Context Matters Symposium 2024

ANZ ACBS, in partnership with La Trobe University's ACTUALISE Lab, is excited to once again co-hosting a one-day research symposium for researchers in our region - and beyond - to share advances in contextual behavioural science and understanding.

Keynote presentations will be delivered by Dr Lisa Coyne and Dr Baljinder Sahdra

Abstract submissions (200-words) for 20-minute presentations are now open here and close Sunday 15th September. 

Dr Lisa Coyne 

Keynote title TBD

Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School, and is a senior clinical consultant at the Child and Adolescent OCD Institute (OCDI Jr.) at McLean Hospital. She is also an associate clinical professor at Suffolk University in Boston, a licensed clinical psychologist, and an internationally recognized acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer. Dr. Coyne has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters on anxiety, OCD, and parenting. She is the author of The Joy of Parenting: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years, a book for parents of young children.

A/Prof. Baljinder Sahdra

Advancing the Methods for a Personalised Science of Human Improvement

A/Prof. Baljinder Kaur Sahdra is a full-time researcher at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, Australia. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. She has made substantial scientific contributions in the areas of well-being, mindfulness, compassion, nonattachment, intensive meditation, discrimination and social identity, compulsive internet use, educational psychology, and personalized psychology (see her publications here: https://bit.ly/BaljinderSahdraPhD). Most relevant for this keynote presentation, her recent research focuses on advancements in idionomic methods that combine idiographic and nomothetic insights, which can inform personalisation of psychological interventions. She will present latest findings from the idionomic investigation of psychological processes of change, such as, compassion, mindfulness, striving for positive experiences, and the various dimensions of psychological flexibility and inflexibility.