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What is AEDP?
The fundamental theoretical model of this program is AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). AEDP is an evidenced-based experiential and somatic based therapeutic modality. It is informed by interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory research and it is rooted in transformational studies.
Unlike many psychological modalities that were born from a pathology-based medical model that aims to fix what is broken, AEDP is conceptualised around the fundamental idea that we are wired to heal and grow like all elements in nature and our symptoms are there to call our attention to something that is out of our view.
Learning to read neurophysiological markers of experience allows us to create spaces and connections that are informed by what is actually happening moment to moment rather than our pre conceived biased beliefs. This bottom-up model of change and transformation creates the precise conditions for people to find in connection their own healing and flourishing
The cracks in the cement are our crossroads. They create deep pain but are also the space from which the light is finally able to enter.
Learning to become 'light' and 'water' to ourselves and others, through attunement, co-regulation and safety rather than trying to break the cement (our symptoms) allows the innate capacity to heal, grow and transform to emerge.
AEDP teaches us to direct our impact by reading our/others' nervous system as animal trails on the earth.
Boyd Varty, Lion tracker/wildlife and literacy activist, 2019
“Tracking was the first story of species ever told, and when you follow an animal trail, you are linked to every person who has ever read the Earth, every ancient culture that has walked a trail. Tracking is a birthright for every person, a memory of how to converse with nature.”
In the same way, learning to track the trails of our emotions and nervous system allows us to converse with deeper layers of ourselves and our history, finding our direction on this earth
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