Introductory ACT Experiential Workshop with Sonja Batten in Toronto
Clients frequently come to therapy with an agenda of the amelioration of symptoms: to feel less depressed, have fewer panic attacks, and have fewer cravings to use drugs and alcohol. Traditional treatment approaches are designed for exactly such a purpose: to assist in symptom reduction. But what if there were another way of approaching our clients’ difficulties in living? What if it were not the thoughts, memories, and feelings that are the problem, but instead that individuals presenting for treatment have lost touch with what is important to them — that they are not living a life in accordance with those things that they really value?
Often we find that years of disappointment, disenfranchisement, and avoidance have led our clients to make choices based on attempts to feel good, rather than on building a life that is meaningful to them.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a contemporary behaviour therapy, provides an alternative to the feel-good agenda and instead focuses on helping clients to reconnect with those ideals and principles for living that are deeply important to them. This two-day workshop will provide clinicians with the tools to work with clients in identifying each person’s valued life directions and then helping motivate behaviour change in the service of those values. Structured experiential and written exercises, along with role plays and case material, will be used to demonstrate the process of values assessment and commitment to engage in valued life activities.
You will learn —
- To conceptualize problems in living as the result of behavioural choices that individuals make that are inconsistent with their personal values
- To identify the role of avoidance in the development and maintenance of psychopathology
- To conduct a full-scale values assessment
- To recognize client barriers to identifying and acting upon values
- To lead clients in experiential exercises designed to facilitate awareness of valued life directions and motivate valued behaviour
Please note the experiential nature of this workshop. These workshops teach ACT by creating an experience of what it is like to stand in the place where we ask ACT clients to stand. The workshop will be largely experiential and may be intense at times.
More information and registration materials can be found at:
www.leadingedgeseminars.org
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