About This Bundle
 
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) was developed by Steven Hayes and is one of the most well-researched modern therapy models. Its core insight is that the human mind is built to generate difficult thoughts and feelings, and trying to eliminate them rarely works; what works is changing your relationship with them. ACT teaches you to make room for hard feelings while still moving toward what matters most.
ACT rests on six core processes that together form what Hayes calls psychological flexibility: the ability to be present, open up to difficult experiences, and take action guided by your deepest values. The model is unusual in that it does not aim to reduce symptoms directly. Instead, it builds a life so meaningful that the presence or absence of symptoms matters less. Christians often find deep resonance with ACT. The acceptance of difficult feelings rather than the demand to feel good. The orientation toward values rather than outcomes. The willingness to suffer for what matters. The contemplative quality of present-moment awareness. Paul's "I have learned to be content" is an ACT principle: not the absence of hardship, but a settled relationship with it. These 12
worksheets walk you through the core ACT practices.
 
What's Included:
 
Bundle description: Twelve worksheets walking you through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: the modern, well-researched model that does not aim to remove difficult thoughts and feelings, but to change your relationship with them. For people who want to build a life of psychological flexibility, anchored in deeply-held values and integrated with Christian faith.
01 Introduction to Psychological Flexibility — The ACT model overview. The six core processes (values, committed action, defusion, acceptance, present moment, self-as-context) that together build a workable, values-driven life. Includes a self-assessment.
02 Values Clarification — Identifying what matters most across ten major life areas. Distinguishes values from goals and feelings, and helps you arrive at your top three to five values. The foundation everything else in ACT rests on.
03 Cognitive Defusion — Getting unhooked from your thoughts. Seven techniques (notice and name, thank your mind, leaves on a stream, the radio, repetition, and others) for stepping back from a difficult thought rather than being pulled by it.
04 Acceptance and Willingness — Making room for difficult feelings rather than fighting them. Names the cost of avoidance, walks through what acceptance is and isn't, and gives a practical six-step sequence for sitting with hard feelings in service of values.
05 Present Moment Awareness — The contemplative ground for everything else. Includes a five-senses practice, daily anchoring techniques, and the recognition that nothing actually happens anywhere except here, now.
06 Self-as-Context — Recognising the observer self: the part of you that has been watching all your thoughts and feelings, and which itself does not change. The stable place in you from which Self-leadership becomes possible.
07 Committed Action — Translating values into specific behaviour. A planning template for daily, weekly, and longer-term actions, with prompts for anticipating the resistance that will arise.
08 The Choice Point — A simple in-the-moment tool: in any difficult moment, am I making a towards move (toward my values) or an away move? Includes a worked framework and a planner for the week.
09 Workability — Asking "is this working?" instead of "is this right?" The single most useful ACT question. A guide to honestly testing strategies you have been using to handle a difficulty in your life.
10 Creative Hopelessness — Honestly inventorying everything you have tried that has not worked, so you can stop expecting it to. The clarifying step that opens the door to a different approach.
11 Values vs Goals — Sorting out what is actually a value (a direction), a goal (a destination), or a feeling. Helps you stop chasing goals that are not connected to values you actually hold.
12 Building a Valued Life — The integrating worksheet. Brings everything together into a personal plan: top values, daily and weekly committed actions, anticipating what will be hard, and a personal manifesto for the year ahead.