ACT Practitioner & Coaching Certificate Beginner to Advance

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Explore the map of choice, linking conscious and subconscious decisions to present-focused behavior, consequences, and the path toward lasting satisfaction.

Explain how the satisfaction trap tempts impulsive choices, and show how delayed gratification and healthier daily decisions align with long-term health and fitness goals.

Explore delivery and strategy choices for personal development, weighing mentors, life coaches, self-help options, and mindfulness, CBT, NLP, and emotion freedom techniques to determine what works best for you.

Explore the last cue first approach and the hexagon of the mind, showing how science-based brain understanding and imagination empower independent, self-reliant living without lifelong coaching.

Explore the hexagon cycle and its six points to build psychological flexibility. Learn to act within the doing process to gain empowerment and foster freedom.

Explore the hexagon grounding method to pause time travel and anchor in the present moment. Use mindfulness, CBT, meditation, EFT, hypnosis, and yoga to shift into the zone of control.

Take ownership of your life by embracing 100 percent responsibility, leveraging CBT and LP to understand your mind, and applying acceptance and commitment techniques for lasting change.

Explore the hexagon of purpose, growth, and doing to ground your actions, own your path, and drive purposeful change for yourself and others.

Explore the first three cues within the hexagon of freedom and power, comparing delivery systems and strategies (mindfulness, CBT, ACT) to build a personal, integrated plan.

Explore how mindset choice reveals subconscious decisions, guiding when to seek help, balance guilt and shame with autonomy, and reprogram mental programs to move from point a to point b.

Explore how autonomy and initiative drive external action, while guilt and shame shape internal doing. Examine the teeter-totter between grounding and doing, and recognize experiential avoidance in this act framework.

Explore how mindset choice and cognitive fusion shape parental guilt, shame, and responsiveness, and learn to recognize subconscious patterns that sabotage coaching and promote proactive intervention.

Explore cognitive fusion around the belief that parenting is natural and innate, and examine how guilt, shame, and self-esteem shape how we prepare our child for adulthood.

Explore how shame rules the mind, erasing initiative and ownership over preparing a child for adulthood, and traps you in cycles of temporary relief while postponing empowerment.

Choose autonomy and initiative to pursue your goals, avoiding guilt and shame that fuel escapism and self-sabotage, and build mastery and empowerment along your life path.

Apply the ACT framework to move from subconscious patterns to autonomous ownership through mindfulness, grounding, mind mastery, and goal driven change.

Explore acceptance as the missing point in ACT, bridging guilt, shame, and emotional doom, and learn how acceptance leads to true freedom, empowerment, and mastery through acceptance commitment techniques.

Explore how acceptance in ACT fills the missing point in life coaching, addressing present thoughts and feelings and uniting heart up with brain down perspectives for smoother progress.

Explore ACT as an action oriented therapy that uses acceptance and commitment techniques within a hexagon framework to empower life mastery, drawing on CBT, coaching, and other disciplines.

Trace the history of ACT from early philosophy and rCBT to modern acceptance and commitment therapy, emphasizing accepting emotions, values-driven action, and the act of flux.

Explain the ACT hexaflex framework, linking present moment grounding, values, committed action, self as context, diffusion, and acceptance to build psychological flexibility and improve quality of life.

Explore the ACT triflex framework to build psychological flexibility by staying present, adopting self as context, and diffusing thoughts, while clarifying values and pursuing committed action.

Explore how sensory inputs become thoughts, memories, beliefs, and actions through cognitive filters and mental programs. Learn to apply choice points and Act tools like the matrix to strengthen acceptance.

Discover the Foursquare tool from Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, analyzing public and private behavior, real goals, and consequences with the ABC and IPO frameworks.

Explore the act matrix, a two-line grid mapping outer and inner experiences against avoidance and approaching desire, using probing questions to reveal thoughts, feelings, and motivation.

Identify the choice point as a map of current thoughts and actions toward or away from a desired goal. Use the bullseye and diffusion to unhook from fusion.

Explore the hooked versus unhooked mindset in ACT, map thoughts and feelings through the IPO mind framework, and learn starter questions to guide clients toward the bullseye with delayed gratification.

Explore a three-step model based on Egan's framework: what's going on now, what do you want, and how are you going to get there.

Learn to accelerate change with the star family coaching twist on Egan's questions, expanding to five actionable prompts and committing to steps today toward the bull's-eye.

Apply Egan questions and star family coaching to uncover beliefs and cognitive fusion, brainstorm actions, and boost social connection by pursuing friends and countering loneliness today.

Explore cognitive fusion as people interpret symbols through filters of memories and beliefs, producing divergent meanings and two outcomes: guiding action or disrupting present awareness.

Explore cognitive fusion with the world in your hands exercise and learn how thoughts and feelings block reality, then use diffusion to open up to the actual world.

Compare cognitive fusion and diffusion to show how clinging to certainty narrows possibilities, while diffusion expands perspectives and moves you from point a to point b with incremental steps.

