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ACT on Your Dreams
Say YES to your dreams BUY before June 1st and SAVE $100.
Make it easy on yourself and call me today 720-260-7702.
Join this six week group and move towards achieving your dreams by clarifying your values based on your heart’s desire. Create and implement a step-by-step action plan. Learn what barriers stand in the way of your progress and how to move beyond those barriers.
This program is based on Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) which is a unique and creative model based on the use of mindfulness and values guided action. ACT is a powerful program that is on the cutting-edge of research with proven results reflecting it to be effective in maximizing the human potential for a rich, full and meaningful life.
Wednesday Evenings: July 25-Aug. 29; 6:30-8:00pm
- July 25, Session 1: Values Clarification
- Aug. 1, Session 2: See it to Believe it Vision Board
- Aug. 8, Session 3: Goals and Action Plans
- Aug. 15, Session 4: Powerful Skills for Creating Change
- Aug. 22, Session 5: Tools for Obstacles and Road Blocks
- Aug. 29, Session 6: Keep it Going with Motivation and Vitality
Cost: $240 by July 11; $275 After July 11: $50 per session at the door. Limit – eight participants
Facilitated by Brenda Bomgardner, MA, LPC, NCC, Board Certified Coach
Quick & easy registration – Call Brenda today 720-260-7702
Early, Early Bird special expires June 1. Don’t hesitate to buy now and SAVE $100.
Ongoing groups:
1) Create a Private Practice You Will Love. This is a year long program for launching and building your private practice. It is currently closed.
- Create a unique vision and mission based on your values.
- Define and clarify your niche and attract your ideal client.
- Develop an unforgettable image that reflects your special talents.
- Learn to master networking so you can effectively market your practice and serve people in your community with your good work.
This is a 12 month program to receive coaching in building a private practice. But the full package and save $300 which is 30% savings off the full price of $1000. Meetings are twice a month for 2 hours. Call for details
2) Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) and Habit Reversal Training (HRT) for Trichotillomania (TTM). This is a 16 week group for TTM. It is currently closed
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Skills Training for Therapists
May 16 – June 20, 2012
Facilitators: Brenda Bomgardner, MA, NCC, BCC and Christine Allison, MA, LPC, NCC
This 6-week training and consultation group for therapists will cover the core processes of ACT – a contextually focused form of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy that uses mindfulness and behavioral activation to increase clients’ psychological flexibility.
Empirical evidence demonstrates ACT’s effectiveness in treating a wide range of disorders, from anxiety, depression, and PTSD, to chronic pain, eating disorders and substance abuse. Effective with individuals, couples and groups, ACT helps clients to live in the present moment, connect with their values, and effectively handle painful thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations and urges.
Studies have shown that ACT training increases therapist effectiveness and reduces therapist burnout. The group will be experiential and participants will have an opportunity to discuss cases. Training will cover:
- May 16: Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Functional Contextualism
- May 23: Creative Hopelessness and Experiential Avoidance
- May 30: Self-as-Context and Mindfulness
- June 6: Defusion Skills
- June 13: Values and Committed Action
- June 20: ACT Case Conceptualization
The above dates are for Wednesdays from 11am-1pm
About the Facilitators:
Christine and Brenda have received specialized ACT training with:
Christine Allison, MA, LPC, NCC
- Steven Hayes, Ph.D., the originator of ACT
- Robyn Walsler, Ph.D., speciality trauma
- John Frosyth, PH.D., anger and anxiety
- Colleen Ehnstrom, Ph.D., sleep disorders and chronic pain
- Anrica Buckner, Ph. D., On-going consultation and supervision.
- Kathy Baur, Ph.D., Brenda is receiving on-going coaching for the past two years for coaching with ACT two to three times per month.
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy Associates of Denver, LLC: Christine participate in an on-going ACT consultation with other therapists
Cost: $250 before April 9; $275 after April 9
Location: This workshop will take place at 1776 South Jackson St. Ste 402, Denver, CO 80210
Get in Touch with Brenda and reserve your spot:
Brenda@CreatingYourBeyond.com or call 720-260-7702
You’re Not Who You Think You Are
June 24, from 3:00-5:00, arrive at 2:45 to register
You have probably heard these sayings:
- I think therefore I am.
- Learn to think for yourself.
- Develop your mind.
- Think harder.
Our society teaches us that thinking is the ultimate human ability. We are encouraged to think logically and to think positively. Of course, thinking skills are very important. But, there’s more to you than your thoughts!
In this workshop you will learn how to connect with that part of you that is separate from your thoughts, a part of you that’s able to observe your mind in action, and is able to notice your mind’s habitual and sometimes self-sabotaging patterns. This is your observing self.
In this workshop, you will learn ways to utilize your observing self and develop psychological flexibility. You will learn to free yourself from the limitations of your thinking mind.
Date/Time: June 24th,
Location: People House, 3035 West 25th Ave., Denver CO 80211
Also, I can bring this workshop to you or your team.
One Day Introductory ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
Training for Professionals
Be Present, Show Up and Do What Matters
October 13th, 9:30-3:30
Presented by:
Christine Allison, MA, LPC, NCC and Brenda Bomgardner, MA, NCC, BCC
Objectives:
- Develop an understanding of the ACT model of human suffering and its alleviation.
- Learn what experiential avoidance is and how it contributes to human suffering.Understand how to utilize the six core processes of ACT, which include:
- Acceptance of private experiences (i.e., willingness to experience uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, or physical sensations in the service of responding effectively and flexibly).
- Cognitive defusion or emotional separation/distancing (i.e., observing one’s own uncomfortable thoughts without automatically taking them literally or attaching any
particular value to them) - Being present (i.e., being able to direct attention flexibly and voluntarily to present external and internal events rather than automatically focusing on the past or future)
- A perspective-taking sense of self (i.e., being in touch with a sense of ongoing awareness)
- Clarification of values that are personally important
- Commitment to action for achieving identified personal values
- Understand how mindfulness supports different ACT processes.
- Learn how ACT defines psychological flexibility and how the six core processes increase psychological flexibility.
- Acquire ACT skills to help clients live a more meaningful and vital life.
Cost $100
This workshop will take place at 1776 South Jackson St. Ste 402, Denver, CO 80210
Get in Touch with Brenda at:
Brenda@CreatingYourBeyond.com or call 720-260-7702
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Brenda Buford
November 7, 2011 at 23:05 (UTC -6)
Lady’s – I am so BUMMED I missed the Oct. 17th workshop. My reminder didn’t go off and I forgot all about it. Is there any chance I can attend another workshop you might be holding that will cover the same material ?
Thanks,
Brenda Buford
Brenda Bomgardner
November 8, 2011 at 00:54 (UTC -6)
Brenda,
I missed you at the last workshop, You’re Not Who You Think You Are. We are not repeating it until the spring. (TBA)
I will be facilitating a workshop in January, Finding Your True North for the New Year: In this workshop we will focus on values clarification as well as how to use your unique set of values to create lasting change for the New Year.
Please let me know if you are interested in attending. It will be a three hour workshop hosted at People House on Monday, January 23 from 5:30-8:30 pm.
Warmly, Brenda
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