Presenter: Michael May, MA, LPCC-S
When: Friday, December 20, 2024 from 9am-5pm
Where: Mandala House, 633 Baxter Ave, Louisville, KY 40204
Description: This full-day workshop is the third and final of a series of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) workshops aimed at increasing clinicians’ flexibility and sensitivity in applying ACT. As a contextual, systemic, and transdiagnostic approach, its effectiveness hinges on the ability of the clinician to be present, connected, and responsive to their client’s unfolding behavior within the moment of the therapeutic relationships, as well as their own! This requires practice. The opportunity to allow one’s direct experience to be shaped by the specific particularities of the client with whom the clinician interacts in the moment. This workshop is aimed at providing ample opportunities to allow the proficient ACT clinician to move to fluency: creativity, spontaneity, sensitivity, and responsivity. Through structured targeted experiential exercises, as well as structured role-playing/real-playing and trainer feedback, ACT clinicians will have the opportunity to engage with commonly occurring difficult clinical presentations including: client “resistance”, lack of “motivation”, and excessive/ineffective “problem-solving.” Knowing ACT by doing ACT. Participation in this workshop assumes at least an intermediate proficiency in applying ACT as foundational basics will not be reviewed.
STUDENTS: Active Student ID required at check-in, use code ACT1STU at checkout.