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This workshop forms part of The ACT pathway, which includes the ACT essentials, ACT next steps and ACT intermediate workshops.
Take your ACT practice to the next level with this workshop focusing on the dynamic interplay of context and process in therapy. This workshop equips you with the tools to track psychological flexibility and inflexibility in real time, both with your clients and within yourself as a therapist. It has a strong emphasis on practical application, and will guide you on how to adapt ACT processes to various common client presentations. You’ll also explore ways to integrate ACT with other therapeutic modalities, while reflecting on your own personal growth and development as an ACT practitioner.
Background to the workshop
ACT doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Each session is shaped by a unique web of client behaviour, therapeutic context, and the therapist’s own processes. For ACT practitioners, this means navigating the complexity of tracking both the client’s flexibility/inflexibility processes and their own responses in the moment. This is not a passive skill; it’s an active, ongoing practice that requires awareness, adaptability, and a deep understanding of context. The real test comes when sessions feel stuck, when interventions don’t seem to land, or when practitioners encounter their own self-stories and struggles.
What you will gain from this workshop
This workshop will give you the skills to refine and adapt your ACT practice, with a focus on real-time awareness, contextual flexibility, and personal development. You will:
- Build your ability to track psychological flexibility and inflexibility processes in real time during sessions, observing shifts in your client’s behaviour and your own as a practitioner.
- Help your clients learn to track their own behaviour, fostering self-awareness and ownership of change.
- Shape your application of ACT processes and skills to suit a variety of common client presentations, such as anxiety, low mood, rumination, self-doubt, and life transitions.
- Adapt your practice to diverse contexts, including individual, group, and online therapy settings, while maintaining a coherent ACT framework.
- Learn practical guidelines for integrating ACT with other therapeutic approaches like CBT or CFT, ensuring consistency and avoiding incoherence.
- Develop yourself as an ACT therapist by engaging in self-appraisal of your existing strengths and areas for growth using tools like the ACT FM+ framework.
- Work with your own unhelpful self-stories as a therapist, learning how to stay grounded and flexible in the face of challenges.
- Learn how to make the best use of supervision and other development tools to ensure ongoing professional growth.
This workshop provides practical strategies for working effectively across varied contexts while deepening your understanding of your own processes as a therapist.
About this workshop
This workshop combines theory with hands-on learning to create an engaging and practical experience. You’ll participate in live demonstrations (including actor role-play), interactive discussions, and exercises designed to sharpen your ability to track and adapt to psychological flexibility/inflexibility processes in real time. You’ll also explore case examples and scenarios to practise adapting ACT concepts to different contexts and presentations. Between-session self-reflection tools, such as the ACT FM+ framework, will help you evaluate your strengths, identify areas for growth, and enhance your ability to work with your own processes as a therapist.
Resources you will receive:
- Prior to session, a copy of the ACT-FM+ skills self-assessment/reflection tool, for you to complete,score and reflect on privately. This will help you shape your personal goals for the session, and development plan going forward
- Handouts of behaviour-tracking exercises and practices (for you to tailor to your own context and style)
Who will benefit from this workshop?
This workshop is for practitioners who want to take their ACT skills to the next level, building on the ACT essentials, ACT next steps and ACT intermediate skills workshops. If you’ve already completed foundational training in ACT and are looking to build greater depth, confidence, and flexibility in your work, this is the next step in your development.
Designed for psychologists, counsellors, coaches, and other professionals using ACT in their practice, this workshop focuses on strengthening your ability to work flexibly and responsively, adapting the model to a range of real-world contexts and client needs.
Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical skills, develop your confidence in using ACT creatively, or refine how you show up in sessions, this workshop will help you grow as a practitioner and expand your ability to use ACT with clarity and precision.
This workshop is part of The ACT pathway – a structured, four-part training pathway designed to take you from foundational knowledge to intermediate-level practice. Each workshop builds on the last, offering a step-by-step approach to developing your skills, confidence, and flexibility in using ACT. Whether you’re following the full pathway or joining at this stage with prior ACT experience, this workshop supports your continued growth as a practitioner.