ACBS World Conference 12, Pre-Conference workshops
June 17-18, 2-day workshops:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Using Mindfulness and Values to Make Powerful Life Enhancing Changes
Robyn Walser, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate)
Kelly Wilson, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- Applying Contextual Behavioral Science Beyond the Clinic: Practical and Scientific Considerations
Tony Biglan, Ph.D.
(Community Applications/ Relational Frame Theory; Intermediate, Advanced)
- Exploring ways of doing ACT with kids and parents
Nanni Presti M.D., Ph.D., Giovanni Miselli, Ph.D., & Ian Stewart, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT): Mastering The Basics
Kirk Strosahl, Ph.D., Patti Robinson, Ph.D., & Thomas Gustavsson, M.Sc.
(Clinical, Behavioral medicine; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP): Deepening Your Clinical Skills of Awareness, Courage, Therapeutic Love and Behavioral Interpretation
Mavis Tsai, Ph.D., Robert Kohlenberg, Ph.D., & Jonathan Kanter, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- How to give your sessions IMPACT: Interpersonal Mindfulness Processes in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Russ Harris, M.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- The Science of Compassion and ACT – Deepening a Compassionate Focus in Applied CBS
Benjamin Schoendorff, MSc, & Dennis Tirch, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- Wielding the Double-Edged Sword: How to Use Relational Frame Theory to Master Verbal Interactions, Experiential Exercises, and Metaphors in Therapy
Matthieu Villatte, Ph.D., Jennifer Villatte, Ph.D., & Sonja Batten, Ph.D.
(Clinical, RFT; Intermediate, Advanced)
June 17, 1-day workshops:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Basics
Matthew McKay, Ph.D., & Patricia Zurita Ona, PsyD
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate)
- From ACT Gone Wild to Verbal Aikido: Exploring the Simplicity of the ACT Matrix
Kevin Polk, Ph.D., & Mary Burkhart, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- Let's talk about Sex: Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) to work therapeutically with sexual issues- Cancelled
Aisling Curtin, Ph.D.
We apoligize, but this workshop has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstance.
- The Weight Escape Practitioner
Joseph Ciarrochi, Ph.D.
(Behavioral medicine; Beginner, Intermediate)
- Therapist use of self in ACT
Helen Bolderston, Ph.D. & David Gillanders, DClinPsy.
(Clinical; Intermediate, Advanced)
- Treatment Anxiety Disorders from a Contextual Behavioral Science Viewpoint
Michael Twohig, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Intermediate)
June 18, 1-day workshops:
- ACT Supervision: What the Func?
Amy Murrell, Ph.D., & Rawya Al-Jabari, M.S.
(Training, Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate)
- ACT in Groups
Joann Wright, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- Fear & Flexibility: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety and OCD -Spectrum Disorders in Children, Teens & Adults
Lisa Coyne, Ph.D., Jeff Szymanski, Ph.D., & Denise Egan Stack, MA, LMHC
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
- RFT for clinical use
Niklas Törneke, M.D., Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Ph.D., & Carmen Luciano, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Relational Frame Theory, Advanced)
- Using ACT to treat anorexia nervosa across the lifespan
Ronda Merwin, Ph.D. & Ashley Moskovich, M.A.
(Clinical; Intermediate, Advanced)
- Working with Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Values in Chronic Pain: An Introduction and Skills Building Seminar
Kevin Vowles, Ph.D.
(Clinical, Behavioral medicine; Beginner, Intermediate)