Learn ACT from Dr. Steven C. Hayes (original) (raw)

There’s a paradox in the modern world.

On the one hand, we have greater prosperity than we’ve ever had in the history of humankind.

If you had to pick a moment to be born and you couldn’t decide where, you couldn’t do a better job than to pick right now.

But at the same time, we have rising rates of anxiety, depression, and stress — plus behavioral health problems of all sorts and world wide social struggles.

Our ability to manage our own behavior personally and socially is going down, not up.

We’re challenging our ability to sort of “be with ourselves,” even as our modern world generates more judgement, more comparison, and more exposure to pain.

Therefore, we have to create modern minds for this modern world.

We need to understand the underlying processes that take life trajectories in negative or positive directions; that’s what Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is all about.

In presenting this online course, what I’m most excited to share with the world is this: that we’re finally ready to go beyond protocols — beyond protocols for syndromes, beyond the one-size-fits-all, beyond the rule book — into something that I think is far more progressive and empowering of professionals in every role.

Do you work with human beings, promoting their prosperity and alleviating their problems?

If that’s the kind of work you do, this is the kind of course I hope you take, because if you are able to move the underlying change processes, you’re going to be able to do better work in the interest of the lives that you serve.

I’m excited because we’re finally in a place where we can make ACT accessible to you no matter where you are in the world, and no matter what your schedule is.

And I know that thousands and thousands of lives will be uplifted by the work that you, and others, will do as a result.

I hope that you’ll join me inside the course. It’s time to learn how to see the difference you’re making, and move the underlying processes that matter in the long-term.