UPCOMING EVENTS
We will witness Kallista’s therapeutic presence as she navigates when to make space for experience and when to intervene. She creates gentle space for her patient to explore her raw experience through sensation and S-L-O-W-I-N-G down.
We would like to have an initial meeting for those who are interested in exploring DBEI. Some possible topics for ongoing exploration:
decolonizing therapeutic practice
deconstructing the theoretical underpinnings of AEDP from an anti-racism lens
AEDP & intersectionality
how do we integrate DBEI into our AEDP therapeutic practice
allyship
Yoko Gifford is an RCC, CCC and a Professional Art Therapist in a private practice in Abbotsford, BC. She is a level 2 AEDP therapist who is committed to pursuing the AEDP certification process.
Learn how to navigate your emotions to have a deeper connection with yourself and others. You can learn the skills to be more open and present to your feelings.
To LEARN MORE & REGISTER click here
Presenter: Laura Montgomery, MSW, RSW
Next course begins Monday, January 15, 2024 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
Want to learn how to navigate your emotions to have a deeper connection with yourself and others? Join us!
This course is a profound and supportive learning process to understand your emotions and defences, in order to allow you to move toward your authentic and open-hearted self. You will gain knowledge, skills and practices to reside in your open-hearted self, more easily and more of the time.
Based on the award-winning book, It’s Not Always Depression, by Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW.
Together we will explore how to:
Form a positive relationship to strong emotions.
Understand your brain in order to regulate the roots of anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges.
Support others in your life, including partners, friends and children, to process their emotions.
Use a simple and effective tool - The Change Triangle - to navigate emotions and emerge with greater connection to oneself and others.
Laura is a Counsellor in private practice in North Vancouver and in process of becoming certified as an AEDP therapist. She graduated with her Masters in Social Work from the University of British Columbia and went on to study somatic and attachment-based approaches to resolve trauma. Laura is excited to facilitate this course due to her steadfast belief in the power of our core emotions to connect us to our genuine self.
The AEDP Vancouver Committee is excited to invite you to an in-person AEDP gathering on Saturday, November 25, 2023 from 10:00 am -12:30 pm, at 237 East 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC.
As this is the first in-person gathering since 2020, it feels right to begin by holding space together: to connect with colleagues and be 'shoulder to shoulder' again. Together, in the emergent bottom-up spirit of AEDP, we will mingle over coffee and have a circle dedicated to undoing our aloneness as clinicians, along with sharing in and vision planning for the future of our local AEDP community.
Please bring your inspiration about what AEDP means to you. What do you need from or offer to the local AEDP community? Many possibilities await to notice how we are in this work together.
We want to introduce ourselves as the Vancouver AEDP Committee and invite you to join us in co-creating our community. Let's get the heart of AEDP beating again here in Vancouver and BC!
We look forward to sharing space with each of you.
Cost: $10-$15 donation at the door is appreciated.
Please note that space for this gathering is limited, so register if you are committed to attending or cancel your registration if you cannot join us.
Hosted by BCG Counselling Group and Presented by Dr. Richard Harrison
This workshop is specifically crafted for EFT-trained therapists interested in AEDP, and features extensive video examples from therapy sessions. I will explain and demonstrate AEDP theory and interventions, using language familiar to EFT therapists. We will explore commonalities and differences between the two models. Unique aspects of AEDP will be highlighted, and participants will learn how these can applied to deepen and expand EFT practice with both individuals and couples.
Together, we will witness the power of AEDP in action, while tracking and discussing the change processes at play. We will explore the potential for synergy between AEDP and EFT. Participating therapists will discover new ways to accelerate change, heal attachment wounds, and nurture a felt sense of security that clients take with them into their lives!
For more information or to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-healing-power-of-aedp-viewed-through-the-lens-of-eft-registration-274523837187
Presenter: Ella Bolourian, MA, MC, RCC
Our AEDP State 1 interventions aim to entrain transformance strivings and the patient’s self-at-best via the therapist’s leading with her/his own self-at-best. In this presentation, Ella will share videotape of a session with a client with a history of complex trauma. Together we will witness and discuss how Ella’s therapeutic presence, moment-to-moment tracking, and attunement co-create safety in the dyad; and her timely, experiential and relational interventions lead to new, emergent experiences of connection, positive affective experiences, and transformance-based processes that feed the transformational spiral in State 1 and 2, and through to State 3 and 4. We will be invited to reflect and discuss how to foster therapeutic presence in working with our clients as well as how to work with challenges we may experience in bringing our full, embodied presence to the therapeutic process.
Join Dr. Shari Geller and Benjamin Lipton, experts in the field on presence, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), for a 2-half day workshop. This workshop will offer clinicians core skills and practices to cultivate presence as a foundation for effective therapeutic relationships, and self-care. Workshop runs from 8:00 am - 12:00 pm PST.
Presenter: Richard Harrison, PhD
Together we will view and discuss State 3 AEDP work with a relatively new patient who experienced a powerful sense of freedom and accomplishment early in treatment, after having processed emotions related to an abusive romantic relationship, for which she had always held herself to blame. We will witness and identify emergent State 3 transformational affects (pride and joy, gratitude and awe, tremulousness, grief for self, realization, enlivenment) that spontaneously arise through metaprocessing, as well as the patient’s inner working models of attachment, which begin to shift before our eyes. We will also explore important choice points that arise for the therapist in the unfolding transformational process.
Registration is Free. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
We would like to share information about an upcoming local, Anti-Indigenous Racism Workshop and let you know that there are a few spots remaining. This is neither an AEDP Institute nor AEDP Cascadia sponsored event, but we appreciate its importance and particular relevance to our community of mental health practitioners here in British Columbia. You’ll find workshop and registration details below:
WHEN: Saturday, February, 27, 2021 at 10am - 2pm
REGISTER AT: jenleekoble@gmail.com
COST: $150 by e-transfer
FOR MORE INFORMATION: https;//jenniferleekoble.com/anti-indigenous-racism-training/
For More Information: https://www.sepiweb.org/?
Presented by Jerry Lamagna, LCSW
Held in Vancouver, BC and Denver, Colorado
WEEK 1: Vancouver Dates: Friday, July 6/18 - Tuesday, July 10/18
WEEK 2: Denver Dates: Friday, November 30/18 - December 4, 2018
