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IFS in Action: Leading Clients to Self-Leadership

Healing is a word derived from the German hailjan, meaning “to make whole.” To truly heal isn’t easy, since it involves reconnecting with polarized and often volatile subpersonalities, or parts within ourselves, including protectors, managers, and exiles. The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, helps clients access an undamaged inner essence called the Self, and from this Self they learn to lovingly relate to and transform their most troubling parts. In this workshop recording, you’ll discover how to help clients transform their fragmented experience of Self.

Program Information

Objectives

Apply strategies used in IFS to contact the core Self.
Specify how to shift the role of therapist from the primary attachment figure to a container who opens the way for the client’s Self to emerge.
Use methods for transparently handling situations in which you get emotionally triggered by your client.
Analyze how to get clients’ polarized, deeply conflicted parts to negotiate with each other.

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Outline

Internal Family Systems (IFS): Origins and Contacting the Core Self

Identify Diagnoses & Symptoms: Open the Way for the Client’s Self to Emerge

Access Internal Strengths & Resources for Healing

Handling Situations in Which You Get Emotionally Triggered

IFS Techniques to Get Client’s Deeply Conflicted Parts to Negotiate

Copyright : 03/22/2019

IFS in Action Master Class by Richard Schwartz

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate and elaborate on the IFS model’s principles, concepts, and treatment interventions.
Utilize case examples to demonstrate IFS treatment interventions and to employ situations that may trigger therapists, in order to demonstrate how to effectively maintain therapeutic presence while continuing to provide support for the client.
Evaluate burdens, particularly legacy burdens, and investigate their role in the client’s internal system.
Propose the five “P’s,” which are the qualities a good IFS therapist would demonstrate in order to be fully present with clients, to be fully embodied in self, and to able to engage with client’s parts in the face of triggers.
Distinguish the role of “Self” as the loving-connected force that organizes all the parts and facilitates healing.
Differentiates between exposure to trauma and the internalized impact of trauma on the inner system.

Outline

Session 1: Introduction: When the Therapist Gets Triggered
The Origins of IFS
The Delineation of Parts/Internal Interactions
The Self
The Different Kinds/Roles of Parts
IFS Model’s Perspective on Trauma
The Path to Recovery Through IFS
The 8 “C’s” of Self-Leadership
IFS Exercise
Getting Triggered

“Tormentors”
Therapist Access to Their Own “Self”

Session 2: IFS In Action: Working with a Veteran with PTSD
Applying IFS Concepts to Triggering Client Situations
Background on Dan
Dan Case Study

Beginning with Protectors
The Magic Question: “How Do You Feel Towards the Parts?”
Underlying Beliefs
Healing Using IFS
Legacy Burdens
Managing Resistance
Unburdening

Session 3: IFS in Action: Trauma from Childhood Abuse & Deep Seated Anger
Review of Dan Case Study: Legacy Burdens as Powerful Organizers
Introduction to Bob
Bob Case Study

The Importance of Therapist Staying in Self When Experiencing Triggers
Insight
Witnessing
Ritual

Session 4: IFS in Action: Chronic Sexual Abuse & PTSD
Introduction to “Kathy”
Kathy Case Study

Suicidal Ideation/Part
Witnessing
Unburdening
Becoming a Good Inner Parent
Ritual Closure

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 05/14/2020

The Myth of the Unitary Self

There’s a growing convergence of opinion from a range of disciplines challenging the traditional idea of the unitary personality in favor of the view that each of us actually contains a multiplicity of selves.

In this session recording, two noted clinical practitioners will focus on how what’s often identified as pathology reflects childhood defensive adaptations of some of these selves.

Together, they’ll demonstrate how the perspective of inner multiplicity can be used to elicit therapeutic healing, self-awareness, and growth.

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate how to help clients avoid overidentifying with a single part of themselves, and empower them to move beyond diagnostic labels.
Use the enhanced ability to perceive the workings of one’s mind to achieve greater personal integration.
Analyze the distinction between the Self and one’s parts and how it can help clients develop a capacity for Self-leadership and self-regulation.
Analyze the practical similarities and differences between two widely influential models of therapy, IFS, and Compassionate Inquiry.

Outline

Introduction

Bringing Together Internal Family Systems & Compassionate Inquiry
The Development of IFS

IFS “Therapy Session” for Gabor Maté

Feeling the Jealousy & Resistance
Being with the Jealous Part
Curiosity
Moving from Hurt to a Good Place
Letting Go of Old Feelings

Compassionate Inquiry “Therapy Session” for Ricard Schwartz

Shyness & Fear of Public Speaking
In Touch with Feelings
Staying Focused on Feelings

Comparing Approaches

“Veronica” Compassionate Inquiry Therapy Demonstration with Gabor Maté
“Kita” IFS Therapy Demonstration with Richard Schwartz

Questions from Audience

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Stop the Dread & Avoidance of Anxiety! How to Apply IFS Techniques for Anxiety

Teach clients to stop dreading and avoiding their anxiety! Learn from Richard Schwartz, PhD, the founder of this model that is being embraced worldwide as a cornerstone treatment for therapists. Dr. Schwartz will show you that your client's anxiety is to be comforted - not dreaded or avoided.
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers a way to help clients separate from their anxious parts and then love and comfort them. In doing so, clients can also learn where those parts are stuck in the past and retrieve them from those scary times and unload the fear they carry. This is a scary present but it’s also an opportunity to help many clients do some deep healing.

Program Information

Objectives

Assess the foundational concepts of the Internal Family Systems as an effective therapy model.
Plan the IFS treatment steps to use with clients to enable them to identify and separate from their anxious parts.
Apply the concept of "multiplicity" as a model for case conceptualization of clients' presenting problem and/or symptoms.

Outline

Multiplicity & the Self

Evolution of the IFS approach
Multiplicity of the mind
Stumbling on to the self

Internal Family System (IFS) For Anxiety

Protector parts and exiles
IFS technique:
- Honoring protectors
- Dealing with the overwhelm
- Witness and retrieve exiles
- Unburden beliefs and emotion that lead to dread and avoidance

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Nurses