Jerry Lamagna Workshop
Fri, Oct 25
|Dakota Lodge
Existing in One’s Own Heart and Mind: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Complex Trauma A two-day workshop with Jerry Lamagna, MSW
Time & Location
Oct 25, 2019, 8:30 AM – Oct 26, 2019, 5:00 PM
Dakota Lodge, 1200 Stassen Ln, St Paul, MN 55118, USA
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About the event
Course description
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a healing centered, transformation-focused model of psychotherapy that integrates experiential, relational and psychodynamic approaches with ideas drawn from the study of neuroplasticity and positive emotion. It posits that side by side with psychopathology and resistance to change, there exists in people an intrinsic hard-wired capacity to heal, adapt and grow.
In this training sponsored by the Minnesota Trauma project and AEDP Minnesota, Jerry Lamagna will introduce AEDP as an integrative approach to treating chronic trauma and neglect. In addressing its impact on the individual, Mr. Lamagna will demonstrate through lecture and videotaped sessions, how AEDP employs moment to moment relational mindfulness to undo a client’s unbearable state of aloneness and more effectively “share the emotional load” during difficult moments in treatment. In addition, there will be an exploration of AEDP’s four state model of change —from defense and self inhibition, t…