A team of counsellors and psychologists in the NHS wanted to improve psychological health and resilience among staff. Using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), they delivered experiential training to promote wellbeing. Teresa Jennings, Elaine Whipday, Kath Egdell, Simon Pestell and Paul Flaxman share their findings. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ARTICLE ‘This article first appeared in […]
by Jon Hill – Corporate Trainer and Executive Coach Blueprint Coaching During its relatively short life, coaching has struggled for recognition and respect in some circles. For every satisfied client who has achieved long-held ambitions with the help of a coach there is a sceptic who can’t understand why you would want to invite an […]
I was recently interviewed by Jim Lucas, director of Open Forwards on his cool, new podcast, ‘Self Help Sat Nav’. You can listen to me talk about our self help book, ‘ACTivate Your Life – Using acceptance and mindfulness to build a life that is rich fulfilling and fun’. Self Help Sat Nav is a […]
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Use this worksheet, taken from our book, ACTivate Your Life to map out your psychological flexibility skills of Open, Aware and Active. Click HERE to download the worksheet
This script is taken from the ACT for Recovery – Group Intervention for Psychosis Manual (O’Donoghue, Oliver, Morris, Johns, Jolley & Butler, 2013). In the groups, the metaphor, “Passengers on the Bus” is used throughout (see Hayes, Strosahl & Wilson, 1999 for a full description). As part of the groups, participants are encouraged to interact […]
I recently attended Russ Harris’ advanced ACT workshop in July. I found this training both theoretically informed and inexorably human. Russ covered traditional ACT concepts and therapeutic formalities well. He also introduced novel formulaic and intervention tools (e.g. the Four Horseman of Rigidity and The Choice Point), which were especially helpful when thinking about how […]
Will the evil ACT empire take over and reticulate with the Rebel Force Team? Or will the RFT break free and do their own thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTpeRJ7xDiM
The effectiveness of a workplace ACT intervention compared to MBSR training for sleep A number of studies indicate that mindfulness meditation improves sleep and results in a decrease of sleep-interfering processes (eg, stress). This paper describes main outcomes of a randomized controlled trial that compared a brief mindfulness-based stress reduction program to an acceptance […]
by Jon Hill, Blueprint Coaching I am 90% certain that Russ Harris did not come all the way from Australia to England, and give up two days of his life just to be in a position where he could stand on a stage and instruct 150 well educated men and women to pretend to be […]
Contextual Consulting’s very own Dr Joe Oliver is appearing this week on “Taking Hurt to Hope“, the WebTtalkRadio show hosted by JoAnne Dahl. [panel indent=”yes”] ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Psychosis Hearing voices or seeing things other people don’t perceive is a phenomena that isn’t necessarily a problem, but the ways one […]
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