Use a Reimagined Hexaflex to Disrupt Conflict Cycles and Drive Connection
14 CE hours. 7 weekly sessions.
In this 14-hour live online course taught by Lou Lasprugato, MFT, you’ll learn the groundbreaking InterACT model—a reimagining of the ACT hexaflex that extends psychological flexibility processes interpersonally for work with couples.
This extended model will help you to perform a comprehensive, multi-level functional assessment that incorporates psychological flexibility and yearnings, attachment-based relating, and sociocultural factors into your case conceptualization.
You will practice modeling, evoking, and reinforcing four foundational skills related to psychological flexibility, setting the stage for meaningful change in intimate relationships.
This includes classic ACT skills such as clients’ emotional openness to their own vulnerability as well as their partners’, defusing from judgments and criticisms they may have toward their partner, and the ability to take a broader perspective to consider their relationship as a whole rather than getting stuck in a me-versus-you dynamic.
You’ll also explore using creative hopelessness to pivot couples from inflexible to flexible pathways.
All of this will allow you to:
- Get at the root cause of conflict cycles for couples so you can break through unhelpful patterns
- Address psychological yearnings and attachment-based yearnings in your conceptualizations and interventions
- Structure intake sessions with the ACT matrix so you can start identifying unworkable behaviors from the start
- Create a safe space for emotional openness where clients can validate one another’s hurt without jumping into judgments and criticisms
- Help clients gain a better understanding of their own behaviors and the deep needs that underlie them
The workshop will include various activities for multi-faceted learning. This will include didactics, experiential exercises, video vignettes, demonstrations, and dyadic and small group practice.
And, while the case examples and practice will be focused on intimate partners, most of the principles and processes presented in the course are applicable to any interpersonal context.
Weekly sessions are held on Thursdays at 4–6 p.m. Eastern Time, held over Zoom. Participants from all time zones are welcome. Recordings will be available.