Offering a new Extended training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)*, Functional Analytical Psychotherapy (FAP) and Relational Frame Theory (RFT), with fortnightly supervision to measure your increasing ACT-consistency. *Delivered by three ACBS peer-reviewed ACT Trainers
Our ACT training is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Trainer: Jonathan W. Kanter, Ph.D. Online Skills Training in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy for Social Connection Date: Course now running. Register your interest. Time: 6-8 pm for 12 weeks (2 batches of 6 weeks online) CPD Value: 24 hours Fee: £415
At the centre of all psychotherapies is a relationship between two people and a desire to connect at a fundamental human level. Yet for many of us, clients and therapists alike, deep connection is elusive: We are wired as human beings to be exquisitely sensitive to each other, and shame, vulnerability, and doubt keep us hiding our true selves. As therapists, we retreat into our professional training, focus on symptoms, and hide behind our expertise. The full power of the therapeutic relationship remains locked and opportunities for transformative therapeutic experiences are lost.
Whether you are engaging in CBT, ACT, DBT, or another therapeutic intervention, FAP training aims to add to your professional repertoire the following: Expertise in human connection. FAP training helps you connect with your clients in ways that create transformative moments that far exceed symptom change. For many years, FAP trainings have been primarily experiential, focusing on the truism that we are with our clients in the exquisite sensitivity of human connection and the desire to be truly seen for who we are. In these trainings, participants practice the art of social connection with each other, exchanging vulnerabilities and learning how to connect through a series of experiential exercises. The current online training is different. Over the last five years, Dr. Kanter has been developing, with the help of many colleagues, a more concrete, skills-based approach to training in FAP. The target behaviours relevant to social connection have been defined in terms of awareness, courage, and love and formulated as a functional contextual, clinical, empirically supported model that specifies the key functional processes in easy-to-understand and apply terms. Simple and concrete FAP techniques targeting these key behaviours have been articulated, and training exercises have been built around learning these skills actively, through modelling, engagement, repeated practice, and feedback.
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Jonathan W. Kanter, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dr. Jonathan Kanter is a Research Associate Professor and FAP Term Professor at the University of Washington. He has written numerous empirical and theoretical articles on FAP and provided workshops to student and professional audiences around the world. He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has edited or co-authored 5 books, including “A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism” with several other authors.