Babson Executive Conference Center

December 8 - 13, 2019

Renowned family therapist and trauma expert, Richard Schwartz, is regarded as a pioneer for developing the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. In this track you will apply the IFS model to yourself to identify and integrate your sub-personalities or parts of yourself and learn to access your larger, wiser “Self.” You will also learn to guide your clients as part of your coaching practice. For a taster, watch Dick’s keynote address on our website, under Next Practice Institute Resources.

Program Fee - $8,000

January 5-12, 2020

Deep Healing of Exiles is a seven day retreat in which we will explore the spir-itual side of IFS. The design was developed to facilitate accessing high levels of Self-energy, inviting guidance regarding a vision for your life, and further un-burdening your parts as a way to remove obstacles to accessing Self.

The intimate venue with just 15 - 17 participants, the inspiring and nurturing environment, superb natural food, opportunity of watching Dick’s daily work offers a unique and unmatched opportunity to further and enrich your IFS journey.  It is the hope for participants of this retreat to become more ground-ed in Self energy so they are better positioned to “play the model forward” in their personal life, their practice, their community and the world.

At the retreat through Dick's Self led guidance and the IFS model you will be offered the practice of Ho'oponopono .  This Hawaiian concept, "to make things right” both personally and in the world, will draw upon the evolving conceptual spiritual framework of IFS to deeply heal exiles.
            

Tuition is $3,500, including 7 nights lodging and 20 meals.

Hosted by: California Institute of Integral Studies
InterContinental San Francisco

January 25th and 26th, 2020

This workshop meets on Saturday & Sunday, January 25th & 26th, 2020, 10am-5pm.

12 Continuing Education Credits Available for California licensed LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs, and LMFTs. See below for details.

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is a highly efficient and effective way to access a state of inner clarity and compassion, or the Self, from which self-healing occurs. From the Self, participants are able to calm and transform their troubling inner voices, the critical and anxious chatter, compulsive distractions, as well as feelings of vulnerability, inadequacy, and being overwhelmed. These parts of the psyche are surprisingly responsive and resilient when addressed with respect and patience. They readily forsake their inner battles,and take on valuable inner roles once they are accepted and witnessed.

The IFS model offers an evidence-based, empowering and non-pathologizing paradigm for understanding and transforming our personal inner worlds. It also brings to therapists a sense of awe and adventure as they accompany clients on their inner journeys. IFS offers therapists and healers a way to make their practice more enjoyable, effective, and less of a struggle.

For clients, the healing and reorienting of their “inner families” in an environment of genuine acceptance translates into concrete behavioral change, as well as improved ability to relate well to people. IFS is a gentle, yet powerful, healing delivery system that releases the therapist from the need to be clever because it trusts and empowers the clients’ Self.

This workshop introduces the basic principles and techniques of IFS and illustrates them with experiential exercises and video illustrations. Participants walk away with new perspectives and methods for themselves and even their most difficult clients.

Continuing Education Credits (available for an additional $30): 12 CEs Available

• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT licenses

• For questions about CE or receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact CIIS Public Programs at publicprograms@ciis.edu

• LCSWs and MFTs from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board for approval.

Registration - $380

Hosted by Family Service Agency of the Central Coast 

January 31, 2020 

Developed over the past two decades, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers both a conceptual umbrella under which a variety of practices and different approaches can be grounded and guided, and a set of original techniques for creating safety and fostering Self-to-Self connection in couples and families.

This presentation will provide an introduction to the basics of IFS and its use with attachment and trauma. An overview of IFS and its clinical applications will be presented.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:

1. Identify the basic theory and principles of Internal Family Systems

2. Identify how to access their clients’ Self—a core of compassion and other leadership

3. Identify how to assess client resistance more effectively and with less effort

4. Utilize the client’s Self to repair attachment styles

5. Demonstrate knowledge of IFS model as an internal attachment model

6. Identify the parallels between external and internal attachment styles

7. Identify the effects of trauma on parts of Self

8. Utilize the model in treating trauma

9. Demonstrate an awareness of their own parts and how those parts impact therapy

10. Apply IFS principles to transference and counter-transference

$135 individual fee

Esalen Institute

February 2 - 7, 2020

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Esalen Institute 

February 9 - 14, 2020

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HOLIDAY INN HOTEL & SUITES OAKLAND
77 HEGENBERGER ROAD
OAKLAND, CA 94621

February 27th and 28th, 2020

As a young therapist, I often struggled to get results. I avoided my client’s internal emotions and instead tried to control the difficult symptoms I was seeing – which led to heated arguments and frustration rather than progress. 

When I started listening closely to my clients, I finally discovered the answer to healing and transformation … 

As clients would talk about their different parts (and how the parts felt pain and emotions), I realized that was the key – we have to free each part from the trauma, abuse, attachment injuries and suffering that they feel. 

Since I began developing Internal Family Systems (IFS) 30 years ago, it has been scientifically tested to be effective at helping a wide variety of mental health conditions – such as trauma, addiction, anxiety and depression – which is why it is one of the fastest growing approaches in therapy. 

Hailed by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, IFS will transform your clients’ lives as they learn to heal themselves. No more therapist directives or insights, rather IFS will provide a connection with your client that creates lasting healing. 

Please join me for this rare 2-day training – I want to give you the skills you need to use IFS, so you can improve what you’re doing in the therapy room – and see transformation in your clients’ lives. 

$499 Single Registration 

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health 

March 8 - 13, 2020

For everyone, including therapists, non-therapists, and seasoned IFS practitioners.

