Are you stumped when clients can't unblend from their parts with the standard prompts, 'Can you ask this part to soften back?' Or if they look at you blankly when you suggest they 'Go inside'?
This 3-hour class with Colleen West is a chance to learn new ways to help clients get some workable distance from their highly protective parts. When in doubt, externalize! Using inexpensive objects and materials ready to hand, Colleen will help you get your creative juices flowing with pictures, case examples, and live demos. Visual, somatic, and spatial examples. You will leave with a new tool kit to use with your clients and a bit more confidence in your system as well.
Designed for therapists and practitioners who have completed Stepping Stone, Level 1, the Online Circle, or the equivalent, and have a working knowledge of IFS.
TIME: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT/ 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Disclosure: This workshop will be recorded for future use on Colleen's website. To respect participants' privacy, only Colleen's face will be shown during the recording, ensuring that participants' faces will not be displayed when asking questions. However, individuals participating in demos may be featured on Colleen's website. Your registration implies acknowledgment and consent to the recording of the session.
BIO:
Colleen is all about creating 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). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and the fabulous dog Sky. In her leisure,she likes spending time in nature and preparing feasts for family and friends.
More at www.colleenwest.com and www.smarttherapytools.com.