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ACT in New England List
Mailing #8:
April 2009
Contents:
1. Welcome
2. ACT Trainings in New England
3. ACBS Cosponsorship Update
4. New Online Content
5. ACT Interest Groups and Peer Consultation Groups Forming!
6. Attached: Flyer
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www.contextualpsychology.org
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1. Welcome!
This is the eighth 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
recently so have been a bit off my usual pace.
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! In contrast to the
relentlessly bleak economic climate, this is the year of
abundance in terms of ACT trainings in New England. Steven
Hayes will be passing our way not once, but twice (Connecticut
in June, Cape Cod in August). Joanne Dahl will be in
Waterville, ME (details pending) in June and Robyn Walser will
have a short presentation at USM in Portland in July. I will be
all over New England (at least: Worcester, Portland, Burlington,
and Bar Harbor) and Elizabeth Kubik will be joining me to
present in Portland. Details below:
- 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.
- June 10:
The Use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when
approaching “Dug in” chronic pain: A new direction.
Presenter: Joanne Dahl, PhD. Colby College, Waterville,
ME. Joanne Dahl, PhD, will be the keynote speaker and a
workshop leader at the Nevola Symposium at
Colby College. Joanne is an associate professor and
senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University
of Uppsala, Uppsala Sweden. (Sorry, these are all the
details I have been able to find about this thus far. Click
on the link to
Colby College or the website for the
Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency for updates.)
- July 17:
Acceptance and Commitment: An Experiential Approach to
Behavior Change. Robyn Walser, PhD will present as part
of the 2009 Adult Psychopathology Summer Institute at the
University of Southern Maine in Portland. The time of
Robyn’s presentation appears to be 1:00-3:30 pm on this
date. Check the USM website for more specific info.
- 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.
- August
TBD:
Introduction to Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. Bar
Harbor, ME. Presenter: Joel Guarna, PhD. White Pine
Institute. Level: Introductory. *This workshop will be
one of the first three Fridays in August. Please check the
website for details as they are settled.
- August
TBD:
The Next ACT: An Intermediate Skill-Building Workshop.
Bar Harbor, ME. Presenter: Joel Guarna, PhD. White Pine
Institute. Level: Intermediate *This workshop will likely
be a half-day workshop on a Saturday morning following the
Friday Intro workshop listed above. Please check the
website for details as they are settled and, since this is
still quite tentative, let me know if you are interested.
In addition, I
expect to hold a few other Introduction to ACT workshops
around New England in late 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:
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. ACBS
Cosponsorship Update. The Introduction to ACT
workshops offered through my organization, White Pine Institute,
have secured cosponsorship with the Association for Contextual
Behavioral Science (ACBS), permitting CEs to be offered for
psychologists. We also secured approval from the National
Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the National Board for
Certified Counselors (NBCC).
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. ACT
Interest Groups and Peer Consultation Groups.
At my Intro workshop for the New Hampshire Psychological
Association in Dover on March 21, I offered to help organize ACT
Interest Groups and ACT Peer Consultation Groups around New
England. I think there is sufficient interest, and much
potential benefit, from organizing these groups. My sense is
that, with just a bit of a nudge, we could form several of these
around New England this spring and summer. I will be repeating
this offer as I zip around New England doing workshops over the
next several months. I will mention it again here in future
e-newsletters.
Please
contact me at this email address if you are interested and we
will get the ball rolling on this. (Thanks to those of you who
have already contacted me…I’m working on it!) I imagine playing
only an organizational role for most of these and will back out
as soon as they get moving. Perhaps we could start with a
teleconference call? Or a pre-planned meetup one month after
each Intro workshop at the location of that workshop? Let me
know what you think.
In the
meantime, I have been soliciting feedback from others who have
formed ACT Peer Consultation Groups around the world. I plan to
compile their feedback so we can learn from their experience and
not “re-invent the wheel” with this.
6.
Attached: Flyer.
I’ve
attached a flyer
for the White Pine Institute trainings in
New England in case you know someone who may be interested.
Feel free to post this in any appropriate setting.
Okay, enough
for one month. Gotta leave something to say in June.
I hope you are
enjoying the early signs of spring. Up here in Maine, the
flower ring in front of my house is *almost* free of snow!
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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