Just ACT: Accept, Clarify, & Transform

About Jessica

Jessica L. Fuller, M.S., BCBA, is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Mindfulness Educator who founded the Dominicus International Academy, a bi-lingual international school for children in the Dominican Republic

Jessica has a passion for teaching and disseminating the various ways ABA can be used across behaviors, people, and environments. She believes that an active learning environment should always be set in place for both behavior analysts and her clients. Her goal is to help others become active members of the ABA community and encourage learners to incorporate more of what they learn into their everyday lives.

Mindfulness and scope practice for behavior analysts. Habit creation and making it part of your everyday life. Mindfulness and ABA class - engage in meditation to become more mindful and we can observe our behaviors which support us in making behavioral change.

This is a reflection episode on my own growth and practice of being present and mindful. At the end of the episode I share a few tips to get started within your own present moment practice. 

This is a simple meditation focused on the body sensations in the here and now, as a way to ground and stay present in your experience. This can be practice seated, standing, and laying down. After practicing this type of present moment activity, you'll be able to integrate sensory experiences during moments of the day with more fluency and capacity. 

This episode is a snippet of information on being mindful and some of the data that surrounds it. Here you will find the links to the data noted in the episode. 

https://www.thegoodbody.com/meditation-statistics/#:~:text=Meditation%20Worldwide-,1.,and%20500%20million%20people%20meditate.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db325-h.pdf

US National Library of Medicine (2010). A Mindfulness-Based Approach to the Treatment of Insomnia [Online]. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060715/ [Accessed 19 December 2021].

NIH National Library of Medicine (2016). Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction vs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Usual Care on Back Pain and Functional Limitations in Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial [Online]. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27002445/

National Library of Medicine - The Ochsner Journal (2014). Meditation and Coronary Heart Disease: A Review of the Current Clinical Evidence [Online]. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295748/

This metaphor is perfect for those of you that feel like you are constantly on to the next thing, constantly seeking out the future, and feel like in doing so you are missing the present moment. This metaphor was designed for private clients that felt the worry about the future getting in the way of engagement with their day to day. 

This is a metaphor designed by yours truly, in supporting individuals through my private coaching sessions. This metaphor reflects on the use of a pendulum swinging moment to moment, as a way to practice shifting from past to future experience. 

In this episode, we explore present moment awareness in relation to the ACT framework. In addition, we start the episode discussing the differences between meditation terms (i.e. spiritual, focused, etc...) and the aims of certain practices (i.e. higher power connection or awareness). This episode is not exhaustive of all things meditation and mindfulness, as that would need to be broken into many layers. The episode ends with a short awareness practice to connect with noticing judgement. 

This is the first official Metaphor Monday talking about present moment awareness. Today's exercise is written by Megan Thompson Kates, 2013 - and comes from the Big Book of ACT Metaphors. 

Enjoy!

Today's episode is an interview with Rosalie (Eclipse Therapy). We talk perspective taking, both clinical and personal views. Some resources we mention during the episode are: 

You can find Rosalie on Crowdcast for free CEUs every Thursday! https://www.crowdcast.io/rosalieprendergast

This metaphor comes from The Big Book of ACT Metaphors (Stoddard, 2007). It explores breaking the attachment from the rules, roles, and story we tell ourselves about who we are and the things we believe we CAN'T do because of those stories.