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AEDP Immersion Course - Live Online

Dates:
Friday October 23 - Tuesday October 27, 2020

New Times:
Eastern Standard: Friday through Monday 11:00 am - 7:00 pm | Tuesday 11:00am - 4:00pm
Pacific Standard: Friday through Monday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Tuesday 8:00am - 1:00pm

Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is one of the fastest growing approaches to working with attachment trauma. Its transformational theory, a basis for putting neuroplasticity and attachment theory into clinical action, is similarly receiving increasing recognition.

Until recently, the mental health field focused on pathology and lacked concepts to capture the motivational strivings for health. Drawing on neuroscience and developmental research, AEDP rectifies this bias towards pathology. AEDP asserts that we are wired for healing, self-righting and for resuming impeded growth.

This will be an interactive workshop: a collaborative process will be entrained between the presenters and workshop participants to support the emergence of the positive transformational phenomena that are at the heart of AEDP.

This program is for 30.5CE
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
 

Presenters

Jennifer Edlin, MFT and Karen Kranz, PhD, R Psych

Jennifer Edlin, MFT

Jennifer Edlin, MFT is a psychotherapist in private practice in Oakland, California. From the moment she attended her first AEDP Immersion Course, she was taken by AEDP and the permission to be authentic and to use the therapist’s whole self in service of clients’ healing and transformation. Jenn serves as the co-chair and faculty liaison of the AEDP Research committee. She has also helped to spearhead the launch of the Berkeley Initiative for Mindfulness in Law at UC Berkeley Law. Her clinical interests include treating relational trauma, mindfulness in the therapeutic dyad and building self-compassion.

Jenn received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a JD/MBA degree from New York University and an MA in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has trained extensively in AEDP, including a year of core training and long term supervision with Dr. SueAnne Piliero as well as supervision with Dr. Eileen Russell and Dr. Fosha.

Jenn brings a natural warmth, ease and authenticity to her work with clients as well as to her supervision, teaching and other work in the AEDP community. She sees supervision as a powerful way to undo the aloneness we feel as therapists and enjoys meeting therapists wherever they are in their AEDP journey.


Karen Kranz, Ph.D., R. Psych

Karen Kranz, PhD RPsych (white, cis-gender female, she/hers/her, queer) has been a psychologist in private practice in Vancouver Canada since 2000. Her areas of interest in AEDP are making the work with clients and therapists increasingly more relational and experiential. She is continually challenged and intrigued by core and pathogenic emotions and has completed the second draft of a paper about pathogenic affect with the working title of “Rock Logic & Rabbit Holes: The Phenomenology of Pathogenic State of Consciousness & its Impact on the Therapist’s State of Consciousness and Therapist-Client Intersubjectivity.”

After the Immersion course, she began supervision with Dr. Fosha. "At that time, all that interested me was becoming a better clinician, AEDP certification as a therapist and supervisor and becoming faculty were never my ambitions. However, as I deepened into both my knowledge and experience of AEDP and in the AEDP community, I realized that it was through the process of certification as a therapist, as a supervisor, and now with teaching and writing that I was becoming a better therapist."

With AEDP, Dr. Kranz says she "found a therapeutic home and a community of colleagues when I did not even know I was looking for one, or perhaps more aptly wasn’t looking for one because I did not believe such a home existed."

Nationally and internationally, Dr. Kranz supervises and teaches Immersion Courses, Essentials Skills (ES1), Advanced Skills (ES2), and Core Training. She has an article published in the AEDP journal Transformance entitled: “Making AEDP supervision relational and experiential: Cultivating receptive affective capacity in supervisee and client.” Her most recent paper “The first session in AEDP: Healing from the get-go through harnessing transformance and co-creating a secure attachment” (in press) in D. Fosha (Ed.) Undoing aloneness and the transformation of suffering into flourishing AEDP 2.0.

 

Target Audience:

Psychologists (Introductory), Psychoanalysts, Social Workers (Beginning Levels), Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists, Chemical Dependency Counselors, Educators, Nurses

 

Course Objectives:

1.Define Transformance and apply it to psychotherapy

2.Explain the self-other-emotion triangle

3.Identify the 4 States and 3 State Transformations of AEDP.

4.Explain the key clinical concepts, theoretical contributions, and the credo of AEDP.

5.Discuss the role of healthy attachment and attachment trauma in health and psychopathology

6.Identify the right brain processes engaged in the process of attachment.

7.Identify the 3 elements of dyadic affect regulation: attunement, disruption, and repair and to define dyadic affect regulation in clinical work.

