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 course is for Psychologists (Introductory-Intermediate Level), Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists.

• Define Transformance and apply it to psychotherapy
• Explain the self-other-emotion triangle
• Identify the 4 States and 3 State Transformations of AEDP.
• Explain the key clinical concepts, theoretical contributions, and the credo of AEDP.
• Discuss the role of healthy attachment and attachment trauma in health and psychopathology
• Identify the right brain processes engaged in the process of attachment.
• Identify the 3 elements of dyadic affect regulation: attunement, disruption, and repair and to define dyadic affect regulation in clinical work.
• Utilize experiential techniques to help a client process intense, previously warded off emotional experiences
• Define metaprocessing
• Identify the 5 metatherapeutic processes,
• Detect transformational markers
• Recognize the phenomenology of the healing affects
• Use affective/body-based affective markers to moment-to-moment track clinical process and guide interventions
• Use dyadic regulation to undo the patient’s aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotional experience
• Use dyadic affect regulation to transform shame and fear; restore connection, flow and awe
• Recognize and promote core state and experiences of openness, compassion, self-compassion, flow, ease, wisdom, generosity, and calm
• Integrate judicious self-disclosure of therapist’s experience of the patient to foster connection, soften defenses and regulate shame
• Differentiate between defensive, anxious, and core affective response in a client.
• Apply in clinical situations the theoretical maps, and therapist stance that undergird and guide AEDP practice and the transformational process.
• Apply meta-therapeutic interventions to facilitate, deepen and strengthen change for the better within clients.
• Name 3 core concepts of AEDP
• Summarize AEDP’s Triangle of Experience and how it informs important clinical choice points
• Use dyadic affect regulation to process emotion to a transformational shift, from categorical emotions (often negatively valences) to a point to a point where positive affects and adaptive action tendencies are released.
• Describe the phenomenology of the transformational process: the 4 states and 3 state transformations of AEDP
• Use techniques for experiential work with attachment experience
• Use AEDP’s rigorous transformational phenomenology to closely track clinical processes
• Apply explicit relational interventions and use their healing power with clients.
• Identify and Practice key intervention skills
• Explain and Practice the intervention of metatherapeutic processing
• Explain AEDP’s healing oriented transformational theory and distinguish it from traditional models of therapy.
   

WEEK ONE:
DAY 1:
11:00 AM -12:15 PM Welcome, Course Overview, Introductions
12:15 - 1:15 PM Lecture: Introduction to AEDP
1:15 - 1:30 PM Break
1:30 - 3:00 PM Lecture: Introduction to AEDP (cont’d)
3:00 - 3:30 PM Closing

DAY 2:
11:00 -11:30 AM Questions and reflections
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Lecture: The 4-State Transformational Process
1:00 - 1:15 PM Break
1:15 - 1:30 PM Q&A
1:30 - 3:00 PM Lecture: The 4 State Transformational Process (cont’d)
3:00 - 3:30 PM Closing Metaprocess in dyads

DAY 3:
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Lecture: Attachment as a Transformative Experience
1:00 - 1:15 PM Break
1:15 - 1:30 PM Q&A
1:30 - 3:00 PM Attachment as a Transformative Experience: Case presentation
3:00 - 3:30 PM Closing Metaprocess (dyads)

DAY 4
11:00 - 11:30 AM Questions and Reflections
11:30 PM - 1:00 PM Lecture: Triangle of Experience, Development of Psychopathology
1:00 - 1:15 PM Break
1:15 - 1:30 PM Q&A
1:30 - 3:00 PM Case Presentation: Portrayals
3:00 - 3:30 PM Closing Metaprocess

WEEK TWO
DAY 1:
11:00 - 11:30 AM Questions and Reflections
11:30 PM - 1:00 PM Lecture: Thriving, Flourishing and Positive Affect: Working with Transformation
1:00 - 1:15 PM Break
1:15 - 1:30 PM Q&A
1:30 - 3:00 PM Guest presenter Dina Miqdadi: “Undoing aloneness and the transformation of
emotional suffering”
3:00 - 3:30 PM Closing Metaprocessing

DAY 2:
11:00 - 11:30 AM Questions and Reflections
11:30 - 1:00 PM Lecture: Working the Top of the Triangle in AEDP: Addressing Inhibitory Affects & Defense
1:00 - 1:15 PM Break
1:15 - 1:30 PM Q&A
1:30 - 3:00 PM Guest presenter Alana Tappin: “My Journey towards an Authentic Therapeutic Identity”
3:00 - 3:30 PM Closing Metaprocess

DAY 3:
11:00 - 11:30 AM Questions and Reflections
11:30 - 12:30 PM Lecture: A Look at AEDP-Informed Parts work
12:30am – 12:45 PM – Break
12:45 – 3:30 PM – Experiential exercise and division into small working groups, led and held by an Experiential Assistant.
3:30pm – Course day ends, departing from the small experiential groups.

DAY 4:
11:00 AM – Questions and Reflections
12:00 - 1:00 PM Lecture/Video Analysis: Therapist Aims and Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process
1:00 – 1:35 PM – filling-in course evaluations and taking break
1:35 - 2:45 PM Lecture/Video Analysis: Therapist Aims and Activities of the 4 StateTransformational Process cont’d
2:45 PM – Closing circle
3:30 PM – End of the course