Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

HI,

Managed to squeeze into workshop program in the form of the workshop led by Steven Hayes & Lindsay Sawyer. Met and talked to Ross Leonard, New South Wales, Australia.

This is a duplicate of a post found elsewhere. I'm using my blog as a kind of bookmarking tool, that's why I put it under my blog entry. I hope this is not confusing to anyone.

Attached is the newest version of the Togus one week Intensive Outpatient Program ACT protocol. This is a significant change in that we have moved Self-As-Context to the beginning of the protocol.

This protocol is really done at the end of day 3 after "The Bus." We are required to do 5 days, however, for bureaucratic reasons.

Hi Folks,

As some of you know, my colleagues (Jerold Hambright and Mark Webster) and I have moved beyond the iView to The Grid to organize our sessions. The exercise that we use to set up The Grid is The Pen. After doing The Pen and setting up The Grid we can then use a cool intervention called The Mix.

The point is that my July 1 morning workshop at World Con should be titled,

"Getting to Derived Relational Responding with The Pen, The Grid and The Mix"

instead of,

"From Verbal Content to Experiential Process with the iView."

I often show this drawing to my clients to tell them how we are going to work, preparing the context of therapy. I have great feedbacks from them concerning this way of presenting ACT very simply (it is a visual informed consent of not acting directly on their suffering...). I do not write any word with them but to orient reader, I did put a few in here...
Red square represents suffering, and red arrows: acting directly on suffering to change it. We can see that self is almost same size as suffering and the person is identified with suffering in the first circle.

Toutes les formalités éthiques sont complétées. Le recrutement des participants est en cours jusqu'au 19 juin.
Si vous lisez ces lignes, peut-être êtes-vous une des personnes à qui j'ai offert la mission de trouver des candidats potentiels. Si tel est le cas, ne vous gênez pas pour m'envoyer un message ou demander des clarifications sur mon projet!

À bientôt!

Hi folks,

This is just a reminder about the webinars that are coming up this week of May 31, 2009.

If you have requests for specific content, drop me a line.

I have had one request for me do to an early morning webinar in my time, 5am USA Eastern time, for folks in other parts of the world. If you are interested, please drop me a line:

[[kevin@drkevinpolk.com]]

This week we will continue with the
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ACT Enthusiast Webinar/Phone Call. Wednesdays at 4pm EST.

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As I continue to do this work, especially in the primary care setting, I find myself paring down these concepts further and further.

Attached is a nice, simple, intro-to-mindfulness handout I developed. Hope you can find use for it in your work (and life)!

And remember, you must be logged in to see the attachments! (((gong)))

Hi Folks,

This is just to let folks know what webinars are coming up this week of May 24, 2009.

We can have up to 15 people per webinar.

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For many years, children with autism had virtually no chance for improvement of their condition. Then came applied behavior analysis, which is so successful that now tens of thousands of children receive these services every year. I just stumbled across this fairly well done media piece on how some kids initially diagnosed with autism are able to become indistinguishable from kids their peers after a few years of ABA work. Although the piece is a bit sensationalized and certainly many kids do not have that good of an outcome, it is remarkable that some do!

Hi Folks,

Join me for my first conference call. We will talk about any ACT stuff people want to talk about. If folks don't have specific questions, I will talk about the new stuff we are doing in my shop. Sort of ACT Gone Wild, Gone Really Wild!

Just use the link below.

Kevin

[[https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/753596003]]

2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.

Dial 218-844-4937
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Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

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I wanted to let you know about a significant change to the Polk & Hambright Group ACT Protocol; we have replaced the iView with The Grid. As the people who participated in the ACT for Groups training know, The Grid consists of two discrimination tasks. These discrimination tasks were in the iView, but we were not explicitly training them. After doing both the iView and The Grid in groups, we tried dropping the iView and did only The Grid. Data and clinical observation agree that faster behavioral change toward values occurs with The Grid only.

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ACT in New England List
Mailing #9: May 2009

Contents:
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Voici l'affiche présentée au Colloque des sciences infirmières tenue à l'UQO.
Cette affiche décrit mon projet de maîtrise sur l'utilisation de ACT dans le rétablissement de jeunes adultes présentant un premier épisode psychotique.
Les commentaires et suggestions sont bienvenues!

You might need some references for this version of Functionally Speaking. The intro alludes to a Washington Post article called [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html|Pearls Before Breakfast]] which can be found at: that I found particularly condescending and is related to a series of posts on the ACT Listserve called “A Violinist in the Metro” from early March 2008.

Check out the podcast at: http://djmoran.podbean.com/