Navigating Emotional Triggers and Resistance:
An IFS Approach for Practitioners
This class can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in Eastern Time / New York time zone.
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ABOUT THIS MASTER CLASS
In this Master Class, Dr. Richard Schwartz offers a deep dive into the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, tailored specifically for practitioners.
Explore the complex dynamics of emotional triggers and resistance from a professional perspective. Learn how to effectively identify and engage with the parts of clients that surface in reaction to stress or challenge.
Dr. Schwartz will provide participants with practical IFS techniques and tools that foster compassion and understanding, enhancing therapeutic practice by being in Self, and aiding clients in achieving greater inner harmony and psychological resilience. Join us to refine your skills in managing emotional triggers through an IFS lens.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Developer of Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Dr. Richard Schwartz began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.
In 2013 Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where he is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.