Training Location

The Offices of Jeanne Newhouse NCPsyA
680 West End Avenue Suite 1A
New York, NY 10025

Course Fee

  • The fee for the AEDP Couples Core Training is $3,300.
  • A $200 discount is available if you pay in full when you register.
  • The course is limited to 10 participants.
  • A one-year financial commitment is required. View our cancellation/refund policy.

Register

Continuing Education Credits

This program is eligible for 75 hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars. To view the CE accreditation statement click here. CE Credits are included in the fee.

Ongoing Learning Community • 2015-2016 • New York

The AEDP Ongoing Learning Community

with Natasha Prenn, LCSW and her able assistants.

The AEDP Ongoing Learning Community is a unique opportunity to continue your AEDP learning with a group of experienced AEDP clinicians. It is a didactic course, a gathering and a chance to stay connected and fully immersed in AEDP.

It’s especially designed for Advanced Level AEDP Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, Counselors and Nurses

We will divide our time between didactic, experiential exercises, demonstrations, role plays, videotapes of the work, and make sure to keep ourselves rooted in the theory as well. We will deepen our left-brain understanding by reading through the greatest hits of AEDP articles, books, and AEDP friendly authors.

An organic next step to the AEDP Advanced Skills, the first-ever AEDP Learning Community will dig even more deeply into the theoretical underpinnings of our clinical decision making and case conceptualization: emotion theory, attachment theory, transformation studies, mother-infant research, trauma studies will all be grist for the clinical mill. And most importantly we will expand our understanding of why we are doing what we mostly now know how to do!

Course Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify and utilize various ways to build receptive affective capacity.
  • Define AEDP theoretical terms like the triangle of experience,  `true self,’ `true other,’ attachment and `core state.’
  • Utilize strategies for undoing unbearable aloneness
  • Describe how core state is an end point in AEDP spiral of transformation, and distinguish it from state one: cognitive process.
  • Formulate the shift from reporting to relating and from reflective listening to experience in the present moment.

Training Dates and Times:

Week 1: Molly Morgan
Rowing Together: Explicit Experiential Work with Relational Experience
Friday, September 18, 2015 1:00 pm-6:00 pm

Reading: Fosha, D. (2001). The dyadic regulation of affect. Journal of Clinical Psychology/In Session. 57 (2), 227-242. All readings are available on the AEDP website under “articles.”

Week 2: Martina Verba, PhD
AEDP: Men, Sex and How to Start to Talk About All That!
Friday, October 30, 2015 1:00 pm-6:00 pm

Reading: Fosha, D. (2004). “Nothing that feels bad is ever the last step:” The role of positive
emotions in experiential work with difficult emotional experiences. Special issue on Emotion, L.
Greenberg (Ed.). Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. 11, 30-43.

Week 3: Ben  Medley, LCSW
Keep On Going: Nothing That Feels Bad Is Ever The Last Step.
Friday, December 11, 2015 1:00 pm-6:00 pm

Reading: Fosha, D. (2005). Emotion, true self, true other, core state: toward a clinical theory of
affective change process. Psychoanalytic Review. 92 (4), 513-552.

Week 4: Kate Halliday, LCSW
The Truth of Brokenness and the Possibility of Triumph
Friday, January 29th, 2016 1:00 pm-6:00 pm

Lipton, B., & Fosha, D. (2011) Attachment as a Transformative Process in AEDP:
Operationalizing the Intersection of Attachment Theory and Affective Neuroscience. Journal of
Psychotherapy Integration. 21 (3), 253-279.

Week 5: Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA
Pride and Joy: The Power of Positive Emotion
Friday, March 11th, 2016 1:00 pm-6:00 pm

Fosha, D. (2007). AEDP: Transformance In Action. Connections & Reflections.
Fosha, D. (2007). “Good Spiraling:” The Phenomenology of Healing and the Engendering of
Secure Attachment in AEDP. Connections & Reflections. Summer 2007.
Fosha, D. (2009). Emotion and Recognition at Work. The Neuropsychotherapist. Jul/Sep 2013
(2), 28-51.

Week 6: Karen Minsberg, LCSW – TBA
Friday, May 13th, 2016 1:00 pm-6:00 pm

Prenn, N. (2011). Mind the Gap: AEDP Interventions Translating Attachment Theory into
Clinical Practice. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. 21 (3), 308–329.
Prenn, N. (2009). I second that emotion! On self-disclosure and its metaprocessing. In A.
Bloomgarden & R. B. Menutti, (Eds.), The therapist revealed: Therapists speak about selfdisclosure
in psychotherapy (pp. 85-99). New York: Routledge.

