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IFS Therapy in Action: Leading Clients to Self-Leadership | Part 1

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 recording, you’ll discover how to help clients transform their fragmented experience of Self. Explore how to:

Apply strategies used in IFS to contact the core Self
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
Get clients’ polarized, deeply conflicted, parts to negotiate with each other

Program Information

Objectives

Apply strategies used in IFS to contact the core Self.
Practice shifting 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.
Employ strategies to get clients’ polarized, deeply conflicted parts to negotiate with each other.

Outline

Apply strategies used in IFS to contact the core Self.
- The assumptions of IFS
- The naturally valuable state of inner parts
- Understanding exiles and managers
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.
- Creating a safe and self-compassionate relationship of self to parts
- How parts change in this healing relationship
Use methods for transparently handling situations in which you get emotionally triggered by your client.
- The importance of contacting your own core Self in session
Describe how to get clients’ polarized, deeply conflicted parts to negotiate with each other.
- Avoiding the need for extensive grounding techniques and instead communicating with parts to meet their needs

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/18/2021

Addictive Behaviors as Self-Preservation: Key Insights from the Internal Family Systems Model

By looking at addictive behaviors – from drugs and alcohol to sex, technology, and binge eating -- as means of self-protection and a way of staving off deep personal pain, the IFS model provides a model of treatment that avoids power struggles, and feelings of shame and judgment that can often accompany treatment for trauma and addictions.

Watch IFS developer, Richard Schwartz, demonstrate how IFS therapy is used with addictive behaviors and see how the IFS model is a compassionate means to revisit trauma and initiate healing, and in turn, helps the individual to address the subsequent addictive behaviors often without the need for extended grounding techniques at the beginning of treatment.

Developed over the past four decades, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers both a conceptual umbrella under which a variety of practices and different approaches can be grounded and guided and provides a set of original techniques for creating safety and fostering Self-to-Self connection in traumatized clients.

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine how the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) views addictive behaviors and recovery.
Apply IFS-specific grounding techniques that may help clients with addiction, recovery and trauma.
Apply three IFS-specific techniques for reducing addictive behaviors and symptoms of traumatic stress.

Outline

Multiplicity & the Self

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

Internal Family System (IFS) with Trauma

IFS techniques:
- Honoring protectors
- Dealing with the overwhelm
- Witness and retrieve exiles
- Unburden trauma memories, beliefs and emotions

Keys to Working Safely with Addictions and Trauma

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/16/2020

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

Copyright : 06/04/2020

How Internal Family Systems Therapy is Helping Us Understand the Human Mind & How We Heal

Presented by Dr. Richard Schwartz and PESI, discover how IFS therapy not only offers innovative techniques for exploring and transforming the mind, it also represents a different, empowering paradigm for understanding human nature that has implications for and is being used in many areas of endeavor outside of psychotherapy.

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

Effectively integrate IFS conceptualizations with current therapeutic modalities.
Develop a deep understanding of how neuroscience informs therapeutic decisions in IFS therapy.
Integrate the IFS model into your clinical practice and accelerate healing for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and eating disorders.

Outline

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model in the context of psychotherapy
Recent developments in the Internal Family Systems model
How IFS helps understand the human mind from a neuroscientific perspective

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 12/03/2020

Parenting through IFS Therapy: From Tears to Transformation

For all its joys, parenting is often a roller coaster of challenges. Even when parents are at the top of their game, the most routine curveballs—quarreling siblings, a child’s public meltdown, or a phone call from a teacher—can trigger unresolved shame, guilt, or anger. But the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach can help parents more fully understand and heal the wounds their children will inevitably evoke in them, allowing them to better set healthy limits, while also creating a more nurturing family environment. You’ll discover how to help parents:

Talk to children about difficult subjects by using “part of me language,” which cultivates honesty, clarity, and calm
Explore their own reactive moments with compassion and respond to triggers with more empathy, using dialogues with inner parts
Co-parent in a way that’s supportive, collaborative, and leads to a fuller expression of mature selfhood
Recover from the inevitable moments when they “lose it” and take the necessary steps to repair with fuller awareness

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

Integrate “a part of me language” in family conversation to allow for safe ways to have difficult discussions with children.
Create ways to engage parents in an exploration of their reactive moments with compassion and empathy instead of guilt and shame.
Plan an agreement with parents that allows for healthy co-parenting and minimizes the negative impact they can have on their kids when they’re not at their best
Demonstrate how to help parents lead from a place of power and set limits for their children while still expressing love and support.

