Date and Time: April 19, 2024 from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual Workshop Description:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has emerged as an evidenced based, effective, transdiagnostic therapeutic modality belonging in the third wave of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies. Its use of metaphors and creative interventions underpinned by functional analysis and functional contextualism makes it a unique therapeutic modality that can be used across populations.
The ACT Matrix frame offers an effective and concise model of practicing ACT with applicability in a variety of health care settings. This process can help change the way patients, and clinicians, relate to their difficult experiences and facilitate movement toward a life with more vitality and meaning.
This virtual workshop will help you explore a new and creative way of engaging with your patients in the service of expanding their abilities to respond to their pain in ways that lead to a richer and more meaningful life.
By the end of this workshop, you will:
- Understand the basic philosophical and theoretical context from which acceptance and commitment emerges.
- Learn to use the ACT Matrix tool which is a simple, concise, and effective way to help clients: notice their pain and the effectiveness of their coping repertoire; clarify their values; and expand effective behavioural repertoire in the presence of pain.
- Gain knowledge on how to use the ACT Matrix to conceptualize clients' presentations across populations.
- Use the ACT Matrix to plan and deliver treatment interventions with individuals and groups.
About Our Presenter:
Catalin Fecior (he/him), OT Reg. (Ont.) has been practicing as an occupational therapist and mental health counselor in primary care for 13 years. He currently works at Hamilton Family Health Team where he facilitates therapeutic change via individual and group therapy. After training and practicing with more traditional CBT models he found himself attracted, and at times confused and perplexed, by the philosophy of functional contextualism and the practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The ACT Matrix which has fundamentally changed the way he relates and practices with patients (and himself). His interests outside work include playing music with no audience, being on a tennis court, as well as reading and practicing Zen Buddhism at the best of his abilities.
Fees: (All fees are plus HST) Early Bird Deadline: April 12, 2024
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