The Heart of Acceptance Commitment Therapy | Robyn D. Walser

This is a keynote session by Robyn D. Walser for Self As Presence Conference organized by Just Being Center for Mindfulness & Presence in December 2021. ACT employs a variety of verbal and experiential processes and techniques to assist clients in making life enhancing choices based on personally held values. Part of the work done in ACT focuses on conscious awareness to experience while creating and enhancing psychological flexibility through ACT’s six core processes. Creating a personal presence in therapy is essential for both client and therapist and is cultivated through awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal processes across the arc of therapy. This presentation will focus on how the heart of the work done in ACT relies on the therapeutic interaction, creating presence to experience, assisting the client to live an open, aware and engaged life.