Yes, there is a difference in the way we propose to relate to thoughts. Once we start being aware of them, and embracing them, we stop being carried away by...
I suppose we move to embracing them but in a non-evaluative manner. Yes i agree the key is not getting attached to empyting the mind. Could this ring back to...
The venue has been changed for the next two meetings – September 26th (focusing on anxiety) and October 31st (focusing on The Present Moment), both...
Thich Nhat Hanh takes the usual Buddhist "non-evaluating" and sort of basically adds the idea of why not be positive about things when we have a choice. His is...
Looks like I missed a beat with this last post. I'll go back to what Jay said. Certainly if we are embracing all thoughts, we are not being evaluative, i.e....
hi Judith, Just down the M1 from Leicester and see people from Leicester. I'm part of the ACT Special Interest Group (SIG) for the Midlands and Northish. I...
There was a good piece about Albert Ellis on BBC Radio 4's Last Word programme yesterday which you can find at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ news/lastword.shtml...
Hi all, The next two meetings of the Sheffield/North Midlands ACT Interest Group are as follows; Thursday 27 September, Brunswick House, 299 Glossop Road,...
Could anyone able to see patient from Shrewsbury privately, please send me a message back-channel with their practice details. He says he can travel to ...
Hi Please can you send me a registration form for Robyn's intro ACT workshop. Many thanks. Maria Murphy ... From: joecurran@... To: UKACT@yahoogroups.com ...
Hello - I have sent of the registration form and payment for the workshop to Janet at the Community Clinical Psychology Service - is that correct? I am...
I had been really looking forward to this workshop and was really gutted to have to miss it because of illness. Would anyone who did get there be willing to...
Hi Chris, This is by no means an overview of the two days, but one thing that sticks in my mind was the repetitive use of certain phrases ranging from "Do it...
Hi Chris and everyone The key theme of the workshop for me was being in the present moment. Much of the focus was on people connecting, especially in...
Thanks Henry and David for sharing your impressions. As I get more used to working with ACT, I find myself getting more present with clients in their struggle...
Hello would like to post a clinical question can anyone help me out with the 'workability' agenda and its relationship with values - I am likely to get tied up...
Hi Katie, Sounds like he's using his values to dig with, trying to find the 'right' and maybe even the perfect self. Maybe he's on the wrong track altogether...
is there any difficult emotions or thoughts he is trying to experientially avoid by getting it right? maybe that will help get at the workability issue... joe ...
Hi Katie I would like to echo the comments below although I'm not sure about languaging your clients aproach as the 'wrong track' (see below)- interesting...
Hi Katy Interesting discussion. In the context of values/goals I don't see talk of right and wrong as necessarily being at odds with the notion of workability....
Hi Katy, Sounds like good advice from Alan, with a way of generating direct experience for discussion, rather than getting caught into an intellectual (head vs...
Hi Katie, I agree with what Alan has written. At the same time I also think specifically the issue of workability needs to be separated into long term and...
Hi Katy Coming at this from a somewhat different angle, I often find it helpful checking out the differing motivations that orientate people towards the goals...
Thanks very much to everyone who mailed with advice. That was really useful to 'open up' my own mind from feeling so stuck! I would really like to utilise the...
CHAPTER 7 Hi all, I'm new to UKACT. I must start with an apology (not a good start!) in regards to this late chapter review :O) CHAPTER 7 - If i am not my...
Thank you very much for your excellent summary, Reuben, which I enjoyed reading. Here are a few lines from Wu Wei: Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent Of...
I must admit I struggle a bit with the ACT senses of self described in this chapter. I'm okay with the conceptualised self - all those self-descriptive labels...
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