Principles Of ACT: How To Become Psychologically Flexible & Thrive With Acceptance & Commitment Therapy - by Diana Hill

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Principles Of ACT: How To Become Psychologically Flexible & Thrive With Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

With Diana Hill

When faced with life’s challenges, it’s easy to lose track of what’s important and get stuck in your thoughts and emotions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a modern approach to living that teaches you how to be flexible and take committed action towards what you care about, even in the face of obstacles. In this course, Diana Hill breaks down ACT into its 6 core processes (Being Present, Values, Acceptance, Cognitive Defusion, Perspective Taking, and Committed Action) and teaches you short practices to try on for yourself. This workshop is didactic, experiential and offers writing exercises to apply the principles of ACT to your life.

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Meet your Teacher

Diana Hill
Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Diana Hill, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and co-author of "ACT Daily Journal: Get Unstuck and Live Fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy." Through her online teachings, executive coaching, clinical supervision, and private therapy practice, Diana encourages clients to build psychological flexibility so that they can live more meaningful and fulfilling lives. She hosts the podcast "Your Life in Process," blogs for Psychology Today, and offers regular workshops in compassion and ACT for clinicians and the general public. She is on the clinical advisory board of Lightfully Behavioral Health. Diana has a knack for unpacking complex, science-based concepts and making them applicable to daily life in work, parenting, relationships, and health. She completed her undergraduate work at UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Biopsychology, followed by a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at CU Boulder where she collaborated with Stanford University to research mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches for eating disorders. Diana completed her pre-doctoral internship in the Eating Disorder Emphasis Area at UC Davis and her post-doctoral fellowship at La Luna Center Intensive Outpatient Program for eating disorders. She went on to serve as the clinical director of La Luna Center, where she helped develop an ACT-based group program. Diana practices what she preaches as a mom of two, homesteader, and yoga teacher.

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9 Days

6.2k students

4.8 stars

11 min / day

Performance

English

Lesson 1

What Is Psychological Flexibility?

In this session, you will learn what psychological flexibility is and why it’s important to become more psychologically flexible. Diana will walk you through the six core processes involved in psychological flexibility and introduce you to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

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Lesson 2

Being Present

In ACT, being present is about bringing your full self into the present moment, when it matters most. In this session, Diana explores where and with whom you want to be more present in your life and walks you through a "being present" practice that you can apply to your daily life.

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Lesson 3

Values

Values are qualities of action that are personally chosen by you and give your life meaning and purpose. In this session, Diana will ask you some intriguing questions to start to explore your values, and you will learn the choice point model of choosing values.

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Lesson 4

Values Writing Exercise

Get out your pen and paper as in this session, Diana will walk you through a powerful writing exercise to explore the link between values and impermanence.

Lesson 5

Acceptance

Acceptance can be confused with a number of things including approval or acquiescence. In this session, Diana describes what acceptance is and is not in ACT, the role of avoidance in our suffering, and three strategies to accept more fully.

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Lesson 6

Cognitive Defusion

ACT takes a different approach to difficult thoughts. Instead of trying to suppress thoughts or replacing them, you will learn how to defuse them. In this session, Diana teaches you some creative ways to get a little space from your thoughts.

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Lesson 7

Perspective Taking

In this session, Diana teaches you how to step back from your self-story and get a little more flexible with it. You will learn why perspective-taking is so important and some simple strategies to perspective-take on yourself and with others

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Lesson 8

Perspective-Taking Exercise

Get out your pen and paper. In this session, Diana will walk you through a powerful writing exercise that will help you develop a more compassionate perspective on yourself. Bring a problem that you are stuck in, and you will leave with a kinder, more compassionate perspective on it.

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Lesson 9

Committed Action

ACT is behavioral psychology and with committed action, you can take what you have learned in the past eight days and put it into practice. In this session, you will learn how to develop values-based behavior habits.

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4.8 (279)

Recent Reviews

Laura

September 13, 2025

I highly recommend this course. It is so clear and concise, and it’s an ACTionable way to be present and not let the monkey mind rule your life.

Robin

July 19, 2025

Great course…love the “tiny habits” tool. Thank you for sharing . ☮️💟

Jo

June 30, 2025

Thank you so much, Diana, for this very helpful introduction and I’m now working my way through your ACT Daily Journal. 🙏🏼

Gulistan

May 9, 2025

Very helpful

Herb

May 1, 2025

Thank you.

Alexandra

March 25, 2025

This is a course I will continue to listen to over and over again. Thank you for your insight and wonderful drive to help people!

March 8, 2025

Amazing I loved everything about it. I can’t wait to learn more from you and apply these skills. The way each principle flows into the next makes me feel powerfully equipped.

Bianca

March 8, 2025

Amazing I loved everything about it. I can’t wait to learn more from you and apply these skills. The way each principle flows into the next makes me feel powerfully equipped.

Dylan

March 6, 2025

Loved this! Thank you so much.

Joanne

February 21, 2025

Very enlightening and helpful to understand how the mind body connection is central to living a more fulfilling life.

Macy

November 1, 2024

That was a really helpful course! I love the overlap between ACT therapy and Buddhism. Thank you!

Greg

September 1, 2024

Thank you for the excellent course!

Traci

July 25, 2024

I appreciate what you share! So helpful!

Melody

February 16, 2024

I have been deal

Jesús

November 20, 2023

Excellent set of tools and simple to apply. It could not have come at a better time in my life.

Sonia

November 17, 2023

I’m amazed at how much valuable information was packed into these tiny sessions. This is something I will return to consistently. Thank you Dr. Hill!

Tim

November 15, 2023

Perfect

Jean

October 14, 2023

Great information!!

Tanuj

September 15, 2023

Exceptional course. I have read Russ Harris' books and this course was a as good as his books. Will do the course again.

Jean

September 3, 2023

I just couldn’t connect with her concept. Her thoughts wandered some and overall, it didn’t engage me or motivate me.

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