Using the ACT Kidflex with Children & Adolescents: Online Workshop
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy that can be used effectively with children and adolescents for a wide range of issues. This highly practical workshop will introduce you to the ACT Kidflex: a developmentally appropriate adaptation of the ACT Hexaflex for use with children and adolescents.
This workshop teaches ACT in plain, easy to understand language. You will learn how to use ACT with children and adolescents, develop an ACT case conceptualization, work with parents, and provide recommendations to parents/caregivers and teachers.
MAGPIES for Emotional Regulation
Learn to deliver the MAGPIES program for children's mental health!
ACT for Grief and End-of-Life
Wednesdays, starting May 7, 2024 | 8 CE Hours Available
ACT for Grief and End-of-Life offers an uplifting vision of how to help those facing loss connect with purpose and vibrancy in their lives.
Working with Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Values in Chronic Pain
Unlike many other methods, ACT makes no effort to change negative thoughts and painful emotions. Instead, ACT encourages clients to stay in the present moment and reforge their relationship to painful experiences through mindfulness, acceptance skills, and values-based actions.
ACT for Children and Adolescents: An ACT in Practice workshop
This workshop will help you adapt Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ideas so they can be used effectively and practically with children, adolescents and parents struggling with a range of difficulties.
It's designed for clinicians with some experience in ACT, CBT or behaviour therapy and will explore how to use ACT to enhance psychological flexibility by supporting curiosity, willingness, mindfulness, and values-guided trial and error learning.
ACT & Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the most effective treatment for OCD. Integrating ACT enhances ERP therapy by increasing precision and connecting behaviour to client values. This two-day workshop will cover:
Sharpen Your Skills: Intermediate ACT Workshop
June 24, 2024 - 9:00am - June 25, 2024 - 4:00pm
You've learned about ACT assumptions and processes, and used ACT with clients in your clinical practice. Now it's time to develop your skills further to use ACT with more precision, flexibility and compassion. This two day workshop is available to clinicians who have already completed our 2 day Introduction to ACT workshop (or a 2 day equivalent by another ACT trainer). This workshop is fully catered.
When ACT Isn't Simple: An ACT in Practice Workshop with Dr Kerry Makin-Byrd
ACT clinicians are urged to be fluid, responsive, and process-based while nesting their work within overarching, interpersonal, and intrapersonal processes. Phew, that’s easier said than done. If you know enough ACT to have experienced feeling stuck in the room, watching an exercise flop, or being unclear where to go next, then this workshop is for you.
Motivational Interviewing Workshop (2-day; 12 CEs; virtual zoom)
Two Fridays
March 8th and 22nd, 2024
10:00 am - 4:30 pm EST, with a 30-minute break for lunch
Registration also includes four, 60-minute, group consultation sessions with MI experts to be completed after the workshop to help attendees implement MI with their own clients.
Watching Ted Lasso through ACT-y eyes
Earlier last year, when I started working with a sports team, I was advised to watch the award-winning TV comedy series ‘Ted Lasso’. It’s about an American college basketball coach being brought in to manage an English Premiership football (=soccer!) club, & what happens when his culture of kindness and support meets the prevailing toxic masculinity.