Explore workability as a key act practitioner tool for moving from point a to point b, separating feelings and thoughts from strategy and framing workable actions.

Separate thoughts and feelings from strategies, recognizing the problem is the strategy, not the thoughts or feelings, and explore six fusion categories to unhook from unhelpful strategies.

Explore six categories of cognitive fusion in act, including past, future, self-concept, reasoning, rules, and judgment, and learn how fused thoughts shape inner experience.

Explore experiential avoidance in ACT, recognizing how avoidance of uncomfortable experiences steers us away from our bullseye and toward quick relief, hindering progress from point A to point B.

Explore acceptance vs avoidance and their roles in moving from A to B. Recognize when experiential avoidance protects you and when acceptance helps you act and grow.

Explore the six core paths that mirror the hex of psychological flexibility and rigidity. Learn to maintain present-moment contact, act by values, and break fusion with self-concept.

Break down the six core pathologies, starting with inflexible attention—distractability, disengagement, and disconnection—then remoteness of values, unworkable action, fusion with self-concept, and avoidance.

Learn functional contextualism, a way to observe behavior as strategies driving us away from our bull's-eye. Identify why actions occur and replace them with strategies that move toward goals.

Explore bullseye blindness in ACT, recognizing how a blindfold or fears block you from your bullseye, values, and real goals, and learn to remove it to reveal options.

Explore behavior context in ACT to uncover why we act by examining inner and outer environments, energy levels, safety needs, thoughts, feelings, and motivations.

Apply functional analysis to map behavior schemes and how short-term payoffs pull us away. Recognize cost and benefit dynamics and move through experiential avoidance toward the grand scheme.

Explore functional analysis by identifying payoff, benefits, and costs of behaviors, using reinforcing and punishing consequences to explain decision making and behavior change.

Explore ACT work mapping by linking ABC and IPO, analyzing antecedents, inputs, and processes, and using the Choice Point tool and CFP to map responses and payoffs.

Coach Hall introduces an assets and liabilities tool for functional analysis in a four-square matrix, mapping strategies toward the bullseye goal and separating actionable moves from counterproductive ones.

The lecture clarifies act flow by revisiting the hex of flex and the choice point, showing how to start from a driving problem and move toward the bull's-eye.

Identify what you want and what you don't want to refine your bullseye in ACT flow, using the human voyage, experience, and choice points to adapt goals over time.

Identify hooked moments in ACT flow by examining the situation, choice point dynamics, and strategies that move you toward or away from your bull's eye, including committed and unworkable actions.

Examine hook strategies in the ACT flow using the hex of flex to boost psychological flexibility, diffusion, and acceptance, grounding choices in present moment awareness and core values.

Deepen your act flow by using the hex symbol as a practical map, guiding personal practice and coaching through simple exposures to complex issues with diverse techniques.

Explore the hexaflex as a guiding map for ACT practice, emphasizing present moment contact, acceptance, diffusion, values, committed action, and the tri-flex approach to mindfulness and change.

Learn to use the hexaflex as a guide, starting with acceptance and grounding, to move from emotional distress to committed action through values, exposure, and functional analysis.

Explore becoming present through grounding and a 4-second inhale, 7-second hold, 8-second exhale, then apply the hex of flex to move from self as context to values-guided committed action.

Explore choosing between opening up and doing what matters within the ACT framework, using the tri-flex model to align acceptance, diffusion, values, and smart goals.

Apply ACT techniques to help Johnny become fully present, separate from unhelpful thoughts, explore values, and create a workable action plan to make friends.

Learn to set purpose-driven, value-based goals aligned with your values, guided by a clear why, to stay motivated and move from point a to point b.

Explore additional ACT components beyond the basics, including diffusion, dots and hard, reframing, and advanced goals, focused on the coach-client relationship and licensing considerations.

Explore how ACT differs as a thinking and feeling modality that leverages emotion to drive action, unhook triggers, and overcome obstacles beyond traditional CBT and life coaching.

Explore how emotions drive movement and choice, with a view of child development as an adult under construction, where emotions ground motivation and shape thinking and behavior.

Unpack motivation by examining core emotions—happy, sad, anger, content, surprise, disgust, curiosity—and learn to acknowledge, allow, and accept them to redirect emotion toward what matters.

This ACT lecture teaches acceptance by making peace with thoughts and feelings, naming and allowing emotions, desensitization through exposure, and role-play with trusted others to accommodate inner experiences.

Wraps up ACT by revisiting initial goals and tracking choices that stray from the bull's eye. Highlights the ACT hex, cognitive fusion, and the choice point for autonomous, committed action.

Explore ACT extras, including bullseye goals, tri flex, hex reflects, and the foursquare tool, choice point, diffusion versus fusion questions, plus Maslow's needs chart for values-based coaching.

Translate academic learning into action by practicing with the act hexa flex, overcoming cognitive fusion, and launching daily life in a free group that fosters mastery.