- What makes ACT so accessible?
- The 6 core principles of ACT
- Being in the moment v. lost in the past or future
- Accepting reality as it is right now
- Noticing thoughts v. getting caught up in them
- Connecting to a bigger sense of self
- Making values-driven decisions
- Taking meaningful action
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
The SHAPE Framework of Clinical Supervision
Supervision Values
- Clarify goals and big picture values for the supervision process
- Contract to create meaningful commitment
- Check in regularly on direction and goals of supervision
- How to give difficult feedback effectively
- Attending to the highs and lows of the supervisory relationship
- How to help supervisees learn from experience to loosen strict rule-governed behaviors
- Attend to workability
- Monitor stories and encourage flexible responding
- How to foster curiosity about the context and function of client behaviors
- Functional analysis of how the supervisee affects client behaviors
- Attending to the context and workability of what happens in the supervision sessions
- Why it’s important to promote flexible perspective taking
- How to help supervisees notice variations of experience and perspectives across contexts
- How to take different perspectives of the same experience
- Building reflective ability by seeing things form clients’ and supervisor’s perspectives, and assessing workability
- Why it’s important to use experiential methods to increase sensitivity to client-therapist context
- How to show rather than tell – use of role play, modeling, video, direct observation
- Noticing the effects of describing versus evaluating
- What to do when the supervisee is stuck or when things are not working





