Two day ACT training in New York with Steve Hayes

Two day ACT training in New York with Steve Hayes as part of the ABCT convention
Compassion and Acceptance: Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in the Context of the Therapeutic Relationship
[[http://www.abct.org/conv2009/main.cfm?mn=40&zbd=m41_ClinicalTraining.cfm]]

This is not an advanced workshop but if you've had only short trainings before you will find new things in here.

Acceptance, mindfulness, and values-based interventions are changing the face of CBT because they add important conceptual and practical dimensions to our work, and because they help us think of what we know from the CBT tradition in creative new ways. These methods have generally been thought of with a focus on the client's world within, but they are equally applicable to the therapist, to the world without, and to the relationship between clients and therapists. This workshop is designed to teach a workable set of basic skills needed to explore ACT as an assessment model and intervention method. The means of doing so will be consciously linked to both to the world within (e.g., acceptance) and the world without (e.g., compassion); both to a focus on the client and a focus on the therapist's processes and life stance; and both to the client's struggles and to the moment-to-moment interactions in therapeutic work. The workshop will be didactic and experiential in equal measure, and will balance understanding of the model, personal connection with the issues it raises, and skill development.

Day 1 of the workshop will explore the model, and show how it can be applied at these multiple levels. Day 2 will delve deeper into skills and methods, based on the understanding established in Day 1. Because the workshop is cummulative it is not feasible to start on Day 2, but it is possible to take Day 1 only.

You will learn:

* The six core processes focused on in ACT;
* How these "ACT processes" help explain psychopathology and provide a unified model of intervention;
* How ACT processes recast the nature and purpose of the therapeutic relationship;
* Why acceptance and compassion are two aspects of the same process and are key to therapeutic success;
* How to read ACT processes in your clients, moment to moment;
* How to formulate cases in terms of ACT processes;
* How to foster ACT processes using your existing CBT and general clinical skills and to amplify these using technology developed by ACT practitioners and researchers.