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Diana Fosha, PhD • AEDP: State of the Union

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As AEDP practitioners we are often asked questions such as  “what is AEDP?” and “what is the AEDP approach to … (fill in the blank)?”

In launching the 2013-2014 NYC AEDP Seminar Series, Dr. Fosha attempted to answer some of those questions – and explained why others can’t be answered.  In this nearly 3-hour seminar, she took this opportunity to offer an in-depth reflection on AEDP and in so doing, explored where we are; where we’ve come from and how we got here; and where we’re going.

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Core Training • 2014-2015 • Hong Kong

Supervisors:
Kwok-wing Wu (AEDP Supervisor)
Cammy Cheung (AEDP Supervisor)
Judy Wong (AEDP Supervisor)

Dates:
January 25, 2015
May 10, 2015
July 12, 2015
October 18, 2015

Location:
Kwun Tong, Kowloon, HK

Training goals:

  • To work with defense, anxiety and shame through dyadic affect regulation process
  • To integrate mindfulness practice and focusing techniques into the therapeutic process
  • To experientially build attachment between client and therapist in the healing process
  • To work with emotions, trust the emotional processing and process it to completion

To register, visit the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong website to download the registration form.

For more information, contact Kwok-wing Wu.

Essential Skills • 2014-2015 • Vancouver

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.

The upcoming Vancouver Essential Skills course will be led by Dale Trimble, MA, RCC, along with guest faculty from the AEDP Institute. The course takes place over five weekends (Friday 1:00-7:00, Saturday 9:00-5:00 and Sunday 9:00-2:00) and is a great hands-on experience for anyone interested in AEDP training.

Module 1: AEDP 101: Healing from the Get-Go
Friday, December 5th – Sunday, December 7th, 2014
with Dale Trimble, MA, RCC
How to Engage Healing and Transformance from Get-Go: Working Directly with Moment to Moment Experience

Module 2: Attachment
Friday, January 16th – Sunday, January 18th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT
The Power of We: Working Explicitly and Experientially with Each Attachment Style

Module 3 Defenses
 & Anxiety
Friday, February 27th – Sunday, March 1st, 2015
Guest Faculty:  
Ron Frederick
How to Work With Defenses and Red Signal Affects: Top of the Triangle of Experience Work

Module 4: Processing Emotional Experience
Friday, April 10th – Sunday, April 12th, 2015
Guest Faculty: David Mars, PhD
How to Work with Emotion, Channels of Experience and Processing to Completion

Module 5: Metaprocessing Transformational Experience
Friday, May 29th – Sunday, May 31st, 2015
with Miriam L. Marsolais, Ph.D
How to Metaprocess Transformational Experience and Engender Resilience


Course address:
YWCA Metro Vancouver
535 Hornby Street, 4th floor (between Pender & Dunsmuir Street)
Vancouver, BC  V6C 2E8
Rooms: Welch 1 & 2
Phone: 604-895-5800

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San Francisco Core Training • 2014-2015

Meet the Course Supervisor, Karen Pando-Mars, MFT and the Guest Supervisor, David Mars, PhD.

Weekend 1: October 18-19, 2014

Weekend 2: December 6-7, 2014

Weekend 3: January 24-25, 2015

Weekend 4: March 28-29, 2015

Weekend 5: May 16-17, 2015

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.

Course Fee

The fee for the AEDP Couples Core Training is $3,300. Course size is limited to 10 participants. A $200 discount is available if full payment is made at the time of registration.

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

For more information about this course or to register, contact Karen Pando-Mars.

Immersion Course • 2014 • Vancouver

Event Details

Schedule

Monday – Friday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
There will be a 15 minute break in the AM and PM and a one hour lunch
(on your own).
No reading prerequisite.

The UBC campus has a lot to offer and because of that it will be easiest if you can refer to some of the links and documents too.

