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SUMMARY:Reimagining ACT\, Rhode Island\, December 2026
DESCRIPTION:Take Your ACT Practice to the Next Level. Expand and Practice Your Skills in New Ways.\nAcceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has long been grounded in the psychological flexibility model\, traditionally organized around the “hexaflex.” In this innovative two-day workshop\, Dr. Hayes will invite you to reimagine ACT as a process-based therapy rooted in the Extended Evolutionary Meta-Model (EEMM). \nThis approach expands ACT’s core processes—emotional\, cognitive\, attentional\, self-related\, motivational\, and behavioral flexibility—while extending them into sociocultural and biophysiological domains. \nYou’ll explore how psychological flexibility processes connect to core human yearnings\, and how to apply these concepts in-session through experiential\, technical\, and idiographic strategies. With a focus on practical application\, you’ll gain tools to enhance your clinical work\, deepen your understanding of functional contextualism\, and expand your therapeutic impact within your professional scope. \nVolunteer positions are available. If interested\, reach out to us at staff@ibh.com.
URL:https://www.ibh.com/event/reimagining-act-rhode-island-december-2026/
LOCATION:George Bello Center\, Grand Hall\, 1150 Douglas Turnpike\, Smithfield\, RI\, 02917\, United States
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SUMMARY:ACT Integrated: Process-Based ACT Across Schools and Methods\, Los Angeles\, February 2027
DESCRIPTION:Join ACT originator Steven C. Hayes for a new two-day workshop on the future of ACT as an integrative clinical practice. The face of the work is the extended psychological flexibility model: open\, aware\, and engaged\, scaled to the body and to relationships\, and modified by context. \nYou will learn to take traditional ACT methods\, and other evidence-based processes and kernels\, and aim them inside the most modern version of that model. Going beyond the purely psychological level\, the extended psychological flexibility model adds important levels of analysis: the biophysiological level and the sociocultural level. Furthermore\, the importance of context is paramount and helps to define which flexibility or inflexibility processes are emphasized. \nTake your ACT practice across schools without sliding into chaotic eclecticism. This workshop emphasizes demonstration and Q and A. \nVolunteer positions are available at a reduced price. If interested\, reach out to us at staff@ibh.com.
URL:https://www.ibh.com/event/act-integrated-los-angeles-february-2027/
LOCATION:The Center for Healthy Communities at the California Endowment\, 1000 North Alameda Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute for Better Health":MAILTO:staff@ibh.com
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SUMMARY:ACT BootCamp® for Trauma\, Atlanta\, March\, 2027
DESCRIPTION:In a time marked by widespread exposure to trauma\, chronic stress\, and moral distress\, clinicians need approaches that move beyond symptom management toward deeper recovery. This training provides a coherent ACT framework to help clients move from surviving to living with purpose and connection. \nTrauma often arises in the context of war\, interpersonal violence\, systemic betrayal\, and chronic threat\, and is associated with posttraumatic stress\, depression\, anxiety\, shame\, moral pain\, substance use\, and profound disconnection from values and community. \nWhile ACT is transdiagnostic in scope\, it is particularly well suited for working with trauma – historical experiences that disrupt meaning\, identity\, relational safety\, and one’s capacity to engage fully in life. \nParticipants will learn how to apply ACT to trauma and complex trauma using a coherent\, process-based approach. The training explores how to integrate exposure\, embodied awareness\, and values-based action to help clients safely engage with traumatic material while building meaningful and connected lives. \nThe bootcamp will also explicitly address the integration of ACT with established trauma-focused approaches\, including Prolonged Exposure (PE)\, Written Exposure Therapy (WET)\, and EMDR. Written Exposure Therapy or Expressive Writing will be highlighted as a particularly elegant example of values-consistent exposure\, emphasizing narrative coherence\, willingness\, and repeated contact with traumatic material while minimizing therapist-driven control. Participants will learn how ACT processes\, such as acceptance\, defusion\, and self-as-context\, can strengthen engagement in written\, imaginal\, and interoceptive exposure while maintaining clinical flexibility and responsiveness. \nThe training will also incorporate a body-focused perspective grounded in ACT’s present-moment awareness and acceptance processes. Participants will learn how interoceptive exposure\, mindful contact with physiological arousal\, and embodied values-based action can support trauma recovery. The body is approached as a site of learning and contact\, rather than something to be fixed\, managed\, or overridden\, allowing clinicians to work skillfully with pain\, dissociation\, hyperarousal\, and numbing within a coherent ACT framework. \nFinally and centrally\, this training will explore the therapeutic relationship as a living context for change. Participants will explore how therapist stance\, moment-to-moment responding\, and willingness shape exposure-based learning\, particularly with trauma-exposed clients for whom issues of safety\, power\, and trust are paramount. Attention will be given to pacing\, consent\, and collaboration\, as well as to recognizing and responding to therapist experiential avoidance. \nThrough didactic instruction\, experiential practice\, clinical demonstrations\, and case-based application\, participants will develop the capacity to flexibly integrate ACT with trauma-focused methods while maintaining theoretical coherence. The bootcamp emphasizes moving beyond symptom management toward helping clients build meaningful\, values-consistent lives. \nVolunteer positions are available at a reduced price. If interested\, reach out to us at staff@ibh.com.
URL:https://www.ibh.com/event/act-bootcamp-for-trauma-atlanta-march-2027/
LOCATION:Atlanta Metropolitan State College\, 1630 Metropolitan Parkway\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30310\, United States
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SUMMARY:ACT BootCamp® for Clinicians\, Portland\, April 2027
DESCRIPTION:Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (or ACT) offers a radical new understanding of human well-being\, and has become one of the best studied intervention approaches in all of psychology – based on more than four decades of research\, with over 1\,400 randomized controlled trials and thousands of studies of other kinds. \nBy targeting psychological flexibility and its social and bodily extensions – the core processes known to underlie meaningful change – ACT empowers you to help your clients across a wide range of problem areas and aspirational goals in mental and behavioral health and social wellness areas. \nWhether they are struggling with anxiety\, depression\, trauma\, or addiction; or are dealing with the challenges of physical disease\, or want to be a better parent or partner\, ACT can help your clients. \nBecause of its high effectiveness and broad applicability\, ACT has found wide-spread appeal among practitioners around the world\, and has been endorsed as evidence-based by such agencies as the American Psychological Association and the World Health Organization. Regardless of whether you consider yourself a complete beginner or experienced in other approaches\, ACT BootCamp® will help you acquire a proven skill-set that will help your clients make effective\, long-lasting changes. \nDo not delay though. Seating is limited and the last ACT Bootcamp completely sold out. \nVolunteer positions are available at a reduced price. If interested\, reach out to us at staff@ibh.com.
URL:https://www.ibh.com/event/act-bootcamp-for-clinicians-portland-april-2027/
LOCATION:University Place Hotel and Conference Center\, 310 SW Lincoln Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97201\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The Institute for Better Health":MAILTO:staff@ibh.com
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