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CALIFORNIA This series of four-hour training sessions is designed to further cultivate the internal capacity, skills and awareness of each member of the group to treat patients using AEDP for Couples. We will meet one Friday afternoon a month over a nine-month period beginning in the Fall of 2010 and ending in early summer 2011. The group will be facilitated by AEDP Institute Faculty Member David Mars, Ph.D., MFT. The Training and Supervision Group is intended to provide a medium through which participants can deepen their skills and effectiveness in engaging couples and individuals in a transformative process directed toward building bonds and connectedness and healing attachment level trauma. The intention for this Training and Supervision group is for us to co-create an intimate, affirmative, and safe holding environment for the evolving AEDP Couples work of each member, so we can do our work and feel a maximum sense of security and enjoyment of the learning process. Each monthly meeting, I will give a presentation to demonstrate the structure of the work including videotape to demonstrate some principles and practices. We will be evolving our work of AEDP for Couples as a group together. In this group we will be developing and deepening: • Channels of perception, reception and expression for more effectively and enjoyably conducting couples therapy CEU’s for MFT’s and Social Workers are included. CEU’s for Psychologists are available. Applicants need to be licensed, to have previous training and experience in marital and/or family therapy, and in most cases, an AEDP Immersion course or AEDP training seminars. AEDP Process Training Group for Psychotherapists, Interns and Trainees David Mars, Ph.D., MFT. This is an experiential training to enhance, expand and refine your skills in providing individual, group and couple AEDP. This group will help you to expand your perceptive, receptive and expressive capacity for embodied moment-to-moment tracking in sessions. Participants will be learning AEDP by giving AEDP within the training structure of the group process. Each session we will start with a meditation based on the seven channels of experience followed by a brief teaching piece. The rest of the group will involve holding a safe container that is somatically focused in response to each member's check in. The opening check in topic will be: "What "edges" or blocks come up in you when you do more relationally and somatically attuned, attachment level AEDP work for healing issues of deprivation and trauma with your individual clients, couples or groups?" In response to each participant's check-in, members of the training group will give embodied and affirming, reflective and/or self revelatory responses in the structure of AEDP. Each member will need a designated therapist outside the training group who would be available if needed to process personal material that may be surfaced. I will be in the role of AEDP Faculty facilitator. The training group will meet from 7:00 to 9:30 PM on alternate Monday nights except for major holidays beginning October 25, 2010 A written agreement will be required stating that you are responsible for the cost of the eight session training series. At the seventh session, there will be an opportunity to sign up of the next series, which will begin two weeks later. The concept is for the training group to go on for a span between a year and two years. PENNSYLVANIA AND THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES This training group will meet for a full day once a month in Suburban Philadelphia as an ongoing, intensive, small group experience to initially introduce and subsequently immerse participants in the theory and technique of AEDP. Training will be conducted in two phases. Phase I (Seminar) will primarily use a didactic format to introduce participants to modules that cover the basics of AEDP theory and technique. The instructor's patient videos will be used extensively to demonstrate and explore core principles. This phase is ideal for those with little or no prior exposure to AEDP, but is also well-suited for those wanting an extensive review. The format will include lecture, facilitated discussion, patient videos, readings and skill-building exercises. Topics will include all the core AEDP principles such as moment-to-moment tracking, facilitating affective and right brain phenomenon, defense restructuring, anxiety regulation, slowing down/ deepening, somatic tracking, metatherapeutic processing, and working with positive affects. The goals of Phase I are to develop a thorough working knowledge of AEDP, to provide a foundation for skill building and to develop a cohesive working group for Phase II. Phase II (Group Supervision) will involve supervision of participants' patient videos in a safe and cohesive small group setting to facilitate optimal integration of material. There will continue to be video presentations and teaching modules from the instructor as well as focused skill building exercises. The focus of Phase II will be accumulating technical skill while acquiring an increasingly sophisticated base of theoretical understanding and knowledge in working with a variety of populations and personality types. Various styles and techniques will be reviewed with particular attention given to matching the therapist’s interventions with the patient's clinical needs in that moment based on continuous assessment. Work with other populations will include adolescents and their families, severe character disorders, substance abuse, trauma, severe and persistent mental illnesses and those in psychiatric crisis. In addition to focusing on technique as applied to treatment, attention will be given to development of the clinicians' professional identity through exploration of the match between technical style and personal self. The goal is to develop a style that is well integrated, as well as authentic, unique and highly individualized. Accomplishing this deep integration is an advanced goal that permits use of technique in a way that maximizes both personal and professional resources to result in a style that is highly effective, efficient, natural, and deeply rewarding to practice. Schedule: Meetings will be held for one full day (a Friday) each month. CEU's: Available for most professionals.
For further information or to apply, contact Steve Shapiro, Ph.D at stevensshapiro@comcast.net. CANADA Danny Yeung is leading a new AEDP Training Group planned for November 2010 followed by monthly meetings for two and a half hours. The format will be a creative compilation of didactic theory presentation, supervisor/supervisee DVD case discussions, and essential AEDP skills entrainment/practice. Please contact Danny Yeung M.D.: dannyyeung426@gmail.com for further information. HONG KONG Monthly/ One Saturday per month @ 6:30am to 8:30am EST. |