Here is something that Diana has sent out in the past;

“Being a devout believer in emergence, there isn’t a tight schedule.Since the combination of didactic, clinical tape presentations with moment-to-moment tracking and sprinkling of experiential exercises will depend on how things unfold. What is set, is that: on the third day (Wednesday afternoon), we will have a presentation from faculty member Dale Trimble; on Thursday morning, the morning of the fourth day, we will have presentations from Senior faculty members David Mars and Karen Pando-Mars, and on Thursday afternoon we will have the extensive (richly assisted) experiential exercises/practice, which will be followed by the cocktail party on Friday evening. I don’t think anyone wants to miss the closing on Friday afternoon. I so look forward to sharing in this work.”

Hotel Accommodations

We do still have availability. Please call the reservations office at 604-822-1000 extension 3, or toll-free at 1-888-822-1030. Please ensure they say they are with the AEDP Institute Conference.

Parking

Here is the parking link: https://www.parking.ubc.ca/find-parking

The North Parkade is recommended.

Guests who have booked accommodations on campus (Walter Gage Residence or West Coast Suites) will be able to get parking, which is provided on a first come first serve basis, at the Walter Gage Residence for $9/day + tax.

If you are staying off campus, use the North Parkade $14/day max rate ($1.75 every 30 minutes…so for a full day the flat $14/day kicks in)

Food

For those staying at either the Walter Gage Residence or West Coast Suites breakfast is provided each morning in the Student Union Building (Pacific Spirit Cafeteria) and it is included in your stay.

If you bring your own meals and require a microwave there is one in the basement of the Student Union Building. Those staying off campus may venture here for breakfast (or other meals) for a fee.

Please note that we will provide coffee service each day along with an assortment of food items each morning and at the morning and afternoon breaks (in the Isabel MacInnes room)…a quick and simple something…and we’ll do our best to accommodate everyone’s needs. Everyone is on their own for lunch.

Explore…!!!

https://www.food.ubc.ca/

Meeting Space

Walter Gage Residence – Isabel MacInnes Room

Attached are two maps, one with coordinates, the other I have labeled with arrows on the various spaces each day. I would print both and reference both; the campus is quite large.

The set-up is classroom style and there are plenty of tables/chairs with access to power should you need it. As with all meeting rooms, the chairs are moderately comfortable and the room temperature fluctuates. Please plan accordingly. There is plenty of room to stand, stretch, and walk around.

Please refrain from wearing strongly scented products.

Internet Access Code

There is complimentary wireless internet access in the West Coast Suites. In all other guest rooms at the Walter Gage Residence there is complimentary wired internet access, guests will have to bring their own Ethernet cables or they can purchase them at the front desk (limited number available).

In the lobby area and throughout most of campus there is complimentary wireless internet access as well, however it does not work in the guest rooms.

The network is the UBC Visitor Network, guests will need to read the terms & conditions then enter their email address to get access.

Cocktail Party

Friday night – August 1st – from 5:30 – 7:30 pm

The cocktail party is at the Sage Bistro in their lounge (a short walk from
the workshop)

Sage Bistro
https://sage.ubc.ca
6331 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
604-822-0968

Books/DVDs for sale

There will be limited quantities of two books and two DVDs for sale should you be interested (credit cards preferred/checks okay/no cash please).

  • The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change ($40)
  • The Healing Power of Emotion ($27)
  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy with Diana Fosha (DVD) ($69.95)
  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy with a Male Client with
  • Diana Fosha (DVD)($69.95)

CE

On the first day, please pick up your name badge and sign the roster. Keep your name badge all week as this will be our way of knowing you arrived safely. For the rest of the week we will maintain the roster and account for you.

Enjoy the event…nothing more is needed. After the event, we will be sending you a link via email. Follow this link to complete the online evaluation and at the end you can print your certificate. Sometimes this link goes to spam…so please check your spam folders.

Stashing Your Stuff

As the week winds down many of you may be checking out of your hotel room to catch a flight right after the event, while we can’t be responsible for your belongings, you may stash your items under the skirted registration tables. Please check with volunteers and they will assist.

