ACT for Beginners

Join Russ Harris in this action packed and interactive six week course which takes you step by step through the ACT model.

About the course

Start date
20 August 2024
Time
16hrs | 6 weeks
Who this course is for
For Health & Mental Health Professionals
Accreditation
16 CE/CME

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 16 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.

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.

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.

You'll discover:

  • 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

Additional dates:

  • 8-Oct-2024

  • 26-Nov-2024

We're happy to help if you can't attend the current intake. Please contact our customer service once your enrollment is finalized, and we can enroll you in the intake of your choice.

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Course Goals

  • Get versatile with values and dance around with defusion
  • Discover five powerful tools to develop and strengthen psychological acceptance
  • Create focus, flexibility and fulfilment through contacting the present moment
  • Empower through acceptance and liberate through self-as-context
  • Ten powerful ways to rapidly reduce the believability of negative thoughts (without ever challenging them)
  • Seven surefire techniques to get to values
  • Learn the art of mindfulness without meditation and how to innovate your own mindfulness techniques
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