NYC ACBS Presents

ACT Immersion

With Dr. Steven Hayes
Tuesday, January 14th at 12 PM ET

We’re thrilled to share an exciting opportunity with you! Steven Hayes, the founder of ACT and a cornerstone of our field, has graciously offered to host a free live Zoom session for our community. This event will explore core ACT principles and feature a Q&A where you can engage directly with Dr. Hayes.

Below is a personal message from Dr. Hayes with more details and links to register. Don’t miss this chance to connect and learn from one of the most influential voices in psychology today!

I’d like to invite you to a live call with me just for ACBS NY members on January 14. I’ll share the core principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and host a Q&A session. You can register (free) by clicking here.

If someone asked me to summarize the promise of ACT in one sentence, it would be this: 

See clients change in real time. 

We’ve spent the last 40 years studying what happens when people are actually getting better, not at a surface level, but at a deeper level of underlying processes.

We found that what really matters is improvements in a small handful of “core processes” of change. 

It is changes in these processes that accurately predict long-term outcomes.

These processes came to be known as core psychological flexibility processes.

And when you are able to identify and address the underlying core psychological flexibility processes, you will be able to see change happen in real time and know that it matters — not just because your client praises your work or because symptom reductions take place, but because you’ve actually seen the processes move.  

The ACT model has many wonderful aspects that have drawn a wide array of professionals into the rapidly growing community of ACT practitioners around the world. 

 Three important reasons are:

• It’s personally relevant because it’s based on the psychology of the normal, and applies to both them and their clients

• It helps with almost every major issue because it’s based on addressing underlying processes, not symptoms, so it can be used to address issues as diverse as anxiety, addiction, performance goals, response to health challenges, or personality disorders

• It works with almost any effective intervention form so it can be incorporated into methods therapists are already using, and make them more effective

But perhaps one of the most powerful things about ACT is letting you see change as it takes place in front of you…
 
Because if you can read and see the processes, you can know long-term outcomes will be good. And this means your clients can become your teachers. 

It also means that by focusing on underlying processes, you can go beyond syndromes, diagnoses, and protocols. 

You can use all of the tools, methods, and techniques you already find helpful, but apply it more effectively.

I’d love to share some of these processes live with you and give you the opportunity to ask questions about how to apply ACT to your specific practice. I’ll also share a special opportunity to work more closely with me in 2025.
 
You can click here to sign up for the live chat on January 14 at noon.

Hope to see you there!
 

Peace, love, and life, 
Dr. Steven Hayes