Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Beginners

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Beginners is organized by Act Mindfully.

Start Date: Starts 10 March 2026 - Time 16hrs | 6 weeks

Description:
Do you ever feel frustrated, stuck, or overwhelmed, trying to support your clients in the face of their problems and suffering? Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a creative, compassionate, mindfulness-based approach, to help your clients break free from their struggles, be kinder to themselves, and move forwards with their lives, guided by core values.

Join world-renowned ACT trainer Russ Harris as he brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to life in this interactive, online course. Russ will guide you step-by-step through the ACT model with humour and clarity, turning complex ideas into practical skills you can use in session.

For the first six weeks of course access, you’ll get 2-3 hours of new content each week (sixteen hours in total). And for the first twelve weeks, you can directly interact with Russ, via the forum - asking questions, sharing breakthroughs, getting feedback and support.

Course Goals:

• Get versatile with values and dance around with defusion
• Discover five powerful tools to develop and strengthen psychological acceptance
• Create focus, flexibility and fulfilment through contacting the present moment
• Empower through acceptance and liberate through self-as-context
• Ten powerful ways to rapidly reduce the believability of negative thoughts (without ever challenging them)
• Seven surefire techniques to get to values
• Learn the art of mindfulness without meditation and how to innovate your own mindfulness techniques

Course modules:
Week 1 - Opening ACT: What's it all about

Week 2 - Drop the struggle

Week 3 - Watch your thinking

Week 4 - Take a stand

Week 5 - Hold yourself kindly

Week 6 - Bringing it all together