Integrating IFS Techniques for Trauma Resilience
Facilitated by: Dr. Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
Join The Centre for MindBody Health (CMBH) to explore Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy led by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Acquire valuable insights for trauma work and elevate your skills.
About this workshop:
This workshop will provide a brief review of the basics of the IFS model by Richard Schwartz, PhD, who developed the model, then will focus in detail on its use with attachment and trauma. IFS is a non-pathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy now certified as an evidence-based practice by SAMHSA. IFS offers both a conceptual umbrella under which a variety of practices and different approaches can be grounded and guided, and a set of original techniques for creating safety and fostering Self-to-Self connection in individuals, couples and families.
The workshop will focus on helping clients release personal burdens related to traumatic experiences in their lives. An overview of the clinical applications of IFS in trauma work will be presented. You will learn through didactic teaching, interactive dialogue, demonstration and live interviews.
As the workshops progress the focus will be on understanding and releasing legacy burdens. Legacy burdens are powerful organizers of our minds and behaviors. You will be become more aware of the beliefs and emotions we and our clients absorb from family, peers, ethnic groups and cultural contexts regarding ourselves and/or groups with whom we identify, as well as groups we consider “other.” We will explore the sources of those burdens and the fears of releasing them. This work is critically important to create more peace and less divisiveness in our often fractured world.
Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems SM, in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. He focused on the systemic relationships patterns among these parts that were similarly organized across clients. He found that when clients’ parts felt safe and were allowed to relax, they would experience spontaneously the qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion that Dr. Schwartz came to call the Self. He will show us how to support clients in that state of Self, to facilitate their healing of their own parts.
Learning objectives
At the end of this 2 Day Workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify the basic theory and principles of Internal Family Systems therapy
- Apply techniques to access their clients’ Self- a core of compassion and other leadership qualities
- Assess client “resistance” more effectively and with less effort
- Explain the effects of trauma on parts and Self
- Apply the model in treating trauma
- Assess awareness of their own parts and how those parts impact therapy
- Apply IFS principles to transference and counter-transference
Workshop Audience:
This workshop is intended for all health care professionals seeking to develop skills to engage in effective and evidence-based psychotherapy approaches with clients experiencing trauma.
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This program has been accredited by the Ontario Psychological Association for 7 CE credits.