Early bird discount of 100 EUR if you register before March 1st - use code "T-F-ACT"
Russ Harris
Russ Harris
Trauma-focused ACT (TFACT): working with body, mind and emotion
An in-depth, integrated approach to healing from trauma with world renowned ACT trainer Dr. Russ Harris. Stockholm, Sweden – May 22-23, 2025.
Trauma-focused ACT
Discover cutting-edge strategies for healing the past, living in the present, and building a new future
If you want to help your clients find safety and security in their bodies, unlearn old physical responses to trauma, overcome hyperarousal and hypoarousal, shift from self-hatred to self-compassion, work mindfully with body memory, break free from dissociation, and learn how to build develop rich and meaningful lives? Then this 2-day masterclass is for you.
This advanced-level ACT training is intensely practical, with a major emphasis on working with the body and limbic system. Sadly many therapists don’t realise that ACT is a powerful somatic therapy, ideal for working flexibly and creatively with the body (which is, of course, where so much trauma is “imprinted”). This masterclass will show you how to use ACT in a deeper, holistic, integrative way, to work flexibly with body, mind and emotion.
What is trauma-focused ACT?
Trauma-Focused ACT (TFACT) is a flexible, comprehensive approach model for treating the entire spectrum of trauma-related issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addiction, depression, anxiety disorders, moral injury, chronic pain, shame, suicidality, insomnia, complicated grief, attachment issues, sexual problems, and more.
This is what you can look forward to
In this two-day advanced level training, you’ll discover cutting-edge strategies for healing the past, living in the present, and building a new future. With this compassion-based, exposure-centered approach, you’ll learn how to help your clients:
- Find safety and security in their bodies
- Overcome hyperarousal and hypoarousal
- Break free from dissociation
- Shift from self-hatred to self-compassion
- Rapidly ground themselves and reengage in life
- Unhook from difficult cognitions and emotions
- Develop an integrated sense of self
- Resolve traumatic memories through “inner child” work and flexible exposure
- Connect with and live by their values, and engage fully in life here and now
- Experience post-traumatic growth
Who is this training for?
This course is for practitioners working with trauma with a least a beginners-level knowledge in ACT.
This course will help you become more flexible, fluent and creative in ACT, so you can work effectively not just with PTSD but with the entire spectrum of trauma-related issues: simple, complex, acute or chronic.
Here's what you'll learn:
- The neurobiology of trauma, including Polyvagal theory and Attachment theory
- How to work effectively with the limbic system
- How to bring a numb body back to life
- Why and how “talk therapy” and “supportive counselling” can keep clients stuck in trauma
- How to use movement and mindfulness to help a client’s body unlearn old adaptive responses to trauma
- How to work with a freeze response
- How to help clients find a sense of safety and security in their body
- Simple psychoeducation to help clients understand their trauma symptoms
And you’ll also learn about:
- How to reverse hopelessness and build optimism from the word ‘go’
- How to rapidly ground and centre your clients
- How to use values for post-traumatic growth
- Epigenetic aspects of trauma, and how to ameliorate them
- How to recognise and reverse emotional dysregulation
- Powerful new tools, techniques and metaphors for working with trauma
- When and where ‘mindfulness meditation’ is contraindicated in trauma work
- How to use mindfulness processes flexibly and safely (without meditation)
And this too:
- The art and science of compassionate, flexible exposure
- How to keep exposure safe by ‘Dipping in’ and ‘Dipping out’
- How to develop self-compassion, step-by-step, in the face of self-hatred
- How to revisit traumatic memories safely, without getting trapped in them
- How to use self-as-context naturalistically to help clients transcend past trauma
- How to deconstruct and overcome shame, step-by-step
And, as if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also discover:
- Inner child imagery and rescripting
- Nightmare rehearsal and rescripting
- Working with body memory
- Defusion from self-hatred, self-criticism, self-blame
- Mindfulness and defusion as antidotes to worrying, rumination, catastrophising
- How to overcome common barriers to change
- Working with comorbidity
- Shifting paradigms: from the “window of tolerance” to the “window of flexibility”
- Making “homework” simple, desirable, and likely to be successful
- And much, much more!
