A Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) IFS Practice Group • New Offering!
Do you want to go deeper with your own parts, either on your own, or in-between sessions with your IFS practitioner?
Have you tried journaling but maybe it wasn’t as creative or juicy as you’d like it to be?
Imagine having an equally accessible technique that doesn’t require anything fancier than a pen and paper to access your parts!
Let your Parts move the Pen: A 4-week Creative Inner Lab
Price
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!
There is a free class to see if the full course is right fit for you.
This is not a scammy infomercial! It’s a real class I’m offering because I truly want to share these creative IFS techniques!
Three free course dates—register below! Feel free to come to one, two or all three!
Dates & registration
Sun April 27 — 11 am
Mon April 28 — 3 pm
Tue April 28 — 1 pm
Every part of me recommends these classes with great enthusiasm. They have totally changed my life!
- Liv Love
Details
Does any of this sound familiar?
"I enjoy parts work with my practitioner / coach / therapist, but then I don’t tend to check in with them between sessions.”
"I want to be able to connect more deeply with my parts but my protectors won’t let me.”
“I just don’t feel like journaling.”
“I want to learn from someone who has experience working directly with their parts on their own. I don’t want to just read about the IFS steps from a book.”
“I’d like to connect with other like-minded people who also see IFS as a way of life, not merely something theoretical they’re learning to use with clients.”
If you resonate with any of these statements, then this course is ideal for you!
Imagine having a 23-year expert in IFS support you in developing your OWN relationship to your parts, using techniques to unblend BY YOURSELF! You’ll learn how to:
• Develop your OWN personal IFS practice that works for YOU, not some step-by-step idea out of a book
• Address common pitfalls in working by yourself, on yourself.
• Get questions answered right when they arise, before they begin blocking your work
• Bring compassion to your DIY IFS process
• Provide Self-energy to enhance yours, to create more access to deeper parts
• Help you make IFS a way of life, not just something you do one hour a week in therapy
• Build a supportive community: Connect with other IFS folks and also to other IFS resources
This is a course Melissa has taught for years, and is now offering in a more accessible format as four individual 1-hour sessions.
It’s designed to empower you to SEE how to work with your parts using pen on paper techniques in the first class and get your questions answered!
Then, in the following three classes, we’ll have shorter demonstrations and more time for YOU to practice the technique on yourself to develop Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) with IFS — so you leave this one-month experience with greater confidence to do your own work by yourself.
I want YOU to have the easiest, friendliest, most creative, approachable methods for doing your OWN IFS WORK BY YOURSELF and this is my way of offering them to you!
Learn how to use IFS to access your authentic Self in loving, compassionate ways!
In this 4-week course, you’ll be guided to explore variations on using pen and paper scribbling to unblend step-by-step. You’ll also receive immediate feedback from Melissa and be inspired by your fellow IFS lovers— you’re not alone in this journey of Self-discovery!
Plus, You’ll Also Receive:
Worksheets: How-To worksheets to follow to repeat the exercises at home
2-year Access to the Course Materials: Online, on-demand access to all the videos of the course, summaries of the course content and discussions, and course worksheets
Everything, including the demonstrations, is recorded so that if you miss a class, you’ll be able to access it easily afterwards. If you prefer not to be recorded, simply turn off your video so that it is not recorded.
Due to the nature of safety concerns in a larger group, most of the live interaction, with the exception of the demonstrations and individual questions, will be through group chat. As someone who has participated in groups like this, I can attest that there is a benefit to chats — you can connect while also remaining safe in a larger setting.
I have offered this exact workshop at the IFS Unconference for about two years for up to 50 people. I can’t predict the number of people that will join, but it could be from 2-50!
Looking for a Smaller Class?
If you’re seeking a more intimate, smaller IFS group to learn these techniques which is never recorded, consider joining the 5-person Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) IFS Practice Group which meets once a month for two hours. We learn the same techniques, but in more of a group-coaching setting, with more space for individual feedback, sharing and questions. For more information on that group, visit www.athousandpaths.com/four.
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By the end of this course, you will have:
A solid understanding of Richard Schwartz’ favorite method for unblending parts on paper, “Let Your Parts Move the Pen”!
Clarity about the difference between unblending and embodying parts
Three approaches for how to creatively externalize parts using pen and paper:
— stream-of-consciousness scribbles: how to map your parts by drawing
— witnessing one part through creative expression: how to help parts be seen by drawing
— working with polarizations on paper: how to ’see’ polarizations using drawing
About Melissa:
Learn from a 23-year IFS Expert:
Melissa Sandfort has been an IFS Certified Practitioner since 2010.
From 2002-2017, Melissa dedicated herself to learning IFS from the inside out, taking 20 IFS trainings with the Institute for Self-Leadership. Specifically:
• 2 Level 1 IFS trainings
• 5 Level 2 IFS trainings, including all 3 levels of Intimacy from the Inside Out
• 13 Level 3 IFS trainings with Richard Schwartz
With over 1,000 hours of in-person training with the founder of IFS, Richard Schwartz, and over 2,350 hours of IFS training including dozens of retreats and workshops, she has a depth of IFS training few can match!
However, what truly sets her apart is her profound personal commitment to the practice of IFS in her own life.
Building on a very solid foundation of IFS training, she has slowly increased her capacity to do IFS by herself, on herself, and now has a daily self-IFS practice of 2-3 hours of intensive IFS work on herself every day.
She has currently done over 8,000 hours of her own, personal IFS work. And that number increases by 730+ hours a year!
To get a sense of this work, you can listen to a free podcast of one of her personal IFS sessions.
As a passionate advocate of the power of IFS to transform lives, unravel trauma, and help us all come home to our Self, Melissa is dedicated to sharing her IFS expertise in the most creative and loving ways possible!
To that end, she offers her own work as a model for how to achieve Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) with IFS! She has two Substacks where she shares this work:
Radical IFS - https://radicalifs.substack.com/about
Radical IFS podcast - https://radicalifs.substack.com/podcast
This class is your chance to learn from a Master IFS practitioner about how to work with your own parts, based on decades of radically intense IFS practice.
Melissa’s Deeper Intimacy with Your Self courses gave me a quantum leap in my inner work practice.
Before, although I had a daily journaling practice, I was pretty reliant on life coaching for doing deep work.
Now, thanks to the DIY IFS beginner and advanced course, I have the skills to be my own therapist.
My own practice and my relationship with myself are so much deeper, more trusting, and more productive.
The courses epitomize Melissa’s motto, “Work smarter, not harder,” making inner work more fun and more efficient.
Every part of me recommends them with great enthusiasm. They have totally changed my life! —Liv Love