Call for Submissions
Request for Session Proposals (& Posters)
The Submission period is now over. - Thanks to all of those who submitted!
ACT Summer Institute - May, 2008
I am happy to announce that planning for the ACT Summer Institute 2008 is underway. The Institute will be held at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) on May 28-30 in Chicago, IL. Pre-conference 2-day experiential workshops will be held on May 26-27. While Chicago is nicknamed “the city that works” there are many fun things to do while you are not ‘working’ at the summer institute. The city is accessible from Midway and O’Hare airports and we have reserved some lodging at the Chicago Hilton (where the ABA conference is being held just before the ACT SI) in the downtown loop, located near Lake Michigan’s lakefront, the Art Institute, Museum campus and Chicago’s “magnificent mile” of awesome shopping. The conference hotel is approximately four miles from IIT accessible by car, bus, subway, and Metra train (from Chicagoland area).
The structure of the program will be similar to previously successful ACT Institutes, and will be both ACT and RFT focused. Based on previous feedback, however, the institute will be briefer (three days rather than four and a half). We will host an evening cocktail poster session as well, which is intended to showcase clinical and experimental research in RFT and ACT—a great way to see what is happening around the world. And it wouldn’t be the ACT SI without the Follies.
At this time, we would like to put out a call for submissions to the Institute. Some of the institute events will be invited. However, we want to open the call broadly and invite proposals for short workshops (half day), panel discussions, and consultation sessions. Your submission should include the title, presenters and their affiliations (ex. University of Houston; private practice; Oregon Research Institute), topic category (ex. ACT/Clinical; RFT/Theoretical), a general description, three educational objectives, three post-test questions, a target audience (ex. beginner/ clinicians; intermediate/researcher), email addresses for all speakers, and audio visual needs. Please state whether it is a workshop, consultation, poster presentation, etc., plus the amount of time you believe you would need. Your submission description should include enough information to give the program committee a clear idea of your proposal--a paragraph or so. Vitas for accepted sessions will be collected at a later date. Feel free to propose sessions you would like to see, along with those you would like to conduct.
Please use page 3 of this document for your submissions.
Please send all proposals back-channel to: actsi4@hotmail.com
Please indicate in the subject line the following: ACT Institute Proposal 2008.
Please submit your proposal by Friday, January 11, 2008.
We are eager to hear your ideas and will continue to send information regarding the ACT Summer Institute 2008.
For further description of purpose, audience, and style of sessions please read below.
Looking forward to seeing you all here!
Patty Bach
Institute of Psychology
Illinois Institute of Technology
PURPOSES
The primary purpose of the institute is to increase the skill of attendees in implementing ACT in applied settings. This will be accomplished through a combination of targeted workshops, video demonstrations, live demonstrations, role playing, clinically focused case discussions, and experiential work.
A secondary purpose of this institute is to provide a forum for ACT trainers to conduct various training activities, receive structured feedback on their training methods from other ACT trainers as well as to examine ways to create a more consistent set of ACT training philosophies, goals and strategies.
A final purpose of the institute is to help interested attendees better understand RFT, its significance in understanding human suffering and how RFT principles can be translated into clinical practice, and to help attendees learn and develop methods and strategies for conducting ACT process and outcome studies in applied and academic settings. This will be accomplished through “user friendly” workshops and small group discussions.
AUDIENCE
The primary target audience for this institute is any practitioner interested in learning more about the clinical application of ACT, or who wishes to function as an ACT trainer. The institute will also be of relevance to researchers interested in building the ACT / RFT base of knowledge.
The Institute will be focused on people who can attend the whole 3-day institute, while still being open and providing options for those interested in or able to attend only a few days.
STYLE OF SESSIONS
We want the institute to be very interactive, with participants getting chances to develop skills, with lots of time for questions, chances to do role plays, watch videos, get feedback on difficult clients, and watch tapes of clinical work they have brought with them.
ACT Summer Institute IV Proposal, 2008
Format: (workshop; consultation; panel discussion; poster; etc.)
Amount of time needed: (20 min.; full 2.75 hr. session; etc.)
Topic/Category: (ex. ACT/Clinical; ACT/RFT/Theoretical/Contextualism; RFT/Basis of Applied Work)
Title:
Presenters/authors and affiliations: (if all authors are not presenting, please embolden the speaker’s name(s)) (affiliation ex.: University of Houston; private practice; Oregon Research Institute)
General description/abstract:
Three educational objectives: (ex. Learn a simple model for working with mindfulness; develop a range of mindfulness exercises; build understanding of Self as Context)
Three questions for attendee post-test: (ex. What is a simple model for working with mindfulness?; List 3 mindfulness exercises.; What is “Self as Context”?)
Target audience: (ex. beginner/ clinicians; intermediate/researcher)
Email addresses for all speakers:
Audio visual needs: (Laptop/powerpoint projector, TV/VCR, TV/DVD, overhead projector)
(This entire document is attached below for your convenience.)