Phase II: Clinical applications of ERED: Moving through Barriers to Embodiment

Date: August 11 - October 24, 2022
Place: Hyatt Place Durham Southpoint, 7840 NC Hwy 751, Durham, NC, 27713

Long established and evidence-based, current best practices in the field of eating disorders treatment recognized Eating Disorders as a Bio-Psycho-Social disorder. Multidisciplinary treatment teams emphasize a combination of cognitive, affective, family based and body-based interventions which focus on the psychological and social aspects of eating disorders. Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) weaves together the latest research on Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, Adverse Childhood Experiences, trauma, epigenetics, and mindful movement to address the biological, body-based factors impacting the development of, maintenance of and recovery from eating disorders.  


Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) examines the impact the body has on disordered eating and recovery by exploring the epigenetic, prenatal and perinatal experience, anatomical, physiological, kinesiological, movement, and postural influences on the neurological regulation necessary for ‘normative eating’. ERED facilitates the intersection of neurobiological organization, subjective experience of self, the basic human needs for attachment and defense and a life-sustaining relationship with food.


The Phase II: Clinical Applications of ERED: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment course is designed for providers who have completed Phase I: Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) and are ready to apply the concepts addressed by the ERED approach to their work with clients. This training offers participants an in-depth exploration of concepts presented in Phase I: Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorder (ERED): Online course. Through experiential and embodied practice, participants build a bottom-up, felt-sense understanding of Polyvagal theory (Porges 1995), The Window of Tolerance (Siegel, 1999), the Action Cycle (Ogden2012, Kurtz 1990) and Barriers to Action (Ogden 2012, Kurtz 1990), the Relational Cycle (Bainbridge-Cohen, 1993) and the neurobiological building blocks of attachment, and the Defense-Response Cycle (Levine,1997 ) and actions of defense which are expressed through disordered eating behaviors.


Phase II: Clinical applications of ERED: Moving through Barriers to Embodiment 70 hours of didactic and experiential training exploring:

  • normative eating and eating disorders behaviors characteristic of what Ogden and Kurtz refer to as the Insight, Response, Nourishment and Completion Barriers to Action in the Action Cycle.

  • the neurobiological scaffold for eating disorder behaviors characteristic of the 4 Barriers to Action.

  • the Attachment styles and character adaptations associated with Bainbrdige-Cohen’s Relational Cycle dynamics of yielding, pushing, reaching, grasping, and pulling.

  • the developmental tasks of embodiment, experiencing safety in existence, moving toward what we want, meeting needs, experiencing intimacy and experiencing belonging.

  • defense system actions of fight, flight, and high and low freeze,

Through experiential activities participants will learn interventions for bottom-up support of "normative eating" through increasing:

  • physiological regulation,

  • embodiment of attachment and defense systems,

  • repair of attachment injuries,

  • metabolism of traumatic memory,

  • nourishment of the body through the sensory processing system.



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