Put Deliberate Practice into your AEDP Practice

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a transformation-based, healing-oriented model of psychotherapy. It integrates and uses to clinical advantage all we know about neuroplasticity, dyadic resonance, body-focused, experiential treatments, and attachment studies. AEDP fills the longstanding gap between theory and clinical practice; Deliberate Practice (DP) for AEDP takes this to the next level by bridging the gap between declarative and procedural knowledge.

Malcolm Gladwell has popularized Ericsson’s idea that 10,000 hours of practice magically leads to excellence. We now know that it is the quality and not the quantity of time spent on a sufficiently challenging task that leads to improvement, mastery, and expertise. In this course, Natasha will teach what Deliberate Practice actually is. She will explain why and demonstrate how to use DP to start learning AEDP skills, or, if you are already an experienced AEDP practitioner, to improve your facility in reliably using your AEDP interventions.

We will spend our week together in structured, purposeful skill practice where you will not only rehearse skill delivery but will also receive expert fine-tuned feedback. You will head back to your offices or Zoom screens fluent in AEDP’s experiential and relational skills.

Suitable for those new to AEDP who wish to acquire foundational AEDP skills and to those who are experienced AEDP-ers and want to hone their technique with DP. Supervisors can use this training to incorporate DP into their supervision sessions. By the end of our week together, you will not only know AEDP skills in your head but you will be able to put them to practice with your heart.