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Diana Fosha, PhD, Kari Gleiser, PhD, & Ben Medley, LCSW, with Molly Eldridge, LICSW

“HOT” Topics In AEDP™

August 21st - August 25th, 2023

This course is also available Live-Online!

Course Content Level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. This course is open, and content is suitable for all clinicians and learning levels, beginning, intermediate and advanced.

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15 Hour In-Person & Live-Online Course

Monday - Friday: 9:00a.m. - 12:30p.m. EDT / 30-Minute Break Daily

*Earn up to 15 Credits / hours

* Psychologists: Please see the CE section and agenda below for information regarding available credits.

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Course Description

Aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotion is the epicenter of emotional suffering; it is what compels our patients to seek help. Thus, the therapeutic undoing of aloneness is essential to being able to process the turbulent emotions of trauma. AEDP™ psychotherapy, one of the fastest-growing approaches to working with attachment trauma, makes the undoing of aloneness the sine qua non of trauma work. Drawing on neuroplasticity, affective neurobiology, attachment theory, dyadic developmental research, and transformational studies, AEDP has developed a fundamentally dyadic, experiential, healing-oriented practice. As such, AEDP assumes a healthy core within all people and emphasizes the importance of dyadic experiential work with present-moment experiences of attachment, emotion, and transformation to undo aloneness, heal trauma and promote flourishing.

AEDP is known for its rich, creative, systematic interventions, which:

clinically entrain positive neuroplasticity from the get-go
undo the patient's aloneness in the therapeutic dyad
work dyadically and experientially with here-and-now attachment experiences to expand relational capacity, rewire internal working models, and deepen receptive affective experiences of feeling seen, feeling felt and feeling loved
use dyadic affect regulation to experientially process the emotions of trauma until they release their wired-in adaptive action tendencies
metatherapeutically process the resulting experiences of transformation to expand transformation and promote its integration into self

Through the moment-to-moment, in-depth processing of previously overwhelming emotional and relational experiences, and then metatherapeutically processing the emergent corrective experiences within the co-constructed safety of the therapeutic dyad, AEDP helps clients recover their sense of core self and experience flourishing, i.e., increased vitality, connection, meaning, and a renewed zest for life.

In this workshop, we present AEDP through its engagement with some of the most important “hot” topics of our day: relational work with complex trauma and dissociation, expanding trauma work to include traumas of oppression and marginalization, and exploring the synergy of spirituality and psychedelics with AEDP’s transformational work. This workshop is appropriate both for clinicians new to AEDP, and those who have experience in AEDP and are interested in exploring these cutting-edge, “specialized” topics.

This course will be a balance of didactic material delivered in an engaging interactive style, videotapes of actual therapy sessions featuring moment-to-moment microanalysis, and experiential exercises. AEDP’s paradigmatic innovations will be demonstrated through clinical videotapes of actual therapy sessions (using real patients, not actors). Participants will gain a deeper intellectual understanding of the theory of AEDP as well as a repertoire of new skills to practice AEDP, including its application into cutting-edge areas like spirituality, liberation from oppression, and psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Monday

The Core of AEDP

Diana Fosha, PhD

Diana will focus on the dyadic experiential work with relational experiences that AEDP uses to heal attachment wounds. The AEDP 4-State Transformational model with its articulated state-specific transformational phenomenology will also be presented. With clinical videotapes.

Tuesday

To Be or Not to Be... Relational: AEDP and Work with Complex Trauma & Dissociation

Kari Gleiser, PhD

Kari will demonstrate how to balance relational work with ‘Intra-relational’ interventions to help clinicians engage with a traumatized patient’s fragmented inner world, including interacting with dissociated parts in a way that fosters healing and transformation, not dependency and enactment. This methodology uses attachment dynamics as a compass to guide experiential interventions between 1. therapist and patient; 2. therapist and dissociated parts; 3. patient and dissociated parts to build secure attachment bonds on each relational axis. With clinical videotapes.

