Description:
OPD Points: 10
This comprehensive 11-hour online course explores Internal Family Systems (IFS), a ground-breaking evidence-based therapy that helps clients embrace and heal their inner parts.
Given the soaring demand for IFS training, with waiting lists stretching months to years, this course presents a unique opportunity to learn about IFS from U.S. therapist and IFS Certified Practitioner, Colleen West.
Whether you’re looking to enhance your therapeutic skills or expand your understanding of IFS, this course is an invaluable resource for therapists seeking to help their clients make significant improvements.
The course includes:
- 6+ hours of pre-recorded training sessions designed to provide a thorough understanding of IFS principles and techniques.
- 2 pre-recorded 60-minute webinars where Colleen answered questions about IFS and gives 2 demonstrations of IFS in action with volunteers.
- 1 live 60-minute “Live Chat with Colleen”, where trainer, Colleen West will address your questions, offering insights and clarifications on IFS therapy. This interactive session is a rare opportunity to directly connect with an expert in the IFS field.
- 4 bonus interviews featuring renowned IFS experts. These discussions delve deeper into the nuances of the therapy, offering diverse perspectives and practical advice for working with different populations and psychological issues.
- A comprehensive resource list and handouts.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
Module 1: The Basics of IFS
Module 2: Blending, Burdens and Self
Module 3: IFS in Action – Demonstration
Module 4: The Role of the Therapist, Creative Ways to Unblend
Module 5: Diagnosis, Dissociation, Polarization
Module 6: IFS in Action – Demonstration
Module 7: Integrating IFS
Module 8: Addictive and Compulsive Parts
Module 9: IFS in Action – Demonstration
Bonus interviews:
Bonus 1: Befriending Parts: Using IFS in a Self-Guided Way with Tammy Sollenberger
Bonus 2: Helping Stepfamilies Navigate Challenges and Strengthen their Connections with Patricia Papernow
Bonus 3: Empowering Marginalized Communities: Combining IFS, Ketamine, Therapy, and Anti-Oppression Strategies with Candace Olgesby & Tasha Hunter
Bonus 4: Beyond the Diagnosis: IFS for Neurodiversity with Heather Genschmer
Live Webinar:
- This course includes a 60-minute “Live Chat with Colleen” where you can ask her questions about IFS either on the live webinar or submit your questions in advance.
- The Live Chat with Colleen will be held on Friday, 21 February, 2025, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM AEST, Australia
Assessment:
Presenter / Provider:
Presenter Qualifications:
Colleen is all about helping create connection: between you and your parts, between you and your loved ones, between you, your community, and the wider world. She is unabashedly optimistic about the human capacity to heal, to tap into the wellspring of compassion that is Self. Her professional focus is healing preverbal attachment trauma.
As a Marriage and Family Therapist and IFS Consultant, she devotes herself to training and mentoring psychotherapists, and writing. Thanks to Zoom, she is training therapists all over the world.
She is author of We All Have Parts: An Illustrated Guide to Healing Trauma with Internal Family Systems (2021) and The IFS Flip Chart (2023).
Registration Instructions:
Registration for the advanced course with Colleen West is open until 5pm AEST, 20 February 2025.
Click here to register for the advanced course: https://theaca–mbti.thrivecart.com/ifs-course-usd/608b296c8da46/
And, if you would like to sign up for the free training series with Colleen West called, An Introduction to Internal Family Systems, before purchasing the advanced course, click the link below (the free training is available from 8 January to 10 February, 2025):
https://theaca–mbti.thrivecart.com/ifs-course-usd/59fa2b9bd2f8d/
Once you sign up to the free training, you’ll have 10 days access to watch the training videos and additional information.