Downloads

Please take a moment to review these documents before your visit.

Couples Core Training • 2014-2015 • San Francisco

Meet the Course Supervisor, David Mars, Ph.D.

We will focus on the AEDP for Couples model of therapy, which privileges finding and amplifying the felt experience of love in the room from the first session and evokes powerful transformance drives for healing.

Teaching will focus on accelerated methods for creating safety and treating the underlying attachment level trauma that underlies marital distress and disconnection. We will be deepening the skills necessary to hold dyadic affect regulation within couples sessions, so couples can transfer these skills into their lives every day. Working with couples in these ways presents new challenges to therapists as well as powerful new opportunities for transformational healing of historical trauma and deprivation that inevitably “pops up” in committed relationships.

Topics for this year’s Core Training include:

  • Treating couples recovering from affairs
  • Addressing sexual issues within the marriage
  • Treating the impact of financial betrayals
  • Transforming patterns of chronic dissociation
  • Reviving and restoring “stale and bitter” relational patterns
  • Help hot and cold conflict transform to bring peace and justice
  • Conducting healing portrayals within couples therapy sessions

A major theme of our work will be to catalyze couples therapists’ capacities to bring more experiences of dignity, deep fairness and the “undoing of aloneness” of young sub-parts of couple members that were historically neglected or abused. David will expand on and deepen the theory and practice of AEDP for Couples on the Saturday morning of each module with evocative videotape of a couple in treatment. Prior to each weekend of training, David will send participants a transcript with a micro-analysis of the session that will be presented, identifying the key interventions that emphasize how to apply the Four States and Three State Transformations of AEDP in couples treatment. Perceiving, receiving and expressing in the Seven Channels of Experience will also be featured.

As a participant in this core training you will be sharing your own video-taped couple session each training weekend. You will receive supervision, constructive group witnessing and focused assistance directed by your request. You can also choose the opportunity for “live role-play re-dos” with alternative interventions to keep fine-tuning your work with couples. It is part of the intention of this training series to support those who practice EFT, PACT and other methods of treating couples to integrate the AEDP for Couples model into your palette of skills as a couples therapist.

Weekend 1: October 11-12, 2014

Weekend 2: November 22-23, 2014

Weekend 3: January 10-11, 2015

Weekend 4: March 21-22, 2015

Weekend 5: May 30-31, 2015

Continuing Education Credits

This program is eligible for 70 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.

Course Fee

The fee for the AEDP Couples Core Training is $3,300. Course size is limited to 10 participants. A $200 discount is available if full payment is made at the time of registration.

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

For more information about this course or to register, contact David Mars.

Advanced Skills • 2014-2015 • New York

AEDP Advanced Skills is aimed at practitioners with some experience of AEDP work already established. Practical in its orientation, this course focuses both on helping you (i) learn new advanced AEDP skills, and (ii) cultivate and fine-tune the AEDP skills you already have. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, specific interventions and techniques that are concrete and specific. Participants will emerge with strategies for doing AEDP with our more challenging clients. While reviewing and deepening your AEDP essential skills throughout, the Advanced Skills course will teach the different advanced skill sets necessary to the in-depth practice of AEDP, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes, as well as with group experiential exercises.

The upcoming New York Advanced Essential Skills course will be led by Natasha Prenn, LCSW, along with guest faculty from the AEDP Institute. The course takes place at Friends In Deed in New York City over five weekends and is a great hands-on experience for anyone furthering their AEDP training.

Please note: Essential Skills is a prerequisite for this course.

Module 1: Seven Channels of Experience
Friday, October 24th- Sunday, October 26, 2014
with David Mars, PhD
Seven Channels of Experience

In this first module we will be delving into deepening affective somatic experience beyond a focus on emotion. We will explore the question, “How do we empathize with a feeling that has not been expressed?”

