Transformance Journal: Training Type: Essential Skills

Essential Skills • 2016 • Retreat Style Course in Shanghai

The Phoenix Effect: Phenomenology of Transformation and Transcendence in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Training details to come; Danny Yeung M.D. and H. Jacquie Perman Ph.D will helm.

Course Dates and Times

Monday, March 7 to Sunday, March 11, 2016

Training Location

Shanghai Mental Health Center Teaching Training Section
Shanghai Wanping Road No. 600
Zip code: 200030
Phone: 021-34773073
E-mail: tinna8298@163.com
Fax: 021-54240907

Registration 

Fee: 4,800 Yuan (~$728 USD)

See all details (Chinese language) here.

Questions About This Training?

Contact Danny Yeung, M.D. or H. Jacquie Perman, Ph.D

ES1 Retreat Style Course in Europe • Stockholm, Sweden & Parma, Italy – 2016/2017

Healing-oriented and attachment based, AEDP’s practice is radical in its translation of current neuroscience and developmental research into moment-to-moment clinical practice. Experiential in its relational work and in using 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.”

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

This European AEDP Essential Skills (ES1) course will be offered in a format of three modules, of four days each. This format arose in response to requests over the years from people throughout out the world — for whom the five weekends of travel a year required by the standard AEDP ES course was just not feasible.  In response to popular demand, we now launch the 3 module format AEDP Essential Skills course in Europe (in Stockholm, Sweden; and Parma, Italy), the first ever in Europe.

Ron J. Frederick, PhD AEDP Institute Senior Faculty member, will be leading this course along with guest faculty (TBD) and a group of highly skilled assistants.

Course Date & Times:

Module 1: Transformance, Experiential Tracking, Attachment 
Stockholm, Sweden
May 19 – 22, 2016
9:00am – 5:00pm

Topics:

  • Engaging Healing from the Get-Go: Transformance Detection; Affirmation & Delight
  • Moment-to-Moment Tracking: Working Directly with Moment-to-Moment Experience
  • Working Explicitly and Experientially with Attachment (part 1): Focus on here-and-now. Experiential Work with receptive affective experiences of feeling seen, loved, and known
  • Working Explicitly and Experientially with Attachment (part 2): Transforming the Internal Working Model

Module 2: Defenses, Anxiety, Emotion Processing
Parma, Italy
November 24 – 27, 2016
9:00am – 5:00pm

Topics:

  • Top-of-the-Triangle Work in AEDP: Working with Anxiety and Defense (State 1 work: Part 1)
  • Resistance: Working with Anxiety and Defense (State 1 work: part 2)
  • Working with Emotion: Dyadic Affect Regulation, Portrayals (State 2 work: part 1)
  • Working with Emotion: Processing Emotional Experience to Completion (State 2 work: part 2)

Module 3: Metaprocessing: Working With Transformational Experience 
Parma, Italy
May 4 – 7, 2017
9:00am – 5:00pm

Topics:

  • Metaprocessing: Working with Transformational Experience in AEDP (State 3 work: part 1)
  • The Transformational Spiral: Working with Positive Affective Experience (State 3 work: part 2)
  • Core state: Truth, Integration and Reflection. Making New Meaning (State 4 work)
  • Metaprocessing the AEDP ES1 Course Experience: Constructing our own coherent & cohesive narrative

Throughout this training, 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, 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.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this program, you 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
  • Understand how to utilize the therapeutic relationship both implicitly and explicitly to establish safety, undo aloneness and foster exploration that leads to transformational experiences
  • 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

 

Meet the Presenter

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Course Fee

  • €3,000
Register

 

Course Locations

Module 1
Historiska Museet (The Swedish Historical Museum)
Hörsalen
Narvavaegen 13-17
Stockholm

Modules 2 & 3
Schema Therapy Center Piazza
Badalocchio Sisto Rosa, 3/A
43126 Parma PR

Essential Skills • 2015-2016 • San Francisco Bay Area

AEDP Essential Skills, aimed at practitioners, is 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.

