IFS Continuity | Introduction to Somatic IFS

Your Next-Level IFS Learning Program for Advanced Skills, Knowledge, and Connection
Join our premier 12-month membership program, guided by IFS founder Dick Schwartz and Leading IFS Innovators.

An Invitation from Dick Schwartz...

We are thrilled to invite you to be part of our one-of-a-kind, global community of advanced IFS practitioners! Available exclusively to IFS Level 1 Training attendees/graduates and IFS Online Circle program participants...

...this is the membership program specifically designed by the IFS Institute to deepen your knowledge and skills and enhance your ability to apply the IFS model with today’s challenging clinical problems.

This is the only program that offers in-depth courses structured around current clinical topics, engaging discussions on real-world applications of the IFS model, hand-picked case studies and demonstrations so you can experience the power of IFS in action...

...and the opportunity to submit your real-life case consultations and get step-by-step guidance and practical solutions to your specific clinical challenges.

Your all-access membership pass includes:

Monthly live case consultations and demos with Dick Schwartz
3 trimester-long courses on today's most important issues
Monthly Q&A sessions with IFS course experts
Lifetime access to the recordings
Access to a global community of devoted IFS practitioners
Special discounts on our previous IFS Continuity course recordings
And much more!

Our program is starting very soon, so don't hesitate because enrollment will only be open for a short period of time.

I look forward to you joining us!

— Dr. Richard Schwartz

Internal Family Systems | IFS Continuity Membership

A Learning Community for IFS providers

~~Valued at $2,499~~
Registration is now closed. Please join the waiting list to be notified of the new opening.

JOIN WAITING LIST

Plus, earn up to 13 CE Hours for each 4-month module! CE Sold Separately ($47 for each 4-month module).

CE will be accessible 4-6 weeks after completion of each module.

Online Course Schedule

When you sign up for the IFS Continuity Program today, you’ll get access to in-depth, four-month-long online courses covering important clinical topics, including:

Fall 2022: Introdcution to Somatic IFS: An Embodied Approach to Healing Trauma

Winter 2023: Intent, Impact, and Intercultural Competence: How to Successfully Navigate Difference

Spring/Summer 2023: Direct Access

Fall 2022 Program Details

An Introduction to Somatic IFS: An Embodied Approach to Healing Trauma

Led by Susan McConnell

September 2022 | Trauma Happens to the Body

Our trauma stories are written in our cells and flow in our fluids. They shape our bodies and the ways we live and love. The desperate and misguided attempts of our parts to have these untold stories locked in our bodies can create gut-wrenching lifelong distress. We will explore how our parts use every system of our bodies to do their jobs and attempt to tell the nonverbal stories. We will experience how the first two of the five Somatic Internal Family System practices –awareness and breath—reestablish psychobiological regulation to bring stability and safety to the internal bodymind system.

Live Webinar with Susan McConnell on September 12th @ 12pm ET /11am CT/10 am MT/9am PT
Live Webinar with Dick Schwartz on September 21st @ 4pm ET/3pm CT/2pm MT/1pm PT

October 2022 | A Somatic Approach to Collective Trauma

Our bodies hold not only our personal traumas but also our collective traumas. We are born into a traumatized world burdened by separation and fragmentation. The roots of our individual somatic trauma stories may be embedded in racist, patriarchal, and heterosexist attitudes transmitted through societal institutions. These cultural burdens, at the least, insidiously serve to extinguish our access to Embodied Self energy and, at the worst, cause loss of life. We will explore how cultural, ancestral, and intergenerational trauma is carried in our bodies. We will experience how our ancestors' somatic legacies can restore our body’s sensitivities and responsivity. We will consider how the practice of Radical Resonance, the third of the five SIFS practices, can address both individual and collective trauma.

Live Webinar with Dick Schwartz on October 12th @ 4pm ET/3pm CT/2pm MT/1pm PT
Live Webinar with Susan McConnell on October 17th @ 12pm ET /11am CT/10 am MT/9am PT

November 2022 | Witnessing the Body Stories of Trauma

Trauma occurs when, faced with a threatening situation, our attempts to reach out for help, then to either fight or escape, have failed. Confronted with this inescapable threat, our bodies release a biochemical blast to immobilize and dissociate. The parts’ interrupted movement story can lie stagnant for years in frozen postures and faces, habitual, repetitive gestures, and chronic pain and stiffness. The frozen stories of trauma thaw gradually with the 4th practice of Mindful Movement as the Somatic IFS Therapist facilitates the clients’ embodiment of their traumatized parts in tolerable doses so they can release their burdens embedded in the body’s systems activated during the trauma. The story of the Autonomic Nervous System’s inherent and adaptive responses is slowly, safely, and compassionately revisited and witnessed by Embodied Self Energy, reinstating the truncated movement impulses.

