AEDP: Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy

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AEDP ESSENTIAL SKILLS COURSE
Fall 2011– Spring/Summer 2012
SF Bay Area, CA

LEARN AEDP In-Depth, Systematically & Experientially

We will be offering our AEDP Essential Skills course in the SF Bay Area starting December 2011. The course will be held over 5 three-day weekends (Fridays from 1pm - 7pm, Saturdays from 9am - 5pm; Sundays from 9am - 2pm). The basic skill sets necessary to practice AEDP will be introduced each weekend, with theoretical foundations and with videotapes, followed by live demonstrations and group experiential exercises in the afternoons.

AEDP Essential Skills, aimed at practitioners, will be practical. Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways, skill sets, concrete and specific. Different skill sets will be introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced each weekend, so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP.

Theory, Videotapes, Experiential Learning:

Participants will learn the AEDP clinical roadmap, decision tree, protocol, and the right-brain language of experiential treatment. The training will include didactic material, clinical videotapes of actual sessions from AEDP faculty members and Dr. Diana Fosha, daily experiential exercises, and small and large group processing.

Essential skills will be experientially explored and didactically demonstrated so that participants will develop both a (right brain mediated) felt sense as well as a (left brain mediated) understanding of them:
-- the entrainment of transformance and healing forces within the self
-- how to translate social engagement neuroscience to clinical work
-- how to engender secure attachment from the get-go, and thereafter
-- how to work with patients who do not take to AEDP
-- promoting right brain experience: gaze, contact, tone, lexicon
-- how to work with resistance to right-brain experience
-- self-at-best/self-at-worst
-- moment-to-moment tracking
-- the four state and three-state transformations of the transformational process
-- working with defenses: bypassing defenses, defense restructuring
-- undoing unbearable aloneness
-- pressuring with empathy
-- dyadic affect regulation: attunement, disruption, repair
-- phenomenology of affective experiences, transformational markers
-- metaprocessing: how AEDP interventions register inside the patient
-- metatherapeutic processing of transformational experience
-- the healing-oriented phenomenology of AEDP: categorical emotions, healing affects, receptive affective experiences
-- the integration of right-brain and left-brain experience to unleash cascading transformations, and solidify therapeutic gains

Faculty:

The SF Bay Area course will be helmed by KAREN PANDO-MARS, MFT, who will co-teach it with AEDP Institute Faculty members Diana Fosha, Ph.D. (via live video conference), Ron Frederick, Ph.D., Natasha Prenn, LCSW, David Mars, Ph.D. and Eileen Russell, Ph.D. Experienced, local AEDP practitioners will assist with the experiential practices.

Topics/Skill Sets:

Each module will be co-taught by (i) Karen Pando-Mars together with (ii) the AEDP Faculty member listed below for each module.

Module 1: How to Entrain Healing and Transformance from the Get-Go: "What to Say and How to Say it" Natasha Prenn

Module 2: How to Work with Defenses, Anxiety and Shame, i.e., Top-of-the-Triangle-of-Experience Work in AEDP Ron Frederick

Module 3: How to Explicitly and Experientially Work with Attachment in AEDP Diana Fosha (via live video conference on Saturday March 10, 2011).

Module 4: How to Work with Emotion in AEDP: Emotion, Channels of Experience and Processing to Completion David Mars

Module 5: How to Metaprocess Transformational Experience and Engender Resilience
Eileen Russell

Dates and Times:

Dates and Time: The course will be held over five, three-day weekends meeting on Fridays, 1 pm-7pm, Saturdays from 9am -5pm; Sundays from 9am-2pm).

Module 1: December 9 - 11, 2011
Module 2: January 20 - 22, 2012
Module 3: March 9 - 11, 2012
Module 4: April 27 - 29, 2012
Module 5: June 29 - 30, July 1, 2012

Location:

Lloyd Hall
San Francisco Theological Seminary
105 Seminary Road
San Anselmo, CA 94960
Website: www.sfts.edu

Application Procedure:

Step 1.
Scroll down to the "Click Here to Apply" link and fill out the online application.

Step 2.
There will be a link to place a deposit or pay for the course in full via PayPal. If paying by check, please make check payable to "AEDP Works" and mail to:

AEDP Institute
PO Box 414
137 Montague Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Attention: Ginny Vaughn

Cost:

There are two options to pay for the Essential Skills course:

1. Five Individual Payments of $670 (within the United States)
Five Individual Payments of $675 (outside of the United States)
*Additional $50 discount off one module for AEDP Institute members.

2. Payment in Full: (Within the United States): $3,350
$3,390* (Outside of the United States): $3,390
*Additional $50 discount for AEDP Institute members.

AEDP MEMBERS: Please choose MEMBERS option on PayPal drop-down menu to receive your $50 discount.

If paying by PayPal, your payment must be made prior to your arrival to the course, as we are not equipped to accept credit cards at the venue.

Cancellation/Refund Policy:

A one-year financial commitment is required. There is $40 non-refundable fee for withdrawal up until November 25th, 2011. There is a $150 non-refundable fee for withdrawal up to December 2, 2011. No refunds after December 2, 2011. Thereafter, even if you choose to withdraw from the course, you will be responsible for the tuition payment in full.

Please note: A one-time deposit is required within one week of submitting your application to secure your place in the course. For modules 2-5, payment can be made on the first day of the module if paying by check. If paying by PayPal, payment must be made prior to your arrival to the course since we are not equipped to accept credit cards at the venue.

Certification:

The AEDP Essential Skills course will count towards certification, and in combination with 20 hours of individual or group supervision, will raise you to a Level 2 AEDP practitioner in our online Therapist Directory.

CE Hours Credits:

CE Hours credits will be available to all interested licensed practitioners practicing in the U.S. for a fee of $50.

To participate, please inform the course assistant on the first day of the course. At that time you will receive a CE Hours form. Please fill out the form during each module and keep in a safe place, as it is required by Lifespan Learning Institute to process your CE Hours.

At the conclusion of the course in July 2012, we will collect your $50 CE Hours payment (via check payable to "Lifespan Learning Institute") to be submitted with your CE Hours documentation form. We will not be accepting CE Hours payment prior to July 2012, however payment must be received no later than July 16, 2012. It is the responsibility of non-California students to verify that their state licensing entity will accept Lifespan Learning Institute (California) certificates for satisfaction of their CE obligations.

AEDP Essential Skills Course