Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG

Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG

Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG

Affiliated 2012

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SIG Leaders

Gabrielle Trapenberg Torres
Amy Serafini
Carmella Tress

Mission/Objectives

Scope:
Our social world is built on the past decisions of others trying to solve the problems of particular contexts. Some of those past decisions have had unintended and toxic effects. But everything that was built by people can be rebuilt by people. If we are to design and implement new systems of social cooperation in organizations, policies and social institutions, we need the psychological flexibility to make sure that what we build reflects and embodies our shared values. Concurrently, to work effectively at this scale, we need to address psychological toxicity in the environments we wish to influence.

Mission:
The mission of the Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG is to scale the psychological flexibility model up to the level of organizations, public policy, and social institutions more generally. We believe it is especially important to consider the interrelationship between environment (toxic or nurturing) and psychological flexibility in our efforts to provide something of value to the world.

SIG Activities

This group will draw upon its membership for ideas, collaboration, research design, and strategic development of new knowledge, practice, and dissemination. We will interact via a dedicated SIG listserv and have an annual meeting at the ACBS World Conference.  We will maintain a LOPP SIG Resources webpage.

Description of Membership

Our group includes but is not limited to those who are interested in basic and applied research, coaching, prevention science, public health, public policy, ACT, ACTraining, and the design of new ways to promote psychological flexibility at a societal level.

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LOPP SIG Newsletter - April 2020


ACBS LOPP-SIG NEWSLETTER APRIL 2020


Introduction 
Hello to all ACBS LOPP-SIG members,
In this newsletter, we aim to provide you with information about our Special Interest Group (SIG).
You are receiving a copy of this newsletter because you have ticked the member box on the ACBS website.
This newsletter includes information about the SIG including its mission statement, details about the coordinators and membership.

About the SIG 
Mission 
The Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG (LOPP-SIG) has a mission to scale the psychological flexibility model up to the level of organizations, public policy, and social institutions more generally. We believe it is especially important to consider the interrelationship between environment and psychological flexibility in our efforts to provide something of value to the world.
Scope 
Our social world is built on the past decisions of others trying to solve the problems of particular contexts. Some of those past decisions have had unintended and toxic effects. But everything that was built by people can be rebuilt by people. If we are to design and implement new systems of social cooperation in organizations, policies and social institutions, we need the psychological flexibility to make sure that what we build reflects and embodies our shared values. Concurrently, to work effectively at this scale, we need to address psychological toxicity and promote psychological flourishing, and prosocial behaviors in the environments we wish to influence.
The nature of this SIG 
This SIG is for people in the ACBS community who are interested in ways to promote psychological flexibility at a societal level, including through basic and applied research, coaching, public health, public policy, ACT, ACTraining, and the exploration of prosociality and organizational flexibility.
We encourage our members to network, share resources and support each other to solve problems, explore ideas, collaborate, design research, and develop and disseminate new knowledge and practice.

About the LOPP-SIG Coordinators 
Your LOPP-SIG coordinators are: Annie Gascoyne and Carmella Tress. We took on the SIG administrative responsibilities in September 2019, and would like to thank our predecessors, Tresna Hunt and Donna Read. 

About LOPP-SIG Membership and Communication 
We currently have a LOPP-SIG membership database of 500+ people. Please be aware that signing up for membership doesn’t automatically provide access to the other members of the SIG. To interact with one another, we currently use a listserv (email communication) and/or a Facebook page (see below for information on both of these forms of communication). 

