DESCRIPTION: AEDP Level 2 participants are invited to consolidate and extend their mastery and artistry as AEDP clinicians. Here’s an opportunity for some collegial connection and to take risks and have some fun with AEDP. Each meeting (3.5 hours) will provide opportunities to refresh understanding of interventions learned in the Skills courses. The meetings will consist of a didactic component, each time focusing on specific interventions, using videotaped clinical sessions or demonstrations to illustrate. Participants will then be dispatched to breakout rooms in groups of four peers to practice using the interventions with one another. There are four rotating roles in each group of four peers: therapist, client, assistant/coach, and witness/observer.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the end of this series, participants will be able to: 1) Identify Therapeutic Presence, as conceptualised by AEDP. 2) List specific AEDP skills used to invite clients towards internal focus. 3) Describe AEDP’s conceptualization of State One processes of Anxiety and Defenses. 4) Identify areas of constriction in clients’ physical experience to access avenues for exploration and emotional remediation. 5) Recognize and describe how AEDP conceptualises the therapist as the “unit of intervention”. 6) Deploy AEDP theory and interventions to support their own internal regulation as they develop Therapeutic Presence in practice sessions with colleagues. 7) Identify how tele-therapy offers unique opportunities for AEDP clinical effectiveness. 8) Demonstrate expanded repertoire of AEDP skills practicing specific interventions during experiential exercises with colleagues.
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**I am teaching Module 2 of this Course, March 16-March 19th, 2021**
Module 1 taught by course helm Karen Pando-Mars, MFT 1a: HEALING FROM THE GET GO! The ABC’s of AEDP including our Transformance stance, moment to moment tracking, & experiencing over explaining. 1b: THE CLINICAL ROADMAP OF AEDP We are a 4-State Model with intentional experiential language for AEDP interventions. Module 2 taught by Kate Halliday, LCSW 2a: AEDP AND ATTACHMENT Using AEDP’s relational focus to build, renovate & reconstruct a secure therapeutic attachment. 2b: STATE 1: THE TOP OF THE TRIANGLE Working with Anxiety and Defense Module 3 taught by course helm Karen Pando-Mars, MFT 3a: STATE 2: EXPANDED ADAPTIVE AND MALADAPTIVE CORE AFFECT How we recognize these Affects and what we do. 3b: METAPROCESSING – AN AEDP HALLMARK Capitalizing on the experience in the room to integrate and cement transformational processes. Module 4 taught by Dale Trimble, MFT 4a: STATE 1, DEFENSES, IN DETAIL Transforming resistance and high anxiety. 4b: STATE 2 TO STATE 3: EMOTION PROCESSING AND PORTRAYALS How to access, deepen and process core affect to completion. Module 5 taught by course helm Karen Pando-Mars, MFT 5a: STATE 3 TO STATE 4: TRANSFORMANCE Working with Transformational affects and core state 5b: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER Reviewing and metaprocessing together what we’ve learned.
Course Summary:What we consider AEDP’s “essential skills” will be didactically demonstrated and experientially explored so that participants develop both a felt sense and a cognitive understanding of them. 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. We have found that learning new skills can give rise to experiences of safety, attachment security, transformation, increased therapeutic courage, and related phenomena; precisely the kinds of experiences AEDP facilitates for its clients. Each day course faculty lead small groups in practicing essential AEDP skills. The concentrated time that participants spend together immersed in learning inevitably leads to the development of a culture of trust and generosity that allows for risk-taking and a supportive environment that is uniquely suited for optimal learning.
Course Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Demonstrate an AEDP therapist stance: welcome, affirm, validate, orient
Construct safety and undo aloneness
Apply moment-to-moment tracking to clinical practice
Construct dyadic safety and connection
Build and rebuild a secure attachment
Integrate healing and transformance from the get-go
Classify different aspects within the Triangle of Experience, including both verbal and somatic processes, to optimize attunement and accelerate the healing process
Analyze the 4 State Transformational Process: Working with relational trauma in a first session
Integrate Meta-therapeutic processing and transformational processes
Relate the experience of emotional experience: processing emotions to completion
Define attachment styles and utilize different interventions according to attachment style
Utilize various ways to regulate anxiety, bypass defenses and other inhibitory forces which block progress in therapy
Describe how to regulate/alleviate anxiety and traces of shame
Identify and access core affective experiences
Identify expressions of transformance in clients
Practice utilizing transformance strivings as a catalyst to maximize patient’s healing
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Module 1 taught by course helm Kate Halliday, LCSW | April 16 – 19, 2021 1a: HEALING FROM THE GET GO! The ABC’s of AEDP including our Transformance stance, moment to moment tracking, & experiencing over explaining. 1b: THE CLINICAL ROADMAP OF AEDP We are a 4-State Model with intentional experiential language for AEDP interventions. Module 2 Taught by Ronald Frederick, PhD | June 4 – 7, 2021 2a: AEDP AND ATTACHMENT Using AEDP’s relational focus to build, renovate & reconstruct a secure therapeutic attachment. 2b: STATE 1: THE TOP OF THE TRIANGLE Working with Anxiety and Defense Module 3 taught by Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA | July 16 – 19, 2021 3a: STATE 2: EXPANDED ADAPTIVE AND MALADAPTIVE CORE AFFECT How we recognize these Affects and what we do. 3b: METAPROCESSING – AN AEDP HALLMARK Capitalizing on the experience in the room to integrate and cement transformational processes. Module 4 taught by Dale Trimble, MFT | August 6 – 9, 2021 4a: STATE 1, DEFENSES, IN DETAIL Transforming resistance and high anxiety. 4b: STATE 2 TO STATE 3: EMOTION PROCESSING AND PORTRAYALS How to access, deepen and process core affect to completion. Module 5 taught by course helm Kate Halliday, LCSW | September 24 – 27, 2021 5a: STATE 3 TO STATE 4: TRANSFORMANCE Working with Transformational affects and core state 5b: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER Reviewing and metaprocessing together what we’ve learned.
Course Summary:What we consider AEDP’s “essential skills” will be didactically demonstrated and experientially explored so that participants develop both a felt sense and a cognitive understanding of them. 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. We have found that learning new skills can give rise to experiences of safety, attachment security, transformation, increased therapeutic courage, and related phenomena; precisely the kinds of experiences AEDP facilitates for its clients. Each day course faculty lead small groups in practicing essential AEDP skills. The concentrated time that participants spend together immersed in learning inevitably leads to the development of a culture of trust and generosity that allows for risk-taking and a supportive environment that is uniquely suited for optimal learning.
Course Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Demonstrate an AEDP therapist stance: welcome, affirm, validate, orient
Construct safety and undo aloneness
Apply moment-to-moment tracking to clinical practice
Construct dyadic safety and connection
Build and rebuild a secure attachment
Integrate healing and transformance from the get-go
Classify different aspects within the Triangle of Experience, including both verbal and somatic processes, to optimize attunement and accelerate the healing process
Analyze the 4 State Transformational Process: Working with relational trauma in a first session
Integrate Meta-therapeutic processing and transformational processes
Relate the experience of emotional experience: processing emotions to completion
Define attachment styles and utilize different interventions according to attachment style
Utilize various ways to regulate anxiety, bypass defenses and other inhibitory forces which block progress in therapy
Describe how to regulate/alleviate anxiety and traces of shame
Identify and access core affective experiences
Identify expressions of transformance in clients
Practice utilizing transformance strivings as a catalyst to maximize patient’s healing
Click on the title link above to connect to the registration page for more information.