January 25 - 26, 2020 (Saturday – Sunday)
InterContinental San Francisco
888 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA
This workshop meets on Saturday & Sunday, January
25th & 26th, 2020, 10am-5pm.
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.
Richard Schwartz, PhD, began his career as a family
therapist and an academic. He co-authored, with Michael Nichols, Family
Therapy: Concepts and Methods, the most widely used family therapy text in
America. Richard developed Internal Family Systems in response to clients’
descriptions of various parts within themselves. He focused on the
relationships among these parts and noticed that they were organized in
patterns that resembled the families he had worked with. He also found that
when the clients’ parts felt safe and were able to relax, clients would
experience spontaneously qualities of confidence, curiosity, and compassion
that he came to call the Self. He found that when in that state of Self,
clients knew how to heal their parts.
Cost: $380
