Saturday, September 28 — the IFS Conference Will Be Held in the I

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Saturday, September 28 — The IFS Conference will be held in the I. M. Pei Tower Building —

SATURDAY @ a glance . . . Finding Om: Registration Mindful Vinyasa Yoga 7:00 a.m., North/South Convention Lobby Debby Patz, PsyD, CAC III, E-RYT Continental Breakfast How do you respond to challenge? Which parts of you 7:00 – 8:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom show up, and which parts of you resist? Engage all your IFS 2019 Plenary: #IFSwithoutBorders parts, including the physical, in this moderately strenuous 7:55 – 9:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom vinyasa yoga flow. This practice invites you to tune into your Morning Workshops: (#301–314) own experiences in an honest, nonjudgmental way and 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. be witness to areas of acceptance and reactivity. The more Lunch Buffet we engage with and learn about our own “stuff,” the beter 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom equipped we are to show up for our clients from a place of Afternoon Workshops (#401–414) Self energy. 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. 6:15 – 7:30 a.m., Location: TBD Book-Signing Event featuring Richard Schwartz Advance registration recommended but not required 5:45 – 6:30 p.m., North Convention Lobby Evening Workshops (#501–502) *Please refer to each workshop for scheduling details. IFS Sangha Self Energy Activation: 6:15 – 7:15 p.m., Location TBD A Kundalini Yoga Upliftment, Songs, and Stories with Anna and Meditation Experience 7:00 – 8:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom Natalia Rosenbaum, LMHC Closing Ceremony Dance Party 8:30 – 10:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom Kundalini Yoga and meditation offer tools to access and stimulate the conscious mind, giving us the ability to connect with more Self energy. Join us for 90 minutes of both IFS Conference energizing and calming practice—movement, breathwork, Bookstore Hours mantra, and meditation. 9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Kundalini Yoga experience not required! Tower Court A 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., Location: TBD in the I.M. Pei Tower Advance registration recommended but not required

An Evening of Upliftment, Songs, and Stories with Anna Huckabee Tull At the special request of Dick Schwartz, we are honored to welcome back to the IFS Conference award-winning author and singer-songwriter Anna Huckabee Tull, who offers up a rare and special evening—a collection of powerful stories of healing and inner spaciousness brought to life through words and song. Anna will be performing songs from her new album, The Days of Your Opening, and sharing insights from the wild ride of her new IFS-friendly book, Living the Deeper YES, which Dick has called, “poetically evocative,” “skillful” and “highly recommended.” Come finish out your day in a restorative, uplifting, and centering environment with music that soothes and inspires, and stories that invite you to remember that more is possible and all is well. 7:00 – 8:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom CONFERENCE SESSIONS: SATURDAY 17

Plenary Session Morning Workshops 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Opening Remarks IFS CORE CONCEPT Jon Schwartz, PhD Executive Director, The Center for Self Leadership 301 Direct Access: An Essential IFS Skill Fran Booth, LICSW #IFSwithoutBorders Additional teachers for this workshop: Jory Agate, Deran Young, LICSW, Caitlin Capistran, DPT Karby Allington-Goldfain, Kathy Cox, Ann Drouilhet, Karen and Sarah Houy, MA, LPC, RYT, BCN Earnest, Joanne Gaffney, Michelle Glass, Sue Seiler, Jeni Tyson As the use of IFS expands and evolves, we’re excited to welcome Having mastered the basic protocol, the maturing IFS therapist three innovative practitioners who are extending the reach of IFS often seeks proficiency at direct access. Embodied ease with beyond the traditional application of the Model. Deran, Caitlin, direct access increases your competence as an IFS therapist. This and Sarah are all breaking down borders to bring IFS to new workshop offers the unique and rich experience of having a team places. During this plenary session, you’re invited to hear how of highly skilled IFS therapists coach attendees in supervised these IFS innovators are using IFS in new ways and to consider practice. Teaching methods include didactic, video, experiential, how you are expanding the use of IFS in your own community. and practice. You will leave with more confidence about using IFS & Diversity: As the founder of Black Therapists Rock, Deran direct access. has been dedicated to making mental health and