Taking a Small Step Toward What Matters
Identify a personally chosen value and a feasible action that can coexist with discomfort.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
Clarify a chosen direction and one workable action while making room for difficult thoughts or feelings.
Adds an original ACT-informed values exercise. It is not a manualized ACT treatment or a measure of psychological flexibility.
A STARTING POINT
Taking a Small Step Toward What Matters
Acceptance and commitment therapy explores psychological flexibility, values, and action in the presence of difficult experiences. Acceptance does not mean approving of harm or abandoning change. This page offers one brief values conversation, not a complete ACT protocol or a demand to tolerate unsafe conditions.
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Taking a Small Meaningful Step
Translate a personally meaningful direction into one achievable action.
Noticing What Still Matters
Recognize effort and identify a personally meaningful direction during low mood.
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