IFS Workshops

Unburdening Exiles: Exploring the Healing Steps
Unburdening is a transformative process in IFS, offering exiles the chance to release the burdens of painful experiences. In this workshop, Einat Avni Bronstein, MSW, an IFS Senior Lead Trainer, will guide you in refining your understanding of this crucial step.
Through focused exploration, you’ll gain deeper insight into the intricacies of unburdening and its role in fostering healing and transformation. This workshop invites you to expand your perspective on this vital process, enhancing your ability to support others on their journey.
Einat Bronstein
February 18 & 19, 2025
16:00 - 20:00 CET

Free Webinar with Einat Bronstein: Self-led Unburdening - the Art and Science of Letting Go
Discover the essential Healing Steps in IFS and why each one plays a vital role in the therapeutic process.
Einat Bronstein
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Therapy Strategies for Complex Trauma
This training is a 3-month, online training about working with Complex Trauma. This 55-hour experiential program is focused on understanding and treating complex trauma using a variety of psychotherapy frameworks. It will cover theoretical foundations such as attachment theory, dissociation, and neurobiology while introducing practical interventions like Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR adapted for complex trauma, and Coherence Therapy.
A 3-Month Online Training, beginning April 8
55-hour experiential program

Therapy Strategies for Complex Trauma CS
This training is a 3-month, online training about working with Complex Trauma. This 55-hour experiential program is focused on understanding and treating complex trauma using a variety of psychotherapy frameworks. It will cover theoretical foundations such as attachment theory, dissociation, and neurobiology while introducing practical interventions like Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR adapted for complex trauma, and Coherence Therapy.
Frank Anderson, Janina Fisher (+1)
Spring 2025
55-hour experiential program
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An IFS Lens on Therapist Burnout
Being a therapist is fascinating, rewarding, and sometimes quite challenging. For IFS clinicians, however, there is an important added benefit -we work collaboratively, looping in client Self-energy as an active partner in the process. Yet, I hear therapists tell me they often feel overwhelmed, work long hours, and are really tired. Is this ‘normal’? Is it okay? Is it harmful?
In this experiential workshop, we will discuss signs of compassion fatigue and burnout, discovering how our parts view the parameters of therapist responsibility and the intersection of our needs with our clients.
Cece Sykes

IFS is Grief Work: Healing Unattended Losses
Exiles become burdened when the response needed to distressing events is not available. This is one definition of trauma. Healing this loss, often profound, includes grieving. This workshop will explore the application of the IFS model to grieve these unattended losses.
We will discuss how to identify and work with protectors that avoid, rush, minimize, distract, etc. from the grief. We will discuss allowing exiles to stay with grief to deepen healing and integration.
Jory Agate
5 hours

IFS in Group Settings
This workshop will explore the application of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy across various group settings, including group therapy, training sessions, and group retreats.
Mary Kruger
7 hours

Navigating Inner Conflicts: Polarizations in IFS Therapy
During this workshop we will deepen our understanding of how polarizations are created, become more extreme, and their function in outer and inner systems.
Ann Sinko
7 hours in total

The Others Within Us: Unattached Burdens and Guides in IFS Therapy
The backbone of this course will be a detailed pragmatic outline of how we can deal with Unattached burdens when we encounter them in clients or in our selves. Our emphasis will be practical but we will also explore historical precedents and cross-cultural contexts for this work.
Robert Falconer
13 hours in total

IFS & Psychedelics
IFS therapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy are a great fit. It’s because of that Internal Family Systems is one of the main modalities used in MDMA trials done by MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies).
During this online workshop series an IFS Teacher, Robert Falconer – who co-authored „Many Minds, One Self” book with Richard Schwartz – will take you on a journey, during which you will learn how to use IFS to support the altered states of consciousness, Robert and his guests – leaders in the field of psychedelic therapy – will talk about the application of IFS therapy during three stages of work with psychedelics – preparation, experience and integration.
Robert Falconer
11 hours

Somatic IFS
Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy introduces a new therapeutic modality that blends principles of somatic therapy with the traditional tools of the Internal Family Systems framework. During this 1-day workshop, Susan McConnell will introduce 5 core practices that you can apply to your practice: somatic awareness, conscious breathing, radical resonance, mindful movement, and attuned touch.
Susan McConnell has taught Internal Family Systems (IFS) in the U.S. and internationally since 1997. Somatic IFS, which McConnell developed in 2004, is a synthesis of her forty years of study, teaching, and clinical practice with bodywork, psychotherapy, and spiritual practices.
Susan McConnell
4 hours