About the LOPP-SIG Listserv 
What is the listserv? 
The listserv is a way for members to communicate via email. It operates in the same way as the main list for professionals. When you sign up to the listserv you will receive emails in your inbox, and you can send emails to the group. This communication is also recorded on the ACBS LOPP-SIG website. There are currently 183 people on the listserv. 
You can join the listserv at the following site:
https://contextualscience.org/group/leadership_organizational_behavior_management_and
Emailing the list directly: Once you have signed up to the listserv you can email this group directly by sending your messages to: lopp-sig@lists.contextualscience.org
Updating your listserv preferences:
You can update all of your listserv options at the following site: https://contextualscience.org/how_do_i_manage_my_listserv_subscriptions

About the LOPP-SIG Facebook Page
What is the Facebook page?
The Facebook page was set up after a members’ vote at the World Conference in 2018. At the time, this was considered by voters to be a more user-friendly form of communication than the listserv.
There are currently 103 LOPP-SIG members on the Facebook page.
Joining the ACBS Facebook page
You can join either by typing in ACBS LOPP-SIG into Facebook, or you can copy and paste:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1032435220192241/

Additional Resources
This year, we created a new resources page (many thanks to Laura Purcell for her support in this), which includes articles, books, videos, slides, blogs and podcasts that are relevant to leadership, organizational behavior management and public policy. Please check out the page and if you have any relevant resources to add, please feel free to get in touch.
https://contextualscience.org/lopp_sig_resources

About the 2020 ACBS Conference
We’re keen to discuss opportunities for the LOPP-SIG members to meet during the 2020 conference. However, given the extraordinary circumstances we find ourselves in, it seems prudent to wait to hear more from the ACBS leadership team about what form the conference will take.

Best regards,
Carmella & Annie



 

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LOPP SIG Newsletter - April 2019

LOPP SIG Newsletter - April 2019

ACBS LOPP-SIG NEWSLETTER APRIL 2019

 


Introduction

Hello to all ACBS LOPP-SIG members. This newsletter is designed to provide you with important updated information about our SIG. You are receiving a copy of this newsletter because you have ticked the member box on the ACBS website. If you do not wish to be a member of the LOPP-SIG please send an email to one of the SIG coordinators (see below) and ask to be removed from the group. This newsletter will provide you with information about the SIG including its mission statement, the names and details of the coordinators, the membership structure, mechanisms for communicating with one another, and information about the up and coming world conference in Dublin. Please feel free to get in touch with us at any stage if you have any further questions about this community.


About the SIG

The Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG (LOPP-SIG)'s mission is to scale the psychological flexibility model up to the level of organizations, public policy, and social institutions more generally. We believe it is especially important to consider the interrelationship between environment (toxic or nurturing) and psychological flexibility in our efforts to provide something of value to the world. Our social world is built on the past decisions of others trying to solve the problems of particular contexts. Some of those past decisions have had unintended and toxic effects. But everything that was built by people can be rebuilt by people. If we are to design and implement new systems of social cooperation in organizations, policies and social institutions, we need the psychological flexibility to make sure that what we build reflects and embodies our shared values. Concurrently, to work effectively at this scale, we need to address psychological toxicity and promote psychological flourishing, and prosocial behaviors in the environments we wish to influence.


The nature of this SIG

Currently the function of this SIG is for people in the ACBS community working in the leadership, organisational systems and public policy spaces to network, share resources and support each other to solve problems.


SIG Coordinators

The LOPP-SIG coordinators are:
Tresna Hunt: Tresna@oetgenhunt.co.nz and Donna Read: donnaread3380@aol.com
Tresna and Donna share the SIG administrative responsibilities. Please feel free to contact either or both of us at any stage if you have any questions or concerns.


About your membership

What is LOPP-SIG membership?
We currently have a database of 545 people. However, signing your name up for membership doesn’t automatically give you access to the other people in this community, and this is something that is perhaps not well understood. In order to gain benefits from the SIG it is recommended that you join both the listserv (email communication) and the Facebook page (see below for information on both of these forms of communication). If you want to join only one of these we recommend that you join the Facebook page as this is currently the most active form of communication. If you do not have Facebook then you can still communicate via the listserv and members on the list will receive your message.


About the Listserv

What is the listserv?
The listserv is a way for members to communicate via email. It operates in the same way as the main list for professionals. When you sign up to the listserv you will receive emails in your in-box, and you can send emails to the group. This communication will also be recorded on the ACBS LOPP-SIG website.

