WORKSHOP FULL: Personal Willingness and Compassion: Advanced Workshop in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Robyn Walser

Robyn WalserRobyn WalserPersonal Willingness and Compassion: Advanced Workshop in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Workshop Leader: Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D., TL Consultation Services

Dates & Location: June 29 & 30, 2009, 9:00am - 5:00/5:30pm at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).

Workshop Description:
This workshop will focus more specifically on improving your personal skills in the delivery of ACT and will be largely experiential in nature. The ACT approach holds that clinicians must be willing to apply ACT in their own lives in order to deliver the therapy effectively – in this workshop we will be exploring barriers to this process while promoting personal acceptance and behavior change as it applies to the therapeutic relationship and personal values. We will focus on a variety of experiential exercises that will address subtle issues of control and will invite openness to experience. Opportunity to role-play difficult clients, address sticking points, and work on personal therapeutic challenges will be provided. Main areas of experiential focus will be on forgiveness, compassion, improving patience, and taking bold, ethical steps in life and the therapeutic relationship. The occasion for personal feedback on your ACT work will be available. In addition, we will engage in a number of mindfulness practices designed to promote personal skill in awareness. And finally, we will have a bit of fun too!

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn the how to apply the core competencies of the ACT therapeutic stance.
2. Learn how to use ACT in working with difficult barriers, challenges and sticking points from both the client and therapist perspective.
3. Develop personal skill in willingness and awareness.

Target Audience: Advanced.