ACT for a Valued Life
An 8 week therapeutic group teaching Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT for a valued Life is an 8 session group therapy program that will provide you a set of tools and new perspectives to help get you on track to a more intentional, meaningful and rich life.
Are you:
- Struggling with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings?
- Using coping strategies that are ineffective, and may be draining your time, health, energy and vitality?
- Wanting to live a more purposeful, rich and meaningful life?
At the completion of this program you will be better equipped to:
- Relate to your distressing thoughts and feelings so they have less impact on and less influence over you, and
- Change your behaviors to take you more consistently in the direction you want to go.
This group is about helping you get in the drivers seat of your life and learning how to stay the course towards your values in spite of the challenges presented by anxiety, depression, insecurity, doubt, fear, despair and other distressing thoughts and feelings.
ACT for a Valued Life will introduce you to core concepts of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and train you in what is known as psychological flexibility.
Core skills development areas involve learning how to accept what we cannot change, and take effective action towards the values we most want to demonstrate in our life. We will learn this by exploring these skill areas:
| • | Mindfulness | • | Values assessment |
| • | Self-awareness and self-compassion | • | Goal setting and follow through |
We will be learning and practicing these skills in the group, while also exploring relevance of these skills to daily struggles in life. This group will also support skills development in the following areas:
| • | Communication | • | Time management | • | Decision making |
| • | Relationships | • | Assertiveness | • | Conflict management |
When: Wednesday Evenings, 7:00-8:30 beginning January 18 through March 14 (we will not meet 2/8/2012)
Where: Living Well Transitions, 1966 13th Street, Suite 270 between Pearl and Walnut Streets in downtown Boulder Cost: $275 for the 8-week course.
Who: This group is sponsored by Boulder Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, and will be facilitated by Brooks Witter, MA, LPC.
About the facilitator: Brooks is a licensed professional counselor in professional practice since 2005. Brooks offers individual and group psychotherapy in his private practice and also provides supervision for clinicians seeking licensure as professional counselors in Colorado. He has served in a number of clinical roles at Living Well Transitions, an intensive therapeutic support program in Boulder, Colorado, where he currently serves as the Senior Therapist. Brooks sees much of his work as helping people learn, apply and practice real skills to self-liberate from ineffective habitual patterns and move more intentionally towards their visions of a rich and meaningful life. Brooks also serves as Vice President of the Board of the Colorado Chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.