Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Intermediate Level Skills Training with David Gillanders & Henry Whitfield (Part 2 of 2)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Intermediate Level Skills Training

Trainers : David Gillanders, (D.Clin.Psychol.) ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT trainer, Henry Whitfield MSc, MBACP,
Both the trainers have multiple publications in their field. See trainer profiles for full biographical details.

Dates: 10-11th Mar + 24-25th Mar 2012
4 day course run over 2 weekends
Fee: £525
Location: Kings Cross, London
Prerequisite: Introductory ACT training with skills training, or experience of applying ACT to your client work.

This Intermediate Skills Training workshop, with David, Henry and Tobias is designed for those who have completed our 4 day experiential Introduction and Skills training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), but is also open to those who have done comparable training elsewhere. Experience of ACT clinical skills training is expected in all students accepted on this workshop.

Learning focuses of this training:

Monitoring your progress in terms of ACT competency tracking forms.
Noticing holes in your ACT practice and build new repertoires.
Practice case conceptualizations in terms of the six core processes
Work with personal barriers that interfere with your values as a therapist
Practice applying ACT in one-on-one “therapy” with individual feedback
Broaden your repertoire of ‘physicalized’ techniques.
On completion of this course you will have further developed your personal style of ACT, learnt to be more ACT consistent through personal feedback from David and Henry.

Intermediate level Skills Training - Part 1 (1st Weekend):

A new and clear framework for broadening your repertoire as an ACT therapist.
Do you currently use multiple skills across all processes?
Broaden your use of Functional Analysis in ACT.
Awareness of areas in which you feel less competent or become stuck.
Broaden your ACT repertoire in the areas you need to improve the most with hands on practice in that area.
Micro-skills that serve multiple processes.
The workshop presenters will be completing rounds during experiential work to give individual feedback (numbers limited to 11 per trainer).

Intermediate level Skills Training - Part 2 (2nd Weekend):

Report on progress made between the two weekends – new interventions that have been tried + results.
A physicalised ACT protocol as an alternative to the bus-metaphor
Trouble shooting difficult clients
Case-formulations for specific problems.
Present videos of your client work (if you have one).
Further repertoire building practice
During this weekend the workshop representer will also be completing rounds during extensive clinical work to give individual feedback. Attendees will be given opportunity to also receive supervisory–type feedback.

After this weekend you will be also be eligible for the supervision program (only for graduates of this intermediate training as numbers are limited to 8).