emotional Track: Trauma well-being culturally relevant for marginalized communities. Level: Intermediate to Advanced During this session, she will explain how she utilizes IFS to foster passion for diversity and dedication to unity. Deran will also IFS CORE CONCEPT share how she has personally removed the painful, though once necessary, borders around her own heart to create more space 302 You-Turn to Return: From Reactivity for community and collective healing. to Self Leadership IFS & the Body: Dr. Caitlin Capistran is taking IFS inside the body Cathy Curtis, LCSW and Toni Crossen, LMFT to dissolve the border between body and mind. She’ll share what Richard Schwartz coined the phrase “You-Turn.” This quite literally our bodies can reveal about our parts and how IFS can be used means learning to turn your attention toward yourself and away to transform our physiology and support physical health. Caitlin from the external environment for validation. This workshop is will discuss how our bodies reflect our internal systems, the direct designed to help people understand the multilayered reasons impact parts can have on our physiology, and how to support for their reactivity, name the protectors whose job it is to blame your clients’ physical health through the use of IFS. other people for feelings of anger and shame, and identify exiles whose pain motivates these protectors. Participants will learn IFS & Technology: Sarah is passionate about breaking down what it truly means to make a You-Turn and what it sounds like borders through the integration of technology and mental health. to make a Self-led return. Through didactic, experiential, and She will share scenarios from her own experience and how she group discussion, we will help you learn how to do this work sees the utilization of IFS and technology together to expand and with yourself and with your clients. We will explore common enhance the healing capacity of IFS. protectors that work hard to prevent this process, incorporating Ketamine-Assisted IFS Therapy material from the Intimacy from the Inside Out couple therapy training program. We believe this work is life-changing and will Dr Robert M Grant, MD, MPH benefit you and your clients immensely. Ketamine is a legal and FDA approved psychedelic medication for treatment of depression. Integrating psychotherapy with Track: Couples, Family, Parenting & Children ketamine treatment prolongs the benefit from single ketamine Level: All Levels Welcome treatments. IFS is well suited for use with psychedelic therapies because it embraces the multiplicity of the mind, seeks full consent continuously, enables reprocessing of traumatic Book-Signing Event! memories, leverages the ketamine induced neuroplasticity in Stop by the Bookstore for more information shifting neural networks involved in mood, memory and self perception. Dr Grant has clinical experience over 2 years with integrating ketamine assisted psychotherapy with IFS; the process and outcomes will be presented.

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303 SoulFreedom™ for Healers: Embodied 305 Heart Lessons of the Journey: An IFS Lens Spirituality, Relational Expressive Arts, & IFS on the Unique Life Passages of Therapists to Heal You and Your Clients Cece Sykes, LCSW Adrienne Glasser, LCSW, RDMT, IFS Coach The lives of therapists are unique—we spend thousands of Focusing on the healer’s journey and access to Self are of utmost hours in relationships with people who are suffering deeply. importance. For clients, co-regulation happens through IFS when We offer our emotional support and our emotional intelligence they are able to sense Self being present in a group and in the and actively facilitate their internal relationships and healing. Self leadership of the therapist. Through group exploration of Over and over, we assume the role of welcoming other people’s Self, guides, trance states, and embodiment with IFS, participants emotional pain and guiding them to a better place. All the while, can simultaneously learn experiential methods and movement our own worries and distress remain (rightly) in the background. techniques for their own personal growth and to use with clients. Yet we have a complex history that got us into this position. Our This workshop will explore quick and effective ways for clients journey is rich with its own challenges, losses, and triumphs, to access Self that can be used both individually and with groups. and we are evolving, too. Participants will learn how to connect with spirituality, or Highest This workshop will guide therapists to more deeply explore Self, to both protectors and exiles. When this connection is made, and build relationship with the protectors who learned how to deep karmic clearing, the lifting of burdens, and playing with focus and