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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) informed Psychedelic retreat.
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Facilitators: Henry J. Whitfield and Lucyne Pearson
Dates: 17th - 21st Oct 2019 Location: Weert, The Netherlands (in 20 acres of private woodland)
This retreat is aimed at mental health professionals interested in becoming psychedelic-assisted therapists, psychedelic therapists interested in an ACT-informed psychedelic experience and those wishing to better support people in integrating psychedelic experiences.
There is currently a psychedelic research renaissance involving sizeable clinical trials in both Europe and the USA. Even if preliminary, the current results suggest unprecedented success rates for depression, addictions and more. With such trials underway, psilocybin is expected be medically licenced in the next 5 years (See New Atlas FDA Breakthrough therapy, or Wired for more depth). The purpose of this retreat is to prepare and connect those interested in such developments. If you are interested in collaborating on future retreats
like this, you are especially welcome.
Experts at multiple psychedelic research centres consider Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to be an important and useful framework for modern psychedelic therapy (see Walsh & Theissen 2018, Guss 2018). These four and a half days are an opportunity to explore the psychedelic experience with some ACT perspectives in mind.
In preparation you may consider your personal challenges in terms of ‘willingness’ (how open are you to certain discomforts?), ‘experiential avoidance’ (what are the obvious or subtle ways you avoid those inner discomforts?), your motivations (what impulses behind your inner and outer behaviours are keeping you from what you truly want). Simple metaphors such as the ‘reverse compass’ may guide us on our way: where is your mind telling you not to go?
To integrate your psilocybin experience into a life better lived, we may also consider if our old thought patterns take us where we really want to go. What new behaviours do our insights invite? How might our old habits get in the way of what we really want?
As well as offering these latter perspectives, the ACT model also invites its own integration with other models and traditions, into a behaviourally aware eclecticism. Some of these modalities of integration include breathwork, art therapy, neuroplasticity and guided visualisation.
Participants are invited to contribute their data towards a multi-baseline, single case series design study, tracking mediators of change before and after a psychedelic-assisted personal growth, including a number of ACT preparation and integration sessions pre and post retreat. Please contact us for further details of this research project…
Each day will include meditative practices to help us get into our direct experiencing. Through sharing circles we will learn from each other.
Minimum facilitator ratio: one to every five participants. Each participant will receive one on one pre and post-ceremony check-ins.
Those participating in the study will receive two preparatory, and four post ceremony integration sessions at no additional cost.
Spaces are highly limited to a maximum of 15. Private rooms available for a supplementary fee of £150/night
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Henry J. Whitfield
Henry Whitfield is an Association of Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS) Peer-reviewed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy trainer, an Accredited Advanced TIR (PTSD therapy) Trainer and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (MSc – CBT). For over seven years Henry ran and supervised brief therapy for PTSD projects for Victim Support and Mind in London gun crime hot spots, using CBT and TIR.
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Henry has also trained over 1500 psychological therapists since 2003, supervising clinical psychologist for ACT and Trauma work in primary and secondary care with in the NHS. He is also a passionate integral thinker, publishing journal articles and book chapters on the integration of therapeutic models including, REBT-mindfulness, ACT-TIR-CBT, Person-centred-TIR. His psychedelic plant medicine path has changed how he does psychotherapy especially with self-concept issues. His knowledge of ACT and experience of facing trauma have guided him and many others on the path of psychedelic personal growth. He has written, co-written and edited training manuals for ACT, TIR and FAP (relational psychodynamic). Now he focuses his research on the development of ACT-consistent models for psychedelic integration, with psychedelic process research for Regents University London.
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Lucyne Pearson
Lucyne Pearson is a Certified Integrative Psychotherapist since 2011. She specialized in addiction and trauma, recovery and worked for many years at the Priory Roehampton. She brings an array of skills and training in individual and group therapy, as well as considerable life experience, to assist her clients to look inward and awaken into a more accepting, joyful and authentic self.
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Lucyne is a skilled Shamanic Practitioner and has travelled throughout Central and South America, Hawaii and Europe studying sacred plants and healing modalities. She is also initiated in the Way of the Melissae; a European Shamanic Bee Lineage. She has led medicine ceremonies for over ten years including, most recently spending 2 years at Rythmia Life Advancement Centre in Cost Rica, where she led the participant ceremony, with up to 100 people, as well as their integration process.
