Heart & Hands:
Embedding Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Into Your Practice
In collaboration with
Thu 19 – Fri 20 Sept 2024
09:30 – 16:30 (both days)
Abbey Suite, DoubleTree Hotel
by Hilton, Bath Spa
Tickets from £200*
About the event
In this workshop, we’re going to teach you how to do brief and powerful ACT-based therapy and coaching interventions, and we like to think that this training will be relevant to those working across all employment sectors.
You’ll firstly be introduced to the heart of the ACT model. Often, in eagerness, practitioners want to jump straight into the concrete tools that are available to them when using the ACT model, but from our perspective, the heart of ACT is the most important part of it, and an essential premise from which to build intervention.
Once the heart of ACT is covered, we’re going to teach you, through a useful supervision model, the hands of ACT. Specifically, we’re going to teach you how to use ACT when working with people in a one-to-one setting, via a conceptualization tool called The Matrix.
The Matrix is great at providing us, as practitioners, with a starting place; however, we need more than The Matrix to be able to work effectively with people. For example, if when using the Matrix, you work out that the person in front of you needs help with Values Clarification, then what can you do to get at that process? In other words, you’ll need to learn some concrete techniques that you can draw upon in therapeutic conversation that help you to target ACT relevant processes.
Our workshop will give you these things through psychoeducation, experiential exercises, case studies and role plays, so that as soon as you leave, you’ll be in place where you can begin to use the ACT model in your work.
Time of training
The event runs over two days;
Thursday 19th September:
9:30am – 4:30pm
Friday 20th September:
9:30am – 4:30pm
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided around 10:30 and 14:30 each day (during a 15 minutes). Tables in the lecture hall will be equipped with notepad, pens, still and sparkling water. We will aim to break for lunch around 12:15 for 45 minutes. Food is not provided.
Who’s it for?
Beginners – If you know nothing about ACT, then this workshop will be pitched at a level that will allow you to learn about the model, and to learn how to use it.
Intermediate – If you know your ACT pretty well, then this workshop will introduce you to the model in a different way, and support your therapeutic work by giving you concrete tools to take away.
Are you a Behaviour Analyst?
If you are a behaviour analyst and want to learn about ACT, then this workshop is for you! Why? Because the workshop will introduce participants to the theoretical rationale for ACT, and the major part of the rationale teaches participants about how ACT is behaviour analytical. Specifically, it assumes that context informs suffering, that avoidance is negatively reinforcing, and that to act in the presence of discomforting private events allows greater behavioural variability. In other words we can do the things that matter even when it feels hard, and doing these things increases the chances of contacting reinforcing consequences.
Available CEUs:
9 Learning CEUs and 3 Supervision CEUs
LO’s:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Describe the contextual nature of ACT, and its origins in behavioural science.
Understand how the 6 core ACT processes inspire behaviour change.
Understand how ACT is used in practice.
Apply the ACT model in their own practice.
Please make sure you enter your BCBA Certification Number when you book your tickets.
Your tutors
Dr Nic Hooper
Dr Nic Hooper is an expert in clinical psychology and a Lecturer at Cardiff University. He has authored many scientific articles, book chapters and books including The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Diary (published annually), The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Journal, The Research Journey of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, The Unbreakable Student and The Science of Children’s Wellbeing. Nic is also a co-director of Connect-Ed (which offers ACT-based workshops to those in the education sector) and Connect PSHE (which offers an ACT-based wellbeing curriculum to primary schools).
Dr Duncan Gillard
Duncan is a HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) registered Senior Educational Psychologist and an experienced ACT & DNA-V practitioner and trainer. Duncan is the co-author of the popular self-help book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Dummies and of several peer-reviewed articles on the subjects of ACT and Contextual Behavioural Science (CBS). Primarily, Duncan’s work focuses on whole-school and targeted interventions to promote and improve children’s wellbeing and resilience, as well as on the delivery of group and individually-based ACT coaching interventions to support teachers’ wellbeing and valued-living.
Natalie Savage
Natalie is CEO and Director of Rainbow Behavioural Therapies. She is a BCBA and UKBA (Cert) with a MA degree in Psychology, MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis and is currently studying for a PhD in Education. She provides consultancy, supervision, training, coaching and therapeutic support to individuals, families, schools and care organisations, as well as other professionals entering or developing within the field too. Her vision is to utilise her skills and expertise in behavioural science applications such as early intervention (EIBI/IBI), positive behavioural support (PBS), organisational behavioural management (OBM) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT); to support others in their learning, well-being and overall quality of life.
The location
The workshop will take place in the Abbey Suite at the Double Tree by Hilton in Bath City. If interested, attendees of the event can access a 15% discount on overnight stays at the hotel. Please contact us if you are interested in this.
Set on the banks of River Avon, the hotel is half a mile from Thermae Bath Spa, The Roman Baths, and great shopping. Bath Spa Railway Station is a short five-minute walk and we’re 45 minutes from Bristol Airport. Your stay begins with our chocolate chip cookie. Enjoy river and city views, indoor and outdoor dining and over 3,000 sq. ft. of event space.
Full address:
DoubleTree by Hilton Bath
Walcot Street
Bath
BA1 5BJ
United Kingdom
Ticket Prices
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General Admission
(1-4 tickets)
£250 each
Group Booking 1
(5-9 tickets)
£225 each
Group Booking 2
(10+ tickets)
£200 each
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(1 ticket)
£100 each