Internal Family Systems Training St. Louis

Internal Family Systems Therapy Level I Training

Saint Louis, Missouri

Starting December 2011

IFS is at the forefront of a movement toward a more collaborative therapeutic approach that relies on clients’ intuitive wisdom.  IFS offers a non-pathologizing view of our cognitive and emotional life and is effective in bringing about true and lasting healing.  Developed by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, over the last 25 years, IFS is one of the fastest growing psychotherapeutic models today and is practiced by thousands of licensed therapists and other professionals in the United States and abroad.  Mental health care practitioners easily integrate IFS into a wide variety of practices, using its unique methods to create safe environments for clients to become Self-transforming.

IFS puts the client in the driver’s seat in the therapeutic relationship.  In IFS, therapists help clients to access their own wisdom and capacity for Self-love and to become the driving force in their own healing.

 

IFS also takes the work out of therapy for therapists, giving them the ability to harness their own Self-energy while working with clients.  IFS therapists find new enjoyment and experience less stress and burnout as they draw on each client’s potential to access his or her own inner world.

 

IFS therapy is a simple yet sophisticated integration of psychology, spirituality, and intra-psychic and family systems theory that works well with individuals, couples, children, families and groups, and with some of the most common and intractable issues clients struggle with, such as:    

 

• Depression
• Self-esteem
• Grief and Loss
• Self-criticism

• Anxiety
• Eating Disorders
• Couples and Relationships
• Trauma

 

IFS demystifies the psychotherapeutic process for both therapist and client by providing a clear path for working with the client’s inner system.  IFS helps people respectfully attend to the parts of themselves that interfere with their enjoyment of life – parts that are self-critical, workaholic, depressed, anxious or traumatized, for example – the very issues that bring people to therapy.  IFS helps people appreciate the suffering of their wounded parts and the good intentions of their protective functions and provides a clear, systematic approach to transforming and healing all parts by reconnecting them to the powerful core Self that exists in each of us.

 

The St. Louis Level 1 Training Program

 

“I consider the Level 1 training to have been the finest, most professional, useful and stimulating continuing education in my 41-year career.”

~ IFS Graduate

 

Curriculum and Format

 

Training participants thoroughly learn both IFS theory and technique.  As a participant in this program you will gain an understanding of the conceptual framework of IFS as well as learn the essential, practical skills needed to effectively use it within your practice and personal life.  The Level 1 format includes lecture, discussion, demonstration, video review, experiential exercise, and small group supervision and practice.  108 Continuing Education hours are available.

 

Lead Trainers

 

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, developer of the IFS model, will teach two sessions of this training, something he very rarely does.  During the remaining sessions you will learn from Paul Ginter, EdD, and Elizabeth Taeubert, LCSW, RN, MS, two of CSL’s most experienced and talented Lead Trainers.  Our gifted Assistant Trainer, Frances Booth, LICSW, will work with you throughout the program, as will a dedicated team of Program Assistants.  Together, this training staff will bring you six productive and insightful weekends of IFS training.

 

“Personally, the training has given me a new lease on life as I’m working to become more in Self every day.  Professionally, it has significantly changed the way I practice.

 I love how it empowers clients!”

~ IFS Graduate

 

Location

 

Masterpeace Studios welcomes IFS trainings as part of its outreach in support of educational and life-affirming activities.  Masterpeace offers bright meeting space and other amenities and is readily accessible from highways and the St. Louis airport.

 

Schedule

 

The St. Louis training begins on December 2, 2011, and will meet for six, 3-day weekends evenly spaced throughout a 10-month period.  This format allows you to learn, absorb and integrate the IFS model over an extended time.

 

Open House Teleconference

 

The Center for Self Leadership offers free, informational teleconferences for anyone interested in an IFS training.  Trainers will be there to introduce themselves, give an overview of the content and structure of the training, and answer questions.  No registration is required for this teleconference.

 

Date:   Monday, October 24, 2011

Time:   7-8 pm, Central USA Time

Call-In Number:   605.475.4850

Access Code:   802307

 Tuition Assistance

 

The program tuition covers all training sessions and The Center for Self Leadership offers several ways to help with tuition expenses, including group discounts, an individual scholarship program, and a variety of payment plans.  Your employer may be another source of funding and costs may be tax-deductible.

 

“The Larger Self” by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

 

To read and download a free copy of this article by the developer of IFS, please visit www.selfleadership.org.  In this article, Dick tells of how he created and uses IFS and the transformative effects it has had on his clients.

 

Need More Information?

 

Visit www.selfleadership.org for:

• Video interviews with trainers
• Archived, IFS telecourses
• IFS Store
• St. Louis brochure, application
• Discount and scholarship details
• Everything IFS!

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