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John P. Forsyth, PhD & Jamie R. Forsyth, PhD

Harnessing The Transformative Power Of Mindful ACT Therapy: How To Live Well When Life Is Hard

July 24th - July 28th, 2023

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15 Hour In-Person & Live-Online Course

Monday - Friday: 9:00a.m. - 12:30p.m. EDT / 30-Minute Break Daily

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Course Description

Life invites obstacles, problems, and pain. There is no escaping this simple truth. But for many, the pain of life is neither a teacher nor a friend, but instead the enemy and source of considerable suffering, hardship, and despair. Mental health professionals know this all too well. The pain may take psychological, emotional, or physical forms, but it's there and people are desperately seeking a way out and a way forward.

But what if the pain of life could be had just as it is? What if there was a way to nurture the conditions for our own genuine happiness and peace of mind, even when life is (or was) hard? Suppose even, that we could empower those we serve to develop a new relationship with the difficulties they carry and move forward with those difficulties in ways that dignify the pain and support what truly matters. In this intensive workshop, we will learn about one particular approach and set of practices that aims to do just that. It's called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

ACT is an evidence-based approach that balances mindfulness and acceptance processes with commitment and behavior change in the service of living a more vital life. Acceptance and mindfulness-based practices, including ACT, are rapidly making their way into mental health care, medicine, and society. This body of work offers a fresh perspective on psychological suffering and powerful clinical strategies to cultivate transformative life changes.

You will learn powerful strategies to help your clients:

Gain freedom from suffering
Let go of unhelpful struggles
Cultivate peace of mind and self-compassion
Show up to life as it is
Get unstuck and moving
Live a rich and meaningful life

Led by a dynamic husband and wife team, this workshop will introduce ACT, both as a model and intervention technology, and illustrate its use across a broad set of problem areas that are commonly seen in mental health settings. This work can be challenging for both therapists and clients alike, for much of ACT work involves contacting difficult and painful psychological content without defense and for a purpose other than psychological relief. Thus, understanding the application and integration of the ACT model of psychological health and suffering is essential for effective ACT work.

Through lectures, live and video demonstrations, and practical experiential exercises, we learn ways to help our clients live well, richly, and meaningfully, without first having to eliminate sources of emotional and psychological pain. We will also learn how ACT can be integrated effectively into your mental health practice. Clinical worksheets and other practical tools will be provided.

Mental health professionals, including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, are invited to attend. Familiarity with ACT is not required.

Monday

Why It's Hard Being Human: Getting Inside the ACT Approach

Tuesday

Confronting the System of Stuckness: Making Space for Something New

Wednesday

Contacting the Sweetness in Life: Clarifying What Matters and What Gets in the Way

Thursday

Cultivating a New Relationship with the Difficulties We Carry: Skillfully Disarming & Transforming Forms of Suffering

Friday

Empowering ACTions that Matter: Stepping Openly, Mindfully, and Wholeheartedly

John P. Forsyth, PhD, is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and trainer in the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and practices that cultivate mindfulness, loving kindness, and compassion. He is also the Director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program and a Professor of Psychology at University at Albany in upstate NY. John also maintains a small private practice and offers ACT supervision to mental health professionals in the United States and abroad.

As an active researcher and practitioner of ACT and contemplative practices, John is the author of several popular books, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders, The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety (2nd edition), ACT on Life, Not On Anger, and Your Life on Purpose. His latest books, Anxiety Happens and the Anxiety Happens Guided Journal, are for anyone who gets tripped up now and then by anxiety and fear.

