ACT for Beginners

The entire course has been carefully designed with our professional learners in mind, to ensure that you gain a comprehensive and practical grounding in the theory of ACT, which you can immediately put into practice with your clients or patients.

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This action-packed and interactive 6-week course allows you total flexibility to learn whenever it suits you and access a whole range of powerful resources that simply aren’t available anywhere else. Between 2 to 3 hours of new content will be released, week-by-week, over a 6-week period (16 hours in total). Plus, on top of that, you’ll have an extra 4 weeks of access to the whole course, so you can watch all your favourite videos again (and if you’ve fallen behind due to sickness, or taking a vacation, or work commitments etc, this will give you plenty of time to catch up again).

Russ will take you step-by-step through the entire ACT model in a way that is both engaging and entertaining. Prepare to experience his unique and engaging teaching style direct-to-camera, supported by delightful animations of key ACT metaphors along the way.

You’ll watch annotated videos of real therapy sessions, engage with audio exercises and reading materials, participate in online forums with other participants, answer multi-choice quizzes that test your learning as you go plus a whole lot more.

There are 16 CE/CME hours available. Prior to registering, please visit this page to review CE/CME details, course objectives, speaker/planner conflict of interest disclosure and more.

In this dynamic, fun and energising 6-week journey you’ll learn how to use the six core principles of ACT, and how to adapt them to different clinical populations.

You’ll learn to:

Get versatile with values
Dance around with defusion
Empower through acceptance
Catalyse with commitment
Liberate through self-as-context
Create focus, flexibility and fulfilment through contacting the present moment

You’ll also discover:

Five powerful tools to develop and strengthen psychological acceptance
Ten powerful ways to rapidly reduce the believability of negative thoughts (without ever challenging them)
Seven surefire techniques to get to values
The art of mindfulness without meditation
How to innovate your own mindfulness techniques

As well as:

How to get experiential in session
How to effectively utilise ACT in a wide variety of clinical problems
The power of metaphor and paradox
Novel alternatives to the ‘traditional’ ACT metaphors
How to apply ACT in your own life, to create a sense of vitality, meaning and fulfilment

Not to mention:

How to use ACT to help you cope with the stresses of difficult clients
How to access and experience a transcendent sense of self
How to fundamentally change your relationship with unwanted thoughts and feelings
How to help clients connect with their core values, set goals, and take committed action
How to ‘dance’ between ACT processes in session

And just for good measure:

How to make psycho-education quick, simple and fun
How to use artwork and technology for defusion, acceptance & values
Common client misunderstandings and how to correct them
Common client barriers to change, and how to dissolve them

Course Modules

Week 1: Opening ACT – What’s It All About?

Overview: The aims and origins of ACT
The core processes & principles of ACT
The therapeutic relationship
Explaining ACT simply to clients
Setting up sessions for success
Establishing therapy goals
First steps in therapy

Week 2: Drop The Struggle

Why pain is inevitable for all humans
Why we all try to avoid/escape pain, and what this cost us
Helping clients to drop the struggle with pain: to stop fighting and fleeing it
Mindfulness without meditation
Grounding and centering (“dropping anchor”)
Contacting the present moment: focusing and engaging

Week 3: Watch Your Thinking – The Art & Science of Cognitive Defusion

Cognitive defusion: How to reduce the impact and influence of difficult thoughts, beliefs, images & memories, without ever challenging or disputing them
The 3 Ns of cognitive defusion: Noticing, Naming & Neutralising
Creativity and playfulness in defusion

Week 4: Do What Matters – Values and Committed Action