How do you teach acceptance in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?

Acceptance is one of the six independent and interrelated behavioural processes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. How do you teach it without just telling people what acceptance is?
Many clinicians tend to work intellectually i.e. thinking about the costs of avoidance. However, in ACT, you find the power of change comes from experiential contact and exposure to pain and discomfort. When you work the process, you and your client feel the discomfort that is necessary for meaningful change.
Watch this short video about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with ACBS Peer-reviewed ACT Trainer, Jim Lucas. How to teach acceptance.
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[@TherapistReactsOfficial]

I really like some of the ideas here Jim. In particular something I will be taking away from your video is getting the person to 'feel' the costs of their behaviour. I think it is easy, as you pointed out, to fall into a very cognitive cost / benefit analysis. Thanks for this.

[@tonyburton419]

Very helpful explanation of this "tricky" word, in ACT. (currently learning with SDS/RH)