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Trailheads to Transformation: Harvesting Resources from the Unburdened System

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Faculty:
Richard Schwartz, PhD |  Mariel Pastor, M.A.
Duration:
14 Hours 57 Minutes
Copyright:
Mar 05, 2021
Product Code:
IRS035300
Media Type:
Online Course
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Credits

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Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards

Counselors

This self-study activity consists of 14.75 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

Florida Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 14.75 continuing education credits.

Nevada Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved CEU provider with the State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors. This self-study activity qualifies for 14.75 contact hours. Approved Provider # NVCEP2006.

New York Counselors

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This self-study activity will qualify for 17.75 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 

South Carolina Counselors

This self-study program has been approved for 14.5 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.

Marriage & Family Therapists

This self-study activity consists of 14.75 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 

Florida Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 14.75 continuing education credits.

Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 14.5 credits.

Nevada Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is an approved CEU provider with the State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors. This self-study activity qualifies for 14.75 contact hours. Approved Provider # NVCEP2006.

New York Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This self-study activity will qualify for 17.75 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 

South Carolina Marriage & Family Therapists

This self-study program has been approved for 14.5 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.

Social Workers

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 14.75 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

Colorado Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Provider #1413. This self-study course has been approved for 14.9 continuing education hours. 

COLORADO PARTICIPANTS ONLY: To be reported to the Colorado Chapter of the NASW, after completing and passing the online post-test/evaluation, please contact cepesi@pesi.com and provide the full title of the activity, speaker name, date of live broadcast, your name and your license number in the email.

Florida Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 14.75 continuing education credits. 

Illinois Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Successful completion of this self-study activity qualifies for 14.5 contact hours.

Kansas Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This self-study course has been approved for 14.5 continuing education hours.

Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This self-study package has been approved for 14.5 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.

New York Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This self-study activity will qualify for 17.75 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 

Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 14.75 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.

Faculty

Richard Schwartz, PhD Related seminars and products

Richard Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic and he is now on the Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Meadows treatment center in Arizona. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed the Internal Family Systems model (IFS) model in response to    clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves.

In 2000, he founded the IFS Institute (www.ifs-institute.com), which offers three levels of trainings and workshops in IFS for professionals and the general public, both in this country and abroad. A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz has    published many books and over fifty articles about IFS.

Mariel Pastor, M.A. Related seminars and products

Mariel Pastor, MA, LMFT, is an IFS Lead Trainer and consultant based in Portland, Oregon. Trained in IFS since 1998, she leads workshops and retreats on the Unburdened System mandala internationally and online. She is the principal author of the IFS Institute Level 1 Participant Training Manual and is Co-founder and Clinical Director of the IFS Telehealth Collective, a multi-state group practice with IFS-trained and licensed clinicians.  Mariel is a compelling teacher widely known for her clarity, warmth, and humor.  She has a special interest in Integral Psychology and incorporates somatic psychotherapies and spirituality within the framework of IFS.  Her previous work in the entertainment industry and love of working with artists inspired her to create Character Mapping – an experiential psychological toolbox for actors, writers, and directors to create authentic characters and to use the craft to find their Selves.  Information about all of these offerings can be found at www.marielpastor.com

Objectives

Month 1
  1. Analyze IFS shorthand language used in session to determine impact on client’s well-being.
  2. Analyze two IFS client sessions for purposes of therapist education.
  3. Demonstrate meditation and mindfulness as it relates to working with client in session.
  4. Complete a review of several core principals of IFS theory.
  5. Analyze the Self-Spectrum to illustrate the fluidity of the Self.
Month 2
  1. Perform mindfulness exercise to identify parts’ wants.
  2. Differentiate parts and roles.
  3. Investigate relationship with Self energy with Trailheads to Transformation exercise.
  4. Execute an unburdening exercise to identify parts of client and therapist.
Month 3
  1. Integrate IFS skills that work with self-like parts into practice with therapy clients. 
  2. Implement techniques to help clients unburden their self-like parts.
  3. Determine which self-like parts and IFS interventions that can be used to effectively change and transform behavior.
  4. Create effective methods to help clients understand how parts might be causing or contributing to physical health challenges. 
Month 4
  1. Assess how to harvest resources from the unburdened system, including explaining vertical and horizontal connection to self-energy and elaborating on the many forms of self-energy.
  2. Apply IFS treatment strategies to bringing parts together around a vision or goal and utilizing rituals to reconnect.
  3. Investigate and categorize self-like parts.
  4. Demonstrate how to harvest resources from the unburdened system using IFS treatment strategies via live consultation. 

