This 1-Day workshop is offered in the spirit of Gift-Giving and is ONLY open to healers who identify as Indigenous to "North America". ***It will not be recorded***
What if there was nothing wrong with You, Me or Anyone?
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is a rapidly emerging model of therapy due to the remarkable results it is showing with clients and the ease it brings to practitioners. Advocated by leaders in the fields of trauma, addiction and mental health in general this non-pathologising evidence-based modality offers practitioners the ability to facilitate a client’s own healing from distress, relieving the pressure on the practitioner and countering burnout and/or vicarious traumatization.
IFS is rooted in the understanding that the personality is multiple and operates as a system of parts with different roles, and that each individual also has a compassionate and curious “Self” (highest self/best self) that can and should lead the system. This understanding applies as much to mental health professionals as it does to clients.
Through a variety of teaching modalities including experiential exercises, guided meditations and didactic teaching, participants in the day will have the opportunity to experience their own parts as well as understand how the IFS model may be applied in their work. There will be Q&A throughout the day.
We will also look at the impact of legacy burdens and how to clear them as well as a bnrief discussion of the role of guides.
The broader goal of the day is to plan for a cohort of First Nations healers who can both learn the model and then take the resources, adapt them to your own community and find ways to share the teachings that resonate culturally.
Learning Outcomes
After attending this session, participants will be able to…
1. Understand how multiplicity is the basis for the personality system
2. Recognise their own “parts” that inform their work with vulnerable populations
3. Gain clarity on how Self-led healing occurs and the role of the healer in trusting and facilitating the internal work of the client’s system to heal themselves