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8 C onference Sessions: Friday

LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood: All Parts Are Welcome!Laura Orth, LICSW, Level 2 LFYP and Kripalu Yoga teacher, will lead a gentle yoga practice designed to lift the mood and calm the mind. Accessible postures, imagery, sound, and breath will create a compassionate container for all of your parts.Begin your day feeling refreshed and with a strong connection to Self.

South County Meeting Room, 3rd Floor 6:30 – 7:30 a.m.

LifeForce Yoga Meditation: 30 Minutes of Rest, Relaxation, and RejuvenationLiz Brenner, LICSW, Level 2 LFYP, will lead a restorative Yogic meditation practice to gently “give the busy mind a bone” and access states of mindfulness. These meditations will incorporate ancient yogic strategies including sankalpa (intention), bhavana (imagery), mudra (hand positions), mantra, and pranayama breathing to reestablish your equanimity and focus. You’ll experience more somatic vitality, clarity of mind, and increased access to Self energy.

South County Meeting Room, 3rd Floor 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.

A Tool Kit for Program Assistants (#212) F Carol Graybeal, LSCW and Joy Shivas, LCSW, MSWCSL’s Program Assistants are essential to the learning of students in the IFS trainings. PAs spend a significant amount of time with them in home groups and triad practices. In addition, students model themselves based on their observation of PAs. This workshop will answer your specific questions, share ideas on leading home groups and triad practices, and offer an opportunity to learn more about your own parts. The workshop is geared toward those interested in becoming a PA as well as those who have already been a PA and want to deepen their knowledge and expertise.

Bristol/Kent Meeting Room, 3rd Floor F 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

FRIDAY @ a Glance . . .LifeForce Yoga to Manage Your Mood 6:30 – 7:30 a.m., South County Meeting Room

Registration and Continental Breakfast 7:00 – 8:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom

Welcome to IFS 2014 Plenary 8:00 – 9:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom

Workshops: Session 1 (#101 – 111) 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch Buffet 1:00 – 2:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom

Workshops: Session 2 (#201 – 211) 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Program Assistant Training (#212) 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., Bristol/Kent Room

LifeForce Yoga Meditation 6:00 – 6:30 p.m., South County Meeting Room

Foundation for Self Leadership Gala Dinner 6:30 – 10:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom *Advanced Registration Required

IFS CONFERENCE BOOKSTORE FRIDAY HOURS9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Foundation for Self Leadership GalaJoin us for our second Gala Fundraiser to support the Foundation for Self Leadership. Your generous support and contribution will help the Foundation in its mission to advance IFS through research and scholarships.

Dinner Buffet, Cash Bar *ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Grand Ballroom F 6:30 –10:00 p.m.

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Self LeadershipSupporting IFS Research, Training & Advocacy

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C onference Sessions: Friday 9

Welcome to IFS 2014! Plenary Session 8:00 – 9:45 a.m.WelcomeJon Schwartz, MEdExecutive Director, The Center for Self Leadership

Conference Opener: Rainbow Dance TheatreDarryl Thomas and Valerie Bergman, Artistic Directors

Opening RemarksRichard Schwartz, PhDFounder, The Center for Self Leadership

Bringing IFS to the Inner CityJody Nelson, EdD, LMFT; Jennifer Ramji, MA, LMFT; Lisa Xiong, MA, LMFT; and Corey ByrdThis plenary showcases the exciting and innovative work of Jody Nelson and her team, who are bringing IFS to children, teens, and families in inner-city Minneapolis by planting themselves in ten different schools in the Twin Cities. In addition to sharing their experiences of doing IFS with diverse and poor clients, they will describe how they are able to: change the culture in the schools by training the teachers and staff in IFS; create school-wide, Self-led interventions; and collaborate with community cultural specialists to change inner-city communities.

WORKSHOPS: SESSION 110:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.101 Introduction to the IFS Model of Healing Paul Ginter, EdDThis workshop offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to IFS. It is designed to be accessible and informative to therapists as well as to the wider public. Both didactic and experiential teaching will be employed, enabling participants to experience and understand the IFS Model directly, to get to know some of their own parts, and to experience the Self. IFS has as its goal leadership by the Self of one’s internal system of parts. In contrast to other forms of psychotherapy, the IFS therapist does not have to teach clients how to correct the thoughts and emotions picked up by parts through their experiences. When clients are led by their Selves, they know, through internal communication, how to help each inner personality, what those parts need in order to feel safe, and how they can release their burdens. The therapist’s job is to guide clients to a Self-led state in which they become therapists to their own inner families. Learn more about this non-pathologizing model of healing by attending this session, led by an experienced IFS lead trainer who has been using the Model for more than 20 years.

Track: Mind, Body & Spirit F Level: Introductory

102 Spiritual and Religious Parts: “God showed up in my session today!”

Julie Honeycutt, MMFT, NCC, LMHC, LPCWhile the face of spirituality in America is ever changing, the latest Pew research shows that the majority of religious affiliation is Christian. While this is the case, being spiritual is becoming more and more popular, leaving religious orientation behind or nebulous. Therefore, this workshop will include a variety of religions and spiritual orientations. Often, therapists have clients who have a religious background that may or may not get brought up in the course of therapy. It’s been said that when clients are asked about the role of faith in their therapy, they report, “If it’s important, wouldn’t my therapist bring it up?” Unfortunately, many therapists don’t bring up the subject of faith in session, usually due to their own parts that are uncomfortable, burdened, confused, or even scared. This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to explore their own spiritual parts, ask questions about their clients’ spiritual parts, and learn how these parts are differentiated from Self. IFS can be a tool to help people identify parts that block them from tapping into their spiritual source. In essence, IFS helps operationalize grace to parts.

Track: Mind, Body & Spirit F Level: All Levels Welcome

103 Using Expressive Modalities to Connect With and Soothe Traumatized Parts

Lisa Ferentz, MSW, LCSW-CIn this workshop, participants will explore and experience a number of creative modalities designed to enhance connection and communication between parts, while increasing inner safety and a newfound capacity for soothing and accessing Self. These strategies will help clients who struggle with affect dysregulation, the inability to safely process traumatic experiences, as well as clients who soothe in unhealthy ways. This work will promote true healing through increased empathy and compassion for all parts as well as a newfound awareness of the wisdom of Self. Visualizations, guided imagery, focusing, writing experientials, mapping, bodywork, breathwork, and the drawings, journal entries, and sand trays of traumatized clients will be incorporated into the training.

Track: Trauma F Level: All Levels Welcome

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104 Improvisation: The Art of the Moment Daena Giardella, MLAThis unique experiential workshop, specially designed for the IFS community, offers you an opportunity to learn and practice the skills of improvisation to expand your repertoire of creative choices and gain greater access to your passion, confidence, and spontaneity, both personally and professionally. You’ll develop your ability to get into the moment, take risks, express yourself freely, listen, and respond to others with generosity. Daena helps participants explore the cast of inner and outer characters who emerge through dynamic improvisational movement, scenes, monologues, and music. From an IFS perspective, the skills of improvisation offer the therapist a rich experience of navigating, exploring, and embodying in a three-dimensional way the various parts that arise as you improvise. The practice of improvisation cultivates freedom and trust, and opens greater access to Self for all the parts. Daena’s workshops provide a safe and supportive container for you to discover new dimensions of yourself. Be assured of plenty of fun and humor in a safe and supportive atmosphere!


105 An Awareness Inquiry in IFS Couples Therapy: An Exploration of Self, Parts, & the Relational System

Charlie Verge, PhDThis workshop demonstrates lines of inquiry with couples that enhance understanding and empathy in both partners of the internal landscape of each partner and the relational system. The goals of the inquiry are to stimulate curiosity and enhance compassion for oneself and one’s partner as well as to build Self energy and establish a safe space for Self-led communication and the deeper exploration and unburdening of parts.

Track: Couples, Family, Parenting & Children Level: All Levels Welcome

106 IFS, Grief, Shame and the Internal System: Using Poetry, Tales, & Metaphors as Vehicles for Change

Gary Whited, LMFTPoetry, stories, and the use of metaphors can help us find safe and new ways to listen to our parts, understand and identify the ways we have coped with loss, soften the harder edges of our protective mechanisms, and allow for a gentler opening toward parts that carry the burdens of grief and shame we have accumulated. The elemental and timeless language of poetry, story, and fairy tales speaks to and from the depths of the human spirit. It speaks from beyond the language of any model, yet it offers a vehicle to explore and inform our use of the full depth and power of the IFS Model. Through the language of metaphor, we will find effective vehicles to travel into the complex landscape of grief and shame as we look at the Internal System and how it copes with loss. In this workshop, Gary will guide participants on a journey to deepen their experience of listening through the use of story and poem and to enhance their use of IFS as a model for listening. We will explore different and new ways to listen to our own, and our clients’, stories with an open heart that is guided by compassion and curiosity.


107 Self-Therapy Journey: An Online Tool Based on IFS Jay Earley, PhDThis workshop will demonstrate Self-Therapy Journey, a web application for psychological exploration and healing. It uses quizzes, stories, checklists, journaling, customized reports, homework practices, and guided meditations for parts of IFS sessions. It can be used as an adjunct to IFS therapy or by people who are working on themselves. You will learn how Self-Therapy Journey works, what your clients can get from it, and how you can support them in that process.Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy F Level: All Levels Welcome

108 Healing Relationships: Helping Clients by Bringing Self to Parts of Another Person

Kevin Ranken, PsyD, JD, and Beverly Ranken, MSUse your existing IFS skills in a new and simple way to overcome resistance to the idea of parts and to help clients relate to parts of another person with Self energy. Clients can improve their relationships with this technique. Those resistant to the idea of parts can get used to it more easily by focusing first on other people’s parts. Legacy burdens can be understood more deeply with this technique. These and other uses are explored, along with practical tips, case examples, and discussion. To enable quick integration into your clinical or other work, safe dyad/triad practice exercises are included.


109 The Neuroscience of Unburdening Fernando Augusto, PhDThe promise of IFS therapy is that long-held emotional responses and associated beliefs about oneself, others, and the world can be transformed. A complete unburdening is said to transform the exile such that it no longer can be triggered to react with the same intense emotions it once experienced. Up until recently, these tenets of IFS did not accord with the conclusions that most neuroscientists held that learned emotional responses, mediated and stored in the limbic system of the brain, could not be erased, only counteracted. Just in the last few years, neuroscience research has documented that emotional memories can, indeed, be undone. The discovery of the “memory reconsolidation” process is central to this new understanding. Research has also been done on the conditions that best seem to “unlock” emotional memories, opening them up to radical transformation. In this presentation, the steps in IFS therapy that seem most compatible with emotional memory erasure are detailed. Practical application to IFS clinical work is demonstrated through case examples.Track: Mind, Body & Spirit F Level: Intermediate to Advanced

110 Good People and Bad People Mike Elkin, MA, MFT, and Judith BlackMoral judgment is the raw material out of which shame is manufactured. Because shame is the fuel that generates misery for our parts, it is useful for IFS therapists to understand how and why our systems generate and process moral judgment and how to address this in a Self-led manner. This workshop will use case material toward that end.Track: Mind, Body & Spirit F Level: Intermediate to Advanced


111 Integrating LifeForce Yoga and IFS: Practices for Depressed, Anxious and Traumatized Parts

Liz Brenner, LICSW, and Laura Orth, LICSWMost of us think of asana, or yoga postures, when we think of yoga. Amy Weintraub’s school of LifeForce Yoga highlights empowering yogic teachings that can be used in therapy sessions. Learn how these ancient practices increase abilities for compassionate, Self-led inquiry as they change mood states and increase body awareness. Learn simple strategies and experience ways to introduce them so clients can better access Self energy, strengthen Self-to-part relationships, assist parts in unblending, care for parts that are not yet unburdened, and safely tend to exiles. Practices include pranayama breathing, body sensing, imagery, and meditation as well as affirmations that arise from the client’s authentic experience of Self. We’ll learn ways to move organically with these interventions in IFS sessions while maintaining rigorous consistency with the Model. You will leave this session feeling relaxed and energized, confident in your ability to integrate yoga practices without using touch or a yoga mat.


