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Nurturing Roots to Reach New Heights - Pre-conference Workshop

Sat, 25 Oct

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RMIT Melbourne City Campus

Revisiting Foundations of ACT as Clinical Behaviour Analysis for Mastering Flexible, Process-Based Implementation

Nurturing Roots to Reach New Heights - Pre-conference Workshop
Nurturing Roots to Reach New Heights - Pre-conference Workshop

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

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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

      GST included

    • 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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        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.

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          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

              GST included

            • 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

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