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Welcome to the Navigating ACT
Online Training Course

Helping you to help others
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About ACT

Why should I learn about ACT

Ever find yourself weaving through a maze of therapies, searching for that perfect fit for your client? Enter Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), your compass in the realm of psychological approaches. ACT isn't just a technique; it's a dynamic process, offering a fresh perspective for psychologists and counsellors seeking an effective and holistic therapeutic framework.

Beyond Diagnosis

In the dance of traditional therapies, ACT emerges as a refreshing approach that goes beyond the one-size-fits-all therapies. It embraces flexibility and customization, offering a toolkit that values acceptance over avoidance and behavioural change over symptom relief.

Combining Theory and Practice

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Ready to embrace the principles of ACT? Welcome to the Navigating ACT Course. A 22 CPD hour online course designed to give you the theoretical knowledge, useful resources and practical skills necessary to start using act in your practice right away.

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What's Included?

22 CPD Hours

Over 22 Hours of Continued Professional Development (CPD) or Continued Education (CE) hours to count towards education and learning requirements.  

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Practical Skills & Downloadable Resources

Strong emphasis on practical application - helping you to learn metaphors, stories and practical exercises to start applying with your clients right away. 

Reflective Quizzes

Reflective questions to answer at the end of each module to solidify your learning.

This course can be listed as 'ACTIVE CPD' 

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10 Complete Modules

10 Comprehensive Modules taking you through all aspects of ACT from Assessment & Formulation to theory and practice in all the 6 processes including DEFUSION, ACCEPTANCE, PRESENCE, SELF-AS-CONTEXT, VALUES & COMMITTED ACTION

No prior learning required.

Self Paced & Lifetime Access

The entire course can be accessed online from any mobile device, tablet or laptop/PC. 

Complete the course at your own pace and return to the content at a later date by simply logging in again. 

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Values-based Contribution

COST: Values-Based Contribution (minimum $100)

RRP: $297; However we are continuing to offer this course on a contribution basis to make it more accessible for new practitioners and students.

Includes over 8 hours of direct video contribution from the ACT Founders and world-leading ACT trainers including:

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Prof Steven Hayes

Co-Founder of ACT

Co-Founder of ACT
Professor at University of Nevada, Reno.

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Dr Kevin Polk

Clinical Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist, Author & Creator of the 'ACT Matrix'

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Dr. Robyn Walser

ACT trainer & Workshop Facilitator

ACT trainer & Workshop Facilitator
Expert in ACT for Trauma
Assistant Professor University of California

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Dr. Kirk Strosahl

ACT and Clinical RFT trainer
Co-Founder of ACT 
Author and co-creator of ACT as a brief intervention - FACT

Co-Founder of ACT

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Dr. Kelly Wilson

Founder of ACT

Founder of ACT
Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Mississippi

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Louise Shepherd

Clinical Psychologist 

Clinical Psychologist 
Peer reviewed ACT trainer
Principal Psychologist of the 'Sydney ACT Centre

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Dr. Matthieu villatte

Co-Founder of ACT

Co-Founder of ACT
ACT and Clinical RFT trainer
Assistant Professor at Bastyr University in Seattle

Course Overview

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The Heart behind the Project