WORKSHOPS: SESSION 22:30 – 5:30 p.m.201 No Part Left Behind: IFS with Military Veterans Sharon Cooper, PhD, and Kim Corey, PhDAdjustment to civilian life can be difficult for veterans. As the longest war in U.S. history winds down, veterans are seeking mental health treatment not only from VA medical centers but from therapists in their local communities as well. When treating veterans, it is helpful to understand something about their experiences. This workshop will introduce participants to military culture, discuss protector parts that get reinforced by military training, and help participants understand how IFS is well suited to treat veterans with trauma. Participants will learn how to identify managers, firefighters, and exiles that are commonly reported by veterans. They will also learn common adjustment issues veterans experience along the course of their developmental life cycle, from recent returnees from Afghanistan to Vietnam veterans facing end-of-life care.


202 The Therapist-Client Relationship in IFS Paul Neustadt, LICSWIFS points clients to the relationship between their Self and their parts as the primary source of healing. Yet the therapeutic relationship still plays a powerful role in healing. This workshop explores some of the ways in which the therapist-client relationship provides the foundation, the holding environment, the model, and sometimes the material for the client’s inner work. We will use case examples, demos, and experiential exercises to address two questions in depth: When is it helpful for the therapist to name and speak for his or her own parts? How can we make therapeutic use of the information our parts are giving us when we realize we have been inducted into recreating an old wounding relationship or find ourselves taking on disowned parts of our client?Track: Mind, Body & Spirit F Level: Introductory to Intermediate

203 It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent: Part of Me Is Only 5 Years Old!

Janis Johnston, EdDAs we steer our children through life, we reopen our own childhood roads. Child parts end up guiding us by connecting us to some earlier time in our life when we encountered distress.Adults learn much about parenting from a particular child in a particular developmental transition. Research supports a “soft plaster” personality that can change throughout life, and we may expect many personality changes after the age of 30. With ongoing change, we often need a personality map more often than we need a map to faraway places. In this experiential workshop, we will draw our own IFS personality map.


204 “Who’s Speaking?” Working with Psychic Multiplicity in Couples Therapy

Toni Herbine-Blank, MS, RN, CS-PIntimacy from the Inside Out©, a model of couples therapy based on IFS, helps clients understand the pain of unmet needs and the emotional reactivity that fuel the fire of contentious patterns of relating. Fostering interactions that lead to mutual care and respect allows couples to have difficult conversations without wounding themselves or each other. In this workshop, participants will learn strategies to work with highly reactive protective parts in the service of obtaining a state of optimal self-regulation, a necessary step toward negotiating hard conversations.


205 A Strengths-Based Model of the Internal Family System

Margaret Moore, MBAThis presentation will explore a strengths-based model of the Internal Family System, proposing that there is a set of primary subpersonalities emerging from evolution that make up a scaffolding for the inner family. They include Autonomy, Body Regulator, Confidence, Creativity, Curious Adventurer, Executive Manager, Relational, Standard Setter, and Spiritual Meaning-Maker. An overview will be followed by a coaching demonstration and a group mindfulness exercise.Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy F Level: All Levels Welcome

C onference Sessions: Friday 11

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206 Creative Ways to Help Your Clients Unblend Gail Tomala, MA, LMFT, PhD, & Kimberly O’Connor, LMFTIf you are an IFS therapist, learn creative ways to jumpstart clients who are stuck and expand your existing set of IFS strategies. If you are a therapist new to the IFS Model, leave with multiple answers to the frequently asked question “How can I introduce IFS to my clients?” We invite you to join us and, in the process, gently learn more about your own parts through the use of multiple modalities. As a participant, you will be invited to engage actively in multiple IFS exercises and interactions that have worked successfully with individuals, adults, couples, families, children, and groups. Along the way, hear client transcript excerpts, see clients’ parts drawings, and watch client video clips. Leave with several highly adaptable and creative strategies to engage your clients in the important process of unblending. This workshop places an emphasis on helping clients learn about their protective parts, access their Self energy, and be gently introduced to their exiles.


