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Are you ready to take a deep dive into a more
RELATIONAL APPROACH to IFS?
This course is exclusively focused on attunement and skill building within the IFS Model, drawing on the research of Interpersonal Neurobiology we look at how we can create safety for clients with early attachment wounding, complex trauma, and other highly polarised systems
21 hours of contact time and structured practice groups, video content, and written resources to enhance your learning between sessions.
7 x 3 hour workshops comprised of didactic teaching, experiential exercises, demos, videos and Q&A
Online
DATES 2024
3rd, 17th Sept 2024
1st, 15th, 29th Oct 2024
12th, 26th Nov 2024
TIMES
9am - 12pm AEST (Brisbane Australia)
Please note Australian Day Light Savings time change on 6th of October.
NSW, Victoria etc. will start an hour later (10am) for the duration of the training from 6th of October.
DATES 2024
2nd, 16th, 30th Sept 2024
14th, 28th Oct 2024
11th, 25th Nov 2024
TIMES
7pm - 10pm EDT (New York)
4pm - 7pm PDT (Oregon)
Please note North American Day Light Savings time change on 3rd of November.
NY, Oregon and other states that adhere to DLS, will start an hour earlier for the duration of the training from 3rd November.
This will make the times for the last 4 weeks 6pm-9pm EST and 3pm-6pm PST
Early Bird (before August 7th 2024)
Regual Price (after August 7th 2024)
Online Event
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.
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.
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
Utilise the relational space that is inherent in all therapy, from an IFS perspective
Learn 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
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
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
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 client
Understanding and treating chronic shame by Pat DeYoung
Becoming Attached by Robert Karen
These books can be purchased before you begin the course.
Right brain psychotherapy by Allan Schore (and other writing by Schore)
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 by 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)
Matthew Musgrave
"Stephanie's authenticity is what sets her apart from all of the other trainers and supervisors that I've worked with. Stephanie is relatable, honest, and deeply committed to her own healing journey. That's the kind of person I've always sought to be in my corner - a person who's not afraid to roll up their sleeves and do the work alongside you. If you're looking for someone who's not solely focused on theories and techniques but who actually embodies the practice of personal growth and connection, Stephanie is the person you want to learn from."
Prior Student
"Stephanie models 'radical openness' in speaking for her experience and her parts. It allowed me to engage more in the training and felt like being able to embody what I was learning."
Prior Student
"Stephanie's way of holding the group and being present to each of us was a unique gift and provided such a deep experience for learning. Thank you so much Stephanie."
Therapists, Psychologists, Counsellors, Social Workers as well as those seeking to do their own inner healing work.
Those who have completed Level 1 (or equivalent), and have begun using IFS with their clients.
(If you are an experienced therapist and have over 50-100 of your own personal IFS therapy with an IFS therapist or Practitioner, but have not been able to get into Level 1, you can also join this course. Graduates of Stepping Stones or equivalent may also apply).
Each module builds on the last and you will have access to reading and video material to watch/read between the bi-weekly workshops. These resources will continue to be available to you at the end of the course.
Each person will also be invited to participate in break out groups and to reflect on their own parts as part of the learning environment.
Each participant will be expected to work on with their own inner system during practical exercises. There are no ‘role-plays’ only ‘real-plays’.
Please note: This course is not affiliated with the Internal Family Systems Institute (IFSI) nor is it a substitute for nor equivalent to the IFS Institutes Level 1, 2 or 3 trainings. To become IFS certified, you must complete the IFS Institute's Level 1 training and complete the certification process.
Week #1 : Interpersonal Neurobiology and right brained psychotherapy as they relate to IFS
Week #2: Mastering Implicit direct access – nuanced ways of working with clients new to IFS or those who ‘can’t go inside’ or say they ‘have no Self’ inside their system.
Week #3: Working with highly protected systems including those with obfuscating parts, ‘puppet masters’, parts who use psychosis or dissociation as a protective function
Week #4: Understanding the IFS approach to Window of Tolerance and self-regulation along with polyvagal approaches to co-regulation
Week #5: Learning about the wisdom of transference and how to work with clients whose parts use projection and enactment onto the therapist as part of their healing path.
Week #6: Working with systems saturated with shamed and shaming parts
Week #7: The Self-led therapist and the Self-led life – hope for full healing and harmonious inner and outer relationships
My name is Stephanie Mitchell and I'm a
Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist working in private practice in Australia.
I specialise in working with complex trauma and experiences which often get labelled as 'mental illness'.
I'm interested in how healing and change occur in the human to human relationship, within spaces of relational safety and acceptance and outside the constructs of diagnostic labels.
I work exclusively in the IFS Model and have undertaken extensive training in IFS including 100+ hours with Richard Schwartz. I am passionate about working in highly nuanced and attuned ways within the Model. I bring these nuanced approaches to all my teaching.
Believing that a therapist can only take a client as far as they themselves have travelled I have undertaken over 650 hours of my own personal therapy in the IFS Model and I am deeply acquainted with my own parts, embodying the model from the inside out.
I am passionately committed to a Self-led life, where my parts trust me and I have the capacity for the all important You-turn that is the cornerstone of the IFS Model.
This approach is what I believe is the point of difference in my trainings as I bring a Self-led quality of Clarity, Connection, Compassion and Curiosity to the course, welcoming all parts of the student and being open to my own You-turns when necessary.
I have also undertaken extensive personal studies in shame, transference, relational psychotherapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and attachment theory, as I designed this course.
I began teaching about IFS for early developmental trauma in 2019 at the international conference “Re-Awaken” where I was one of the Keynote speakers.
Since then I have presented at the IFS Conference on IFS and experiences that get diagnosed as “psychosis”, along with teaching in the UK, Canada, Australia, US and Spain on using IFS with highly distressed clients - whatever their ‘diagnosis’ is,
I am also a passionate advocate and activist for social and systems change towards non-pathologising and compassionate approaches to mental distress and am involved at national and international levels around mental health reform.
Live online group training - 7 x 3 hours session on alternate weeks over 14 weeks
Experiential activities informed by Interpersonal Neurobiology, Relational Psychotherapy, and Psychodynamic principles as they apply to the IFS Model.
Between session reading and videos, including demos of client sessions showing skills learned in the group classes
Access to WhatsApp group for all the course participants to share questions, comments and resources - and to get technical help during live Zoom sessions.
Access to a member portal
Access to recordings for all teaching sessions
Eligible for up to 21 CE's from the IFS Institute towards certification or recertification!
This Course is eligible for up to 10 OPD points with ACA and counts towards 21 hours of category A CPD with PACFA
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