Training Agenda:

1:00-1:30: Introduction to Section
1:30-3:00: Didactic, experiential ex, videotape, role plays
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:30 Didactic, videotape, demo, experiential exercise
5:30-6:00 Review of day’s learning/Q & A

Section 1 & 2:

  • Engender secure attachment with all your patients
  • Practice your moment-to-moment tracking skills
  • Practice metaprocessing as a key intervention in AEDP

Section 3 & 4:

  • Hone the language of interventions
  • Learn how to privilege the positive; help patients get to know how to take in feeling good
  • Explore somatic correlates of emotion to harness change for the better

Section 5 & 6:

  • Utilize different ways to stay with and deepen affect
  • Understand AEDP’s use of self and different kinds of self-disclosure
  • Utilize strategies to build and expand receptive affective capacity, perceptive skills and expressive skills

Meet the Trainer:

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Training Location:

Tournesol Wellness
26 E. 36th Street
New York, NY, 10016

Registration

  • $1,200 for non-members
  • $1,150 for AEDP Institute Members

To Register please contact Carrie at ckarmen@beta.aedpinstitute.org

Continuing Education

This event is cosponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars

Satisfactory Completion:  Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Psychologists; R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  R Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 28.5 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.

Social Workers: R. Cassidy Seminars, ACE Provider #1082 is an approved provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. Social workers will receive 28.5  continuing education clinical social work clock hours for participating in this course.

NJ: This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #31 Course #XXX from XX/XX/2015 to XX/XX/2017. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): General Social Work Practice XX

NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is approved for 28.5  contact hours

OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 28.5  clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/ Marriage and Family Therapists:

IL:  R. Cassidy Seminars is approved to offer continuing education to Marriage and Family Therapists by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation provider #168000141. 28.5 Continuing Education Credits/Hours

OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 28.5 clock hours, #RCST110701

TX: R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists to provide CE offerings for MFTs.  Provider Number 151.  28.5 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.

Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

Essential Skills • 2015-2016 • Retreat Style Course in NYC (Sold Out!)

This retreat style ES course arose in response to requests over the years from people – both in the US and throughout out the world — for whom the 5 weekends of travel a year required by the standard ES course was just not feasible.  So in response to popular demand, we now launch the Retreat-style Essential Skills course. It. will be offered in two parts over two separate weeks in New York City.

In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and  deeply we seek to both (i) undo aloneness and  (ii) engage in rigorous clinical teaching with skilled accompaniment. We are proud to say that our  ES  courses feature a high number of highly skilled assistants – and this course is no different.

AEDP Essential Skills, aimed at practitioners, will be practical. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, skill sets, concrete and specific. Different skill sets will be introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced each weekend, so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP. The basic skill sets necessary to practice AEDP will be introduced each weekend, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes and group experiential exercises in the afternoon.

Module details to follow; Ben Lipton, LCSW will helm Week 1 and Eileen M. Russell, Ph.D. will helm Week 2.  Guest presenters TBA.

COURSE DATES AND TIMES:

Week 1:
August 23rd 2015 – August 28th 2015
Ben Lipton, LCSW  – Helm
Sunday, August 23rd 2015:  7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Monday, August 24th through Friday, August 28th, 2015:  9:00 am-5:00 pm

Week 2:
April 24th 2016 – April 29th, 2016
Eileen M. Russell, Ph.D. – Helm
Sunday, April 24th, 2016:  7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Monday, April 25th through Friday, April 29th, 2016:  9:00 am-5:00 pm

WORKSHOP LOCATION:
The New York Open Center, Inc
22 East 30th Street
New York, NY 10016

Healing-oriented and attachment based, AEDP’s practice translates current neuroscience and developmental research into moment-to-moment clinical practice. Simultaneously experiential and relational in its in-depth emotional explorations, AEDP’s interventions are deeply rooted in the phenomenology and dynamics of the transformational process that emerge in environments where the individual feels safe and known. Intuitively resonant, AEDP has been called “deceptively simple.”

