In each session of this four-part series, Dick Schwartz, Jeanne Catanzaro, and Kristen Burge will zero in on a distinct stage of relational work, from activation to repair, and walk you through the IFS strategies that support it.
Your registration includes access to all four sessions (they’re spaced a month apart to help you digest the key points and integrate them into your work).
In each session, we’ll hold some time for Q&A throughout, so that you’ll have the opportunity to ask for clarification or follow-up.
This five-hour virtual workshop with Richard C. Schwartz and Michelle Gibson, Certified IFS Therapist and Consultant, offers an introduction to how the Internal Family Systems℠ (IFS) model can transform the way we understand, embody, and practice leadership. Through guided meditations, parts mapping, live demonstrations, and experiential exercises, participants will explore their own internal leadership system and discover how their parts influence the way they lead, communicate, and make decisions.
Discover the transformative power of the Internal Family Systems℠ (IFS) model in an IFSI flagship experience led by IFS Founder, Dick Schwartz and Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Jeanne Catanzaro.
Across four powerful days, you’ll explore the heart and core principles of the IFS model with Dick and Jeanne, as they guide you through experiential exercises designed to inspire deep personal insight and lasting change. You’ll dive into the intricate concept of “parts,” and harness the compassionate leadership of the Self to ignite inner transformation.
Nestled on 95 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds, the Q Center in Saint Charles, Illinois provides the perfect backdrop for renewal and transformation. Wander along the scenic 40-mile Fox River Trail, enjoy a range of activities, or simply unwind in the serene natural surroundings.
A 13-week group program exploring radically relational psychedelic practice at the intersection of Ayahuasca ceremony and Western psychology, including Internal Family Systems (IFS). Led by Dick Schwartz, Curt Kearney, and the ceremony leaders of Centro Nierika, the program includes online preparation and integration groups alongside a seven-day residential retreat, with ceremonies led by Anja and Armando Loizaga in their own traditions and lineages.
For two days, you’ll have the opportunity to explore the IFS model directly with its creator. It won’t just be about learning a methodology. It will be an invitation to connect with yourself—and those you support—from a completely different perspective.
The IFS model is based on a radical premise: there are no bad parts in any person. Only wounded parts, parts that haven’t yet found the context to heal.
Dick Schwartz is coming to Guadalajara to share this in person.
During this two-day workshop by Therapy Training Boston, host Richard Schwartz will teach collaboratively with Nancy Sowell and Cece Sykes. Dr. Schwartz will begin the workshop with an overview of the Internal Family Systems model. His teaching will review the key concepts of the model to orient those new to the model, while enriching the understanding of IFS for trained practitioners. On the first day of the workshop, Nancy Sowell will describe her IFS health therapy model with people impacted by chronic illness. CeCe Sykes will bring her expertise on trauma reactive addictive inner systems to the second day of the workshop. The teaching will include didactic explanations of ideas, live and videotaped demonstrations, experiential practice, discussion groups, as well as Q & A.
In this experiential workshop, explore what can happen when you access Self and relate to parts from this grounded, compassionate state. Through an introduction to key IFS concepts and guided practices, learn to recognize when parts have become activated, develop greater awareness of your inner system, and begin to cultivate a different relationship with the thoughts, emotions, and protective patterns that shape your life.
Explore the dynamics of protectors and exiles, the process of unblending from parts, and the ways that increased access to Self can support greater choice, self-understanding, and connection with others. You also consider how experiences of trauma, attachment, family, and culture can shape the roles that parts take on and the burdens they carry.
We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming Internal Family Systems & Ketamine Experience.
This retreat is an opportunity for participants to come together and do the work of deep healing, allowing access to the 8 Cs of Self.
All experiences will be supported by IFS parts exploration and unburdening and will provide ample opportunities for integration, self-inquiry, group healing and visioning together. To hold the container that we are co-creating, we ask that all retreat participants stay onsite.
No experience with psychedelic medicines (including ketamine) or IFS is required. All participants will be asked to complete a medical & psychological intake form.
This year’s conference celebrates 35 years of IFS in community, featuring over 30 workshops led by IFS trainers, practitioners, researchers, and community members from around the globe. With sessions spanning core IFS practice, emerging applications, research, identity, culture, and systems-level work, participants can build an experience that reflects their interests and depth of experience with the Model.
Over two dynamic days, explore workshops on key topics including:
Across keynote presentations, experiential workshops, and research sessions, participants will explore how parts are shaped not only within us but also through relationships, culture, systems of power, emerging technologies, and global change. Together, these perspectives invite a deeper understanding of IFS as both a clinical model and a framework for navigating an increasingly interconnected world.
In this heartfelt conversation hosted by Tami Simon, Dick Schwartz and Gabby Bernstein explore the inner child and what it can mean to reconnect with the younger parts of ourselves. Drawing from their own experiences and perspectives, they talk about meeting these parts with compassion, understanding where old patterns come from, and creating more space for healing and self-connection.
Integrative Medicine for Mental Health brings together clinicians, researchers and practitioners for four days of education across trauma, nutrition, metabolism, inflammation, the gut-brain connection, psychedelics, neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration and more — with practical insights you can apply in your work.
Science, Spirit and the Body: The Synthesis of Healing
Explore how modern science, embodied practice and spiritual understanding converge to create a more integrated vision of healing.
As the world’s largest trauma, mental health and wellbeing conference, if you work in a related field or are keen to expand your understanding, this annual highlight is not to be missed.
Explore how modern science, embodied practice and spiritual understanding converge to create a more integrated vision of healing.
As the world’s largest trauma, mental health and wellbeing conference, if you work in a related field or are keen to expand your understanding, this annual highlight is not to be missed.
Learn how to increase the impact of your work and transform systems and society. Get to know the core faculty behind the groundbreaking Systems Wayfinding course by joining our free masterclass with Dr. Richard Schwartz, Steffi Bednarek, and David Kitchings.
Join the creator of Internal Family Systems in a conversation on how to engage in self-led, versus parts-led, activism during crisis.
Please join us for a moderated conversation with Richard Schwartz and the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and its application to the climate and metacrisis. Participants will learn more about how IFS can apply to the overwhelming issues we are facing locally and globally, with an emphasis on how we can work with our own internal systems to create more harmony and resiliency.
Across two days, you’ll deepen IFS theory and practice. See IFS in action—then apply some techniques Monday morning
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based therapeutic model that conceptualizes the mind as a system of “parts,” each with distinct emotional roles, beliefs, and protective strategies. The model also identifies a core Self that can guide internal interactions with clarity and compassion. This workshop provides an introduction to the theoretical foundations of IFS and its application in clinical settings.
During this two-day workshop, Richard Schwartz will teach collaboratively with Melissa Mose. Dr. Schwartz will begin the workshop with an overview of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model to orient those new to the model, while enriching the understanding of IFS for trained practitioners. He will review the core systemic concepts of the IFS model. Then he will discuss how IFS conceptualizes and works with inner critics. On the second day, Melissa Mose will bring her expertise about working with OCD and other forms of anxiety from an IFS lens. The teaching will include didactic explanations of ideas, live and videotaped demonstrations, experiential practice, discussion groups, as well as Q & A.
Whether you’ve read No Bad Parts, heard Dick Schwartz on a podcast, or been introduced to IFS by a friend or therapist, this is your opportunity to experience the model firsthand and discover what’s possible when you learn directly from the source.