We will experience how to deepen the patient’s and our own Seven Channels of Experience (energetic, sensation, emotional, imaginal, visual, auditory, movement) to bypass defense and move into a broader band, bottom-up core affect. We will experience together through lively exchanges and vivid videotaped clips how to expand our connection to our own channels. We will see, hear, sense, move into, energetically track, open and amplify our imaginal channel to “find” and “bridge to” the channels our patient already occupies. We will learn how to select for and deepen this practice of whole body attunement. In your experiential practice sessions you will discover how you bring your own gifts and former defensively excluded blocks to bear fresh, real and healing fruit.

Module 2: Advanced Defense Work
Friday, December 5th-Sunday, December 7th, 2014
Guest Faculty: Steve Shapiro, PhD
Advanced Defense Work: How to Help Patients who do Not Take Easily to AEDP

The focus of the module will be advanced defense work, learning to restructure mechanisms such as denial, splitting, projection, and dissociation. Specific techniques will be reviewed such as: transforming resistance, regulating anxiety and other inhibitory forces; separating anxiety and defense from expressive core affective phenomena; encouraging a new and corrective experience; utilizing the therapy relationship and relational interventions to access underlying healing resources and their associated adaptive action tendencies, restructuring defenses.

Module 3: Working with Trauma & Dissociation
Friday, February 6th- Sunday, February 8th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Kari Gleiser, PhD
Transforming Trauma, Dissociation and Fragmentation with AEDP

Complex attachment trauma can sever and/or inhibit the formation of deep and lasting bonds between self and other, self and self, self and emotion. In this module, we will explore, in depth, the explicit use of relational interventions to build safety and containment, dyadic regulation of intense traumatic affects of fear, shame, and overwhelm, as well as reconnection to healing emotion via processing of core affect – all in the context of patients with severe trauma histories and dissociative disorders. We will also view these cases through the lens of intra-relational interventions, which place dual emphasis on internal attachment relationships formed through affective interchanges between distinct parts of the self, and on the intrinsic healing power of new emotional experiences. Parallel relational processes unfolding simultaneously within the external dyad (i.e., therapist/client) and internal dyads (i.e., client/dissociated ego-states) facilitates and accelerates the internalization of secure attachment dynamics.

Module 4: Transforming Pathogenic Affects
Friday, April 17th- Sunday, April 19th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Jerry Lamagna, LCSW
Working with Pathogenic Affects

“Pathogenic affects,” overwhelming states of distress, shame, guilt, anxiety and existential loneliness will be the focus. Learn to help patients to manage their emotions and gain important insight into the nature of their suffering. Learn to detect where such unwanted, overwhelming experiences can provide “compost” for the transformation process. Interventions involving somatic grounding, explicit relational engagement and empathic reflection and intra-relational (ego state) work with resonance and compassion will be demonstrated as skillful means for fostering self- building, self-regulation and integration.

Module 5: Advanced Metaprocessing
Friday, May 15th- Sunday, May 17th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
Advanced Metaprocessing

Reflecting upon the experience of change for the better is in and of itself a transformational process that fosters resilience and flourishing. In this module, we will delve into AEDP’s State 3 (metaprocessing) and State 4 (core state) phenomenology to ensure that you have a clear and detailed roadmap for the unfolding and thorough processing of transformational phenomena as they emerge in the practice of AEDP. Didactic and video examples will provide you with a roadmap to help you both sharpen and expand your technique for both “Big M” and “Small m” meta-therapeutic processing in the service of helping you and your patients to thrive.

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Essential Skills • 2014-2015 • New York

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.

The upcoming New York Essential Skills course will be led by SueAnne Piliero, PhD, along with guest faculty from the AEDP Institute. The course takes place over five weekends (Friday 1:00-7:00, Saturday 9:00-5:00 and Sunday 9:00-2:00) at Friends in Deed in New York City and is a great hands-on experience for anyone interested in AEDP training.

