ACT beyond procrastination
Helping clients get things done, compassionately accept themselves and do what matters!
Unlock your client’s potential and turn procrastination into action with this dynamic workshop, led by expert trainer, Dr. Patricia Zurita Ona. Procrastination is a learned behaviour, not an inherent trait, and therefore can be managed efficiently with the right support. Effectively addressing procrastination in therapy necessitates a skilled, focused practitioner who is willing to challenge underlying behaviours. Learn the skills that help tackle avoidance, catastrophic thinking, decision-making difficulties, time management problems and black-and-white thinking and help your clients break free from the grip of procrastination.
About this workshop
In this workshop, we’ll unpack what underlies procrastination behaviours and develop expertise to help clients put new skills into action that get things done and build new patterns of workable behaviours, helping them move towards the life they want to live. We will also explore a contextual-functional perspective to gain a deeper understanding of why we procrastinate.
What you will learn
The workshop will equip you with a tool kit to effectively tackle procrastination, including:
- How to help clients develop compassionate accountability to unhook from behaviours such as reason giving and rules that drive procrastinating habits
- Using to-do- lists, time management, and schedules towards building a life worth living
- Self-compassionate skills to unhook from internal behaviours such as self-criticism, self-doubt and low-self-esteem that maintain procrastinating behaviours
- Key interventions to move clients from procrastinating habits into values-based living
- Tips to increase client’s ability to start a task and stay focused
- How to identify the 6 core psychological and behavioural processes that lead people to chronically procrastinate
- Practical strategies to compassionately respond to overwhelming emotions
- Actionable skills to develop a flexible relationship with time, goals and productivity systems
Through case vignettes, experiential exercises and role-plays, participants will learn contextual-functional interventions to tackle all types of procrastinating behaviours.
Who will benefit from this workshop?
This workshop is suitable for:
Psychologists, mental health professionals, BCBAs, counsellors, school psychologists and coaches.
Please note: this is an intermediate level workshop and we assume registrants have attended some form of introductory level training or are familiar with the ACT model by doing some background reading. We have a free on-demand introduction to ACT workshop available to help you prepare
Please contact us if you are unsure.
After this workshop you will be able to:
- Identify the 6 core psychological processes that drive procrastinating behaviours.
- Conceptualise procrastinating behaviours from a contextual-functional perspective.
- Apply self-compassion skills when dealing with self-criticism and self-doubt.
- Deliver acceptance-based interventions to deal with overwhelming emotions, problematic thoughts and difficult sensations.
- Describe psychological flexibility as a behavioural repertoire that can be shaped as the target of contextual behavioural intervention.
- Deliver contextual interventions to facilitate values-based choices.
APA psychologists: This program is sponsored by Contextual Consulting and is approved for 6 CE credits for psychologists.
Nationally certified counselors: This workshop is available for 6 credit hours. Contextual Consulting Ltd. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7578.
To find out more, including attendance requirements and how to access your certificate, go to our continuing education information page.
If you have disability and require adjustments or accommodation, please email us at admin@contextualconsulting.co.uk to discuss your needs and we will do our best to help you.
Booking cancellation
The registration fee will be refunded minus a administration charge if cancellations are received at least two weeks before the workshop date.
Cancellations within two weeks of the event date are charged the full registration fee, other than in exceptional circumstances that can be verified.
Event cancellation
In the event of cancellation of the course outside of our control we will not be held accountable for travel and/or accommodation costs incurred. However, the workshop fees will be refunded.
All workshops will be subject to minimum delegate numbers being met; in the event that a workshop should be cancelled delegates will be given no less than 2 months’ notice.
Replacing delegates
If a delegate is unable to attend and a replacement is nominated there may be a charge depending on the individual circumstances, this will be advised at the time. Please contact the us to request a replacement of delegates at least a week before the workshop date.
Contextual Consulting is committed to the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interest in the planning, promotion, delivery, and evaluation of continuing education. Potential conflicts of interest occur when an individual assumes a professional role in the planning, promotion, delivery, or evaluation of continuing education where personal, professional, legal, financial, or other interests could reasonably be expected to impair their objectivity, competence, or effectiveness.
There was no commercial support for this event. None of the planners or presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.