Adv-ACT Training
The Advanced ACT Training Programme
The step-by-step advanced ACT Training Programme that builds your skills, improves your outcomes and gives you the confidence to work with complexity.
My Goal:
Elevate your client outcomes to an 80%+ success rate by turning you into a proficient ACT Therapist.
No more getting stuck in old patterns.
No more hoping for the best.
No more feeling paralysed by inadequacy.
No more drowning in complexity.
When you complete the Advanced ACT Training Programme, you’ll know:
What to do.
How to do it.
And get personal guidance to hold yourself accountable and implement the process.
How does it work?
The Adv-ACT Training Programme is a nine-step curriculum that promises to transform your practice and turn you into a more proficient ACT Therapist.
It follows a step-by-step plan on what to do and how to do it while guiding you to hold yourself accountable and implement the steps effectively.
Video Lessons
Each week, you will get access to a new lesson. You can complete it anytime during the week to suit your timetable. Each lesson aims to teach you an integration of the head, hands and heart of ACT. In other words, they’ll be a bit of theory, a practical exercise and personal reflections.
Weekly Support (Almost)
We'll get together as a small group for three out of four weeks in the month. Our focus will depend on what we learn that week, including Q & A, Demonstrations and Small Group Role-Play.
Unlimited Support
You’ll have ongoing support from me. You can book as many 1:1 calls with me as you like. Many issues can be resolved in a short 15-minute session. However, if we need longer, we can do that too.
Plus, you’ll get support from your peers on the programme and those in the larger ACT Practitioners Community.
How do I apply?
First, check if the programme is a good fit by carefully reading the information above.
Book a non-obligation Discovery Call so I can get to know your practice, walk you through the process, answer your questions, and together, we’ll determine if we're a good fit.
Programme Outline & Learning Objectives
Step 1 - Know Your Context: Identify your values and struggles
Explore your professional values
Identify your emotional and cognitive struggles
Adopt a Functional Contextual Mindset
Step 2 – Step Outside Your Story: Name, notice, and analogise Your Narrative
Identify self-stories and judgements
Analyse themes and patterns in self-relating
Learn to see coherence and tact effectively
Step 3 – Cultivate Openness: Build Self-Practice/Self-Reflection
Build cognitive and emotional flexibility
Practice breaking ‘rules’ in therapy
Implement a Self-Practice/Self-Reflection routine
Step 4 – Support Client Change: Assess, nurture and track the client’s progress
Implement the CompACT-10 psychological flexibility measure
Optimise progress with therapeutic systems
Create a change culture using the 3 Ps framework
Step 5 – Skills Assessment: Establish an ACT-consistent baseline
Learn to use the ACT Fidelity Measure (ACT-FM)
Submit a Therapy Video Recording and receive feedback
Understand how to do ACT with fidelity and skill
Step 6 – Deliberate Practice Routines: Embed a system for advanced skills development
Experiment through role-play with real-time feedback
Learn to spot ACT-consistent interventions
Build a culture of deliberate practice
Step 7 – ACT Process Cycle: Implement an effective ACT Process Cycle from start to finish
Develop a consistent and practical approach to functional analysis
Disrupt aversively controlled patterns and shape psychologically flexible responses
Visualise the arc of ACT interventions
Step 8 – Seeing Through Complexity: Sitting inside the therapeutic stance and aligning with guiding principles
Learning to see the processes behind complex behavioural patterns
Implement effective responding to complexity
Understand ruptures and entanglements from a CBS perspective
Step 9 – Reflective Practice: Successful engagement, endings and conflict resolution
Understand Reflective Practice in ACT
Facilitate more effective ACT-consistent therapeutic relationships
Adopt a process-oriented approach to life and therapy
Who’s it for?
The Adv-ACT Training Programme is IDEAL for therapists, counsellors, psychologists, coaches, analysts and other allied professionals who:
Know the basics
Want to develop their expertise
Want to handle complexity more effectively
Feel ready to break old patterns
Need to sharpen their functional analysis skills
Discover ways of becoming more experiential
Frustrated with not making the progress they want
Want to become a highly skilled ACT therapist
Want to improve their client success rates to over 80 per cent
Have completed some basic ACT training
Have been using ACT for at least 12 months
Have an active caseload
The Adv-ACT is NOT for therapists that:
Are complete beginners in ACT
Have never taken an ACT course
Don’t want to practice
Cannot commit to doing the work
Don’t want to develop personally
Cannot participate in weekly live sessions (3/4 weeks per month)
Don’t have any clients
Your Investment
Your investment to join the Programme and become an effective ACT Therapist – equipping you with the knowledge, skills and systems that will serve you throughout your career – AND at the same time transform the lives of at least 80% of your clients is just £395 per month for six months.
That’s a total investment of £2370.
You’ll get dedicated coaching from Jim Lucas, an ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT Trainer.
How does it work?
Six Months of Group Coaching following the 9-Step Programme.
Video Lessons & Syllabus materials with exercises and reflective journaling.
(Almost) Weekly Group Practice: every 3 out of 4 weeks per month.
Unlimited 1:1 Support from me; book as many 15-minute sessions as possible.
Peer support from fellow programme participants.
Access to the Openforwards ACT Learning Centre Community
Limited to Five People per month
When is the next intake?
I have three cohorts per year:
January (Winter Start) to June
May (Spring Start) to November
September (Autumn/Fall Start) to March
Weekly Group Practice Sessions vary according to the seasonal cohort
Applications open at various times throughout the year.
November for January intake
March for May intake
July for September intake
How do I apply?
First, check if the programme is a good fit by carefully reading the information above.
Book a non-obligation Discovery Call so I can get to know your practice, walk you through the process, answer your questions, and together, we’ll determine if we're a good fit.