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In this 3 hour afternoon workshop you will learn basic principles of a therapeutic model that is creating a revolution in psychology: Internal Family Systems (IFS for short). Based on the idea that our minds have multiple parts, IFS therapy focuses on enabling these parts to “communicate” with each other so that inner conflicts can be resolved and reintegration can take place.
If you have practiced SoulCollage, or engaged in gestalt therapy or seen the Disney movie Inside Out the concept of “parts” will be familiar to you. IFS uniquely organizes parts into categories of protector/managers, firefighters and exiles and offers easy, gentle methods, meditations and creative prompts to work with each type of part leading to deep healing and unburdening.
In this introductory workshop local IFS therapist (and long time Juicy Creatives Studio participant!) Nancy Novak will join us offering an overview of some of the key principles and practices of IFS. Then we’ll head into the studio where Elise will guide you in some creative work as you get to know your own system of parts.
Nancy is a level 3 trained and certified IFS practitioner and loves sharing the IFS map and model of the psyche with others. Together we hope there will be enough interest in IFS to create a weekly study and “Parts Art” group at Juicy Creatives Studio to get to know and express our parts through gentle inquiry and creative process using drawing, collage and sandtray play.
Click the image below for a 2.5 minute intro. to Internal Family Systems.