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.

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About the course

Start date
Starts 25 November 2025
Time
16hrs | 6 weeks
Who this course is for
For Mental Health Professionals, Health Professionals & Coaches
Accreditation
16 CE/CME

Join world-renowned ACT trainer Russ Harris as he brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to life in this interactive, online course. Russ will guide you step-by-step through the ACT model with humour and clarity, turning complex ideas into practical skills you can use in session.

Experience ACT in Action: Real Sessions and Practical Training

Prepare to experience Russ’s fun, down-to-earth teaching style, direct-to-camera, supported by delightful animations of key ACT metaphors along the way. You’ll also:

  • Watch annotated videos of real therapy sessions, 

  • Engage with audio exercises and reading materials, 

  • Join an online forum to connect with Russ Harris & other participants, 

  • Answer multi-choice quizzes that test your learning as you go, plus a whole lot more!

ACT for Beginners
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Learn ACT Your Way: Flexible, Engaging, and Packed with Resources

This action-packed, interactive course gives you complete flexibility to learn whenever it suits you, with access to a rich collection of powerful resources you simply won’t find anywhere else. Each week, 2–3 hours of new content will be released over six weeks (16 hours in total).

Plus, on top of that, you’ll have a total of 12 months 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 Harris Brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Life

Dr Russ Harris, physician, psychotherapist, and bestselling author of The Happiness Trap and ACT Made Simple, has trained over 90,000 mental health professionals worldwide.

His engaging, practical teaching style has made him the world’s best Acceptance and Commitment Therapy trainer. You’ll see how he makes complex ACT processes simple, clear, and ready to use in practice. Find out more about Russ here.

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Build Real Confidence in Using ACT

This 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.

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

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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

There are 16 CE/CME credits available for this course (see Learner Notification)

What You'll Learn

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
Course modules

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