Upcoming Courses
27th Annual Summer Seminars: Can Depth-Oriented Psychotherapists Go Deeper Faster? The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS)
Richard Schwartz, PhD
IFS shares with psychodynamic therapies the goal of helping patients discover and heal the wounds that underlie their symptoms. In the early 1980s family therapist Richard Schwartz used systems thinking and some family therapy technique to understand and intervene into the patterns that his patients were describing among what they called inner “parts” of themselves. In that process he also stumbled on to a way to help them quickly access a calm inner essence of compassion, courage, and clarity that he called the Self.
By helping patients first enter that state of Self and then begin internal dialogues with their parts, he found that clients not only received profound insights about their issues but also formed new, compassion-based relationships with parts that had plagued them for decades and those parts would transform. Patients could do all this with little in the way of interpretations or directives from the therapist, particularly if the therapist could access and hold this special presence called Self which patients sensed a safety and caring that melts resistance. Over the last three decades, IFS has been refined into an elegantly simple but powerful method for deep healing. This workshop will introduce and illustrate with video tape examples the basic concepts and methods of IFS.
- Explain how IFS is different from and similar to psychodynamic therapies;
- Identify the basic elements of the IFS model:
parts, Self, protectors, exiles; - Apply the basic practices of helping patients identify
and separate from parts and access Self; - Assess their own parts and notice when they are triggered;
- Increase their ability to remain in a self-led state with patients;
- Integrate IFS methods into their practice.
Additional Information
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Friday, July 15, 2016 |
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4:00-4:30 PM |
Registration |
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4:30-6:30 PM |
History of the development of IFS; discovery of the nature of “parts” or subpersonalities; discovery of an undamaged healing essence called “the Self”; Map of inner systems: protective parts and exiles; comparison to concepts like defenses, resistance, ego strength, projection. IFS methods: inner focus; accessing Self by “unblending” parts; befriending protective parts and getting permission to go to what they protect; connecting with exiles; compassionate witnessing; retrieval; unburdening. Common goals with depth psychotherapies: creating safety; exploring history, healing trauma. Group discussion, questions and answers. Experiential exercise: “Get to know a part you ordinarily dislike.” |
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Saturday, July 16, 2016 |
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8:00 AM-10:15 AM |
Extended video illustration of full IFS session; group discussion, Q&A with emphasis on similarities and differences to depth psychotherapies; elaboration of concepts and techniques illustrated by video. Live demonstration with participant. |
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10:15-10:30 AM |
Continental Coffee Break |
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10:30 – 12:30 PM |
(continued) History of the development of IFS. Discovery of the nature of “parts” or subpersonalities; Discovery of an undamaged healing essence called “the Self”; map of inner systems: protective parts and exiles; comparison to concepts like defenses, resistance, ego strength, projection. IFS methods: inner focus; accessing Self by “unblending” parts; befriending protective parts and getting permission to go to what they protect; connecting with exiles; compassionate witnessing; retrieval; unburdening; common goals with depth psychotherapies: creating safety; exploring history, healing trauma, etc. Group discussion, questions and answers. Experiential exercise: “Get to know a part you ordinarily dislike.” Video illustration. |
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Sunday, July 17, 2016 |
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8:00-10:15 AM |
The healing presence of the therapist. Importance of the therapist/patient relationship in IFS and comparison to the depth psychotherapies; how to notice and work with therapist parts when triggered and to hold Self energy with patients; ie., the IFS approach to countertransference; experiential exercises. |
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10:15-10:30 AM |
Continental Coffee Break |
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10:30 AM-12:30 PM |
(continued) The healing presence of the therapist; importance of the therapist/patient relationship in IFS and comparison to the depth psychotherapies; how to notice and work with therapist parts when triggered and to hold Self energy with patients; ie., the IFS approach to countertransference. Experiential exercises. |
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12:30 PM |
Adjourn |
Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Psychiatry Foundation, Inc./Contact Hours: 10
Accreditation:
Physicians This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of pmiCME and The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. pmiCME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CREDIT DESIGNATION:
Weekend Seminar: pmiCME designates the live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ claimed by physicians attending live events certified and organized in the United States for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ can be claimed through the agreement on mutual recognition of credits between UEMS and AMA, considered as being equal to the European Continuous Medical Education Credits(ECMEC©) granted by the UEMS. One AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ is equivalent to one (1) hour of European EACCME Credit (ECMEC©), therefore up to 15 ECMEC© Credits are available. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Psychologists The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Counselors The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5689. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Social Workers For information on the status of the application to the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, please call 617-754-1265 or email: sjruiz@bidmc.harvard.edu.
This program meet the specifications for the Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR)
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD received his doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University and was associated with the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and The Family Institute at Northwestern University, where he became an Associate Professor. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed the Internal Family Systems model in response to patients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. In 2000, he founded The Center for Self Leadership (CSL) in Oak Park, IL. Dr. Schwartz has either authored or co-authored a number of well-known books, including Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, the most widely used family therapy text in the United States and Internal Family Systems Therapy and Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model andYou Are The One You’ve Been Waiting For, and over fifty articles about IFS. He serves on the editorial board of four professional journals.