C onference Sessions: Saturday 13

SATURDAY @ 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

Plenary Session 8:00 – 9:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom

Workshops: Session 3 (#301 – 311) 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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

Workshops: Session 4 (#401 – 411) 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Book Signing Event: There’s a Part of Me . . . 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., IFS Bookstore, 3rd Floor

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

Poetry Reading 7:00 – 8:00 p.m., Waterplace Ballroom

IFS CONFERENCE DANCE PART-Y! with Darryl Thomas, Rainbow Dance Theatre 8:00 – 10:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom

IFS CONFERENCE BOOKSTORE SATURDAY HOURS 9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.

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.

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Poetry Readingwith Gary Whited and Mark HartGary Whited’s book Having Listened won the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and a Benjamin Franklin Book Award. His poems speak from a childhood on the prairie remembered and from a passion for the experience of listening. Poet Fred Marchant says, “. . . Whited teaches us that deep listening is in effect a prayer, a gathering and focusing of our attention, that sometimes lets us hear the mystery of being whisper back.”Mark’s Hart’s Boy Singing to Cattle won the Pearl Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2014 Massachusetts Book Award. Writing in response to his father’s death, his poetry reflects his childhood on a wheat farm and his life in rural New England. Jim Moore says, “Hart has found a way to welcome home even the most difficult of experiences. What a beautiful and beautifully courageous book.”

Waterplace Ballroom, 2nd Floor, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

IFS Conference Dance Part-Y with Darryl Thomas, Rainbow Dance TheatreCheck out an ALL NEW DANCE PART-Y with Darryl Thomas from Rainbow Dance Theatre in an instructional dance movement before he opens the floor up to free dance! Join us for a few hours of music, dance, and good people!

Grand Ballroom, 1st Floor, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.

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FULL-DAYWORKSHOPS

10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.301/401 Organizing the Disorganized Body/Mind:

Weaving Yoga, Self-Compassion, and Attachment Theory with IFS

Deirdre Fay, MSWTrauma and attachment issues leave bodies ruptured, constantly mobilizing for threat. IFS therapy offers clients ways to unblend and work with their parts while cultivating Self energy. This experiential workshop will use yoga, meditation, and self-compassion exercises to invite embodied access to both parts and Self energy. This workshop provides evidence-based yoga, meditation, and psycho-educational skills that are both practical and concrete ways for clients to integrate parts while at the same time deepening into Self energy. No yoga mat or prior instruction is needed!

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

302/402 Experience the Potent Combination of IFS and Breathwork

Ted Riskin, LCSWBreathwork, a long-established healing modality in its own right, provides opportunities for transpersonal awakening and offers powerful synergies with the IFS Model. Workshop participants will experience firsthand the possibilities offered by IFS used in combination with Breathwork, both for their

own healing and to assist their clients. As conscious breathing invites in Self energy, participants may access and unburden parts that had previously been left behind, connect to spiritual experiences, and reclaim their natural aliveness and vitality.

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

303/403 Intention and Transformation: IFS, Guides, and the Power of the Circle

Edward Yeats, PhDThis experiential workshop will be an exploration of the use of intention, the IFS Model, Guides, and the power of the Circle to promote personal healing and transformation. Participants are asked to come with an intention for significant change in an aspect of their lives. Through a series of guided inner journeys, group ritual, reflective exercises, ceremony, and song, we will encounter our Guides, befriend parts that have needed to hold back change, and have the opportunity to help them release the fears and burdens they carry. This will be accomplished in an atmosphere of creativity, humor, safety, and support. While most of the experience will be internal, participants will have the opportunity for voluntary self-expression. In this way, privacy will be respected while each step of the process is witnessed and supported by the Circle. This program is intended for IFS therapists who are interested in working with Guides and those who may not be therapists but who feel some confidence in working with their own parts. Early registration is encouraged. It will assure your place in the Circle and give you time to prepare your intention.Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Opening RemarksRichard Schwartz, PhDFounder, The Center for Self Leadership

The Physiology of IFSDr. Matthew S. Goodwin, Dr. Anthony Zorzos, James Hopper, PhD, Richard Palumbo, Frank Anderson, MD, and Richard Schwartz, PhD IFS clients and therapists are aware of the palpable physiological shifts they experience during sessions—the embodied sense of calm and confidence when parts relax and Self emerges, the sudden lightness that accompanies unburdening, and the various ways that parts show up in the body.

What if it were possible to measure and reflect on these changes as they happen in sessions? What if we could measure the physiological resonance between therapist and client and discover how physiological coupling and uncoupling predict internal transformation? What if we could develop new technologies to help therapists monitor whether they or their clients are in Self? These are the kinds of questions that a group of interdisciplinary researchers have been exploring in regular meetings over the past year and have begun to study. In this plenary, they will illustrate their thinking and methods while soliciting input from the IFS community to make this pilot project a reality. A live demonstration by Dick Schwartz will showcase these promising technologies.