8.Utilize experiential techniques to help a client process intense, previously warded off emotional experiences

9.Define meta processing

10.Identify the 5 metatherapeutic processes,

11.Detect transformational markers

12.Recognize the phenomenology of the healing affects

13.Use affective/somatic affective markers to moment-to-moment track clinical process and guide interventions

14.Use dyadic regulation to undo the patient’s aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotional experience

15.Use dyadic affect regulation to transform shame and fear; restore connection, flow and awe

16.Recognize and promote core state and experiences of openness, compassion, self-compassion, flow, ease, wisdom, generosity, and calm

17.Integrate judicious self-disclosure of therapist’s experience of the patient to foster connection, soften defenses and regulate shame

18. Differentiate between defensive, anxious, and core affective response in a client.

19. Apply in clinical situations the theoretical maps, and therapist stance that undergird andguide AEDP practice and the transformational process.

20.Applymeta-therapeutic interventions to facilitate, deepen and strengthen change for the better within clients.

21.Name 3 core concepts of AEDP

22.Summarize AEDP’s Triangle of Experience and how it informs important clinical choicepoints

23. Use dyadic affect regulation to process emotion to a transformational shift, from categorical emotions (often negatively valences) to a point to a pointwherepositive affects and adaptive action tendencies are released.

24.Describe the phenomenology of the transformational process: the 4 states and 3 statetransformations of AEDP

25.Use techniques for experiential work with attachment experience

26.Use AEDP’s rigorous transformational phenomenology to closely track clinicalprocesses

27. Applyexplicit relational interventions and use their healing power with clients.

28.Identify and Practice key intervention skills

29.Explain and Practice the intervention of metatherapeutic processing

30. Explain AEDP’s healing oriented transformational theory and distinguish it from traditional models of therapy.

 

Agenda

DAY 1

TRANSFORMANCE: Putting neuroplasticity in dyadic clinical action

The Neurobiology of Healing: Neuroplasticity, Transformance, Emergence
The Phenomenology of the Transformational Process: What happens in each of  the 4 States and 3 state Transformations Metatherapeutic Processing & The Transformational Affects – Take 1

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Check in

9:00 – 9:30 Course Overview

9:30 – 11:00am
Intro to AEDP, Part 1: The Neurobiology of Healing in Clinical Action
The Birth of Transformance, Neuroplasticity; Transformational Theory and AEDP’s Healing-Based Clinical Practice

11:00am – 11:15am
Coffee break

11:15am – 12:30pm
Intro to AEDP, Part 2: Essential Aspects of AEDP. Affective Change Processes. The Phenomenology of Transformational Experience.  Metatherapeutic processing.  Experiential exercise: Undoing the aloneness of the course participants.

12:30pm – 1:30pm  LUNCH

1:30pm – 3:00pm
Becoming a Transformance Detective: Healing from the Get-Go. Affirmation, receptivity, metaprocessing. Clinical Videotape, Experiential Exercises

3:00pm – 3:15pm
Coffee break

3:15pm – 4:45pm
Neuroplasticity in Clinical Action. Energy for Life: Recognition, Vitality, Delight, Truth, and the Emergent Phenomenology of Transformational Experience. Clinical Videotape

4:45pm-5:00pm   Discussion and metaprocessing workshop experience of Day 1

DAY 2

ATTACHMENT: How to undo aloneness & how to do experiential work with attachment

Undoing Aloneness: Attachment as a Transformative Process
The Neuroception of Safety in The Polyvagal Theory (Porges) & AEDP’s Therapeutic Stance
Intersubjectivity in Rigorous Clinical Experiential Action: Right Brain-to-Right-Brain Communication and the Dyadic Repair of Attachment Trauma AEDP & The Transformation of the Internal Working Model: “Taking in” love and care; Work with Receptive Affective Experiences

9:00 – 9:15
Questions, Reflections on Day 1

9:15am-11:00am
Undoing Aloneness, Part 1: How AEDP Heals Attachment Trauma: The Transformation of the Internal Working Model. The Co-creation of Safety & The Dyadic Affect Regulation of Intense Emotions.
The Representational Schemas of AEDP; Techniques for Working with Defenses and Anxiety (State 1 work with different attachment styles).

