Get up to 32 CE hours | CE Information
Join master trainers Drs. Steven C. Hayes, Robyn D. Walser, Miranda Morris, and Diana Hill in this foundational four-day workshop, and learn the skills to facilitate meaningful change.
If you mention you’re interested in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the next question you’re likely to hear is, “Have you been to ACT Boot Camp®?”
Led by ACT master trainers, Drs. Steven C. Hayes, Robyn D. Walser, Miranda Morris, and Diana Hill, this essential workshop has been the foundation of ACT training for thousands of practitioners like you.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) presents a radical shift in how to understand and address human suffering, giving it tremendous appeal to mental and behavioral health professionals the world over.
Whether you’re hearing about ACT for the first time or already have some formal training, this workshop can take your skills to the next level.
At ACT Boot Camp®, you’ll learn the foundations of the psychological flexibility model, and develop a beginning set of skills in ACT. The workshop will go in-depth on the basics of the ACT model and its delivery. You will learn the ins and outs of core ACT concepts such as:
- Psychological flexibility
- The six core processes
- Skills for observing and moving the processes flexibly in session
The workshop will give you a bottom-up understanding of the model, presenting the philosophical and theoretical roots of ACT in a clear, fun, and experiential way.
Over four intensive days, you will get hands-on practice in how to recognize psychological inflexibility in clients and learn to fluidly respond from all points on the hexaflex. You’ll see trainer demonstrations, engage in group and paired exercises to practice techniques, and get feedback from your peers.
You’ll also engage in experiential exercises to gain a personal understanding of the core processes that will allow you to embody the model in your work. This will make you a more effective ACT practitioner and can also have a powerful hand in reinvigorating your therapeutic relationships with clients.
For the full “Boot Camp” experience, attend evening sessions to learn even more from ACT experts, see additional demonstrations, or explore intersecting topics.
Location
This event is held at xyz in the beautiful xyz. Sleeping accommodation is not included in the workshop, but guest rooms are available at xyz at a discounted rate of $ZZZ a night. You can reserve your room by clicking here, or by calling XXX-XXX-XXXX and using the group code YYY. Parking is complimentary at the venue for all attendees.
Formal meals will not be provided at the event, but coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be made available at various times.
Program
This event is held at xyz in the beautiful xyz. Sleeping accommodation is not included in the workshop, but guest rooms are available at xyz at a discounted rate of $ZZZ a night. You can reserve your room by clicking here, or by calling XXX-XXX-XXXX and using the group code YYY. Parking is complimentary at the venue for all attendees.
Formal meals will not be provided at the event, but coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be made available at various times.
October 10, 2024 | Day 1, Thursday
Introduction to ACT and the Extended Psychological Flexibility Model | Miranda Morris, Ph.D
During Day 1 you will learn the basics of the ACT model. You will learn about why functional contextualism (the philosophy of science that underlies ACT) matters in ACT work, and you will establish a basic understanding of relational frame theory (RFT— the theory of language that underlies ACT) and how it provides a foundation for ACT.
You will learn how psychological inflexibility is at the heart of human suffering. Enhancing psychological flexibility has been shown in hundreds of studies to improve therapeutic outcomes across many different conditions and in many different areas of human endeavor. Experiential exercises will bring these concepts to life and make them more concrete. By the end of the day, you will have a basic set of skills in the expanded psychological flexibility model that underlies process-based ACT with its six core processes and their social or bodily extensions. An expanded psychological flexibility model includes a flexible sense of self; cognitive flexibility; emotional flexibility; flexible attention to the now; values and chosen purpose; and the behavioral flexibility to establish values-based habit. All of these processes are then vitalized and extended to relationships, groups,and culture; and to your own body. Through experiential exercises you will learn how to develop these processes through a virtuous cycle of trying new things, learning what works best, and retaining those ways of being and doing that best foster your needs and values in a given situation.
General Session
6.5 CE Hours
- 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
Check-in* - 8:00 a.m - 8:15 a.m.
Welcoming, Orientation, and Creating Collective Values to Support Learning - 8:15.-9:45 a.m.
