Internal Family Systems: An Introduction

Overview

In this introductory, practical, and experiential training, you'll gain a foundational understanding of IFS — including its core methodology and clinical application — so you can discover its potential for healing. IFS provides a framework to help clients listen to and appreciate the value of each part of themselves, knowing that they are more than one feeling, thought, or experience. This approach leverages the power of relationship in order to achieve more balance internally and externally.

Learning Objectives

• Use the IFS framework of cultural and legacy burdens to identify, name, and notice the ways white supremacy, racism, and other -isms in the external systems inform our internal systems, and how our internal parts can recreate these systems of oppression in therapy spaces.
• Describe the basic assumptions of IFS about its non-pathological view of the mind’s multiplicity and the concept of Self.
• Describe the 3 sub-personalities that most often present in therapy and the relationship amongst those parts.
• Identify parts of the internal system that become exiled and how this phenomenon occurs.
• Apply this understanding to both professional and personal contexts, understanding that we all are more than one thing.
• Identify and experience clinical techniques that allow the experience of and the identification of the difference between parts and Self.
• Practice techniques of “unblending” protective parts to establish direct Self-to-part relationships and increase protectors’ trust in Self leadership.
• Explain the importance of working with protector fears to ensure therapeutic safety and success.
• Use the skill of the U-turn in order to slow down and notice what’s happening inside during activation before Re-turning to be in relationship with others.

Meet the Speaker

Delta Larkey MA, LMFT, IFS Certified Therapist and Clinical Consultant

Has provided therapy services for over seventeen years in various settings. She is a systems-trained therapist who values the importance of working with individuals, couples, and families within the context of their relationships. Her therapeutic approach is rooted in Internal Family Systems and Attachment therapies and she is passionate about working with individuals and families surrounding traumatic birth, pregnancy loss (miscarriage, medical termination, and elective termination), traumatic grief, infant death, postpartum anxiety, and the transition to parenthood. She is also a Certified Provider in Compassionate Bereavement Care.

​Delta has spent a large portion of her career working with children, adolescents and families struggling with poverty, addiction and trauma, which is never far from her heart and has shaped her work. She believes it is her duty as a therapist to have an intersectional framework, which means always acknowledging the interconnectedness of social categorizations and their impact on disadvantage and discrimination.

Jessica Finney, MA, LMFT, IFS Certified Therapist, Clinical Consultant, and Trainer

Jess (she/her) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who enjoys working creatively and collaboratively with individuals, couples, families, and communities, and has been doing so in a variety of settings since 2014 (in home, day treatment, school based, and outpatient). Her first career was as a theater director and teaching artist, and she brings the same playfulness and curiosity of exploring what it means to be having a human experience to her current work as a therapist, consultant, and trainer. Jess also has training in a variety of other therapy modalities including expressive arts, play therapy, and Brainspotting. She is dedicated to collective healing, believing that we must be in relationship with ourselves, our historical contexts, each other, and with that which we wish to change.

Schedule
7:30-8:00am – Registration
8:00-11:30 am – Seminar
11:30-12:30 pm – Lunch (on your own)
12:30-4:00 pm – Seminar
*A 15-min break during both the morning and afternoon session

Continuing Education Credits

6.5 contact hours will be earned by the following licensing boards:

• MN Board of Behavioral Health
• MN Board of Marriage and Family Therapy
• MN Board of Social Work
• MN Board Psychology

***If you are licensed in another state, please review your CEU requirements regarding apporval.

Training Location

Nystrom & Associates Training Facility

Northpark Corporate Center

1200 West County Road E,

Arden Hills, MN 55112

**Located between Lexington & Snelling on West County Road E next to Dunn Brothers

**Enter in either of the side doors on the East or West side of the building

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If you have any questions, please email them to [email protected]

Host or Publisher Psychiatric Associates