Relational Resourcing in AEDP: Strategies for Transformational Change
an AEDP Workshop at the Doubletree Suites by Hilton in Durham, North Carolina
with Diana Fosha, PhD
Current emotion-processing and phase-oriented trauma treatments recognize the importance of resourcing as an essential prerequisite for processing the overwhelming emotional experiences associated with trauma. However, these same models also often assume that experiential work within the client-therapist relationship is dysregulating rather than stabilizing, especially in the early phases of treatment. In contrast, AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), one of the fastest growing approaches to working with attachment trauma, emphasizes relational resourcing right from the get-go.
This workshop will focus on relational resourcing as a resilience building strategy that facilitates the creation of safety and enables and supports deep emotional processing leading to transformational change. Videotaped case examples will show a range of interventions including explicit experiential work with the here-and-now therapeutic dyad, relational work with receptive affective experiences, moment-to-moment tracking, the processing of core affect to release adaptive healing resources, and metaprocessing, a unique component of AEDP which consolidates as well as fuels further transformational change.
What You’ll Learn
In this workshop, you will learn:
- how to recognize transformance and put it into clinical action
- how to effectively and safely work experientially with relational experience
- how to facilitate the dyadic affect regulation of previously feared to be unbearable emotions
- how to work with intense emotional experience, so as to be able to transform suffering into resilience
- how to recognize and entrain receptive aspects of the attachment experience
- how to use the patient’s experience of attachment transformation to activate further healing and consolidation of gains already made
Schedule
9:00-10:30 – Relational resourcing: building resilience through experiential relational work
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-12:00 – Building receptive affective capacity: Explicit and experiential work with attachment
12:00-1:00 – Lunch
1:00-2:30 – Transformance: recognizing and putting it into clinical action
2:30-2:45 – Break
2:45-4:00 – Metaprocessing: using the experience of attachment transformation for consolidation of change and healing
Meet the Presenter
Diana Fosha, PhD
Diana Fosha, Ph.D., is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment; she is Founder and Director of the AEDP Institute. Based in New York City, she has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke's/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies and The City University of New York. Diana Fosha is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and of numerous articles on an attachment-emotion-transformation focused experiential treatment model. She is senior editor, with Daniel Siegel and Marion Solomon, of The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice (Norton, 2009), part of Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology series, and co-author, with Natasha Prenn, of Essentials of AEDP Supervision (APA, 2016). APA has issued 3 DVDs of her APA work. [Learn more and purchase here.]
She has contributed chapters to, among others, Clinical pearls of wisdom: 21 leading therapists offer their key insights, edited by M. Kerman (Norton, 2009); Complex traumatic stress disorders: An evidence-based clinician's guide, edited by C. Courtois & J. D. Ford (Guilford, 2009); 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).
Dr. Diana Fosha graduated magna cum laude with a BA in psychology from Barnard College and received her PhD in clinical psychology from the City university of New York (CUNY). For the last 20 years, she has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing oriented attachment, emotion and transformation focused therapy.
Known for her powerful, precise yet simultaneously poetic and evocative affective writing style, Diana's phrases --- "undoing aloneness," "existing in the heart and mind of the other," "True Other," "make the implicit explicit and the explicit experiential," "stay with it and stay with me," "rigor without shame" and "judicious self-disclosure" -- capture the ethos of AEDP.
Watch Diana's Trusting Vitality video here.
Fee and Credits
- $99
This program is eligible for 4 CE Hours of continuing education credit through our co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars. To view the CE accreditation statement click here. CE Credits are included in the course fee. For our cancellation/refund policy click here.
Event Details:
Date/Time
10/31/20159:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Double Tree Suites by Hilton Raleigh-Durham2515 Meridian Parkway
Durham, North Carolina
27713