Workshop recordings

This workshop series dives deep into understanding and working with extreme protectors in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This workshop will explore the application of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy across various group settings, including group therapy, training sessions, and group retreats.

During this workshop we will deepen our understanding of how polarizations are created, become more extreme, and their function in outer and inner systems.

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.

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.

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.

Bringing your energy back home to the body and discover Parts and Guides as Energetic Beings.

One of the biggest challenges for IFS therapists and practitioners are protectors, who are difficult to befriend. These are the parts that doubt the existence of Self, cut us off from our inner experience, are not willing to share their positive intent or have any other extreme strategy that bring stuckness to the process. During this IFS workshop series you will learn new ways to befriend these difficult protectors.

Mike Elkin is an IFS senior Lead trainer who has been involved with the model since 1995. He has been a popular presenter, conducting scores of trainings and workshops throughout the US and Europe and has taught level one trainings in Boston every year since 2003.