September 5th – 8th, 2016

At the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya

With Diana Fosha, Ph.D.

This 4-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.

Click here to learn more about the AEDP Immersion course.

Location & Times

Auditorium SL103
Radzyner-Sustainability building
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.

Map and Directions

Course days run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Meet the Presenter

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Course Fee and CE Credits

• This program is eligible for 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.
• Course size is limited to 85 participants and our Immersion Course almost always sells out.  We recommend early registration to ensure your spot!

Registration is now closed

Cancellation Policy:

• In the event of cancellation from 08/29/2016, a refund will not be possible.
• In case of cancellation from 08/04/2016, a refund will be possible minus $180
• In case of cancellation from 07/15/2016, a refund will be possible minus $75
• In case of cancellation until 07/14/2016, a refund will be possible.

Questions about this course?

Contact Zohar Minkowicz & Marina Shtain psyevent@idc.ac.il

AEDP Immersion in Rome, Italy
April 14th – 17th, 2016

Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Emotional Suffering

At the Istituto Di Scienze Cognitive

With Diana Fosha, Ph.D.

This 4-Day Immersion Course in AEDP is recommended to all professionals doing therapy with individuals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, counselors, and students training in these professions. It will be of great interest to those wishing to transform their clinical practices by translating cutting edge developments in attachment and neuroscience research into systematic teachable and learnable interventions.

We are wired for growth, healing, and self-righting, and for resuming impeded growth. Until recently, focused on pathology, our field lacked concepts to capture the thrust toward health residing within us all. Transformance, Diana Fosha’s powerful construct, changes all that: supported by cutting edge research in neuroplasticity, transformance defines the innate motivation toward healing and self-repair, and is at the core of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a transformational and healing-oriented – rather than psychopathology based – model of therapy. Drawing on emergent research in neuroscience, development, and neuroplasticity, and with transformance as its cornerstone, AEDP rectifies the bias towards pathology: building on our natural resilience, AEDP’s therapeutics is based in our innate healing capacities, including our innate capacities for deep connection.

One of the fastest-growing approaches to working with attachment trauma, AEDP emphasizes the importance of undoing aloneness and the co-creation of safety: with accompaniment, patients can risk revisiting past trauma and suffering. AEDP is unique in its intimate yet rigorous way of working with relational experience moment-to-moment. Healing and neuroplasticity are set in motion through fully experiencing previously feared emotions in a secure relationship, and through gentle, yet focused, explicit attention to the experience of healing within the patient-therapist relationship. Specific AEDP intervention strategies, rooted in the phenomenology of the transformational process, are designed to work explicitly, dyadically, and experientially with intense traumatic emotions in a way that brings resilience to the fore, and fosters patients’ feeling deeply seen, recognized, cared about and understood. Processing both traumatic and restorative emotional experiences, the transformational process AEDP unleashes culminates in vitality, energy, and the non-finite positive emotion-fueled spirals of resilience, well-being and creativity that are so highly correlated with health. As suffering is transformed, there is a deepening of receptive affective experiences of feeling seen, felt, loved and understood. Patients’ internal working models of attachment are also transformed.

AEDP works at the emergent edge of the human spirit where recognition, integration, and nonfinite transformational spirals activate resources and generate well-being, love, play, connection, resilience, immune health, creativity and compassion.

Through extensive audio-visually recorded actual therapy sessions, this immersion course will provide ample exposure to AEDP’s hallmark techniques that: (i) actively and explicitly work with the experience of the attachment, here-and-now, in the therapeutic dyad; (ii) use dyadic affect regulation to undo aloneness and process intense overwhelming emotions; and (iii) actively, explicitly and experientially work to process intense emotional experiences until adaptive healing resources are released. The clinical videotapes will also demonstrate the technique of metatherapeutic processing, AEDP’s unique and systematic set of interventions for processing transformational experience, which expands healing, fuels upward spirals of positive affect, vitality, and energy and which can consolidate therapeutic gains, foster resilience, and expand relational capacity.

In this training you will learn:

• How to recognize transformance and put it into clinical action
• The map of AEDP, i.e., the phenomenology of the transformational process to guide moment-to-moment tracking and choice of interventions
• How to work experientially with relational experience in a way that is both safe and effective
• How to facilitate the dyadic affect regulation of previously feared-to-be-unbearable emotions
• Work with intense emotional experience, so as to be able to transform suffering into resilience
• How to work to increase patients’ receptive capacity, i.e., capacity to “take in” aspects of the attachment experience
• Metatherapeutic processing techniques, i.e., how to use the patients’ experience of transformation to activate further healing and greater consolidation of gains already made

Click here to learn more about the AEDP Immersion course.

