Undoing Aloneness: The Transformation of Emotional Suffering
an AEDP Rocky Mountains Workshop – at Building Healthy Relationships, LLC
with Diana Fosha, PhD
Aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotion is the epicenter of emotional suffering; attempts to deal with it result in the psychopathology that brings our clients to seek help.
Attachment is key to undoing that aloneness so that previously feared-to-be overwhelming emotions can be processed and thus trauma transformed. AEDP, one of the fastest growing approaches to working with attachment trauma, has developed rich creative systematic interventions for doing precisely that: undoing the client’s aloneness by entraining experiences of secure attachment which allow trauma processing, and then rigorously processing those experiences. AEDP is fearless in working with the experience of the client therapist attachment directly, explicitly, and experientially, moment-to-moment tracking it and processing it as rigorously as any other experience. Its intimate, moment-to-moment work follows the edge of transformational experience.
AEDP features specific intervention strategies for working explicitly, dyadically, and experientially with intense unresolved traumatic emotions in a that way transforms suffering and fosters clients’ feeling safe, as well as deeply recognized and understood.
Through extensive audio-visually recorded actual therapy sessions, this workshop will provide ample exposure to AEDP’s hallmark techniques of dyadic affect regulation (to undo aloneness and process traumatic experience), healing-oriented emotion processing, and metatherapeutic processing (to process transformational experience) which can consolidate therapeutic gains, foster resilience, expand relational capacity, and also deepen receptive affective experiences of feeling seen, felt, loved and understood.
What You’ll Learn
In this workshop, you will learn to:
- Recognize transformance and put it into clinical action;
- Effectively and safely undo aloneness by working experientially with relational experience;
- Facilitate the dyadic affect regulation of previously feared to be unbearable emotions;
- Work with intense emotional experiences, so as to transform suffering into resilience;
- Recognize and entrain receptive aspects of the attachment experience; and Use the client’s experience of transformation to activate further healing and consolidation of gains already made.
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
- $140 for Students before October 14, 2015
- $195 before October 14, 2015
- $215 after October 14, 2015 and Same Day Registration
Two Ways to Register
For Mail-in registrations, send the form with a check payable to Building Healthy Relationships, LLC to
Building Healthy Relationships, LLC
950 S. Cherry Street
Suite 1208
Denver, CO 80246
Cancellation Policy
- A $20 cancellation fee will apply to all cancellations received no later than October 14, 2015. All cancellations should be sent via email to aedprockies.org.
- The registration fee is non-refundable after October 14, 2015, however, you may send a substitute by contacting Lia Jones, workshop coordinator, at 303-344-5405.
- If the workshop is cancelled by Building Healthy Relationships, LLC, a full refund will be issued or you may choose a voucher for a rescheduled alternative.
This program is eligible for 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
11/14/2015All Day
Registration starts at 7:30 am
Location
Building Healthy Relationships LLC950 S. Cherry Street Suite 1208
Denver, Colorado
80246