Discover what is Somatic IFS
Experience each of the five practices of Somatic IFS — awareness, breath, resonance, movement, and touch.
Get access to the recordings of this online IFS workshop (no time limits).
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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Susan McConnell
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1-day workshop
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4 hours of video
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Recording
experiential activities:
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Guided meditations
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Personal practice
The five practices of Somatic IFS
The unity of body and mind is more than a concept. It is a lived experience that transforms us and the culture as a whole. Our internal families are embodied, including the parts that block our access to our Embodied Self.
In this workshop, you will experience each of the five practices of Somatic IFS — awareness, breath, resonance movement, and touch.
You will understand how these practices can be incorporated into the IFS Model to restore Embodied Self energy and facilitate a deeper dimension of presence in your life and work with clients.
During Somatic IFS you will:
- Experience the five practices of Somatic IFS (awareness, breath, resonance, movement, and touch).
- Understand how protector parts may fear and resist embodiment due to individual, cultural, ethnic, ancestral, and transgenerational burdens.
- Understand how exiles use the body to tell their stories through sensation and movement.
- Discover how these Somatic Practices integrate with the IFS Model to access parts of the internal system of individuals and facilitate their unburdening, restoring our Embodied Self energy.
- Understand how embodying the internal system, including Self, is crucial for addressing interpersonal, intergenerational, and collective trauma.
Integrate somatic therapy with Internal Family Systems
An IFS online workshop with Susan McConnell
Apply somatic awareness, conscious breathing, radical resonance, mindful movement, and attuned touch to your practice.
By signing up for the "Somatic IFS" workshop, you get:
- All-time access to the workshop recording – no time limits,
- Training materials ready for printing,
- Certificate of Completion,
- 6 IFS CEs available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed Level 1 training.
Meet the trainer
Susan McConnell
Susan McConnell, MA, CHT, senior trainer for the IFS Institute, has taught Internal Family Systems in the US and internationally since 1997.
She is the author of Somatic Internal Family Systems: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch published by North Atlantic Books.
Somatic IFS is the culmination of her experience and teaching of various bodywork, movement, spiritual, and psychotherapeutic modalities that facilitate the embodiment of the internal family—the subpersonalities as well as the essential core Self—to bring compassionate witnessing to the implicit body stories of our individual hurts and societal burdens.
She offers retreats, workshops and trainings in Somatic IFS to participants throughout the world.
Completion of IFS Level 1 Training is not required
At the same time, you need to know the fundamentals of IFS as no basic didactics about the model will be offered.
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 will aid you in this process.
How it works
The workshop was held live in May 2022.
The whole process has been structured so that you can go through it at any time, at your own pace. Explore almost 4 hours of video material - it's important that you find the right space to immerse yourself in this process.
The recording contains didactics, meditations, 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.
Getting certified?
With this series there are 6 IFS CEs available to be applied for
IFS certification for those who have completed IFS Level 1 training.
A detailed description of experiential activities:
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.
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.
Opinions about this workshop
Integrate somatic therapy with Internal Family Systems
An IFS online workshop with Susan McConnell
Apply somatic awareness, conscious breathing, radical resonance, mindful movement, and attuned touch to your practice.
By signing up for the "Somatic IFS" workshop, you get:
- All-time access to the workshop recording – no time limits,
- Training materials ready for printing,
- Certificate of Completion,
- 6 IFS CEs available to be applied for IFS certification for those who have completed Level 1 training.