Functionally Speaking #11 - Interview with Beate Ebert Functionally Speaking

Beate Ebert is
doing a remarkable job helping reduce suffering and improve quality of living
for people in Sierra Leone.  She’s
helping establish mental health infrastructures, training professionals in
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and doing important implementations of
public health initiatives to reduce the spread of Ebola in West Africa.  She and I worked together with Joanne Dahl
presenting ACT workshops in Sierra Leone. 
Beate and I reminisce about that experience and talk about the
challenges of disseminating the contextual behavioral sciences.  Beate explains how she used ACT to influence
people’s actions to reduce the spread of the Ebola virus.  (Check out Steve Hayes’s blog about this
topic here.)

We also discuss our experience in the amputee camps,
conversations with adults who were child-combatants, prevention measures, and
our interaction with Father Peter Conte, a great community organizer in
Freetown. (To read a little bit about Peter, look here). 

If you’d like to assist in this Beate’s initiatives, check
out the Commit + Act organization’s website and Facebook page.