Immersive Experiential Learning for Psychotherapists

A live, immersive training format featuring small group clinical supervision of videotaped therapy sessions, didactic instruction on AEDP theory and interventions, as well as moment-to-moment tracking of videotaped sessions. Between 8-10 clinicians will gather live at the Oratorio di Barottoli’s 16th-century church to learn together, build community, and experience the vulnerability and mastery of sharing clinical work. Five core training weekends over the course of a calendar year will span three full days to allow ample time to explore the surrounding Tuscany countryside, dine together and enjoy restorative time on the grounds of the villa.

Completing an AEDP Immersion Course is a prerequisite to apply for core training and some Essential Skills 1 training is highly recommended.

Beginner/Intermediate and Advanced Core Training groups are available, upon request.

A brand new AEDP training offering! As clinicians, we learn by watching and practicing but perhaps most powerfully, by receiving the techniques and interventions we are studying. This new AEDP training modality allows therapists the opportunity to learn experientially by receiving AEDP interventions from expert AEDP therapists (faculty and certified supervisors) in very small group settings. Groups of 6-8 clinicians will rotate through receiving and witnessing AEDP sessions led by two faculty/supervisors, followed by group metaprocessing. This format allows clinicians to work on expanding receptive affective capacities, building affect tolerance, and learning interventions from the “other chair” to get the embodied felt sense of the model. The 4-5 day workshop will take place in the Oratorio di Barottoli’s 16th-century church, and special emphasis will be placed on connection and community building.

Minimum prerequisites: Immersion, some Essential Skills 1 training, and must be in an established individual psychotherapy (preferably AEDP).