Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Four Day Skills Intensive Part 2 of 2

Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Trainers: Dr. David Gillanders (Second week), ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT Trainer and Henry Whitfield MSc, ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT trainer.
Both the trainers have multiple publications in their field. See trainer profiles for full biographical details.

Dates: 15-16 Oct + 12-13 Nov 2020
4 day course
Time: Thursdays, 9:30 am for a 10:00 am start 5:00 pm
Fridays, 9:15 am for a 9:30 am start 4:30 pm
CPD Value: 28 Hours
Fee: £535
Location: Islington, London N1
Manual provided: Printed manual, included.
Prerequisite: Introductory ACT training with skills training, or experience of applying ACT to your client work.
Offers of the month:
10% discount available if you bring a friend who has not already done training with us. (£480 each)
15% discount available if you book both parts of our ACT(Part 1 and 2) together. (£455/part)
100% moneyback guarantee* if you are not 100% satisfied with the training:
(*Only applicable if you complete the training in full.)

On completion of this intermediate-advanced level course you will have:
1) a thorough experience of case-formulation and it's application to a client of yours
2) received personal feedback from David or Henry on your style of practice
3) targeted areas for improvement in your personal ACT practice
4) expanded your physicalized repertoire If you didn’t already, you should feel confident enough to call yourself an ACT therapist, after this training.

Prerequisite: Our Four day Part 1 Intensive skills training, or equivalent skills training.

Four day programme breakdown

Day 5:

Where is your ACT practice currently at? A tool for finding holes in your skill set. What would you particularly like to improve during this training process?
Examples and practice of Functional analysis in case-formulation, and ‘on the fly’ in the therapeutic relationship.
David’s latest approach to case-formulation and treatment planning
Roleplay: put your treatment plan into action (with feedback from the trainers).

Day 6:

Facing barriers to being the therapist you would like to be.
Roleplay: taking the perpective of the client you/your diad/triad partner wishes to help (with feedback from the trainers to the person practicing)
Live demonstration – applying the physicalised lifeline protocol.
Realplay practice of the Lifeline with personal feedback from the trainers.
Setting tasks to practice before the next session

Day 7(after 4 weeks break):

Report back on how ACT practice went in personal and professional contexts. Troubleshooting questions answered.
Live demonstration of working with a difficult client, tracking the trainer’s moves with cross process tracking form.
Overview of common sticking points with examples of how to respond to them.
Further roleplay practice of sticking points discussed - with feedback from the trainers.

Day 8:

Going deeper and slower in your practice of ACT.
Moving beyond the techniques to work at relational depth.
Ways to nurture powerful and containing therapeutic relationships
Practice at showing up to in session emotion with compassion

The workshop presenters will be completing rounds during experiential pair work to give individual feedback on your ACT practice (Maximum 10 students per trainer).

Dr. David Gillanders D.Clin.Psychol , ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT Trainer

Also a clinical psychologist, David first became interested in ACT in around 2004 via the Contextual CBT for Chronic Pain work of Lance McCracken. As well as working as a clinician specialising in chronic pain, David also trains clinical psychology doctoral students in ACT.

He has led a research programme in clinical health psychology, focusing on a variety of long term health conditions. This research has investigated different theoretical perspectives on psychological factors in long term conditions. This research strategy has supported thesis projects for 8 DClinPsychol students, and 3 PhD students. David has also worked on measuring cognitive defusion (a core process in ACT).

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.