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.

AEDP Institute Senior Faculty Karen Pando-Mars, MFT. will helm the course. As course leader she will teach Module 1 and co-teach the remaining four modules with other AEDP Institute Faculty members. Experienced AEDP practitioners will assist with the experiential practices.

Module 1: Engaging Healing and Transformance from the Get-Go with AEDP
Friday, October 30 – Sunday, November 1, 2015
with Karen Pando-Mars, MFT

Module 2: Working Explicitly and Experientially with Attachment in AEDP
Friday, January 22, 2016 – Sunday, January 24, 2016
with Guest Faculty Ron Frederick, PhD

Module 3: Working with Top of the Triangle in AEDP: Defense and Anxiety
Friday, February 26, 2016 – Sunday, February 28, 2016
with Guest Faculty Dale Trimble, MA, RCC

Module 4: How to Work with Emotion In AEDP, Channels of Experience and Processing to Completion
Friday, April 8, 2016 – Sunday, April 10, 2016
with Guest Faculty David Mars, Ph.D., MFT

Module 5: Working with Transformational Experience in AEDP
Friday, June 3, 2016 – Sunday, June 5, 2016
with Guest Faculty Miriam Marsolais, PhD

Each weekend will meet Friday 1pm-7pm, Saturday 9am – 5pm and Sunday 9am-2pm.

Course address

San Francisco Theological Seminary
105 Seminary Road
Lloyd Hall
San Anselmo, CA 94960

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Continuing Education

This event is co-sponsored 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

Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program.
82.5 CE hours.

 

Social Workers

R. Cassidy Seminars, ACE provider #1082, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program. Approval Period: April 15, 2015-April 15, 2018. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive 82.5 continuing education clock hours.

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 82.5 contact hours live.

OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 82.5 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.
82.5 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 82.5 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.  82.5 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/

Essential Skills • 2015-2016 • Boston

AEDP Essential Skills (ES1), aimed at practitioners, is 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.

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.

AEDP Institute Senior Faculty SueAnne Piliero, Ph.D. will helm the course. As course leader she will teach Module 1 and co-teach the remaining four modules with other AEDP Institute Faculty members. Experienced AEDP practitioners will assist with the experiential practices.

Module 1: Roadmap to AEDP: How we THINK and How We Do
SueAnne Piliero, Ph.D.
Friday, Oct 23 – Sunday, Oct 25, 2015

Module 2: Work with Attachment in AEDP: Building Secure Attachments to Self & Others
Guest Faculty: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT
Friday, Dec 4 – Sunday, Dec 6, 2015

Module 3: Work with Defenses and Anxiety
Guest Faculty: Natasha Prenn, LCSW
Friday, Feb 19 – Sunday, Feb 21, 2016

Module 4: Emotion Processing: How To Access & Deepen Core Affective Experience
Guest Faculty: Steve Shapiro, Ph.D.
Friday, Apr 15 – Sunday Apr 17, 2016

Module 5: Metaprocessing Transformational Experience: Transformational Affects, Positive Affects, Core State and Engendering Resilience
Guest Faculty: Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 2016

Course address

Pine Manor College
Course Room: President’s Dining Room
400 Heath Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Website: www.TheDaneEstate.com

Registration is Now Closed

Continuing Education

This event is co-sponsored 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.   82.5 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 82.5 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

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 82.5 contact hours live.

OH: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 82.5 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.  82.5 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 82.5 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.  82.5 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/

 

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:

Click the appropriate link to make a reservation or learn more:

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Make a one time payment of $2,750.

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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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.

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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.

This course has reached capacity and registration is now closed. 

Registration Closed

Cancellation & Refund Policy

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

Questions: Contact the AEDP Administrator.

 

Essential Skills • 2012-2013 • Vancouver, BC

This is a Past Event

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.

CE Accreditation

Recommended Reading:

To prepare for the Essential Skills course, please see the following readings:

Register and Make Payment Here:

Registration Closed

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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