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To purchase the music and directly support the artists click here: https://zulenadueto.bandcamp.com/album/luz-camino-y-gu-a I am joined by the marvelous Temple Morris, LCSW-C. She is a therapist/consultant in private practice at True North in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She is a mover and shaker in the ACT community especially in the psychedelic special interest group. In this episode we talk abut helping clients prepare for their plant medicine journeys, and to coach people to use ACT processes on these inner voyages. We talk about the entheogenic/psychedelic renaissance. Also, we discuss how our own explorations have informed our work and lives. To purchase the music and directly support the artists click here: https://zulenadueto.bandcamp.com/album/luz-camino-y-gu-a To contact Temple: https://truenorthact.com/staff/temple-morris-lcsw-c/ One River Book mentioned: https://daviswade.com/book-one-river My email: [email protected]

Into the heart of ACT (and really therapy) with Robyn Walser, PhD. Robyn has been an integral part of the development and dissemination of ACT for several decades. We discuss what it means to work from the heart, with presence and authenticity. Robyn has a new on demand course through praxiscet: Healing Trauma with ACT. Robyn’s website: http://www.tlconsultationservices.com/index.html.  To purchase the album of music on this podcast: https://zulenadueto.bandcamp.com/releases If you are interested in joining my a group consultation with me, email me at [email protected]

#33 with Henry Whitfield. We discuss his recent publication (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.727572/full), issues of self and content/process/context, and finish with a real-play demonstration of Henry leading me through a integration session. Henry is a peer reviewed ACT trainer. He has written, co-written and edited training manuals for ACT, TIR and FAP. As a visiting research fellow at Regents University London, he focuses his research on the development of ACT-consistent models for psychedelic-assisted therapy. His psychedelic plant medicine path has changed how he does psychotherapy especially with self-concept issues. Music: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK2zQsSa7ixMdPyi32nT-vg Mural Artist:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077566398655 Henry’s 2022 in-person training: https://psychflex.co.uk/product/expanded-act-for-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-integrated-trauma-focused-act-for-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-including-traumatic-incident-reduction-tir-and-parts-work/?fbclid=IwAR1w5sCEuecGCF5c0vZRXr0tSbtdM8Xe_egAdmrFCi4_XFZLnFsvjm6FzrA my contact info: [email protected]

From episode #32

What you know about your Self? Join me as I mix it up with Dr. Louise McHugh to discuss this very important topic of The Self. She provides a friendly crash course in RFT and helps to show how RFT is useful in understanding different selfing repertoires. Dr. McHugh is associate professor of psychology at University College Dublin, a Fellow in the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences, and has contributed mightily to the contextual behavioral science view of the self. GO AND GET A COPY of her he book A Contextual Behavioral Guide to the Self: Theory and Practice. It's a must read for ACT clinicians. She sometimes provides training through this org: https://actnow.co/ Mooji: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ui3vIvymDE&t=340s i'm available for group and/or individual consultation: [email protected]

I’m joined by Dr. Mitch Fryling to discuss functional thinking and open the aperture a bit, from a causal way of interpretation, to a field perspective. Mitch is gifted at making Interbehavioral philosophy approachable and even fun. We dissect what “function” points at, public vs. private events, and problems with mentalistic thinking.  Artilcles discussed: Are Thoughts Private: https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/593/59335812001.pdf OVERCOMING THE PSEUDO-PROBLEM OF PRIVATE EVENTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mitch-Fryling/publication/272788235_Overcoming_the_pseudo-problem_of_private_events_in_the_analysis_of_behavior/links/54ee091c0cf25238f9397168/Overcoming-the-pseudo-problem-of-private-events-in-the-analysis-of-behavior.pdf Emily Sandoz’ Interbehavior as a clinical focus in CBS: A response to Hayes and Fryling (2019) (full access available ACBS members)  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212144720302015?dgcid=rss_sd_all If interested in training groups: [email protected]

Big number 30 with ACT and OCD ninja, Lisa Coyne, PhD. We discuss screen, how to value and shape valuing, OCD/ERP, and how to pivot when your bid to do exposure work is rejected.  Check out Lisa’s New England Center for OCD and Anxiety for training and consultation: https://www.newenglandocd.org/ If you are interested in group or individual consultation w/ me: marcel@marceltassara

From start to finish, this interview with Yash Bhambhani, PhD, is a palpable demonstration of mindfulness in action. Yash is a psychologist at an addiction treatment clinic at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, assistant professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. We discuss (and embody) how to go about appreciating in therapy. contact info for Yash: [email protected] https://ybhambha.wixsite.com/yashbhambhaniphd my contact info: [email protected]

So happy to bring you Luisa Canon, PsyD, BCBA-D. We discuss her functional approach to therapy, the embodiment of the CBS approach, and learning to trust yourself as a clinician. She is available for consultation: https://www.acttothrivela.com/contact I am also available for consultation, both individual and group: [email protected]

Part II with Steve Hayes, PhD. We dive into thinking and conceptualizing functionally, psychological flexibility and health, the importance of history, and we get into a therapy demo around people pleasing. Steve's website: https://stevenchayes.com/ my contact if interested in individual/group consultation: [email protected] Report of ACBS task force: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212144721000302 subscribe, like, review

The one and only Steve Hayes, PhD joins me to talk about how clinicians can get more precise with ACT by being more grounded in 4 areas: Behavioral principles, RFT, Evolutionary science principles, and Functional Contextualism. Steve's website: https://stevenchayes.com/ please subscribe, like, review my contact if interested in individual/group consultation: [email protected]

Excited to bring you Bartosz Kleszcz, a real mover and shaker within ACBS, whose values are on full display with the upcoming LAMIC conference he helped to create. This free 2-day conference features presenters from Low and Middle Income Countries, - May 16 & 23 2021, no registration required (http://uczesieact.pl/cbs-lamic-online-conference/ and https://fb.me/e/R9H2VvEb) We discuss the conference, the utility of behavioral principles in helping us connect more with our clients, and how ROE can help clinicians thinking functionally. I also am available for individual and/or group consultation, currently am running FAP training groups for therapists as well - [email protected]