Craigville Retreat Center
Centerville MA

October 10-13, 2019

This workshop is designed to help you and your partner learn how to achieve courageous love.  Based on the presenter's Internal Family Sys-tems model of psychotherapy, you will learn how to find and heal parts of you that interfere in your intimacy.  In addition, you will discover the ef-fectiveness of communicating with your partner from a place of compas-sion, calm, clarity and confidence called the Self.  When couples have Self-led conversations, their relationships harmonize naturally.  They can discuss even highly charged issues productively and feel safe to reveal their most vulnerable parts to each other.

1440 Multiversity 

October 18th - 21st, 2019

Are you ready to help your patients/clients create emotional and spiritual change? Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) provides a groundbreaking model for mental health professionals to learn about transformation, taking an effective and compassionate approach to the parts of their patients/clients that are stuck in reactive patterns and holding them back from living their best life.

Developed by Richard Schwartz, PhD, this workshop will introduce the basic principles and techniques of IFS and illustrate with experiential exercises and video illustrations. Clinicians will:

• Review the history and development of the Internal Family Systems model of therapy
• Explain the basic assumptions of IFS in regard to non-pathological multiplicity of mind and the concept of “SELF”
• List the goals of IFS Therapy
• Describe the concept of releasing uncomfortable feelings and beliefs which allows harmony and balance in the inner system
• Name the three categories of sub-personalities that most often present in therapy: Manager parts, Firefighter parts, Exiled parts
• Identify the dynamics of the three-group system
• Tell the IFS concept of SELF and its role and effectiveness as a leader in the system
• Interpret the qualities of SELF: curiosity, compassion, confidence, courage, clarity, creativity, connectedness, calmness
• Summarize the power of working with the client¹s Self in therapy
• Describe the benefits of IFS therapy
• Discuss the therapeutic relationship as it applies to the IFS therapist
• Review and clarify material covered during the workshop.

This application of family systems principles and techniques is now widely used internationally in the treatment of trauma and severe diagnoses. 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 patient’s/client’s Self.

All-inclusive program package to include:

• Tuition
• Three Meals in Kitchen Table (daily)
• Shared or Private Accommodations
• Signature classes and wellness offerings

Please Note: All packages are priced per person. Should you elect a shared accommodation and community hall bath, 1440 will randomly pair you with a gender-specific roommate. Only private rooms have the option of a private bath.  1440 Multiversity is a smoke-free campus.

To learn more about program fees, please visit the 1440 website.

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.

California Institute of Integral Studies

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

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.  

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