
IFS Therapy Workshops
Live, online workshops with high-quality streaming and access to the recordings of the workshops without time limits. If you are new to IFS, check out our 12-day "Introduction to IFS" online course.
Workshop schedule (4)
Teachers: Daphne Fatter, Monique Lang, Tatiana Dávila
Date: 19 / 23 October 2 / 9 / 16 November 2023
Hours: 18:00 - 21:00 CET
Place: Online
Price: 387 $
The title of Mark Wolynn’s book, “It Didn’t Start With You”, suggests that we carry the trauma of our ancestors, and research supports this notion. However, we can break the cycle of intergenerational trauma by healing these inherited burdens.
In this workshop, we will use both ancient wisdom and contemporary therapeutic modalities, including Ancestral Healing and IFS Therapy, to address intergenerational trauma. As a mental health professional, you will have the opportunity to learn new healing tools and participate in rituals that you can bring to your therapy sessions.

Daphne Fatter, Monique Lang, Tatiana Dávila

19 / 23 October 2 / 9 / 16 November 2023

18:00 - 21:00 CET

Online
Teachers: Janina Fisher, Dr. Gabor Mate, Susan McConnell
Date: September - December 2023
Hours: 55 hours in total
Place: Online
Price: 987 $
During this 3-month training program, you will understand the core ideas of somatic therapy and learn effective somatic tools that are easy to integrate into your trauma therapy work.
We will begin by exploring the fundamental principles of somatic therapy and how they apply to the healing of trauma.
Next, we will focus on a select few techniques from various modalities, delving into their practical use and the proper way to incorporate them into trauma therapy, both in-person and online.

Janina Fisher, Dr. Gabor Mate, Susan McConnell

September - December 2023

55 hours in total

Online
SOON
Teacher: Geke Dijkstra
Date: 22 / 29 November 2023
Hours: 18:00 - 20:30 CEST
Place: Online
Price: Coming soon
In this workshop you will learn about working with ayahuasca in a western context.
Geke has been given ceremonies with ayahuasca for over 12 years and will share her knowledge about set and setting, safe practices and the importance of preparation and integration.
Geke Dijkstra has a degree in clinical psychology and transpersonal therapy and is trained in breath work, bodywork and voice dialogue.

Geke Dijkstra

22 / 29 November 2023

18:00 - 20:30 CEST

Online
SOON
Teachers: David Kitchings, Tisha Shull
Date: TBA
Hours: 14:00 - 21:00 CEST
Place: Online
Price: Coming soon
A proper introduction to the IFS model lays the groundwork for the whole IFS journey you are about to embark. A solid guidance from an experienced IFS therapist mixed with thoughtful and deep exercises is crucial if you want to feel confident in using IFS in your client’s practice.
We developed this introductory workshop because our community asked for a top class IFS introduction targeted at mental health proffesionals. This workshop will be lead by two certified IFS therapists with experience of assisting on a number of IFS training: Tisha Shull, who is a co-creator of IFS Talks podcast, and David Kitchings.

David Kitchings, Tisha Shull

TBA

14:00 - 21:00 CEST

Online
IFS Therapy Workshop Recordings
Workshop recordings (21)
Teacher: Deb Dana
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 337 $
During this workshop, you will develop an understanding of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory and discover how to use Polyvagal Theory to enhance your therapy practice. You’ll learn about the hierarchy of the autonomic nervous system and how it influences emotions, behaviours, and social connections.
You’ll develop an understanding of how the autonomic nervous system shapes behaviors and beliefs and learn strategies to help your clients’ regulate their nervous systems and improve their ability to cope with complex trauma.

Deb Dana

Recording

Online
Teacher: Robert Falconer
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 337 $
IFS has given us a model of mind made up of parts (managers, firefighters, and exiles) and Self. This concept of the multiplicity of mind is rapidly replacing the old myth of the mono mind.
IFS’s model has proven itself to be very valuable in psychotherapy. As we go deeper into people’s systems we begin to encounter things that are not parts or Self. Bob Falconer calls these the others within us. They include legacy burdens, cultural burdens, unattached burdens and guides. For many people the unattached burdens and guides are the most bizarre and frightening denizens of their minds. These will be the focus of this workshop series.

Robert Falconer

Recording

Online
Teacher: Dr. Gabor Mate
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 337 $
Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world.
Dr. Maté will model the process of Compassionate Inquiry with course participants and instruct therapists in the practice of this powerful technique to help clients access deep healing and transformation. This will be both an experiential, participatory workshop where participants will be guided through their own personal process, as well as a training to teach the method of Compassionate Inquiry to health professionals, therapists and social workers.

