DAY 1
9:00 – 9:30 - Course Overview, Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - AEDP Stance and Technique:
The Basics and Moment to Moment tracking experience
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - WHAT, WHY and HOW We Do AEDP: Videos
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises*
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 2
9:00 – 9:30 - Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - Understanding the 4 State/3 State Transformation Model I
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - Understanding the 4 State/3 State Transformation: Videos.
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 -Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 3
It’s Not a Once and For All Kind of Deal: Building, Renovating, and Reconstructing a Secure Theraputic Attachment (Jerry Lamanga, LCSW)
9:00 – 9:30 - Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:00 - How to Build a Secure TheraputicAttachment from the Beginning
11:00 – 11:15 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - How to Deepen a Secure Attachment Relationship as Therapy Progresses.
1:00 – 2:15 - Lunch
2:15 – 2:30 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 4
Working with Defense and Anxiety in AEDP (Jerry Lamanga, LCSW)
9:00 – 9:30 - Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - ANXIETY and how we work with and regulate it in AEDP
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - When Defenses Don’t Melt and Anxiety Doesn’t Dissipate.
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 5
Meta-therapeutic Processing: Integration in Action (Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA)
9:00 – 9:30 - Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - Meta-processing: What Is It and How to Do It.
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 12:45 - Meta-processing Continued.
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 6
9:00 – 9:30 - Course Overview, Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - Reviewing and Anticipating: Special Attention to State 2 Adaptive and Maladaptive Core Affective Experience (CAE): This session will recapture some of what was learned in week 1, forecast work with portrayals which will be elaborated later in the week, discuss the different kinds of State 2 CAE that we want to deepen and expand and give special attention to maladaptive CAE
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - Clinical Decision Making via reviewing client sessions: While we are not deepening these, our witness, presence, capacity and willingness to co-regulate can offer tremendous healing potential. Finally, we will look at the risk of leaving people alone in our attempts to “undo aloneness.”
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 7
9:00 – 9:30 - Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - Working with Defense and Anxiety in AEDP: When Defenses Don’t Melt and Anxiety Doesn’t Dissipate – Part 2: This module will focus on how to work with defenses and inhibitory affects to (a) transform self-at-worst into self-at-best and (b) promote access to State 2 core affective experience.
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - Clinical Decision Making via reviewing client sessions: We will also explore strategies from intra-relational AEDP and learn how to use parts work to deal with more recalcitrant trauma-based defenses and anxiety.
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 8
9:00 – 9:30 - Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - The Experience of Emotional Experience: Processing Emotions to Completion: Helping patients to access and viscerally experience previously blocked core emotions in the context of a secure therapy dyad is the central agent of therapeutic change in AEDP. In this module, we will focus on tracking where we are at any given moment in the 4 State model of emotion processing and we will learn State specific skills for accessing, deepening and sufficiently processing core emotions.
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - Clinical Decision Making via reviewing client sessions: We will focus on the powerful technique of portrayals for helping patients to bring online cognition, emotion and somatic experiences associated with core emotion in order to release their adaptive action tendencies, transform trauma-based internal working models, and reduce the energetic drain of anxiety and defenses.
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 9
9:00 – 9:30 - Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - Working with Transformational Experience: Transformational Affects and Core State: AEDP is a treatment model that places transformation and the provision of new experiences at the center of its approach. Today’s training day explores how AEDP works to create the conditions for positive change and makes the most of these change moments when they occur.
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - Clinical Decision Making via reviewing client sessions: a look at ways to facilitate moments that fuel “upward spirals” where healing begets waves of positive affect that in turn beget additional rounds of healing.
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out
DAY 10
9:00 – 9:30 - Today’s Overview
9:30 – 11:15 - Reviewing What We’ve Learned: Watching and Tracking Together: This afternoon’s session will be more of a spontaneous, co-created response to the whole week, and indeed, the whole course. We will take time to watch a video (or two) through the eyes of what we now know to solidify all the learning that has taken place during the course
11:15 – 11:30 - Break
11:30 – 1:00 - Clinical Decision Making via reviewing client sessions: There will also be more time than usual for review, discussion, and still-unanswered questions.
1:00 – 2:00 - Lunch
2:00 – 2:15 - Big Group Q&A and Review Directions for Experiential Exercises
2:15 – 4:00 - Small Group (Triad) Experiential Exercises
4:00 – 4:15 - Break
4:15 – 5:00 - Big Group Process/Q&A/Check Out