attune externally as well as to our vulnerable exiles the gifts of our legacy heirlooms all become possible. We’ll seek who absorbed early messages about responsibility, sacrifice, a better understanding of our embodied sense of purpose as a and striving. Through lecture and experiential exercises, we healer on a somatic level through the exploration of parts, exiles, can rediscover our appreciation of the “heart lessons” of our and the felt sense of Self in the body. individual journeys, resource our inner worlds, and reinvigorate Participants will be guided through group healing where the our connections to Self energy and our own unique wisdom. collective consciousness (Highest Self) of the group sees, Track: Mind, Body & Spirit mirrors, and heals all parts relationally. Experientials such as: SoulFreedom™ Maps (sculpting), SoulFreedom™ movement, Level: All Levels Welcome breathwork, guided visualization, sociometry, group ritual, and 306 Utilizing IFS with Individuals and Families relational mindfulness will be explored. Affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder We will learn ways to work with groups that make the IFS Model, Helena Huckabee, PhD spirituality, and embodiment accessible to anyone. A brief Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often speak for overview of how the group collective Self can heal attachment their parts with their actions. Parents need healthy and effective wounds through expressive arts, guide work, trance states, and approaches to witness their child’s parts and unburden their child’s embodiment will be discussed. Participants will leave with a trauma even when the child has little or no language and his or her renewed sense of purpose, many tools to point toward Self with actions may be dangerous. Essential information and approaches clients, and ways to easily access Self during sessions to give our will be given for working with individuals of all ages with ASD, healer parts much-needed support and love. including adolescents or adults wanting intimate relationships, Track: Mind, Body & Spirit frustrated or grieving parents, and polarized or fighting couples. Level: Advanced Knowledge will be shared on the core self in individuals with ASD and how unblending, unburdening, clarity, and connection can 304 Our Voices, Our Selves be facilitated. Approaches will be provided for parents, siblings, or Naaz Hosseini, LP caregivers to acknowledge the parts of their ASD family member Voice is an integral part of the therapeutic process. When we, as while still maintaining healthy family boundaries as well as therapists, are not aware of our own voices, we can undermine unburdening their own anger, fear, rejection, and isolation. our intention. When we are not aware of our clients’ voices, we can miss important cues. Through lecture, practice, and Track: Couples, Family, Parenting and Children experimentation, we will explore how our voices carry Self Level: All Levels Welcome energy and parts energy and ways to attune to voice as it reveals, 307 Graduate Students’ Stories: informs, and helps guide our work with our clients and ourselves. How We Learned From and Used IFS Track: Mind, Body & Spirit in Our Graduate Practicum Training Program Level: All Levels Welcome Nancy Morgan, PhD Since 2015, IFS has been incorporated into a forty-six-week trauma-focused/mindfulness-based graduate psychology Continuing Education training site at LifeMoves, Northern California’s largest agency CE credit from boards may vary for some workshops. dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness. Each year, For more information, visit: twelve to sixteen psychology practicum students are introduced selfleadership.org/2019-annual-conference-edu-credits.html to IFS through didactics, individual supervision sessions, and for the most up-to-date details. weekly group supervision. CONFERENCE SESSIONS: SATURDAY 19

Graduate psychology students join their past practicum training 310 IFS Is a Relational Model of Therapy: Exploring site director, Nancy Morgan, an IFS therapist, to share their Various Aspects of the Relational Field in IFS Therapy experiences of being introduced to and using IFS during their David Stern, PsyD practicum training years. Discover how IFS informed students’ In the moment when a part meets Self and Self meets a part, views, perspectives, case presentations, and sessions with something wonderful reliably occurs. A relational circuit is homeless children, families, individuals, veterans, and elders, all completed and, with the closing of this circuit, there is a quiet of whom had significant trauma histories. Students will also share and delicious explosion of love. IFS has, as its primary goal, their experiences using IFS with monolingual Spanish-speaking fostering a relationship