Welcome!

Hi everyone, you have found your way to our private portal for our Pre World Conference Workshop, flipped classroom virtual learning environment! Between now and the 12th and 13th June you will be able to work your way through material at your own pace. The material is a combination of video presentations, text, reflective questions, audio exercises, videos of simulated therapy patients, journal articles, and case conceptualisation forms for you to download and use.

Some of the content that we have made available has not been visible when using Safari, so far Chrome has had no problems, so you might want to develop a preference for Chrome to navigate to this site. For example - right below this section of text you should see a Welcome video from Sonja and David. If you cant see it, try using Chrome. If you are having tech issues you can either email David at david.gillanders@ed.ac.uk or you can also email the acbs team at acbs@contextualscience.org

Everything is clearly marked either 'ESSENTIAL' or 'ADDITIONAL'. The items marked essential; we are going to assume that everyone has covered these. Whilst there will be a bit of time for brief Q&A in the live sessions about that stuff, some of that Q&A will also be done using the comments and chat function beneath each item. The 'ADDITIONAL' items are really for your own curiosity, and to deepen your learning, if you are able to give it the time.

We estimate that if you do only the essential activities you will need to invest approximately 7 to 10 hours prior to the live workshops. If you begin this week (week beginning Monday 17th May) that equates to approximately two hours per week. Of course, you could leave it all to the last minute and do it all the day before.....(sound familiar? Us too. Let's see if this time we could choose to do it differently). We think this way of learning will be sweeter and richer if you give it a bit of time, over a longer period of time. You will find things on the way that you will be able to try out in your work and so you could potentially arrive at the workshops already having given some of these ideas a try.

Lastly, we really want to begin the process of forming a learning community together prior to the live sessions, so after watching the welcome video below, I am going to invite you to use the comments to introduce yourself, tell us your name, where you live, a brief bit about yourself, and maybe see if you are willing to share one (or more) hopes and fears about the workshop.

Let's use this is an opportunity to begin getting to know each other and to begin listening, appreciating other perspectives, practising kindly awareness, compassion, to ourselves and to others. We are really looking forward to this way of working with you all,

Best wishes

David & Sonja