Upcoming Events
AEDP Finger Lakes SPRING/SUMMER Plans:
Continue SALONS: We want to keep up the rhythm of having monthly salons, with a slight change in format.
Full Day WORKSHOP/RETREAT organized by Kate H, Michael T, and Hannah on Friday, June 27th. Put it on your calendar now! This will be held at Kate's place in Newfield/West Danby area. Details will be supplied in a timely fashion.
Focus on Groups: Jake Parker-Carver sent out an email looking for folks interested in co-leading groups. By summer, we hope his interest, building off of Heather's talk, will find some sort of group experimentation coming to fruition. [email protected]
Other ideas for future fruition (in rough just emerging form):
Continue SALONS: We want to keep up the rhythm of having monthly salons, with a slight change in format.
- Salons will meet from 4-5:30 for main the event, with option to mingle over snacks and drinks from 5:30-6:15
- April Salon will be April 13th and will focus on takeaways from the AEDP Conference
- May Salon will be May 11 (and yes, we know it is Mother's Day) and we will be showing a tape purchased from the Institute, with faculty commentary (on the tape) and pauses for us to chime-in.
- June Salon will be on June 8th. A Taste of Wolftree Wilderness Therapy led by Snowy Lajoie!
Full Day WORKSHOP/RETREAT organized by Kate H, Michael T, and Hannah on Friday, June 27th. Put it on your calendar now! This will be held at Kate's place in Newfield/West Danby area. Details will be supplied in a timely fashion.
Focus on Groups: Jake Parker-Carver sent out an email looking for folks interested in co-leading groups. By summer, we hope his interest, building off of Heather's talk, will find some sort of group experimentation coming to fruition. [email protected]
Other ideas for future fruition (in rough just emerging form):
- Read, digest and/or discuss: Diana Fosha and Karen Pando-Mar's new book: Tailoring Treatment to Attachment Patterns: Healing Trauma in Relationship
- Play dates for peer consultation: Experienced AEDP clinicians and new to AEDP (but not necessarily new to doing therapy) meet up for 3 15-20 minute consultations. Experienced get taste of low-key supervision-esque session and New to AEDP get some feedback on "doing" AEDP with their clients.
- Mentoring: Having experienced AEDP clinicians call newcomers, who have recently completed Immersion or taken a local training, to offer 1:1 support, answering broad questions about AEDP, helping connect with local and global resources, etc. And. having mentors connect every other month (or so) to share what newbies need and brainstorm how to meet their needs.
- Take it on yourself to talk to Kate Halliday about teaching a mini-course come fall. We need to grow teachers to take on that vital work!
- If you have purchased institute videos, and are willing to share them, please let us know what you have, and how you could share them.
- If there is a Salon topic YOU would like to offer and lead, please let us know. The only requirement is that it be rooted in AEDP.
Come & Stay:
An AEDP Deliberate Practice Weekend for Therapists with Natasha Prenn, LCSW
***postponed due to COVID-19. Dates will be updated when rescheduled.***
Friday, May 8, 2020 from 2:00pm until Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 1:00pm
at Light on the Hill, retreat center in Van Etten, NY
Participants can choose to stay at the retreat center or commute.
For the weekend, residential registration, including meals and lodging is $500,
and for commuters, including meals, is $260.
Private and semi-private rooms are available.
Scholarships are available; contact us for an application.
Friday, May 8, 2020 from 2:00pm until Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 1:00pm
at Light on the Hill, retreat center in Van Etten, NY
Participants can choose to stay at the retreat center or commute.
For the weekend, residential registration, including meals and lodging is $500,
and for commuters, including meals, is $260.
Private and semi-private rooms are available.
Scholarships are available; contact us for an application.
Join us in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York for a weekend retreat devoted to growing our skills and capacities as therapists. Natasha has two great passions: (1) How to help clients tune into and stay with their current experience in the here-and-now rather than talking about past experiences of themselves in the there-and-then. (2) How to use the therapist’s self and judicious self-disclosure to facilitate secure attachment in each therapeutic relationship. She is best known for her love of specific interventions, the practice scales of
AEDP’s music, and her clear, practical, experiential teaching.
Natasha’s teaching will guide us didactically and experientially to settle into our own moment to moment authentic selves so that we can more effectively help our clients stay with their internal experience. The retreat weekend will provide deep learning experiences and collegial connection, as well as some time for informal fun.
