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Full list of Pre-Conference Workshops

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)

  • An Experiential Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (not just for beginners)

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)