(HS Hayes 150439 2025) An ACT Sampler

Course overview

How can therapists facilitate real change in a more humanistic and client-centered way? This dilemma is the cornerstone of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which begins with a simple question: how can we help our clients be more open, aware, and actively engaged in building a meaningful life? Once we've helped clients answer this question, they can extend those gains to their relationships, their body, and even the wider culture. Backed by over 1,400 randomized trials and drawing from healing approaches from all over the world, ACT is uniquely suited to helping clients face today's biggest challenges--not just personal problems surrounding diet, sleep, exercise, and physical diseases, but also social concerns, like how to be a better parent, how to grapple with prejudice, and how to become a kinder human being. In this experiential workshop, you'll learn every major part of the ACT model. You'll also learn: Why today's popular diagnostic frameworks are deeply flawed, and a more inclusive approach to diagnosis What ACT looks like in practice, through exercises you can use alone or with clients How to make the body more central in your interventions How to help clients take action based on what matters most to them