Hi, I'm Ric and thanks for checking out the Navigating ACT online couse. I work as a Clinical Psychologist and Supervisor in Australia and have journeyed with ACT since about 2010. This project has been about 3 years in the making but the foundations were laid long before back when I started work as a psychologist. In the early days, I quickly felt that the tools I was taught were, at best, helping with symptom reduction, but weren't effective to produce lasting and meaningful change in the lives of my clients. I found that the lense I had aquired from my training to see my clients through seemed distorted and missed the 'human experience' of pain. I would often come home to my wife and express a sense of confusion and disatisfaction about the effectiveness about what i was doing....Enter ACT. My first ACT training opened up my perspectives on human pain and suffering and gave me a new lens to look through. It gave me a refined set of tools and direction to work with clients that just made intuitive sense. I didn't need to keep racking my brain trying to work out which DSM category my clients fit best into. Instead, I could understand their experience indivudally and functionally. ACT was like something I always knew, on some level, but didn't have the words or the model for. It gave me a framework to consider any of my clients...and not just to understand their presentation, but to discern a pathway to actually make meaningful changes in their life. I worked using ACT intensively in private practices throughout Sydney for many years and completed various trainings under Russ Harris, Steven Hayes and others. I later developed an ACT-based retreat program in the sunshine coast which I ran for 3 years which continues to run today; helping people within a more intensive and focussed format rather than the usual 'hourly sessions on a weekly or fortnightly basis'. At this point I became a board approved supervisor and started to find that my supervisees were having a similarly refreshing experience to what I had when they started learning ACT. Nevertheless I felt that the current of 'protocols for syndromes' approach echoed strongly in psychology today (fundamentally relying on diagnostic labels to 'prescribe' interventions) was strongly influencing the minds of developing psychologists who weren't aware of other perspectives. I really wanted to contribute and do my part to share what I have learned about ACT in a condensed program on this intuitive, human, and relevant approach to understanding human pain and suffering...Out of this was born the Navigating ACT project. In starting out on this project, I reached out to some of the pioneers and key trainers in ACT such as Steven Hayes, Kelly Wilson and Robyn Walser, whom I had learned ACT from, and was truly humbled by the willingness of not just one of them, but ALL of them that I invited to support this project by adding some rich content to this program. It's this character of the pioneers, who I believe are outstanding intellectuals holding prestigious positions or having made significant achievements in their careers, yet none of them above doing this work on themselves, and being willing to support this project. This is the quality I saw in the ACT community from the outset and a quality I hope to now reflect in this training and my ongoing work. So whether you are new to ACT or have a bit of experience with it, I hope this course can offer you new insights and angles as well as practical tools to continue your journey personally and professionally in all you do. As Steve Hayes describes, the 6 processes or ACT are best understood as 6 faces of a cube; each side needs to be strong for it to stand, and when you apply weight to one side, it naturally leans on the other sides. In this course my hope is to share ACT in this way, to help you see it not as 6 separate processes, but to show how each process is intimately related to the others - I hope it comes accross! Thank you for the opportunity to share my journey thus far with you in this course - NAVIGATING ACT.

Cost - vales based

What people are saying about this course

NATALIE P ,
Provisional Psychologist

I really enjoyed this course. It was a great way to learn how to use ACT, starting from initial assessment to case formulation and then on to using ACT for intervention.  I liked that there was no prior knowledge required, the content was easy to understand with lots of examples and it was also very comprehensive so I now feel confident in using ACT without further training. I also really liked the resources provided after each module. The self-paced delivery was also a bonus.

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What's the Cost?

VALUES BASED DONATION

This program is currently being offered on a values-based donation basis.

What does that mean? - you pay what you feel is good & fair to pay for lifetime access to this course.

 

Many people that contributed to the Navigating ACT course donated their time to do so and this course is being offered in this spirit. 

A course offering over 22 hours of Professional Development (PD) content typically costs upwards of $499. I hope that by offering it on a values-based donation basis that it can make it more accessible for people to learn Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) 

We hope to keep this course on a donation basis. We ask for $100 minimum and that you kindly consider what is fair and possible within your circumstances when deciding on your nominal contribution. If this minimum is still not feasible or possible for you, please contact us to let us know.

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Make Value-based contribution
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How to access the course 

Once you have submitted your contribution :

If you have any issues or questions please email us to supervision@harvestclinic.com.au

​You will be redirected to another page. Please click 'buy now' next to the ACT program which priced as 'free'. (You won't have to pay anything again)

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You will need to create a unique login for yourself using your email and create a password. 

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Request Access to this course by clicking "Request to Join" and you will be granted access within a short time frame once we receive your request. 

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In future you may access the course through this page and clicking 'already purchased' , at the top of the page; using your login details to access the course. 

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 SNEAK PEAK 

All Videos

All Videos
Segment 3   Rethinking Foundations

Segment 3 Rethinking Foundations

09:58
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Acceptance in ACT

Acceptance in ACT

09:53
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Segment on Values - taken from the Navigating Act Course run by The Harvest Clinic

Segment on Values - taken from the Navigating Act Course run by The Harvest Clinic

11:56
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Full Video - Week 1 - Rethinking Foundations

Full Video - Week 1 - Rethinking Foundations

58:57
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