In this course you will have the opportunity to explore and expand your familiarity and understanding of IFS concepts and topics including legacy burdens, unattached burdens, implicit and explicit direct access, working with internal polarizations, and the nuances to distinguish Self from self-like parts. There will also be ample time to practice the basic structure and frameworks of IFS while experimenting with some of these new concepts and protocols. This deeper dive will support you as an IFS-informed clinician and as a Self-led human.

This course introduces mental health therapists and other helping professionals to the Internal Family Systems therapeutic model.

This course provides the opportunity for helping professionals to gain a conceptual framework of IFS through didactic and experiential teachings and learnings. Participants will gain familiarity with their own internal family to help integrate this model beyond the intellect to a somatic knowing and understanding. There will also be opportunity to guide other participants in becoming familiar with their parts and beginning to build Self to part relationships to practice some of the key skills of IFS.