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Couples Core Training • 2013-2014 • San Francisco
AEDP COUPLES CORE TRAINING • 2013-2014
San Francisco Bay Area
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.
Having trouble logging in or purchasing? Contact support@beta.aedpinstitute.org.
Immersion Course • 2013 • West Coast
Join us for our 2013 Immersion Course
July 22nd – July 26th in San Francisco
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. There is 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.
Location
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Registration
Course size is limited to 85 participants and we are currently full. If you would like to be placed on our waiting list, please contact AEDP Administrator. Depending on interest level, we may hold a second West Coast Immersion Course later this year.
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.
Essential Skills • 2012-2013 • Vancouver, BC
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THE AEDP INSTITUTE
and Continuing Education Co-sponsor
Lifespan Learning Institute
present
AEDP ESSENTIAL SKILLS COURSE
Fall 2012– Spring 2013
Vancouver, BC
LEARN AEDP In-Depth, Systematically & Experientially
We will be offering our AEDP Essential Skills course in Vancouver starting December 2012. The course will be held over 5 three-day weekends (Fridays from 1pm – 7pm, Saturdays from 9am – 5pm; Sundays from 9am – 2pm). 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.
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.
Theory, Videotapes, 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 from AEDP faculty members and Dr. Diana Fosha, daily 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
Faculty:
The Vancouver course will be helmed by KAREN PANDO-MARS, MFT, who will co-teach it with AEDP Institute Faculty members (TBA). Experienced, local AEDP practitioners will assist with the experiential practices.
Topics/Skill Sets:
Each module will be co-taught by (i) Karen Pando-Mars together with (ii) the AEDP Faculty member listed below (TBA) for each module.
Module 1: How to Entrain Healing and Transformance from the Get-Go: “What to Say and How to Say it”
Module 2: How to Work with Defenses, Anxiety and Shame, i.e., Top-of-the-Triangle-of-Experience Work in AEDP
Module 3: How to Explicitly and Experientially Work with Attachment in AEDP
Module 4: How to Work with Emotion in AEDP: Emotion, Channels of Experience and Processing to Completion
Module 5: How to Metaprocess Transformational Experience and Engender Resilience
Dates and Times:
Module 1: October 5-7, 2012
Module 2: December 7-9, 2012
Module 3: January 26-28, 2013
Module 4: March 8-10, 2013
Module 5: May 18-20, 2013 The course will be held over five, three-day weekends meeting on Fridays, 1 pm-7pm, Saturdays from 9am -5pm; Sundays from 9am-2pm).
Location:
TBA
Application Procedure:
Step 1.
Scroll down to the “Click Here to Apply” link and fill out the online application.
Step 2.
There will be a link to place a deposit or pay for the course in full via PayPal. If paying by check or money order (payable in US funds only), please make payable to “AEDP Works” and mail to:
AEDP Institute
PO Box 414
137 Montague Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Attention: Ginny Vaughn
PLEASE NOTE: YOUR REGISTRATION WILL NOT BE OFFICIAL UNTIL YOUR DEPOSIT IS RECEIVED.
The Essential Skills course fee is $3,350 within the US, ($3,400 outside of the US) but if payment is made in full within one week of submitting your application, the fee will be:
Within the US: $3,150 ($200 savings) or $3,100 for members
Outside of the US: $3,200 ($200 savings) or $3,150 for members
Cost:
There are two options to pay for the Essential Skills course:
1. Five Individual Payments of $670 (within the United States)
Five Individual Payments of $680 (outside of the United States)
*Additional $50 discount off one module for AEDP Institute members.
2. Payment in Full: (Within the United States): $3,150 ($200 discount of the regular rate of $3,350 if paid in full within one week of submitting your application).
(Outside of the United States): $3,200 ($200 discount off the regular rate of $3,400 if paid in full within one week of submitting your application).
*Additional $50 discount for AEDP Institute members.
AEDP MEMBERS: Please choose MEMBERS option on PayPal drop-down menu to receive your $50 discount.
If paying by PayPal, your payment must be made prior to your arrival to the course, as we are not equipped to accept credit cards at the venue.
Cancellation/Refund Policy:
A one-year financial commitment is required. There is $40 non-refundable fee for withdrawal until two weeks before the start of the course. After that date, no refunds. Thereafter, even if you choose to withdraw from the course, you will be responsible for the tuition payment in full.
Please note: A one-time deposit is required within one week of submitting your application to secure your place in the course. For modules 2-5, payment can be made on the first day of the module if paying by check. If paying by PayPal, payment must be made prior to your arrival to the course since we are not equipped to accept credit cards at the venue.
Certification:
The AEDP Essential Skills course will count towards certification, and in combination with 20 hours of individual or group supervision, will raise you to a Level 2 AEDP practitioner in our online Therapist Directory.
CE Hours Credits:
This program is eligible for CE Hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor Lifespan Learning Institute. The CE Credit fee is $50 + $2.50 processing fee. The cost of the program with CE Credit is US $1,500; $1,450 @ membership price.
If you have already registered for the program without CE Credit and wish to add it, please contact Terri Castillo on aedpinstitute.tcastillo@gmail.com to update your registration as soon as possible or the onsite coordinator on the morning of the workshop. It is the responsibility of individuals requesting CE to determine that their state licensing board accepts CE accredited by at least one of the following accreditations. Certificates will be emailed to you after verification of attendance.
Recommended Reading:
To prepare for the Essential Skills course, please see the following readings:
- Fosha, D. (2000). The transforming power of affect: A model of accelerated change. New York: Basic Books. (First three chapters).
- Fosha, D. (2001). The dyadic regulation of affect. Journal of Clinical Psychology/In Session, 2001, 57 (2), 227-242.
- Prenn, N. (In press 2010). Mind the gap: AEDP interventions translating attachment theory into clinical practice . (Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Special Issue on Attachment).
Register and Make Payment Here:
Please be sure to fill out the above application (Click here to apply) before submitting payment.
More Information:
For more information about the AEDP Essential Skills course, please contact Terri Castillo, Administrative Assistant at aedpinstitute.tcastillo@gmail.com.
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