Essential skills will be experientially explored and didactically demonstrated so that participants will develop both a (right brain mediated) felt sense as well as a (left brain mediated) understanding of them. The training will include didactic material, clinical videotapes of actual sessions from AEDP faculty members and Dr. Diana Fosha, daily experiential exercises, and small and large group processing. A key component of the experiential practices is the opportunity to “try on” sets of interventions as a therapist and to receive them as a client. So learning new skills can give rise to experiences of safety, attachment security, transformation, and related phenomena that occur with AEDP treatment. The concentrated time that participants spend together immersed in learning AEDP aims to foster a culture of trust and generosity that allows for risk-taking and a supportive environment that is uniquely suited for optimal learning.

Objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • accurately moment-to-moment track and differentiate different aspects within the Triangle of Experience, including both verbal and somatic processes, to optimize attunement and accelerate the healing process
  • nderstand different attachment styles and utilize different interventions according to attachment style
  • understand various ways to regulate anxiety, bypass defenses and other inhibitory forces which block progress in therapy
  • access core affective experiences
  • utilize the healing potential of innate transformance strivings as a catalyst to maximize patient’s healing

Local Accommodations:

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Essential Skills • 2013-2014 • New York

Our 2013-14 Essential Skills Course will be held in New York City and begins in October.  AEDP Essential Skills, aimed at practitioners, will be practical. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, skill sets, concrete and specific. Different skill sets will be introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced each weekend, so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP.

This course has reached capacity and registration is now closed.

Meet Course Leader, Natasha Prenn, LCSW

Natasha is a Senior Faculty member of the AEDP Institute. She will teach the first weekend and then be joined by a stellar group of AEDP Institute Senior Faculty, including AEDP Director, Diana Fosha, for the final four weekends.

Course Dates and Faculty

Weekend 1: October 4th-6th
What Do I Say & How Do I Say It? And Then What Do I Do?
Natasha Prenn, LCSW
In our first weekend we will practice the language of actual interventions, we will introduce the steps and sequences that allow the work to flow, and the maps and protocols that inform our decision-making. The Essential Skills include: The experiential language of AEDP; Entry points: how and where to intervene; moment-to-moment tracking: what are we tracking and why; self-disclosure and its metaprocessing; and anxiety regulation and defense recognition.

Weekend 2: December 6th-8th
The Bonds That Free Us:  Working With Attachment Explicitly & Experientially In AEDP
Guest Faculty: Kari Gleiser, PhD
In the past decade, the rapidly evolving fields of attachment studies and developmental neuroscience have revolutionized our conceptualization of how relationships shape the human mind from infancy through adulthood. These theories now inform our understanding of psychopathology as well the transformative potential of the therapeutic relationship. However, theories don’t automatically translate into practice; specific clinical interventions are necessary to harness the power of the therapy relationship to effect healing and change. In this module, we will focus on learning and practicing AEDP’s explicit relational interventions such as: recognizing and bypassing relational defenses, enhancing receptive capacity, fostering safety and intimacy from the get-go, using therapeutic self-disclosure, processing relational affects, and meta-processing present moment relational experiences.

Weekend 3: January 24th-26th
Working With Defenses In AEDP
Guest Faculty: Diana Fosha, PhD
This module will be devoted to exploring what in AEDP we call “top of the triangle of experience” work or State 1 work, i.e., working with everything that stands in the way of dropping down into core affective experience. We will explore different AEDP strategies for working with defenses such as bypassing defenses; affirming defenses; working with defenses as a category of experience; restructuring defenses; and using intra-relational intervention (parts work) to work with defenses. We will also explore different AEDP strategies for anxiety regulation, for example how to use relational experience for anxiety regulation, and also what to so when using relational experience for anxiety regulation doesn’t do the trick.

Weekend 4: March 7th-9th
How To Work With Emotion In AEDP: Accessing, Experiencing & Processing Emotions To Completion
Guest Faculty: Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
In the context of a safe, secure therapeutic relationship, our facilitating a patient’s full, visceral experiencing of emotions and working together to process them through to completion is a foundational mechanism of therapeutic change for the better in AEDP. As a result of this process of feeling core emotions through to completion, patients consistently and predictably gain access to adaptive strategies for navigating life experiences and thriving in the world. In this module, we will focus on the specific skills required for working effectively with emotional experience. Participants will leave this weekend with a clear understanding of the landscape of emotion processing work in AEDP and the essential tools necessary to begin to facilitate this process in their own clinical work.

