ACT with Compassion: Using ACT and Affective Science to Deepen Your Work with Clients Stuck in Self-Criticism and Shame with Jason Luoma, PhD and senior ACT trainer

ACT with Compassion: Using ACT and Affective Science to Deepen Your Work with Clients Stuck in Self-Criticism and Shame with Jason Luoma, PhD and senior ACT trainer

ACT with Compassion: Using ACT and Affective Science to Deepen Your Work with Clients Stuck in Self-Criticism and Shame

with Jason Luoma, PhD and senior ACT trainer

Persistent self-criticism and shame are often central for our most chronic, interpersonally difficult, and stuck clients. These emotional responses have been shown to play an important role in a variety of psychological problems, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, schizophrenia, substance addiction, and others. Self-criticism is a transdiagnostic process that, if targeted successfully, can improve outcomes across a range of mental health difficulties. Only recently have interventions for shame and self-criticism begun to receive scientific scrutiny and demonstrate evidence for their effectiveness. One such intervention is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

This workshop will incorporate research from affective science that shows how shame and other social emotions are central in regulating our interpersonal interactions. Of all the social emotions, shame is probably the most powerful and painful. Shame can involve extremely painful feelings and thoughts of feeling broken, inferior, abnormal, disgusting, or irredeemably damaged. When we feel ashamed, we also feel disconnected from others and our sense of belongingness is ruptured. A central goal of the treatment of shame is to help clients move from a sense of isolation and separateness to a sense of connection and belonging.

This functional evolutionary perspective on shame and social is used to inform how ACT is implemented to uniquely target problems of shame and chronic self-criticism. A particular focus of this workshop is on the ACT theory of self and its centrality in working with shame, self-criticism, and the development of self-compassion. The idea of the conceptualized self and conceptualized other will be used to organize how to use compassion-focused interventions within an ACT model. The workshop will move from theoretical, to experiential, to practical application, exploring how ideas such as self as context and flexible perspective taking can have very practical applications in helping clients develop newer and more flexible ways of relating to themselves based on values of self-compassion, kindness, and caring.

Participants will have the opportunity to observe and experience a variety of defusion, acceptance, mindfulness, and perspective-taking interventions designed to target shame and self-criticism. Participants will also spend some time interacting with their own shame and self-criticism so as to gain a greater experiential understanding about how to work with these experiences. They will also engage in experiential practice in small groups using ACT processes as applied to shame and self-criticism. Guidance on how to sequence ACT interventions when specifically targeting these difficulties will be provided. Participants will also receive instruction on specific measures useful in identifying and tracking shame and self-criticism and guidance on how these measures can be used as therapeutic tools. Attendees can expect to walk away with an increased experiential and practical understanding of how to use acceptance, mindfulness, perspective-taking, and values interventions with clients suffering from chronic shame and self-criticism.

Learning Objectives:
The attendee will be able to:
1) Understand a functional and evolutionary account of shame and self-criticism
2) Formulate problems with shame in terms of ACT and affective science
3) Identify ways in which they can work with shame in the present moment with clients
4) Explain how to sequence ACT interventions for chronic shame and self-criticism
5) Detect shame through nonverbal cues more easily
6) Gain better facility with defusion in treating clients with self-critical thoughts
7) Describe how to adapt ACT processes for use with highly self-critical and shame-prone clients
8) Describe how compassion-focused interventions fit inside an ACT model
9) Use theory around flexible perspective taking to guide the implementation of compassion focused interventions
10) Develop a basic understanding of the use of chair work in an ACT approach to shame and self-criticism

TRAINER*: Jason Luoma, Ph.D. is Director of Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, and Training Center in Portland, OR where he also maintains a small clinical practice. Jason is an internationally recognized trainer in ACT, former chair of the ACT training committee, and past president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. He is also an author of Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a book popular with professionals for its mixture of sophistication and accessibility. He has conducted research on interventions for shame and stigma for over a decade and recently published the first randomized trial of an ACT approach to shame in addiction at the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. His work on shame and compassion can be read at www.actwithcompassion.com.

LANGUAGE: English
FOR WHOM: 
This workshop is for psychologists and psychotherapists.
LEVEL: Intermediate, that means that you already work with ACT or that you have participated into ACT I workshop (please contact Graciela for more information)
HOW BIG IS THE GROUP? This is an exclusive training and the group will be small (that means that there are not many spots left!)
WHERE: In Gothenburg, Sweden (more information below)
WHEN: 8 and 9 September 2017 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
PRICE WORKSHOP: 6200 SEK excl taxes
INCLUDED:
 some snacks for the coffee pauses, course material, and certification of attendance
NOT INCLUDED: lunch. Organic and vegetarian lunch (with or without fish) can be ordered for 150 SEK.
ACCOMMODATION: The venue is in a residential area of Gothenburg, by the woods and totally silent. IT can accommodate 6 guests (two in a loft and 4 to 6 in a big room). Acces to sauna and shower and several WC. There is a kitchen with all needed for breakfast (self-help and cleaning after). PRICE ACCOMODATION PER NIGHT: 650SEK, inclusive breakfast 700SEK and with light dinner 800SEK.