Members on the listserv
There are currently 182 people on the listserv.

Joining the listserv
You can join the listserv at the following site: https://contextualscience.org/group/leadership_organizational_behavior_management_and

Emailing the list directly
Once you have signed up to the listserv you can email this group directly by sending your messages to: lopp-sig@lists.contextualscience.org

Updating your listserv preferences:
You can update all of your listserv options at the following site: https://contextualscience.org/how_do_i_manage_my_listserv_subscriptions

Having trouble?
Contact: Donna Read: donnaread3380@aol.com or Tresna Hunt: Tresna@oetgenhunt.co.nz

 

About the LOPP-SIG Facebook Page

What is the Facebook page?
The Facebook page was set up after the last world conference, voted by the people at the conference as a more user-friendly form of communication. While Facebook is promoting more engagement, only 10% of our membership is currently using it and this is likely because it needs more advertising! It has been recognised that not everyone wants to use Facebook, which is why the listserv is still an option for people as a way of engaging.

Members on the Facebook page
There are currently 54 people on the Facebook page.

Joining the ACBS Facebook page
You can join either by typing in ACBS LOPP-SIG into Facebook, or you can copy and paste: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1032435220192241/?ref=bookmarks

Having trouble?
Contact: Tresna Hunt: Tresna@oetgenhunt.co.nz or Donna Read: donnaread3380@aol.com


About the Dublin conference

The world conference will be held in Dublin this year from 25th June until 30th June. You can find out more information here: https://contextualscience.org/wc17 We are in the process of organising a SIG catch-up. If you are interested in networking with other members of this SIG in Dublin, please register your interest by sending an email to: Tresna Hunt: Tresna@oetgenhunt.co.nz
PLEASE put the following subject heading in your email: LOPP-SIG Dublin
Once we have a show of interest we can put a call out for agenda items. In the absence of any specific agenda items we will treat the meeting as a general networking event.
Once meeting details have been finalised, Tresna will send an email to those attending with information about date/time/location.


Resources for the website

Do you have any good resources we could put on our website? The website can be found here: https://contextualscience.org/leadership_organizational_behavior_management_publ
We want to add a resource section and are looking for some quality recommendations. If so, email them to: Tresna Hunt: Tresna@oetgenhunt.co.nz


 

That’s all for now. We look forward to catching up with some of you in Dublin. Best regards, Tresna and Donna


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About These Resources

We've compiled this list of resources, which are relevant to leadership, organisational behaviour management and public policy, and grounded in contextual behavioural science.

Can you help?:  We'd love your help to keep it up-to-date. Is your favourite source missing? Is your own work missing? Do let us know in the comments, below ... or get in touch with the LOPP-SIG coordinators over email (Simon & Steffi).

Resource List

Books

  • Smith, W., Boniwell, I., & Green, S. Editors (2021) Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace. Springer. There is a chapter on ACT.
  • Atkins, P. W., Wilson, D. S., & Hayes, S. C. (2019). Prosocial: Using evolutionary science to build productive, equitable, and collaborative groups. New Harbinger Publications.
  • Bond, F. W. (2018). Organizational Flexibility: Creating a Mindful and Purpose-Driven Organization. In D. S. Wilson & S. C. Hayes (Series Ed.), Evolution & Contextual Behavioral Science (pp. 185–199). New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
  • Bond, F. W., Lloyd, J., Flaxman, P. E., & Archer, R. (2016). Psychological Flexibility and ACT at Work. In The Wiley Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science, 459-482.
  • Bond, F. W., & Lloyd, J. (2016). Flexible Organisations: Creating a Healthy and Productive Context for Gender and Sexual Minority Employees. In Mindfulness & acceptance for gender & sexual minorities: a clinician’s guide to fostering compassion, connection, & equality using contextual strategies. Oakland, CA: Context Press, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
  • Paul E. Flaxman, Frank W. Bond, Fredrik Livheim (2013) The Mindful and Effective Employee: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training Manual for Improving Well-Being and Performance 
  • Frank Gardner, Zella E. Moore (2007) The Psychology of Enhancing Human Performance: The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment Approach
  • Steven Hayes, Frank Bond, Dermot Barnes-Holmes, John Austin (2006) Acceptance and Mindfulness at Work: Applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory to Organizational Behavior Management