11:00am-11:15am
Coffee break

11:15am-12:30pm
Undoing Aloneness, Part 2: The Intimacy of Moment-to-Moment Relational Work in AEDP. Making the Implicit Explicit and the Explicit Experiential:  Work with Receptive Affective Experience. One of the central places attachment trauma shows up is in difficulties “taking in” positive experiences. The focus will be on how to overcome the barrier to the taking in the therapist’s empathy, care, and concern, and thus enlarge patients’ capacity for receptive affective experience.

12:30pm -1:30pm
LUNCH

1:30pm-3:00pm Explicit/Experiential  Work with the Experience of Attachment in the Here-and-Now of the Patient/Therapist Dyad.  Clinical Videotape

3:00pm-3:15pm.
Coffee break

3:15pm-4:45pm
Healing Affects and Healing Interactions: Dyadic Affect Regulation and the Processing of Intense Emotional Experiences Clinical Videotape

4:45pm-5:00pm
Discussion and metaprocessing workshop experience of Day 2.

DAY 3

EMOTION: How to work with intense emotional experience

The Neurobiology of Emotion (Damasio, Panksepp)
The Insula and its Role in the Felt Sense, and in Moment-to-Moment Tracking  (Craig)
AEDP’s Model of Psychopathology; Representational Schemas
State 1 Work with Defenses and Anxiety: Dyadic Affect Regulation of Intense Emotion
State 2 Work: The Processing of Intense Emotional Experience

9:00-9:15am
Questions, Reflections on Day 2

9:15am-11:00am
The Experiential Method in AEDP: The Neurobiology of Emotions, Emotion Processing and the Felt Sense of Emotional Experience. Techniques for Processing Emotions and Other Affective Change Processes: Portrayals, etc. (State 2 work). Clinical Videotape

11:00am-11.15am
Coffee break

11.15-am- 12.30pm
Processing Intense Emotional Experience to Completion: The Rise of Resilience and Adaptive Action Tendencies Clinical Videotape

12:30pm.-1:30pm LUNCH

1:30pm-3:00pm
From Suffering to Flourishing, From Trauma to Transcendence Part 1. Clinical Videotape.

3:00pm-3:15pm. Coffee break

3:15pm-4:30pm
From Suffering to Flourishing, From Trauma to Transcendence Part 2.

4:30-5.00pm Discussion and metaprocessing workshop experience of Day 3.

DAY 4

TRANSFORMATION: Metaprocessing
The Processing of Transformational Experience: Metatherapeutic Processing and the Transformational Affects (State 3 work)
“Stay with It and Stay with Me:” The Healing of Attachment Trauma and the  Transformation of the Self
Neuroplasticity in Action: From Suffering to Flourishing

9:00-9:15am
Questions, Reflections on Day 3

9:15am-11:00am
Metatherapeutic Processing and the Transformational Affects –
The experiential exploration of the experience of transformation unleashes a transformational process, a non-finite process that, when nurtured, engages the depths of the human spirit.

11:00am-11:15am
Coffee break

11:15am-12:30pm
Metatherapeutic Processing: The transformational spiral unleashed. Clinical videotapes using AEDP’s technique of experientially processing transformational experience, deep experiential work with trauma and emotional suffering naturally culminate in the release of energy and vitality.

12:30pm -1:30pm LUNCH

1:30pm-3:00pm Immersion in Experiential Exercises — with Assistants

3:00pm-3:30pm. Coffee break

3:30-4:30pm  Immersion in Experiential Exercises — with Assistants

4:30-5.00pm Discussion and metaprocessing workshop experience of Day 4.

DAY 5

INTEGRATION, Applications to the Healing of Attachment Trauma

The Neurobiological Core Self (Damasio, Panksepp) & Recognition Processes
Truth, Love, Compassion and New Meaning –in Connection (Core State: State 4  work)
The Phenomenology of the Transformational Process
Relational Strategies for Healing Attachment Trauma
“Stay with It and Stay with Me:” The Healing of Attachment Trauma and the Emergence of the Self Integration of Attachment, Neuroscience & Clinical Work

9:00-9:15am
Questions, Reflections on Day 4

9:15am-11:30am
The Neurobiological Core Self & Recognition Processes: The Click of Recognition and the Emergence of the Radiant Self

11:30am – 12:00pm
Coffee break

12:00pm – 2:00pm
Truth, Love, Compassion and New Meaning –in Connection: Core State work. Clinical Videotapes. The clinical videotapes will illustrate State 4 work, including the activation of the transformational spiral and how to go about fostering the emergence of new meaning and the co-construction of a new cohesive and coherent autobiographical narrative.

From Suffering to Flourishing, From Trauma to Transcendence. Clinical Videotape.