ACT Part 2 (of 2) (See May17-18 for Part 1)
21st - 22nd (Saturday - Sunday) June 2008
Venue: Covent Garden, London, UK
Visit: www.tir.org.uk to fill out on line application form
The telephone is +44 (0)20 73796120. Email is info@tir.org.uk.
Case Formulation: The core conception of ACT is that psychological suffering is usually caused by experiential avoidance, cognitive entanglement, and resulting psychological rigidity that leads to a failure to take needed behavioral steps in accord with core values.
As a simple way to summarize the model, you might say that ACT views the core of many problems to be FEAR:
• Fusion with your thoughts
• Evaluation of experience
• Avoidance of your experience
• Reason giving for your behavior
And the healthy alternative to be to ACT:
• Accept your reactions and be present
• Choose a valued direction
• Take action
Getting in touch with values, longings, purpose and vision
Setting goals
Identifying & Working with Obstacles, Blocks, Resistances
Applications of ACT to specific presenting issues
Outcome Research
The crucial quality of working relationship:
• Transcending and including the dialectic of 'it's painful' vs 'it's as it is'
• Working with compassion and communicating empathy
• Exercises to cultivate the above for self and others.
ACT Trainer:
Martin Wilks MSc BSc. Psychol, Dip Couns. MSc Couns Psychol, Dip Couns Psychol. BPS Chartered
Martin has cultivated a personal mindfulness practice for over 20 years. He runs mindfulness-based groups and counselling services in a London prison. In private practice, for the last 4 years, he has used ACT in short term work and weaves many ACT practices and procedures into longer term mindfulness-based psychotherapy. His research interests include the integration of meditation with co-counselling.