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Immersion Intercontinental

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 32CE

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

 

Presenter


Diana Fosha, PhD + Faculty Guest Presenters

Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment; she is Founder and Director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion- and transformation-focused trauma treatment model. Fosha's work focuses on integrating neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on flourishing as a seamless part of the process of transforming emotional suffering.

Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies and The City University of New York.

She is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000); co-author, with Natasha Prenn, of Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (APA, 2016); 1st editor, with Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon, of  The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice (Norton, 2009), and editor of the soon to be released AEDP 2.0: Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing (APA, in press). The author of numerous articles on AEDP’s attachment-emotion-transformation focused experiential treatment model, she has contributed chapters to, among others, Clinical Pearls of Wisdom: 21 Leading Therapists Offer their Key Insights, edited by M. Kerman (Norton, 2009); Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: An Evidence-Based Clinician’s Guide, edited by C. Courtois & J. D. Ford (Guilford, 2009);  Healing Moments in Psychotherapy, edited by Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon (Norton, 2013); Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Transformation, edited by Loizzo, Neale & Wolf (Norton, 2017), Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis: Interaction and Change in the Therapeutic Encounter, edited by Lord (Routledge: 2017) and The Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Volume 1: Psychodynamic and Object Relations Therapies, edited by J. J. Magnavita (Wiley, 2002).

Four DVDs of her live AEDP clinical work, including one documenting a complete 6-session treatment, and one on clinical supervision, have been issued by the American Psychological Association (APA). Learn more and purchase here.

Described by psychoanalyst James Grotstein as a “prizefighter of intimacy,” and by David Malan as “the Winnicott of [accelerated experiential] psychotherapy,” Diana Fosha is known for her powerful, precise yet simultaneously poetic and evocative affective writing and presenting style. Diana’s phrases — “undoing aloneness,” “existing in the heart and mind of the other,” “True Other,” “make the implicit explicit and the explicit experiential,” “stay with it and stay with me,” “rigor without shame” and “judicious self-disclosure” — capture the ethos of AEDP.

Watch Diana's Trusting Vitality video here.

 

Target Audience:

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

 

Course Objectives:

- 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 andpsychopathology
- Identify the right brain processes engaged in the process of attachment.
- Identify the 3 elements of dyadic affect regulation: attunement, disruption, and repairandto define dyadic affect regulation in clinical work.
- Utilize experiential techniques to help a client process intense, previously warded offemotional experiences
- Define metaprocessing
- Identify the 5 metatherapeutic processes,
- Detect transformational markers
- Recognize the phenomenology of the healing affects
- Use affective/somatic 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 overwhelmin gemotional 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 meta therapeutic processing
- Explain AEDP’s healing oriented transformational theory and distinguish it from traditional models of therapy.

 

Agenda

AEDP Immersion (Online) Daily Schedule: All times are Eastern Standard Time   

DAY 1 & 2 | 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM

TRANSFORMANCE: Introduction to AEDP's theoretical roots with a broad sweep through the neurobiology of healing: Transformance, Flourishing, Neuroplasticity, Emergent Experience, Transformational Experience, Attachment, Experiential Work, and Core Self.   

Diving deeper and putting neuroplasticity into dyadic clinical action through the Phenomenology of the Transformational Process: What happens in each of the 4 States and 3 state Transformations and Metatherapeutic Processing & The Transformational Affects

 

DAY 1

8:30 – 9:00 AM Tech Orientation for Participants, Faculty, Experiential Assistants (EAs)

 

9:00 – 10:15 AM Welcome, In-it-Together, Course Overview 

10:15 – 11:15 AM  Introduction to AEDP

11:15 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break Breakout rooms available

11:30 - 1:00 PM Introduction to AEDP cont’d

1:00 – 1:30 PM Metaprocessing the day 

  

DAY 2

8:30 – 9:00 AM  Room Opens

9:00 – 9:45 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections 

9:45 – 11:00 AM The 4 State Transformational Process - Round 1

11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break Faculty Office hours  

11:30 – 1:00 PM Working with attachment trauma in a first session 

1:00 – 1:30 PM Metaprocessing the day 

  

DAY 3 & Day 4

 

ATTACHMENT: How to undo aloneness & how work experientially with attachment. Diving deeper into the origins of psychopathology and one of AEDP’s schemas, The Triangle of Experience.  Healing trauma through portrayals.

Day 3

8:30 – 9:00 AM  Room Opens

9:00 – 9:30  AM Opening, Questions and Reflections

9:30 – 11:00 AM Attachment as a Transformative Process 

11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout rooms available

11:30 – 1:00 PM Clinical work with Anxious Attachment

1:00 – 1:30 PM Metaprocessing the day 

  

Day 4

8:30 – 9:00 AM  Room Opens

9:00 – 9:45 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections

9:45 – 11:00 AM The Triangle of Experience, Development of Psychopathology

11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout rooms available

11:30 – 1:00 PM Working Experientially with Attachment Trauma through Portrayals

1:00 – 1:30 PM Metaprocessing the day 

 

DAY 5 and Day 6

EMOTION: Working with the intense emotional experiences associated with trauma. METAPROCESSING: Harnessing the positive affective experiences associated with healing and transformation.

Day 5

8:30 – 9:00 AM  Room Opens

9:00 – 9:30 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections

9:30 – 11:00 AM Guest Presenter

11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout rooms available 

11:30 – 1:00 PM Positive Affective Experience and Transforming Suffering into Flourishing

1:00 – 1:30 PM Metaprocessing the day 

 

 

Day 6

8:30 – 9:00 AM  Room Opens

9:00 – 9:30 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections

9:30 – 11:00 AM Guest Presenter

11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout rooms available  

11:30 – 1:00 PM Emotional Processing to Completion

1:00 – 1:30 PM Metaprocessing the day 

  

 

DAY 7 

EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISES: Bringing AEDP theory to life.  Participants practice AEDP interventions in groups of 3 or 4 guided by experiential assistants.

 

8:30 – 9:00 AM  Room Opens

9:00 – 9:30 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections 

9:30 – 10:30 Use of the Therapist’s Self with More Defended Clients

10:30 – 1:30 Experiential Exercise in Groups 4 participants with an Experiential Assistant (EA)

 

 

DAY 8 

INTEGRATION

8:30 – 9:00 AM  Room Opens

9:00 – 10:00 AM Opening, Questions and Reflections

10:00 – 11:00 AM Therapist Aims and Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process

11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout Rooms Available

11:30 – 1:00 PM The 4 State Transformational Process - Round 2; Next Steps in Training; Research

1:00 – 1:30 Closing 

 

Course Application, Registration Fees and Scholarships

Course Application, Registration Fees and Scholarships

This Immersion Online course is limited to 80 participants. An application is required. Immersion courses almost always sell out. We recommend immediate application and registration to ensure your spot. Accepted applicants will be notified by October 30, 2020.

AEDP Africa applicants: 

Africa – Application Here 

All registration and payment information for African participants is included with the application above. Questions please contact AEDP Africa’s regional leader Karin Dorell at karindorell@mac.com

AEDP Italy applicants / AEDP Italia: per l’italiano, fare clic QUI 

Italy – Application Here 

All registration and payment information for Italian participants is included with the Italian language application above. Questions please contact AEDP Africa’s regional leader Karin Dorell at karindorell@mac.com

General applicants:

There are limited seats available for general applicant therapists (i.e. not from Africa or Italy). Complete your application for this Immersion course here:

All others – use our General Application Here