Plenary Session F 8:00 – 9:45 a.m.

~ Full-Day Workshops Offer 6 CE Hours ~

SAVE THE DATE! 2016 IFS Conference F November 8 –13 F Providence, RI

WORKSHOPS: SESSION 310:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.304 Creating Self-Led Dialogue: An Integration

of Public Conversations Project and IFS Corky Becker, PhD, Paul Neustadt, LICSW, and

Beth Davenport, LICSWThis workshop provides a model for integrating IFS into the Public Conversation Project’s approach to dialogue. PCP has developed a safe structure for dialogue that promotes thoughtful preparation, reflection, speaking, and listening. IFS brings to dialogue the person’s relationship to his or her parts, how parts can get in the way of listening or speaking, and how these parts can be spoken for in a Self-led way. IFS’s understanding of how we can internally listen to and acknowledge our triggered parts can also be very helpful in dialogue. The purpose of this workshop is to teach the key elements of this integrated approach to dialogue so that participants can apply it and experiment with it in their own settings. The framework will be taught primarily experientially through a mini-dialogue that workshop attendees will participate in.Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy F Level: All Levels Welcome

305 The Creepy-Crawly Part: DBNART in the IFS Frame Olaf Scott Holm, MDDBNART® means Depth, Broad, Neuroaffective, Attachment and Adaptive Reactions to Trauma, Therapy. This workshop will explore how closely IFS and DBNART are integrated and how IFS is a profound model for dissociative disorders as reactions to chronic traumatization and attachment injuries. The Creepy-Crawly Part is used as a representative case because of its severity and transformation of many parts. Creepy-Crawly Part is the story of 17 years of exiling and escaping from exile through fight, flight, freezing, and total submission reactions back there, in the past, and every day of the client´s daily life. Through an exploration of problem-solving techniques, including analysis and backward reasoning, as well a piece on shame, we will immerse ourselves in connections between DBNART and the IFS framework in a meeting room filled with the presence of Self.

Track: Trauma F Level: Intermediate to Advanced

306 Pain as a Path to Happiness Susan McConnell, MA, CHTWe are born. Things happen. We develop likes and dislikes. We make up stories to explain the things that happen that we don’t like, such as that we are separate and deficient in some way. We try hard to get rid of these feelings, to keep the things we like, and to keep away the things we don’t like. We are not successful. We make up more stories, and we keep trying. We are not happy with life as it is. IFS, somatic practices, and spiritual practices can help. These practices help us to recognize our likes and dislikes, our stories, and our efforts to control. We bring kindness and compassion to these inner experiences. We are restored to the vastness of heart and awareness that is our true nature. Come to this workshop to practice embracing the things in life that your parts don’t like and using these things to appreciate all of life as a gift. Bring your stories and your likes and dislikes.

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

307 Skilled with Individuals, Stymied by Couples: Developing New IFS Skills and Self-Knowledge in Therapeutic Triangles

Michele Bograd, PhDMany well-trained IFS individual therapists lose their footing as they work with couples. Different skills are necessary for managing the complex relational field of the therapeutic triad, as we are both audience and director, and the potent triangle inevitably evokes parts from our past that can provide wisdom or derail us. It is challenging to hold Self energy in the couples coliseum! This experiential workshop will help build the skills needed given your strengths and weaknesses as an IFS couples therapist, will explore how to use your therapeutic power (or fear to), the roles you typically take in triangles, how you work with one partner while maintaining a therapeutic alliance with both, and how your parts react to certain kinds of couples. Most importantly, the workshop will teach you ways to soothe and manage your own parts so that you bring Self energy to the couples whom you treat as well as to your own relationships.

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

308 Why Won’t These Parts Unblend? Pamela Krause, LCSWAs practitioners, we can often feel stuck when our clients’ parts won’t unblend. Through lecture and demonstration, this workshop will address some of the reasons parts don’t unblend and offer some techniques to help facilitate unblending. Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to explore how their own part(s) can impact their clients’ ability to unblend.

