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 metaprocessing
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 and guide AEDP practice and the transformational process.
20. Apply meta-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 choice
    points
23. 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.
24. Describe the phenomenology of the transformational process: the 4 states and 3 state
    transformations of AEDP
25. Use techniques for experiential work with attachment experience
26. Use AEDP’s rigorous transformational phenomenology to closely track clinical
    processes
27. Apply explicit 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.

DAY 1

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

10:15 – 11:15 AM Introduction to AEDP

11:15 – 11:30 AM Break

11:30 – 1:00 AM Introduction to AEDP cont’d

1:00 – 1:30 AM Metaprocessing the day

DAY 2

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 Break

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

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

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

11:00 – 11:30 AM Break

11:30 – 1:00 PM Clinical work with Insecure attachment

1:00 – 1:30 PM  Metaprocessing the day

Day 4

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 Break

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

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

9:30 – 11:00 AM Guest Presenter

11:00 – 11:30 AM Break

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

1:00 – 1:30 PM Metaprocessing the day

Day 6

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

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

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.

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

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

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

DAY 8

INTEGRATION

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

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

1:00 – 1:30 Closing

Articles:
Yeung, D., Fosha, D., Ye Perman, J. & Xu, Y. (in press as of Aug 2019). After Freud meets Zhuangzi: Stance and the dance of the self-in-transformation with the Other-in-contemplative presence. Psychological Communications.   [in Chinese]

Fosha, D., Thoma, N. & Yeung, D. (2019) Transforming emotional suffering into flourishing: Metatherapeutic processing of positive affect as a trans-theoretical vehicle for change. Counseling Psychology Quarterly. 

Fosha, D. (2018). Introduction to commentaries on sociocultural identity, trauma treatment, and AEDP through the lens of bilingualism in the case of “Rosa.” Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 2, Article 2, pp. 115-130.  http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu .
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/pcsp.v14i2.2039

Fosha, D. (2018). Moment-to-moment guidance of clinical interventions by AEDP’s healing-oriented transformational phenomenology: Commentary on Vigoda Gonzalez’s (2018) case of “Rosa.” Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 2, Article 1, pp. 87-114. http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/pcsp.v14i2.2038

Markin, R. D.,  McCarthy, K. S., Fuhrman, A., Yeung, D., & Gleiser, K. A. (2018). The process of change in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP): A case study analysis. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 28 (2), 213-232.

Medley, B. (2018). Recovering the true self: Affirmative therapy, attachment, and AEDP in psychotherapy with gay men. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration,  28

Riggs Skean, K. (2018). AEDP and cultural competence in developmental trauma treatment. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 2, Article 3, pp. 131-137.   http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu

Rodriguez, R. (2018). The case of “Rosa”: Exploring socio-cultural identities in treatment. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 2, Article 3, pp. 131-137.   http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/pcsp.v14i2.2040

Urquiza Mendoza, Y. (2018). The case of “Rosa”: The importance of specificity in our quest to integrate cultural competence in practice. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 2, Article 4, pp. 138-146.   http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/pcsp.v14i2.2041

Vigoda Gonzales, N. V. (2018). The case of “Rosa;” Reflections on the treatment of a survivor of relational trauma:  Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 1, Article 4, pp. 77-86.   http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.ed
doi:  http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/pcsp.v14i1.2035

Vigoda Gonzales, N. V. (2018). The merits of integrating Accelerated Experiential Dynamic psychotherapy and cultural competence strategies in the treatment of relational trauma: The case of “Rosa.” Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 1, Article 1, pp. 1-57.   http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/pcsp.v14i1.2032

Williams, M., & Files, N. (2018). Emotion-based psychotherapies in the treatment of eating disorders. In H. L. McBride & J. L. Kwee (Eds.), Embodiment and eating disorders: Theory, research, prevention and treatment (pp. 265-299). Routledge: New York, NY.

