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...
Hi all, I work in Ayrshire and I was wondering if there is anybody that uses this forum from a nearby area, maybe in or around Glasgow, that would be...
I am having a fuzzy recollection of an exercise that Robyn Walser went through at her training in Sheffield. She asked us to think about two or three things...
Hi Kevan Yes, I and some of my colleagues would be interested in developing an interest group. As you can see, we are part of the Pathways to Work Condition...
Thanks, Kevan, for asking this question. I was also impressed by Robyn's exercises that seemed gentler and easier. I wonder if anyone knows if Robyn has...
Dear All, I would be very interested in discussing the following, posted by Steve Hayes, after Dr Takashi Muto. I have to confess I don't really get it. Tony....
What I see in the figure Start with the two big circles: Some non-verbal knowing (knowing how) is not verbal at all in an RFT sense of that term Some verbal...
Hi My remembering of that exercise was as follows. The first part was to describe two things you really liked about your mother figure and likewise about your...
On Monday I went to a presentation on Compassionate Mind Training by Prof Paul Gilbert, taking an opportunity to check out this new therapeutic approach, and...
Hi David, Sorry to have missed you on Monday, if you go to the follow up training please let me know, and we can talk about ACT and CMT in person - and yes, ...
Hi David Yes, I'm sorry not to have met up with you last Monday, more so as it sounds like you were having some interesting conversations with Paul Gilbert. I...
Thanks Tony Just to let you all know its available as "used" on Amazon for £4.44 in the UK, slightly cheaper in US Reuben Lowe BA (Hons), Adv Dip, RMN ...
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