Internal Family Systems: An Introduction (IN-PERSON, Arden Hills Minnesota)

Join Delta Larkey, MA, LMFT and Jessica Finney, MA, LMFT for 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 relationships in order to achieve more balance internally and externally.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn to:

· 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.

Seminar Schedule (6.5 CEUs)

7:30am - 8:00am - Attendee Check -in

8:00am - 11:30am - Seminar (includes 15min Break)

11:30am - 12:30pm - Lunch Break (Lunch on your own)

12:30pm - 4:00pm - Seminar (includes 15min Break)

Meet the Speakers:

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

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

I have spent a large portion of my career working with children, adolescents and families struggling with poverty, addiction and trauma. That work is never far from my heart and has shaped how I work with people. I believe it is my 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 a relationship with ourselves, our historical contexts, each other, and with that which we wish to change.

Host or Publisher Nystrom & Associates