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Using Self-as-Context to Scaffold Emotional Resilience with Shane O'Neil-Hart, LCSW
August 12, 2026 - 10-11:30 PST / 1-2:30pm EST
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Webinar Overview:
Join this 90 min interactive workshop where you will learn how to help clients access and cultivate the perspective of Self-as-Context as an inherent, always-available tool for navigating challenging internal experiences. The focus of this work will be using experiential techniques to empower clients to relate more flexibly to their ongoing experience and facilitate new learning that the observer self cannot be harmed by even the most intense emotions, thoughts, and other private events. Participants will learn through brief didactics, role play demonstration, and practice in breakout rooms.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify opportunities to draw on the process of Self-as-Context to support clients with emotional resilience
2. Design experiential exercises to help clients connect with the ongoing, shifting nature of their experience
3. Appeal to client's direct experience in order to validate that their private events cannot harm them
4. Strategize how to fluidly integrate temporal perspective taking and compassion into Self-as-Context work
Audience: practitioners with a foundation in ACT who want to deepen their master of Self-as-Context
About Presenter:
Shane O’Neil-Hart, LCSW is an ACT therapist and trainer, executive coach, and behavioral health leader. He has developed multiple global coaching programs at Lyra Health, bringing evidence-based care to hundreds of thousands of clients, and is now focused on building workplace and neurodiversity focused coaching programs. He is a recognized expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, offering experiential training and consultation for therapists, physicians, and coaches. Shane is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco and Past President of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.