Free Resources for ACT, RFT, and Behavior Analytic Practice

Helpful tools for you and your practice

Sample lessons from our courses

ACT in Practice: Part 1—Introduction to ACT as Behavior Analysis—Module 1, Lesson 1, The importance of psychological flexibility as a repertoire

ACT in Practice: Part 2—Repertoires of Psychological Flexibility—Module 2 Lesson 1, Foundations for Selfing

Introduction to RFT in Early Intervention—Module 1, Lesson 3, Integrating RFT and Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior

Applying RFT in Early Childhood —Module 3, Lesson 5, Psychological Flexibility in EIBI Programs—Foundations of psychological flexibility

Do More of What You Care About (And Less of What You Don’t)—Module 1, Lesson 5, Getting Curious—Noticing how you spend your time

Understanding and Applying Relational Frame Theory

In the free downloads for the book Understanding and Applying RFT, you’ll find our case conceptualization tables, a visualization of levels of functional analysis from self to systems, and a compilation of case conceptualization questions to ask yourself in conducting functional analyses.

*Free Chapter* Chapter 9— Applying RFT to Create Cooperative Contexts for Behavior Change is one of our favorite chapters of the book. It is both literally and figuratively the center of the book and our view of the purpose of all our work. In this chapter we extend earlier discussions of prosociality, psychological flexibility, and social justice, identifying that one metric by which we should examine our speaking and listening behaviors is how well we establish cooperative, nurturing environments for behavior change. In this chapter we define and discuss key repertoires for cooperation—curiosity, empathy, compassion, self-compassion and humility—and the importance for behavior analysts to cultivate these skills for themselves, as well as to support their clients in learning these skills.

Finding Your Why and Finding Your Way

Finding Your Why and Finding Your Way is an ACT self-help book that focuses on identifying what you care about and creating a plan for working towards meaningful goals—that plan is the Mindful Action Plan (also available in the free downloads for the book), and it’s a great framework for applying ACT and performance management to yourself!

*Free Chapter* Chapter 2—Unfolding the MAP—provides an overview with exercises for you to get started using this tool today!

Constellations Practitioner Lab Blog

Siri, Evie, and other members of our practitioner lab semi-regularly write short pieces on our blog site about a range of topics, all related to promoting psychological flexibility within cooperative contexts for change, based on contextual functional analysis.

RFT in Early Intervention Blog & Library

Siri semi-regularly writes short pieces on her blog site about theoretical and conceptual topics in RFT and applications of RFT to early intervention. She also has a free library of protocols and her handbooks with Ian Stewart and John McElwee.

Other Blog Posts

Adding ACT to Your Toolkit as a Behavior Analyst. Blog post by Evelyn Gould for Praxis CET.

Curiosity, Humility and Collaboration in the Science and Practice of Behavior Analysis: Notes from a Winding Path: Blog post by Siri Ming for the ABAI behavior science dissemination blog Symbolic Language and Thought.

Relationally Framing a Pandemic: Blog post by Siri Ming for the ABAI behavior science dissemination blog Symbolic Language and Thought.

RFT & Early Intervention: Blog post by Siri Ming for Praxis CET.

RFT, VB & EIBI, Oh My! : Blog post by Siri Ming for the ABAI behavior science dissemination blog Symbolic Language and Thought.

Webinars and podcasts