ABSTRACT
Creating opportunities to take committed actions towards valued ends provides the opportunity to road test all the skills of mindfulness, acceptance, and defusion. True committed action requires clarity of values, as this will guide the actual direction of the steps forward. There are several key steps in using committed action techniques. As clients genuinely step out of their comfort zone, and take committed actions, internal barriers will emerge, as will habitual responses that could prevent action. Committed action becomes about opportunities to practise skills, both of the actual step into the unknown, and taking this step in a mindful, accepting defused way. Ever helpful minds will naturally take the opportunity to criticise or undermine action. A warm, supportive stance is invariably more workable when attempting new, or challenging behaviours. The practitioner can model this and ask the client to practise it themselves.
