Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Dr. Steven C. Hayes

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🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The creator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dr. Steven C. Hayes, joins the show to help us explore how to use techniques from this powerful approach to therapy to address major challenges and improve our wellbeing. About our Guest: Dr. Steven C. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology of the University of Nevada. He's the creator of ACT, and the author of 44 books and over 600 scientific articles. His most recent book is A Liberated Mind: How To Pivot Toward What Matters, an essential guide to ACT. Life After COVID Summit: Join Dr. Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson, and a roster of world-class experts including Dr. Hayes during this FREE three-day online event to explore our life after COVID. Click here to learn more about the Summit and register now. Key Topics: 2:25: The basics of ACT. 5:30: The Lord of the Rings and psychological flexibility. 7:15: Accepting our own history. 10:45: How can we accept painful things? 13:45: Language, technology, and how it gets in the way. 18:00: Coming into the present moment. 21:00: Determinism, autonomy, and agency. 26:30: How can we make change last? 29:30: Steven’s experience with accepting tinnitus. 34:45: How to keep growing when the world pushes back. 45:30: Giving people an opportunity to impress you. 49:00: Dealing with anger. 53:30: Pitfalls while using ACT. 56:10: Recap Forrest has a new YouTube channel! Subscribe to the channel, and watch his newest video over there. Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well. I'm Forest Hanson. If you're new to the podcast, this is
0:12.5	where we explore the practical science of lasting well-being. And if you've listened before,
0:17.4	welcome back. I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, so dad, how are you doing today?
0:22.6	I'm good in general, and I'm very, very good in particular, and looking forward to our conversation
0:28.5	today with Dr. Stephen C. Hayes. Yeah, we're so excited to be doing this today. We sometimes get
0:34.6	requests from listeners to do episodes that are focused on different topics or even approaches
0:39.6	to therapy. One of the most requested of these is acceptance and commitment therapy, commonly
0:44.8	known as ACT. And today, as you said, we have the absolute pleasure of talking with the originator
0:49.9	of ACT, Dr. Stephen C. Hayes. Before we get into today's conversation with Dr. Hayes,
0:55.3	just a quick reminder about a couple of things. First of all, if you've been enjoying the podcast,
0:59.8	we'd really appreciate it. If you would subscribe to it through the platform of your choice,
1:03.7	maybe even leave a rating and a positive review, it really does help us out. Also, I have a new
1:09.3	YouTube channel. It's youtube.com slash Forest Hanson, and I've included a link to it in the
1:14.5	description of today's podcast. I just posted a new video to the channel that I'm really happy with,
1:19.9	and I hope that you take the time to check it out. Okay, so on to our conversation with Dr. Stephen
1:24.8	C. Hayes. Dr. Hayes is the Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis Program at the
1:31.3	Department of Psychology of the University of Nevada. He coined the term clinical behavior analysis
1:38.0	and is the developer of relational frame theory, a theory of human language, and higher cognition.
1:44.1	He extended it to create ACT or acceptance and commitment therapy, and he's been the president
1:48.8	of a number of organizations, including the American Psychological Association's division on
1:53.5	behavior analysis, the American Association of Applied and Preventated Psychology, and the
1:58.5	Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He's also authored a unbelievable 44 books,
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