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What to Expect
The 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops offer exciting VIRTUAL and IN-PERSON 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.
Virtual Workshops
Friday, June 6 and Saturday, June 7
Format: LIVE online via Zoom. These workshops will not be recorded.
MORNING Workshops
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. UTC/GMT -5 (Central Daylight Time)
(8 hours total over two days; 7.5 total contact hours)
Interpersonally Extending Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples and Intimate Partners, Lou Lasprugato, M.A.
Now What? Moving Beyond the Basics and Increasing your Fluency in ACT, Miranda Morris, Ph.D., Shawn Costello Whooley, Psy.D. and Holly Yates, Ms., MA, LCMHC
AFTERNOON Workshops
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. UTC/GMT -5 (Central Daylight Time)
(8 hours total over two days; 7.5 total contact hours)
Staying prosocial as things fall apart, Paul Atkins, Ph.D., Rachel Gooen, MSW, Viveka Ramel, Ph.D., and Anna Castonguay, MA
- Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Increasing the Reach of Contextual Behavioral Science to Novel Settings and New Populations, Kirk Strosahl, Ph.D. and Patricia Robinson, Ph.D.
In-Person Workshops
These workshops will be held the two days immediately preceding the ACBS World Conference 2025.
Tuesday, July 15 and Wednesday, July 16
8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. Central Daylight Time - CDT
Location: Sheraton New Orleans
Contact Hours: 13 total
- Connecting with Meaning While Living with Moral Pain: A Workshop on ACT for Moral Injury (ACT-MI), Lauren Borges, Ph.D., Jacob Farnsworth, Ph.D., Sean Barnes, Ph.D.
- Process-Based Practice: Shaping Psychological Flexibility in Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents, Lisa Coyne, Ph.D., Sarah Cassidy, Ph.D.
- You Matter: Idionomic Biopsychosocial Pathways to Human Resilience, Steven C Hayes, Ph.D., Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
- Trauma-Focused ACT: Working With Body, Mind and Emotion, Russ Harris, M.B.B.S.
Mastering the heartbeat of change: applying core principles of change in contextual therapies, Niklas Törneke, M.D. and Rikke Kjelgaard, M. SC.- Mastering Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) Now: A Process Based and Trauma Informed Approach to Practicing Compassion in Psychotherapy, Dennis Tirch, Ph.D., Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PsyD, Lauren Todd, Ph.D.
- 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., Amanda Muñoz-Martínez, Ph.D., Matthew Skinta, Ph.D., ABPP
- The Heart of ACT: A Process-Based, Client-Centered Approach to Creating Meaning, Robyn Walser, Ph.D.