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*All our trainers are ACBS peer reviewd trainers, which is a quality certification for teaching and developing ACT

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ACT with Self-Care, the inaugural workshop by Prof Kelly Wilson, Gothenburg- SWEDEN

ACT with Self-Care, the inaugural workshop by Prof Kelly Wilson, Gothenburg- SWEDEN

June 16, 2017 June 17, 2017 UTC+1

ACT with Self-Care, the inaugural workshop by Prof Kelly Wilson 16-17 June 2017

Self-Care is often last on the list. But think twice, is there any of your important values that can be vitally performed without you being vital and full functioning? Who is nourishing that process of vitality, if not you? Self-Care and Self-compassion are found to be central to our well-being and health.

In this inspirational and exclusive workshop (we be a small group of max 30 people), we will learn through direct experience how powerful acts of self-care & self-compassion can enrich and empower all areas of valued living.This workshop will provide two days focused on values work in ACT. ACT is an integrated model, so our work together will necessarily touch upon other components of the model. However, the workshop will show how other components facilitate valued living. ACT principles will guide participants in new interventions, worksheets & interviews that can be used in any human services environment, including mental health clinics, but also, medical settings, workplaces, schools & community centers.

The workshop will be densely experiential & will focus on a set of tools & skills that participants will be prepared to use immediately following the workshop. This is a workshop not only for psychologists but for all health care professions. This work is directly relevant to physicians, nurses, dietician, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and other health care providers. You are very welcome to bring a colleague new to ACT. It will be accessible for all!

LANGUAGE: English FOR WHOM: This workshop is for all health care professionals: medical doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, psychologists, social workers and dietists.  LEVEL: It is good if you have a basic idea about ACT. However this workshop is tailored for all levels of ACT knowledge and skills. HOW BIG IS THE GROUP? This is an exclusive training and the group will be small (that means that there are not many spots left!) WHERE: In Gothenburg, Sweden (more information below) WHEN: 16 and 17 June 2017,  from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm PRICE WORKSHOP: 6200 SEK excl taxes (with taxes 7750 SEK) REIGSTRATION: please register in our registration form (see the top of this page) INCLUDED: some snacks for the coffee pauses, course material, and certification of attendance NOT INCLUDED: lunch. Organic and vegetarian lunch (with or without fish) can be ordered for 150 SEK (taxes are not included). ACCOMMODATION: The venue is in a residential area of Gothenburg, by the woods and totally silent. IT can accommodate 6 guests (two in a loft and 4 to 6 in a big room). Acces to sauna and shower and several WC. There is a kitchen with all needed for breakfast (self-help and cleaning after). PRICE ACCOMODATION PER NIGHT: 650SEK for one night, 700 SEK one night and breakfast  (taxes are not included). PAYMENT: Swedish attendees:                                              betala med Swish 0709 743777 bankgiro 5125-7608 faktura (faktura avgift 100kr) From abroad,  you may request an invoice and then tranfer the fees through the bank (no check accepted!) and you can pay by pay-pal (the cost of the transation are at your charge)
Workshop with or without accommodation, choose:
HOTELS in the area: DOCKYARD Hotel, Hotel WATERFRONT Göteborg, Hotell Kusten *All our trainers are ACBS peer reviewd trainers, which is a quality certification for teaching and developing ACT

Details

Start:
June 16, 2017
End:
June 17, 2017
Cost:
6200SEK+MOMS
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ACT Institutet Sweden
Phone
+46 709 743777
Email
act@graciela.se
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ACT INSTITUTET SWEDEN

Trälåsvägen 13 A, 1 floor
Gothenburg, 42668 Sverige
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Steve Hayes, Skills Training, Intermediate level- Stockholm

Professor Steve Hayes, ACT grounder

Professor Steve Hayes, ACT grounder

Do not miss the amazing experience to be trained by ‘the master’. This is a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity! This workshop is only for psychotherapists that already are working with ACT!

This workshop is a intensive two full days that designed to support clinical-skills building ACT and relational frame theory (RFT) for you that have strong grounds in ACT and RFT. This training presents ACT theoretical and practical information at an intermediate level. Participants should have had formal training in ACT and should be reasonably familiar with mid-level ACT terms, specifically the six core ACT processes in theory and practice (min 3 years of clinical practice with ACT).

Components:  Conceptual analysis, Experiential exercises, Didactic presentation, Case presentation, Role play

Download program (pdf)

Steve Hayes, ACT Skills Training, Intermediate level- Stockholm

Professor Steve Hayes, ACT grounder

Professor Steve Hayes, ACT grounder

Do not miss the amazing experience to be trained by ‘the master’. This is a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity! This workshop is only for psychotherapists that already are working with ACT!

This workshop is a intensive two full days that designed to support clinical-skills building ACT and relational frame theory (RFT) for you that have strong grounds in ACT and RFT. This training presents ACT theoretical and practical information at an intermediate level. Participants should have had formal training in ACT and should be reasonably familiar with mid-level ACT terms, specifically the six core ACT processes in theory and practice (min 3 years of clinical practice with ACT).

Components:  Conceptual analysis, Experiential exercises, Didactic presentation, Case presentation, Role play

Download program (pdf)