With its rapidly expanding and robust evidence base, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a third-wave behavioral therapy, has become known as a powerful and broadly applicable approach to mental health and human wellbeing. Join Lou Lasprugato, Peer-Reviewed ACT Trainer, for this live-online interactive introductory workshop designed to integrate a conceptual, experiential, and practical understanding of ACT. Participants will be provided with an overview of the model that includes all key concepts while experiencing psychological flexibility processes from the inside-out and observing demonstrations of its clinical application.
As a result of attending this event, participants will be able to (learning objectives):
Relate ACT to its philosophy of science and theoretical underpinnings
Explain the concept of workability and how it informs the entire ACT model
List the six core processes of psychological flexibility/inflexibility
Illustrate how creative hopelessness can be used to undermine unworkable patterns of behavior
Describe how to facilitate contact with the present moment and self-as-context
Describe how to facilitate defusion from sticky cognitions and acceptance of painful feelings
Describe how to identify values and increase commitment to values-based actions
List the qualities of the ACT therapeutic stance and its relation to psychological flexibility
This workshop is designed for mental/behavioral health professionals and students who are either new to ACT (introductory) or have some experience with the model (intermediate).
Please note that this workshop will NOT include breakout sessions, and thus will not have any dyadic/group practice, though there will be many opportunities to experience the model first-hand.