Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Extended Supervision Programme

Trainer: Martin Wilks or Henry J. Whitfield
Frequency: Fortnightly
CPD Value: 48 hours
Fee: £1050 for whole 12 months session
Format: Small groups of no more than four people per group, meet through conference call on an evening for 2hours

 The supervision and assessment process

Our training process is designed to cover the ‘head’, ‘heart’ and ‘hands’ of ACT. We will therefore assess your practice of ACT from the perspectives of knowledge, personal experience and skills.  

Course requirements*:

• 90mins fortnightly supervision for 12 months (75% minimum attendance required). Participants present at least one recording per month.
• To present over the course of the training, 240mins of rated audio excerpts (each 20mins in length), including beginning, middle and ending phases of your ACT practice, with at least 4 clients.
• Final assessment consists of:
  1) showcasing your latest ACT work in three 20min audio recordings of beginning, middle and ends phases respectively,
  2) Answering short essay questions in a written exam, and
  3) Submitting a 2000 word journal containing insights along the path of applying ACT to yourself, as well as pivotal moments in your development as a practitioner.
  

Supervision to start after Intermediate level of ACT is completed.   

Martin Wilks MSc BSc. Psychol, Dip Couns. MSc Couns Psychol,Dip Couns Psychol. BPS Chartered

Martin has cultivated his personal mindfulness practice for over 25 years. For 17 yrs, working as both psychologist and visiting Buddhist minister, he facilitated mindfulness-based groups and counselling services in a central London prison. In private practice, since 2002 he has been developing the use of ACT in short term work and weaves many ACT & MBCT practices and procedures into longer term mindfulness-based psychotherapy. His research interests focus upon qualitative, participant inquiry methods exploring the integration of mindfulness meditation with counseling; and in developing public-sector / third sector partnership arrangements for the roll-out of 3rd wave therapies.

Henry J. Whitfield MSc, MBACP, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer.

Henry set up Mindfulness Training Ltd in 2006. His research interests include the theoretical and practical integration of mindfulness with cognitive behavioural theories, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes and in case-formulated applications of mindfulness. After 4 years as a trauma specialist for Victim Support Lambeth, Henry has since conducted empirical research for City and Hackney Mind, and SPCP Regents College, London investigating psychological process in counselling. He also works in private practice, and teaches widely on the subject of Mindfulness-consistent therapies.