Workshops

Sign up for the Free Summit with Linda Thai, Pat Ogden, Tracy Jarvis & Bruce Ecker and learn effective approaches to healing 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.

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

Legacy burdens are patterns of belief and behavior passed down through generations, often unconsciously. This workshop with Kay Gardner offers a guided exploration of these inherited burdens and blessings, inviting participants to connect with ancestral wisdom and begin the process of unburdening.

Unblending is a vital skill for cultivating a clear, self-to-part relationship, creating space for healing, and fostering systemic change. This workshop with Rina Dubin will deepen understanding of direct access—both implicit and explicit—to facilitate unblending.

Self-like parts are the most creative and functional parts we often identify with as our best selves. This workshop with Paul Neustadt explores how these parts, while seemingly embodying our strengths, may carry hidden burdens and a disconnection from true Self energy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shamanism and modern psychotherapy have more in common that one might think. Shamans practice the most ancient form of healing we know. Psychotherapists around the world are now discovering ways to learn from their treatments. During this workshop we will discover how we can implement shamanic practices into our therapeutic work with clients.
This workshop will be led by an IFS Teacher Robert Falconer, who specializes in working with Unattached Burdens and psychedelic experiences, and an IFS Lead Trainer Ann Sinko, who has 20 years of clinical experience and is licensed marriage and family therapist in Connecticut.

What is the true nature of our exiles? How to differentiate them from their burdens and identify their natural qualities and gifts? In this series we will take a deep dive into working with exiles with the focus on the unburdening process. You will also learn how to integrate the unburdened exile’s gifts into your everyday life.
Paul Neustadt is a senior IFS Co-Lead Trainer and AAMFT approved supervisor. In his private practice, he specializes in couples’ therapy, parent coaching, and IFS consultation.

An official 16-day IFS Level 1 training. Start a new path in your professional development. As a participant in this training, you will understand the conceptual basis of the IFS model, learn how to apply IFS techniques in your individual work with the client, make use of the IFS model and the possibilities it gives in self-therapy.

An official 16-day IFS Level 1 training. Start a new path in your professional development. As a participant in this training, you will understand the conceptual basis of the IFS model, learn how to apply IFS techniques in your individual work with the client, make use of the IFS model and the possibilities it gives in self-therapy.

“Deepening and Expanding with IFS” with Paul Ginter is a 5-day intensive IFS Level 2 Training approved by IFS Institute, in the online format.

Thanks to a highly experiential program and priceless support of experienced Program Assistants, you will deepen and broaden your knowledge and skills of IFS therapy. This training includes many opportunities for your own self-exploration and you will have the chance to experience your own parts in the safe environment.