Effective Compassion: IFS Interventions for Healing Trauma and Addictive Cycles
IFS level: Intermediate
We distinguish 3 Levels of knowledge and experience in IFS therapy:
- Beginner:
You don’t know what IFS therapy is or you are at the beginning of your IFS journey and want to know the basics of the model. - Intermediate:
You already know the basics – you’ve done an introductory workshop or course and want to learn more. - Advanced:
You’ve completed a number of IFS workshops and/or an IFS Institute Online Circle and/or a Level 1 training and are ready to dive deeper into the model.
IFS CEs are available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed IFS Level 1 training.
About this workshop:
Cece Sykes
3-week series
7 hours of video
On-demand
Experiential activities:
Demo sessions
Personal Practice (journalling)
Guided meditations
Q&A sessions
See what Michael has to say about the series:
Addictive and compulsive practices
Feeling ‘addicted’ to social media, crime shows, overworking, overspending or nightly sweets, cannabis or drinks are common complaints. Stress escalates when clients find out they can’t quit – what does this mean?
Other clients engage in behaviors that are more compulsive, suffering from heavy drinking/drug use, disordered eating, gambling or sexually compulsive activity.
Some end one behavior only to ‘trade addictions’ and find another. This workshop offers a helpful, clear paradigm shift that clinically addresses these stressful issues and offers clear compassionate interventions.
The healing potential of IFS
IFS therapy is uniquely suited to helping therapists work in collaboration with their clients to discover the positive intentions behind negative behavior, untangling inner chaos and providing safe access to exiled trauma or attachment wounds.
In this experiential workshop we will apply the IFS model to intervening effectively with both high and low-risk addictive processes, learning how to track and build solid internal connections and provide safe access to exiles.
Types of practice
During “Effective Compassion: IFS Interventions for Healing Trauma and Addictive Cycles” series you will:
Be able to identify and track addictive processes and how they are maintained in the system.
Learn safe interventions for identifying and working with addictive process polarizations and extreme protectors.
Learn how to help reduce resistance and invite clients to invest in the process.
Be able to identify how extreme managers impact the healing process and how to connect safely with exiles.
❤️🩹 Effective Compassion: IFS Interventions for Healing Trauma and Addictive Cycles
A series of 3 IFS online workshops with Cece Sykes
❤️🩹 Effective Compassion: IFS Interventions for Healing Trauma and Addictive Cycles
A series of 3 IFS online workshops with Cece Sykes
By joining this workshop series, you’ll receive:
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Unlimited access to workshop recordings:
Revisit the content anytime, allowing you to absorb the material at your own pace without time constraints.
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Comprehensive training materials:
Receive ready-to-print resources that offer valuable tools and references for your practice.
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Certificate of Completion:
Acknowledges your commitment to professional growth and enhances your therapeutic skills.
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8 IFS CEs:
Available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed Level 1 training.
Effective Compassion: IFS Interventions for Healing Trauma and Addictive Cycles
Workshop 1
Treating a system not a symptom
Workshop 2
Never an excuse, always a reason
Workshop 3
Getting in relationship, not in control
Workshop 1: Treating a system not a symptom
During this workshop we will:
- Identify basic concepts of the IFS model and how they apply to treating addictive processes.
- Discover how to identify the polarities in an addictive system.
- Learn interventions for a polarized, addictive system.
- Do experiential exercise for mapping an inner system.
- Watch the demo of working with a polarity.
Workshop 2: Never an excuse, always a reason
During this workshop we will:
- Learn clinical IFS definitions of addiction and firefighters, soothers and distracters.
- Create compassion and find Firefighters’ positive intentions and fears.
- Learn interventions for collaborating with extreme, high-risk behaviors.
- Do experiential exercise for working with firefighter/soothers.
- Watch the demo of working with an addictive system/firefighters.
Workshop 3: Getting in relationship, not in control
During this workshop we will:
- Identify and work with extreme managers in an addictive system.
- Learn how to work compassionately with extreme manager intentions and fears that activate the system.
- Create safe connections to exiles in and addictive system.
- Do experiential exercise for connecting with manager fears.
- Watch the demo working with and addictive system/managers.
Meet the trainer
Cece Sykes
Cece Sykes, LCSW is an IFS Senior Trainer, author and consultant with over forty years of clinical experience specializing in recovery from trauma and addiction.
