Course Description: The experiential focus in AEDP aims to harness positive neuroplasticity. Our effectiveness is tripled in its impact when we make use of the AEDP three representational schemas: The Triangle of Experience, the Self-Other-Emotion Triangle, and the Triangle of Relational Comparisons to guide our interventions and clinical decision making. Additionally, mapping out the insecure patterns of attachment on these three AEDP Triangle further informs and strengthens our therapeutic work. With the four-state transformational process map in the background, this course illustrates the value of these three triangles. Using clinical videotape, we will notice how they provide underlying structure for moment-to-moment therapeutic activities and fortify the AEDP therapist’s use of self: our sensitive attunement, potential blind spots. Therapists’ use of self, and clarity of recognizing markers of our patient’s experience, play a huge part in how we attune to and engage with our patients: 1) how we perceive and respond to how they show up, 2) how we identify transformance motivational forces at play, and 3) how we search to discover the roots of each patient’s suffering and the dynamics that underlie their functioning. Understanding how each triangle provides a window into patterns of emotional regulation, internal working models and relational strategies will help us befriend the triangles: appreciating how they organize experience and help us to meet our clients and help them to feel met. How AEDP therapists lean into the AEDP transformational focus and make use of these three representational schemas maximizes our effectiveness to potentiate positive neuroplasticity in our patients. Orienting our interventions to their presenting pattern of attachment, helps each patient have the specific healing transformation they need. We will have both didactic teaching with new video illustrations and experiential exercises guided by our dedicated and knowledgeable experiential assistants.