**This event has been RESCHEDULED!!! The new date is March 4 & 5, 2023**
The Gifts of Our Exiles: Paul Neustadt
Most human beings, clients and therapists alike, find approaching our most vulnerable and wounded parts frightening. The protective parts of us see our exiles as dangerous, shameful, too intense, or too fragile. Inherently defective and unfixable. They are unable to see beyond the exile’s burdens, and even the exiles often think they are their burden.
One of the keys to healing is helping the client’s protective system differentiate between the exile’s burdens and its true nature, which has gotten obscured. When we help the client and their protectors recognize the exile’s gifts, it can ease their reluctance to connecting with exiles and allow space for healing to take place. Awareness of the exile’s gifts adds to the power of the healing steps and strengthens the integration of the unburdened exiles.
This workshop offers you the opportunity to experience this personally as you learn the skills and strategies for helping clients recognize the gifts of their exiles.
In this workshop you will learn:
1. The three different kinds of gifts exiles offer;
2. How the individual’s True Self fits with the the Universal Self emphasized in the IFS model as the source of healing;
3. The three shifts of identity that can occur in the healing process;
4. Strategies for integrating these ideas at different stages of the work.
The strategies Paul will teach include:
- using direct access with protectors and identifying the protector’s gifts;
- recruiting protectors to form an inner healing circle;
- helping clients access more Self Energy by tapping in to the Larger Field of Collective Self Energy;
- reflecting back qualities of the exile during witnessing;
- focusing on the exile’s gifts during the invitation and integration phase.
This workshop includes teaching and discussion, case examples, experiential learning, and learning of skills to deepen this healing process. The skills will be demonstrated and then participants will have an opportunity to practice them. Paul will provide guidelines for practice that you can use with colleagues and with clients.
This workshop will be recorded and the recording will be available for 1 month.
IFSCA is offering a discounted fee for clinicians who work at public mental health agencies - 50% off the entire weekend. Please contact Paul at [email protected] for more information (please cut and paste address) and include what population your agency serves.
Paul Neustadt, MSS, LICSW, is a senior IFS Co-Lead Trainer with IFSI and AAMFT Approved Supervisor.
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