Venue

Birch Family Services


104 W 29th St #3, New York, NY 10001

(212) 616-1800

Adoption Foster Care Therapist Network


Organizer

AFCTN is proud to host a supervision day with Dr. Jonathan Baylin. This event it open to practitioners/clinicians who have already had some formal training in AEDP, EFT, DDP or other attachment focused or trauma focused training.

Limited space available. 6.5 CE credits available. Link below.

Jonathan Baylin, PhD will be presenting a brain-based model of therapeutic processes applicable for interpersonal and intrapersonal treatment contexts. The model would lays the groundwork for discussing how different therapeutic processes can promote neural integration, including “top down, bottom up, left-right, back-front” levels of integration. The core of this model focuses on relational processes and especially how nonverbal communication contributes to trust building and safe engagement to lay the foundation for “higher level” therapeutic work. The model emphasizes the importance of developing a “social buffering” relationship with clients that can help them regulate affect and experience the relational safety required to “awaken” the higher, prefrontal brain regions necessary to work on change. The model also includes some use of brain-based knowledge for psycho-education and reappraisal of clients’ problems, helping to re-frame the therapeutic work and provide a road map for change.

Using this brain-based model, we could then look together at cases and discuss them by applying concepts from the model. The goal would be to help therapists think in brain-based terms about the work and to use the brain-based model as a framework for treatment planning.

Ticket Pricing: Tickets for this event can be bought thorough Yapsody (small processing fee applied), or by mailing a check to the following address:

530 Broadway, 4th Floor 
New York, NY 10012
**Please make all checks payable to AFCTN

Early Bird Check: $175
Early Yapsody:$181
*Early Bird price ends September 1st!

Regular Check: $225
Regular Yapsody: $239

During this event, you may present video sessions for Jon to review.

The event offers 6.5 CE credits. Click here to register for CEU credits.

Tentative Agenda:

9:00-10:30 BUILDING A SOCIAL BRAIN: HOW EARLY RELATIONAL EXPERIENCES BIAS BRAIN DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT OR SELF DEFENSE

10:30-11:15 BOTTOM UP: SOCIAL BUFFERING AS A CORE RELATIONAL PROCESS IN TREATMENT

BREAK 15 minutes

11:30-12:00 TOP DOWN: AWAKENING THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX TO WORK ON CHANGE AND STRENGTHEN SELF REGULATORY BRAIN CONNECTIONS

LUNCH 12:00- 1:00

AFTERNOON SESSION (1:00 TO 5:00)

1:00-2:30 INTER- AND INTRA-PERSONAL PROCESSES: INTEGRATING RELATIONAL PROCESSES WITH MINDFULNESS, BODY-CENTERED WORK, BILATERAL STIMULATION, BIO AND NEUROFEEDBACK, ETC.

2:30-3:45 CASE EXAMPLES OF BRAIN-BASED APPROACH

BREAK 15 minutes

4:00-4:30 CASE EXAMPLES, CONTINUED (INCLUDE CASE MATERIAL FROM ATTENDEES)

4:30-5:00 QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

AFCTN Cancelation policy: 50% of tuition if within two weeks of the event date & 75% if within 48 hours of the event.

This event is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars