Online Event
Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model - Richard Schwartz
Tuesday 4th Feb 2025
12pm (GMT)
Online
FREE for Network Members
Overview
IFS is a transformative, evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people heal by accessing and loving their protective and wounded inner parts.
We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. We also all have a core Self, Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged, it knows how to heal. By helping first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts, IFS creates inner and outer connectedness. Richard is the Founder of IFS and will present on how IFS can heal and bring relaxation to help treat inner traumas.
Who Should Attend?
- Mental Health Professionals: Therapists, counsellors, and psychologists interested in integrating evidence-based, transformative practices into their work with clients.
- Coaches and Wellness Practitioners: Life coaches, holistic health practitioners, and wellness facilitators who want to broaden their toolkit with IFS methods to help clients achieve balance and well-being.
- IFS Enthusiasts and Beginners Alike: Whether new to Internal Family Systems or already familiar with the basics, attendees will benefit from hearing from Richard, the founder, and gaining fresh insights into applying IFS techniques.
Benefits Of Attending
- Deep Insight into Inner Healing: Attendees will gain a foundational understanding of how to access and nurture their own "core Self" and connect with their inner parts, creating pathways to healing past wounds and emotional traumas.
- Learning from the Founder: Richard, the creator of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, will lead the session, offering unique insights and direct guidance on how to apply IFS principles effectively for self-healing and relaxation.
- Evidence-Based Techniques: Participants will be introduced to proven, research-backed IFS techniques that are effective in addressing and treating inner trauma, building both self-awareness and emotional resilience.
- Enhanced Inner and Outer Connection: Through IFS, attendees can foster a sense of balance and connectedness within themselves, which naturally extends to healthier, more grounded relationships with others.
Schedule
Main Talk 12pm - 1.15pm (GMT)
How Can I Attend?
This webinar is available to Action Trauma Network members only, if you are not a member, we have a 30day free trial available below.
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Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s. IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and and classrooms. In 2013 Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
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