New to IFS or New to Melissa?

In this introduction to IFS, we will experience and explore:

• a moment in silence to start with Self energy

• Self and parts: the orchestra metaphor and weather metaphor

• First chair, second chair and third chair parts; calm vs extreme weather

• An overview of parts: protectors and protected

• The equilateral triangle of managers, firefighters and exiles

• The Five F’s of getting to know a part

This basic introduction will cover parts and Self, unblending and how to start to get to know parts.

It will not cover how to do the steps of witnessing exiles or unburdening. I’ve covered those in other workshops and found that takes more than 2 hours, so to keep this at the 2 hour mark, if people are interested in a follow-up workshop, I may offer a second workshop for those aspects.