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)
with Louise McHugh PhD, Lead author of Amazon’s Psychotherapy Division best seller ‘The Contextual Behavioural Guide to the Self’. Dates: 26-27 March 2020 Time: 9:30am for a 10:00am start to 5:00pm CPD Value: 14 hours Fee: £275 Price shown is Early bird discount expiring 28th Feb 2020 (including 10% discount, only 5 seats remaining with discount Location: Islington, London N1 Entry Requirment: This training does not require prior academic knowledge or accreditation to a particular body. We expect you to have a professional context in which facilitating behaviour change is a focus. This can be in a mental health or work/business setting.
Did you ever feel it wasn’t OK to be you, just as you are? Do you often see yourself in a particular light, whether positive or negative? The most important relationship any individual has is with themselves as it underlie all others. Any wounds or fixed ways of seeing yourself will hinder your relationships with others. A healthy flexible self is almost universally seen as a prerequisite for sound mental functioning.
When we do this work, one key aim is to help the client to be at peace with themselves, and let go of rigid ideas of who they are. In this workshop you will learn the latest from Louise on how we get caught up in our ‘selves’ and practices for disentangling ourselves from such behaviour. Louise will introduce how Relational Frame Theory informs therapeutic techniques to foster self variability, flexibility, stability, functional coherence and an ongoing sense of responsibility.
We will help you to address self-concept issues by fostering:
1. Variability in the process of awareness
Dr Louise McHugh BSc MA PhD
Louise's research interests are centered on the experimental analysis of language and cognition from a behaviour analytic and Relational Frame Theory perspective, including especially the development of complex cognitive skills such as as perspective-taking and the process-level investigation of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She has published over 60 papers on these topics and has received funding from several sources including the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Waterloo Trust and the Welsh Assembly. Most recently she was awarded a European Marie Curie career integration award to join the faculty at UCD.
A faculty member at University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, Louise McHugh is not only a world authority on RFT (Relational Frame Theory – the theory of language and cognition that underlies ACT) but also a dynamic and entertaining presenter. Louise is editor and co-author of the newly published textbook ‘The Self And Perspective Taking’, and her ground-breaking work in the use of RFT to help autistic children develop theory of mind and empathy is now being employed by state-of-the-art ABA programs around the world.