Direct Access - an essential IFS skill
We distinguish 3 Levels of knowledge and experience in IFS therapy:
- Beginner:
You don’t know what IFS therapy is or you are on 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 you 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 do dive deeper into the model.
IFS CEs are available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed IFS Level 1 training.
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Fran Booth
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3-week series
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9 hours of video
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Recording
experiential activities:
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Personal practice (journalling)
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Pre-recorded demo sessions
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Guided meditations
See what Fran has to say about the series:
Increase your competence
Having mastered the basic IFS protocol, the maturing IFS therapist often seeks proficiency with Direct Access.
Embodied ease with Direct Access increases your competence as an IFS therapist. This workshop will include didactic, video demonstrations, experientials, and practice.
You will leave this workshop with more confidence and clarity using Direct Access.
Direct Access
- an essential IFS skill
During this workshop series, you will increase:
- clarity and confidence on the use of Direct Access,
- awareness of personal parts limiting the use of direct access,
- competence with the skill of addressing protector fears, a key component of Direct Access.
Learn how Direct Access can increase your competence
A series of 3 IFS online workshops with Fran Booth
Gain clarity and confidence in the use of Direct Access during IFS sessions
By signing up for "Direct Access - an essential IFS skill"
workshop series you get:
- All-time access to the workshop recordings – no time limits,
- Pre-recorded demo session,
- Training materials ready for printing,
- Certificate of Completion,
- 9 IFS CEs available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed Level 1 training.
Workshop 1: Direct Access skills
During this workshop we will:
- Identify and unblend therapist parts that block using Direct Access.
- Be able to define the difference between explicit and implicit Direct Access.
- View video examples of explicit and implicit Direct Access to deepen learning.
- Leave with increased clarity in using direct access with protectors.
Workshop 2: Conversations with Protectors
During this workshop we will:
- Begin to master the particular skill of addressing protector fears: how to “hear” the particular fear, and how to respond.
- Practice responding to different protector fears.
- Remember the value of adding negotiation skills to protector conversations.
- Revisit the concept of “backlash”.
Workshop 3: Direct Access - special topics
During this workshop we will:
- Deepen our understanding of the use of Direct Access with exiles, critics, and heavily burdened systems.
- View a video demonstrations to study various applications of Direct Access.
- Do an integration and a Q&A session.
Meet the trainer
Fran Booth, LICSW
Frances D. Booth LICSW is a Certified IFS Therapist, Trainer and Consultant. She’s been a clinician for over 40 years, specializes in complex trauma, anxiety, depression, cancer, and binge eating.
Fran enjoys teaching IFS as a comprehensive integrative paradigm that encompasses her earlier explorations in various paths to heal the human heart and psyche: psychodynamic, ego states, mindfulness, attachment and body-based modalities.
Fran has held adjunct faculty positions at Tufts University School of Medicine, Smith College, and the University of New Hampshire.
Her mindfulness training is with the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, MA. Her Mind/Body training was with the Herbert Benson Mind Body Center, Boston, MA.
She was a founding member of The Healing Garden, a complementary care cancer center.
She loves to play, wear hats, laugh, sing, dance, dine and wine, read, explore new lands, bike, sail, swim, attend theater and be silly with grandchildren.
See what others say about Fran
Fran Booth is an IFS treasure. Her wisdom and depth of clinical experience shine through in her teaching.
Dr. Frank Anderson, Author, Psychiatrist, Speaker, Trauma Specialist
Fran embodies the IFS model with passion, wisdom, and clinical competence. A gifted teacher, she is clear, engaging, and insightful. She teaches to the head, heart, and soul in each of us. Find the time to learn from one of the best!
Jory Agate, MA, LMHC, MDiv. IFS trainer
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.
How it works
The workshop was held live in September and October 2022.
The whole process has been structured so that you can go through it at any time, at your own pace. Explore almost 9 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.
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!
Getting certified?
With this series there are 9 IFS CEs available to be applied for
IFS certification for those who have completed IFS Level 1 training.
A detailed description of experiential activities:
Please note that the teacher will respond to the needs of the group and because of that, the chosen activities may change
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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.
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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.
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Pre-recorded demo sessions
Teachers show videos of sessions that they have recorded in the past. The sessions are related to the topic of the workshops.
Opinions about this workshop series
Learn how Direct Access can increase your competence
A series of 3 IFS online workshops with Fran Booth
Gain clarity and confidence in the use of Direct Access during IFS sessions
By signing up for "Direct Access - an essential IFS skill"
workshop series you get:
- All-time access to the workshop recordings – no time limits,
- Pre-recorded demo session,
- Training materials ready for printing,
- Certificate of Completion,
- 9 IFS CEs available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed Level 1 training.