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May 01-03, 2017 Toronto, Canada
17th World Summit on
Positive Psychology, Psychotherapy &
Cognitive Behavioral Sciences
Volume 7, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Psychol Psychother
ISSN: 2161-0487 JPP, an open access journal Positive Psychology 2017
May 01-03, 2017
J Psychol Psychother 2017, 7:2 (Suppl)
Mindfulness based resiliency training “Train before the Trauma”
Jon Carson
York Regional Police, Canada
C onst. Jon Carson is bringing mindful meditation to the York Regional Police force. After spending four years in therapies
after being diagnosed with PTSD in 2009, Carson was handed a magazine about mindfulness. On the cover? An officer,
much like himself, speaking about meditation. The magazine marked a turning point in Carson’s life, and he began practising
mindfulness and meditation, first individually, before bringing it to the police organization. Today, Carson is a training and
academic instructor, and he works with various officers in the force, teaching them how to incorporate mindfulness into their
everyday lives and policing. “If you’re able to ground yourself with breathing exercises, you come to respond more in difficult
situations as opposed to reacting,” he says. He adds that instilling the values of meditation into the force is also about starting
a dialogue in the policing community. “I think it has the ability to create a lasting impact to change policing, and change
humanity for that matter.
Mindfulness Based Resiliency Training (MBRT): Mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the
present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. York regional
police are in the early stages of implementing, Utilizing Mindfulness Techniques. The essence of their program is creating
cross-cultural conversations, where people of all backgrounds can explore and build a repertoire of skills for enhancing their
social and emotional awareness, their decision-making process and their overall health and well-being.
Enhancingflexibility andvalues coherence ingroupswith theACTmatrix -Acceptance and commitment
therapy matrix as a tool to promote flexibility and personal values coherence in groups
Michel Andre Reyes Ortega
Contextual Behavioral Science and Therapy Institute, Mexico
The acceptance and commitment therapy matrix groups for people diagnosed with BPD are a treatment tested in a public
mental health institution in Mexico City. These groups were designed to enhance psychological flexibility through
discomfort acceptance and personal values awareness and they are organized through the use of a simple tool called the ACT
Matrix. This workshop trains the use of the ACTMatrix, a visual diagram that teaches two basic discriminations represented by
two axes: The difference between the sensory and inner experience, and the difference between moving toward who and what is
important in your life as and opposition to moving away from undesired experiences like anger or guilt. The cross for this axes
form four quadrants, “who and what is important”, “how can I move closer to that”, “inner obstacles” and “way to move away
from those”. Attendees will learn to use the ACT Matrix as a visual metaphor that organizes analysis of personal and group
experiences, guides decision making and problem solving, and enhancing people capacity to choose to do what is important
for them in the face in difficult situations and feelings. Finally, attendees will learn the use of the ACT Matrix as a tool to
promote group cohesion, self-validation, empathy and collaborative problem solving. The workshop focus in experiential and
deliberate practice as methods to learn the use of the ACT Matrix in working with groups of people with severe difficulties for
recognizing experiences and define goals in difficult life situations.