Live Webinar with Susan McConnell on November 7th @ 12pm ET /11am CT/10 am MT/9am PT
Live Webinar with Dick Schwartz on November 16th @ 4pm ET/3pm CT/2pm MT/1pm PT

December 2022 | Re-storying Trauma; Restoring our Birthright of Embodiment

Unresolved trauma blocks our embodiment and our Self energy, and somatic practices combined with the IFS Model can restore both. Embodied Self is the felt experience of our connectedness and our interconnectedness allowing for the free flow of energy and information as all the qualities of Self are experienced in the body. The physiological resolution of trauma is anchored and integrated through the five Somatic IFS practices. We enjoy greater body awareness, normalized breathing patterns, increased capacity for resonance, more expressive and empowered movement, and the ability to receive and enjoy touch that is attuned and healing as our birthright of embodied Self energy is reinstated individually and societally.

Live Webinar with Dick Schwartz on December 7th @ 4pm ET/3pm CT/2pm MT/1pm PT
Live Webinar with Susan McConnell on December 12th @ 12pm ET /11am CT/10 am MT/9am PT

Other Upcoming Programs Included

Winter 2023 Program Details

Intent, Impact, and Intercultural Competence: How to Successfully Navigate Difference with Jory Agate, LMHC and Fatimah Finney, LMHC

Begins January 2023. Additional details coming soon.

Spring/Summer 2023 Program Details

Direct Access with Fran Booth

Begins May 2023. Additional details coming soon.

Internal Family Systems | IFS Continuity Membership

A Learning Community for IFS providers

~~Valued at $2,499~~
Registration is now closed. Please join the waiting list to be notified of the new opening.

JOIN WAITING LIST

Plus, earn up to 13 CE Hours for each 4-month module! CE Sold Separately ($47 for each 4-month module).

CE will be accessible 4-6 weeks after completion of each module.

What Others Are Saying:

"Oh so many things I don't know where to start, it has been fabulous. I have recommended it to many many colleagues....I like the part about the therapist watching her own parts and recognizing that as soon as the client walks in the room you are doing direct access. Some of the language has changed since I was trained and that was helpful. Love the authenticity of all the trainers! Really like the idea of revisiting the unburden part for at least four weeks encouraging follow up at home. You all worked beautifully together and are suburb example of Self energy. I am re-energized and more excited than ever about IFS. Thank you!"

What Others Are Saying:

"Being able to watch at my own rhythm and rewind in order to understand details of presentations, demos etc... Having several people presenting gave a more varied interpretation of the model. Being able to watch the demos being explained by the therapist gave me a deeper unique understanding of the process."

What Others Are Saying:

"Having saved all the trainings and demos and monthly calls I feel like I have your wisdom and answers accessible whenever I need to ask. Ditto for the Facebook group. They deepen and further articulate issues that have been covered in the Level 1 & 2 but it's great to have the online sessions to refer to."

What Others Are Saying:

"Having taken Level I and Level II, I am finding that listening to the videos 3-4 years after completing Level II is very helpful with respect to enabling me to further integrate my understanding and use of the IFS principles."

What Others Are Saying:

"I feel that it gave me a good foundation for implementing IFS into my practice... the videos were engaging, the tech part easy, the visual presentation very accessible."

What Others Are Saying:

"I like the flexibility of when I can listen, and like that it is an ongoing way for me to keep thinking in an IFS framework. I also learned a lot about the flow of the model."

What Others Are Saying:

"Sequential, clear, user-friendly info, too many to even name! I resisted registering for a few months because I've found online training to be so technically undependable, complicated to access, user-unfriendly, poor sound quality, etc. I'm NOT techie so I just didn't want the hassle. This training, in addition to its expert, excellent leadership, provides a refreshing experience using technology to learn counseling. A colleague showed me how easy it was to access modules and materials, I gave it a try, and I was hooked! Thank you for all the obvious effort you've put into this remarkable training from a content perspective and the technical side"

About the IFS Founder and Contributing Lead Trainer

Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., Founder IFS

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 (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.

Susan McConnell

Susan McConnell, senior trainer for the IFS Institute, has taught Internal Family Systems (IFS) in the U.S. and internationally since 1997. Somatic IFS, which McConnell developed in 2004, is a synthesis of her forty years of study, teaching, and clinical practice with bodywork, psychotherapy, and spiritual practices. McConnell holds a Master's Degree with an emphasis on Somatic Psychology, and is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist and a Certified Hakomi Therapist. She was also instrumental in curriculum development for IFS trainings and, as a Hakomi faculty member, for a training for bodyworkers using the Hakomi Method to explore through touch the way mind, body, heart, and spirit weave together to form the client's experiential world. McConnell has had a private practice since 1983 in Chicago, where she offers bodymind integration and consultation.

Satisfaction Guarantee

Register for this intensive training course without risk. If you're not satisfied, for whatever reason, you can simply email us at help@ifs-institute.com within 30 days and get your money back...no questions asked. We're that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.

I want to thank you in advance for joining us!

-Dr. Richard Schwartz

Internal Family Systems | IFS Continuity Membership

A Learning Community for IFS providers

~~Valued at $2,499~~
Registration is now closed. Please join the waiting list to be notified of the new opening.

JOIN WAITING LIST

Plus, earn up to 13 CE Hours for each 4-month module! CE Sold Separately ($47 for each 4-month module).

CE will be accessible 4-6 weeks after completion of each module.

NOTE: No additional discounts or coupons may be applied to this course.