A. IFS techniques and understandings:

• Resolving polarization—conflicts between parts
• Inner Critic parts
• Managers and firefighters
• Updating protectors about your capacities
• Negotiating for Self-leadership with protectors
• Legacy burdens
• Self-like parts
• Disowned parts (exiles without burdens)
• Protector subparts of exiles
• Somatic awareness in IFS
• Unattached burdens (malevolent entities)
• Spiritual guides
• Advanced reparenting techniques

B. Capacities of Self for the IFS process 

for your clients and yourself

• Internal Personhood
• Caring and Compassion
• Curiosity and Attunement
• Respect for Parts
• Awareness
• Inner Support
• Strength
• Focus
• Flow
• Agency

C. IFS Therapist Capacities

• Confidence

•  Understanding

• Activation Separation

• Authority/Challenge

• Caring

• Humility 

D. Applying IFS to Psychological Issues

• Anger and disowned anger
• Taskmaster and Procrastinator
• Depression
• Eating issues and addictions
• Anxiety
• Passive-aggressive pattern
• IFS and pain or medical conditions
• Communicating from Self in conflict situations
• Working with trauma
• Dissociative Identity Disorder

E. Professional Topics

• Types of parts that block the therapy process
• Parts that won’t talk with you or don’t trust you
• The therapist-client relationship in IFS therapy
• Typical therapist parts that can get activated
• Recognizing when you’re not in Self with a client; staying in Self with difficult parts
• Direct access
• Introducing IFS to new clients
• Working with clients who resist IFS
• What to do when therapeutic change doesn’t happen
• The Six Basic Child Needs

Your interests and desires will determine the topics we cover and when we explore them.