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Fierce Love: Using the AEDP Therapist’s Bold, Embodied Presence to Reclaim the Core Self
Monday, August 17, 2020, 8:00 AM to Friday, August 21, 2020, 5:00 PM EDT
Category: CE Events: Adult Individuals

Working with trauma and attachment wounds requires not just learning the theory or techniques; it requires boldly bringing ourselves into the healing equation to break through defenses and toxic shame. It requires going to the depths of hopelessness with our clients to show that they are loveable in this place of emptiness. In short, it requires what Dr. Piliero terms Fierce Love. Fierce Love is embodied in the therapists’ relational boldness in defense of the core self that communicates to our patients that they were and are still worthy of love, no matter how broken, shamed, or disconnected from themselves they may feel. This workshop will demonstrate how to transform suffering and foster a patients’ abilities to feel deeply recognized and understood, safe and secure, and, as a result, increasingly capable of reconnecting to their Core Self. This workshop is rooted in the teachings of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), which champions our innate healing capacities. AEDP has roots in and resonances with many disciplines — among them interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, emotion theory and affective neuroscience, body-focused approaches, and transformational studies. AEDP uses specific intervention strategies for working explicitly, dyadically, and experientially with intense unresolved traumatic emotions. In this workshop, we will explore in-depth how to bring our Selves more fully into the therapeutic relationship; how to co-regulate and remain psycho-biologically attuned to our patients, our self, and the dyad, to enhance, deepen and accelerate the healing process.

Hosted by Cape Cod Institute, Cape Cod Learning Network, LLC in Eastham, MA for 15 CEs. For more info, visit: www.cape.org/register.