Introduction to IFS

Join us for 3 hours of nteractive, curiosity-led learning on the revolutionary Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. This workshop is designed with IFS newbies in mind; we'll teach you the basics of IFS, helping you to identify parts that are managers, firefighters, and exiles. You'll also experience the 8 C's of Self Energy as we explore ways to help parts begin to heal and shift.

This training workshop is open to Wheaton College masters level students and faculty members who have been curious about the IFS model, which has been taking the world by storm! Attendees can expect a partial "client experience" of the model, along with a solid introduction to the IFS framework.

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Workshop Objectives:

• Recognize 8 C’s of “Self”: Compassion, Clarity, Courage, Confidence, Calm, Curiosity, Creativity, and Connection.
• Define “Managers”, “Firefighters” and “Exiles”; categories of sub-personalities
• Understand difference between having parts and having Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Understand how trauma affects the development of parts
• Complete a brief “parts map” (artistic drawing of the parts you see within your own internal family system)
• Know that there are no bad parts. All parts have a positive agenda and are there to help!
• Identify common archetypal parts such as “The Critical Parent”, “The Lonely Child”, “The -Perfectionist Overachiever” and “The One Who Numbs Out”​