Dr. Gabor Mate

Recording

Online
Teacher: Alexia Rothman
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 337 $
Polyvagal Theory explains how humans connect with each other. It helps us understand what happens to our nervous system when we don’t feel safe and disconnect from others. Learning about Polyvagal Theory through an IFS lens allows us to support our clients in going through a more embodied therapy process and to move from the survival mode to thriving and flourishing.
This workshop will be led by Dr. Alexia Rothman, a licensed psychologist and Certified IFS therapist in private practice in Atlanta. As Richard Schwartz said, “Lexi Rothman not only knows IFS deeply, she embodies it. She gets my highest recommendation as a therapist or presenter!”.

Alexia Rothman

Recording

Online
Teacher: Patricia Rich
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 297 $
This workshop will introduce you to the model of Self-Led Sexuality, that will help you to navigate sexuality in a wise, expansive and centered way. It will be led by the founder of the Relating Well Center, LLC, Patricia Rich. She is passionate about helping people to deepen connections within themselves and with partners in order to live more harmonious and fulfilling lives. She is guided by the Internal Family Systems model, principles of positive sexuality, embodied practices, and a social justice lens.
This workshop will include practice in small groups as well as alternative exercise options for those who prefer to practice by themselves.

Patricia Rich

Recording

Online
Teacher: Fran Booth
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 297 $
Direct access is one of the most challanging IFS skills to acquire. IFS practitioners and therapists often don’t feel confident enough in their ability to use it – even after their IFS Level 1 Training. During this workshop we will learn how to properly use it, both explicitly and implicitly.
After this series you will be able to use direct access in your private practice. Fran Booth, a social worker, is a certified IFS therapist, consultant, and trainer. A clinician for more than 40 years, her practice specialties include trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, cancer/ and other medical concerns, binge eating, and attachment injuries.

Fran Booth

Recording

Online
Teachers: Ann Sinko, Robert Falconer
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 197 $
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.

Ann Sinko, Robert Falconer

Recording

Online
Teacher: Pamela Krause
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 337 $
Many of us has caretaking and therapist parts that are very much similar to Self. Often, these are the parts that motivated us to become therapists and practitioners. But when we support people, such Self-like parts can hinder the progress of therapy. This workshops series will help you to discriminate between helping, caretaking, therapist parts and the Self, and show you strategies to unblend them.
Pamela Krause is an IFS Senior Lead Trainer at IFS Institute and is trained in Hakomi therapy. She has a private practice working with adults, adolescents, and children.

Pamela Krause

Recording

Online
Teacher: Susan McConnell
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 197 $
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

Recording

Online
Teacher: Cece Sykes
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 297 $
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.

Cece Sykes

Recording

Online
Teacher: Frank Anderson
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 297 $
During this workshop series we will dive deep into ideas Frank Anderson described in his newest book “Transcending Trauma”, which explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. Sign up and learn how to stay calm and steady in the presence of extreme symptoms, discover a different approach to resolving attachment trauma and gain confidence when addressing shame, neglect, and dissociation.
Frank Anderson is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and as an IFS Lead Trainer he teaches the IFS Level 2 Training “IFS, Trauma and Neuroscience”.

Frank Anderson

Recording

Online
Teacher: Mike Elkin
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 297 $
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.

Mike Elkin

Recording

Online
Teacher: Paul Neustadt
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 297 $
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.

Paul Neustadt

Recording

Online
Teacher: Osnat Arbel, PhD
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 297 $
Attachment wounds are some of the deepest emotional wounds that affect our internal family in a profound way. During this 2-day workshop you will learn how to work with systems affected by attachment trauma by unburdening the young exiled parts with attachment burdens.
This workshop will be led by Osnat Arbel, PhD, LMFT – a Certified IFS Therapist and International Lead Trainer. Ossi actively trains, supervises, and facilitates Level 1 and Level 2 IFS trainings. She is the Co-founder of the Israeli Institute for IFS.

Osnat Arbel, PhD

Recording

Online
Teacher: Robert Falconer
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 337 $
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

Recording

Online
Teacher: Frank Anderson
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 147 $
Being a parent means being triggered. Often. IFS therapy gives us tools that help us to see which parts of us are triggered by particular behaviours of our children. If we can unblend from our parts, we can show up for our children as parents who present, compassionate and supportive. During this workshop, you will learn how to use IFS to become a more Self-led parent.
Dr Frank Anderson is a Lead Trainer for IFS Institute, who also trains for Bessel Van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He is an author of the recently published book „Transcending Trauma” in which he talks about healing Complex PTSD with IFS therapy. He also co-authored the „Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual”.