For over 20 years, his work has focused on developing ACT and mindfulness practices to alleviate human suffering, awaken the human spirit, and to nurture psychological health and vitality. His personal journey and experience, balanced with practical insights grounded in scientific evidence, offers hope to those wishing to find a path out of suffering and into wholeness. See www.drjohnforsyth.com.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: John Forsyth receives salary as a professor and faculty member from the University of Albany, SUNY. He also recieves royalties as an author from New Harbinger Inc. He receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: John Forsyth has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Jamie R. Forsyth, PhD, is an active and gifted psychologist and clinical supervisor, with extensive expertise in the use and application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with severe forms of mental illness (e.g., psychosis and personality disorders) and forms of psychological and emotional suffering in inpatient, outpatient, and college mental health settings. Beyond ACT, Jamie is a skillful integrationist, supervisor, and researcher, with specialized knowledge in relational and process-oriented therapeutic work, addictions, motivational interviewing, including mindfulness and self-compassion practices. Jamie is active within a group mental health practice in upstate New York where she offers psychotherapy, performs psychological evaluations, and trains and supervises doctoral students under her direction.

As a husband and wife team, Jamie and John are known to infuse their teaching and training with energy, humility, lightheartedness, and compassion, and their down-to-earth workshops are consistently praised for their clarity, depth, and practical utility.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jamie Forsyth receives salary as a staff psychologist from Freedom First Psychological Services. She receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: Jamie Forsyth has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

1. Describe Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

2. Indicate evidence-based approaches that supports the ACT model

3. Describe how practices that cultivate mindfulness and loving kindness can empower clinical work

4. Discuss and demonstrate ACT processes and interventions

5. Discuss ways to integrate ACT techniques into your mental health practice

6. Indicate methods of intervention that embody the ACT principles

7. Describe how to integrate ACT with other methods

8. Discuss the importance of flexibility in the model

Creative Arts Therapists:

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. # CAT-0090.

Educators:

For eligibility information contact your State certifying authority.

Massachusetts: Educators in Massachusetts are eligible for 15 Professional Development Points (PDPs) for each program attended. MAK Continuing Education, LLC is a registered Professional Development Provider (PD number: U20190001) with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

Marriage and Family Therapists:

Massachusetts: This activity has been certified by NEAFAST on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions, for LMFT professional continuing education. Certification # PC- 041369.

Physicians & Nursing Professionals:

A.C.C.M.E. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., and MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

A.M.A. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Professional Counselors:

MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7187. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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Psychologists: MAK Continuing Education, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

California: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the CPA OPD to sponsor continuing professional education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CPA OPD Provider Code: MAK001.

Canada: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for the program.

Connecticut: CE credit is available. This course consists of 15 continuing education credit hours for Connecticut Psychologists. CT Gen Stat Sec. 20-191c Continuing Education (b)(3) confirms acceptance of continuing education programs relevant to psychology from a nationally recognized provider of continuing education seminars. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is a nationally recognized provider of continuing education seminars with multiple national CE approvals.

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists # PSY-0102.

Ohio: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is a OPA-MCE Approved Provider. Approved Provider: #854261519.

Pennsylvania: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. Provider # PSY000226. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for the program. This live program qualifies for 15 continuing education hours.

Social Workers:

ASWB ACE: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute, Provider #1197, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute, maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 8/20/2022- 8/20/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 15 continuing education credits.

ASWB ACE Individual Course Approval (NJ Social Workers): Harnessing the Transformative Power of Mindful ACT Therapy: How to Live Well When Life Is Hard, Course #4106, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 04/26/2022 - 04/26/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 15 Clinical continuing education credits.

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers # SW-0649.

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Course Content Level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. This course is open, and content is suitable for all clinicians and learning levels, beginning, intermediate and advanced.

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What Alumni are Saying...

"John and Jamie embody the work they teach really well. The two of them are very different from each other in personality and style and they navigated their inevitable conflicts with good grace, affection and impressive flexibility. Their enthusiasm for the work they were sharing was palpable, despite this being one of hundreds of workshops they’ve presented. Overall, a pleasure." - 2022 Participant

"Great presenters! Excellent anecdotal info on cases to illustrate efficacy of ACT." - 2022 Participant

"It was an excellent course. The speakers moved at a good pace and had a good balance of videos, demonstrations, and lectures." - 2022 Participant

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