Immersion Agenda January 2021
Friday – Monday, January 8 – 11 + January 15 – 18, 2021
AEDP Immersion (Online) Daily Schedule: All times are Eastern Standard Time
DAY 1 & 2
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
2:15 – 3:00 PM Tech Orientation for Participants, Faculty, Experiential Assistants (EAs)
3:00 – 4:15 PM Welcome, In-it-Together, Course Overview
4:15 – 5:15 PM Introduction to AEDP
5:15 – 5:30 PM Coffee Break Breakout rooms available
5:30 – 7:00 PM Introduction to AEDP cont’d
7:00 – 7:30 PM Metaprocessing the day
Breakout rooms available until 8:00
DAY 2
2:15 – 3:00 PM Breakout Rooms Open
3:00 – 3:45 PM Opening, Questions and Reflections
3:45 – 5:00 PM The 4 State Transformational Process - Round 1
5:00 – 5:30 PM Coffee Break Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout rooms available
5:30 – 7:00 PM Working with attachment trauma in a first session
7:00 – 7:30 PM Metaprocessing the day
Breakout rooms available until 8:00
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
2:15 – 3:00 PM Breakout Rooms Open
3:00 – 3:30 Opening, Questions and Reflections
3:30 – 5:00 Attachment as a Transformative Process
5:00 – 5:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout rooms available
5:30 – 7:00 Clinical work with Anxious Attachment
7:00 – 7:30 Metaprocessing the day
Breakout rooms available until 8:00
Day 4
2:15 – 3:00 Breakout Rooms Open
3:00 – 3:45 Opening, Questions and Reflections
3:45 – 5:00 The Triangle of Experience, Development of Psychopathology
5:00 – 5:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout rooms available
5:30 – 7:00 Working Experientially with Attachment Trauma through Portrayals
7:00 – 7:30 Metaprocessing the day
Breakout rooms available until 8:00
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
2:15 – 3:00 Breakout Rooms Open
3:00 – 3:30 Opening, Questions and Reflections
3:30 – 5:00 Guest Presenter
5:00 – 5:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout rooms available
5:30 – 7:00 Positive Affective Experience and Transforming Suffering into Flourishing
7:00 – 7:30 Metaprocessing the day
Breakout rooms available until 8:00
Day 6
2:15 – 3:00 Breakout Rooms Open
3:00 – 3:30 Opening, Questions and Reflections
3:30 – 5:00 Guest Presenter
5:00 – 5:30 Coffee Break, Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout Rooms Available
5:30 – 7:00 Emotional Processing to Completion
7:00 – 7:30 Metaprocessing the day
Breakout rooms available until 8:00
DAY 7
EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISES: Bringing AEDP theory to life. Participants practice AEDP interventions in groups of 3 or 4 guided by experiential assistants.
2:15 – 3:00 Breakout Rooms Open
3:00 – 3:30 Opening, Questions and Reflections
3:30 – 4:30 Use of the Therapist’s Self with More Defended Clients
4:30-7:30 Experiential Exercise in Groups 4 participants with an Experiential Assistant (EA)
DAY 8
INTEGRATION
2:15 – 3:00 Breakout Rooms Open
3:00 – 4:00 Opening, Questions and Reflections
4:00 – 5:00 Therapist Aims and Activities of the 4 State Transformational Process
5:00 – 5:30 Coffee Break Faculty Office hours 5:15 – 5:30 Breakout Rooms Available
5:30 – 7:00 The 4 State Transformational Process - Round 2; Next Steps in Training; Research
7:00 – 7:30 Closing
Breakout rooms available until 8:00