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Session GOAL: Understand ACT in a Nutshell; Core Creative Hopelessness (START HERE IF NO
NEW MEMBERS)
1. Introduction
Group Leaders, purpose of the group, members introduce themselves & goals for the group.
Distribute:
Group Contracts/Rules
Orientation Handout
Acceptance: the opposite of suffering is acceptance, the act of willingly allowing yourself to
interact with your struggle (e.g. symptoms). Use of mindfulness, letting go of control, and
learning to hear your thoughts for what they are instead of what they say they are will aid in
learning how to accept symptoms instead of fighting against it.
Choose: Once you accept your symptoms, you can live with them. Now you have the freedom
to choose how you want to live (values). Lets take a moment to imagine what this would be like
for you.
Action: the next step after making a choice about how you want to live your life is to develop
the steps that are necessary to lead you where you want to go.
Q: Lets start by going around the group and having each person take a turn to share types of
solutions you have pursued to manage your symptoms.
What does Your Experience Tell You? (self-as-context)
o Workability (short-term relief & long-term suffering)
o The Cost of the Struggle (Magic Wand Exercise)
Continue facilitating discussion about the exercise with a new question as needed while
facilitating group discussion between members after responses.
Youre Stuck/Trap (creative hopelessness):
o You are not hopeless/The situation you are in is hopeless and yet this is the place
to create something new
METAPHOR: Person-In-The-Hole
4. Group Wrap-Up:
Close group with a brief discussion about how group members felt about purpose/description
of ACT.
5. Homework
Notice being stuck