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Module 3 — The Hexaflex, the Triflex, and psychological flexibility | ACT Course
: A free IFS Academy course on the Hexaflex, the Triflex, and psychological flexibility in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): what psychological flexibility actually means as the goal of ACT, how the six core processes interlock on the Hexaflex and group into the Triflex of Open Up, Be Present, and Do What Matters, the twin problems ACT targets in cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance, and the toward-moves and away-moves lens that runs beneath every later tool. Ev
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🎯 Module 4 — Workability and Creative Hopelessness | ACT Course
A free IFS Academy course on workability and creative hopelessness in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): the control agenda and experiential avoidance, why suppressing feelings backfires, the workability question, clean pain and dirty pain, the struggle switch, and dropping the rope. Every lesson ends with an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
The Final Freedom: Nothing Left to Say, No One Left to Say It (Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter Twenty)
A free reflection on Chapter Twenty of the Ashtavakra Gita, The Final Freedom, the closing chapter of the whole dialogue, read through Internal Family Systems (IFS). Explore the king's final dissolution of body, mind, teaching, and even the "I" that had been speaking, into the bodiless freedom (videhamukti) where the dialogue trails off into silence, and how IFS distinguishes the genuine Self that holds every part with room to spare from a part that uses the language of no-se
Resting in One's Own Majesty: Where Did It All Go? (Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter Nineteen)
A free reflection on Chapter Nineteen of the Ashtavakra Gita, Resting in One's Own Majesty, read through Internal Family Systems (IFS). Explore the king's exultant sweep through every pair of opposites, the tweezers of knowledge drawing out the last thorn of thought, his amazed "where is it now?" from the throne of his own being (svamahima), and how IFS distinguishes a genuine spaciousness in which the old troubles have lost their grip from a part that prematurely declares th
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