Basic Class 1 — Accessing a Part and Getting To Know it:

This illustrates the beginning process of finding a part, focusing attention on it, feeling it in her body and beginning to get to know it.  As this work proceeds, she becomes aware of the Exile that it is protecting and acknowledges it.

Basic Class 2 — Unblending from Laughing Part and Reparenting a Sibling Relationship: The beauty of this session is the moment when we ask the “Laughing Part” to unblend. The noticeable shift in the client and the deepening of the work in the session is significant. It allows for a more impactful contact with the exile parts and reparenting with his sibling.

Basic Class 3 — Trusting the System and the Self:

This gentleman has a great deal of Self energy and is aware and in contact with his inner system. We ask the system for guidance about the work and it gives us a focus.  His Protectors are concerned that he wasn’t there for is when he was a child is a typical concern for protectors. What also happens is that the Exile, once it has a positive experience in the past, decides not to be retrieved into the present because the past has been made more satisfying.

Basic Class 4 — Making Contact With Our Inner System:

This young man is new to IFS. He gently makes contact with his inner system and learns to listen to its cues: somatic, visual, auditory. He mindfully enters the system and allows it to unfold as he develops trust between is Self and his Parts. The pacing of this session is especially interesting to watch.

Exile Class 1 — Negotiating With A Protector to Contact and Exile:

Client wants to make contact with exile and goes through a process of negotiating with the protective system to develop the trust necessary.

Exiles class 2 — Working with Healing Metaphors to Heal an Exile:

This gentleman, who lives in very difficult conditions in a country in the midst of a revolution, starts working with an over-responsible protector that feels like a stone and grows into a mountain. As he gets to know it, we find a polarized protectors in the form of a cloud. As he gets to know them, they develop and change and lead to healing an exile and finding a place of internal balance.

Exile Class 4 — Healing the Father Wound through Re-parenting:

This session is a good example of the reparenting process. We move rather quickly from her difficulty in romantic relationships to her relationship with her father. She goes from not expecting much from contact with him, to having a positive exchange between her Exile and her dad. This leaves her fulfilled and hopeful.

Exiles Class 6 — Repurposing a Protector:

This student came into class saying he had a protector that was paired with another protecting an exile. This protector no longer needed to do his job but had no idea what else to do. We explored the possibilities in a delightful session.

Getting to Know Guides — Client uses the opportunity of this session to get to know two of his guides.

These guides have been present in his system for a long time, but his IFS work has focused on healing parts. 

Inner Critic — Working with the Inner Critic Reparenting the Protected Child:

This class demonstration is a clear demonstration of our work with the Inner Critic.

The client is able to identify the Criticized Child as a hunched little girl and when we put her in a safe place, she could make contact with the critic, a large man with cowboy boots. A Yawning part shows up to protect the critic and as we unblend from it we have access to the Protected Child. We reparent this Protected Child helping her stand up to her brothers and ask her father for help.

Working with the Inner Critic Reparenting the Protected Child — This class demonstration is a clear demonstration of our work with the Inner Critic.

The client is able to identify the Criticized Child as a hunched little girl and when we put her in a safe place, she could make contact with the critic, a large man with cowboy boots. A Yawning part shows up to protect the critic and as we unblend from it we have access to the Protected Child. We reparent this Protected Child helping her stand up to her brothers and ask her father for help.