Are you stumped when clients can’t unblend from their parts with the standard prompts, or if they look at you blankly when you suggest they ‘Go inside’?
This 3-hour class is a chance to learn new ways to help clients get some workable distance from their highly protective parts. Using inexpensive objects and materials ready to hand, I will help you get your creative juices flowing with pictures, case examples, and live demos (recorded). Visual, somatic, and spatial examples are included. You will leave with a new tool kit and more confidence in your system as well.
Designed for therapists and practitioners who are trained in IFS, IFS-informed, or who work in any parts model, this 3-hour stand-alone class is informative but not heavy. Give it a try, and tomorrow when you see clients, you will have a new understanding of what unblending actually is (!) and new things to try to facilitate this essential part of IFS (—or any parts model)!
This stand-alone class will give you a taste of my teaching style and help you decide if my longer trauma courses are right for you.
Colleen West, LMFT, IFS Clinical Consultant I have twenty years of training and experience resolving simple and complex trauma, and more than a decade training and supporting clinicians, which I love doing. I strive to be antiracist and culturally aware. I am an LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent affirming consultant. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and consult nationally and internationally. I am the author of The IFS Flip Chart and We All Have Parts.
