Learn to deliver the MAGPIES program for children's mental health!

ACT for Grief and End-of-Life

Helping Clients Take Intentional Action and Find Meaning in the Face of Loss

4-Session Live Online Course

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

An Introduction and Skills Building Seminar

12 CE Hours Available

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

April 8, 2024 - 9:00am - April 9, 2024 - 4:00pm

Growing research about ACT demonstrates its efficacy for a wide range of diagnoses and life problems. It helps people accept their internal experiences while moving towards the life they value.

At this experiential workshop you will establish a foundational understanding of Psychological Flexibility, develop skills for using ACT and learn about Relational Frame Theory (RFT).

Over the two days you will learn how to:

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.

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.