Digital Seminar
An ACT Sampler
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- Faculty:
- Steven C. Hayes, PhD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Oct 09, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150439
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
How can therapists facilitate real change in a more humanistic and client-centered way? This dilemma is the cornerstone of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which begins with a simple question: how can we help our clients be more open, aware, and actively engaged in building a meaningful life? Once we’ve helped clients answer this question, they can extend those gains to their relationships, their body, and even the wider culture. Backed by over 1,400 randomized trials and drawing from healing approaches from all over the world, ACT is uniquely suited to helping clients face today’s biggest challenges—not just personal problems surrounding diet, sleep, exercise, and physical diseases, but also social concerns, like how to be a better parent, how to grapple with prejudice, and how to become a kinder human being. In this experiential workshop, you’ll learn every major part of the ACT model. You’ll also learn:
- Why today’s popular diagnostic frameworks are deeply flawed, and a more inclusive approach to diagnosis
- What ACT looks like in practice, through exercises you can use alone or with clients
- How to make the body more central in your interventions
- How to help clients take action based on what matters most to them
Credit
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - An ACT Sampler (8.5 MB) | 111 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - An ACT Sampler (160.9 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - An ACT Sampler - French (8.5 MB) | 111 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - An ACT Sampler - French (160.9 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - An ACT Sampler - Italian (8.5 MB) | 111 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - An ACT Sampler - Italian (160.9 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - An ACT Sampler - German (8.5 MB) | 111 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - An ACT Sampler - German (160.9 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - An ACT Sampler - Spanish (8.5 MB) | 111 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - An ACT Sampler - Spanish (160.9 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Steven C. Hayes, PhD Related seminars and products
Dr. Steven C. Hayes is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and president of the Institute for Better Health, a 45-year-old charitable organization dedicated to better mental and behavioral health.
His work has been focused on developing a new behavioral science approach called Contextual Behavioral Science. He originated its underlying philosophical of science (Functional Contextualism), its basic science of human higher cognition (Relational Frame Theory or “RFT”), its application to individual psychological change (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or Training, “ACT” in either case), and co-developed its application to the development of more cooperative groups (Prosocial). He has helped develop a model of human suffering and human prosperity (the Psychological Flexibility Model), a new method of analyzing processes of change (idionomic analysis), a new vision of what evidence-based intervention should be (Process-Based Therapy), and he has extended multidimensional and multilevel evolutionary thinking to human problems of all kinds.
His work has been celebrated with several awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Impact of Science on Application Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis.
With 47 books and nearly 700 scientific articles published, Dr. Hayes is one of the most cited psychologists in the world as he continues to innovate in the field of psychology.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Steven Hayes has an employment relationship with the University of Nevada. He is the President of the Institute for Better Health and the research director at Praxis Continuing Education and Training. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee for MIND Foundation and receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Hayes has a financial relationship with PsychFlex. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Steven Hayes serves on the policy making council for Universal Scientific Education and Research Network. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the Association for Behavioral Analysis International.
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Objectives
- Identify the core psychological flexibility processes of the ACT model and how they interrelate.
- Demonstrate at least three experiential exercises that target different flexibility processes in clinical sessions.
- Demonstrate strategies for integrating psychological flexibility exercises into ongoing therapeutic work.
Outline
Define psychological flexibility and its importance in modern clinical practice
Experiential Practice: Applying Flexibility Exercises
Strategies for integrating psychological flexibility exercises into ongoing therapeutic work
Risks and limitations of the research
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
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