Praxis is excited to present: ACT Immersion
Learn ACT from Dr. Steven C. Hayes over 10 Modules, including 16 hours of videos, written materials, real-plays, clinical tapes, and audio exercises.
Dr. Hayes originated ACT in 1981 and views himself as the co-developer of what has become a communitarian effort to create a new scientific approach to behavioral science and its role in the life sciences generally. Dr Hayes offered this as a description of why you might want to train with him:
There are many voices in ACT and CBS. I encourage serious students of ACT and CBS more generally to take advantage of that, and most especially to join ACBS. But there is a benefit that may come from training with me so as to form a gut level understanding of the arc of this work. Literally everyone in the ACT universe was trained or heavily influenced by someone, who was trained or heavily influenced by someone (etc), who was trained by one of my nearly 60 Ph.D. students, who was trained by me. Either that, or more direct versions of that same weird sentence. Mind you there are people in the ACT universe now who know far more than me in many areas of the work. There are better ACT therapists, better ACT trainers, better ACT scientists, and better ACT writers. That is true of RFT, Functional Contextualism, and CBS as well. And of course all of that began long ago in strands of work that came together. But there may be a value in studying with the guy who lit the match on this new phase of a tradition, even if he is hardly responsible for the bonfire that is now burning 40 years later. The two course sequence at Praxis is my personal best effort to walk you through the arc of that work in the ACT area specifically, and give you the tools you may need to understand what ACT is, where it came from, where it is going, and how to do it. Almost always recommend ACT Immersion as the place to start. It's the online version of how I trained my own students. It's not a "beginners" course. Even very experienced ACT people tell me is one of the best courses in ACT they've taken because now they more fully understand what those many voices in the ACT community are really talking about. I call it a "foundational course." It was filmed over 4 days with a staff of about 15 people and 30 people in the audience. It was shot in Hollywood with several union videographers and sound technicians using multiple retinal cameras, camera slides, and things you only see in Hollywood. You've likely never seen client videos at this same level of quality just technologially speaking. I am proud of this course and I stand behind it.