Re: ACT for the layman

[Guest guest]

There is actually an effort underway to investigate and promote this idea, Marty. Not much news right now, but many agree with you that ACT can be brought to lay practitioners within a kind of self-help philosophy.

D

 

I am appreciating being on the listserv .... I am learning much. Somehow I feel there are many people who probably do not enter this listserv who can benefit well from this approach.\

As a layman ... and perhaps beyond ... I still work on different ways to express and understand vocabulary - experiential avoidance, willingness, defusion. I mean here that I don't just put in a new word, but use a phrase that is descriptive.

Also, I see most discussions that make one point, several or show a sequence a steps that are taken. I also see the Heliflex (sp?) concept used which is more like the spokes of a wheel .... where a layman can benefit from seeing and understanding the rim of the wheel. does have a diagram in the later pages of 'Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life. It is quite simple and useful. I believe that a layman and others would benefit from seeing the ACT process as an extensive circle or spiral. And with each revolution can do better.

I do realize that life is not that simple .... yet expressing it in that way can be useful. I am working on one such model .... and after any feedback I get on this post ... will send that out.

I did a search of " layman " for yahoo groups .... scores have the word layman in their title or opening paragraph. I have also attended self help groups OA - 12 step, Recovery International .... these have many laymen attending. I gained much from these groups and today I realize that ACT is my best route. I actually believe that ACT ... or the Third Wave in general would be ideal to become a national self help group where both our " public " and the " laymen " can join together.

What do you think ... or should I say 'not think' of this.

Marty K