Ye-Perman, H. J (2018). The case of “Rosa”: AEDP in the realm of cultural diversity— One’s new language as a vehicle for exploring new aspects of identity. Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 2, Article 5, pp. 147-157.   http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/pcsp.v14i2.2042

Iwakabe, S. (2017). Case studies in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP): Reflections on the Case of “Rosa.” Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Volume 14, Module 1, Article 2, pp. 58-68.  shttp://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/pcsp.v14i1.2033

Hanakawa, Y. (2017). AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology,17, 480-481. (in Japanese)

Johansson, R., Hesslow, T., Ljótsson, B.,  Jannson, A.,  Jonnson, l.,  Färdig, S.,   Karlsson, J.,  Hesser, H.,   Frederick, R. J.,    Lilliengren, P., &   Andersson G. (2017). Internet-based affect-focused psychodynamic treatment for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial with 2 year follow up. Psychotherapy, 54 (4), 351-360.

Faerstein, I. & Levenson, H. (2016). Validation of a fidelity scale for accelerated-experiential dynamic psychotherapy. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 26 (2),  172-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/int0000020
Iwakabe, S., & Conceicao, N. (2016).  Metatherapeutic processing as a change-based therapeutic immediacy task:  Building an initial  process model using a task-analytic research strategy.  Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 26 (3), 230-247.

Lilliengren, P., Johansson, R., Lindqvist, K., Mechler, J., & Andersson, G. (2016). Efficacy of Experiential Dynamic Therapy for Psychiatric Conditions: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Psychotherapy, 53 (1), 90-104.

Simpson, M. L. (2016).  Feeling seen: A pathway to transformation.  International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 35 (1), 78-91.
Hendel, H. J. (2015). It’s Not Always Depression. New York Times, March 10, 2015.

Hendel, H. J. (2015). The Healing Power of Hugs. New York Times, September 1, 2015.

Yeung, D., & Fosha, D. (2015). Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy. In The Sage Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy. New York: Sage Publications.

Lehmann, E. (2014).  Integration for increased safety and carrying forward.  In B. Jaison and P. Nowick (Eds.) The Folio: A Journal for Focusing and Experiential Therapy, 25 (1), 139-151.
Johansson, R., Bjorklund, M., Hornborg, C., Karlsson, S., Hesser, H., Ljótsson, B., Rousseau, A., Frederick, R. J., & Andersson G. (2013). Affect-focused psychodynamic treatment for depression and anxiety through the Internet: a randomized controlled trial. PeerJ 1:e102.http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.102
Johansson, R., Frederick, R. J., & Andersson G. (2013). Using the Internet to provide psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychodynamic Psychiatry.  Dec; 41(4):513-40. doi: 10.1521/pdps.2013.41.4.513.

Fosha, D. (2013). A heaven in a wild flower: self, dissociation, and treatment in the context of the neurobiological core self. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 33, 496-523. DOI: 10.108007351690.2013.815067

Fosha, D. (2013). Speculations on emergence: working the edge of transformational experience and neuroplasticity. International Neuropsychotherapy Magazine, 2013, 1 (1), 120-121. Also in The Neuropsychotherapist, Issue I,  www.theneuropsychotherapist.com.

Book Chapters:
Fosha, D.  & Gleiser, K. (in press as of Aug. 2019). The embodied language of integrative states: Unmaligning much maligned language in experiential therapy. In G. L.  Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & Chin Ng, B.  (Eds.). Handbook on language and emotion. De Gruyter Mouton

Fosha, D. (2017). Something More than “Something More than Interpretation:” AEDP Works the Experiential Edge of Transformational Experience to Transform the Internal Working Model. In S. Lord (Ed). Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis: Interaction and Change in the Therapeutic Encounter. Chapter 15. New York: Routledge. (Go to Amazon page for the book)

Fosha, D. (2017). How to be a Transformational Therapist: AEDP Harnesses Innate Healing Affects to Re-wire Experience and Accelerate Transformation. In J. Loizzo, M. Neale & E. Wolf, (Eds). Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Transformation. Chapter 14 (pp. 204-219). New York: Norton. (Go to Amazon page for the book)