between the client’s Self and parts. clients, in conjunction with art therapy, and much more. Healing arises most swiftly when clients’ parts are met with Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy clients’ Self. As a consequence of this focus, the larger relational Level: All Levels Welcome dimension of IFS work is often misunderstood, underexplored, or underdeveloped. This workshop explores different ways to 308 IFS Through the Lens of Shamanism: deepen the relational dimension of IFS practice. Expanding Self’s Connection to the Energetic World As with any therapeutic process, there are many relational circuits Jennifer Farley, MA, LPCC (2700), BC-DMT at play, and these form the rich matrix of any relational field. In this workshop, attendees will be invited to view Internal The circuits of therapist Self to client Self, therapist Self to client Family Systems beyond the framework of psychotherapy and parts, client Self to therapist Self, and client Self to therapist through the lens of shamanism. Specifically, attendees will parts are each a distinctive dimension of the relationship. These learn foundational teachings of the South American Waskar and cross-fertilize in a matrix of relationships which, when properly Inkari lineages and how IFS is in alignment with these teachings. honored and explored, can multiply, quicken, and deepen the Utilizing IFS, people are empowered to be their own shaman possibilities for healing. by learning to navigate and heal their internal world in order Connection is essential for healing all manner of attachment to enhance the experience of their external world. Embracing wounds. It is also essential to healing all manner of trauma and shamanism as a lens, IFS can be even further expanded in its an important part of healing addictions. In revealing the almost capacity to connect to the experience of existential connection/ magical power of the Self-to-part connection, IFS shows us a spirituality. Acknowledging this alignment with shamanism, path through which love will reliably travel and all manner of other embodied shamanic rituals can be utilized in synchrony to healing can be achieved. By attending to all dimensions of the support healing and experience expansive energetic connection/ relational field, we assure ourselves that the relational matrix will spiritual connection. This workshop will explore these ideas both be suffused with love and that healing and wholeness will obtain. didactically and experientially. Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Level: All Levels Welcome Level: Advanced 311 In Living Color: Your System, IFS, & SoulCollage® 309 Exploring Shame within the Culture, Ourselves, Katherine L. Ziegler, PhD and Clients: Using IFS to Build Shame Resilience SoulCollage® uses recycled images, imagination, and intuition in Irina Diyankova, PhD and Norma Stevens, LCPC, NCC a fun yet profound, relaxing, inspiring, and healing art-collage- Shame is a universal condition and one of the most exiled and plus-inner-dialogue process, enabling deep self-exploration, protected experiences of all the negative emotions, as it is so emotional development, and creative pleasure with full and destructive to our sense of personhood. In this workshop, we compassionate self-awareness. You keep your 5" x 8" collages will present the latest research on shame, including perspectives to view, consult, and add to over time—your psyche manifest, from neuroscience as well the IFS perspective on shame and its a presence you can see, touch, and relate to. The overall process self-perpetuating cycle. We will explore sources of shame, its strengthens your connection with Self in the IFS sense, helping role in mental health, its common protectors, and challenges bring more of your core wisdom into your life and work. in working with clients. Using a combination of didactic Hands-on, we will combine SoulCollage® with IFS to begin and experiential exercises, participants will gain a deeper getting to know some inner parts and perhaps shed new light understanding of their clients’ parts around shame as well on an inner conflict, identify a part’s burden, or find wise inner as their own. Participants will enhance their practice of IFS guidance and support around life questions. Unique among in working with shame and in building shame resiliency. expressive-arts approaches, the SoulCollage® form of inner Track: Trauma dialogue is specifically structured to give expression to (normal) Level: Intermediate to Advanced inner and outer “voices” or viewpoints of which the collager may not be aware—or present them in new configurations that can give a fresh slant on an issue. No art talent or training is required. All materials will be provided. Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy Level: All Levels Welcome 20 CONFERENCE SESSIONS: SATURDAY

