Constellations Community of Practice

Constellations Community of Practice

I am happy to announce a new collaborative training venture with Julia Fiebig, Evelyn Gould, and Becky Watson, the Constellations Community of Practice.

We created this group to serve as a kind of virtual lab, a community of scientist-practitioners sharing ideas, learning from and with each other, and pushing our field forward through our applied work, applied research, coaching, and collaboration. In this space, we aim to bring together behavior analysts committed to a rigorously systematic, functional contextualist, compassionate and values-driven approach to their practice and way of being in the world.

Our members are focused on continually improving their practice; connecting with each other; collaborating on research, writing, training and practice projects; holding each other accountable; giving and getting feedback; and lifting each others’ lights high. Together, we aim to educate and influence the field and the next generation of behavior analysts to more deeply understand and apply the science to create more effective, nurturing, contextually sensitive environments and communities that reflect shared values of compassion, cultural humility, sustainability, and social justice.

In our first year, we are limiting membership to workshop and coaching group participants. Learn more on our website: https://www.weareconstellations.com/


Upcoming RFT Training

RFT in EIBI

In this 4-session webinar series, beginning July 8 2021, you will learn the essentials of RFT, along with effective, evidence-based, practical strategies for promoting generalized and generative language repertoires for young children. Tom Szabo will follow this series with another 4 sessions on using RFT for advanced social skills, ethical behavior, and working with parents.

Sign up and more information on the Praxis CET site, here.


Upcoming RFT Training

RFT in EIBI

Explore the essential components of relational frame theory in this live online course, and learn effective, evidence-based, practical strategies for promoting generalized and generative language repertoires for young children, teaching more advanced language and social skills, and working effectively with staff and parents. https://www.praxiscet.com/RFT


New Book! Using RFT to promote generative language

Using RFT to Promote Generative Language, Volume 1

Relational Frame Theory (RFT) views generalized derived relational responding—relational framing—as the core skill involved in human language. As such, RFT is essential for flexible, fluent conversational skills and academic progress. Our approach to early intervention integrates RFT theory and applied research on the assessment and training of derived relational responding skills with strategies developed by programs which follow a more traditional behavior analytic and specifically Skinnerian analysis of verbal behavior. In this handbook we focus on assessing, establishing, and capitalizing on derived relational responding repertoires in frames of coordination (equivalence), and show you how doing so can promote generalized and generative language repertoires. Throughout this handbook, we identify relational responding repertoires as behavioral cusps to teach towards an ultimate aim of establishing generative language, and present a powerful framework for approaching early intervention, based on RFT and informed by decades of research and practice.

Order through Hedgehog Publishers:

Using RFT to Promote Generative Language: v1

Now available on Kindle: