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True North's Annual Immersive ACT Retreat! An intermediate level workshop designed to help you expand your ACT toolkitAbout this Event
TRUE NORTH ANNUAL ACT IMMERSIVE RETREAT
One registration fee covers everything you need for the two days — no add-on costs for lodging, meals, or materials.
- Expert instruction from Dr. Robyn Walser
- Two nights’ lodging on-site
- All meals during the workshop
- Coffee, tea, and snacks throughout each day
- 12 CE credits (pending approval)
Why it’s different: We believe the best learning happens when you’re engaged, relaxed, and having a good time. No death-by-PowerPoint here! Get ready for three days where serious learning meets serious fun! Ditch the fluorescent office lights and stuffy conference rooms for walking trails, good food, and training that actually sticks! Expect interactive sessions and plenty of laughter alongside the serious work of enhancing your clinical skills. Join us for a retreat where you’ll leave with more than just notes-you’ll have new techniques, new colleagues, and renewed enthusiasm for your vital work.
What We Will Learn:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is sometimes learned as a collection of processes, techniques, and exercises. Yet effective ACT practice requires something more fluid: the ability to notice what behavior is organized around, understand its function in context, and respond in ways that create opportunities for greater behavioral flexibility.
This two-day experiential workshop places functional analysis at the center of ACT practice and explores creative hopelessness as the work of non-attachment, helping clients loosen their investment in strategies and agendas that have become rigid, costly, or ineffective. Rather than treating creative hopelessness as something a therapist “does to” a client to demonstrate that particular strategies do not work, participants will learn to use functional analysis to notice the client’s agenda, identify the consequences that maintain patterns of behavior, and help clients contact the workability of those patterns through direct experience.
Importantly, this work occurs on both sides of the therapeutic relationship. Just as clients may become attached to controlling anxiety, eliminating painful memories, obtaining certainty, or avoiding vulnerability, therapists can become attached to making symptoms decrease, getting clients to accept, completing an exercise successfully, or producing a particular therapeutic response. These therapist agendas can inadvertently reproduce the very rigidity ACT seeks to address.
Through demonstration, experiential exercises, clinical examples, and practice, participants will learn to track both client and therapist behavior in the moment and use the therapeutic relationship itself as a context for functional analysis, non-attachment, and behavioral change.
Where: The beautiful Roslyn Retreat Center in Richmond, Virginia. This peaceful 150-acre sanctuary offers the perfect setting to relax, renew, and reinvigorate personally and professionally. Single or double rooms with private bathrooms, high-speed internet, and all linens provided.
Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D.
Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized clinical psychologist, educator, and author. She is the Director of Trauma and Life Consultation and Psychology Services, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Research at Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinical Services.
Dr. Walser has contributed significantly to the dissemination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and held a pivotal role in implementing ACT in one of the US's largest national healthcare systems. She also worked at the National Center for PTSD for 25 years, where her work focused on trauma recovery, depression, and moral injury.
A writer and scholar, Dr. Walser has co-authored nine influential books on ACT, including The Heart of ACT: Developing a Flexible, Process-Based, and Client-Centered Practice Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Deliberate Practice to Develop and Enhance Skills in ACT, and a self-help book entitled You Are Not Your Trauma.
Her research and clinical expertise have made her a sought-after voice in advancing the application of ACT to address various complex psychological challenges. Dr. Walser’s teaching emphasizes the integration of evidence-based practices with human connection and flexibility.
To learn more about her work and join her newsletter list, visit robynwalser.com.
CE Credits
- Approval for 12 CE credits for psychologists, social workers and counselors is pending.
Registration
Fees are all-inclusive — instruction, lodging, meals, snacks, and coffee/tea are covered
Early Registration(by March 19, 2027)
- Single Room $950
- Double Room $700
Standard Registration
- Single Room $1,050
- Double Room $850
CE Certificate (12 hours) Free
Registration fee includes: instruction, lodging (two nights), coffee, snacks, and the following meals:
- April 29: Dinner
- April 30: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
- May 1: Breakfast and Lunch
FOR MORE INFORMATION Please email us at [email protected]
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Roslyn Conference and Retreat Center, 8727 River Road, Richmond, United States
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