<p>Four of Australia's most experienced ACT practitioners will help you raise your ACT skill levels in this highly experiential training workshop. Australia-New Zealand Chapter of Association for Contextual Behavioral Science invites you to a weeken...
<p>You can’t. You have the illusion, common in the Western world, that you control your mind or thoughts. Let me show you that you don’t. I’m going to make you think of a specific word. And I'm not going to say the word. Ready? Mary had a little xxx...
<p>“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Last week I busted one of the biggest mindfulness myths: that it’s a strategy to control thoughts (click here if you missed it). This week I tackle the s...
<p>“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Like me, you have probably heard a fair bit about “mindfulness” over the past few years. And, like me, you have probably noticed that it seems to be bein...
<p>What you can do when everything you try makes things worse There are some problems in life that are like that. The harder you try to escape the problem or overcome it the worse it gets. No matter what you do you remain stuck. Or you get temporary...
<p>Nervous stands up too It is my experience that no matter how easy the music or how many times I have delivered the workshop or no matter how simple the thing is that I need to do, I have noticed that the minute I stand up in front of others t...
<p>In this article Steve Hayes, the founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, pronounced as the word 'act'), talks openly about how he began his own ‘journey into the hell of panic disorder’. Steve's openness and willingness to talk abo...
<p>It’s normal to feel down and lonely when life gets rough or when you lose a loved one. This kind of depression is what everyone is familiar with. It’s temporary, and you can move on with your life after a period of time. However, when that same dr...
<p>Is counselling an effective therapy? Effective therapy is no accident. But many people hesitate to seek help for life’s challenges or to address psychological conditions because they are afraid counselling won’t work. This is understandable. In th...