16 CONFERENCE SESSIONS: SATURDAY 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. Saturday, 5:45 – 6:30 p.m. IFS Conference Bookstore, Tower Court A 18 CONFERENCE SESSIONS: SATURDAY 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.