Day 1: Welcome circle & intention-setting practice
- Arrival practice and orientation
- Guided meditation: Self as Sacred Center
- Establishing safety, consent, and pacing
Overview of IFS & Trauma Integration: a heart-centered framework
- Goals, assumptions, IFS credo
- Self as the container and cornerstone to healing
- Heart coherence as a gateway to Self
- Experiential:
- Heart Coherence Breath Practice
- Guided “Meet a Part” exercise
- Experiential:
IFS, Trauma, and the Nervous System
- Trauma, nervous system, and parts
- Polyvagal-informed IFS
- Developmental neuroscience of trauma & dissociation
- Understanding dissociation through an IFS lens
- Mapping protectors and exiles in trauma treatment
- Parts and the burdened system: Protective parts (Managers, Firefighters) and exiled parts
- Experiential
- Mapping exercise practice
- Q & A + integration pause
Day 2 – Skills & Relational Healing
Unblending with the 6 F’s
- Live Demo
- Step by step unblending process
- Speaking for vs from parts
- IFS Communication Methods
- Experiential
- Paired practice in Self-to-part dialogue
- Group processing & troubleshooting
- Experiential
Attachment & Relational Trauma
- Preverbal trauma, attachment styles, shame cycles
- Internal attachment repair using IFS
- Experiential
- Self-compassion & attachment repair meditation
- Small group practice & reflection
- Experiential
Day 3– Integration, Complexity & Closure
Spirituality, Legacy Burdens, & Unburdening
- Collective and legacy burdens
- Ancestral resilience
- Step by step unburdening process
- Self as the ultimate corrective experience
- Experiential:
- Inviting guides, or sacred resources
- Connecting with a vulnerable part
- Integration discussion
- Experiential:
Complex Systems, Extreme Parts, & Ethics
- Polarizations and inner conflict
- Staying Self-led with extreme parts
- Adaptations for complex trauma & dissociation
- Ethics, evidence, limitations, and risks
- Collective Blessing & closure
Evidence, Research Limitations, and Treatment Risks
- Examining the current research
- Challenges to the research and research limitations
- Addressing potential risks
- Contraindications and other considerations


