Internal Family Systems as a Safe and Deep Healing Map to Psychedelic Territory and a Non-Pathologizing Approach to Addiction with Dr Richard C. Schwartz (USA)
With Dr Richard C. Schwartz (USA)
Date: Wed 09 November 2022 @ 1:00pm (AEST)
Location: Webinar (online)
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Join this FREE, 75-minute online webinar to gain access to insights and learn about ground breaking treatments to chronic mental health conditions.
Topic: Internal Family Systems as a Safe and Deep Healing Map to Psychedelic Territory and a Non-Pathologizing Approach to Addiction with Dr Richard C. Schwartz (USA)
Developed over the past four decades, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers both a conceptual umbrella under which a variety of practices and different approaches can be grounded and guided and a set of original techniques for creating safety and fostering Self-to- Self connection in couples and families.
IFS can provide a safe and deeply healing map to psychedelic territory. With an IFS therapist and the appropriate guide, subjects undergoing psychedelic assisted therapy can quickly access a state characterized by the emergence of what IFS calls Self-energy: curiosity, courage, clarity, connectedness, and compassion. It has been discovered that a vast majority of subjects are often able to access, speak about and interact with parts. The map that IFS can provide for psychedelic territory is a promising and inspiring pathway to deep healing, with the potential to speed up the process of getting protective parts to unblend.
Addiction is a complicated and devastating experience for many people and associated feelings of shame and failure often present a barrier between the individual and their true Self. Because addiction can also be a symptom of trauma, the IFS model is a compassionate means to revisit trauma and initiate healing, and in turn, help the individual to address the subsequent addiction behaviors. By looking at addiction as a means of self protection, staving off deep personal pain, and allowing for compassion and curiosity, IFS can be used to support the individual and empower them as they manage both the catalyst event and the coping mechanism simultaneously.
Addiction and trauma can be treated and healed through IFS without shame and judgement, and instead create space for understanding and empathy which allow for healing of the whole Self and all of the suffering parts.
Educational Objectives:
1. Review the history and development of the Internal Family Systems model of therapy.
2. Review and have a general knowledge of the 3 categories of sub-personalities that most often present in therapy: Manager parts, Firefighter parts, Exiled parts.
3. Participants will be able to identify how the Internal Family Systems Model understands the primary route to healing trauma and addiction.
4. Review and have a general knowledge of how the Internal Family Systems Model can provide a non-pathologizing map to psychedelic territory.
Date: Wednesday 9 November 2022
Time: 12:55am for 1:00pm start – 2:15pm (incl Q&A) (AEDT)
The presentation WILL BEGIN AT 1:00pm.
Location: Online. A link will be emailed to you with the viewing details
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The Presenters
Dr Richard C. Schwartz (USA)
Family Therapist and Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is the creator of Internal Family Systems, a highly effective, therapeutic model with a growing evidence base, that de-pathologizes the multi-part personality. Richard is also the Founder of the IFS Institute that primarily offers training for professionals. He is currently a Teaching Associate in Psychiatry, at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate. Richard has authored or co-authored more than ten books on Internal Family Systems and related topics, including No Bad Parts and Internal Family Systems Therapy. Dick lives near Chicago with his wife Jeanne, Vice President of the IFS Institute, close to his three daughters and six grandchildren.
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