Clinical Skills Training - How to interweave the core ACT processes

Trainer: Martin Wilks MSc, C.Psychol, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer
11-12 July (Clinical Skills Training)
2 day course
Time: 9.30 am for a 10:00am start – 5:00pm
CPD Value: 14 hours
Fee: £265
Location: 45 White Lion Street, London, N1 9PW (2 mins Angel tube; 10mins Kings Cross).
Suitable for: People new to ACT, but also interesting to people with prior experience of ACT.

The six core ACT processes or rarely applied in isolation. In this training weekend we examine and practice how the different ACT processes can interweave, or flow from one process to the other. We look at what 'couplings' of ACT processes compliment each other well. Apparent pivotal moments in ACT clinical work can often happen when more than one ACT process has traction with the client. In this training you will experience multiple ways of interconnecting the ACT processes.

This skills training workshop will also inform your practice with live demonstrations and a variety of video demonstrations, showcasing a range of ACT therapist styles.

This two day training is 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.

• 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.
• Core processes that 'couple' well to bring simultaneous traction with more that one process.

Martin Wilks Chartered Psychologist, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer, BPS , AFBPsS , BSc. Psychol (hons), Dip PC Couns. MSc Couns Psychol, Dip Couns Psychol.

Martin has cultivated his personal mindfulness practice for over 25 years. For 17 yrs, working as both psychologist and visiting Buddhist minister, he facilitated mindfulness-based groups and counselling services in a central London prison. In private practice, since 2002 he has been developing the use of ACT in short term work and weaves many ACT & MBCT practices and procedures into longer term mindfulness-based psychotherapy. His research interests focus upon qualitative, participant inquiry methods exploring the integration of mindfulness meditation with counseling.