Boston area

Schedule 2011: Oct 21, Nov 18, Dec 16 and

2012: January 20, March 9, and April 7

This seminar for graduates of Level 1 trainings will meet monthly on Fridays from 2 to 5. Sessions will include brief didactic presentations, demonstrations of specific skills, focused practice sessions, active coaching, and case consultation.  This seminar will help you sharpen your skills, increase your confidence, and integrate learning from Level 1.  Limited to 16 participants.

Six sessions is $540.

New York, Boston, Providence, Omega Institute

Sunday, January 29, 2012: Institute of Core Energetics (New York) / Sunday, February 5, 2011 (special time: 11:00 - 4:30): Watertown Center for Healing Arts (Boston) / Saturday, April 28, 2012: Yoga Mandala (Winchester/Boston) / Sunday, April 29, 2012: City Aiki (Providence)

All workshops run 1:30pm to 6:30pm.  An optional, free introductory lecture on IFS starts at 12:30pm.

Friday, June 1 - Sunday, June 3, 2012: Omega Institute (Rhinebeck, NY)
Click here for registration.

Breathwork, a long established healing modality in its own right, provides opportunities for transpersonal awakening and offers powerful synergies with the IFS model.  Many cultures and practices have understood the connection between breath and Self-energy.  Purposely increasing the breathing invites more Self-energy into the body, leading to a variety of possible experiences:

•  Parts unblend, and the participant experiences the attributes of Self.
•  The transpersonal Self is experienced as light, energy, bliss, or other spiritual manifestations.
•  Guides, in various forms, may be encountered.
•  Parts are freed to convey experiences from the past to be witnessed and accepted by Self, using the IFS model.
•  Parts that have concerns about any of the above -- especially those that live in the body, restricting the breathing and blocking the flow of energy -- may emerge and, using IFS, can be unburdened of the need to inhibit the life force.

$120  ($20 discount for payments received one week in advance)
Preregistration is required.

The Attic Learning Center, 2162 N 57th St, Milwaukee

Sunday, February 26, 2012 from 1pm to 3pm.

$40 and includes supplies and delightful break-time refreshments.

MAHEC Biltmore Campus, 121 Hendersonville Rd, Asheville NC 28803

Friday - Sunday, March 9-11, 2012

Looking to deepen and expand your practice with somatically-based approaches?  Wanting to bring more embodied Self energy into your life?  Join other IFS graduates for this three day workshop and learn about the somatic applications of Internal Family Systems work.  Areas to be covered include the five Somatic IFS tools, the role parts play in chronic illness, bodymindfulness practices to enhance access to Self energy, inclusion of the body more fully in every step of the IFS model, and more opportunities for personal transformation in a safe environment. 
Prerequisite – Completion of IFS Level 1 training program.
Early Bird Deadline: March 2nd

Registration fee is $325.00 and includes educational materials continental breakfast each morning, refreshments, and administrative costs.  If registration is received after the early registration deadline, the fee will be $375.00.

A lovely lakeside home in Racine, Wisconsin

Thursday, March 22, 2012 from 9am-Noon.

This workshop draws on the spiritual insights of Jesus and the Internal Family Systems model.   Looking through the framework of the Christian faith, we will understand Self as the presence of Holy Spirit and explore that which keeps us separate from God -- the burdens and beliefs that block a transforming experience of unconditional love and grace.   We will learn how to welcome ourselves on the inside just as Jesus welcomed people on the outside.  This three hour workshop includes presentation, discussion, and experiential learning.  It is designed for people who don’t know the model and will also benefit anyone interested in the connections between IFS and Christian spirituality.

$50 which includes refreshments and afternoon access to the grounds.

The Attic Learning Center, 2162 N 57th St, Milwaukee

Saturday, March 24, 2012 from 1:30pm-4:30pm

Come join us for a satisfying dip into the IFS pool.   In the welcoming environment of the Attic Learning Center, we will playfully explore the model, luxuriate in Self and love up on some parts.   You’ll get to practice what you know, learn new ways of working and illustrate the framework with your own personal flair.    This workshop will include presentation, discussion and experiential learning.  This is also an opportunity to strengthen relationships within IFS community here in Wisconsin.  The group is open to anyone with a basic understanding of the IFS model.    Participants attending the introductory session offered that same morning are welcome to join us in the afternoon as well.  You will leave with a renewed appreciation for Self, with a greater capacity to welcome all parts, and taking Self-leadership back out into your world.

$50

The Attic Learning Center, 2162 N 57th St, Milwaukee

Saturday, March 24, 2012 from 9am to Noon

Join us and learn a new way to address each of these questions that is relevant to your life today.  As an introduction to Internal Family Systems, this workshop will include presentation, discussion, demonstration and experiential learning.  Explore and learn some specific ways to be more open-hearted in your daily life as well as in your relationships with others.  This 3 hour introductory workshop will be in a comfortable, second floor studio setting, allowing time for you to learn the foundations of the IFS theory.  You will leave with some new ideas and the confidence to use them in your own life right away.

$55 and this includes supplies and delightful break-time refreshments.

Fine Arts Building, 410 S Michigan Ave. #632B, Chicago, IL 60605

Friday, March 30, 2012.  9:30am Registration, 10am-5pm Workshop (12:30-1:30 lunch break)

Cece Sykes, LCSW is offering a one day workshop for IFS therapists that includes time for self nurturing and for exploring new material that may be utilized with clients in session.

