Process-based frameworks: Creating change for the 'whole person' in their social context

Recent years have seen a shift in psychotherapy research and practice away from protocol- or syndrome-based frameworks, and toward process-based alternatives. This shift allows scientist-practitioners to tap into a breadth of intervention research, so that we can avoid limiting ourselves to a single model of therapy, and instead utilise elements from a broader evidence-base to support change and growth in the people we work with.

Join us to hear Dr. Louise Hayes, a co-creator of the process-based framework DNA-V, share how these models can provide new perspectives and opportunities for people accessing therapy, while also supporting practitioners to more easily work with the whole person in their social context.

After the talk, attendees are welcomed to stay on at the venue and eat dinner together, and to make new connections or refresh old ones.

Our ACT in the Pub talks are a great opportunity to network with members of your local ACBS chapter and the ACT community, as well as learning new perspectives and approaches to utilising and thinking about ACT. Newcomers to the event, community, and to ACT are welcome!

Chapter members can access a code for discounted tickets here.

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6:00pm-6:30pm - meet and mingle with fellow attendees, and grab a drink on us

6:30pm-7:30pm - presentation from Louise Hayes

7:30pm onwards - networking/socialising - dinner purchasable from the venue

(while we hope to seat everyone staying to socialise/eat in one room, due to venue space limits we may need to split into two rooms)

Dr Louise Hayes is a clinical psychologist, author, international speaker and educator. Louise currently holds a position as Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University, where she collaborates on projects using contextual behavioural science. She is a peer-reviewed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT) trainer, engaged in training professionals worldwide. She is also a Fellow and Past President of ACBS.

Together with Joseph Ciarrochi, she developed DNA-V, a leading acceptance and commitment therapy model that has sparked international studies and school curricula. She is the co-author of the best-selling books for young people, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teenagers; and Your Life Your Way; for practitioners, The Thriving Adolescent; and this year for adults, What Makes You Stronger. Louise is also an active clinician working with adults and adolescents.

Louise leads a community of mindfulness practitioners, is a certified Buddhist meditation teacher and takes professionals into the Himalayas to develop their mindfulness skills and raise funds for children in remote Nepal.