One of the founding trainers in the IFS Institute, Cece has educated therapists around the world on the IFS model and on her approach to treating addictive processes. Her original chapter on addiction appears in Innovations & Elaborations (2016) and her recent book IFS Therapy for Addictions: Trauma Informed Compassion-Based Interventions for Substances, Eating, Gambling and More with Martha Sweezy and Richard Schwartz was released in 2023.
Cece also developed the Heart Lessons of the Journey retreat for an on-going international study of therapist personal narratives. She regularly lectures on these and related subjects and lives in her lifelong home of Chicago.
Satisfaction Guarantee
Up to 48 hours after purchase, if you are not completely satisfied just let us know about it. We will give you a full refund. You are not required to give any reason.
You have nothing to lose!
Completion of IFS Level 1 Training is not required
At the same time, you need to know the fundamentals of IFS, as we don’t offer basic didactics about the model during this workshop.
Make sure that you:
- Have completed a thorough introductory course/workshop about IFS or the IFSI Online Circle,
- Have a desire to embody the IFS Model – deepen the knowledge of your own system, and learn tools that aid you in this process.
Getting certified?
With this series there are 8 IFS CEs available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed IFS Level 1 training.
How it works
The workshop was held live in April and May 2022.
The whole process has been structured so that you can go through it at any time, at your own pace. Explore almost 7 hours of video material – it’s important that you find the right space to immerse yourself in this process.
The recording contains didactics, meditations, demo sessions, and practice instructions so you will be able to do personal work in your own time. Please note that the practice group sessions and the group sharings were not recorded.
Remember that you get unlimited access to the workshop recordings, which means you will be able to view them in a year or even in a few years.
Opinions about this workshop series
Experiential activities
Please note that the teacher will respond to the needs of the group and because of that, the chosen activities may change
Guided meditations
Guided meditation is an internal practice that you do with closed eyes, following the teacher’s voice. The teacher will invite you to sit back, relax, and focus on your inner world. You will meet your parts, talk to them, and often learn things you weren’t aware of before. Guided meditation can allow you to do a significant piece of inner work.
Q&A sessions
Each of the workshops will have space for questions from the audience. If you buy a recording of the workshop, you will have access to the recording of the Q&A session that took place live during the workshop.
Personal practice (ex. journalling)
Personal practice means working on your own, usually with a piece of paper, after hearing the instructions explained by the teacher. These exercises may be various – sometimes you will be invited to communicate with your parts by journalling, sometimes you will do a drawing exercise (like mapping your parts). Other times you will get a more complex set of instructions and 10 or 15 minutes to do a piece of the process on your own.
Demo sessions
These are session demonstrations in which the teacher does a live session with a volunteer. It may be a short, role-played session or a whole, longer session. Sometimes teachers show videos of sessions they recorded in the past.
❤️🩹 Effective Compassion: IFS Interventions for Healing Trauma and Addictive Cycles
In our culture, criticizing addiction is welcome. It’s often believed that this is the only way to control the behaviour of people who are addicted. IFS offers a paradigm shift – a perspective in which we can unlock the healing potential by being compassionate to those who are stuck in their addiction. During this workshop series you will learn how to use compassion to effectively resolve addictive and compulsive practices.
Cece Sykes is a Senior Lead Trainer and she has over thirty years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples and families, specializing in work with the effects of trauma and addiction.
❤️🩹 Effective Compassion: IFS Interventions for Healing Trauma and Addictive Cycles
In our culture, criticizing addiction is welcome. It’s often believed that this is the only way to control the behaviour of people who are addicted. IFS offers a paradigm shift – a perspective in which we can unlock the healing potential by being compassionate to those who are stuck in their addiction. During this workshop series you will learn how to use compassion to effectively resolve addictive and compulsive practices.
Cece Sykes is a Senior Lead Trainer and she has over thirty years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples and families, specializing in work with the effects of trauma and addiction.
By joining this workshop series, you’ll receive:
-
Unlimited access to workshop recordings:
Revisit the content anytime, allowing you to absorb the material at your own pace without time constraints.
-
Comprehensive training materials:
Receive ready-to-print resources that offer valuable tools and references for your practice.
-
Certificate of Completion:
Acknowledges your commitment to professional growth and enhances your therapeutic skills.
-
8 IFS CEs:
Available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed Level 1 training.