A Live Online Workshop with Richard Schwartz

This workshop is being hosted live online only. Instructions on how to join will be emailed to registrants shortly before the workshop start date.  
 
10 CE credits are available for an additional fee of $60. After you register for the workshop, your confirmation email from Eventbrite will contain a link to the site where you can purchase the CEs from our co-sponsor, Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA). CEs may be purchased at any time before the workshop, but only those who have purchased in advance will receive credits. Unfortunately, we are unable to issue CEs retroactively. 
 
If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the workshop start date. For more information, explore our Frequently Asked Questions.

Workshop is live online and takes place over TWO days. Saturday Workshop Hours are 10:00 a.m.-4:00 pm PDT. Sunday workshop hours are 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PDT.

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is a highly efficient and effective way to access a state of inner clarity and compassion—or the Self—from which self-healing occurs. From the Self, we can find calm, transforming troubling inner voices, critical and anxious chatter, compulsive distractions, as well as feelings of vulnerability, inadequacy, and overwhelm. These parts of the psyche are surprisingly responsive and resilient when addressed with respect and patience. They readily forsake their inner battles and take on valuable inner roles once they are accepted and witnessed.

Join family therapist and developer of Internal Family Systems, Richard Schwartz for an illuminating workshop on the principles and techniques of the IFS model. Dr. Schwartz offers an evidence-based, empowering, and non-pathologizing paradigm for understanding and transforming our personal inner worlds.

IFS offers therapists and healers a way to make their practice more enjoyable, effective, and less of a struggle. It also brings therapists and healers a sense of awe and adventure as they accompany clients on their inner journeys. For clients, the healing and reorienting of their “inner families” in an environment of genuine acceptance translates into concrete behavioral change and improved ability to relate well to people. IFS is a gentle, yet powerful, healing delivery system that releases the therapist from the need to be clever because it trusts and empowers the Self within each of their clients.

Through a mix of lecture and experiential exercises, Dr. Schwartz introduces the basic principles and techniques of IFS. Participants walk away with new perspectives and methods for themselves and even their most challenging clients.

These teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.

Richard Schwartz began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.

IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms.

In 2013 Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where he is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
 

Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will be able to: 

• Discuss the history and development of the Internal Family Systems model of therapy 
• Explain and discuss the basic assumptions of IFS in regard to non-pathological multiplicity of mind and the concept of “SELF”  
• Describe the concept of releasing uncomfortable feelings and beliefs which allows harmony and balance in the inner system 
• List & compare the 3 categories of sub-personalities that most often present in therapy: Manager parts, Firefighter parts, and Exiled parts 
• Analyze the dynamics of the three-group system 
• Demonstrate the IFS concept of SELF and its role and effectiveness as a leader in the system 
• Discuss the qualities of SELF: curiosity, compassion, confidence, courage, clarity, creativity, connectedness, and calmness 
• Demonstrate the power of working with the client¹s Self in therapy 
• Analyze and discuss the therapeutic relationship as it applies to the IFS therapist 
• Recite and explain the benefits of IFS therapy 

Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals 

10 CE credits are available for an additional fee of $60. After you register for the workshop, your confirmation email from Eventbrite will contain a link to the site where you can purchase the CEs from our co-sponsor, Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA). CEs may be purchased at any time before the workshop, but only those who have purchased in advance will receive credits. Unfortunately, we are unable to issue CEs retroactively. 

• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy(SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.

• LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.

• SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the course concludes.SCA is an approved CE provider for National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches (CEP Number 100196).
  
  
• For questions about completing the CE evaluation materials for this course, as well as receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact CIIS Public Programs at publicprograms@ciis.edu. For questions about CE, visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact David Lukoff, PhD at CE@spiritualcompetency.com.
  
  

CIIS students, staff, and faculty receive discounts on all events. CIIS Public Programs Members receive a 20% discount on all events. Contact us for more information,  publicprograms@ciis.edu.