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Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Part 2 : Working with protector parts
Deepening your skills in working with protector parts—an essential step in the healing process. Learn to engage with clients’ defenses, facilitate un-blending, and transform protectors into allies.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is one of the most popular and effective evidence-based approaches used today. This workshop is a follow up to Internal Family Systems (IFS) Part 1: An experiential introduction to the model. It is designed for participants who have an understanding and some experience with this modality and work with clients aged 16+. It will provide more in-depth teaching on how to work with protector parts. How to skillfully work with your client’s defenses and turn their protector parts into allies in the healing process.
It will consist of didactic teaching, experiential exercises and a live demonstration. We will review the basic structure of an IFS session. Focusing on how to facilitate the Self-to-Part connection, finding a target part, checking for Self-energy, facilitating connection and working with protective parts’ concerns. Participants will learn how to engage with protective parts, strategies to help these parts un-blend, use of implicit and explicit direct access, as well as work with polarizations. This workshop serves to deepen participants’ skills in working with protector parts, which is a critical first step before addressing any deeper emotional wounds.
Participants will watch a live demonstration session. As well as have a chance to break out into small groups to practice the interventions. There will be ample time for questions and discussion.
Learning objectives:
- Gain a deeper understanding of the role protector parts play in your clients’ system.
- Learn strategies for working with protector parts.
- Participate in experiential exercises to practice working with protector parts.
- Gain more tools to work with clients informed by this model.
Please note: If you are willing to volunteer to be a participant in the live demonstration, please indicate this during the registration (does not guarantee that you will be the volunteer).
Start making meaningful change today. Reserve your spot now to deepen your skills in working with the IFS model and the protector parts.