207 IFS and Beyond . . . Bringing Your Unique & Authentic Self to a World That Needs It

Chris Burris, LPC, LMFT, and Jimmy SchulmanParticipants will be invited to experientially understand and get to know two ways they “Dance” in their life. One dance, the Survival Dance, is about making money, being successful, being acknowledged, and more. The other dance, the Sacred Dance, is about our purpose in life—our unique talents and skills that we are meant to express and that are desperately needed in the world in which we live. Once both Dances are “felt” and “known,” we will experientially explore what parts keep us from expressing our Sacred Dance and sharing our unique skills and talents in the world. Once our limitations to our true purpose in life are identified, they can, like all parts, be healed. A critical mass of people living their true life purpose, dancing their Sacred Dance, can change the world.

Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy Level: Intermediate to Advanced

208 Michi’s “DROP Technique” Michi Rose, PhD, MAT, LMSWMichi Rose suggests a new view of the nature of parts—we can think of parts as holograms. This means that a tiny piece of any part (even one drop) will contain all the informational energy of that part. Based on this concept, Michi presents a new “DROP Technique” that she developed. She will teach how to work with only “one drop” of a target part (rather than the part itself ). This DROP Technique is helpful when working with extreme target parts and/or highly defended internal systems. The workshop will include a demonstration and experiential practice.

Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Level: Intermediate to Advanced

209 Introduction to InnerActive Cards for Parts Work Sharon S. Eckstein, MA, MFA, & Tom Holmes MSW, PhDThrough an illustrated PowerPoint presentation and audience participation, presenter and illustrator Sharon Eckstein, MA, and co-presenter and author Tom Holmes, PhD, will introduce participants to Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life and the recently published therapeutic tool InnerActive Cards. Participants will gain an understanding of the inner life through an overview of Parts Work, observe how to incorporate InnerActive Cards in the therapeutic process through actual case studies, and experience the clarifying power of using InnerActive Cards in group exercises.


210 Self-Led Grieving: Transitions, Loss, and Death Derek Scott, RSWThis didactic and experiential workshop provides an overview of the bereavement field and highlights what it has to offer the IFS therapist. We will identify the parts commonly forming the “loss cluster” and how their oscillation with the “restoration cluster” facilitates a return to balance as the internal system integrates transitions and significant loss. We will identify some of our own parts in relation to loss and look at ways to discern and work with both simple and complex grief.Track: Mind, Body & Spirit F Level: Intermediate to Advanced

211 Using IFS Therapy in Groups: Formin’, Stormin’, Normin’, and Performin’, Meet the Six F’s— All Parts Are Welcome!

Sue Richmond, LCSWWhether you work for an agency or are in private practice, group psychotherapy can be a powerful tool for healing. This workshop will show how groups can be facilitated using the IFS Model of therapy. You will learn how to introduce members to the concept of Self and parts, how to teach group members to speak for their parts and give Self-led feedback, and how to create a safe space where members can hold Self-energy for others while witnessing a part tell its story or unburden its pain. You will learn how to facilitate group cohesion by introducing members to a common language and group format, which can be applied to both closed- and open-access groups. Through both didactic and experiential learning, this workshop will help instill confidence in clinicians who would like to apply the IFS Model to a group format.



SAVE THE DATE! 2015 IFS ConferenceOctober 29 – November 1

Omni Providence Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island2015 Call for Workshop Proposals will be available on our website immediately following the 2014 IFS Conference.

Call for Workshop Proposals are due on February 14, 2015.

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