312 Client Suicide Happens: A Therapist’s Journey toward Healing from the Grief and Trauma Afternoon Workshops of a Client Dying by Suicide 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. Barb Torgerson, LCSW, LSCSW 401 Revising Relationships through Resonance When a client dies by suicide, it is devastating. The goal of this presentation is for therapists and other helping professionals to Susan McConnell, MA, CHT not feel so alone in navigating the loss of a client whose suicidal Our intimate relationships reveal the stories of our body-based part has made the decision to end the client’s life, or in grappling attachment experiences. These “known but not remembered” with the fear of losing a client in that way. When a client dies by experiences from conception through infancy are brought to suicide, we must explore many of our parts. We will learn to be awareness through somatic practices. In a state of embodied Self-led and hold space for parts such as grief, shame, confusion, Self, our resonant bodies are the vehicle for the psychobiological and doubts about competency through didactic teaching, attunement necessary to rewire our habitual patterns of relating experiential exercises, and demonstration/sculpting. and to restore “right relationship” within ourselves and with those we love. Track: Trauma Level: All Levels Welcome Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Level: All Levels Welcome 313 When Humans Are Dangerous: Beyond Verbal Interventions with Parts That Have Relational Trauma 402 IFS: Highway to Hell, or a Way Back Homeward Robyn Lending Halsten, MA, LPC, BC-DMT, DTRL Mary Steege, LMFT This body-centered, movement-based workshop will be largely The word religion is derived from a Latin root meaning “to join, or experiential and geared toward participants who wish to explore, to connect”—humans and divine enter into relationship. IFS is a from their own embodied experience, how to safely work with relational model. It connects us up in a multitude of relationships nonverbal parts. Cultivating embodied Self presence with parts between parts, Self, and what Dick calls “the Larger Self.” IFS who have relational trauma allows for our clients and their parts to facilitates trusting and harmonious relationship at every level neurocept, a sense of safety. Parts need to know the Self is willing of being and has consequently become a spiritual practice for to get to know them on their terms and, if necessary, without the many. Followers of diverse religious traditions and spiritual paths use of language. Using the principles of IFS, Polyvagal Theory, have noted the spiritual underpinnings of IFS. At the same time, dance/movement therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, they wonder about the role of revelation, religious practices, participants will learn how the interactive relationship between and the teachings of their own tradition. Still others make IFS client and therapist as well as Self and parts can be explored, a religion and inadvertently perpetuate cycles of shame and expressed, and unburdened through nonverbal interventions. perfection. We will explore topics that include Self from a spiritual Track: Mind, Body & Spirit perspective; IFS, I-Thou, and world peace; and salvation and Level: All Levels Welcome the Idolatry of Self. The workshop is a convocation for anyone 314 Harnessing the power of Vicarious Resilience interested in the conversation. All parts are welcome: religious, Through use of IFS: Lessening the Impact of atheist, anti-religious, and otherwise. Bring your burdens. Participants will learn how IFS can help bridge revelation and “Compassion” Fatigue and Preventing Burnout relationship within a tradition and help build bridges between Kindra Carroll, LCSW, LICSW traditions. Participants will gain insight into their own beliefs Most therapists and helping professionals are aware of the and burdens with regard to religion. Clinicians will gain skills to potential impacts of vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and work with the religious systems of clients. Together we will create burnout in working with individuals who have experienced sacred space for this holy work within the IFS community. trauma. However, the contrasting concept of vicarious resilience is Track: Mind, Body & Spirit often overlooked in these discussions. It occurs when professionals Level: Introductory to Intermediate experience personal growth in their own life through witnessing the growth of their clients. IFS can encourage vicarious resilience 403 A Journey through the 12 Steps of Recovery by unblending from parts that take on the trauma and enhancing the IFS Way one’s capacity to experience compassion and Self energy. Naomi Nygaard, ADMP In this