IFS for Sleep & Health!
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9 am PT • 10 am MT • 11 am CT • 12 pm ET • 5 pm UK • 6 pm Europe
Every part of me recommends these classes with great enthusiasm. They have totally changed my life!
- Liv Love
We all know a dozen things that would transform our sleep if we did them.
Changing our sleep and health isn’t about what we KNOW, it’s about what we DO.
Come join a group dedicated to supporting you in your journey from
KNOWING to DOING, using IFS to make real change in your life.
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 drop-in group is ideal for you!
Imagine having a 23-year expert in IFS support you in developing your OWN relationship to your parts.
You’ll learn how to:
• 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
• Use the Kaizen technique of “small improvements” to move forward on your health goals
In the IFS for Sleep and Health group, you’ll use a common coaching technique to address your problem: FOCUS. We are gathering together to focus on one thing: sleep and health!
This is a tough area for most parts, and it can’t be forced: managers can’t white knuckle it when firefighters want to stay up late watching TV.
We need to address it HOLISTICALLY from a systems perspective, working compassionately with ALL THE PARTS involved to shift things slowly, with PERMISSION from your system to make SMALL CHANGES, that over time, lead to BIG RESULTS.
By focusing SPECIFICALLY on sleep and health issues with fellow IFS folks, you’ll be able get targeted insight into what is holding you back in making the health choices your soul is longing to make.
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!
Looking for More Time to Practice?
If you’re seeking a longer (2 hour) group with more time to practice, consider joining the 5-person Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) IFS Practice Group which meets once a month for two hours.
This month, there are two: IFS + Finger Puppets and the Math and Science of Self. These classes teach actionable IFS methods you can use to incrementally evolve your own, personal IFS practice.
The difference between those classes and this class is they teach techniques; this focuses on an issue (sleep and health).
Looking for a Smaller Class & More Time to Practice?
I also offer the IFS for Sleep and Health group in a two hour format, which gives us more time for personal PRACTICE, using the techniques we’ve learned in the previous Saturday groups, but in more of a depth group-coaching setting, with more space for individual feedback, sharing and questions. For more information on that group, visit ifsforsleep.com/private
By the End of this Group, You Will Have:
Clarity about the difference between unblending and embodying parts
More all-around insight into what’s keeping you from your best sleep and health!
At least one action step to move you forward in your journey to better sleep and health!
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.
FAQ
What is the refund policy?
Due to the low-cost class which enables you to try before you buy, there are no refunds. If you haven’t been able to attend the monthly lower-cost class, keep an eye out for it!
You can also buy an on-demand course for $35, which will give you two-year access to many of my workshops and IFS sessions. There is a finger puppets workshop, a conference table workshop, and many more to give you an idea of me as an IFS facilitator and how the workshops unfold.
There are no refunds. If you need to miss a class, you can transfer your registration to a future class.
I have done everything I can to provide classes full of value.
I put my heart into all my classes. It actually breaks my heart when people want a refund, and I can’t put so much love and care into my classes and then be heartbroken when people ask for refunds. Therefore, I have a no-refund policy for all my classes!
This keeps my heart and my parts safe, so that I can be vulnerable and excited about offering what I offer.
If a refund policy is important to you, I am the wrong teacher for you! I give everything I can, and in return I ask that you honor me by thinking before buying a course so that it is the right match for you.
Thanks for understanding!
Class Safety Agreement
Clarity about our purpose:
To deepen our capacity to do IFS and to develop our Self-leadership as human beings.
Choice:
You are free to censor what you disclose. No is a complete sentence. Choose to share ONLY what you feel comfortable with.
Confidentiality:
All material everyone shares should not be shared with people who are not members of this group, even if you don’t use their name. You’d be surprised how far stories can travel. To read more, visit https://www.athousandpaths.com/safety-story.
Speak up for Safety:
If you are having difficulty with something that’s triggered you, PLEASE speak for your parts, either directly in the group or as soon as you can afterwards. Please LISTEN to your parts when they tell you what they need in order to feel safe. Safety is our number one value. When you speak for your safety needs, you speak for the safety needs of the whole group.
Speaking for parts, not from parts:
To the extent that you can, speaking for parts, not from them, will help us maintain safety when sharing in the group.
Embodying parts:
During coaching demos, in distinction to other times during the group, feel free to speak FROM parts and to experiment with embodying them. The difference between blending and embodying is: when you are blended, you are in a part and you don’t know you are in a part. When you embody a part, you are in a part and YOU and the part BOTH know you are ‘being’ the part.
No Coercion:
"Thank you, for letting me, be myself!” In this group, there is “no crosstalk.” This means when one person shares, no one judges, gives advice, or reacts against what they shared.
Feedback: Share how you are inspired or how you resonate with others. DO NOT share judgement, advice, or criticism. If you criticize others in the class, I reserve the right to determine that you may not be the right fit for my classes. Thank you for understanding.
https://radicalifs.substack.com offers endless examples of how parts crosstalk and then repair, if you’re interested in a deeper dive.
Timeliness:
We commit to start and end on time. We start on time; this increases safety and strengthens the container.
Support and responsibility:
Ultimately, the only person who can keep you fully safe in a group is you. I want to do everything I can to make this group a safe space to learn, to go inside, and to share, in whatever ways feel right for you — but you are responsible for listening to the sometimes difficult-to-hear voices who tell you what they REALLY need to be safe.
You are not crazy if you get triggered, it’s ULTRA NORMAL in IFS work. So take care of yourself, and possibly give yourself extra support on days when you do IFS!
Thank you for your commitment to this safety agreement!
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