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Papers

  • Archer, R. (2018). The impact of a focused acceptance and commitment training workplace intervention: is less, less? (Doctoral dissertation, Kingston University).
  • Atkins, P. W., & Parker, S. K. (2012). Understanding individual compassion in organizations: The role of appraisals and psychological flexibility. Academy of Management Review, 37(4), 524-546.
  • Beames, J.R., Spanos, S., Roberts, A. et al. (2023). Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses. Educational Psychology Review, 35, 26. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-023-09720-w
  • Boatemaa, M. A., Oppong Asante, K., & Agyemang, C. B. (2019). The Moderating Role of Psychological Flexibility in the Relationship Between Organizational Commitment, Workaholism, Job Security, and Corporate Entrepreneurship Among Information Technology Workers in Accra, Ghana. SAGE Open, 9(3), 2158244019871063.
  • Bond, F. W., & Bunce, D. (2000). Mediators of change in emotion-focused and problem-focused worksite stress management interventions. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5, 156-163.
  • Bond, F. W., & Bunce, D. (2003). The role of acceptance and job control in mental health, job satisfaction, and work performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 1057-1067.
  • Bond, F. W., & Donaldson-Feilder, E. J. (2004). The relative importance of psychological acceptance and emotional intelligence to workplace well-being. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 32(2), 187–203.
  • Bond, F. W., Flaxman, P. E., & Bunce, D. (2008). The influence of psychological flexibility on work redesign: Mediated moderation of a work reorganization intervention. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(3), 645–654.
  • Bond, F. W. & Flaxman, P. E. (2006). The Ability of Psychological Flexibility and Job Control to Predict Learning, Job Performance, and Mental Health. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 26(1-2), 113-130. DOI: 10.1300/J075v26n01_05
  • Bond, F. W., Hayes, S. C., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2006). Psychological flexibility, ACT, and organizational behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 26(1–2), 25–54.
  • Bond, F. W., Lloyd, J., & Guenole, N. (2012). The work-related acceptance and action questionnaire (WAAQ): Initial psychometric findings and their implications for measuring psychological flexibility in specific contexts. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 1-25.
  • Deval, C., Bernard-Curie, S., & Monestès, J. L. (2017). Effects of an acceptance and commitment therapy intervention on leaders’ and managers’ psychological flexibility. Journal de Therapie Comportementale et Cognitive, 27(1), 34-42
  • Durand-Moreau, Q., Jackson, T., Deibert, D., Els, C., Kung, J.Y., & Straube, S. (2023). Mindfulness-based Practices in Workers to Address Mental Health Conditions: A Systematic Review. Safety and Health at Work,14(3), 250-258. DOI: 10.1016/j.shaw.2023.07.006
  • Flaxman, P. E., & Bond, F. W. (2006). The Ability of Psychological Flexibility and Job Control to Predict Learning, Job Performance, and Mental Health. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 26(1–2), 113–130.
  • Flaxman, P. E., & Bond, F. W. (2010). A randomised worksite comparison of acceptance and commitment therapy and stress inoculation training. Behavior Research and Therapy, 48, 816-820.
  • Haas J.R. & Hayes, S.C. (2006). When Knowing You Are Doing Well Hinders Performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 26(1-2), 91-111. DOI: 10.1300/J075v26n01_04
  • Hayes, S. C., Bunting, K., Herbst, S., Bond, F.W., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2006). Expanding the scope of organizational behavior management. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 26(1-2), 1-23.
  • Herbst, S.A. & Houmanfar, R. (2009). Psychological Approaches to Values in Organizations and Organizational Behavior Management. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 29(1), 47-68. DOI: 10.1080/01608060802714210
  • Homayooni, A., Homayooni, F., & Homayooni, S. (2020). The relationship between personality traits, basic psychological needs satisfaction, work-related psychological flexibility and job burnout. Iran Occupational Health, 21-30
  • Hulbert-Williams L, Hochard K, Hulbert-Williams NJ, Archer R, Nicholls W & Wilson K (2016). Contextual behavioural coaching: A scientifically coherent model for supporting behaviour change. International Journal of Coaching Psychology, 11(2). 142-154.
  • Karungi Abigaba, K. P. (2019). Psychological flexibility, occupational stress and individual job performance (Doctoral dissertation, Makerere University).
  • Kent, W., Hochard, K. D., & Hulbert-Williams, N. J. (2019). Perceived stress and professional quality of life in nursing staff: How important is psychological flexibility?. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 14, 11-19.
  • Kuo, C. C., Ye, Y. C., Chen, M. Y., & Chen, L. H. (2018). Psychological Flexibility at Work and Employees' Proactive Work Behaviour: Cross‐Level Moderating Role of Leader Need for Structure. Applied Psychology, 67(3), 454-472
  • Lamb, D. J. (2018). Examining psychological flexibility at the individual, team, and leadership levels in Crisis Resolution Teams (Doctoral dissertation, UCL (University College London)).
  • Lamb, D., & Cogan, N. (2015). Coping with work‐related stressors and building resilience in mental health workers: A comparative focus group study using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. doi: 10.1111/joop.12136
