Wednesday 25th  and Thursday 26th May 2022

9.30am – 4.30pm UK Time/ BST both days. CLICK HERE to convert to your local time

ONLINE WORKSHOP + recording available after

Presenter: Dr. Ray Owen

Please note: you can still access the recording for 6 weeks even if you are not able to make the live event

Many of us have found that Acceptance & Commitment Therapy approaches helpful for physical health problems. We’ve seen people’s lives improve by identifying their Values, taking committed action in support of them, making room for unpleasant feelings and not getting tangled up in difficult thoughts. And getting better at noticing what’s going on in the present moment to help make all that happen.

But what benefits are there for going deeper into the model – how might that help the people you work with? Do those trickier ideas we read about like conceptualised-self, rule-governed behaviour , functional analysis, RFT,  deictic framing actually offer anything practical?

This Intermediate-level ACT for Health workshop is for people who are already familiar with the core ACT model (values, defusion, acceptance etc) in a physical health setting but want to take their skills to the next level and dive into the more complex aspects of the model

In this 2-day didactic, experiential, and skills-building workshop, participants will learn:

• The role an altered sense of self (“I’m just not the person I used to be…”), and powerful methods to work with self-as-context can help build a new approach to loss of identity
• Tools to work emotions connected with loss of identity
• Key techniques to work with unhelpful rule-governed behaviour and develop more helpful rules and behaviour for people with altered health,
• How to use moment-by-moment functional analysis to get unstuck from content
• Methods to use perspective-taking to enhance self-compassion
• How to  work with trauma and moral injury within physical health from an ACT perspective

To make sure we focus on these areas, the workshop will assume that participants already have a good grasp of the basics of ACT, and have some experience of applying it with people who have physical health problems, as we won’t be spending time covering these.

The experiential exercises will bring us into contact with difficult thoughts and feelings – please be aware of this in deciding whether to attend.

Equipment you will need

To access this workshop you will need a stable internet connection and a set of smart phone ear buds with built in microphone. Your internet speed should be a minimum of 1.5mbs  DOWNLOAD & UPLOAD. You can check that here at www.speedtest.net

About Your Speaker

Dr Ray Owen is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Health Psychologist with over 30 years experience of working in Physical Health settings within the NHS. He has substantial experience of teaching and supervision in a wide range of contexts, both within the Health Service and on a freelance basis. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and an accredited facilitator in the national Advanced Communication Skills Programme for senior cancer practitioners. He is also an Association of Contextual Behavioural Science Peer Reviewed Trainer.

He has taught extensively on ACT in physical health contexts, and is the author of two successful self-help books published by Routledge – ‘Facing the Storm’ (2011) and ‘Living with the Enemy’ (2014), both of which were shortlisted for the BMA Popular Medicine Book of the Year Award.

Rates

Please contact us for group booking discount rates.