Originally, I became a member of ACBS because my PhD supervisor told me to! I was told that it was worth signing up because there were lots of resources available on the ACBS website that might be useful to me. That turned out to be correct, whether it was research articles, protocols or measures, the website held lots of value to me. 
 
As time moved on, I signed up to an ACT list serve, where people across the world interested in ACT discussed anything related to Contextual Behavioural Science. I learned a lot from witnessing exchanges on the list serve but, most of all, I learned that the community could be friendly and engage in critical analysis at the same time, which I think are qualities that are needed in any science of psychology wishing to improve wellbeing. 
 
I then began to attend ACT conferences. My first was in Enschede in 2009, and I’ve since been to Dublin (two times), Liverpool, Edinburgh, Reno, Washington DC, Berlin, Seattle, and Seville. What I found at these conferences is the major reason that I continue to be a member of ACBS. I found fellow travellers, who had extraordinary amounts of heart and smart, who I wanted to be around, and who are now lifelong friends.

Don’t get me wrong, ACBS has helped when it has come to grant applications, references, the acquisition of jobs (networks), knowledge, resources etc but, IMO, a community is needed to change the world, and I’m proud to be a part of this community of people who are trying to do just that.