How to think functionally and how language changes everything - 9:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Morning Break* - 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Introduction to ACT and the Six Core Processes: Open - 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break* Includes an optional 15 min movement session. - 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
ACT and the Six Core Processes: Aware - 2:45 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Afternoon Break* - 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
ACT and the Six Core Processes: Engaged - 4:00 p.m. - 4:30p.m.
Creative Hopelessness in Motivation and Change Over Time - 4:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Afternoon Break (for those staying for optional evening discussion)*
*Not available for CE
Flexible Implementation of ACT
(Optional Evening Session) | 2 CE Hours
- 4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
Drs. Miranda Morris, Robyn D. Walser, Steven C. Hayes, and Diana Hill
October 11, 2024 | Day 2, Friday
ACT Model and Methods | Robyn D. Walser, PhD
The concepts learned in Day 1 will begin to take shape based on a more experiential learning process in Day 2. Dr. Walser will guide you through experiential exercises as well as give you key takeaways and skills you can use to enhance your practice. She will focus primarily on how ACT's expanded psychological flexibility model can be socially extended to vitalize the therapeutic relationship, enhance compassion, and shape the broadening and building agenda by using the relationship as a vehicle for change. The goal is to begin to experience the space within which ACT work is done through experiential learning using examples of ACT processes that can be implemented with various clients and presentations. The space within which ACT is done will empower your ability to be creative and use the skills you learn in Boot Camp, integrating ACT into your practice more effectively when you return to your therapy setting.
Learning Objectives
DAY 1
Introduction to ACT | Miranda Morris, Ph.D
- Describe the six processes that underlie psychological flexibility/inflexibility.
- Describe the importance of “context” in understanding client difficulties
- Explain what is meant by “workability”
- Identify and describe at least 2 in-session exercises that are designed to promote psychological flexibility.
- Describe and demonstrate how acceptance, defusion and other forms of cognitive and emotional flexibility work together in supporting openness to experience.
- Describe and demonstrate how flexible attention to the now, and a perspective-taking sense of self (“self-as-context”) assist in establishing awareness
- Describe and demonstrate how values and committed action (the creation of values-based habits) support meaningful living
DAY 2
ACT Model and Methods | Robyn D. Walser, PhD
- Describe the utility and power of openness and defusion in creating psychological flexibility.
- Describe and demonstrate how the use of perspective-taking and awareness are essential to creating flexibility.
- Describe and demonstrate how committed action and values clarification work together in creating meaning and behavioral goals.
- Define the essential characteristics of the therapeutic relationship from an ACT point of view, including intrapersonal and interpersonal processes.
- Describe the ACT therapeutic stance.
- Describe and demonstrate the ACT therapeutic relationship and its core competencies.
- Describe how the flexibility processes are essential to and part of a socially extended process for relational change.
In these case demonstrations, highly experienced ACT trainers will work with the same person, applying the psychological flexibility model to the same case, but in different ways. After the demonstrations, the participants will be able to discuss how these methods landed with the client and will be able to dive into the trainers’ thinking, moment by moment. The pedagogical purpose of this exercise is for attendees to see that there can be great flexibility in applying this model appropriately so as to assure attendees that all of them can learn to do so in a way that fits their particular personality, working style, setting, population, and scope of practice. The psychological flexibility model that underlies ACT was designed from the beginning to have that breath, and research has shown that it does.
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Continuing Education
Please review the complete CE and conflict-of-interest disclosure information prior to registering. This workshop is sponsored by the Institute for Better Health and is approved for up to 32 CE Hours by the following listed below. Each session is individually reviewed for CE approval. There was no commercial support for this activity. None of the planners or presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
The Institute for Better Health maintains responsibility for the program with the CE approvals outlined below:
Joint Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Better Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Requirements
There are no requirements to join. This workshop is for mental health professionals of all kinds, including therapists, psychologists, counselors, coaches, social workers, trainers, and other change agents. – regardless of whether you consider yourself a complete beginner or experienced in another approach.
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You can get a full refund if you cancel your registration up to 14 days before the workshop starts, minus an administrative processing fee of $50. If you cancel within 14 days before the workshop, however, no refund will be issued. You can cancel your registration by contacting us at team@instituteforbetterhealth.com.