For more details please visit Institute of Cognitive Sciences

or Download the brochure with all the details.

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Course Fee and CE Credits

• € 800,00 (VAT included)

To Register: 

1. Request the registration form from: isc@istitutodiscienzecognitive.it
2. Transfer the course fee to:
   Banca Nazionale del Lavoro – Sassari –
   Beneficiario Istituto di Scienze Cognitive srl
   IBAN IT 84 D 01005 17200 0000 0000 4496
   BIC/SWIFT: BNLIITRR
3. Send the application form with a copy of the transfer receipt to isc@istitutodiscienzecognitive.it

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

Course Location

Courtyard Rome Central Park
Via Giuseppe Moscati 7
Rome  00168  Italy

Questions about this course?

Contact Us

or contact Istituto Di Scienze Cognitive – Tel. 079/230449 – Fax. 079/9578217

SOLD OUT!

AEDP Immersion in New York City
July 25th – July 29th, 2016

The Dyadic Repair of Attachment Trauma:
Healing at the Edge of Transformational Experience

Diana Fosha, Ph.D.
with members of the AEDP Institute Faculty

at the Columbia School of Social Work

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.

Click here to learn more about the AEDP Immersion course.

Course Fee and CE Credits

Fee: $1,399
Early Bird Savings: $1299 paid in full (offer expires May 20, 2016)
An early bird savings of $100 is available until May 20, 2016 if tuition is paid in full at the time of registration.

There is no student rate as the course is intended for practicing clinicians who have completed their post-graduate professional training.

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

Course Location

Columbia School of Social Work in NYC
1255 Amsterdam Ave
(between 121st and 122nd Streets)
New York, NY 10027
Course Room: 311 & 312

SOLD OUT!

Questions about this course?

Email us or call 866-992-9399 x105.

June 20th – June 24th, 2016

with Diana Fosha, Ph.D.
and members of the AEDP Institute Faculty

at Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF)

COURSE CLOSED

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 CLOSED

Course Objectives

 Participants will be able to:

1. Define Transformance and apply it to psychotherapy
2. Explain the self-other-emotion triangle and identify the 4 States and 3 State Transformations of AEDP.
3. Explain the key clinical concepts, theoretical contributions, and the credo of AEDP.
4. Discuss the role of healthy attachment and attachment trauma in health and psychopathology, as well as identify the right brain processes engaged in the process of attachment.
5. Identify the 3 elements of dyadic affect regulation: attunement, disruption, and repair and to define dyadic affect regulation in clinical work.

Daily Schedule:

9:00am – 9:15am       Daily Overview
9:15am – 11:15am      Didactic session
11:15am – 11:30am      Break
11:30am – 12:30pm      Didactic session
12:30pm – 1:00pm      Q&A
1:00pm – 2:00pm       Lunch
2:00pm – 3:00pm       Didactic session
3:00pm – 3:45pm       Clinical videotape session
3:45pm – 4:00pm       Break
4:00pm – 4:30pm       Clinical videotape session
4:30pm – 5:00pm       Q&A and Discussion

All days are the same except Day 4, when 2 hours in the afternoon are spent with participants doing a facilitated experiential exercise together in small groups

COURSE CLOSED

Other Things You May Need to Know

Local Accommodation Recommendations:

La Quinta 4414 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard
Durham, NC 27707
919-401-9660

Hilton Durham near Duke University
3800 Hillsborough Road
Durham, NC 27705
919-383-8033

DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Raleigh – Durham
2515 Meridian Parkway
Durham, NC 27713
919-361-4660

Course Fee

Fee: $1,399

There is no student rate as the course is intended for practicing clinicians who have completed their post-graduate professional training.

CE Credits

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.

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 offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program.
32.5 CE 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 32.5 continuing education clinical social work clock hours for participating in this course.
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers
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 32.5 contact hours live.
OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for X clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/ Marriage and Family Therapists:
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.
Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure. The Ohio Board includes Counselors and MFTs.
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.
32.5 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.
NC: North Carolina Counselors will qualify for 15 CE hours through APA above listed under Psychologists.                                                        
OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for X 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. 32.5 Continuing Education Credits/Hours.

Disability Access – If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 10 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.

To see our Refund Policy or to file a Grievance, see link below:
https://aedpinstitute.org/about-aedp/aedp-institute-online-privacy-and-refund-policy/