Wednesday

AEDP’s Triangle of Social Experience Guides Work with Traumas of Oppression and the Experience of Internal Liberation

Ben Medley, LCSW

Ben will introduce the Triangle of Social Experience, a new AEDP representational schema that he developed to help guide our moment-to-moment experiential work to transform the effects of the traumas of oppression and marginalization and foster and install the experience of internal liberation. With clinical videotapes.

Thursday

Transformation & Integration on Steroids: Diving Deep & Soaring High

Diana Fosha, PhD, Kari Gleiser, PhD & Ben Medley, LCSW, Molly Eldridge, LICSW

The whole AEDP team – Diana, Kari, Ben & Molly—will delve deeply into the AEDP groundbreaking innovation, metatherapeutic processing, or metaprocessing for short. Metaprocessing refers to the experiential processing of corrective emotional experiences with the same rigor with which we process traumatic experiences. Doing so gives rise to innate healing affects (e.g., gratitude, love, compassion and self compassion, wisdom, clarity and the truth sense) and upward spirals of vitality and energy. These healing affects deepen and expand the transformation, and foster the emergence of a vital, vibrant and relationally engaged self. With clinical videotapes.

Friday

Back to the Future: The Synergistic Energies of Metaprocessing, Spirituality & Psychedelics.

Kari Gleiser, PhD & Diana Fosha, PhD

Kari and Diana will explore synergies between 1. emotional hallmarks and states of consciousness evoked in AEDP State 3 and 4 work; 2. the transformative power of mystical and spiritual experiences; 3. the healing potential of psychedelic medicines. Shared phenomena such as deep connection to self and others, gratitude, awe, reverence, compassion, love, expanded states of consciousness, and a truth sense bridge the worlds of psychotherapy, psychedelic experiences and spirituality. With clinical videotapes.

* Psychologists: This section is not being offered for CE credit. Please see the CE information on this page for CE availability by State.

Diana Fosha, PhD (she/her/hers) is the developer of AEDP, a healing-oriented psychotherapy approach to treating attachment trauma and helping people connect to their vitality. She is also the Director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, dyadically transformational trauma treatment model. Described by psychoanalyst James Grotstein as a “prizefighter of intimacy,” and by David Malan as “the Winnicott of [accelerated dynamic] psychotherapy,” Diana Fosha’s powerful, precise yet poetic phrases ---"undoing aloneness," "existing in the heart and mind of the other," "stay with it and stay with me," "rigor without shame" and "True Other"-- capture the ethos of AEDP.

She is author of The transforming power of affect (Basic Books, 2000); editor of Undoing aloneness and the transformation of suffering into flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (APA, 2021); co-author, with Natasha Prenn, of Supervision essentials for AEDP (APA, 2017); 1st editor, with Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon, of The healing power of emotion: Affective neuroscience, development & clinical practice (Norton, 2009); and author of numerous articles and book chapters. Four DVDs of her live AEDP work, including a complete 6-session treatment, and a clinical supervision DVD, have been issued by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Diana Fosha has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations. She receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: Diana Fosha has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Kari Gleiser, PhD (she/her/hers) completed her doctoral work at Boston University and her internship through Dartmouth Medical School with a focus on trauma and PTSD. In her practice, she specializes in applying AEDP to the treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders. Dr. Gleiser is the co-founder/co-director of the Center for Integrative Health in Hanover, NH, a trauma center dedicated to multi-modal healing of mind, body and spirit. Dr. Gleiser has co-developed an “intra-relational” model of therapy that imports AEDP’s relational and experiential interventions to patients’ internal systems of dissociated self-states. Dr. Gleiser has written several clinical papers and book chapters and has presented at international conferences. She also explores the intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality, as well as the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Kari Gleiser has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Kari Gleiser has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Ben Medley, LCSW (he/him/his) is an AEDP senior faculty member and has taught AEDP internationally. He has a private practice in New York City and specializes in working with the LGBTQ+ community. His paper "Recovering the True Self: Affirmative Therapy, Attachment and AEDP in Psychotherapy with Gay Men" is published with the SEPI Journal: the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and he has written a chapter on using portrayals to process core affective experience in D. Fosha Ed., (2021) Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0, Washington D.C.: APA.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Ben Medley has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Ben Medley has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Molly Eldridge, MSW, LICSW is a certified AEDP clinician and supervisor. Molly has done extensive training in AEDP beginning in 2008 and is known for her enthusiastic embodiment and love of sharing AEDP. She has taught at the Cape Cod Institute, the New England Society of Trauma and Dissociation and given trainings at various organizations. An active member of the AEDP Institute, Molly currently runs several AEDP supervision groups as well as offering individual supervision and maintaining a private psychotherapy practice on Cape Cod for over 30 years.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Molly Eldridge has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Molly Eldridge has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

