Experiential Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Bristol, UK
Bristol ACT training with Martin Wilks (3days)
Email: info@tir.org.uk to book
11-13th (Fri- Sunday) July 2008
The first weekend of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy training will be an introduction to the concept. Some main definitions of ACT will be described and also ACT as a 3rd wave development in behavioural Therapy tradition and as a contemporary re-stating of the "Four Noble Truths" in Buddhist tradition. The workshop will include developing Psychological Flexibility and a lot more:
Theoretical underpinnings:
• Functional Contextualism
• Relational Frame Theory
The 'Six Core Processes' of ACT:
• Acceptance
• Cognitive Defusion
• Being Present
• Self as Context
• Values
• Committed action
The use of Metaphor, Paradox and Experiential exercises.
The role (and practice) of Mindfulness
The importance of sequence, eg:
• Creative hopelessness" precedes "willingness"
• Values" precedes "Goal-Setting"
Preliminary DIY Case-Formulation.
Homework Suggestions between the weekends:
• The RFT online tutorial and test
• The "What I have given up (these past few weeks) on account of avoidance" exercise
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.
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