Member Contributed Event

Join the ACT community and master trainer Dr. Robyn D. Walser for two days of revitalizing training in San Diego! Build competency in the model, reduce your reliance on rote techniques, and learn to practice with depth and fluidity alongside your peers.

If you mention you’re interested in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the next question you’re likely to hear is, “Have you been to ACT Boot Camp®?”

Led by ACT master trainers, Drs. Steven C. Hayes, Kelly G. Wilson, and Robyn D. Walser, this essential workshop has been the foundation of ACT training for thousands of practitioners like you.

Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Disorders of Overcontrol

Self-control, the ability to inhibit competing urges, impulses, or behaviors is highly valued by most societies. However, excessive self-control has been linked to social isolation, aloof interpersonal functioning, maladaptive perfectionism, constricted emotional expressions, and difficult-to-treat mental health problems, such as anorexia nervosa, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, and refractory depression.

ACT 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.

Join us for an unparalleled 5-day immersive learning workshop and wellness retreat in Maui, Hawaii—an opportunity rooted in our legacy of providing transformative programs. Similar workshops have enriched professionals in clinical and corporate settings, and now, we extend this expertise creating a unique space to come together for self-regulation, learning, and growth amidst the beauty of Hawaii and the camaraderie of a supportive community of women. 

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Conceptualization of Defusion in terms of its relationship to basic behavioral concepts.

 

Our clients get stuck in their thoughts, feelings, behavioral patterns, and personal narratives. And we, as helpers, get stuck in our own. These corresponding forms of rigidity are both a primary cause for clients’ suffering and a driver of helplessness, frustration, and burnout in helpers. ACT provides a coherent and powerful set of strategies for moving both clients and helpers toward greater psychological flexibility and fulfillment—from suffering to thriving.

Our clients get stuck in their thoughts, feelings, behavioral patterns, and personal narratives. And we, as helpers, get stuck in our own. These corresponding forms of rigidity are both a primary cause for clients’ suffering and a driver of helplessness, frustration, and burnout in helpers. ACT provides a coherent and powerful set of strategies for moving both clients and helpers toward greater psychological flexibility and fulfillment—from suffering to thriving.

September 27, 2024 - September 29, 2024 

At this retreat, we will use nature as a background for training and practice in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness meditation.

This training will equip therapists with the foundational knowledge and practical skills necessary to implement ACT interventions in various professional settings.

This continuing education retreat is intended for practicing therapists, clinicians and interns and is recognized for 14 hours of continuing education credits with the Ordre de Psychologues du Quebec.