Weekend 5: April 25th-27th
Transformational Affects, Positive Affects, Core State & Engendering Resilience: The Fruits Of Metaprocessing
Guest Faculty: Eileen Russell, PhD
This module will focus how to pay attention to small and large transformations and what to do in the wake of them. Metaprocessing is one of AEDP’s most unique contributions to the field of psychotherapy and it is what facilitates the cascade of transformation. We will also look at AEDP’s model of resilience and how AEDP helps restore and enhance people’s capacities to be and act on behalf of their own selves. Finally, we will look at how to stay with intensely positive affects, sometimes directed toward the therapist, and how this part of the 4 States/3 State transformations shifts the dynamic between patient and therapist in important ways.   

Course Format
The course will be held over 5 three-day weekends according to the following schedule:  Fridays, 1 pm – 7 pm; Saturdays from 9 am – 5 pm; Sundays from 9 am – 2 pm. The basic skill sets necessary to practice AEDP will be introduced each weekend, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes, followed by live demonstrations and group experiential exercises in the afternoons.

Theory, Videotapes and Experiential Learning

Participants will learn the AEDP clinical roadmap, decision tree, protocol, and the right-brain language of experiential treatment. The training will include didactic material, clinical videotapes of actual sessions, experiential exercises, and small and large group processing.

Essential skills will be experientially explored and didactically demonstrated so that participants will develop both a (right brain mediated) felt sense as well as a (left brain mediated) understanding of them:

  • the entrainment of transformance and healing forces within the self
  • how to translate social engagement neuroscience to clinical work
  • how to engender secure attachment from the get-go, and thereafter
  • how to work with patients who do not take to AEDP
  • promoting right brain experience: gaze, contact, tone, lexicon
  • how to work with resistance to right-brain experience
  • self-at-best/self-at-worst
  • moment-to-moment tracking
  • the four state and three-state transformations of the transformational process
  • working with defenses: bypassing defenses, defense restructuring
  • undoing unbearable aloneness
  • pressuring with empathy
  • dyadic affect regulation: attunement, disruption, repair
  • phenomenology of affective experiences, transformational markers
  • metaprocessing: how AEDP interventions register inside the patient
  • metatherapeutic processing of transformational experience
  • the healing-oriented phenomenology of AEDP: categorical emotions, healing affects, receptive affective experiences
  • the integration of right-brain and left-brain experience to unleash cascading transformations, and solidify therapeutic gains

Course Readings

Continuing Education Credits

This program is eligible for 82.50 hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars.  To view the CE accreditation statement click here.  CE Credits are included in the course fee.

Course Fee

The fee for the AEDP Essential Skills course is $3,400.  Course size is limited to 50 participants. A $200 discount is available if full payment is made at the time of registration

Cancellation & Refund Policy

A one-year financial commitment is required.  View our cancellation/refund policy.

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Immersion Course • 2013 • East Coast

Join us for our 2013 Immersion Course
November 18th – November 22nd in New York City

Healing at the Edge of Transformational Experience:
The Transformation of Attachment Trauma

This 5-Day Immersion Course in AEDP is intended for practitioners interested in AEDP, in its transformational theory, and in exploring its applications to the treatment of attachment trauma. Our focus is on AEDP and the theory and practice informing AEDP work at the edge of healing experience to repair attachment trauma. Making extensive use of clinical videotapes of actual therapy sessions, the aim of this course is to foster proficiency in the practice of AEDP, as well as facilitate its integration into clinical practices that make use of other experiential, body-focused, trauma-based, relational and/or psychodynamic methods.

Theoretical Framework: Clinical Teaching from Videotapes

AEDP seeks to undo the patient’s aloneness in the face of overwhelming suffering and to engage innate healing forces within, i.e., transformance, so as to heal trauma, restore vitality to self experience, and engender resilience.

