Useful Links & Other Training

Information on ACT & RFT

ACT Website: To visit the official website for Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, click here

RFT Website: To visit the official website for Relational Frame Theory: click here

RFT Tutorial: To connect to Eric Fox's easy-to-understand (and totally free) online tutorial on Relational Frame Theory - a sort of "RFT for Dummies", click here

ACT TRAINERS IN AUSTRALIA

The official organization worldwide for ACT and RFT is known as ACBS: Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. The ACBS website maintains a list of ACT trainers around the world that have met the following criteria: "Peers view this person as able to train ACT accurately, fully conveying the model both didactically and experientially, when evaluated against criteria defined by ACBS." ACBS has deliberately moved away from the training policies of most other therapy models - such as giving people special licenses or accreditations, or fancy titles. When you are included on the ACBS list, it means: a) you are part of a group within the ACT/RFT community who've committed to helping train others to the highest fidelity with the ACT model; b) you've agreed to work from a shared set of values, including peer-review as a way to shape/grow competency as a trainer.

Currently there are only 3 Australian ACT trainers on this list: Joseph Ciarrochi, Russ Harris, and Graham Taylor.
However, there are several other Australian practitioners that I know of who are running ACT training. These include Michael Cohn, Bernard Parker, Judy Pickard, Robert Purssey, Julian McNally, Dung Nguyen, and Mary Sawyer. Below I have provided some links.

ACT TRAINERS ON THE ACBS LIST

Joe Ciarrochi is based in Wollongong. To contact him, email joec@uow.edu.au

Russ Harris: Contact us

Graham Taylor is based in Perth. To visit his website, click here

OTHER ACT TRAINERS

Julian McNally is based in Melbourne. To visit his website click here .

Dung Nguyen is based in Adelaide. Email: dung@bigpond.net.au

Bernard Parker is based in Canberra. Email: bernardparker@velocitynet.com.au

Judy Pickard is based in Wollongong. Email: alivepsych@bigpond.com

Robert Purssey is based in Brisbane. Email: rpurssey@bigpond.net.au

Mary Sawyer is based in Sydney. To visit her website, click here

Useful Websites for Information on Mindfulness

mindfulness.org.au : run by Melbourne psychiatrist, Dr Chris Walsh

University of Massachusetts Centre for Mindfulness

David Fresco

Mind & Life Institute : a research partnership between modern science & Buddhism