What You Will Learn in this Engaging IFS Session!

In this insightful IFS session, a manager named Green explores fears about the chaos of our economic times, concerns about the future, and how to make choices to feel aligned with our next right career moves.

Topics in this session include:

1. Economic Anxiety: Green expresses significant stress over economic conditions, fearing a potential Great Depression and feeling powerless to control external factors.

2. Coping Mechanisms: Green highlights strategies to manage stress, such as avoiding fear-based news, maintaining a low-cost lifestyle, and focusing on personal development.

3. Desire Management: Green discusses how limiting material desires reduces financial pressure, making it easier to navigate uncertainty.

4. Career Strategy and Self-Improvement: Green emphasizes the importance of developing expertise and mastering a craft (drawing on books like So Good They Can’t Ignore You). This, Green believes, creates resilience in tough times.

5. Decision-Making Through Energy Alignment: Green reflects on past career decisions, realizing that fear-based choices often lead to poor outcomes. Instead, Green advocates for choosing work that aligns with personal passion and energy.

6. Disillusionment with Institutional Changes: There is a discussion about shifting dynamics within the IFS (Internal Family Systems) community, including a sense of exclusion from traditional training pathways for coaches. This contributes to a reassessment of professional affiliations.

7. Letting Go of Fear-Based Thinking: Green acknowledges the need to move away from making decisions out of fear or scarcity and instead focus on love, faith, and alignment with personal values.

8. Grieving Change: The conversation follows a grief-like process—denial, bargaining, anger, sadness, and acceptance—regarding shifts in professional identity and community belonging.

9. Practical Steps: Green decides to eliminate unnecessary expenses, unsubscribe from fear-based marketing emails, and focus on meaningful professional opportunities (e.g., the IFS Unconference). 

Overall, this session is a fee-wheeling self-exploration of career decisions, financial stability, and personal values in the face of uncertainty, ultimately advocating for making choices based on alignment rather than fear.