INTENSIVE ONLINE TRAINING ON VALUES

Fostering Meaning and Motivation with ACT and RFT principles

October 1st & 8th 2024 from 9am to 1pm (US Pacific Time) on Zoom

The sessions will be recorded and accessible to participants attending at least one session.

All clients come to therapy because they want something to change. Often, however, they are so focused on eliminating painful feelings, thoughts, or sensations, that they don’t know what they want their lives to be about beyond not having these experiences. In some cases, clients are too focused on specific outcomes or social approval to find a sense of purpose and freedom. Sometimes, clients have even lost all sense of purpose, and as a result, they can’t find meaningful satisfaction anymore. There are many methods that help clients manage painful feelings and engage in effective actions, but without a meaningful life direction, these strategies can lack vitality, and behavioral changes don’t sustain. For this reason, helping clients foster a deeper sense of meaning in their lives is key to the therapeutic process, which can be done through values work.

In this training based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Relational Frame Theory (RFT), you will learn to help clients explore, clarify, and build their own values, and identify actions directed toward these values. You will learn techniques step-by-step through short practical didactics, video demonstrations of in-session interactions (including formal exercises and natural conversations), and practical exercises.

In practice, you will learn to:

• Help your clients clarify and build values
• Help your clients identify broad patterns of valued actions
• Increase your clients’ motivation to engage in valued actions
• Increase your clients’ satisfaction as they engage in valued actions and reflect on what they accomplished.
• Apply these techniques through formal exercises and through natural conversations.

The structure of the training is intended to build clinical competence, not just knowledge. Didactic presentations will be pragmatic and opportunities for practice and feedback will be emphasized. Learning activities will include video demonstration and analysis, behavioral rehearsal of micro-skills, guided self-assessment, and planning for continued improvement. This training is appropriate for healthcare providers at all levels of expertise and working with any population in any treatment setting.

Fees: US$200/ $100 for low & middle income countries (see the list of countries here)

Registration: contact matthieu.villatte@gmail.com