Nurturing Roots to Reach New Heights - Pre-conference Workshop
Sat, 25 Oct
|RMIT Melbourne City Campus
Revisiting Foundations of ACT as Clinical Behaviour Analysis for Mastering Flexible, Process-Based Implementation
Time & Location
25 Oct 2025, 9:00 am AEDT – 26 Oct 2025, 5:00 pm AEDT
RMIT Melbourne City Campus, 445 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Attendees
About the event
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is defined by its behaviour analytic roots and its focus on building flexibility into the behavioural repertoire. Many ACT clinicians, however, find behaviour analytic language lacking in its ability to capture and inform the clinical work they do every day. Instead, ACT assessments and interventions are typically guided by less specific “mid-level terms,” such as acceptance, defusion, and values. While mid-level terms certainly reduce the barriers to learning ACT as a new approach, they may unnecessarily limit the clinicians’ application of ACT to the creation and use of techniques, exercises, and metaphors that target flexibility components. This workshop offers practice with an alternative approach to ACT mastery - ACT as clinical behaviour analysis.
ACT as clinical behaviour analysis is simply the direct clinical application of functional contextual behavioural science and behaviour analytic theory, typically in a talk therapy format. Many trained outside of the behavioural…
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Professional registration
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31 Aug, 12:00 am AEST
Early registration rate For professionals - practitioners, researchers, educators, or trainers.
$550.00
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Professional registration
For professionals - practitioners, researchers, educators, or trainers.
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31 Aug, 12:00 am AEST
$625.00
GST included
Low-income registration
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31 Aug, 12:00 am AEST
Early registration rate For professionals working less than full-time, retired, or otherwise in need of a lower rate - practitioners, researchers, educators, or trainers.
$450.00
GST included
Low-income registration
For professionals working less than full-time, retired, or otherwise in need of a lower rate - practitioners, researchers, educators, or trainers.
Goes on sale
31 Aug, 10:05 am AEST
$525.00
GST included
Student registration
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31 Aug, 12:00 am AEST
Early registration rate For current students in undergraduate, postgraduate, or research degrees; recent graduates (within the last 2 years); or those undertaking post-qualification pathways (e.g. registrar/endorsement/accreditation/fellowship)
$325.00
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Student registration
For current students in undergraduate, postgraduate, or research degrees; recent graduates (within the last 2 years); or those undertaking post-qualification pathways (e.g. registrar/endorsement/accreditation/fellowship)
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31 Aug, 12:00 am AEST
$400.00
GST included
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