Learning to “Speak” RFT: The Art and Practice of Relational Framing for Clinicians

Relational Frame Theory (RFT) is a contextual behavioral account of human language and a major theory underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. While many ACT clinicians are told that learning RFT would greatly enhance their ACT skills, they are often intimidated by RFT’s complicated jargon and eventually lose interest in learning  RFT.

The irony is that everyone is already “doing RFT” whether they know it or not. Language is all around us, and we are always using language (i.e. relational framing)  to communicate with one another and to help us make better sense of our world. Simply put, RFT can be seen as a “language about languaging.” The good news is that one need not be a grammarian to speak a language. You can learn RFT through a praxis-oriented immersion and increasingly appreciate the “grammar” as you develop proficiency.

The purpose of this pragmatic workshop is to help you, the clinician,…