AEDP Metro DC Workshop, Live In-person, Eileen Russell

Eileen Russell

AEDP Metro DC Workshop, Live In-person, Eileen Russell

Undoing Disempowerment to Foster the Agentic Self: Agency, Will & Desire as Core Affective Experience

 

Date: May 1, 2022 (9:00-5:00pm). Lunch on your own.
This workshop is intended for professionals in mental health and the healing arts and sciences. Course Content Level: Intermediate/Advanced

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Description:

This seminar will explore and explain the development and expansion of AEDP theory to include the addition of agency, will, and desire to the Four State Transformations of AEDP theory and practice. It will discuss the broadening of our attachment-based therapeutic stance to invite differentiation (vs. “we-ness”) in the service of nurturing the agentic self that has often been suppressed in many clients in psychotherapy. It will explore situations in which “safety,” highly prized in AEDP, can be over-used and instances in which allowing for some conflict, or at least tension, in the therapeutic relationship may be more growth-full for the development of the agentic, differentiated self. It will contextualize the importance of this expansion in developmental, polyvagal, relational psychoanalytic, and learning theories. Dr. Russell will use videotapes of actual sessions to illustrate examples of blocked agency as well as techniques for inviting the emergence of agency within the therapeutic relationship.

Learning Objectives:

1. Distinguish between State 2 maladaptive and adaptive core affective experience in the Four State Transformational Process of AEDP.

2. Describe the context of questions of agency, will & desire as occurring in the dialectic between “freedom” and “determinism” and how these are reflected in different psychological theories of pathology and transformation that inform our work today.

3. Define sense of agency and will why these affective phenomena are often repressed or underdeveloped in many clients in psychotherapy who have experienced various forms of disempowerment.

4. Utilize language to help move people to more adaptive coping and connection to their own sense of agency.

5. Demonstrate understanding of AEDP’s attachment-based stance to include differentiation (and not just togetherness) to allow for the development of a separate self.

6. Demonstrate ways to address impasses in your practice where there is a collision between empathy and authenticity.

Meet the Presenter

Eileen Russell

Eileen Russell, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in New York City and Montclair, NJ. She is Senior Faculty at the AEDP Institute where she teaches and trains therapists and teaching faculty at NIP’s Integrative Trauma Program. She is author of Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients’ Capacity for Healing and “Agency, Will, and Desire as Core Affective Experience: Undoing Disempowerment to Foster the Emergence of the Agentic Self” in the recently released Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0. (2021).


Date, Time and Location:

Date: May 1, 2022
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: Lakewood Country Club
13901 Glen Mill Rd, Rockville, MD 20850

Schedule for the day:

 

9:00-10:30 Striking the balance between “freedom” and “determinism”: What is an agentic self? State 2: Maladaptive and Adaptive Core Affective Experience
10:30 – 10:45 BREAK
10:45 – 12:15 Relational, Neuroscience, and Learning perspectives on Agency & Will
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 3:00 Development, Attachment & the Need to Become an “I”: Attunement, Disruption & Repair
3:00 – 3:15 BREAK
3:15 – 5:00 The Transformational Other and the Need for Recognition in the Discovery of the Self

Fee:

  • Early Bird Fee: $150 (members) / $175 (non-members) (Before 3/31)
  • Regular Fee: $175 (members) / $200 (non-members)

NOTE that members are required to log in to the site with their ID and password to obtain the member rate

Continuing Education:

Cosponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402

Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in and out each day, attended the entire seminar, and completed an evaluation in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out each day will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Links to Evaluations and Certificates will be emailed and also available following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com

Psychologists
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 6.25 CE hours. R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0018.
6.25 clock hours. Live in-person.

Psychoanalysts
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0005. 6.25 clock hours. Live in-person.

Social Workers
CA and Other States: Most states accept continuing education courses offered by either CE Sponsors for APA, (which R. Cassidy Seminars is) or will accept the approval of other state licensing boards of the same license type. Some states, either do not require pre-approval of courses, or will allow licensees to retroactively file for course approval themselves. Check with your board to obtain a final ruling.
IL-SWs: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #159.000782.  6.25 hours.
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers.
This program is approved 6.25 contact hours Live in-person.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 6.25 clock hours, #RCST110701

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
CA and Other States: Most states accept continuing education courses offered by either CE Sponsors for APA, (which R. Cassidy Seminars is) or will accept the approval of other state licensing boards of the same license type. Some states, either do not require pre-approval of courses, or will allow licensees to retroactively file for course approval themselves. Check with your board to obtain a final ruling.
IL-MFTs: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141. 6.25 hours.

NY-LMHCs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0015. 6.25 contact hours. Live in-person.
NY-LMFTs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0011. 6.25 contact hours. Live in-person.
OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 6.25 clock hours, #RCST110701
TX: Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. Provider #151 6.25 CE hours.

Creative Arts Therapists
NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0005. 6.25 contact hours. Live in-person.
Chemical Dependency Counselors
CA: Provider approved by CCAPP, Provider #4N-00-434-0222 for 6.25 CEHs. CCAPP is an ICRC member which has reciprocity with most ICRC member states
TX: Provider approved by the TCBAP Standards Committee, Provider No. 1749-06, 6.25 hours general. Expires 3/31/2021.  Complaints about provider or workshop content may be directed to the TCBAP Standards Committee, 1005 Congress Avenue, Ste. 460, Austin, Texas 78701, Fax Number (512) 476-7297.

Educators
TX: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider with the Texas Education Agency CPE# 501456. This course is 6.25 CE Hours.

Nurses
CA: Provider approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CeP12224, for 6.25 contact hours
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Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

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CDC Guidelines:

We will follow CDC guidelines for masking and social distancing in place at the time of the workshop.
Vaccination card required at time of workshop. Please bring with you.
No vaccination for medical reasons? Please contact metrodcaedp@gmail.com to discuss.

Cancellations:

Registrations cancelled on or before April 15 result in a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds after 4/15/22.