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ACT in New England List
Mailing #7:
February 2009
Contents:
1. Welcome
2. ACT Trainings in New England
3. Online Trainings & Distance Learning
4. New Online Content
5. Other News
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ACT in New
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www.actinnewengland.com
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1. Welcome!
This is the seventh posting of the ACT in New England List (if
you missed the previous postings, you can read them
here). I usually post this e-newsletter every two months
but have been unusually busy with various activities including:
starting a new training institute in Portland (White
Pine Institute) and, well, having a baby. Those buggers are
time-consuming (both).
The primary
purpose of this list is to inform New Englanders of upcoming ACT
training opportunities in the area. A secondary purpose is to
support the budding ACT community here. If you hear about any
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.
2. ACT
Trainings in New England. Good news! Relative to the past,
there is an abundance of ACT trainings in New England over the
next six months. Okay, so several of them are being offered by
me. Still, we are grateful that Steven Hayes will be passing
our way not once, but twice.
- March 21:
Making Bold Moves: Enhancing Your Practice with Acceptance &
Commitment Therapy. Dover, NH. Presenter: Joel Guarna,
PhD. New Hampshire Psychological Association. Level:
Introductory
- April 24:
Introduction to Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.
Worcester, MA. Presenter: Joel Guarna, PhD. White Pine
Institute. Level: Introductory
- June 5:
Mindfulness, Acceptance & Commitment: Helping Clients Get
Out of Their Minds and Into Their Lives. Greater
Hartford, CT. Presenter: Steven Hayes, PhD. University of
Connecticut, School of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry.
- June 5:
Introduction to Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.
Portland, ME. Presenters: Joel Guarna, PhD & Elizabeth
Kubik, PhD. White Pine Institute. Level: Introductory.
- June 10*:
Introduction to Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.
Burlington, VT. Presenter: Joel Guarna, PhD. White Pine
Institute. Level: Introductory. *Pending sufficient
interest—let me know!
- August
10-14.
Using ACT to Help Your Clients Get Out of Their Minds and
Into Their Lives. Cape Cod, MA. Presenter: Steven
Hayes, PhD. Cape Cod Institute.
In addition, I
expect to hold a few other Introduction to ACT workshops
around New England this summer/fall. If you have a suggestion
for a good location, drop me a note. As incentive, through the
White Pine Institute, I have developed a new trial policy of
offering free admission to the training if you act as liaison to
organize an ACT training for your organization or region.
Contact me if you have any questions about this.
Lastly, I am
developing two new ACT workshops, to be offered in late summer
or fall of 2009:
I am playing
with the idea of offering these two workshops in more
“destination” settings, e.g., a bed and breakfast location in
Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont in the fall. Let me know what
you think of this idea and if you are interested.
Remember, if
you are developing an ACT training or know someone who is,
please contact me to ensure that we announce it to the larger
community.
3. Online
Trainings & Distance Learning.
(a) Continuing
Education (CE) events: There is a developing list of online CE
offerings regarding ACT at
this page on the ACBS site.
(b) Free
teleconference on RFT & Clinical Psychology:
(From the ACT
Listserv, used by permission)
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“How is RFT Relevant to Clinical Psychology?” by J.T. Blackledge
March 26, 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST
To register:
Click this surveymonkey link to register for the free live
teleconference.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bOmVL_2bar0PO8JTw_2bDcVKJQ_3d_3d
Folks in the
ACBS training community have been thinking about (1) ways to
increase access to ACT trainers and training and (2) the fact
that newer trainers may struggle to teach RFT and functional
contextualism because they’ve not had access to models of how to
do it well. One pilot idea to address both issues is to ask
senior trainers to teach RFT and use a live teleconference
format to make it accessible. We will record and post the talk
as a podcast to the ACBS site for people who can’t make the live
teleconference. This will let us test out whether folks in the
community like learning this way and see if junior trainers find
this valuable for strengthening their own skills/delivery.
J.T. Blackledge
has generously volunteered for the trial run of this idea.
We’ll send details on how to dial-in to participate in the
teleconference closer to the date. CE credit for psychologists
may be available—Emily at ACBS is working on it. Should be
fun!
Best,
Kelly Koerner
Kelly Koerner, PhD
Creative Director
www.practiceground.org
Reminder: 2009 EBP Learning Community enrollment closes February
28!
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4. New
Online Content. There is a ton of new content on the ACBS
site. I just can’t keep up with it.
Check it out for yourself.
5.
Other News.
Emily
Rodrigues, ACBS Executive Director, recently announced that ACBS
has developed a mechanism for forming Special Interest Groups
(SIGs) and regional ACBS associations. I am a bit busy right
now, but when the dust settles, I would like to chat with some
of you about setting up a New England chapter of ACBS. If you
are interested in participating in this process, please me
know. In the meantime, you can read about this process
HERE.
ACBS recently
passed 2000 members internationally. With our
values-based dues policy, I am sure this number will
continue to climb dramatically in 2009.
The ACT in New
England e-newsletter just hit 100 recipients. Be sure to pass
it on!
I am sure you
will all be impressed to learn that I wrote and edited this
entire issue of the e-newsletter with a sleeping 3 week-old
infant on my lap. Well, I’m impressed anyway.
Sincerely,
Joel
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Joel Guarna, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
25 Middle St, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 272-8500
Email:
joel@whitepinepsych.com
Psychology Practice:
www.whitepinepsych.com
Professional Trainings:
www.whitepineinstitute.com
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