Deepening the Relationship Between ACT and Mindfulness with Kelly G. Wilson in Copenhagen
Workshop with Ph.D. Kelly Wilson in Denmark
Place: Copenhagen, Østerbrohuset, Århusgade 103, 2100 København Ø
Dates: The 6th and 7th of March
Time: From 10-7 p.m. the 6th of March and from 9-4 the 7 th of March
Price: Danish kr.6000, materials and meals during the workshop are included
Register: e-mail Susan Møller Rasmussen on.:
mail@susanrasmussen.dk
Deepening the Relationship Between ACT and Mindfulness
A 2-day ACT Workshop offered by Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Mississippi
Although ACT has not typically involved explicit training in formal mindfulness meditation practice, it is clear that mindfulness practice and ACT share a number of truly central concerns. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) coiuld be argued to be the greatest single wellspring of the use of mindfulness in western medicine. MBSR grew up in a medical setting. Jon Kabbat Zin is, by training, a molecular biologist. ACT, by contrast grew up inside academic psychology, steeped in the behavior analytic tradition and the experimental analysis of behavior.
It is remarkable that such wildly different origins could produce methods that lead to such similar conclusions. Both ACT and MBSR rely heavily on experiential learning methods. Both approaches ask clients and teachers to look deeply at their own experience as the ultimate teacher. Both are interested in a holistic approach to human wellbeing. Both are deeply interested in the role of language and the products of “mind.” Both have produced technologies that disentangle us from the words that fill our heads, and which stand in so convincingly for the world. Both ACT and MBSR seek to bring us more richly into contact with the present and with the wondrousness potential in each moment of life.
In this workshop, we will explore in depth the connection between mindfulness practice and ACT. This will be an ACT workshop, not an MBSR workshop. However, the workshop will incorporate significant periods of meditation practice. We will use these periods of practice to expand our understanding of the relationship between these two bodies of work. Our examination of mindfulness practices will not be mere speculation, rather it will be an examination that is informed by direct interaction with mindfulness and with ACT principles and procedures.
The workshop will begin with a brief introduction to the ACT model and a few comments on an ACT perspective on mindfulness. The balance of the workshop will be spent moving between experiential training in ACT and meditations designed to deepen ACT practice.
The aim of the workshop will be to (1) foster integration of this work for those interested in the interface between the two, (2) to help us all to better understand all ACT principles and the ways that mindfulness can inform them, and finally, (3) to improve our ability to serve the clients and trainees who come to us for help.
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