Below you’ll find many free resources for building on your workshop experience.
Please freely share all handouts, worksheets and audios with your clients.
ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE & PD HOURS
Please click here to download a blank certificate.
Please insert your name and workshop dates. The workshop is worth 14 specialised PD hours for APS members.
PDF OF POWERPOINT SLIDES
To download a PDF of the PowerPoint slides: click here
PDF OF WORKSHOP HANDOUT
To download a PDF of the workshop handout: click here
PRE-WORKSHOP READING
If you missed out on this, you can catch up here: pre-workshop_reading
ADVANCED ONLINE TRAINING
Check out my advanced-level online courses here: Psychwire.com
ACT CASE FORMULATION
If you’re not sure how to apply ACT with a given client, a specific issue, or a DSM disorder, the best place to begin is by “deconstructing’ the problem through reformulating it in terms of the ACT model. This worksheet takes you through it, step-by-step: ACT Case Formulation worksheet
The more often you do this, the better you’ll get at ACT.
ESTABLISHING BEHAVIOURAL GOALS
As we talked about in the workshop, the single most common sticking point for newbie ACT therapists is the failure to explicitly establish behavioural goals for therapy early on and up front. Here’s a breif pdf on the topic; please read it thoroughly, Click here.
SELF-COMPASSION, STEP-BY-STEP: E-BOOK
Self-compassion is a big part of ACT. This free eBook explores it step-by-step
BARRIERS TO SELF-COMPASSION
This eBook explains how to overcome coomon barriers to self-compassion
SELF-AS-CONTEXT: MAKING IT SIMPLE, CLEAR, AND RELEVANT
This is one of the trickiest parts of the ACT model to get your head round, initially.
This free e-Book will help you make sense of it and use it more effectively with your clients.
VALUES CONFLICTS
This free e-Book shows you how to handle values conflicts
‘CREATIVE HOPELESSNESS’: E-BOOK
“Creative Hopelessness’ is an important aspect of ACT.
If clients are clinging to the emotional control agenda – “I just want to stop feeling like this; I just want to feel good; I just want to get rid of these feelings” – we will need to undermine that agenda in order to progress to acceptance.
This free e-Book takes you through it step-by-step.
And you can always use the Join The DOTS worksheet to help you do this work
ANIMATIONS ON YOUTUBE
Evolution of the mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv6HkipQcfA
Choice point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV15x8LvwAQ
Struggle switch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCp1l16GCXI
Values & goals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-lRbuy4XtA
Stage Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBPPr1hsbMM
Chessboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbzSNsY8vc
AUDIO MP3 RECORDINGS: FREELY SHARE WITH YOUR CLIENTS
Dropping anchor, step by step (10 minutes) Do this first, before the two shorter practices below.
Dropping Anchor- 4 Mins
Dropping Anchor – 8 Mins
Focusing on the breath
Making Room For Emotions
Kind Hand Exercise
Watching your thoughts (the ‘leaves on a stream’ exercise)
Listening in to your thoughts
Transcendent Self (Continuous You, Observing Self) Exercise
Handouts & Worksheets: Creative Hopelessness/Join The DOTS/The Unworkability Of Avoidance
Join The DOTS
Handouts & Worksheets: Values & Goals
The Choice Point
The Bull’s Eye
Values Checklist (40 Common Values)
Goal-Setting
Values Square (Values, Goals & Actions)
Handouts & Worksheets: Dropping Anchor, Flexible Attention
Client Handout on Dropping Anchor (ACE) Includes Audio Links
Engaging, Savoring, and Focusing In Daily Life
Handouts & Worksheets: Defusion, Acceptance
Playing With Thoughts
Struggling vs opening up
Worksheet: “Twelve Key Themes”
Worksheet: “Big Six”
Worksheet: “Relationship Roadblocks”
eBook: Caveman Mind Metaphors
ACT IN REFUGEE CAMPS
Research paper published in The Lancet: Click Here
Free cartoon-based PDF: Doing What Matters In Times Of Stress
WHO website: full ACT protocol (titled Self-Help Plus), with all materials: Click here
SCRIPTS FOR EXERCISES & INTERVENTIONS
Hands As Thoughts & Pushing Away Paper
Informed Consent, Press Pause, Teamwork
Dropping Anchor
Making Room For Emotions
Mindful Eating, Drinking, Breathing & Body Scan
ADDITIONAL FREE RESOURCES: ‘EXTRA BITS’ E-BOOKS
This free eBook is an adjunct to The Happiness Trap. It’s got lots of links to free resources you can share with clients.
And this free eBook is an adjunct to ACT Made Simple. It’s also got lots of links to free resources you can share with clients, or use for your own ongoing learning.
ACT RESEARCH & EVIDENCE BASE
You can find all the ACT research & evidence base on this website: contextualscience.org/state_act_evidence
ACBS: THE ‘MOTHERSHIP’ ORGANISATION FOR ACT & RFT
ACBS (Association for Contextual Behavioral Science) is the mothership organization for both ACT and RFT.
If you’re interested in joining ACT and RFT communities around the world,
Plus access to a wide range of rsearch papers, articles, protocols, and clinical resources
And much, much more … then join the ACBS
Membership operates on a system called VOLUNTARY DUES, which means you pay whatever you think it’s worth.
Go to: contextualscience.org