A Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) IFS Practice Group • New Offering!
Do you want to go deeper with your own parts, either on your own, or in-between sessions with your IFS practitioner?
Have you tried journaling but maybe it wasn’t as effective as you’d like it to be?
Imagine having an equally accessible technique that doesn’t require anything fancier than a pen and paper to access your parts!
Let your Parts move the Pen: A 4-week Creative Inner Lab
Every part of me recommends these classes with great enthusiasm. They have totally changed my life!
- Liv Love
“I appreciate you as a leader Melissa and I appreciated watching you facilitate the conference table exercise. I really feel comfortable with how you embrace and embody IFS in your sharing and leadership” -Lucy
“I liked how you approached the IFS around-the-table technique.
It was easy to connect with the parts and listen to my inner system. The table technique is easier to use than just mapping the parts. As you said, it has more structure, which some managers prefer.
It helped me practice the IFS model, which supported my IFS work. I've been gathering information and learning about IFS for a long time, but I haven't had the chance to practice due to the numbing part that shuts everything down whenever I try to practice IFS.
I gained much more clarity about my parts.” — Isabella
“It's helpful to be part of a community of other practitioners who are on the same Healing journey. Witnessing other people's blocks which resonate with my own is also insightful and allows for a sense of acceptance so acknowledgement of my own parts being 'ok'.” —Christina
This is one of the most manager friendly techniques
for externalizing and unblending parts.
I invite you to try it!
The first class is a demonstration and discussion of the easy approach to the conference table technique.
In the second class, we will have a shorter demo, then practice and discuss the easy technique.
In the third class, we will build on the skills we learned in the first two classes to go deeper with a variation on this technique. This time, focusing more precisely on the center of the Conference Table. This is Michi Rose’s classical approach to the technique, which she gave me permission to share it!
In the fourth class, we will have a shorter demo, then practice and discuss the Michi Rose Conference Table technique.
“I liked learning a very concrete way of having clients externalize their parts. I liked the insights that you pointed out along the way, like self energy within the part.”
“I loved your clarity about the four tools you use for the express "externalisation of parts." Very helpful clarity.
Also the recognition of how different systems would react differently to the various externalisation tools.
I was filling in my own conference table as I was listening to the demo and it was incredibly insightful.
I am delighted to have another tool for further work, for both my own IFS work and with clients. I think this tool could be a clear way of encouraging real confidence in the IFS approach of working with parts, for clients.”— Wendy
“I really enjoyed your excited and passionate parts/self that helped me feel welcomed and able to learn. Some of your demos were so much fun to observe, and I was resonated and excited with other participants' processing. I also enjoyed having people from different countries. It was nice to feel IFS is a universal "language" and tool for healing and peace.” — Leo
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.”
If you resonate with any of these statements, then this course is ideal for you!
Imagine having a 23-year expert in IFS support you in developing your OWN relationship to your parts, using techniques to unblend BY YOURSELF! You’ll learn how to:
• Develop your OWN personal IFS practice that works for YOU, not some step-by-step idea out of a book
• Address common pitfalls in working by yourself, on yourself.
• 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
This course is designed to empower you to SEE how to work with your parts using pen on paper techniques.
I want YOU to have the easiest, friendliest, most creative, approachable methods for doing your OWN IFS WORK BY YOURSELF and this is my way of offering them to you!
Learn how to use IFS to access your authentic Self in loving, compassionate ways!
In this course, you’ll be guided to explore how to use the conference table to unblend step-by-step.
Plus, You’ll Also Receive:
Worksheets: How-To worksheets to follow to repeat the exercises at home — Michi Rose gave me permission to share her original worksheets from her IFS conferences, so you’ll have access to my worksheets and her original worksheets for how to do the Conference Table!
Extra videos: There is a teaching video specifically about the difference between my technique and Michi’s so you can jump in to start learning about that right away. It also includes an extra Inner Conference Table workshop from 2024 (a $35 stand-alone video value).
2-year Access to the Course Materials: Online, on-demand access to all the videos of the course, summaries of the course content and discussions, and course worksheets.
Looking for a Smaller Class?
If you’re seeking a more intimate, smaller IFS group to learn these techniques which is never recorded, consider joining the 5-person Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) IFS Practice Group which meets once a month for two hours.
We learn the same techniques, 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 www.athousandpaths.com/room
By the end of this course, you will have:
A solid understanding of one of the canonical IFS methods for unblending parts on paper, “The Inner Conference Table”!
Two approaches for how to creatively externalize parts using pen and paper:
— the easy method for getting a lot of parts on paper using the Conference Table
— Michi Rose’s technique for clarifying and organizing your inner system using the Conference Table
I invite you to join our group of committed IFS seekers.
I have confidence your parts will thank you for it!
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.
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