During and after the course you will be able to: 

🔹 Understand what therapeutic processes of changes are and how they are empirically developed.
🔹 Enumerate the therapeutic processes underlying ACT and describe how they function as mechanisms of behavioral change.
🔹 Describe how the body (skeleton, muscles, joints, fascia, nervous system), and movements map on to the ACT processes.
🔹 Embody the ACT process in your life to improve your health.
🔹 Create emBODyACT practices to boost interoceptive awareness and health.
🔹 Improve your motivational and instructional/guidance skills to help others with difficult behavioral changes
🔹 Participate and contribute in a peer-support group 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

🔹 We will deepen our familiarity with mechanisms of change and therapeutic processes, and their impact on behavioral changes.
🔹 We will explore how the mechanisms of change underlying ACT can be applied in fields other than psychotherapy.
🔹 We will engage in these processes and behavioral changes in ourselves in order to:
1) Experience similar difficulties that our peers & clients may encounter while changing behaviors
2) Improve our capacity for compassion and empathy for ourselves and for others in the same path
3) Embody and enACT the Functional Contextual Behavioral Sciences values and ethics in our daily practice

LEARNING GOALS

This curriculum introduces participants to behavioral changes from the inside out, by emBODying them instead of merely talking about them. It also presents research in a pragmatic and clinical implementation manner. 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Inspirational and dynamic lectures, enriching peer-support groups, stimulating group assignments, readings, reflections, discussions, physical exercises, body-centered mindful activities, creative activities, and much more are all included! 

• Participants should have at minimum a Bachelor’s degree and their home country’s clinical certification to practice a health-care profession in their country. Also at least 2 years of experience working with clients/patients with chronic conditions.
• You need a computer with a camera and a mic/ headsets. A good internet connection that allows your camera to be on all the time.
  
• A quiet/private space without interruptions or disturbances during the workshop.
• You will also need some gym gear including a work-out matt, a stability ball, and a few dumbbells.
• Most importantly, willingness to use them in daily life and to cut sedentary time.