Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in the here and now

Simone Schut

Do you want to discover what really matters to you? How to focus on that? And how to help your students do the same? With the basic principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, you learn to deal with everything you think, feel and experience on your way to realising what is really important to you in your life.

Using a number of concrete ACT techniques, in this workshop you will learn how to effectively transform limiting emotions and beliefs into valuable actions, so that you become less absorbed in worries about the past or the future, and can be more present in the here and now. Useful for increasing your own and your students' resilience!

Biography

The session was prepared by Simone Schut and Madelon Gijzel.

Drs. Simone Schut is a coach and trainer working at UMCU's education centre. Her background is in behavioural biology and she combines this in her work with both students and teachers, both at the individual level and in groups. Here, her focus is on resilience, personal development and leadership. She works with humour and experiential exercises.

She is also a teacher trainer, teaching doctors and researchers how to teach well and how to stand in front of a group with confidence.

Madelon Gijzel is a psychologist with a specialisation in Training & Development. As a trainer and advisor on student well-being and development at the Faculty of Medicine, she is concerned with developing the new generation of students as resilient professionals, who know themselves well, can deal with obstacles and setbacks and look for solutions.