By utilizing IFS, therapists and lay people can hold this Self state of loving-kindness—allowing you to work with your own experience and thus maintain a center from which to engage with others and help them heal. Learn how to remain steady, centered, and openhearted in the face of your own and other’s reactivity in this program that offers

• An introduction to the IFS model of psychotherapy
• Tools to apply IFS to relationships
• New ways to work with counter-transference with clients.

For therapists, Self-leadership in the face of a client’s extreme emotions or predicaments is central to therapeutic effectiveness. Return home ready to work with your side of the dynamic and hold space for others to do the same.

Recommended reading/listening/viewing Richard C. Schwartz, You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For (Internal Family Systems); Internal Family Systems Therapy; The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors; and Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model

Note Social Worker CE credits are pending for this program. Contact the CE Coordinator for more information at cec@kripalu.org

$540 per person, plus room & meals.  

Boston Law Collaborative, LLC

Friday, March 27th, 2020

When embattled parties come to the mediation or negotiation table, they are often awash in emotions and impulses that make for difficult interactions and impasses. The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model provides a language and framework for helping each party identify and speak for the fearful, enraged, or wounded parts of themselves that are driving the conflict, and feel witnessed by the other. Once these behind‐the‐scenes feelings are revealed, the atmosphere in the room often shifts and the parties are more willing to de‐escalate their conflict and discuss their issues from a calmer, more mindful place. In addition, IFS offers mediators, lawyers, and other professionals clear, practical ways to work with their own emotions. This program is led by IFS Founding Developer Dick Schwartz and BLC Founder David Hoffman. 

$250

New York Open Center

April 25th, 2020 

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is one of the fastest growing and most innovative approaches to psychotherapy. IFS offers a way to understand and work with clients that helps them quickly access their Self—a core of valuable leadership qualities, such as compassion, to face life challenges—and harmonize their internal family of “parts,” or sub-personalities. 

In this workshop—focusing on IFS’s approach to treating trauma—we will be introduced to the basic theory and principles of IFS therapy, and learn how to:

·       Help clients access their “Self”

·       Deal with client resistance, transference, and counter transference more effectively

·       Repair attachment injuries from past relationships

·       Identify the effects of trauma and utilize the IFS model in treating trauma

·       Gain an awareness of our own sub-personalities and how they impact our therapeutic work

Members $140

Wonderwell Mountain Refuge

253 Philbrick Hill Road

Springfield, NH 03748

May 1st - 3rd, 2020

Have you noticed that, even after years of dedicated and sincere spiritual practice, whole areas of our personalities and lives can remain untouched by the compassion and wisdom described in the spiritual teachings? There is a paradigm shift taking place in both psychology and spiritual practice. It hinges on recognizing that we have not just one personality, but many inner sub-personalities, or parts, whose burdens obscure our access to the qualities and energy of our fuller awareness–our true Self. When we notice these parts of ourselves and how our minds have identified with them, we can learn how to welcome and integrate them into our spiritual life.

In this weekend retreat, Richard Schwartz, developer of the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS), and Lama John Makransky, developer of the Innate Compassion Training Model (ICT, adapted from Tibetan Buddhism), explore how principles and practices of IFS and ICT can help us uncover our true Self, which can hold all parts of ourselves and others in the healing and liberating powers of unconditional compassion and wisdom.

For information on fees and registration, contact: 

retreats@wonderwellrefuge.org

Hosted by Therapy Training Boston 

Monday, July 27th, 2020

This presentation will provide a brief review of the basics of the IFS model by Richard Schwartz, PhD, who developed the model, then will focus in detail on its use with attachment and trauma. IFS is a non-pathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy now certified as an evidence-based practice by SAMHSA. IFS offers both a conceptual umbrella under which a variety of practices and different approaches can be grounded and guided, and a set of original techniques for creating safety and fostering Self-to-Self connection in individuals, couples and families.
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The first day of the workshop will focus on helping clients release personal burdens related to traumatic experiences in their lives. An overview of the clinical applications of IFS in trauma work will be presented. You will learn through didactic teaching, interactive dialogue, demonstration and live interviews. 

During the second day, the focus will be on understanding and releasing legacy burdens. Legacy burdens are powerful organizers of our minds and behaviors. You will be become more aware of the beliefs and emotions we and our clients absorb from family, peers, ethnic groups and cultural contexts regarding ourselves and/or groups with whom we identify, as well as groups we consider “other.”  We will explore the sources of those burdens and the fears of releasing them. This work is critically important to create more peace and less divisiveness in our often fractured world.

New to this workshop, Dr. Schwartz will spend time focusing on how to support Self led activism. Dr. Schwartz will lay the foundation for and demonstrate how to work with personal and legacy burdens that get triggered in the context of political conflict and unrest. We will learn to work with what gets in the way of everyone's innate abilities to be an effective advocate, ally and activist. This will support our work as clinicians and citizens.

Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems SM, in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves.  He focused on the systemic relationships patterns among these parts that were similarly organized across clients.  He found that when clients’ parts felt safe and were allowed to relax, they would experience spontaneously the qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion that Dr. Schwartz came to call the Self.  He will show us how to support clients in that state of Self, to facilitate their healing of their own parts. 

Individual Registration: Early rate by 6/11/19: $350, Regular rate:$370.
Group Registration: Early group rate $330 by 6/11/19: Regular rate: $350 per person for groups of two or more.
Groups must register and pay together to receive the discount.
PLEASE NOTE: Price of the event includes morning coffee/tea & breakfast snacks as well as lunch.
Clinicians United members may access a discounted rate of $33o.
Black Therapists Rock and NEAFAST members as well as and people working in Caring Together programs may access a discounted rate of $280