Sharpen Your Skills: Intermediate ACT workshop for clinicians, June 2026

15 & 16 June 2026

Salmond House, 57 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington

This workshop enables you to practise using ACT with more precision, flexibility and heart. It uses demonstrations, experiential exercises, role-plays, real-plays and self-reflection to develop your experiential understanding of ACT’s basic processes.

Key workshop topics include:

Troubleshooting values
Increasing client awareness of self
Using RFT principles to sharpen your clinical observations and focus your therapeutic questions
Helping clients observe and track their own experiences
Developing your own psychological flexibility
ACT formulation
Maintaining an ACT stance

Join us for a thought-provoking, interactive and fun two days.

This workshop is fully catered.

Designed for:

Mental health clinicians who have completed our Introduction to ACT Workshop, or a 2-day equivalent workshop with another ACT trainer.

Register:

Through eventbrite.

About your trainers:

Giselle Bahr and Ben Sedley are clinical psychologists and co-founders of ACT Wellington. Since being trained and supervised by many of the world’s leading ACT therapists and researchers, ACT has been the foundation of their practices for many years. Giselle and Ben have both worked at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, in Private Practice with adults and adolescents, and trained clinical psychology students at Victoria University of Wellington. Giselle has developed and facilitated groups introducing ACT to parents and adults, and served on the Board of ANZ ACBS. Ben wrote Stuff That Sucks: Accepting what you can’t change and committing to what you can, Holding the Heavy Stuff: making space for critical thoughts and painful emotions, and Stuff That’s Loud: A teen’s guide to unspiralling when OCD gets noisy (with Lisa Coyne). He is also an ACBS Peer Reviewed ACT Trainer.