MEET your trainer
Russ Harris
Dr Russ Harris, author of the best-selling self-help book ‘The Happiness Trap‘, is an internationally-renowned trainer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). Russ’s background is in medicine. As a GP he became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, and increasingly disenchanted with writing prescriptions. Ultimately this interest led to a total career change, and he now works in two different, yet complementary roles: both as a therapist and as a coach.
Since 2005, Russ has run over 800 two-day workshops and provided ACT training for 80,000 health professionals. He has authored four ACT textbooks (ACT Made Simple, Trauma Focused ACT, Getting Unstuck in ACT, ACT Questions & Answers), and four ACT-based self-help books (The Happiness Trap, The Reality Slap, The Confidence Gap and ACT with Love). In addition, he has co-authored two other self-help books: The Weight Escape and The Happiness Trap Pocketbook. His best-known book, The Happiness Trap, has sold over one million copies worldwide, with translations into more than 30 languages.
unique training opportunity with
Russ Harris
Russ has a unique model for training, which he calls ‘ACT Made Simple’, because it covers so much material in a short space of time. He proudly proclaims each workshop a ‘jargon-free zone’ – and bases his training on three core values: simplicity, clarity, and having fun. His highly-acclaimed ACT workshops are brief, powerful, cost-effective and life-enhancing. Participants regularly report not only major improvements in their therapy and/or coaching, but also in their personal lives – and evaluation forms frequently praise his ability to make complex ideas seem very simple.
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What they say
Testimonials from this amazing workshop
Fabulous workshop, best I have ever attended. It was both inspiring and entertaining and I found it refreshing to find a presenter who was so honest in his presentation. I came away with a good balance of theoretical understanding and practical skills that I can apply to improve my own life as well as in my work with clients. I would highly recommend it to others.
— Sarah Marshall, Psychologist, Sydney
One of the best workshops I’ve ever been to! This has been a fantastic experience for me, both professionally and personally. The mixture of theory, interspersed with many practical skill exercises & handouts has helped me to discover new strategies for dealing with my own struggles and for assisting my clients to live the lives they want to.
— Sharon Clifford, Psychologist, Melbourne
This workshop was life-changing professionally and personally. The way the workshop was presented was superb. It not only explained the concepts of ACT well, it also demonstrated the strength of ACT through role-play and real life situations. Thank you for providing such a powerful and inspirational learning environment.
— Caroline Jones, Psychologist, Wollongong
Will you join us?
What is your investment in learning an in-depth, integrated approach to healing from trauma?
720 EUR + VAT
We offer a 100 EUR early bird discount if you register before February 29th at 11:59 PM CET. Use the code "T-F-ACT"
VAT only applies to European customers
In this two-day advanced level training, you’ll discover cutting-edge strategies for healing the past, living in the present, and building a new future.
This training takes place at Best Western Plus Park Globetrotter Copenhagen Airport in Denmark.
Your investment is EUR 720 + VAT.
You can pay and choose partial payment in 1,2 or 3 rates.
This course is for practitioners working with trauma with a least a beginners-level knowledge in ACT.
How it works
This is what happens when you register:
Register
When you register you choose how you’d like to pay. Once you’ve done that, you are in!
Check your e-mail
An invoice or receipt is sent to your e-mail along with all of the practical information.
Dance
Dance and celebrate as if nobody’s watching! You made the right decision.
Free webinar with Russ Harris & Rikke Kjelgaard
FAQ's
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Frequently asked questions
This course takes place on May 22-23 in 2025 at 9 am – 4 pm.
This course takes place at Ersta Hotell & Konferens in Stockholm, Sweden.
The course fee includes breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks.
Additionally, you will receive a number of bonuses after the course.
This course is for practitioners working with trauma patients.
You should have at least attended an ACT course (with Rikke Kjelgaard, Russ Harris, or another provider).
You should also have read a basic book on ACT.
We recommend that you read Rikke Kjelgaard’s book (in Danish or Swedish) or Russ Harris’ book “ACT made simple”.
Once you have read a basic book on ACT, we also recommend that you read Russ Harris’ book on ACT for trauma. A link to it will be sent in the confirmation email you receive after registering.
Oh, yes you can. You can choose to pay in 1, 2 or 3 rates.
Only Danish and Swedish participants can pay by invoice.
Click on “invoice payment” on the Danish or the Swedish registration page.
Unfortunately not.
There’s a limited amount of seats on this training.
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