During this Workshop, you will:
Gain a working understanding of legacy and cultural burdens and how they shape beliefs and behaviors across generations.
Explore your own legacy burdens, uncovering inherited patterns and their impact on your life.
Discover both the blessings and burdens you carry from your ancestors.
Begin to understand the impact of cultural conditioning and the implications of growing up in your specific culture.
Watch demonstrations of legacy burden work to see the process in practice.
Develop a foundational knowledge of how to help clients identify and unburden their own legacy and cultural burdens.
Meet the trainer
Kay Gardner
Kay Gardner, LCPC, IFS Lead trainer has over 45 years of clinical experience and 35 years in private practice. She is a senior Lead Trainer for Internal Family Systems (IFS) and has been in leadership since the beginning of the approach, in the early 90’s. She also came to IFS as an experienced therapist and a teacher of Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy and as a result, helped to integrate the body into the IFS practice.
In earlier work, Kay was the founder of The Women’s Circle, a women’s program in Chicago, and has also led various successful workshops around the country for men and women, including Persephone’s Journey; Men and Their Mothers; Women and Their Fathers; as well as Sacred Theatre for Couples, which brought her body-centered theatre approach to work with couples in groups or individually.
In her most recent work, presented nationally and internationally, Kay was the first to bring the notion of Legacy Burdens to IFS and has co-developed a unique program that integrates work with energy, chakras, and developmental stages, called a Possibility of awakening. Kay brings a body-centered and spiritual approach to all her work.
She is a warm, gifted, and heartfelt presenter who consistently garners rave reviews from her audiences.