workshop, participants will experience a better This experiential workshop will present the 12 Steps through understanding of both vicarious trauma and vicarious resiliency an IFS lens. We will use meditation, journaling, movement, as it relates to the IFS Model. In an effort to minimize burnout, and group discussion to journey through an IFS version of the participants will learn to better differentiate between empathy 12 Steps. This version describes a process of discovering and and compassion and will consult with the 8 C’s to encourage unblending from our firefighters and managers, healing the a more self-led practice. polarities between them, and allowing a turn toward Self in Track: Trauma Steps 1 through 3; discovering and unburdening exiles in Steps Level: All Levels Welcome 4 through 7; healing relationship wounds with those in our CONFERENCE SESSIONS: SATURDAY 21 lives that occurred when we were blended with our protectors 406 A Task Analysis of Working with an Exile in IFS in Steps 8 and 9; and deepening a connection to Self in a life Tim Welch, MS, Adrian Blow, PhD, Tina Timm, PhD, of ongoing spiritual growth for maintaining and deepening and Jennifer Van Boxel, MMFT our recovery in Steps 10 through 12. The material is practical This workshop presents the results of an empirical process in nature and can be used to greater understand, appreciate, study that used a task-analysis framework to examine the steps and help all our parts involved in our addictive-compulsive associated with a successful exile retrieval. The presenters tendencies. It will also allow us to better understand our clients’ (who include two IFS trained clinicians) contacted Dr. Richard addictive cycles and to facilitate a process of recovery that will Schwartz to obtain videotapes that contained successful sustain. examples of him using the intervention for analysis. This Track: Addiction workshop describes the results of this study, which provides Level: Intermediate to Advanced empirical evidence of the steps associated with successfully working with an exiled part in IFS. 404 The Knowing Field: Drawing on the Innate Our workshop will consist of a didactic component which Intelligence of IFS and Constellation Work describes the research methods used and the selected Brian Jaudon and Elmar Dornberger, LPC intervention, a discussion that solicits participants’ views and IFS and Constellations (Bert Hellinger) are two of the most experiences with this technique, and the opportunity to observe deeply honoring and transformational models on the planet. and analyze video clips of a successful exile retrieval. While IFS helps us discover and navigate our inner landscape, NEW! Pilot Track: Research-Based Constellations have traditionally revealed the hidden dynamics of families and other large systems. When we marry these highly Level: Introductory symbiotic approaches to systemic evolution, the results are pure 407 How Sexual Trauma Impacts Couples’ Ability magic. We learn where we’ve been stuck and how the system is to Be Safely Intimate: Using IFIO Couple Therapy ready to evolve. We experience expansion at all levels as the path Nancy Wonder, PhD forward begins to reveal itself. When working with couples regarding their sexual intimacy, This highly experiential workshop will allow participants to apply therapists need to be aware of how sexual trauma has impacted innovative methods and approaches that draw on both the IFS their clients’ parts. Many of the parts effected by childhood and the Constellation models. Specifically, Brian and Elmar will sexual trauma or adult sexual exploitation and harassment need provide exercises for you to explore multiple avenues of personal compassion and attention in the consulting room. Internal Family growth: Systems and Intimacy From the Inside Out offer protocols to • What are the gifts that are ready to be expressed in your life? work with these parts in a safe and effective way. Participants • How can you move from a state of helplessness to enoughness? will learn how to track sequences of protective parts in regard to • What other states of being might your system be asking for? sexual intimacy and to identify more vulnerable parts that have Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy been hurt by others. Finally, participants will learn how to use the Level: All Levels Welcome IFIO protocol Courageous Communication to help clients share sexual hurts from the past. 405 Mature IFS Therapists 65 and Over: IDs Will Not Be Required at the Door Track: Couples, Family, Parenting and Children Roberta Rachel Omin, LCSW Level: Intermediate to Advanced We are mature IFS therapists. Most of us don’t fit the cultural IFS CORE CONCEPT stereotype of being old. Yet we are experiencing our aging. At times we have lots of Self energy