Exploring Values in ACT
Watch a free video from the on-demand course taught by Dr. Kelly G. Wilson
Exploring Values in ACT is a deep dive into the power of personal values, and how clinicians can leverage them to help clients cultivate lives of expansive meaning.
Inside the 6 in-depth modules of this course, you’ll learn how to explore values from an acceptance and commitment therapy perspective and help clients build patterns of valued action in everyday life. Through video instruction, experiential and written exercises, clinical examples, and teletherapy-style conversations with therapists, Dr. Wilson will teach you how to utilize values in an ACT context to make your sessions more powerful.
After completing this course, you’ll have a deep understanding of ACT values and how to make them a more natural and central part of therapy so you can more deliberately bring about moments of breathtaking change.
Click the link below to get an exclusive, free sneak peek into the course.
In this video excerpt from Exploring Values in ACT, you’ll learn how a moment of “stuckness” can become an opportunity for life-changing values work.
This course is approved for 13 CE hours. Prior to registering, please view all CE information here.
Exploring Values
in ACT
Watch a free video from the on-demand course taught by Dr. Kelly G. Wilson
Exploring Values in ACT is a deep dive into the power of personal values, and how clinicians can leverage them to help clients cultivate lives of expansive meaning.
Inside the 6 in-depth modules of this course, you’ll learn how to explore values from an acceptance and commitment therapy perspective and help clients build patterns of valued action in everyday life. Through video instruction, experiential and written exercises, clinical examples, and teletherapy-style conversations with therapists, Dr. Wilson will teach you how to utilize values in an ACT context to make your sessions more powerful.
After completing this course, you’ll have a deep understanding of ACT values and how to make them a more natural and central part of therapy so you can more deliberately bring about moments of breathtaking change.
Click the link below to get an exclusive, free sneak peek into the course.
In this video excerpt from Exploring Values in ACT, you’ll learn how a moment of “stuckness” can become an opportunity for life-changing values work.
This course is approved for 13 CE hours. Prior to registering, please view all CE information here.
In this video, you’ll learn:
- How the threat of hardship narrows behavior and keeps clients in cycles of “stuckness”
- Why storytelling can be a powerful avoidance tool, and how to recognize when it is occurring in session
- What you can do to change a client’s relationship with their experience of hardship
- When to disrupt a pattern of storytelling so you can open up possibilities to explore
- How shifting focus to granular details will help you and your client to see their values
A personal note about the course from Kelly Wilson:
When you became a therapist, I am guessing that your secret hope was that you’d see lives changing, and changing in ways that would swell your heart.
To make that happen, we need to go beyond symptom reduction. We need to contend with deeper motivations — with the basic human yearnings that give life meaning.
Helping clients to see what matters to them, to explore their own values, is a powerful way to help them create change in their lives.
As I see it, all of the other ACT processes are made practical in the service of finding meaning and purpose. To me, the rest of the model hangs on that question of “why?”
Why should our clients do the hard things we ask them to do? Why should they endure the pain of change? Why should they suffer the inevitable flat spots that come with change and growth?
This is what inspired me to create Exploring Values in ACT — to help clinicians of all stripes do more of the work that is worthy of these questions.
Inside the course, you’ll develop a deep understanding of values and how to make clients’ quests for meaning more central to your ACT work.
And you’ll leave with principles that will help you lead impactful conversations and respond productively when you hit the wall — so you’ll know how to meet it and how to put it to work for your clients.
Enjoy the sneak peek, and I hope you’ll join me inside the course.
– Kelly Wilson
A personal note about the course from Kelly Wilson:
When you became a therapist, I am guessing that your secret hope was that you’d see lives changing, and changing in ways that would swell your heart.
To make that happen, we need to go beyond symptom reduction. We need to contend with deeper motivations — with the basic human yearnings that give life meaning.
Helping clients to see what matters to them, to explore their own values, is a powerful way to help them create change in their lives.
As I see it, all of the other ACT processes are made practical in the service of finding meaning and purpose. To me, the rest of the model hangs on that question of “why?”
Why should our clients do the hard things we ask them to do? Why should they endure the pain of change? Why should they suffer the inevitable flat spots that come with change and growth?
This is what inspired me to create Exploring Values in ACT — to help clinicians of all stripes do more of the work that is worthy of these questions.
Inside the course, you’ll develop a deep understanding of values and how to make clients’ quests for meaning more central to your ACT work.
And you’ll leave with principles that will help you lead impactful conversations and respond productively when you hit the wall — so you’ll know how to meet it and how to put it to work for your clients.
Enjoy the sneak peek, and I hope you’ll join me inside the course.
– Kelly Wilson