Save the Date! FACT Workshop Sept 6th,2025
With Kirk Strosahl and Patti Robinson
Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Powerful Behavior Change Services for All People
Sept 6, 2025
Warwick Public Library, Rhode Island
Kirk Strosahl, PhD and Patti Robinson, PhD
Workshop Description: This full day workshop is designed for mental health care providers and their colleagues in medical settings with interest in learning new skills for assisting patients with a broad range of presentations, from depression, anxiety and trauma to family problems, stress, and coping with chronic conditions. Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or “FACT” is a Brief Intervention version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that focuses on a single concern and aims to help a person improve their day-to-day functioning, sometimes in a single visit. Participants will use FACT practice tools to learn assessment, conceptualization, and intervention skills. Teaching activities will include pre-reading, lecture, discussion, demonstration / modeling, and skill practice in small groups.
Workshop Objectives:
1. Describe psychological flexibility.
2. Provide information about each of the three fACT Pillars of Psychological Flexibility: open, aware, engaged.
3. Describe two uses of the Four-Square Tool.
4. Explain how the Pillars Assessment Tool can assist the clinician with in-the-moment decisions about intervening and helping a person build coping skills.
5. Name two frequently used fACT metaphors.
6. Experiment with using the Life Path metaphor.
7. Describe the 4 domains of skill and knowledge identified on the Focused ACT (or fACT) Self-Assessment Tool (FACT SAT), and use this tool to develop a learning plan for after the workshop.
Information about presenters:
Kirk Strosahl, PhD. Heart Matters Consulting Kirk@heartmattersconsulting.com
Phone: 509-307-5332
Mailing Address:
8375 Enchanted Way SE
Turner, Oregon USA 97932
Affiliation: Dr. Strosahl is the President of Heart Matters Consulting.
Bio: Kirk Strosahl PhD is one of the founders of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and specializes in the application of ACT as a brief intervention. He has practiced for 30 years in a variety of brief intervention contexts, including brief therapy clinics and primary care. He has written several professional books on the brief applications of ACT, including Brief Interventions for Radical Change: Principles and Practice of Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Inside This Moment: Promoting Radical Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (with Robinson & Gustavsson, 2012, 2015). In 2018, he co-authored (with Robinson) the second edition of their best-selling self-help book, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression and Live a Vital Life. Dr. Strosahl’s recent books include Crisis Integration with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2024) and Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Essential Guide to the Principles and Practice of Mindful Psychiatry 2022). Dr. Strosahl has conducted numerous training workshops around the world; his approach to teaching is clinician oriented and skill based. Because of this, Dr. Strosahl has often been referred to as the “hands of ACT”.
Patti Robinson, PhD Mountainview Consulting Group
Patti@Mtnviewconsulting.com
Phone: 509-307-5333
Mailing Address: Same as above
Affiliation: Dr. Robinson is the Director of Training and Consultation Services for Mountainview Consulting Group (www.Mtnviewconsulting.com). Mountainview is a past
winner of the APA Presidential Innovative Practice Award (2009). Dr. Robinson is the cofounder of the Primary Care Behavioral Health model and Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and is now president elect for the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.
Bio: Patricia J. Robinson, Ph.D., is a leading expert in behavioral health integration, known for her groundbreaking work on developing the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model and Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or “FACT.” As co-author of "Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care: A Guide to Integrating Services," she has influenced many systems to bring behavioral health clinicians into primary care to deliver accessible, practical services designed to improve functioning. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Robinson has trained thousands of mental health and medical clinicians and worked with large and small health care organizations globally to promote delivery of engaging, evidence-based treatments to people of all ages, races, and cultures. Her book, now in its third edition, serves as a definitive guide for clinicians, educators, and policymakers looking to enhance accessible whole-person health care. Dr. Robinson’s passions include strengthening primary care teams, enhancing the benefits of behavioral health services, and supporting the resilience of health care clinicians. She lives in the Willamette Valley of Oregon with her partner and their two dogs, Mac and Molly.