with all the confidence, 408 The Art and Science of Unblending Parts resilience, and wisdom that aging brings, and at other times we Elizabeth Taeubert, LCSW hear our critics chastising us for not quite being who we were It is essential to the healing process that the protectors and or that our body has a mind of its own despite our best efforts. Self-like parts unblend and allow the Self of the client to go to While we have more consciousness, awareness, and presence, the exile so that it can be fully witnessed, understood, retrieved, we cannot escape the sorrow, pain, and losses of many kinds and unburdened. In this workshop, we will briefly review the that come with growing older. How do we navigate both worlds neuroscience of parts. We will discuss how to identify signs of who we are as part of this developmental stage? of when a part is blended, what to do when there is rapid How do we bring our courage, curiosity, compassion, and sequential blending, and how to detect Self-like parts. We will acceptance to this stage of our life? Through meditation, describe various approaches to facilitate unblending with experiential exercises, and audience participation, we will a focus on direct access. discover and deepen our insight with what moves us and shakes Participants will have the opportunity to practice as well us in this latter part of our journey. as observe a live demo. Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Track: Trauma Level: All Levels Welcome Level: All Levels Welcome 22 CONFERENCE SESSIONS: SATURDAY

409 Michi’s “Drop” Techniques 412 Using Sandtray Therapy to Connect Self to Parts Michi Rose, PhD, MAT, LMSW Lauren Spaulding, MA, LMFT, LPC Intern What if we view parts as energy rather than “units” or “entities”? A connection of part to Self is a common goal for IFS Are there implications for new techniques? Michi suggests that practitioners. People are able to feel relief, understanding, and we can think of parts as holograms. This means that a tiny piece empathy for their parts when they are able to interact with of any part (even one drop) will contain all of the informational these parts in Self energy. Sandtray therapy offers tactile and energy of that part. creative opportunities for unblending and experiencing parts in Based on this concept, Michi presents a “DROP Technique” that a unique way, nonverbal way. Participants are able to see how she developed. She will teach how to work with only “ONE DROP” their parts relate to each other and to Self. They are able to get of a target part (rather than the part itself). This DROP technique a glimpse into their internal world not only by seeing a visual is helpful when working with extreme target parts and/or highly representation of their parts but also how they are in relation defended internal systems. Michi will also present her “DROP to each other. This workshop will introduce the various ways Mini-Healing Cycle” for clients with fragile systems. in which Sandtray can be implemented with traditional IFS protocols. The workshop will be heavily experiential and could Track: Mind, Body & Spirit elicit strong emotions for participants, but special attention to Level: Intermediate to Advanced building safe resources will precede all experiential practice. 410 Using IFS to Heal Ancient Wounds Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Guthrie Sayen, PhD and Lena Plamondon, PhD, CPC Level: Introductory to Intermediate An IFS practitioner and his client will share a story of using the IFS 413 Sculpting Polarized Parts in Couples with Insecure process to heal parts that seem to be caught in the deep past. The Attachment Patterns practitioner and the client have been working together weekly for nearly five years, and they have discovered numerous parts that Christine Schneider, PhD, LCSW and Alexandra Solaro, MA, LPC seem to have associations with periods before the present. They This presentation will focus on the use of drama therapy will discuss the carrying of burdens from one historical period techniques in IFS couples therapy. Polarized protector parts in into later periods, the ability of these parts to live out new healing one or both partners can elicit an insecure attachment pattern destinies, the transformation of protectors into healers in their that inhibits the couple’s ability to gain a sense of connection or own right, and the parts of other people showing up as members repair. The Crittenden Model of Attachment will be explored in of the client’s inner family. We will also discuss the appearance a didactic format, followed by an experiential demonstration of of guides and the various ways unburdenings can occur. This sculpting hypothetical couples with different patterns of insecure workshop will include a live demo, group discussion, and an