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Psychological well-being is rapidly becoming one of the most critical priorities for modern organisations. With ever-increasing demands, frequent uncertainty, and the rising impact of burnout, employees need effective tools to manage stress and maintain focus while responding flexibly to challenges. Acceptance and commitment training (ACT) provides one of the most evidence-supported frameworks for improving employee well-being by teaching adaptable skills to manage difficult emotions, enhance psychological flexibility, and build resilience.
This Train-the-Trainer workshop goes beyond learning ACT skills for your own use. It equips you to deliver ACT-based workplace training to others. You’ll learn how to run structured, evidence-based ACT programmes within organisations, helping teams build psychological flexibility, manage difficult thoughts and emotions, and respond more effectively to workplace challenges.
Developed from over two decades of research and practice by Dr Paul Flaxman and Ross McIntosh, this training has been implemented across healthcare systems, high-performance organisations, financial services, and charities. In this workshop, you’ll gain a deep understanding of both the original ACT in the workplace protocol and recent refinements developed through international collaboration, enabling you to adapt and deliver impactful interventions across a range of workplace contexts.
Background to the workshop
Acceptance and commitment training as a workplace intervention
Thriving at work isn’t just about managing tasks, it also involves managing internal experiences and responding flexibly under pressure. Burnout and chronic stress are increasingly common, and organisations are looking for practical, evidence-informed ways to support employee well-being while maintaining performance.
ACT-based workplace training has been shown to:
- Improve psychological well-being and resilience
- Reduce burnout and support sustainable performance
- Target worry, rumination, and work-life strain
- Teach skills that generalise across work and personal life
- Support cultures of adaptability and psychological flexibility
This training draws on a wide range of international applications, including work in healthcare systems, corporate environments, and financial institutions, offering practical strategies you can apply in your own organisational context.
What you will gain from this workshop
By attending this workshop, you will gain the knowledge, tools, and confidence to deliver ACT-based training within workplace settings. You will:
- Learn how to deliver structured ACT programmes to groups in organisations
- Practise using the core ACT in the workplace model developed by Paul Flaxman and Ross McIntosh
- Receive both the original 2019 Workplace Protocol and the updated international ACT protocol
- Develop skills in adapting delivery for different organisational contexts and constraints
- Observe live demonstrations of key components of the programme
- Practise group facilitation in a supportive environment
- Understand the rationale behind the programme design and its link to core ACT processes, including the ACT Matrix
- Build strategies for gaining organisational buy-in and positioning ACT effectively within systems
- Stay up to date with current research and developments in workplace ACT
Ross will also cover:
- How to position and market ACT programmes within organisations
- Using short “taster” sessions to generate interest and engagement
- Ethical considerations in workplace interventions
- Evaluating impact and demonstrating value
- Designing programmes that are both practical and sustainable
By the end of the workshop
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to design, deliver, and adapt ACT-based training programmes to support employee well-being within organisational systems.
About the trainer
Ross McIntosh is a workplace psychologist and contextual behavioural science practitioner with extensive experience delivering ACT training across public and private sector organisations. He combines an evidence-based approach with a strong focus on practical application, drawing on his academic work at City St George’s, University of London and his wider work through the People Soup podcast.
Who would benefit from this workshop
This course is designed for:
- HR professionals
- Business consultants
- Workplace well-being managers
- Learning and development professionals
- Psychologists
- Counsellors
You should be in a role where you can deliver or influence workplace interventions. Ideally, you will have:
- Experience delivering well-being or training interventions
- A basic understanding of ACT or mindfulness-based approaches
- Some experience applying ACT in practice or personally
- Relevant professional training
About the workshop format
This is an active, experiential workshop combining:
- Brief teaching to introduce key concepts and models
- Live demonstrations of the workplace training protocol
- Facilitated practice of group delivery skills
- Discussion of implementation challenges and strategies
- Real-world examples from a range of organisational settings
You will receive full training materials, including the 2019 workplace manual and updated international ACT protocol, to support your future delivery.
A guest contribution from Dr Paul Flaxman is planned (subject to confirmation).
A follow-up 90-minute live Q&A session with Ross McIntosh is also included (Tuesday 9 March).
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