Module 1: AEDP 101: Healing from the Get-Go
Friday, September 19 – Sunday, September 21, 2014
SueAnne Piliero, PhD
Title: The Roadmap to AEDP: How We Think and How We Do

Module 2: Attachment
Friday, November 14th-Sunday, November 16th, 2014
Guest Faculty: Ron Frederick, PhD
Title: The Bonds that Free Us: Working with Attachment Explicitly and Experientially in AEDP

Module 3: Defenses & Anxiety
Friday, January 16th- Sunday, January 18th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Steve Shapiro, PhD
Title: Working With Defenses in AEDP

Module 4: Processing Emotional Experience
Friday, March 13th- Sunday, March 15th, 2015
Guest Faculty: Diana Fosha, PhD
Title: How to Work With Emotion in AEDP: Accessing, Experiencing and Processing Emotions to Completion

Module 5: Metaprocessing Transformational Experience
Friday, May 1st- Sunday, May 3rd, 2015
Guest Faculty: Eileen Russell, PhD
Title: Transformational Affects, Positive Affects, Core State and Engendering Resilience: The Fruits of Metaprocessing

Registration

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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.

Registration is now closed

Registration Closed

Questions: Contact the AEDP Administrator

Essential Skills • 2013-2014 • West Coast

Our 2013-14 Essential Skills Course will be held in San Francisco and begins in September.  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.

Meet Course Leader, Karen Pando-Mars, MFT

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

Course Dates and Faculty

Weekend 1: September 20th-22nd
How to Engage Healing and Transformance from the Get-Go: “Working Directly with Moment-to-Moment Experience”
Guest Faculty: Diana Fosha, PhD
In AEDP treatment, the emphasis on healing brings us to identify moments of transformance and change-for-the-better from the get go. Being in such a way as to engage the patient’s self-at-best for the arduous journey ahead is one of the most important foundations to establish this first weekend. We will be fostering an experiential focus to find those “GEMS” – Global Emotional Moments – somatically marked by positive affect to set your practice of AEDP in motion.

Weekend 2: November 15th-17th
The Power of We: Working Explicitly and Experientially with Attachment in AEDP
Guest Faculty: Anne Cooper
Cultivating a secure attachment with our patients from the very beginning is fundamental in our work as AEDP therapists. While many models of psychotherapy utilize attachment theory implicitly in their work, AEDP makes the relationship front and center, using it directly to create the connection and safety necessary for transformational work. In this module, we will learn the varieties of ways to harness secure attachment with our patients, both explicitly and experientially, as well as utilizing the experience of attachment, in and of itself, for transformation.

Weekend 3: January 10th-12th
Top-of-the-Triangle Work in AEDP
Guest Faculty: Ron Frederick
Helping clients move from State One to State Two can often be the most challenging aspect of our work. This module will focus on how to work with defenses and inhibitory affects to promote a core affective experience. You’ll learn how to use the Triangle of Experience to make sense of clinical of phenomena and guide your choice of interventions.

Weekend 4: February 21st-23rd
How to Work with Emotion in AEDP: Emotion, Channels of Experiences and Processing to Completion
Guest Faculty: David Mars
Processing affective experience to completion is very powerful as it promotes transformation in one’s self and one’s relationships. This module focuses on deepening and amplifying somatic experience to open the way to state shifts in AEDP. Specific skills and how-to step-by-step invite, deepen, regulate and move through emotional material and affect that arises in different channels of experience will be demonstrated and practiced.

Weekend 5: April 25th-April 27th
Working with Transformational Experience in AEDP
Guest Faculty: SueAnne Piliero
Metaprocessing transformational experience is the hallmark of AEDP therapy, and one of its greatest contributions to the field of psychotherapy. In this module, we will focus on how “staying with” and processing core affective experience is a way to broaden and deepen therapeutic change processes, as it not only helps with integrating new awareness and experiences, but actually helps to build a person’s capacity to engage in new behaviors that promote a deepening of resilience and health.

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.

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