AEDP engages the process of deep emotional change and features a theoretical framework for transformational work. Seamlessly and organically integrative of attachment, emotion, affective neuroscience, mother infant studies, experiential techniques and body based trauma treatments, AEDP’s attachment based transformational framework scaffolds AEDP’s hallmark moment-to-moment to moment clinical work, which traces an arc whereby emotional suffering is seamlessly transformed into flourishing. This course will teach you how to work at the edge of transformational experience and how to use somatic-affective transformational markers to guide interventions. You will learn how to use AEDP’s rigorous transformational phenomenology to closely track clinical processes. Extensive use of clinical videotapes will demonstrate hallmark AEDP techniques such dyadic affect regulation; experiential work with attachment experience; working with receptive affective experience, such as feeling felt, feeling seen, and feeling cared for; processing emotion through to a transformational shift; and the metaprocessing of transformational experience. Experiential exercises will allow you to both practice AEDP interventions and experience how brain, body, psyche and the experience of human connection and transformation intertwine to unleash deep emotional change and heal attachment trauma.

What Does an Average Day Look Like?

  • Each day begins with a 90-minute theoretical presentation grounding the clinical work in the conceptual framework of AEDP’s healing oriented transformational theory.
  • The remainder of the day will consist of clinical teaching revolving around clinical videotapes, with a focus on the phenomenology of transformation and techniques, and strategies of intervention. Special attention will be accorded to working with the experience of transformation, the healing affects, offering and receiving affirmation, and promoting core state experiencing, all in the context of transforming attachment trauma. In essence, this Immersion course is a soup-to-nuts course in AEDP.
  • The format will be highly interactive and emphasize the back and forth with participants, thus activating dyadic processes of communication. There will be an opportunity to practice aspects of AEDP through structured-in experiential exercises.

Videotapes Will Help You Learn and Practice How To:

  • entrain neuroplasticity and harness healing forces from the get-go
  • be a transformance detective
  • work experientially with the experience of attachment in the here-and-now therapeutic relationship
  • use affective/somatic affective markers to moment-to-moment track clinical process and guide interventions
  • recognize the phenomenology of the transformational process: the 4 states and 3 state transformations of AEDP
  • use dyadic regulation to undo the patient’s aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotional experience
  • use dyadic affect regulation to transform shame and fear; restore connection, flow and awe
  • regulate and process emotion to a transformational shift, from negative to a point where positive affects and adaptive action tendencies are released
  • use healing affects to foster True Self experience through being a True Other
  • metaprocess transformational experiences to engender upward spirals of resilience, health, creativity, & well-being, i.e., flourishing
  • promote core state and experiences of openness, compassion, self-compassion, flow, ease, wisdom, generosity, and calm

It is the vision of the course to bring together clinicians from different perspectives who share an interest in AEDP specifically and/or in dynamic-experiential work in general, but who also each bring his or her own very special expertise, interest and experiences. In this way, not only will the course be exciting and enlivening, but AEDP will continue to grow, be enriched and enhanced by being in communication, or dyadic coordination with these other lodes of knowledge and wisdom. Given the interest expressed in this course, it looks like that vision might be actualized, which is a very exciting prospect.

Course Fee and CE Credits

The fee for the AEDP Immersion course is $1,500. An early bird savings of $100 is available until September 1st if tuition is paid in full at the time of registration. There is also a $50 discount for members of the AEDP Institute. There is not a student rate, as the course is intended for practicing clinicians who have completed their post-graduate professional training.

This program is eligible for 32.5 CE Hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars. To view the CE accreditation statement click here.  CE Credits are included in the course fee.

For our cancellation/refund policy click here.

Course Location and Lodging Information

Hotel Pennsylvania
401 Seventh Avenue (at 33rd Street)
New York, NY 10001

A block of hotel rooms has been reserved for our program attendees.  To reserve a room at our preferred rate of $165 (Single/King) or $195 (Double/2 Beds) please click here or call the hotel reservation office during business hours at 212-736-5000 ext. 8790 or toll free at 800-223-8585 and use the code AEDP.  You must make your room reservation by October 27, 2013 to take advantage of the discounted rate.

Registration

Course size is limited to 85 participants and our Immersion Course always sells out.  We recommend early registration to ensure your spot!

Registration is now open! Register online by clicking here or call 866-992-9399 or 707-566-7470 to sign up for the course.

Questions?

Questions about this course? Click here to email us or call 866-992-9399.

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Advanced Skills • 2012-2013 • East Coast

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Learn AEDP In-Depth, Systematically and Experientially

Take your AEDP practice to the next level with this all-new Advanced Skills Training Course. Practical and hands-on, it is designed to help you master the advanced skills necessary to work with challenging clients. With videotapes and group experiential exercises, it will also strengthen your theoretical understanding of AEDP principles.

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