attachment. This workshop will conclude with discussion about experiential process. Finally, we will propose and invite sharing the blocks and stuck points, as well as a discussion of ways that around profound spiritual truths that have been revealed and the “parts of the therapist” can affect the work. how we can participate in healing our planet. Track: Couples, Family, Parenting and Children Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Level: All Levels Welcome Level: Intermediate to Advanced 411 IFS Healing with Expressive and Creative Arts: Embodying Self and Externalizing Parts in Group Therapy Marybeth Weinstock, PhD, BC-DMT and Jeanne Willis, LMFT This experiential workshop is focused on applying IFS through creative and expressive arts in group settings. You will be guided through practicing creative arts techniques for unblending and embodying Self. You will be invited to engage in expressive arts techniques that externalize parts and support the unburdening process. You will learn how to set up and conduct psychodramas that externalize parts in ways that provide powerful healing. You will develop skills for engaging all group members in IFS healing, even hesitant clients. We will explore this expanded possibility of treatment as a shared experience that leads to a Self-led healing process of recovery. We will summarize our exploration via felt sense of Self and how this can be a gift for both the client and the therapist, as we process the pains and joys of the healing journey. Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Level: All Levels Welcome CONFERENCE SESSIONS: SATURDAY 23

Evening Workshops 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. 2019 IFS Conference 501 Circling as a Path to Self-Energy Eric Sjoberg That’s a Wrap! The foundations of Circling and IFS Self energy are very similar. Where IFS focuses intrapersonally, Circling focuses The SoulChild Movement both intra- and interpersonally through cultivation of Self energy and unblending from parts that are in reaction or Closing Ceremony distortion.This workshop is an exploration and experiment (no dancing required) in the use of the Interpersonal Method of Circling to deepen one’s experience of Self and parts, while simultaneously Adrienne Glasser, LCSW, RDMT, IFS Coach connecting intimately in the moment with others. Close the conference by acknowledging both Space is limited. Register early! Self and all parts through stillness, gesture and Track: IFS Beyond Psychotherapy movement. Experience the healing that is available Level: Introductory to Intermediate to parts when they are mirrored through the words, stillness and gesture of the collective Self. End the 6:15 – 7:45 p.m. conference by allowing your protectors, your Self 502 Tai Chi Chuan and IFS: History Living and your child parts a time of acknowledgement and Forward through an offering of playfulness. Protectors will David Medeiros, LICSW be acknowledged for their hard work, Self and child This workshop will integrate two seemingly unrelated parts (exiles) can create, explore and play. Parts that models and practice: IFS and the martial art of Tai Chi need acknowledgement and comfort can be held by Chuan. We will explore the history and practice of Tai you and the Collective Self. Chi Chuan with the many ways IFS has embraced these universal concepts. Participants are encouraged to Come experience a closing ceremony that allows wear comfortable clothes, as we will be focusing on the integration, a sense of love the IFS community experiential aspects of Tai Chi and IFS. In addition, it is embodies. This closing ceremony will also help parts important for participants to know that respectful touch integration on the path back to home. And then . . . between participants will be encouraged during well- defined experiential exercises and demos. While touch is encouraged, it is not required, and all participants have choice in how they interact. Tai Chi is actually a martial art, and unlike many other fighting art forms, we are focused on maintaining contact and connection with our practice partners, opponents, etc. Of special interest (to me) is how we as IFS practitioners maintain a connection with our Self/parts and others. The ability to maintain contact, embrace sensitivity and softness, and cultivate chi/energy are fundamental concepts of Tai Chi Chuan and IFS. As Dick Schwartz has said, “Chi is Self energy.” No experience is required. Track: Mind, Body & Spirit Level: All Levels Welcome Join us as we celebrate the end of another great conference together. Continuing Education All Parts Welcome! CE credit from boards may vary for some workshops. For more information, visit: 8:30 – 10:30 p.m. selfleadership.org/2019-annual-conference-edu-credits.html Grand Ballroom for the most up-to-date details.