1. Describe how the AEDP therapist constructs dyadic safety and connection to undo the patient's aloneness

2. Explain how the AEDP therapist works dyadically with here-and-now attachment experiences to expand relational capacity

3. Describe how AEDP uses dyadic affect regulation and moment-to-moment tracking to experientially process the emotions of trauma to release adaptive action tendencies

4. Describe the use of moment-to-moment tracking to guide clinical interventions in AEDP

5. Describe the AEDP 4-State Transformational model with its articulated state-specific transformational phenomenology

6. Demonstrate how to balance relational work with ‘Intra-relational’ interventions

7. Discuss how AEDP uses attachment dynamics as a compass to guide experiential interventions for working with trauma and the client’s dissociated parts

8. Describe how the AEDP triangle of Social Experience can guide moment-to-moment experiential work that aims to transform the effects of the traumas of oppression and marginalization

9. Discuss metatherapeutic processing and its role in AEDP

10. Discuss overlaps in the state of consciousness evoked in AEDP State 3 and 4 work and the mechanisms of psychedelic medicines and other non-ordinary states

Creative Arts Therapists:

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. # CAT-0090.

Educators:

For eligibility information contact your State certifying authority.

Massachusetts: Educators in Massachusetts are eligible for 15 Professional Development Points (PDPs) for each program attended. MAK Continuing Education, LLC is a registered Professional Development Provider (PD number: U20190001) with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

Marriage and Family Therapists:

Massachusetts: This activity has been certified by NEAFAST on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions, for LMFT professional continuing education. Certification # PC- 041874.

Physicians & Nursing Professionals:

A.C.C.M.E. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., and MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

A.M.A. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Professional Counselors:

MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7187. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Psychoanalysts:

MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts # P-0052.

Psychologists: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CE varies by program, please see CE details on each course page to determine APA credit availability or the list below. This live program qualifies for 12 continuing education hours.

California: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the CPA OPD to sponsor continuing professional education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CPA OPD Provider Code: MAK001. This program qualifies for 15 continuing education hours.

Canada: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for the program. This program qualifies for 15 continuing education hours.

Connecticut: CE credit is available. This course consists of 15 continuing education credit hours for Connecticut Psychologists. CT Gen Stat Sec. 20-191c Continuing Education (b)(3) confirms acceptance of continuing education programs relevant to psychology from a nationally recognized provider of continuing education seminars. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is a nationally recognized provider of continuing education seminars with multiple national CE approvals.

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists # PSY-0102. This program qualifies for 15 continuing education hours.

Ohio: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is a OPA-MCE Approved Provider. Approved Provider: #854261519. This program qualifies for 15 continuing education hours.

Pennsylvania: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. Provider # PSY000226. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for the program. This live program qualifies for 15 continuing education hours.

All Other Psychologists: MAK Continuing Education, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This live program qualifies for 12 continuing education hours.

Social Workers:

ASWB ACE: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute, Provider #1197, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute, maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 8/20/2022- 8/20/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 15 continuing education credits.

ASWB ACE Individual Course Applications (NJ Social Workers): "HOT" Topics in AEDP, Course #4928, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 5/2/2023 - 5/2/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 15 Clinical continuing education credits.

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers # SW-0649.

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Course Content Level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. This course is open, and content is suitable for all clinicians and learning levels, beginning, intermediate and advanced.

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