The AEDP Institute, Dale Trimble & Associates and Continuing Education Co-sponsor: Lifespan Learning Institute Presents:
The Transformation of Emotional Suffering:
Neuroplasticity and Attachment in Action in AEDP
February 24-25, 2012
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Presenters: Diana Fosha, PhD and Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
FRIDAY
9:00-9:15 Welcome & First Nation’s Blessing
Dale Trimble, MA, RCC
9:15-10:00 Overview of AEDP
Diana Fosha, PhD
Specific Learning Objectives:
• Learn key clinical concepts of AEDP
• Understand key theoretical contributors to AEDP
• Learn key theoretical concepts of AEDP’s transformation theory
• Learn the Credo of AEDP
10:00-11:10 Healing from the Get-Go:
Transformance + Dyadic Affect Regulation = Neuroplasticity
Diana Fosha, PhD
Specific Learning Objectives:
• Define Transformance and apply it to development and psychotherapy
• Describe three links between neuroscience and AEDP clinical practice
• Recognize the conditions that promote Neuroplasticity
• Explore Craig’s concepts of GEMs and the central role of the insula in affective experience
• Discover AEDP’s GEMs
11:10-11:30 Break
11:30-12:45 Working at the Edge of
Transformational Experience
Diana Fosha, PhD,
Specific Learning Objectives:
• Deepen understanding of Self-Other-Emotion Triangle
• Identify the 4 States and 3 State Transformations of AEDP
• Distinguish between Self-At-Best and Self-At-Worst Paradigms
• Use the patient’s experience of transformation to activate further healing and consolidation of gains already made, i.e. put neuroplasticity into action
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:40 Attachment, Attachment Styles & Right-Brain Processes
Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
Specific Learning Objectives:
• Recognize markers of different attachment styles in clinical practice
• Understand the role of healthy attachment and attachment trauma in health and psychopathology
• Learn the Right Brain processes engaged in the process of attachment
• Learn the impact of early attachment on brain development
• Link the role of an attachment figure in early development to the clinical practice of an attachment-oriented therapist
3:40-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Discussion
SATURDAY
9:00-9:15 Welcome Back & Housekeeping
Dale Trimble, MA, RCC
9:15-10:30 Attachment in Action:
Experiential Work with Attachment in AEDP
Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
Specific Learning Objectives:
• Foster an attachment-based stance from the get-go to facilitate affect regulation between therapist and client
• Support a client’s relinquishing of maladaptive defenses
• Understand and witness the direct application of attachment research to specific clinical technique
• Learn experiential techniques to help a client process intense, previously warded off emotional experiences
10:30-10:50 Break
10:50-12:30 Attachment in Action (Cont’d)
Benjamin Lipton, LCSW
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:10 Metaprocessing: True Self/True Other Relating &
Experiential Work with Transformational Experience
Diana Fosha, PhD
Specific Learning Objectives:
• Define Metatherapeutic Processing
• Recognize Transformational Affects
• Identify Core State phenomena
• Engage with the concept of the Transformational Spiral
3:10-3:30 Break
3:30-4:45 Demonstration and Discussion
Diana Fosha, PhD and Benjamin Lipton, PhD
Specific Learning Objectives:
• Learn the AEDP model of initial engagement
• Witness moment-to-moment tracking
• Identify signs and markers of moment-to-moment healing and change
• Identify Transformance strivings in vivo
• Witness neuroplasticity in action through clinical intervention
4:45-5:00 Wrap Up and Certificate Distribution
Dale Trimble, MA, RCC
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