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This site is entirely dedicated to our training programs for psychologists, therapists, and practitioners who wish to deepen their practice of ACT.

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ACT Training with the Matrix

For psychologists, therapists, and practitioners

 

 

For psychologists, psychotherapists, and other professionals wishing to train in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Available in person and online

ACT Training Program

Identifying Who we Are and Who we want to Be

Nadine and Benji talk about how coaches can help their clients to identify who they are, and who...
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Nurturing deep working Relationships with Clients

Nadine and Benji talk about the distinctive ways in which ACT focuses on embodying values, working...
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How ACT works in the coaching context

Benjamin Schoendorff gives a brief introduction to ACT, including its underpinning by clinical...
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Working with the ACT Matrix, the ‘Thriving Diagram’

Benji and Nadine talk about how the ACT Matrix enables coaches to help their clients move towards...
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Integrating ACT and coaching

Nadine Hemmer and Benji Schoendorff talk about the origins of the ACT and Coaching workshop, and...
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Important

For more than 30 years, I led my life trying to feel good and, most of all, trying not...
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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone

When I write, I choose to face the discomfort of writing. I step out of my comfort...
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Putting your values in action

Writing has always been important to me. Ever since I was eight years old, I’ve always wanted to...
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Psychotherapy Effectiveness: Why I Measure my Effectiveness

For many years I was a prisoner of a futile struggle against my own suffering. I struggled so long...
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What is stress and how to free yourself from it?

Stress, stress, stress. Life stresses you out. You job stresses you. Your friends...
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TEAL, how does it work precisely?

Emails. Calls. Accounting. Technical support. Problem solving. Team management....
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Questions that keep you up at night: Where am I going in my life?

What keeps you up at night ? We’ve all been there. 3 a.m. You’re beat, but your mind...
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Am I doing the right thing?

We’ve all been there. 3 a.m. You’re beat, but your mind won’t let you sleep. Like a...
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Personal training

“If only all of life was like the gym”, Jay sighed. Between his hours as a personal...
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What do other people think of me?

What keeps you up at night ?   We’ve all been there. 3 a.m. You’re beat, but your...
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How to free yourself from body image tyranny?

We live in a world where image is everything. More and more girls, boys, women and men...
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What keeps you up at night ?

We’ve all been there. 3 a.m. You’re beat, but your mind won’t let you sleep. Like a...
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When nothing will ever be the same again

Thanks to Facebook, one of my friends recently had the joy of reconnecting with his...
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Gatekeeper or guide?

Life is a jungle. And if as parents, our job is to bring children into the world and...
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Depressive realism

When we are depressed, everything looks dark. Our past, our future and of course our...
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Latest blogs

The key to optimal functioning and a meaningful life is being able to do what matters, no matter what.

This skill is called psychological flexibility, and our mission is to share it widely!

Research shows that psychological flexibility is essential to the well-being and healthy functioning of individuals, groups, organizations, and businesses.

That’s why the ICP provides tailored interventions and training for each of these audiences.