  • Lloyd, J., Bond, F. W., & Flaxman, P. E. (2013). The value of psychological flexibility: Examining psychological mechanisms underpinning a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for burnout. Work & Stress, 27(2), 181-199.
  • Lloyd, J., Bond, F. W., & Flaxman, P. E. (2017). Work-related self-efficacy as a moderator of the impact of a worksite stress management training intervention: Intrinsic work motivation as a higher order condition of effect. Journal of occupational health psychology, 22(1), 115.
  • Ly, K. H., Asplund, K., & Andersson, G. (2014). Stress management for middle managers via an acceptance and commitment-based smartphone application: A randomized controlled trial. Internet Interventions, 1, 95-101. DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2014.06.003
  • Maldonado Ladino, M.D., Bolaños, C., Calderón Ramírez, V.A., Silva Giraldo, E.J., Álzate, J.P., Cubides, A., & Botero Carvajal, A. (2023). Effects of internet-based, psychosocial, and early medical interventions on professional burnout in health care workers: Systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Internet Interventions, 34, 100682. DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2023.100682.
  • Moran, D. J., & Ming, S. (2020). The mindful action plan: Using the MAP to apply acceptance and commitment therapy to productivity and self-compassion for behavior analysts. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 1-9.
  • Moran, D.J. (2015). Acceptance and Commitment Training in the workplace. Current Opinion in Psychology, 2, 26-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2014.12.031
  • Novaes, V. P., Ferreira, M. C., & Valentini, F. (2018). Psychological flexibility as a moderator of the relationships between job demands and resources and occupational well-being. The Spanish journal of psychology, 21.
  • O'hora, D. & Maglieri, K.A. (2006). Goal Statements and Goal-Directed Behavior: A Relational Frame Account of Goal Setting in Organizations. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 26(1-2), 131-170. DOI: 10.1300/J075v26n01_06
  • Ortiz-Fune, C., Kanter, J. W., & Arias, M. F. (2020). Burnout in Mental Health Professionals: The Roles of Psychological Flexibility, Awareness, Courage, and Love. Clinical and Health, 31(2), 85-90.
  • Parker, S. K., Atkins, P. W., & Axtell, C. M. (2008). Building better work places through individual perspective taking: A fresh look at a fundamental human process. International review of industrial and organizational psychology, 23.
  • Peel, R., Buckby, B., & McBain, K. (2017, June). Who gets bullied at work? The role of emotion stability, psychological flexibility and coping in workplace bullying. In Inaugural Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference: Book of Abstracts (p. 27). James Cook University
  • Ramaci, T., Bellini, D., Presti, G., & Santisi, G. (2019). Psychological flexibility and mindfulness as predictors of individual outcomes in hospital health workers. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1302.
  • Ruiz, F. J., & Odriozola-González, P. (2017). The Predictive and moderating role of psychological flexibility in the development of job burnout. Universitas Psychologica, 16(4), 282-289
  • Singh, R. S., & O'Brien, W. H. (2020). The impact of work stress on sexual minority employees: Could psychological flexibility be a helpful solution?. Stress and Health, 36(1), 59-74.
  • Skews, R. (2018). Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) informed coaching: Examining outcomes and mechanisms of change (Doctoral dissertation, Goldsmiths, University of London)
  • Skews, R., & Palmer, S. (2016). Acceptance and commitment coaching: Making the case for an ACT-based approach to coaching. Coaching Psychology International, 9(1), 24-28
  • Skews, R., Palmer, S., & Green, S. (2018). Coaching to enhance resilience and wellbeing. In Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice (pp. 141-154). Routledge.
  • Stewart, I., Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Bond F.W., & Hayes, S.C. (2006). Relational Frame Theory and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 26(1-2). 55-90, DOI: 10.1300/J075v26n01_03
  • Towey-Swift, K.D., Lauvrud , C. & Whittington, R. (2022). Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for professional staff burnout: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of controlled trials. Journal of Mental Health, 32(2), 452-464. DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2021.2022628 
  • Vilardaga, R., Luoma, J. B., Hayes, S. C., Pistorello, J., Levin, M. E., Hildebrandt, M. J., ... & Bond, F. (2011). Burnout among the addiction counseling workforce: The differential roles of mindfulness and values-based processes and work-site factors. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 40(4), 323-335.
  • Voth, M., Chisholm, S., Sollid, H., Jones, C., Smith-MacDonald, L., & Brémault-Phillips, S. (2022). Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Quality of Resilience-Building Mobile Health Apps for Military, Veteran, and Public Safety Personnel Populations: Scoping Literature Review and App Evaluation. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 10(1), e26453 DOI: 10.2196/26453
  • de Vries, M. J. (2018). The potential role of self-control and psychological flexibility for job satisfaction among working people (Master's thesis).
  • Wardley, M. N., Flaxman, P. E., Willig, C., & Gillanders, D. (2014). ‘Feel the Feeling’: Psychological practitioners’ experience of acceptance and commitment therapy well-being training in the workplace. Journal of Health Psychology, 1359105314557977.

