Mariel Pastor, LMFT, Internal Family Systems Lead Trainer with the US Center for Self Leadership

Welcome to Anchoring IFS Skills, a 2-day workshop to fortify your practice through experiential exercises, practice, demos and discussion.

Most consolidating practitioners of any therapy hit roadblocks or plateaus at one time or another. Their own parts might get discouraged about the process or become worried they'll lead clients into unknown territories with backlash as a result. Even confident IFS practitioners may face challenges not addressed in their training. 

IFS is intuitive yet complex, making it helpful to review the process and practices in a new way, from another perspective, and with tools specific to particular needs.

This supportive workshop will bring even more depth and refinement to your essential IFS skills and knowledge, clarifying stuck points in the process in you and/or in your client's system.

Today more than ever the world needs us to heal our own divisions in order to move forward in wholeness. Are you in?

In this 2 day workshop you will: 
A) Gain confidence in preparing new clients for IFS and contracting to work with parts

B) Restore trust in Self leadership with 'tough" protectors and firefighters

C) Recognise and work with Self-like parts without upsetting or indulging them

D) Solidify skills to prevent overwhelm or abreaction, and 

E) Learn creative ways to unburden

Day 1

•        Introducing the model & Contracting with parts
•        Recognising and working with Self-like parts
•        Working with Difficult Protectors & Firefighters

Day 2

•        Creative Unburdening & Integrating Gifts
•        Healing along the Self Spectrum
•        Transformation and the Unburdened System

The Introductory Workshop (2 days weekend of 9-10th June 2018 in Sydney) will teach the basics of the IFS approach from the ground up.

Who is this for?

Participation is for therapists and counsellors, mental health clinicians, certified coaches, or students in accredited graduate training programs. Practitioners working experientially and wholistically will find this approach broadens and makes more acute their existing work through using the steps of the IFS 'parts' model.

Attending this or a previous Introductory workshop, a Level 1 certification, or ongoing IFS supervision as a pre-requisite for attending this CE-endorsed event here with Mariel.

This event is endorsed for 10 CE hour units by the US Center for Self Leadership for those post-Level 1 practitioners seeking accreditation hours for full certification.

Note - these workshops qualify for equivalent hours of specialised training that may be counted towards Continuing Professional Development according to requirements set down by your accrediting body.

Registered health professionals have a responsibility to ensure that they continue to maintain, enhance and extend their knowledge and skills throughout their working lives. 

See

Guidelines on continuing professional development (CPD) from the Australian Psychological Society
and
Guidelines on continuing professional development (CPD) set down by the Psychology Registration Board of Australia.

The Australian Psychological Society advise that APS Members may accrue Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours by participating in activities that they determine to be relevant to their specific professional approaches, and professional development goals. CPD activities do not need to be endorsed by the APS. A certificate of attendance will be available.

FOR THOSE WITH NO PREVIOUS TRAINING IN THE IFS MODEL OF THERAPY
See link for more information and booking for the online Introductory and Certification training listing. Note there are two Level 1 trainings in 2018, with further trainings as L1 & L2 planned for mid-2019.

CERTIFICATION TRAINING

In conjunction with the Center for Self Leadership (CSL) Simon is planning to run further Level 1 trainings in Australia in 2019, after the first of the two Certification trainings sold out with waitlists. Certification is only provided by CSL through these formally endorsed training events. For more on Australian workshops and training events please see here.

Workshop size 

The size of this intensive workshop is limited.  Early registration is encouraged. Previous IFS workshops have sold out in the 2016 and 2017 Melbourne series.

These weekend and multiday intensive workshops will promote intermediate-level skill building through active participatory learning. Come along prepared to learn by doing. 

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Internal Family Systems (IFS) is the signature work of Richard Schwartz PhD, more at www.selfleadership.org

As a clinical treatment IFS is rated effective to improve general functioning and well-being by the US National Registry for Evidence-based Programs and Practices as an evidence-based practice. In addition, it has been rated promising for each of: improving phobia, panic, and generalized anxiety disorders and symptoms; physical health conditions and symptoms; personal resilience/self-concept; and depression and depressive symptoms. For more read here.

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 Location

This Sydney workshops will be run at the Crows Nest Community Centre

2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest NSW 2065

Please note that lunch can be purchased in local cafes and restaurants, and simple snacks for tea break and hot drinks will be provided. Complex dietary requirements require own provision to ensure best arrangements.

Wheelchair access

• Ramps to main entrance and other rooms
• Note there are some stairs on the premises however all workshop rooms can be accessed through the building, lifts and via ramps.

FAQs

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

There is parking near the centre. The venue is 70-90 minutes from the CBD by public train transport and 75-100 minutes by taxi from the airport.

What can/can't I bring to the event?

BRING:
curiosity, willingness to try things out ("Yes, and..."), a sense of humour, and a heart-oriented openness to the multiplicity of self. Preparedness to do your own work - "if you are feeling it, its yours".

Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?

Yes, see the link at the bottom of the brief bio to the right .

Is my registration/ticket transferrable?

Tickets are transferable to suitably experienced colleagues. Please advise if you do exchange tickets so we can update certificates of attendance, name tags, and lists.

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

So you can be given the correct name tag, we recommend this.

What is the refund policy?

Due to the limited size of each course, a refund can only be issued if cancellation notification is received 30 days prior to the workshop - less a $75.00 administration fee per person. Existing registrants will be sent the refund, and should return any materials sent. We cannot reimburse any expenses you may have incurred, but we will reimburse the cost of travel insurance directly related to attending this workshop, on receipt of your insurance receipt. If you cannot attend, a suitably qualified substitute may attend in your place, assuming you forward all materials or information to them. Courses are pre-paid. We do not take money at the door.

We reserve the right to cancel due to insufficient registrations or other reasons beyond our control. Fees will be re-imbursed in full should cancellation be necessary.