Self-as-context is the place from which people observe themselves. It can be employed to understand which self-descriptions lead to inflexibility.
In this presentation, Dr. DJ Moran introduces self-as-context in the ACT hexaflex model. He offers a simple explanation for a concept that’s hard to define as well as its impact on psychological flexibility.
Here are some highlights we’ve extracted from this video:
1. Self-as-context is the locus from which a person’s experience unfolds.
2. Even in the ACT community, there are many names for this process: the observing self, the core you, perspective taking, pure awareness, and the transcendent sense of self.
3. The conceptualized self leads to inflexibility. ACT works with the client’s self-descriptions to reduce their attachment to them and guide clients to psychological flexibility.
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