Outline

Month 1 - Trails to Wellness

  • The language of IFS and how better to use it
  • The Burdened vs. Unburdened Internal System
  • Journey to wholeness on a spectrum
  • Demonstrations of IFS sessions
  • Goals of IFS

Month 2 - Shifting Protector Roles from Surviving to Thriving
Recognize and access Self energy in parts

  • Meditation to identify parts’ wants- identify courage
  • Understand survival and the forgotten Self- self can be obscured
  • Review of parts: managers, exiles, firefighters

Understand protectors’ journey over time

  • Necessity may cause protectors to be more prominent
  • Separation of parts and roles

Finding and harvesting part’s gifts

  • Common manager and firefighters activities

Glimpse protectors’ preferred role and gifts

  • Moving from effortful to effortless

Anchor with TTT exercise: Trailheads to Transformation

  • Connect and name
  • Trailhead 
  • Journey
  • Unburdening strengthened
  • Trust
  • Celebrate and identify gifts

Client consults with Richard Schwartz 

Month 3 - Unburdened Exiles and Self-like Parts

  • IFS is about change and making shifts 
  • Born with parts and self 
  • How parts get exiled 
  • Protector’s view of vulnerability 
  • Unburdened exiles 
  • Self-like parts 

Month 3 with Mariel Pastor

  • Sensitive parts that have not been allowed 
  • Grief stricken parts 
  • What happened in the past is changeable 
  • Unburdened exiles 
  • Unburned system mandala
  • Client demonstration 

Month 3 with Richard Schwartz

  • Client demonstration 
  • How IFS can help medical conditions
  • When clients get overwhelmed 
  • When a burden comes back after being unburdened 
  • Redos

Month 4 - Self-Present at Birth & Present All Around

  • Meditation
  • Vertical & Horizontal Self-Energy
  • The 8 C’s of Self-Energy
  • Self & Parts in Daily Life
  • Self-Filled Parts, Self-Energy, and Self-Essence
  • Asking for Self-Energy & Inviting Self-Energy
  • Gathering Parts Around a Vision or Goal

Month 4 with Mariel Pastor, MFT

  • Meditation
  • Vertical vs. Horizontal Self-Energy
  • Self-Filled Parts, Self-Energy, Self-Essence
  • Mapping Exercise: Gathering Parts Around a Vision or Goal
  • Q&A

Month 4 with Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.

  • Introduction to Live Consultation with Heidi
  • Live Consultation with Heidi

Video Demo: Gathering Parts Around a Vision

  • Live Demonstration

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Module Title Duration Course Details
Introduction to the Unburdened System
01:10 More info »
Month 1 with Richard Schwartz
1 Hour 14 Minutes More info »
Month 1 with Mariel Pastor
01:17 More info »
Video Demo - Sculpting Your Firefighter
26 Minutes More info »
Shifting Protector Roles from Surviving to Thriving
01:05 More info »
Month 2 with Mariel Pastor
1 Hour More info »
Month 2 with Richard Schwartz
1 Hour 14 Minutes More info »
Exiles and Self-like Parts
1 Hour 02 Minutes More info »
Month 3 with Mariel Pastor
1 Hour 26 Minutes More info »
Month 3 with Richard Schwartz
1 Hour 14 Minutes More info »
Self Present at Birth and Present All Around
56 Minutes More info »
Month 4 with Mariel Pastor
1 Hour 16 Minutes More info »
Month 4 with Richard Schwartz
1 Hour 13 Minutes More info »
Video Demo - Gathering Parts Around a Vision
24 Minutes More info »
Total Online Course CE Credits Information

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