Diana Fosha, founder of AEDP, says, “The emotional atmosphere (of the healing process) should be one in which the patient feels safe and the therapist feels brave. The patient’s sense of safety within the therapeutic relationship is enhanced by the therapist’s risk taking.” This retreat weekend will be a time for us to take some risks, and to explore strategies to be more fully present in our own felt experience as we connect with clients in our work.
Natasha Prenn is eager to help clinicians learn to do less of what helps while being more present, in order to allow clients’ self-righting capacities to come on line. Her mission as a teacher is to bridge the gap between theory and clinical practice in experiential emotion-focused therapy, and in this workshop she will be leading us in activities that will help build that bridge. Natasha is dedicated to teaching therapists how to help clients tune into and stay with their experiences in the here-and-now, rather than talking about past experiences of themselves in the there-and-then. She will teach us experiential language skills so that we know what to say and ways to settle into ourselves, get out of our client’s way and help both therapist and client stay with present-moment experience.
AEDP’s music, and her clear, practical, experiential teaching.
Natasha’s teaching will guide us didactically and experientially to settle into our own moment to moment authentic selves so that we can more effectively help our clients stay with their internal experience. The retreat weekend will provide deep learning experiences and collegial connection, as well as some time for informal fun.
Diana Fosha, founder of AEDP, says, “The emotional atmosphere (of the healing process) should be one in which the patient feels safe and the therapist feels brave. The patient’s sense of safety within the therapeutic relationship is enhanced by the therapist’s risk taking.” This retreat weekend will be a time for us to take some risks, and to explore strategies to be more fully present in our own felt experience as we connect with clients in our work.
Natasha Prenn is eager to help clinicians learn to do less of what helps while being more present, in order to allow clients’ self-righting capacities to come on line. Her mission as a teacher is to bridge the gap between theory and clinical practice in experiential emotion-focused therapy, and in this workshop she will be leading us in activities that will help build that bridge. Natasha is dedicated to teaching therapists how to help clients tune into and stay with their experiences in the here-and-now, rather than talking about past experiences of themselves in the there-and-then. She will teach us experiential language skills so that we know what to say and ways to settle into ourselves, get out of our client’s way and help both therapist and client stay with present-moment experience.
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As an AEDP teacher and supervisor, Natasha emphasizes the value for therapists in using themselves in the healing process; she has extensively written and taught about effective use of language and the use of judicious self-disclosure to facilitate secure attachment in each therapeutic relationship.
Natasha Prenn, LCSW, is a Senior Faculty member of the AEDP (Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy) Institute. Natasha was drawn to AEDP because of its focus on how to actually help people change! Natasha is an engaging teacher, is noted for her ability to translate AEDP theory into user-friendly steps, and for her enthusiastic belief that the mechanisms of AEDP are teachable and therefore learnable skills. With Diana Fosha, she is the author of the guidebook for AEDP supervision: Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (2016). |
This workshop is suitable for you if you are curious about AEDP, would like to learn some skills you can use right away, and hope to cultivate or deepen your stance as an experiential, relational therapist. We also welcome seasoned AEDP practitioners from near and far. AEDP of the Finger Lakes invites you to come and make new friends and connect more deeply with old ones.
The workshop will begin at 2:00 on the afternoon of Friday, May 8th, and will conclude Sunday, May 10th, after lunch. All meals and light snacks will be included. The workshop will be held at Light on the Hill, a beautiful retreat center in the hills of Central New York State. See this link for an idea of the idyllic place. There is room for 30 overnight guests in the main lodge, with opportunities for more participants to stay in cabins on site.
Starting on Wednesday, February 26th, you can register for the weekend at EventBrite.
To register, click here: (EventBrite)
or for more information, contact Lisa Strayer.
Our Values: AEDP Finger Lakes deeply welcomes and values participation from all people across all spectra of identity and experience--race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economics, and ability. We are committed to expanding the inclusivity of our community and to reducing any barriers, visible or invisible, to accessing our events.
*ABOUT CEUs:
CEUs are available when indicated, upon request. Please note that there is an additional administrative fee to obtain CEUs. This fee is not included in the course registration fee.
CEUs are available when indicated, upon request. Please note that there is an additional administrative fee to obtain CEUs. This fee is not included in the course registration fee.
