ACT Made Simple
(Introduction to ACT)

This workshop is worth 14 specialised CPD hours

This two-day workshop is your basic introduction to ACT.
After completing this intro, there’s a range of advanced training options available: both ‘in person’ workshops and online courses.
But please note: you don’t have to complete advanced training before you start using ACT.
You can start using ACT tools, techniques and strategies straight away – both on yourself and with your clients.

 

The ACT Made Simple workshop is higly experiential, and useful for therapists, counsellors, coaches and all health practitioners.
Russ calls it ‘ACT Made Simple‘ – because it covers a lot of material in a short space of time in a ‘hands-on’ practical manner.
In other words, this is not one of those trainings that’s heavy on scientific theory!
It’s a ‘jargon-free zone’ guided by three core values: simplicity, clarity, and practicality.
(And there’s also a big emphasis on having fun).
You will experience a wide variety of ACT exercises, and you will be encouraged to work with your own personal issues.
You will be compassionately and respectfully guided through these exercises in the same way as you would do them with your clients,
You will also receive extensive support materials, including eBooks on key topics, professionally-recorded audios (that you’re welcome to share with clients), handouts and worksheets, and so much more!

In this workshop, you will learn:

  • The three overarching principles of ACT, and how to use them flexibly with different clinical populations
  • Five powerful tools to develop and strengthen psychological acceptance
  • Ten powerful ways to rapidly reduce the believability of negative thoughts (without challenging them)
  • How to do mindfulness without meditation
  • How to utilise ACT with a wide variety of clinical issues or DSM disorders
  • How to effectively use interventions based on metaphor, paradox and experiential exercises
  • How to apply ACT in your own life, to handle your own stress, and find more meaning and fulfilment
  • How to foster self-compassion, in yourself and your clients
  • How to access a transcendent sense of self
  • How to fundamentally change your relationship with difficult, unwanted thoughts and feelings
  • How to help clients connect with their core values, and take committed action

You will receive:

  • Professionally-recorded audios of key mindfulness skills
  • Scripts for ACT techniques & exercises, which you can either use verbatim or adapt as desired for your clients
  • A variety of useful handouts and worksheets for use with clients
  • Lifelong access to a resource portal that is continually updated

Duration: workshops run from 9am–4pm on Day 1 and 9am-3:30pm on Day 2

Fees: Super Keen $525 – Early Bird $550 – Standard $595 – Last Minute $620 – Student Concessions apply
Prices are less for advance payment.
For cancellations: Payment will be refunded, minus a $50 administration fee
For cancellations with less than 48 hours notice: Payment will be refunded, minus a $200 admin fee

ABOUT RUSS HARRIS

Dr Russ Harris, author of the best-selling self-help book ‘The Happiness Trap‘, is an internationally-renowned trainer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). Russ’s background is in medicine. As a GP he became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, and increasingly disenchanted with writing prescriptions. Ultimately this interest led to a total career change, and he now works in two different, yet complementary roles: both as a therapist and as a coach.

Since 2005, Russ has run over 900 two-day workshops and provided ACT training for 90,000 health professionals. He has authored four ACT textbooks (ACT Made Simple, Trauma Focused ACT, Getting Unstuck in ACT, ACT Questions & Answers), and four ACT-based self-help books (The Happiness Trap, The Reality Slap, The Confidence Gap and ACT with Love). In addition, he has co-authored two other self-help books: The Weight Escape and The Happiness Trap Pocketbook. His best-known book, The Happiness Trap, has sold over one million copies worldwide, with translations into more than 30 languages.  (To download the opening chapter, click here.)

Russ has a unique model for training, which he calls ‘ACT Made Simple’, because it covers so much material in a short space of time. (In fact, he even has even written an introductory text book on ACT, titled ‘ACT Made Simple’. To download the first chapter, click here.) He proudly proclaims each workshop a ‘jargon-free zone’ – and bases his training on three core values: simplicity, clarity, and having fun. His highly-acclaimed ACT workshops are brief, powerful, cost-effective and life-enhancing. Participants regularly report not only major improvements in their therapy and/or coaching, but also in their personal lives – and evaluation forms frequently praise his ability to make complex ideas seem very simple. (For examples, go to testimonials )

WORKSHOP PRICES

Prices are less for advance payment. Hover over or click on a workshop to get the current price.
2-day workshop: 
Super Keen $525 - Early Birds $550 - Standard $595 - Last minute $620 -