Practitioner-Focused/Non-Academic Articles

  • Archer, R. (2018). How to beat workplace stress. New Scientist, 238(3177), 16-17.
  • David, S., & Congleton, C. (2013). Emotional agility. Harvard Business Review, 91(11), 125–131.

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Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG Information

Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG Information

Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG

Affiliated 2012

Mission/Objectives

Scope:
Our social world is built on the past decisions of others trying to solve the problems of particular contexts. Some of those past decisions have had unintended and toxic effects. But everything that was built by people can be rebuilt by people. If we are to design and implement new systems of social cooperation in organizations, policies and social institutions, we need the psychological flexibility to make sure that what we build reflects and embodies our shared values. Concurrently, to work effectively at this scale, we need to address psychological toxicity in the environments we wish to influence.

Mission:
The mission of the Leadership, Organizational Behavior Management, & Public Policy SIG is to scale the psychological flexibility model up to the level of organizations, public policy, and social institutions more generally. We believe it is especially important to consider the interrelationship between environment (toxic or nurturing) and psychological flexibility in our efforts to provide something of value to the world.

Description of Membership

Our group includes but is not limited to those who are interested in basic and applied research, coaching, prevention science, public health, public policy, ACT, ACTraining, and the design of new ways to promote psychological flexibility at a societal level.

donnaread3380@…