This is a quick metaphor that can be useful with clients who feel busy but stuck, sharing the difference between avoidance and values-based living.
This short video, presented by Joe breaks down why avoidance-driven living feels efficient in the short term but leaves us disorganised, reactive, and stuck in circles, and what it looks like to turn around and drive toward what actually matters instead.
This video is taken from our ‘Expert tips for ACT’ playlist on YouTube:
DR JOE OLIVER is the founder of Contextual Consulting, an organisation providing training, supervision and therapy in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and a consultant clinical psychologist. Joe is a peer reviewed ACBS ACT trainer and an ACBS fellow, regularly providing ACT and contextual-cognitive behavioural therapy training, both nationally and internationally. He has also written 6 books about ACT. Learn more about Joe on his presenter profile.