Description

This workshop is a practical introduction to methods for helping clients identify and choose their values and shift into action that are drawn from Acceptane and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It provides and overview of how values and commitment processes are the change-focused complement to acceptance and mindfulness. ACT now has dozens of clinical trials supporting its effectiveness for a variety of client problems .

This workshop includes an overview of ACT theory as it applies to values/committed action as well an opportunity to discuss and apply the model. Participants will watch video of ACT sessions focused on these processes and practice some of the techniques. As ACT is an experiential approach to behavior change, the workshop will also include some experiential components.

AUDIENCE

This workshop is intended for those with little knowledge of ACT to those with an intermediate experience. Participants should have a beginning familiarity with ACT and have read at least something on ACT prior to beginning the workshop. Those coming to the workshop without any prior reading or experience will still benefit, but will probably not take away as much. This workshop is highly recommended for those who have previously attended an experiential weekend workshop, since this is more of a “how-to” workshop.

WORKSHOP LEADER

Jason Luoma is a clinical psychologist, director of the Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, and Training Center in Portland, Oregon, and a grant-funded researcher with the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the application of ACT to the alleviation of burnout in counselors, ACT as an intervention for the stigma of substance abuse, and the dissemination and training of evidence-based therapies. He also has an active clinical practice and has provided training and supervision in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy at national and international levels. He directed the first ACT Summer Training Institute and trained with Steve Hayes in Reno for 3.5 years. He has published a number of scientific articles in peer reviewed journals on ACT and is author of a book called Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that will provide part of the materials for this workshop.

If we are sold out, please email me at jbluoma@gmail.com and ask whether we have room to fit you in.

SPONSORED BY:

Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, and Training Center, PC

and

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE INSTITUTE, LLC