Toronto Workshop with Benjamin Lipton, LCSW

Empathy, secure attachment, attunement and transformation are all buzzwords in the psychotherapy zeitgeist. Many models reference one or more of these concepts as their core therapeutic principles. Fewer models explicitly translate these broad concepts into specific and refined intervention strategies that operate moment-to-moment in the clinical process. In other words, understanding change processes intellectually is a very different skill set from working with them experientially in clinical work. AEDP, with its dual clinical focus on a) directly translating attachment research into the practice of fostering secure attachment and b) naming, tracking and experientially amplifying the specific, moment-to-moment markers of positive transformation, offers the possibility of identifying and naming precise intervention strategies that foster a client’s feeling deeply recognized and understood, safe and secure, and as a result, curious and increasingly capable in relation to self and others.

For therapists new to AEDP, this workshop will provide you with a starter kit of techniques. For those of you who are more experienced in the model, this workshop will provide the opportunity for us to collaboratively build upon your skill set and address common challenges we face when trying to work experientially. We’ll be watching clinical video of actual therapy sessions and participating in targeted experiential exercises that will help you to quicken your AEDP stride as together we walk the talk of therapeutic change.

In this workshop, therapists will learn how to:

• How to track and utilize nonverbal, somatically focused “Right-Brain to Right-Brain” interventions in the service of facilitating secure attachment.
• How to apply the foundational AEDP technique of experiential meta-processing to guide your work moment-to-moment in a session.
• How to share your own emotional experience in ways that deepen rather than divert from the healing process.
• How to stay “dropped down” and focused on experiential exploration of emotion when the urge to explain wants to overtake you or your client.
• How to use experiential meta-processing to guide your work moment to moment in a session.

Workshop Location:
Nancy’s Auditorium, YWCA
87 Elm Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Time and Date:
Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
9am-5:30pm

Cost: $225 (CA)