Frank Anderson

Recording

Online
Teacher: Liz Martins
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 197 $
How can we supervise or offer consultation in a way that is fully congruent with the IFS model? This workshop will focus on developing understanding and skills in clinical supervision/consultation by exploring how we can integrate IFS into our work. We will consider how IFS can guide us in the focus, process and content of different aspects of supervision and consultation practice.
This workshop will take place on the 6th and 13th of July (two meetings). It will be led by Liz Martins, an IFS Approved Consultant along with the guest speaker Emma Redfern.

Liz Martins

Recording

Online
Teacher: Mary Kruger
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 197 $
IFS couples therapy is an area that gets more and more interest. There are many challanges to this kind of work and when we meet a highly conflictual couple we may be surprised with how the process gets complicated. During this series of online workshops Mary Kruger will show you how to approach such couples and how to use IFS to help them.
Mary Kruger, MS, LMFT, founded Rimmon Pond Counseling, an IFS-based private practice in Connecticut, and has specialized in addictions, eating disorders, trauma, and relationships for over 20 years.

Mary Kruger

Recording

Online
Teacher: Michelle Glass
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 247 $
Daily Parts Meditation Practice™ for Therapists & Practitioners with Michelle Glass is a series of 4 online IFS Therapy workshops.
You will learn 6 IFS therapy tools endorsed by Richard Schwartz and Gabor Mate which will allow you to discover new ways of tracking your clients healing progress and mapping their parts. This workshop will give you knowdlege, practice and confidence to effectively engage your clients between sessions.

Michelle Glass

Recording

Online
Teacher: Michelle Glass
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 197 $
Daily Parts Meditation Practice™ for Clients with Michelle Glass is a series of 3 online IFS Therapy workshops.
You will learn 6 IFS therapy tools endorsed by Richard Schwartz and Gabor Mate which will allow you to discover new ways of tracking your healing progress and mapping your parts. This workshop will give you knowdlege, practice and confidence to effectively engage in your inner work between sessions.

Michelle Glass

Recording

Online
Teacher: Osnat Arbel, PhD
Date: Recording
Place: Online
Price: 147 $
The Self-led Therapist is a series of 4 online IFS Therapy workshops that will help you you bring more Self-energy into the therapeutic relationship.
With Osnat Arbel, PhD (IFS Lead Trainer) you will explore your own therapist parts, gain awareness of your internal system (burdened protectors and exiles), and strengthen your access to the Self. You will also learn how to relax your parts and embody the 8C’s and the 5P’s while doing IFS therapy with your clients.

Osnat Arbel, PhD

Recording

Online
IFS Therapy Training
Completing the official Internal Family Systems Therapy training allows you to earn an IFS certificate that proves you have mastered certain skills at a high level. The certificate ensures that you are a competent IFS practitioner, familiar with the method’s assumptions and qualified to use it.
Training schedule (4)
Teacher: Osnat Arbel, PhD
Date: 6 - 11 Novmber 2023
Place: The Netherlands
Price: 3470 $
You will experience a 5-day intensive IFS Level 2 training approved by IFS Institute with Osnat Arbel, PhD as a trainer. 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 is a retreat-style training (accommodation and full board included), which means that the whole group will stay in one retreat center.

Osnat Arbel, PhD

6 - 11 Novmber 2023

The Netherlands
Teacher: Mary Kruger
Date: 22 - 27 January 2024
Place: Online
Price: 2550 $
“Addictions and Eating Disorders” with Mary Kruger is a 6-day IFS Level 2 Online Intensive Training.
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) brings an innovative, new perspective to working with people with addictions and eating disorders. The current field is replete with treatment modalities and information that often offer conflicting ideas about how to best treat addictions and eating disorders. In addition to offering a thorough understanding of the theory and practice of IFS therapy, this training invites participants to explore their own inner worlds within a training’s safe, nurturing space.

Mary Kruger

22 - 27 January 2024

Online
Teachers: Emma Diamond, Olivia Lester
Date: November 2023
Place: Online
Price: 3800 $
An official 28-day IFS Level 1 training. Start a new path in your professional development. The training consists of two 6-day and two 8-days training modules, after which you will be able to use IFS therapy in your private practice.
As a participant in these 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.

Emma Diamond, Olivia Lester

November 2023

Online
Teacher: Osnat Arbel, PhD
Date: TBA
Place: Online
Price: 2000 $
“Deepening and Expanding with IFS” with Osnat Arbel, PhD is a 6-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.

Osnat Arbel, PhD

TBA

Online