Outline

Parent Coaching vs Parent Healing
- Parent Coaching
- Parenting
Starting the Parenting Journey
- Expectations Exercise
- Video (I was the perfect mom…)
The Spiritual Dimension
Family History: Legacy Gifts & Burdens
- Gifts and Burdens Exercise
Parenting Styles & Attachment Styles
- IFS & Parenting
- Parenting Styles
- What IFS Brings to Parenting
- Video (Do you suffer from Par-ent-ing?
Our Reactive Moments
- What causes you to lose it (exercise)
- List the reasons you can get activated.
When Your Kids Become Your Perpetrator
- Video (Mom losing it)
- Examples
  - World series
  - Sleepover & football game
  - Trick-or-treating & dinner
Responsibility & Repair
- Owning our Parts
- Apologizing
- Connecting
Triggering Exercise
- Overidentifying with their parts
- Co-Parenting
- Video (people with no kids)
The Triggering Agreement
- Personal example
- Triggering Agreement Exercise
Direct Access Parenting
- Parenting Books
- Parenting and Society/Culture
Parenting and Attachment
Parenting and the Brain
- Video (I’m not your friend, kid!)
From Reactive to Responsive
The Parent Self
Parenting from Self
Unique Circumstances
Summary & Ending Exercise

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/20/2021

Healing Cultural Trauma with IFS Therapy: A Culturally Sensitive Approach

Despite an increased willingness in our profession to discuss issues of diversity, including race, sexuality, gender, class, etc., we still have a long way to go in addressing the traumatic effects of systemic oppression. As therapists, we can acknowledge and try to remediate these negative effects by providing culturally sensitive care for people who often feel unseen or misunderstood. Using the framework of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, this recording offers practical skills to help heal the traumatic wounds of oppression. You’ll discover how to:

Use the Intercultural Development Continuum with clients to explore how cultural perspectives impact communication and conflict style
Apply the IFS model to help heal trauma, and acknowledge and own the parts of ourselves that become reactive when discussing issues of diversity
Increase your ability to avoid microaggressions and help clients explore emotional wounds with culturally sensitive techniques including, “The U-turn” and “Unblending”

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine how to use the Intercultural Development Continuum with clients to explore how cultural perspectives impact communication and conflict style.
Apply the IFS model to help clients heal trauma and address inner parts that become reactive when discussing issues of diversity.
Apply two culturally sensitive techniques to help clients explore emotional wounds.
Determine how to work from an anti-oppressive framework to enhance clinical outcomes by improving your therapeutic alliance with clients.
Perform assessment and treatment for psychological distress induced by marginalization.

Outline

Describe how to use the Intercultural Development Continuum with clients to explore how cultural perspectives impact communication and conflict style.
- Explore the six stages in the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity
- Examine the three types of cultural conflict styles
Apply the IFS model to help clients heal trauma, and acknowledge and own the parts of ourselves that become reactive when discussing issues of diversity.
- Apply the basic principles of IFS to Cross Cultural Communication
- Utilize the IFS model to discover our own implicit bias
- Use the “8Cs” to understand the difference between operating from Self and Parts
List two culturally sensitive techniques to help clients explore emotional wounds.
- Practice doing the U-Turn
- Explore why Unblending helps in intercultural communication
- Understand how unburdening will increase capacity for compassion and connection
- Utilize the U-Turn, Unblending and Unburdening to successfully conduct Relational Repairs as needed
Explain what it means to work from an anti-oppressive framework to enhance clinical outcomes by improving your therapeutic alliance with clients/patients.
- Establish shared meanings of key terms, to include: culture, diversity, race, equity, bias, privilege and power
- Explain the theory of Kyriarchy
- Identify tools and practices that are culturally relevant to respond to the complex experience of oppression
- Explore the four primary Legacy Burdens in our society: Racism, Patriarchy, Materialism, and Individualism
Provide assessment and treatment for psychological distress induced by marginalization.
- Explain ways that structural oppression impacts the inner psychic system
- Analyze challenges and barriers that perpetuate health disparities and re-victimization in the clinical setting

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

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