Track: Trauma F Level: Intermediate to Advanced

309 Fatherhood as a Healing Experience, a Challenge, and an Opportunity for Growth: Applying Attachment & Family Systems Theory Orientations

Vince Sperduto, PhDResearch shows prior familial attachment experiences of CSA (childhood sexual abuse) survivors help to explain the variability in psychological and interpersonal symptomatology. Secure attachment mitigates psychological distress in adolescent survivors of CSA. My story is of adolescent sexual abuse by clergy where the parental attachment was insecure, yet my ability to form attachments was positively influenced by other primary caregivers. Systems theory assumes that all parts of the system are interconnected and the whole system cannot be understood if the parts are in isolation. For thirty years I considered my trauma as an isolated event. When a crisis moment occurred in my family, my consciousness shifted to an understanding that the whole system was affected by my trauma. We will explore the impact of sexual trauma on differentiation, specifically around defining self and the loss of self. We will look at the impact on the victim’s interpersonal and psychological conditions resulting from CSA. As CSA survivors have more sexual and marital difficulties as adults, an overview of the marital relationship and its impact on the system will be included. Lastly, we will hear from each of my children to assess the impact of my trauma on them.

Track: Trauma F Level: All Levels Welcome

C onference Sessions: Saturday 15

310 Parenting Our Parents While Raising Our Children: Parts in the “Sandwich Generation”

Alison Muyskens, MDiv, LICSWDo you have clients who are currently parenting their parents while also raising their own kids? If so, you are not alone. Twenty-four million adults in America are caught in this “Sandwich Generation.” What has been largely missing from the dialogue thus far is how to offer emotional stability to this group of caregivers. This presentation will address the complex dynamic they face by sharing visual aids, a case study, and a 13-week psycho-educational support group model. Come learn how to use IFS to help caregivers unburden and heal their parts as they navigate this challenging relational minefield of emotions.

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

311 Dancing with Couples Protectors: How Tracking Sequences Sheds Light on Early Attachment Wounds

Nancy Wonder, PhDThis workshop will focus on the IFS technique of Tracking Protective Sequences and offer the participants a step-by-step, safe approach to helping couples get to know their extreme protectors that, through fighting or distancing, are actually hiding the deep longing for connection underneath. Human attachment is as necessary as food and water for our parts, and when early attachment needs of connection are not met, children develop protectors that grow rigid, angry, and attacking or distancing. This attachment style, which gives protectors extreme roles established in childhood, affects adult relationships. This workshop will help clinicians identify typical protective dances that show up from specific attachment wounds. Participants will identify their own protective system and begin to identify some of their own early attachment wounds. Participants will then be able to apply this self-knowledge to their work with couples, i.e., how their own attachment style impacts their clients and their therapeutic approach.

Track: Couples, Family, Parenting & Children Level: Intermediate to Advanced

WORKSHOPS: SESSION 42:30 – 5:30 p.m.404 How to Do an IFS Intro Workshop Richard Schwartz, PhDAre you currently presenting IFS Intro workshops? Are you thinking about presenting your first Intro to IFS? Dick has been introducing IFS to skeptical audiences for the past 30 years and has learned what works and what doesn’t. He will describe this process and have the group experience some of it. He will also help group members find the parts of them that might hold them back. This unique workshop is designed to help presenters and their future audiences.

Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy F Level: Advanced

405 Complicated Consumption: Our Polarized Relationships with Nourishing Our Personal Humanity

Katie Thompson, LPC, NCCThis lecture examines the dynamics that create the internal wounds and protective mechanisms that create powerful and polarized consumptive relationships. Disorders of Consumption are experienced on a spectrum from the simplest struggle to figure out what our needs and wants are, to depraved and desperate addictions, to consuming or not consuming the objects of our desire. These torturous polarizations can result in extreme eating disorders as well as addictions to alcohol, drugs, porn, sex, admiration, workaholism, and gambling. This lecture will help you understand what drives these in yourself and in your clients, providing the opportunity for Self healing and the facilitation of healing these exiles and protectors in others.

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

406 Mercy or Mastery: Documenting Medical Necessity as an IFS Therapist

Beth Rontal, LICSWIFS clinicians tend to be seasoned professionals who provide high-quality therapy but feel at the mercy of insurance companies as they struggle with authorizations and issues of confidentiality and the ensuing elimination of the multi-axial assessment from the DSM V, and its interface with the ICD-10 compounds confusion. Parts that feel confused, resentful, and powerless can overwhelm their ability to describe what they do and how they do it in a way that honestly reflects their work and justifies medical necessity so that insurance companies authorize continued treatment. Effective documentation organizes clinical thinking so that writing notes and treatment plans can be done quickly and efficiently—and is a contribution to high-quality clinical work rather than a detour. This information-packed workshop will help the IFS therapist master the documentation process by learning key points in writing session notes and treatment plans and using insurance-friendly language so that documentation is simplified, the authorization process is easy, audits are passed, and confidentiality is maintained in a way that represents the good work of an IFS clinician.Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy F Level: All Levels Welcome

407 Self and Parts Through the Flow of Experience: IFS Through a Polyvagal Perspective

Deb Dana, LICSWThe development of polyvagal theory by Stephen Porges has established the biological underpinnings of our autonomic nervous system. Porges’s explanatory theory offers clinicians a way of understanding client experiences of safety, danger, and life-threat along the continuum of response that is deeply sub-cortical. We have direct experiences of Self and parts through the ways they are woven into our autonomic nervous system. IFS therapists understand this continuum of response through connection with managers, firefighters, and exiles—and know the powerful regulation of the human nervous system that is possible through Self energy. We move in a continuous cycle of mobilization, disconnection, and engagement in response to our environment.

