Advanced ACT: Shaping Psychological Flexibility on the Fly
by Lou Lasprugato, MFT and peer-reviewed ACT trainer
Have you had some ACT training, but are wondering how to increase your competency?
Do you find yourself relying mostly on techniques—classic exercises and metaphors—without knowing how to most effectively make use of ACT from the ground up with a given client? Would you like to know how to target key processes of change that can radically transform how you relate to and approach human suffering and its alleviation? Do you have blind spots or skill deficits that you’d like to specifically target and improve upon?
This interactive, intermediate-to-advanced live-online course by Lou Lasprugato, Peer-Reviewed ACT Trainer, now in its 7th annual iteration, is designed to deepen, broaden, and sharpen your clinical skills in ACT through self-assessment, deliberate practice, and functional feedback. You will leave the course with the ability to more fluidly and effectively make use of process-based functional analysis, the therapeutic relationship, and behavioral interventions that shape psychological flexibility with respect to client and context.
Earn 16 CE hours and go “under the hood” of the ACT model, tlearning to ground your work more deeply in a functional contextual approach. Each session will include experiential breakouts guided by both an overarching objective and your own desired targets for improvement. You’ll have ample opportunities (multiple exemplars) to learn through observation, practice, and feedback in a reinforcing, team-based environment that explores the effectiveness of interventions as well as missed opportunities.
You’ll also learn practical methods for utilizing both observed and direct feedback from clients, equipping you to constantly improve within your own practice.
Through eight hands-on sessions you will:
- Become more adept at detecting subtle shifts in behavior under aversive (inflexible) versus appetitive (flexible) control.
- Utilize on-the-fly functional assessment across six psychological dimensions to more precisely target processes in-the-moment.
- Practice shaping psychological flexibility through modeling, evoking, and reinforcing behavior.
- Gauge your clinical development and effectiveness with the ACT-FM (Fidelity Measure).
- Identify personal consistencies and inconsistencies so you can focus on improving the specific skills most relevant to you.
- Broaden and enhance your ACT repertoire with key evolutionary processes.
This course is held over Zoom in weekly, two-hour sessions. Recordings will also be available.
Join us to learn how a feedback-enhanced approach can help you confidently take on the most challenging aspects of your ACT work, and cultivate meaningful, ongoing growth in your practice.