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Saturday, May 02, 2009 from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (PT)
This workshop utilizes the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help attendees contact a transcendant sense of self that can help them move beyond limiting conceptions of self and other. This is an experiential training workshop where therapists learn ACT methods and concepts through applying them to themselves. The workshop will describe the ACT theory of self and lead participants through a series of exercises which will help them to distinguish between the content of consciousness versus consciousness itself -- what ACT calls the self as context versus the self as content. Opportunities to discuss how this model could be applied to work with clients will also be provided.
AUDIENCE
This workshop is intended for those with little knowledge of ACT to those with
intermediate experience. Those experienced with mindfulness might benefit from
new practices based on ACT. Some previous familiarity with ACT would likely to
helpful for this workshop, but those completely new to ACT but interested in
issues of self, intimacy, the other, mindfulness, or perspective taking may all
find something of value in this workshop.
CE CREDITS
Evidence-Based Practice Institute, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Evidence-Based Practice Institute, LLC, maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending this training, participants will be able to:
1) Discuss the conceptual relevance of present moment and self as context processes to ACT.
2) Describe how to help clients make contact with the present moment and self as context.
3) Learn at least two new techniques to help clients contact a an observer self
4) More effectively make contact with these experiences and utilize them in their own practice.
WORKSHOP LEADERS
Jason Luoma, Ph.D., is director of the Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, & TrainingCenter, in Portland, OR. His research focuses on the application of ACT to the alleviation of burnout in counselors, ACT as an intervention for stigma and shame relating to addiction, and the dissemination and training of evidence-based therapies. He 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 Steven Hayes in Reno for 3.5 years. He has published a number of scientific articles in peer reviewed journals on ACT and has authored a book called Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Chad Drake, Ph.D., is a resident psychologist at the Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, & Training Center in Portland, OR. A student of ACT for the past 7 years, he has been an active researcher of ACT and Relational Frame Theory, presenting his work at national and international conferences. Much of his clinical experience has involved conducting ACT groups for PTSD, psychosis, and depression. He received graduate training with Kelly Wilson at the University of Mississippi. During internship he worked with Kevin Polk and Jerold Hambright at the VA Medical Center in Togus, Maine.
WORKSHOP LOCATION
If you are coming from downtown/the west side of Portland: Take the Broadway bridge. Continue onto Weidler St. Take a left on NE Grand. Get in the right lane as you cross over NE Broadway. After one block the road will bear to the left. You want to stay in the right lane and go straight ahead. The clinic is on the right. The building with sign should be on your right. You can park anywhere in the area. and go in the front entrance.
If you are coming from I-5 southbound from North Portland/Vancouver: Take exit #302A onto N. Vancouver Ave. Take an immediate left onto Weidler St. Take a left on NE Grand. Get in the right lane as you cross over NE Broadway. After one block the road will bear to the left. You want to stay in the right lane and go straight ahead. The clinic is on the right. The building with sign should be on your right. You can park anywhere in the area. and go in the front entrance.
If you are coming from I-5 northbound: Take exit #302A towards Rose Quarter/Broadway. Take an immediate right onto Weidler St. Take a left on NE Grand. Get in the right lane as you cross over NE Broadway. After one block the road will bear to the left. You want to stay in the right lane and go straight ahead. The clinic is on the right. The building with sign should be on your right. You can park anywhere in the area. and go in the front entrance.
The Portland Psychotherapy Clinic provides psychotherapy services, does research on psychotherapy and dissemination, and provides training for professionals in evidence based psychotherapy approaches.
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