MODULE 1: ACT Step-by-Step

In Module 1, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the principles and processes involved in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Daniel (D.J.) Moran will guide you step-by-step through the tenets of the ACT Model:

• Acceptanceof what we cannot control, and why it’s important!
• Cognitive defusionand looking at thoughts rather than from thoughts.
• Perspective-Takingand understanding the “Self” in ACT.
• Mindfulnessand why being here-and-now in the present is critical.
• Values, beliefs, and the importance in therapy and life.
• Committed action and integrating evidence-based therapy with ACT.

Through D.J.’s expert, insightful commentary, case studies, and video examples, you’ll develop highly practical, evidence-based skills, and learn powerful assessment tools, case conceptualization techniques, and proven clinical strategies that you can immediately apply in your practice.

“D.J. changed the way I do therapy and my patients are better for it. He has a knack for making ACT very practical and user-friendly.”
Rosemarie L. (London, UK)

MODULE 2: In-Session Demonstrations

In Module 2, Steven C. Hayes will guide youthrough the application of ACT in client therapy sessions. Throughout the module, you’ll see Hayes and other leading ACT experts demonstrate their techniques and interventions, including, Ann Bailey-Ciarrochi, JoAnne Dahl, Rainer Sonntag, Kirk Strosahl, Robyn Walser, Rikard Wicksell, and Kelly Wilson.

FACING THE STRUGGLE
Watch Steven C. Hayes use creative hopelessness, a process unique to ACT, to help a client suffering from significant social anxiety drop into his feelings and sensations and begin to more deeply engage in therapy. This segment also includes Hayes working with a young mother struggling with anxiety and depression; Ann Bailey-Ciarrochi, MA, working with a teacher with panic disorder; and JoAnne Dahl, PhD, working with a woman who suffers from chronic pain.

CONTROL AND ACCEPTANCE
ACT takes on the power of unruly thoughts and unwanted feelings! See Hayes demonstrate the principle of accepting what we cannot control, while guiding his client to accept anxiety without struggle and live in accordance with personal values. He then addresses the risk of falling too quickly into “pseudo-acceptance,” and you’ll learn to identify the signs of this pitfall through Ann Bailey-Ciarrochi’s session with the teacher struggling with panic.

COGNITIVE DEFUSION
Watch Hayes and master ACT clinician Rainer Sonntag, MD, demonstrate a variety of cognitive defusion techniques that therapists can easily integrate into practice to help their clients de-fuse and accept thoughts without struggle, enabling them to engage with life more consciously and intentionally.

MINDFULNESS, SELF, AND THE PRESENT MOMENT
See mindfulness practices and techniques in the therapy room during a session with Tony, a client in recovery from addiction, who Hayes helps slow down and connect with himself — preparing him to be more immersed in therapy. You’ll also watch ACT co-founder, Kelly Wilson, PhD, conduct a powerful piece of clinical supervision that helps a struggling ACT therapist manage her anxiety and engage more deeply with her clients.

VALUES AND ACTION
Watch Hayes guide clients to connect with deeply-held values, uncover the link to emotional pain, and create the groundwork for meaningful goals. In an intensive session with a depressed young mother, master ACT therapist Rainer Sonntag, MD, helps her define values as a parent and set goals for herself.

PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY
Tie together all the components of the ACT model for use in a variety of contexts by therapists of every orientation. You’ll see multiple demonstrations by ACT therapists and master clinicians including, ACT co-founders, Kirk Strosahl, PhD and Steven C. Hayes, PhD and Robyn Walser, PhD, as they integrate ACT processes into actual treatment scenarios with clients.

Get to Know the Experts…

Daniel J. Moran, PhD, BCBA-D, is the past-president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, the international ACT organization with over 8,000 members worldwide. He wrote the first case conceptualization manual for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy entitled ACT in Practice (New Harbinger), and served on the first ACT training committee.

As a Recognized ACT trainer in the ACBS community, Dr. Moran has an engaging training style has led him to be an invited keynote speaker for many events in the last decade. He has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Network, TLC, and The Discovery Channel discussing the treatment of many clinical disorders, and he has also published several articles and book chapters, including publications with CBT pioneer Albert Ellis and ACT pioneer Steven Hayes.

Dr. Moran founded the MidAmerican Psychological Institute and has a passion for applying ACT principles in important areas outside of the clinic, such as the boardroom or construction sites. He established Pickslyde Consulting and the Institute for Higher Performance in order to bring mindfulness and value-directed commitment skills to the workplace to improve safety, innovation, and leadership. Dr. Moran has utilized ACT in work implementations and clinical training sites on six continents and in all 50 of the United States.

Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is the co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), best-selling author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life and Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and has developed ACT as a way of correcting these processes. Hayes has been president of several scientific societies and has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

His popular book Get Out Of Your Mind and Into Your Life was featured in Time magazine among several other major media outlets, and for a time was the number one best-selling self-help book in the United States.

Steven C. Hayes speaks internationally on acceptance and mindfulness and is one of the world’s most influential and cited clinical psychologists.

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