In the past, I would write about ACT and what I was doing at the College where I was a Director of Counseling, for example started a group on ACT and Depression in 2010, and it was wonderful.  It deeply resonated with the students. This led to other small workshops on mindfulness, ACT and "the Happniness Trap", and then I took a pause.

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https://www.counseling.org/news/aca-blogs/aca-member-blogs/aca-member-blogs/2017/05/15/four-paths-to-psychological-flexibility

Enjoy!

Marianela Medrano, PhD, LPC 

Hi all

I am looking for an AHPRA registered secondary supervisor who focusses on ACT, preferably in the workplace and preferably in Brisbane.  Might be a big ask!  I am also allowed to do supervision via Skype/Webcam etc, so if you do focus more in the workplace, but not in Brisbane, would be interested to hear from you as well!  

Kind regards

Margie Ireland

Provisional Psychologist 

Ph: 0418734425

J’ai 44 ans. Je suis née un vendredi 13 et ce qui me décrit le mieux, c'est de dire que, quoiqu'il advienne, je provoque ma chance !

Ma vie est un patchwork de mes expériences et des rencontres qui m'ont enrichie !

Hi All

Is anyone aware of studies completed or in progress where the ACT Matrix is used in individual and team coaching that resulted in increased performance (which could be, bottom line, staff retention, 360 degree feedback, pre and post individual measure of psych flexibility).

Thanks, 

Margie Ireland 

www.connect.inspire.tranform.com

Brisbane, Australia. 

Here's a lesson about finding the secret to successful relationships using the ACT Matrix:

https://www.theactmatrixacademy.com/p/unsticking-your-sticky-relationships

Be Well!

Kevin

Here's a page about approaching end of life care using the ACT Matrix.

https://www.theactmatrixacademy.com/p/end-of-life-care

Be Well!

Kevin

Here's a page about applying the ACT Matrix to New Year's Resolutions (even if you don't do resolutions.)

https://www.theactmatrixacademy.com/p/new-years-resolutions-matrix-style

Be Well!

Kevin

Here's a link to a page applying the ACT Matrix to weight management:

https://www.theactmatrixacademy.com/p/unsticking-your-weight-with-the-matrix

Enjoy!

Kevin

Here's a link to a page applying the ACT Matrix to Ebenezer Scrooge.

https://www.theactmatrixacademy.com/p/putting-scrooge-to-the-matrix

Happy Holidays!

Kevin

Teacher Distress and the Role of Experiential Avoidance. 
     Hinds E, Jones LB, Gau JM, Forrester KK, Biglan A.

The Value of Workshops on Psychologicial Flexibility for Early Childhood Special Education Staff
     Biglan, A; Layton, G; Jones, LB; Hankins, M; Rusby, J

Hey fellow ACT practitioners!

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How can we understand delusional beliefs in behavioural terms?

A recent paper published in the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science by Corinna Stewart, Ian Stewart and Sean Hughes presents a “call to action” for taking a natural science approach to discerning persecutory delusions, by outlining the directions that contemporary contextual research on language and cognition provide... [READ MORE]

Ruth Jaeger, LCSW and Liz Salin, MFT are very excited to announce the start of a 6 week class in San Rafael, CA for parents who are experiencing a separation or divorce. The class will focus on teaching participants to use mindfulness meditation skills to regulate the inevitable stress and dysregulation of this transitional phase. Our program is inspired by Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) classes which have demonstrated that these skills can be learned in a short term format.

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How can people who are counselors work through our own fears and insecurities? In my latest post for the American Counseling Association, I open up and share my struggles as a new counselor. I'm dealing with a big transition from being a student to becoming a counselor. This is terrifying at times because I have this thought "but what if I fail? What if I'm not good enough?" I describe my own process of working through my insecurities as I take on my new role as a professional.

In an effort to obtain approval from insurance companies for an ACT focused Anxiety Intensive Outpatient Group, we are exploring the statistics of is effectiveness of ACT with anxiety. 

Hi folks

I have recently and unfortunately on a personal level experienced the effectiveness of ACT on anticipitory grief. I won't go into detail but let me just say that being an ACT therapist served me very well. As life unfolds we aren't always prepared to deal with unexpected negative circumstances. ACT gave me a foundation to anchor my emotions during this painful time. I wanted to avoid and stop the negative feelings but fortunately my ACT training directed me to acceptance and ultimately commitment to my values. The anxiety reduction was amazing.

As I am currently in between my academic studies and getting ready for internship, I have began writing articles for a website under the domain Esteem Value. 

Here I am focusing on addressing common societal psychological dysfunction through ACT based approaches. I have especially been promoting the idea of value based living, as this is definitely my favorite part of the ACT model and I find my patients get most excited about the prospect of living a meaningful life through value based living.

It is often said that human beings are motivated by self-interest. If this is true, then it explains why deep meditation and self-reflection comes so easily to us. But wait… it doesn’t.

Self-interest of this kind, that is, sustained self-awareness of our present moment experiences, is rather elusive and often difficult to do for long stretches. It might not seem so at first, but this is a powerful irony that accounts for a great deal of human suffering.

Is it important to understand behaviour in context?

Psychology has a myriad of models about understanding humans and their behaviour. For the person interested in finding ways to help people change, many of these models have a big gap: they don’t point to what you can actually do to influence behaviour. READ MORE

I'm very new to ACT. Ive been a GP (family physician) who by default does a lot of counselling for over 20 years in Australia and a daily mindfulness meditator for about 7 years. I discovered ACT when a patient insisted I read The Happiness Trap a few months ago and soon after did the first workshop with Russ Harris.

Has anyone seen any exmaples of safety contracts written from an ACT and/or RFT perspective?

Greatly appreciate any response,

Tom Wellington

hello everybody, wherever i read about ACT or RFT, i always find the word "context" , they say we manipulate the context, and the self has three level ranging from content to process then to context, so what is exactly the definition of "context"? and  as i abstacted it may refer to the antecedent and consequence, is that true?

Introduction

    Behavior research has developed a methodology for people suffering from severe autism to engage in a task by means of utilizing an antecedent, behavior, and a condition. However, how do we help these same people to see the context of the task?

As Dr. Peter Vermeulen, the author of "Autism as Context Blindness", stated:

"Understanding autism as context blindness is the cornerstone of an autism friendly approach." 

I'm a doctor, specialist in Psychiatry, I was the head of an open acute psychiatric ward for almost 18 years and now I' m working in my private practice. During all my career I'm helping people with medical treatment given with humanity, knowledge and common sense.

In the last period I'm studying ACT and I get the impression that the theory has a negative point of view about medical treatment given by "good hands".

I will be glad to receive opinions in this matter.

Dr. Zipris

Israel

  If anyone does research in contextual behavior research with respect to coronary heart disease, Google Life Science and the American Heart Association has the following prize in this research:

http://www.onebraveidea.com

The deadline is 2/14/2016

Sharing the attached, interesting use of meta-analyses.

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