She has a great passion for leading psychedelic work and creating an environment of safety, love, depth and transformation. She is also skilled musician and sound healer and uses the power of sound during ceremonies. Lucyne has been trained to utilise the following modalities to inform her treatment process: Transformational Breathwork, Clarity Breathwork, Neurolinguistic Programming, Family Constellations, Circling, Art Therapy, Hypnosis, Kundalini Yoga, Mater Reiki, Life Coaching and Trauma Reduction Methods including the Rewind Technique, Emotional Freedom Techniques and Children’s Accelerated Trauma Treatment.
This retreat will also have other mental health professionals with ACT training and psychedelic therapy guide experience, ensuring each of you can receive individual attention when you need it. This retreat is not aimed at people with severe mental-health issues. All facilitators will remain sober throughout the retreat.
Further details coming soon
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) training, with FAP and RFT
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Up to 20% discount on bookings available*
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Four Day Skills Intensive Part 1 of 2
(4 days course run over two sessions)
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Aim: After these four days of training you should be ready
to apply all key ACT processes flexibly to your client work. You will also have
had multiple opportunities to experience the benefits of each ACT process
personally.
The majority of the learning will be experiential in the
sense that will ask you to integrate what you learn through application in
role-plays, real-plays or group exercises. The many live and video examples of
ACT will inform your practice. We structure the training to give you considerable
experience in applying the demonstrated principles to varied contexts, flexibly
and not formulaically. Remember not to be formulaic! Be present. Every client
moment is unique.
Level: Introductory to Intermediate
Trainers:
Martin Wilks Chartered Psychologist, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT
trainer
Henry Whitfield, MSc, MBACP, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer
Dates (Thurs-Fri):
- 12-13 Sept + 3-4 Oct 2019 OR
- 16-17 Jan + 6-7 Feb 2020
CPD Value: 28 Hours
Fee: £535
Location: Using our own premises in Islington, London N1.
Time: 9.30 am for a 10:00am start 5:00pm (Coffee at 9:30am)
Provided: 100 page printed manual, included.
Day 1 –
- Meeting the Model and the Context. (hexa-flex/psychological
flexibility)
- The ACT therapeutic stance. Demonstrated examples of key
guidelines in action.
- Confronting the control agenda. When controlling your
thoughts and feelings is unworkable, how do you ease a client (and yourself)
out of the ‘quicksand’?
- Identify a value thwarted by avoidance and discover what’s
more important than the avoidance.
- The trappings of language: Learn a spectrum of methods for
loosening the grip of thought and language. Hold lightly those ideas that push
for unworkable behaviour. ‘I’m not good enough, therefore I…’
- Identifying your personal “Bold Move” – a simple, achievable,
behavioural step in the direction of what matters to you; a step you can take
before start of Day 2.
Day 2 –
- Debrief of the Bold move – techniques employed, lessons
learned
- Present moment: Examples of eyes-closed meditations and one
on one interventions that bring a client out of her mind and into the present.
- Psychological flexibility and self-concept issues: How to
develop and foster a flexible sense of self. How to speak about the ineffable.
Variety of group experiential exercises designed to ‘point out’ a tangible
sense of observer self
- How to overcome and respond to the pitfalls in values
clarification. Facilitating each others’ precise articulation of a Values
Mission statement that best addresses the issues that you have been working
upon.
- Behaviour change: Do your action tendencies match your
values? What does your mind have to say about the new path before you? Bringing
behaviour change to what you learnt in day one, you will coach and be coached
to walk a new path. You will identify a medium term goal to bring to account at
morning session of day 3.
Read full breakdown of all 4 Days here: click here
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Four Day Skills Intensive Part 2 of 2
(4 days course run over two sessions)
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Aim: After these four days of training you should be ready to apply all key ACT processes flexibly to your client work. You will also have had multiple opportunities to experience the benefits of each ACT process personally.
Level: Introductory to Advanced
Trainers:
David Gillanders, (D.Clin. Psychol.), ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT trainer
Henry Whitfield MSc, MBACP, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer. Both the trainers have multiple publications in their field.
Dates (Thurs-Fri):
- 24-25 Oct + 28-29 Nov 2019 OR
- 11-12 June + 23-24 July 2020
CPD Value: 28 Hours
Fee: £535
Time: 9.30 am for a 10:00am start 5:00pm (Coffee at 9:30am)
Location: Using our own premises in Islington, London N1.
