Who are we?

Our Mission: 

To raise awareness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy / Training (ACT) by providing information and training, and making ACT accessible to

– Members of the general public
– Mental health professionals and
– The corporate sector.

Our Vision:

The Association for Contextual Behavioural Science ( www.contextualscience.org ) striving for “getting ACT out to the public” and the inception of the regional community hubs in Cardiff provided the impetus for the creation of the ACT Hub Wales.

The ACT Hub Wales envisions serving the Welsh community through a variety of services:

As a resource for ACT:
  • Provide information on ACT and 
  • Raise awareness of the benefits of using ACT
  • Create an online ACT community for Cardiff, Wales, and beyond…          

        Provide free online ACT chats, starting in 2021 
    Anyone interested, please contact us to join the ACT Hub initiative for further information.

For the general public:
  • Provide an information and referral service for ACT, linking members of the public with professionals providing ACT therapy 
  • For mental health professionals:
  • Provide ACT training, supervision, and professional development for mental health professionals

For the corporate sector:
  • Provide ACT training to improve psychological flexibility and a pro-social outlook for teams and managers
  • Improve work relationships through training of a pro-social reflective management stance
  • Enhance professional motivation and performance of teams and managers


Foreword by Ingrid Wallace and Daniel Farmer; developers of the ACT Hub Wales

In these challenging times for ourselves, families, friends, community and world we at ACT Hub Wales wanted to get something published sooner rather than later to try and support as many people as we can. Here we are introducing the ACT process in the form of a model with some explanation and some tools which are designed to try and help develop psychological flexibility in the face of these turbulent times. ACT (Acceptance Commitment Training/Therapy) is one of the more recent mindfulness-based behaviour therapies. ACT does not attempt to remove pain, because, whether we like it or not, pain is part and parcel of everybody’s life. (For example: We cannot change the fact that we are now dealing with COVID-19, but the important thing is to deal with it, best we can.) So, instead of attempting to getting rid of what pains us, ACT helps us to change our relationship with the unwanted things in our lives. In many cases our response to the thoughts, images, and emotions about these unwanted things lead to greater suffering. In these uncertain times what we do not need to do is further fuel our suffering: and this is where ACT can help.

Ingrid Wallace & Daniel Farmer 

ACT in One: ‘Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Life’ (ACT book by Dr Steven Hayes)


Our Team

Daniel Farmer

Founder

“ACT has helped enormously in my life to gain better perspective on who and what is important”

Ingrid Wallace

Founder

“When you go somewhere new, it is customary to bring a gift: I gifted my skills as a ACT therapist”