Welcome to the December 2019 ACT With Compassion newsletter!
In this issue we have information on a workshops we are hosting in Portland in January as well as links to articles, compassion tools, and research updates that we've posted.
If you know of anyone who might be interested in our content, be sure to forward the newsletter to him or her. You can also share it on social media with the social sharing tools at the bottom.
We hope you enjoy this issue – if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send them to us!
Sincerely,
Jason Luoma, Jenna LeJeune, & Christina Chwyl
This workshop in January in Portland, OR is split into two days and we recommend you take the whole thing, but if you have time for only one day, they stand on their own. You need to sign up for each day separately. Here are the links:
ACT with Compassion: An Introduction to Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Highly Self-critical and Shame Prone Clients - Jan 31, 2020, 8 am-4:30 pm PST - Portland, Oregon
ACT with Compassion: Deepening Your Skill in Working with Highly Self-critical and Shame Prone Clients - Feb 1, 2020, 8 am - 4:30 pm PST - Portland, Oregon
Spanish language materials for working with highly self-critical and shame prone clients
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We recently did a workshop on working with highly shame prone and self critical clients in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was fantastic! The people who attended were so warm and welcoming. We've never had so many people come up to us after a workshop to say hi and take photos. It was so fun (and a bit overwhelming too for
someone like me that has a tendency toward shame). As an aside, Buenos Aires probably has the best gelato in the world (sorry, Italy). If you ever have a chance, visit Buenos Aires. It's great and there's an awesome set of ACT therapists there as well that you can connect with if you want.
As a result of this workshop, a number of therapists and researchers from Argentina graciously took time to translate a bunch of the handouts and meditations from the workshop to the Spanish language. Big thanks to Fabian Maero, Manuel Pando, Clara Zito, Pilar Solanas, Gabriela Caselli, and Manuela O'Connell for taking the time to put all these materials together. If anyone else is interested in translating materials on this site, let me know and we'd be happy to
have you do that.
Our goal is to get help to people who are stuck in the isolation and lack of belonging that is part of chronic shame. We'll do this best in community, as we come together to serve shared goals. These translated materials are a great example of that. I hope that some of you are able to use some of the materials for your clients who speak Spanish and pass on the well wishes and generosity.
Our new book! Values in Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Helping Clients Explore Values, Increase Psychological Flexibility, and Live a More Meaningful Life.
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We (Jenna LeJeune and Jason Luoma) wrote this new book to be a compassionate and accessible guide for doing values work in therapy. It's written to be useful for veteran ACT therapists and also people with no knowledge of or interest in ACT. We hope that you find it useful with
your clients and please let us know if you like it!
Featured Blog Excerpt - May 2019
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Key Differences between Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO DBT)
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Newer forms of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies are on the rise. These therapies share certain elements (e.g. an active and collaborative therapeutic alliance, the use of traditional behavioral strategies and an understanding that cognition can maintain behaviors). Yet, each type of therapy is distinct in important ways, with unique underlying theories, assumptions, mechanisms of change and treatment approaches. An understanding of these
distinctions can help therapists discern when and how these approaches may serve a client.
On the blog site, we provide a summary table contrasting key differences between Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO DBT) and link to a longer article if you want to know more.
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Here are links to Compassion Tools of the Month that we've featured on the AWC blog:
You can access all of our posts on clinical tools here.
You can read about research on shame and self-compassion that we've written about by clicking on the links below:
We also feature original content on our blog - here are links to just some of the articles we've posted in the past:
Check out more of our original blog content here.
Be sure to check out our Events page for information on classes, workshops, and conferences relevant to therapists interested in shame, self-criticism, and
compassion. If you know of an event you'd like to see listed, please contact us with the details and we'll put it on our website! |
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