Time: Thursdays, 9:30 am for a 10:00 am start – 5:00 pm
Fridays, 9:15 am for a 9:30 am start – 4:30 pm
Prerequisite: Our Four day Part 1 Intensive skills training, or equivalent skills training.
On completion of this intermediate-advanced level course you will have:
- a thorough experience of case-formulation and it's application to a client of yours
- received personal feedback from David or Henry on your style of practice
- targeted areas for improvement in your personal ACT practice
- expanded your physicalized repertoire. If you didn’t already, you should feel confident enough to call yourself an ACT therapist, after this training.
Four-day programme breakdown:
Day 5:
- Where is your ACT practice currently at? A tool for finding holes in your skill set. What would you particularly like to improve during this training process?
- Examples and practice of Functional analysis in case-formulation, and ‘on the fly’ in the therapeutic relationship.
- David’s latest approach to case-formulation and treatment planning.
- Roleplay: put your treatment plan into action (with feedback from the trainers).
For a full break down of each training day, or to book,click here.
The workshop presenters will be completing rounds during experiential work to give individual feedback (Maximum 10 students per trainer).
After this training, you will be also be eligible for the supervision program (numbers are limited to 4 per group).
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Online Skills Training in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy for Social Connection (FAP)
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Dates: Starting online from 22nd October 2019
Time: 6-8 pm, each Tuesday, 9 sessions
CPD Value 16 hours
Entry requirements: This training does not require prior academic knowledge or accreditation to a particular body. We expect you to have a professional context in which facilitating behaviour change is a focus. This can be in a mental health or work/business setting.
At the centre of all psychotherapies is a relationship between two people and a desire to connect at a fundamental human level. Yet for many of us, clients and therapists alike, deep connection is elusive: We are wired as human beings to be exquisitely sensitive to each other, and shame, vulnerability, and doubt keep us hiding our true selves. As therapists, we retreat into our professional training, focus on symptoms, and hide behind our expertise. The full power of the therapeutic relationship remains locked and opportunities for transformative therapeutic experiences are lost.
Whether you are engaging in CBT, ACT, DBT, or another therapeutic intervention, This training aims to add to your professional repertoire the following: Expertise in human connection. This training will help you connect with your clients in ways that create transformative moments that far exceed symptom change.
To read more about workshop: click here
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Transcend your self-concept issues with the precision of Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
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Dates (Thurs-Fri): 26-27 March 2020
Time: 9.30 am for a 10:00am start 5:00pm (Coffee at 9:30am)
Trainer: Louise McHugh
CPD Value: 14 hours
Fee: £315
Did you ever feel it wasn’t OK to be you, just as you are? The most important relationship any individual has is with themselves; any wounds or contradictions in your self-image will hinder your relationships with all others. A healthy self is almost universally seen as a prerequisite for sound mental functioning. When we do this work, one key aim is to help the client to be at peace with themselves. In order to have this, we cannot walk away from our ‘self’ because we are embedded in it. Our self is with us no matter where we go, and the majority of people have self-worth issues. Did you ever feel uncomfortable when someone praised you? Our verbal-behaviour is fundamental to how we construct and transcend our ‘self’. In this workshop, we will introduce how Relational Frame Theory informs therapeutic techniques to foster variability, flexibility, stability, functional coherence and an ongoing sense of responsibility.
We will help you to address self-concept issues by fostering:
1. Variability in the process of awareness
This can involve stabilizing the clients perspective, (e.g., repeatedly directing the client’s attention to the present, so as to help her notice the changes in her experiences. How do you feel now, and now and now?) Or getting the client to notice changes in perspective, (e.g., recall different situations and moments of your life).
2. Stability in a sense of perspective
This can involve noticing the common perspective across experiences (e.g., who is noticing thoughts, sensations and feelings across a variety of experiences, and noticing the common perspective across points of view (e.g., notice who is noticing the experiences of you today, yesterday, in a years time). read more...
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Mindfulness Training Ltd.,
Training held in Islington, London N1
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Mindfulness Training provides regular training, supervision and support for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, RFT, FAP and MBCT. We also provide counselling organisations with in-house training, consulting and supervision for setting up mindfulness-informed psychological therapy projects.
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