Transforming Interlocking Trauma: AEDP for Couples

an AEDP Rocky Mountains Workshop in Denver, CO.

with David Mars, PhD, MFT

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy for Couples is an innovative, somatically focused model, which effectively treats the relational trauma and deprivation that underlies much marital dysfunction. By powerfully creating a safe container for even highly dysregulated couples to relate to each other in a more attuned way, new responsiveness begins from the first session.

Dr. Mars will illustrate key moments of how to work through trauma to heal shame-based blocks to couple intimacy. Extensive clinical videotapes of treatment over time will be used to unpack the dyadic change processes central to AEDP and show the progression of therapy. He skillfully addresses both deactivating (avoidant) and hyperactivating (anxious/ambivalent) attachment strategies. Practical course materials help simplify how to effectively use this approach. You will head back to work armed with immediately applicable interventions.

Powerful aspects of AEDP for Couples include:

1. Focus on healing attachment trauma in the couple as well as in each individual
2. Use of self of the therapist in transformative work with chronically traumatized couples
3. Cutting edge neuroscience that informs the accelerated treatment of relational trauma
4. Cultivating whole body “witness consciousness” of perceiving and expressing “the seven channels of experience”

Course Objectives

Participants will learn to…

• Identify three ways to reduce defenses to build an atmosphere of safety in Couple Treatment
• Detect and Follow the healthiest aspects of each couple member
• Demonstrate skills to regulate emotional reactivity in each couple member
• Define and be able to regulate three early signs of dorsal vagal response (Porges’ Polyvagal Theory)
• Assist couple members to process emotional experience to completion.

Who Should Attend:

The workshop is intended for psychologists, social workers, professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, graduate students, and interns.

Meet the Presenter

David Mars, M.F.T., Ph.D.

David Mars, Ph.D. is the developer of AEDP For Couples. He has specialized in the somatically focused treatment of couples and groups for four decades, as an innovator in developing process-oriented, somatically, and empathically focused couple treatment. David has trained, supervised and consulted with Dr. Diana Fosha, the originator of AEDP since 2005.

David develops and presents training seminars and workshops nationally and internationally that focus on the AEDP for Couples model.  He is the lead supervisor of the AEDP for Couples Core Training.  He teaches at AEDP Immersion Courses, the Essential Skills Program and leads two ongoing AEDP for Couples supervision groups.  He is one of the founders of AEDP West. David is also on the adjunct faculty of the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco where he infused AEDP into his teaching of courses on the Clinical Relationship.

David’s style as a presenter is described as inspiring, warm and deeply personable.   He quickly evokes trust from his audiences, which ushers in a deep level of transparent exchange of ideas and points of view about how therapists can more effectively treat the historical trauma and deprivation that underlies marital dysfunction.  Perhaps most importantly, participants are moved to apply what they learn in these training programs, due to the depth of experience they take in while witnessing videos, live demonstrations and engaging in experiential practices.

Dates and Times:

Saturday, February 11, 2017:  8:30am – 4:30pm
Sunday February 12, 2017:  9:00am – 1:00pm
Attendance Saturday is required to attend Sunday.

Location:

1776 S. Jackson Street
(Mexico/I25 off S. Colorado Blvd.)
​Ground Level Workshop Space.
Denver, Colorado

Fee and Credits

Early Bird Registration Through 01/10/17

• Participants of prior AEDP Rocky Mountain workshops:  $150 for Saturday Only
• All Others: Professional Rate $190
• Students/Interns: $75

• Add Sunday for $75

After 01/11/2017 – 02/05/2017 All Participants:

• Participants of prior AEDP Rocky Mountain workshops: $180 For Saturday Only
• All Other Participants:  Professional Rate $220 For Saturday Only
• Student/Intern Rate $90

• Add Sunday for $90

Late Registration after 02/05/2017

• Professional Rate $250 Saturday Only
• Student/Intern $150Saturday Only
• $325 both days.

A $20 charge for all cancellations before January 10, 2017.  Due to fixed costs and contractual obligations, we are unable to offer refunds for cancellations on or after January 10, 2017

Register Online

CE Information

Building Healthy Relationships, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6722.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Building Healthy Relationships, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Licensing Boards and education program regulations change.  Please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and for reciprocal approval as approvals vary per board regulations.  Your should save the course outline, the certificate of completion and any other documentations required by your board and contact your state board or licensing organization to determine specific filing requirements.  If you have questions about this course meeting your specific boards approval or CE requirements, we recommend that you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

Workshop Completion:  Saturday February 11, 2017 workshop offers 6.5 contact hours of NBCC CE credits.    Sunday February 12, 2017 workshop offers 3.5 contact hours of NBCC CE credits. Attendees must have paid registration fee, signed in, attended the entire day for the days registered, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate of completion.  Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the day of the course.  No exceptions will be made and partial credit is not available.  Please contact Lia Jones, workshop coordinator, at 303-344-5405 if you have questions, concerns or complaints regarding this workshop.

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