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All 30% deposits are refundable until 4 weeks before the training starts. After this they are non refundable.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Experiential Introduction

Trainers: Martin Wilks MSc, C.Psychol and Henry Whitfield MSc.

9-10th October (Group Experiential) + 13-14th November (Skills Training) 2010 4 day course run over 2 weekends Fee: £480 Location: The Fitzrovia Medical Centre, 31 Fitzroy Square London W1T 6EU, 4 min walk from Warren Street tube. Also walkable from Kings Cross and Euston stations.

 

Learn why the very nature of human language can cause suffering and commit to living a vital and meaningful life. Developed within a coherent theoretical and philosophical framework, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behaviour change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility means contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being, and based on what the situation affords, and changing or persisting in behaviour in the service of chosen values.

Introductory Workshop details

This workshop includes the traditional two day experiential introduction to ACT followed by a two day skills training workshop.

The first weekend has an emphasis on applying ACT to oneself in the group, the second weekend focuses on applying ACT to one on one practice, making use of a variety of ACT video demonstrations.

These two weekends are prerequisite to our intermediate ACT skills training workshop. The key concepts of ACT will be addressed, consistent with the book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change by Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, and Kelly Wilson.

The 'Six Core Processes' of ACT:

• Acceptance
• Cognitive Defusion
• Being Present
• Self as Context
• Values
• Committed action

Clinical Skills Training: (second weekend)

• Analysing videos of leading ACT therapists in action
• Participants practice the core processes of ACT in clinical work, (following live and video demonstrations of key ACT processes).
• Creative hopelessness: confronting an unworkable agenda
• Applications of ACT to specific presenting issues
• Control is the problem
• Mindfulness in ACT
• Behaviour change and willingness to change.

ACT Trainers:

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.

Henry J. Whitfield MSc (CBT/REBT) MBACP, Accredited Advanced TIR trainer and TIR practitioner (TIRA) Henry founded Mindfulness Training Ltd in 2006. His research interests include the theoretical and practical integration of mindfulness with cognitive behavioural theories, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes and in case-formulated applications of mindfulness. After 4 years as a trauma specialist for Victim Support Lambeth, Henry is now conducting empirical research for City and Hackney Mind, investigating the process of values within different approaches to trauma counselling. He also works in private pratice, and teaches widely on the subject of Mindfulness-consistent therapies.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Intermediate level Skills Training

Trainer: Martin Brock, MSc, BABCP Accredited

Weekend 1: 18-19th September 2010 Weekend 2: 16-17th October 2010 4 day course run over 2 weekends Fee: £240 per weekend for both or 280 for one weekend Location: The Fitzrovia Medical Centre, 31 Fitzroy Square London W1T 6EU, 4 min walk from Warren Street tube. Also walkable from Kings Cross and Euston stations.

Prerequisite: Introductory ACT training with skills training, or experience of applying ACT to your client work. ONLY 16 places available

Learning outcomes of this training:

• Deepen Understanding of ACT Processes.
• Develop fluency in applying ACT metaphors and exercises.
• Learn how to track on several levels at once (interpersonal and intrapersonal).
• Flexibility! in how you apply ACT.

On completion of this course you will have further developed your personal style of ACT, learnt to be more ACT consistent through personal feedback from Martin.

Intermediate level Skills Training - Part 1 (1st Weekend):

This first part Intermediate Skills Training workshop, with Martin Brock is designed for those who have completed our 4 day experiential Introduction and Skills training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), but is also open to those who have done such training elsewhere.

The workshop will include a significant experiential component. This means that participants will be invited to explore and deepen their personal willingness with some of their own psychological material, as this is considered a necessary component of becoming a competent ACT therapist.

Understanding one’s own tendencies to avoid difficult psychological experiences will be used to illuminate the way your material interacts with your clients’.

The workshop presenter will be completing rounds during experiential work to give individual feedback

Places on the course are limited to 16 so that all students have the opportunity to for individual feedback.

Intermediate level Skills Training - Part 2 (2nd Weekend):

Enhancing Case Formulations and Working With Specific Client Formulations
Learning with our own video materials.

On this final weekend of our current training programme, we invite students to bring videos of their client work and present materials you have developed for particular client groups and settings.
This training will enable new ACT therapists to deepen their ACT expertise and to gain confidence in their ability to remain ACT-consistent. The training is also designed to give students practice in applying ACT to a range of situations.

We will consider:

1. Functional Contextual Models to specific client populations e.g OCD
2. Case Formulations across a variety of Presentations
3. The Therapeutic Relationship from an ACT perspective
4. An ACT Model of Supervision

During the course the workshop presenter will be completing rounds during experiential work to give individual feedback and attendees will be given opportunity to also practice giving Supervisory – type feedback.

We may also video (only those who are willing) one on one work that is carried out during the two days. Martin can then give life feedback before the class on more and more specific applications of your individual ACT work.

If you are uncomfortable with being videoed or do not have the opportunity to video your clients, you will still find this workshop deeply informative. Only a small number of videos are needed to make the workshop a success.

After this weekend you will be also be eligible for the supervision program (only for graduates of this intermediate training as numbers are limited to 8) and the Intermediate Part 2 training. On completing these you should be well on your way becoming an experienced ACT therapist.

ACT trainer - ACBS peer-reviewed:

Martin Brock, MSc , BABCP Accredited Martin is the first UK-based ACT trainer to have completed the lengthy peer review process for ACT trainers, upheld by the ACBS. His qualifications include an MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, a Diploma in Nursing, an ENB 650/PG Diploma in Adult Behavioural Psychotherapy and an RMN. His Clinical experience has spanned over 30 years in the NHS. He has worked as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and has been a Principal Adult Psychotherapist for 11 years. In this position he has a lead role for developing Acceptance and Mindfulness Based Treatments within the Trust Psychological Services. His education experience includes teaching, supervising and assessing students within undergraduate and postgraduate provision and he has extensive experience as a clinical workplace mentor within PGDip/BSc/BA/MSc programmes. About Peer Review: The ACBS community uses a peer-review process to balance the need to protect and foster the high fidelity of ACT training with the need to keep the community open to new talented, innovative, qualified trainers. The peer-review to be listed is analogous to scientific manuscript review at a top-notch journal. Peers review the materials the trainer submits. A positive review means that peers view the trainer’s work as of the soundest quality. Real effort is made to have the decision to list a trainer on the ACBS website under the influence of the data/argument in the work rather than personal or political factors like who you know or where you trained.

Start of page Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Supervision Programme Trainer: Martin Wilks MSc, C.Psychol Date: Monthly from September 2010 Fee: £360 Format: Small groups of no more than four people per group, meet through conference call on an evening for 2hours Mastering any approach to counselling and psychotherapy requires on-going supervision and personal feedback. As a follow-on to our four-weekend ACT workshop programme we invite you to complete our ACT training programme with monthly supervision. In this way you can thoroughly consolidate your ACT knowledge and skills with regular clinical practice. Our supervision programme will include 1) Case formulation for your clients, and 2) Use of the 51 ACT competencies form to monitor progress and pin point areas of your practice to improve, and 3) Live roleplays with another group member to (which can) provide opportunities for immediate feedback on your consistency and fluency in ACT processes . 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.