Supervision & Consultation SIG
Supervision & Consultation SIGSupervision & Consultation Special Interest Group
Affiliated 2025
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SIG Leaders
Sarah Pegrum
Jim Lucas
Lou Lasprugato
Linda Nicholson
Mission/Objectives
The Supervision and Consultation SIG’s mission is to enhance the quality of supervision and consultation practices by fostering a collaborative community for professionals. We are dedicated to supporting individuals in supervisory roles through shared knowledge, resources, and ongoing education. By promoting the integration of CBS processes, we aim to facilitate the values-based and contextually sensitive functions of supervision, empowering supervisees to deliver services with fidelity and competency, while also considering their wellbeing, and ultimately improving client care. We strive to reduce isolation among clinicians, clarify essential competencies, and disseminate effective practices in supervision and consultation.
SIG Activities
- Connecting and sharing resources for supervision
- Presentations and workshops on CBS processes in supervision
- SIG email listserv
Description of Membership
All members of ACBS are welcome.
Supervision & Consultation SIG Resources
Supervision & Consultation SIG ResourcesMonthly Webinars
March 2026 - Cultivating Supervisee Psychological Flexibility by Robert Burdine. You will find the recording here.
February 2026 - Reflective Local Practice: A Cultural Sensitivity Framework Applied to Supervision by Gage Jordan. You will find the recording here.
October 2025 - Supervisor Self Disclosure by Neville Galloway-Williams. You will find the recording here.
August 2025 - Setting the Stage in Supervision/Consultation by Lou Lasprugato. You will find the recording here, and the accompanying slides here.
JCBS Articles
Thompson, B.T., Luoma, J.B., Terry, C.M., Lejeune, J.T., Guinther, P.M., & Robb, H. (2015). Creating a peer-led acceptance and commitment therapy consultation group: The Portland model. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 4(3), 144-150.
ACBS Newsletter
October 2017: ACBS Online Peer Supervision Group: Connect online, Support and Learn with your Peers
Presentation Powerpoints
August 2025 - Setting the Stage in Supervision. You will find the slides here.
September 2025 - International Standards of Training and Supervision in Psychological Therapies Based on Contextual Behavioural Science. You will find the slides here.
September 2025 - Introducing the SEED Model of how to be an effective ACT Supervisor. You will find the slides here.
September 2025 - Connecting with Your Values as a Supervisor. You will find the slides here, and in Spanish here.
Toolkit for Sharing ACBS Resources
Toolkit for Sharing ACBS ResourcesAs part of our ongoing commitment in supporting individuals in supervisory roles, we created this toolkit as a resource for the members of the ACBS Supervision & Consultation SIG to help you communicate the benefits and resources of ACBS to your supervisees. Supervisors may recommend ACBS as one possible resource to support learning, reflection, and professional development during training.
In this toolkit, you will find sample email copy, email signature samples, and a one-pager on ACBS that you can share to help communicate all of the resources that ACBS can provide to your supervisees, trainees, or training cohorts.
Everything provided below is simply a suggestion of how you can more easily share this information. Please feel free to customize and personalize these communications to better suite your unique circumstances.
Email Copy
For supervisees, trainees, or training cohorts, feel free to personalize the email as you see fit!
Subject: A professional resource you may find helpful
Hi {insert name},
As part of your ongoing professional development, I wanted to share a resource that some supervisees find useful during training: the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS).
ACBS is a global professional organization focused on contextual behavioral science and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Membership is optional, and I’m sharing this simply as one possible resource you may want to explore at your own pace and based on your interests.
Some potential benefits supervisees often appreciate include:
- Access to educational resources, webinars, and recorded talks
- Huge video library featuring full length discussions, research presentations, and recorded trainings.
- Exposure to current research and conversations in ACT and contextual behavioral science
- Opportunities to learn how professionals integrate science, values, and practice
- Reduced-cost registration for conferences and trainings
- Student and trainee-focused resources and learning opportunities
- Connection to a broad, international professional community
If you’re curious, check out the benefits of an ACBS membership.
There’s no expectation that you join or engage in any particular way. If you do explore ACBS, we can always talk in supervision about what feels helpful, what doesn’t, and how external professional communities fit into your learning and values.
Warmly,
{insert your name here}
Supervisor Email Signature or Syllabus Add On
A simple way to normalize ACBS as a professional resource is to reference it in your email signature, supervision materials, or training syllabi:
- Recommended professional resource: Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)
- ACT & contextual behavioral science resources: contextualscience.org
Flyer on ACBS Benefits
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Thank you for helping us promote and grow the ACBS community!