Harnessing ACT to support strength and resilience in a challenging time
Join internationally recognized expert Dr. Robyn D. Walser and learn how to use acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to empower women to use their voices, act courageously, and live with more agency.
Therapists have an important role to play in supporting women’s well-being — not just as a matter of promoting individual growth, but in building a world where more people are empowered to live their fullest lives.
Acceptance and commitment therapy is a useful tool in this work.
Its unique framework and set of core processes support a contextual understanding of human struggles and the development of flexible skills that help people to act courageously in pursuit of their values even in the face of adversity.
In Women Rising, Dr. Robyn D. Walser teaches an ACT-based approach for supporting women's well-being across all areas of their lives by bringing systemic issues into your case conceptualizations and using the psychological flexibility model to promote their empowerment.
What's in the course
This workshop uses experiential and didactic ACT-based methods for working with women, giving you an understanding of how the core processes can best support them in rising to meet today’s challenges.
The profound insight and tools you’ll gain will allow you to:
- Deepen your understanding of common mental health symptoms (especially anxiety and depression) as they relate to women and women’s issues
- Help women gain more ownership over the direction of their lives and how they want to show up in the world
- Build psychological flexibility skills for noticing when their identities and actions have been shaped by outside sources and pivoting toward their own deeply held values
- Empower women to use their voices, trust themselves, and act from a place of courage rather than fear — while always supporting their safety within their contexts
- Support a brighter vision of the future guided by personal agency, social progress, and values-based living for all members of society