Announcements by SEPI Members

AEDP Intensive 5-day Immersion Course

Posted By: DIANA FOSHA, PH.D.
Date: Friday, 25 April 2008, at 3:51 p.m.

Dear all,

I am very pleased to announce that this summer's AEDP Intensive 5-day Immersion Course will be held in the city of Austin, Texas during October. As you might know, Austin invariably makes it onto the top 10 up-and-coming, hip cities in America. It has a thriving downtown music scene. And furthermore, in late October, when we will be there, it boast Mediterranean sunshine, climate, and vegetation.

This year i'll be joined in the teaching by Dr. Steve Shapiro, whose strong STDP background, and its integration into AEDP, is reflected in his powerful work with severe personality disorders. We have also added an experiential component to the Immersion course, so that Immersion course participants both get to practice and experience the skills that they are learning. (This addition to the AEDP Immersion course format was deeply appreciated by the participants in the most recent immersion course, this past January in Berkeley).

More details on exact location, etc etc as we get closer to the date, but in the meatime SAVE THE DATE!

HERE GOES THE BRIEF DESCRIPTION oF the COURSE:

5 DAY IMMERSION COURSE in AEDP

with a Focus on Treating Attachment Trauma

DIANA FOSHA, PH.D. (with Steve Shapiro, Ph.D.)

Austin, Texas
October 22-26, 2008

This FIVE-DAY IMMERSION COURSE IN AEDP is intended for practitioners interested in deepening their AEDP proficiency, and exploring its applications to the treatment of traumatic disorders, with a focus on attachment trauma. Making extensive use of clinical videotapes of actual therapy sessions, the aim of this course is to foster proficiency in the practice of AEDP, as well as facilitate its integration into clinical practices that make use of other experiential, body-focused, trauma-based, relational and/or psychodynamic (e.g., EMDR, somatic experiencing, focusing, hypnosis, STDP, EFT, IFS) methods.

THEORETICAL presentations will focus on articulating an emergent conceptual framework that integrates findings from Affective Neuroscience, Attachment Theory, Emotion Theory, Somatic Focusing, Developmental Studies of Dyadic Interaction, Trauma Studies, and --last but not least -- Transformational Studies. Then, in order to walk the walk and not just talk the talk, we will translate the implications of these radical ideas into the specifics of stance, technique, and precisely attuned interventions to be used in day-to-day, moment-to-moment CLINICAL PRACTICE.

VIDEOTAPES of actual therapy cases will be used throughout to illustrate
-- work with the patient/therapist attachment relationship
-- therapeutic stance: empathy, affirmation, emotional engagement, Intersubjective delight
-- moment-to-moment dyadic affect regulation
-- intrarelational work with different ego states
-- the three states and two state transformations of AEDP
-- working with the pathogenic affects of fear and shame
-- bringing emotion work to completion
-- moment-to-moment tracking of somatic experiencing
-- healing affects as somatic markers of transformational experiences
-- the fostering of True Self experience through being a True Other
-- receptive affective experiences: feeling seen, loved, understood
-- promoting core state: flow, ease, compassion, self-empathy

FACULTY

DIANA FOSHA, Ph.D., is the developer of AEDP, and the Director of the AEDP Institute in New York City. A DVD of her AEDP work with a patient has just been released by APA, as part of their Systems of Psychotherapy Video Series (APA, 2006). She the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and of papers on healing transformational processes in experiential psychotherapy and trauma treatment. She contributed chapters to Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain, edited by Marion Solomon and Daniel Siegel (Norton, 2003) and to The Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Volume 1: Psychodynamic and Object Relations Therapies, edited by J. J. Magnavita (Wiley, 2002). She has done workshops, telecourses and trainings nationally and internationally. She teaches and is in private practice in New York City. Many of her papers are available through the AEDP website at www.aedpinstitute.org

Steve Shapiro, Ph.D. is a Senior Faculty Member of the AEDP Institute. He is the former Director of Psychology and Education at Montgomery County Emergency Service (MCES), where he worked primarily with severe personality disorders. In addition to lecturing and giving workshops on AEDP, Dr. Shapiro conducts seminars and workshops on various topics in his other areas of specialization, which include: adolescents and their families, parenting, communication principles, personality disorders, involuntary treatment (adolescents and others), psychiatric emergencies and crisis intervention. He has held adjunct professor positions at Drexel/Hahnemann University and the University of the Sciences. Dr. Shapiro maintains a full-time private practice in suburban Philadelphia.

STRUCTURE

We meet every day from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Each day begins with a 90 minute theoretical presentation, grounding the clinical work in a conceptual framework that integrates findings from affective neuroscience, attachment theory, emotion theory, somatic focusing, developmental studies of dyadic interaction, trauma studies, and transformational studies, etc. The rest of the day will consist of clinical teaching revolving around clinical videotapes, with a focus both on (a) the phenomenology of the transformational process, and (b) on techniques and strategies of intervention. Some of the topics that will be covered include: dyadic affect regulation, working with the pathogenic affects of fear and shame, working with defenses, working with core emotion, bringing the work to completion, the initial evaluation, termination, somatic focusing and tracking the experiences of the body, working with trauma, etc. Special attention will be accorded to working with the healing affects, to offering and receiving affirmation, and to promoting core state experiencing. In essence, think of this immersion course as a soup-to-nuts course in AEDP.

The format will be highly interactive and emphasize the back and forth with the group of participants, thus activating dyadic processes of communication.

There will be on opportunity to also practice, and experience, some aspects of AEDP through some structured-in experiential exercises.

It is the vision of the course that it would bring together clinicians from different perspectives, clinicians sharing an interest in AEDP specifically and/or in dynamic-experiential work in general, but who would also each bring his or her own very special expertise, interest, and experiences. In this way, not only will the course be exciting and enlivening, but AEDP will continue to grow, enriched and enhanced by being in communication, or dyadic coordination, so to speak, with all these other lodes of knowledge and wisdom. Given the interest expressed in this course, it looks like that vision might be actualized, which is a very exciting prospect.

32.5 CEUs are available upon completion of the AEDP Immersion course.

FOR INFORMATION: Contact Ms. Michelle Kehn at mkehn.aedp@gmail.com
FOR APPLICATIONS: Visit our AEDP website at www.aedpinstitute.com

Hope to see some of you in Austin this October

Best regards,

Diana Fosha

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Diana Fosha, Ph.D.
Director, The AEDP Institute
Tel: 212.645.8465
E-mail: dfosha@aol.com
Website: www.aedpinstitute.com