ACTivating Your Practice (Part Four)
Intermediate - Supercharge your ACT interventions with a deeper dive into more advanced theory and practice
Course Summary
So, you dipped your toe and went back for more. You did some intermediate level training and filled your swim bag with ACT goodies. And now your ready to don the wetsuit and join us for a deep dive, out there in the beautiful ACT ocean. Welcome! It's good to be swimming with you! By now you'll be immersed in the core processes and you'll be aware of some techniques that effect change in yourselves and your clients. So, whether you're feeling stuck, hungry for even more of the good stuff, or feeling out of your depth and want some more learning, welcome to part four of this workshop series.
ACT and the wider contextual behavioural sciences aim to reduce human suffering, not by taking away any of the difficult content, but by changing the relationship we have with our difficult content. In part four of this workshop series, we're well and truly swimming off shore. We're ramping up the understanding of theory-practice links and helping you practice more in-depth skills and techniques to help you and your clients move in directions that matter.
During this four-session online workshop you will:
- Consolidate your existing knowledge of ACT’s psychological flexibility model
- Further explore Relational Frame Theory and its clinical applications
- Develop functional analysis by applying behavioural principles to the in-session behaviours of both therapists and clients
- Delivering ACT to people who we experience as complex or resistant
- Observe live demonstrations and then practice specific techniques in small learning groups
The workshop will be highly interactive, involving a variety of methods including didactic teaching, experiential exercises, group work, and live/video demonstrations of therapeutic interventions. Please note, as the sessions are largely experiential, you will get the most out of them if you attend live and are able to participate in the practical exercises. Whilst the teaching and demonstration parts of the workshop are recorded, the small group practice sessions in the breakout rooms are not.
Dates
7, 14, 21, 28 October 2024, 7-10pm
Course Curriculum
Richard Bennett & Dawn Johnson
Dr Richard Bennett works as a Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and as an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Birmingham. He worked in adult and forensic mental health services in the NHS for over 20 years before setting up Think Psychology, an independent psychology practice offering, therapy, supervision, and training. Richard is also an active member of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Sciences (ACBS) and the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP). He is recognised as a BABCP accredited psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, and an ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT trainer. He is the co-author of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Self-Esteem, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
Dr Dawn Johnson works as a Clinical Psychologist in private practice, offering therapy, teaching, training, supervision, and consultation. In a long NHS career, she gained extensive experience of adapting and differentiating ACT and other contextual behavioural interventions to work with people with intellectual disabilities, neuro-diversity, people in acute psychological distress, enduring mental health presentations, and the general public. Dawn also uses ACT systemically, having been involved in providing interventions and consultations with families, carers, non-health professionals and with NHS staff at an organisational level. She regularly delivers ACT training and ACT-informed staff wellbeing workshops. Dawn is an active member of ACBS as a board member of the UK and Ireland Chapter, and as a member of various strategic committees. She is the co-author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
