Session C1 | Workshop | Part 1
Tracks
Stream C
| Friday, September 18, 2026 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM |
Overview
“The Quick and Dirty” – Applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) - Toni Lindsay (105 mins)
Details
This workshop will run over two session blocks, C1 & C2 | 2:00 - 3:45 pm & 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Presenter
Dr Toni Lindsay
Chris O'Brien Lifehouse
“The Quick and Dirty” – Applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
2:00 PM - 6:00 PMAbstract
Many people undertake Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) training and develop the skills and strategies to apply ACT with their clients, but then get stuck! Many common questions are things like:
- “But what does it mean to just sit with something?”
- “I have identified the values, now what?”
- “What do you do when defusion doesn’t work?”
- “How do I know if I am doing ACT?”
This workshop is designed to be a refresher for those who have done their training a while ago or have a good working knowledge of ACT, but also an opportunity for a hands-on experimental discussion about how to apply advanced ACT skills. Whilst working through the Hexaflex, the trainer will provide several role plays to demonstrate tricky clinical skills such as working with uncertainty, and stuckness, as well as showing how to weave ACT concepts into therapeutic practice. Participants will be asked to engage in reflective practice around their own experience of using ACT, and where they feel the gaps are. The workshop will allow participants to bring examples of their own practice where they feel that they have gotten stuck, as well as to hear how others manage when bumping into difficult clinical situations.
- “But what does it mean to just sit with something?”
- “I have identified the values, now what?”
- “What do you do when defusion doesn’t work?”
- “How do I know if I am doing ACT?”
This workshop is designed to be a refresher for those who have done their training a while ago or have a good working knowledge of ACT, but also an opportunity for a hands-on experimental discussion about how to apply advanced ACT skills. Whilst working through the Hexaflex, the trainer will provide several role plays to demonstrate tricky clinical skills such as working with uncertainty, and stuckness, as well as showing how to weave ACT concepts into therapeutic practice. Participants will be asked to engage in reflective practice around their own experience of using ACT, and where they feel the gaps are. The workshop will allow participants to bring examples of their own practice where they feel that they have gotten stuck, as well as to hear how others manage when bumping into difficult clinical situations.
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Dr Toni Lindsay is a Clinical and Health Psychologist who has been working with both adults and adolescents since 2007.
She works at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse in the Oncology service and is a specialist in the care of Adolescents and Young Adults with cancer. Toni teaches in the Department of Adolescent Medicine at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney Nursing School.
'Everything Anxiety Ever Told You is a Lie' is her 5th book. 'The Certainty Myth' (2022) and ‘The Cancer Companion’ (2021), as well as two textbooks 'ACT at the End' (2024) and ‘Cancer, Sex, Drugs and Death’ (2017) are all about the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
She is an AHPRA approved supervisor, and AHPRA approved Supervision Trainer and provides clinical supervision for both psychologists and other health professionals.
