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An Advanced Course: 6-Session IFS Case Study in Following the Thread, Contracting to Return, Deepening Self-Energy, and Supporting Real Unburdening

Transform Yourself to Transform Your Practice

Join us for this advanced course and a very rare and unique opportunity to follow one client’s system through six IFS sessions (demo video recordings), as we demonstrate the didactic content of our course.

Many practitioners stay in horizontal parts work — understanding protectors, making sense, mapping, etc. This advanced course helps you move into vertical work — where protectors trust enough to give access to exiles and for the unburdening process to occur.

Join us on this Essential Journey of Self-Leadership and discover the profound impact it can have for both you and your clients.

Who Is This Course For?

This advanced program is ideal for Internal Family Systems professionals who:

• Have IFS-I L1+, IFSCA Stepping Stones, One Self Institute, David Stern, or Ted Riskin’s equivalents education. Students must have previous training in the IFS Healing Steps of the unburdening protocol of the IFS model. Ideally, you’ll have facilitated and experienced at least some unburdenings, but if you have not this course will potentially reveal parts of you who have prohibited the process.

• Are committed to personal development as a foundation for effective client work.

• Want to deepen their skills in the IFS Healing Steps of the unburdening process for their own system.

• Seek to strengthen their Self-leadership and enhance therapeutic presence.

Join us if your sessions sometimes feel like…

• you’re circling parts but not reaching the wound
• you lose the thread between sessions or are unsure where to begin in the next session
• you’re working harder than you or the client’s system needs
• you’re unsure when to go deeper or when to stay

Common pitfalls this course helps you move beyond:

• jumping too quickly toward exiles
• staying too long in conceptual understanding
• staying too long with protectors and colluding with client’s protectors
• losing continuity between sessions
• letting your own parts lead in sessions
• mistaking intensity for lack of Self

Deepen your IFS skills to:

• reduce over-efforting and learn to trust the unfolding process
• Follow the Thread to assist client’s in unburdening
• develop confidence in when to stay with protectors and when to move toward exiles
• strengthen your ability to track a client’s system across sessions
• learn how to recognize when Self is present vs when parts are leading

Transform Yourself to Transform Your Practice

This transformative advanced course was originally delivered to a live group of 12 students over six weeks and has now been turned into an evergreen course for you to enjoy at your leisure. It is designed to help IFS professionals like you explore and nurture your own inner world.

Through engaging with your internal parts and taking a vertical dive into your own system, you’ll enhance your personal growth, deepen your Self-energy, and develop skills that elevate your client work.

Are You Ready to Deepen Your IFS Practice?

What You Get

• access to six one-hour video recordings, each with a demo* and discussion of the demo and concepts such as: Following the Thread, Contract to Return, IFS Healing Steps, etc.
• reflective questions to deepen connections with your system about course content
• video demo summary document
• PDF slides
• bonus video on session continuity and mapping (with the Daily Parts Meditation Practice®)
• one back-and-forth email exchange with either Joe or Michelle to answer questions

* The Demos Videos are a rare and unique opportunity to witness one client’s continuity with Following the Thread, Contract to Return, and the IFS Healing Steps of Unburdening over six sessions and the profound impact it has.

What You’ll Gain

1. Personal Transformation

• Engage deeply with your own parts and uncover the roots of your inner dynamics.
• Experience the transformative power of the full IFS process within your system, leading towards unburdening when you work with your IFS professional (or for some who can do so on their own).
• Build resilience and clarity by embodying Self-energy.

2. Professional Skill Building

• Develop confidence in Following the Thread, Contract to Return, and the IFS Healing Steps in your own system and with client work.
• Learn and practice the bridge from generic “parts work” to the IFS Healing Steps of the unburdening process.
• Strengthen your therapeutic presence with mindfulness and self-compassion.

Transform Yourself to Transform Your Practice

Join us for this advanced course and a very rare and unique opportunity to follow one client’s system through six IFS sessions (demo video recordings), as we demonstrate the didactic content of our course.

About Your Teachers

Michelle Glass is a Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner, Oregon Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator, and Alternative Counselor in Eugene, Oregon who has over 20 years of IFS experience and has accumulated over 380 hours of direct study with Richard Schwartz, PhD, the founder of IFS. She has been a regular Program Assistant for Level 1 and Special Topic IFSI trainings for many years. She developed and is the author of the Daily Parts Meditation Practice®: A Journey of Embodied Integration for Clients and Therapists, which has become a valued method of deep embodiment of the IFS Model and healing integration. The six tools of integration can now be found within the IFS-inspired app called Sentur. She has given workshops on the DPMP® online and across the globe.

Her focus has shifted to IFS and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. She offers Self-Led Guiding: 22-Hour Comprehensive IFS Introductory for Psychedelic Facilitators course a few times a year as well as provides smaller workshops aimed to help IFS-trained professionals support their clients who are seeking out psychedelics outside of their services (now an evergreen course available on her website).

Michelle received a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy from Naropa Institute and Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 2022. In addition, she served as the Editor for OUTLOOK, the Foundation for Self Leadership’s magazine, for seven years. More information can be found at https://thelistenerllc.com.