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ACT in New England List
Mailing #2: 4/20/08
Contents:
1. Welcome
2. ACT Trainings in New England
3. Other Trainings
4. Summer Institute in Chicago
5. Other cool ACT stuff
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1. Welcome! This is the second posting of the ACT in New
England List (if you missed the first posting, you can read it
here). The primary purpose of this list is to inform New
Englanders of upcoming ACT training opportunities in the area.
A secondary purpose is to begin cultivating the budding ACT
community here. New England is not yet a hotbed of ACT activity
but I hope that we can grow a sizable community from this tiny
seed. Regarding the future of this list: I am open to any and
all ideas. In the meantime, I do have a specific request: If
you hear about any sort of ACT training in New England, please
let me know so I can get the info up on the site and out to the
list ASAP. And if you are having a training of your own, please
let me know and I will help to create a listing for you.
Regarding the emails: I know we all get too much email these
days. These mailings will be infrequent and relatively simple.
For the time-being, I will send them in this text format to be
sure everyone can read the content. I will provide links to the
website (www.actinnewengland.com)
to the ACBS site, and other relevant sites for more detailed
info.
2. ACT Trainings in New England. There is currently one ACT
training in New England in the next few months. Elizabeth Kubik
and I (Joel Guarna), both psychologists in private practice in
Portland, will be doing a one-day training in Portland, Maine on
June 20, 2008 from 9 to 4:30. Click
HERE for details.
3. Other Trainings. These trainings are not exactly in New
England, but they are available to New Englanders.
Kevin Polk, psychologist at the VA in Togus, Maine, and his
colleague, Patt Aptaker, will be running a telephone
training series
ACT in Group Settings from April through August 2008. There
is a free introductory call on April 23. Click
HERE for details.
Russ Harris is offering an online course
on ACT called "ACT
in a Nutshell." The e-course is described as "a unique ten
week e-course for professionals, that teaches you how to deliver
ACT simply, quickly and effectively." Russ has other e-courses
scheduled for release in June and August of 2008. Click
HERE for details.
4. Summer Institute in Chicago. It is not too late to
register for the Fourth ACT Summer Institute! SI4 will be held
May 28-30, 2008 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in
Chicago. Preconference workshops for persons new to ACT up to
advanced practitioners will held the couple days prior. The
conference program and
schedule are both online. Click
HERE for additional info on the Summer Institute.
If you have not yet been to an SI, I highly recommend it. I
attended the SI in Philadelphia a couple of years ago and the
World Conference in London the year before last—both were
incredible events. There is no substitute for the intensive
exposure to ACT that you can get at one of these events.
Reminder: The full listing of ACT trainings nationwide and
worldwide is available at the
ACBS site.
5. Other cool ACT stuff.
The ACBS website continues to evolve and improve. If you are
a member, you can access pretty much every published article on
ACT and RFT, and many unpublished or hard-to-find manuscripts.
You can also review treatment protocols, exercises developed by
ACT clinicians and researchers, audio files, and even videos of
talks given at ACT trainings in conferences. All of this can be
accessed with membership. Since ACBS has implemented
values-based dues, you can access all of this for the value
of the change in your pocket (no hyperbole here).
Videos. One recent addition is a video of a talk by Yvonne
Barnes-Holmes' given at the 2nd World Conference in July 2006:
"Using RFT to Create Powerful Therapeutic Metaphors." If you
have some basic familiarity with RFT, this talk will help bridge
the RFT/ACT gap and improve your use of metaphors in-session
(btw: If you do NOT have any familiarity with RFT, try the
free online tutorial on the ACBS site). I highly recommend
it. I highly recommend it. This section also includes the
following videos:
"ACT for Stress in Organizational Settings" by Frank Bond and
Paul Flaxman
"ACT in Africa" documenting the work of Tobias Lundgren &
JoAnne Dahl using ACT with patients with epilepsy in South
Africa.
"A Contextual
Cognitive Behavioral Approach to Chronic Pain: Eleven Years of
Development & Data on Acceptance, Values, and Mindfulness" by
Lance McCracken
Other talks by Evan Forman, Jason Luoma, Steve Hayes, and
Kelly Wilson.
Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed the
update. Please send me your thoughts and feedback. Feel free
to forward this to anyone you know to be interested in ACT.
Sincerely,
Joel
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Joel Guarna, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
25 Middle St
Portland, ME 04101
207-272-8500
www.whitepinepsych.com
Email:
joel@actinmaine.com
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