A letter from Education Committee announcing the appointment of our newest AEDP® Institute Faculty member,
Annika Medbo, Licensed Psychotherapist, Licensed Physiotherapist. As part of this announcement, we have shared Diana’s letter welcoming Annika aboard. The letter from Diana to Annika, below, describes some of the many contributions she has made to date to both AEDP and the AEDP community. To learn about the process for becoming Faculty, see the notes* below Diana’s letter.Please read Diana’s welcome letter and join us in congratulating and welcoming Annika into our wonderful, accomplished, dedicated and growing group of Institute Faculty.
dear faculty and supervisors,
i am delighted to add my appreciation to that of the members of the Education Committee and welcome Annika Medbo to the Faculty of the AEDP Institute.
in the more than 13 years that Annika has been in, and fully immersed in, AEDP, she has contributed to its growth, development and well being in a myriad of ways– teaching, supervision, community development and more recently, cutting edge clinical/ theoretical work. her many gifts and contributions have been already acknowledged by the note from the Education committee. Annika, together with Adjunct faculty Anna Christina Sundgren, has been absolutely instrumental, in nurturing AEDP and a vibrant AEDP community in Sweden, and now also fostering AEDP’s budding growth in Norway.
i want to personally uplift, acknowledge and appreciate one of her contributions and one of her personal qualities:
— Annika Medbo is contributing to the growth of AEDP as a model with important work on the SELF in AeDP. many of you have had a chance to witness and experience in her recent seminars and ES2 courses, and to read in her brilliant monograph in Transformance: The AEDP Journal, Finding, Forming and Transforming the Self: A Journey From No Self to Core Self. this work advances AeDP theory and clinical practice and showcases Annika’s quiet brilliance as a caring, attuned and creative AEDP clinician, and now also as a clinical theoretician. the years she spent steeped in caregiver-infant early development work clearly inform the depth, subtlety and attunement of the work she is developing — which is about the AEDP therapist being a midwife to the Self, rescuing it from non-existence. in the process, she is also extending our understanding of the maladaptive affects and how to work with them in people arrested and stunted in their growth by deep emotional neglect
— i also want to acknowledge a quality that stands out: Annika’s personal integrity as a person and as a clinician. it is a quality which is impossible to not experience whether she is teaching or doing therapy. it is remarkable and deep quality, with nothing showy about it. along with her sensitivity and attunement, it shines through, evoking trust in in participants in her courses, in her patients and in her colleagues
it is wonderful to have Annika Medbo join the ranks of our stellar AEDP faculty. and look forward to her ongoing contributions in many realms of AEDP life
welcome Annika!
diana*The Institute revised the way people become Faculty. Until 2023, individuals had to be invited to become faculty and invitees were approved by all other faculty. Starting two years ago, supervisors have been invited to apply to become Adjunct Faculty, and starting in 2023, Adjunct Faculty may apply to become Faculty.For Adjunct Faculty to qualify to apply for a Faculty position, they must meet many requirements including completion of a number and variety of “successful” ES1 presentations (success = being highly regarded by mentor and participants), very high proficiency as an AEDP clinician, AEDP and general teaching experience beyond ES1, community involvement and commitment, plus a multitude of personal attributes and recommendations and feedback all submitted and reviewed by the Education Committee. To see the Faculty application go
here.Meeting the requirements is very challenging and applying is not for the faint of heart. We are so pleased that Annika has met and exceeded these requirements and so excited to welcome her into the Faculty community.Lynne on behalf of the Education Committee
Eden Abraham
Gregory Czyszczon
Goretti Faria
Lynne Hartwell
Michael Mondoro
Eileen Russell
Welcome to our newest AEDP Faculty Member, Annika Medbo, Licensed Psychotherapist
