What to Expect

The 2023 Pre-Conference Workshops offer exciting new opportunities that will engage therapists and researchers of any skill level. Combining therapy role-plays, experiential exercises, case presentations, data graphics, focused lectures, and small group discussions, you can expect high-quality training from ACBS Pre-Conference Workshops. Continuing Education credits are available.

When & Where?

There will be in-person (24-25 July) workshops available.  Pre-Conference workshop registration includes LIVE ONLY access to the workshop you select. These workshops will not be recorded.

ACBS Pre-Conference Workshops - IN-PERSON Event (24-25 July 2023)

These workshops will be held the two days immediately preceding the ACBS World Conference 2023.

Monday, 24 July 2023 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. 
Tuesday, 25 July 2023 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.

(12 total contact hours)

They will be held at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, Cyprus.

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Process-Based Work: Treating Trauma and Other Challenging Life Events

Robyn Walser, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• Starting from where you are at: how to integrate ACT and other Contextual Behavioural Principles into your work

Aisling Leonard-Curtin, M.Sc., C.Psychol., Ps.S.I., David Gillanders, DClinPsychol
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• The Next ACT: How 40 Years of Development Has Prepared CBS for What is Coming

Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., Gijs Jansen, Ph.D., Joseph Ciarrochi, Ph.D.
(Clinical, Research; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• Putting the Context Back in Contextual Behavioral Science: Applying RFT to Rules, Self, and Values

Louise McHugh, Ph.D. and Alison Stapleton, Ph.D.
(Clinical, Research, Applied (in non-clinical settings); Intermediate, Advanced)

• Helping young people find themselves and connect with others: Using CBS to build a flexible self and develop flexible social abilities

Louise Hayes, Ph.D, Duncan Gillard, Ph.D
(Clinical, Applied (in non-clinical settings); Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• Cutting edge of metaphor use 

Niklas Törneke, MD, Rikke Kjelgaard, M.Sc.
(Clinical, Research, Applied (in non-clinical settings); Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• Here, Now, and Between Us: Functional Analytic Psychotherapy and the Power of the Therapeutic Relationship 

Mavis Tsai, Ph.D., Sarah Sullivan-Singh, Ph.D., Barbara Kohlenberg, Ph.D.
(Clinical, Applied (in non-clinical settings); Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

Additional information about registrations, refunds, etc., can be found here.