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Our Chapter Conference

Bringing it Together

A highlight of our calendar is the ANZ ACBS conference - a chance for our members and community to meet, connect, and learn from each other and from international CBS experts.

2024 Conference
University of Newcastle,
Newcastle City Campus, Australia

Tickets now available

2024 Australia & New Zealand Contextual Behavioural Science Conference
2024 Australia & New Zealand Contextual Behavioural Science Conference
Chapter Member discounts
54 DAYS TO THE EVENT
Our 2024 chapter conference, to be held in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Conference Submissions

Do you have a workshop, panel, or symposium, that would contribute to the 2024 conference?

We'd love to hear about it!

Pre-Conference Workshops

  • Focused ACT for Brief Interventions: The Basics and Beyond
    Focused ACT for Brief Interventions: The Basics and Beyond
    Membership Offer
    Wed, 31 Jan
    NUspace, The University of Newcastle
    31 Jan 2024, 9:00 am AEDT – 01 Feb 2024, 5:00 pm AEDT
    NUspace, The University of Newcastle, Hunter Street &, Auckland St, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
    31 Jan 2024, 9:00 am AEDT – 01 Feb 2024, 5:00 pm AEDT
    NUspace, The University of Newcastle, Hunter Street &, Auckland St, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
    Join Kirk Strosahl and Patti Robinson at this in-person pre-conference workshop
  • Transforming Interrupted Lives: Using ACT as A Client-Centered Process-Based Approach for Treating Trauma
    Transforming Interrupted Lives: Using ACT as A Client-Centered Process-Based Approach for Treating Trauma
    Membership Offer
    Wed, 31 Jan
    NUSpace, The University of Newcastle
    31 Jan 2024, 9:00 am AEDT – 01 Feb 2024, 5:00 pm AEDT
    NUSpace, The University of Newcastle, Hunter Street &, Auckland St, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
    31 Jan 2024, 9:00 am AEDT – 01 Feb 2024, 5:00 pm AEDT
    NUSpace, The University of Newcastle, Hunter Street &, Auckland St, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
    Join Robyn Walser at this in-person pre-conference workshop
Invited Presenters
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Patti Robinson

Focused ACT for Brief Interventions: The Basics and Beyond

Dr. Patricia Robinson, PhD, is currently the Director of Training and Program Evaluation for Mountainview Consulting Group, and winner of the APA Presidential Innovative Practice Award (2009). She is the co-founder of the Primary Care Behavioral Health model and Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She provides consultation and training services internationally and is committed to improving access to healthcare services and to realization of health equity. Earlier in her career, she worked as a researcher and clinician for Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, WA and as a Behavioral Health Consultant for Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic in Toppenish, WA. She has authored many articles, book chapters and books. With Jeff Reiter, she is now writing the 3rd Edition of Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care: A Guide to Integrating Services.

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Kirk Strosahl

Focused ACT for Brief Interventions: The Basics and Beyond

Dr. Kirk Strosahl is a co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and has long been a chief proponent of using ACT as a brief intervention. He has co-authored professional books on brief applications of ACT, including Brief Interventions for Radical Change: Principles and Practice of Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Robinson & Gustavsson, co-authors, 2012, New Harbinger Publications), and Inside This Moment: Promoting Radical Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Robinson & Gustavsson, co-authors, 2015, New Harbinger Publications). He has also co-authored best-selling ACT self-help books, including The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression, 2nd Edition (Robinson, co-author, 2018, New Harbinger Publications). Along with five psychiatrists from around the world, he recently published a book on ACT for psychiatric practitioners, Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Essential Guide to the Process and Practice of Mindful Psychiatry (Goubert, Torneke, Purrsey, Loftus & Roberts, co-authors, 2020, American Psychiatric Publishing). Dr. Strosahl has conducted numerous training workshops on ACT around the world. Because his approach to teaching is so clinician-oriented, accessible and practical, Dr. Strosahl has been referred to as the “hands of ACT”.

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Robyn Walser

Transforming Interrupted Lives: Using ACT as A Client-Centered Process-Based Approach for Treating Trauma

Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D. is Director of TL Consultation Services and and works at the National Center for PTSD. She is the Co-Director of Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinical Services and is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. As a licensed psychologist, she maintains an international training, consulting, and therapy practice. Dr. Walser is an expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and has co-authored 7 books on ACT including a book on learning ACT. She has most recently written a book entitled: The Heart of ACT- Developing a Flexible, Process-based, and Client-centered Practice Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Dr. Walser has expertise in traumatic stress, depression, moral injury, and suicide; and has authored a number of articles, chapters, and books on these topics. She has been doing ACT workshops since 1997; training in multiple formats and for multiple client problems. Dr. Walser's workshops feature a combination of didactic and experiential exercises designed to provide a unique learning opportunity in this state-of-the-art intervention.

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