We will use meditation, discussion, and experiential exercises to identify and take care of our parts that feel triggered, overwhelmed, depleted, or just plain stuck during our clinical work.  WHAT DO OUR PARTS NEED?

Space is limited to 20 participants.

$125 & 5.5 CEU's available @ $25.

Conference Center, National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA

Parking, Map and Directions available on the National Heritage Museum website, www.monh.org/VisitsTours.aspx

Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 8:30am - 4:30pm

The IFS process has much to offer in the treatment of people with complex dissociative disorders (DD), including Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.  Clients with complex DDs often start out looking like everyone else in treatment; however, they are frequently managing sequelae of profound neglect and horrific abuse, and can be easily destabilized.
 
This workshop will provide a user friendly overview of the diagnosis, stabilization and treatment of DDs. along with how to use IFS with this population.

PROGRAM IS OPEN TO ALL MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
• Basic familiarity with the IFS model is required.

$155 Early Registration (postmarked by January 31, 2012)
$135 Full-time Mental Health Agency Clinician (provide name of agency)
$185 Registration (February 1, 2012 or after – space permitting)

Heartspace Wellness Alliance, 217 Union Ave, Altoona, PA

April 20-22, 2012

Highly experiential weekend workshop with emphasis on providing numerous supervised practice sessions in both therapist and client roles in order to thoroughly experience the process in a very safe and supportive environment.   Live demonstration sessions by the workshop leaders along with didactic material and small group processing of  demonstration and practice experiences provide additional depth of learning and integration of this powerful ego state model which can transform you personally, spiritually, and professionally.

Early registration before 12/15/2011.

Approved for 20 hours LCSW, LPC, and LMFT continuing education in PA.

$400

1019 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA

May 10-11, 2012

This 2-day workshop offers a solid introduction to the model and how it can be applied to clinical practice.  We will look at the ways IFS affects the brain and explore the connections between psychology and biology that allow new pathways to form and change to occur.  The workshop will include guided meditations, live demonstrations, and experiential practice groups where participants will take on the role of the therapist as well as the client.  It will also include videotaped sessions of founder Richard Schwartz’s work to illustrate the approach. In particular, participants will develop an understanding of how this model can be used in clinical practice with trauma survivors.

Individual: $370/Early Bird $350
Student/Group: $333/Early Bird $315

Early Bird Deadline: April 6, 2011

Portsmouth, NH

Friday, June 1st from 9:30am - 4pm

Internal Family Systems (IFS) represents an innovation in clinical treatment interventions.  It is a model of therapy that views the multiplicity of the mind as our natural state. Each “part” has valuable qualities and is designed for, and wants to play, a valuable role.  These parts of the mind can be forced out of their roles by life experiences that reorganize the internal system with less flexibility.  This workshop gives you an introduction to the basic assumptions, concepts, and language of this model of therapy and discusses theoretical similarities and differences with other models.  You'll see a video of a treatment session, and participate in an experiential exercise.

$149, lunch included

Angel's Rest Retreat Center, Leyden, MA

Thursday, June 28th 4pm to Sunday, July 1, 2012 3pm

This 3 day retreat invites an exploration of self-care.  Implicitly and explicitly we long to be fully seen, heard and nourished within a truly loving inner and outer community.  How do we open to self-care and what are our patterns of resisting self-care?  We will examine how self-care is impacted by issues of aging for women whatever your age.  This retreat will include movement, meditations, nature, parts work and playful activities as well as time to relax, rest and renew in a beautiful setting among a community of women.

This retreat is open to women who have completed a Level 1 IFS training.  We are applying for NASW MA CEU credits and will let you
know if this is approved.  16 IFS CEU credits are awarded.

$625 meals and shared-room style accommodations included.

Durango, CO

July 19-22, 2012

Horses are teachers of self-awareness.  They are keenly alert, intuitive, emotional, and authentic because their survival is intimately connected with their relationships to everyone and everything around them.

Interacting with horses can help illuminate our patterns of contact, allowing us to receive direct and immediate feedback from the horse about our intentions, behaviors, and incongruities.

 Awareness, relationship, and healing are cultivated through the horse-human relationship, the exploration of self within the environment, and the dynamics of contact with self and other.

The Meta Center for the Healing Arts, 214 W 29th St 16th floor, NY, NY, 10001

2012: Nov 9-11
2013: Jan 25-27, Mar 29-31, May 3-5, July 19-21

Friday 9-5, Saturday 9-5:30, Sunday 9-2

This 5 weekend, 80 hr advanced training based primarily on Internal Family Systems Therapy, teaches therapists to deepen their knowledge and skill facilitating relational work with couples and with individuals.  We will address how to invite partners into a Self‐led relationship and to work successfully with common difficulties in couples therapy from an IFS perspective.

TBD

February 10-15, 2013

The Watertown Center for the Healing Arts, 17 Spring St, Watertown, MA

2013: Mar 1-3, May 17-19, July 26-28, Sept 27-29, Nov 1-3

Friday 9-5, Saturday 9-5:30, Sunday 9-2

This 5 weekend, 80 hr advanced training based primarily on Internal Family Systems Therapy, teaches therapists to deepen their knowledge and skill facilitating relational work with couples and with individuals.  We will address how to invite partners into a Self‐led relationship and to work successfully with common difficulties in couples therapy from an IFS perspective.