16 C onference Sessions: Saturday

Through a polyvagal lens, we can map the path our parts take, the habits of response created by burdens, and the influence of Self energy. In this workshop, we’ll take a journey tracking parts, patterns, and Self through a polyvagal experience. Come learn the basics of polyvagal theory and become comfortable with the science of our autonomic response system. Learn to bring “perception” to the process of “neuroception.” We will create a polyvagal map of parts and patterns, and explore the neurophysiological changes that Self and the unburdening process bring. We will dive into the possibilities that adding a polyvagal lens to your IFS practice offers.

Track: Trauma F Level: All Levels Welcome

408 IFS in the Prisons: Parts Work with Groups in Nonconventional Settings

Steve Spitzer, PhD, Bill Wich, CHT, and Michael CorsonThrough presentation and demonstration, the workshop will identify techniques and methods that have been applied within the context of men’s prison groups. The approach draws on the fundamental principles of IFS but has been adapted to the specific conditions, constraints, and opportunities presented in prison “containers.” When the resources of the IFS Model are made available in containers that support the emergence of Self energy, life-changing discoveries can be made. When presented with the IFS map in a way that allows them to bring their parts to life, incarcerated men and other institutional populations can begin to forge a new “set of keys” to truly set themselves free.Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy F Level: All Levels Welcome

409 Discovering and Developing Your Gifts Brian JaudonEach of us has been given gifts (innate abilities) that are natural to us, yet most of us don’t clearly see our own gifts or offer them fully in our lives. When we’re not allowing our gifts to be expressed fully in the world, we interrupt the natural flow of giving and receiving—and create conflict within ourselves. In this highly dynamic and experiential workshop, participants will have the opportunity to complete an inventory of their gifts, clarify where they are in the stages of gift development, and identify steps for deepening their relationship with their gifts.Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy F Level: All Levels Welcome

410 Transforming Oppositional Children, Teens, and Their Families: A Conceptual Map and Therapeutic Strategies for Internal and Relational Healing

Art Mones, PhD, ABPPOppositional behavior is the most pervasive presenting problem  in work with kids. This workshop will view this perplexing behavior as adaptive and survival-based when understood in multiple contexts that include parents, siblings, school, peers, and larger societal issues. A conceptual map will be offered to enhance this understanding, along with therapeutic strategies that flow from this IFS-based approach. Time will be provided to focus on challenging cases of workshop participants.

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

411 Working with Groups of Parts: What to Do When More Than One Part Shows Up

Ralph Cohen, PhDOne place where IFS therapists often become stuck is when many parts “jump in” during the therapy process, sometimes overwhelming both the client and the therapist. In this workshop, the presenter will identify typical places in the flow of the IFS therapy process where this is likely to occur and describe and demonstrate how techniques taken from group, couples, and family therapies and mediation can be used to work with multiple parts.

Track: Trauma F Level: Introductory to Intermediate

WORKSHOPS: SESSION 59:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.501 Conducting and Publishing a Case Study

of Your IFS Client: A Guide for IFS Practitioners Jenn Matheson, PhD, LMFTIFS practitioners can benefit the IFS community by writing and publishing a case study of their willing IFS participants and clients. A case study is a story about one or more clients of interest that aims to reveal the processes that brought about a specific outcome. This presentation will provide a rationale for writing a clinical case study as well as step-by-step instructions on how to conduct and write up rigorous case study research and where it may likely be published. This is an excellent tool for IFS practitioners who lack expertise in case study research and who aspire to contribute meaningfully to the body of research emerging on the IFS Model.

Track: NEW! IFS Research F Level: All Levels Welcome

C onference Sessions: Saturday & Sunday 17

SUNDAY @ a Glance . . .Continental Breakfast 8:00 – 9:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom

Workshops: Session 5 (#501 – 513) 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Lunch Buffet 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom

POST-CONFERENCE INSTITUTE Does IFS Revolutionize Aspects of Trauma Treatment? Richard Schwartz, PhD, and Bessel van der Kolk, MD 1:30 – 4:00 p.m., Providence Ballroom

IFS CONFERENCE BOOKSTORE SUNDAY HOURS 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.