About this Course:

Gain an understanding of working with complex systems including protectors who need more time before stepping back and systems with significant internal conflict, including those diagnosed with BPD and Schizophrenia, eating disorder, addictions and those with tenacious spiritual bypassing parts

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Overview:

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• Working with clients who are new to IFS and ‘cant go inside’

  • Listening to what is under what is being said

  • Attending to Languaging – yours and the clients

  • Learn to seamlessly move from Implicit Direct Access to Insight and back, in the therapeutic dance of the relational space.

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• Recognizing and working with shame in clients with complex trauma

  • Understanding right brain to right brain attunement in the IFS Model

  • Use of the therapists Self energy as a resource for co-regulation in the early stages of the work

  • Utilize the relational space that is inherent in all therapy, from an IFS perspective

  • Learning attunement skill for attending to different types of clients (e.g. clients who present as chaotic, depressed, angry, pleasing/good client, spiritual bypassing, avoidant etc).

  • Recognise and work with your parts who respond to certain populations of clients

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• Working with highly protected systems

  • Suicidal clients

  • Clients diagnosed with complex mental health disorders such as BPD or Schizophrenia

  • How to work with the whole system when a client cannot unblend enough to work with one part

  • Understand the pacing of the work and the importance of therapeutic container especially in relation to Interpersonal Neurobiology in the IFS healing process

  • Gain more relational connection between Self and Parts – understanding the whole cascade of parts involved in a sequence 

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• Working with the body and pre-verbal parts

  • Gain an understand of the processes of implicit and explicit memory and how to work with clients who have ‘no explicit memory’

  • Working safely with fire fighters

  • Working with exiles safely

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• Understanding Transference and enactments with clients who have experienced relational trauma

  • Gain knowledge about Transference and Counter transference in the IFS Model

  • Gain understandings for how transferential enactments help the client to navigate their healing and build skills to approach these enactments with curiosity, compassion and courage

  • Work with your own parts who get activated

  • Deepen into working with process rather than content

  • Understanding and acknowledging co-transference

  • Learn skills in speaking for your parts with clients

Bibliography 

• Understanding and treating chronic shame by Pat DeYoung

• Right brain psychotherapy by Allan Schore (and other writing by Schore)

• Becoming Attached by Robert Karen

• The Neurobiology of We by Dan Siegel

• Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation by Moskowitz et al. (available free online – you will be sent the relevant papers)

• Healing the heart with the brain in mind by Bonnie Badenoch

• Internal Family Systems Therapy 2nd Edition Schwartz and Sweezy

• The Mosaic Mind by Goulding and Schwartz

• IFS: Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy by Sweezy and Ziskind

• Internal Family Systems - New Dimensions by Sweezy and Ziskind

• Depathologizing The Borderline Client - Learning to Manage Our Fears by Schwartz
  (and other  IFS written resources) 

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