8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and check-in
9:00 – 10:30 What Attachment Research Teaches Us About Therapy
How We Co-Create a Secure Base and Safe Haven
How We Recognize Patterns of Attachment
How We Work with Unspoken and Unspeakable
Experience: The Evoked, Enacted, and Embodied
How We Move From Embeddedness to Mindfulness,
Mentalizing, and Self-Agency
Attachment Relationship as a Dynamic System:
Changing our Patients Through Changing Ourselves
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:15 Why Focus on the Therapist?
The Myth of the “All-Good” Therapist
The Therapist’s Attachment History as a Source of Insight,
Inspiration, and Change
Attachment Patterns, Dissociation, and the Therapist’s Family
of Multiple Selves
Trauma and Shame in the Making of the Therapist
Identifying the Therapist’s Attachment Patterns
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:15 – 2:45 Attachment Patterns and Multiple Self-States in Psychotherapy
Therapists in Secure, Dismissing, Preoccupied, and
Unresolved States of Mind
The Unitary Self as an Adaptive Fiction
Getting to Know the Patient’s–and Our Own–Multiple Selves
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:30 Working with Enactments: Mindfulness, Mentalizing, and
the Need for the Therapist’s Self-Revelation
Enactments as Obstacles, Enactments as Opportunities: From
Collusion and Collision to Collaboration
Activating Mindful and Reflective States to Loosen the Grip
of Enactments
How Intersubjective Relating Fosters Integration: Making
Room for Two
Collusions: (False) Harmony at the Expense of Therapeutic
Progress
Collisions of Subjectivity: The Rewards of Being Real
The Complexities of Self-Revelation:
The Patient’s Safety and the Therapist’s
Emotional Authenticity
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