Learn a 'conversational' form of IFS that allows you to offer Implicit Direct Access to each part as the client tells their story.

Then learn to seamlessly move from Implicit Direct Access to Insight and back again, so the client has more ease in accessing their own Self-energy.

Learn to listen to what is under what is said, and practice reflecting skills that help you bring clarity to highly dysregulated or blended clients. 

Expand your skills in working with clients who 'hate IFS' and don’t want you to use the word ‘part’ 

Understand why very shame-saturated systems sometimes experience more shame the more they heal, and how you can help with that.

Learn attunement skills for attending to different types of clients (e.g. clients who present as chaotic, depressed, dysregulated, angry, pleasing/good clients, spiritual bypassing, avoidant etc). 

Work with Self-like and spiritual bypassing parts who say they "are Self" and feel shame if called out.

Gain clarity about how parts cascade on each other to create stuckness, confusion and difficulty in one area of a person’s life – when the real problem is in a different area.

Benefit from Stephanie's extensive knowledge of working with clients diagnosed with complex mental health disorders such as BPD or Schizophrenia, including access to demos

Understand why clusters of protectors form alliances to step-up one after the other, so you never get to the exiles and how to work with them.

Understand the pacing and attunement necessary with systems committed to ‘not knowing’ what is inside despite the managers that bring them to therapy

Expand your understanding of what it means to “be the Self to the client’s system” for a period of time when they have little access to their own Self-energy

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

Help exiles who think they are dead, and protectors afraid to go to that deadness/void

Work with parts who believe that Self is an abuser like all adults, or parts who want 100% guarantee of safety from anything happening in life before letting you go to the inner world.

Learn how the use of the therapists Self-energy offers more grounding and stabilization through co-regulation, than any grounding techniques can offer.

Learn how to provide a space for deeper and more lasting healing and integration, through slowing down the witnessing of exiles, and helping clients with post-unburdening support.

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

Understand the protective strategy of parts who:

- become deeply attached to the therapist 

- project expended rejection onto the therapist

- find every therapeutic intervention difficult or painful

- feel sexual longings for the therapist 

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

Work with your own parts who get activated

Deepen into working with process rather than content

Week #1 : Interpersonal Neurobiology and right-brained psychotherapy - a relational approach to IFS

• Interpersonal Neurobiology

• Attachment Theory &

• Social Baseline theory

• And why it is important for working in the therapist/client relational field with 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.

• Addressing concerns with parts who don’t like IFS and parts language

• Moving seamlessly between Implicit Direct access and Insight – demos and practice groups

• Understand the double-bind theory of schizophrenia and begin to understand how to listen to what is underneath what is said by parts who use voices, visions, tactile hallucinations, or 'paranoia' states to communicate while concealing. 

Week #3: Working with highly protected systems including those with obfuscating parts, ‘puppet masters’, parts who use psychosis or dissociation as a protective function

• Understand Alan Schore’s Right-Brain Psychotherapy

• Understand that some systems need some help with mentalizing their experience

• Learning to distinguish between following and listening to what is under what is said and offering back what is implicit

• Understanding implicit memory from a neurobiology perspective so you can work with clients who “have no memories”

Week #4: Learning about the wisdom of transference and how to work with clients whose parts use projection and enactment as part of their healing path.

• Gain a robust understanding of Transference and Counter-transference through the IFS Lens

• Understand both the exiles and protectors involved in the dance of transference and learn why parts use this enactment as part of their healing.

• Unburden parts of yourself who are afraid of/dislike clients who seem ‘contrary’, ‘needy’, ‘argumentative’.

• Understand how to recognize enactments that are not obvious at first glance, e.g. clients need endless reassurance or where you are doing all the work,

• Learn how to bring the relational field to the work through a parts lens

Week #5: Understanding the Window of Tolerance and “self-regulation” from an IFS perspective

• Understand how polyvagal approaches to co-regulation/self-regulation have been co-opted by the Three Phased school of thought, to turn the Polyvagal research on its head in the implementation of ‘social engagement system’

• Learn how IFS uses the social engagement/ventral vagal system differently

• Understand why IFS doesn’t use grounding techniques and how what we do is more effective for helping clients’ parts to unblend and trust their Self energy

• Understand the Window of Tolerance through the IFS lens and learn to work with parts who use upregulation as well as parts who use collapse/faun/freeze.

• Work with your own parts who fear dysregulated clients

Week #6: Working with systems saturated with shamed and shaming parts

• Learn why shame doesn’t simply go away when we focus on working with shaming and shamed parts

• Learn what does help to begin to loosen up the shame held in the system

• Understand the preverbal origins of shame and how to move safely towards pre-verbal wounds that are often outside of explicit memory

• Explore and work with our own parts who don’t want to shame our clients or are afraid of our clients’ shame.

• Learn how shame absolutely can be healed, contrary to popular belief in therapy circles that shame is a lifelong difficulty.

Week #7: The Self-led therapist and the Self-led life – hope for full healing and harmonious inner and outer relationships

• Understanding what the Self-led life looks like in a mostly unburdened system.

• Learn skills for remaining Self-led in session and in our daily lives

• Understanding the notion of 'weaponisation of Self' in the IFS community and listen to what you parts need.

• Deepen your understanding of what it looks like to "Speak for parts rather than from parts”

• Understand the nuances of speaking for parts in the social justice space from an IFS perspective