DAY ONE
Workshop Overview: Frank Anderson and Janina Fisher
Trauma and Dissociation [Fisher]
- Dissociation and fragmentation as normal responses to trauma
- How fragmentation aids survival and adaptation
- Repeated re-activation of trauma responses and traumatized parts in the context of safety
- Applying a parts model to personality disorders and complex PTSD
- The Structural Dissociation Model
- Re-interpreting client symptoms as manifestations of parts
- Mindfulness-based techniques for working with parts
- Stabilization of symptoms and impulses
- State of the evidence, risk and limitations of the model & application in clinical practice
- IFS Model
- Parts and psychopathology
- The 6 F’s, working with protective parts
- State of the evidence, risk and limitations of the model & application in clinical practice
- The Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation
- Overcoming roadblocks, working with extreme symptoms of trauma
- Overcoming roadblocks, working with extreme symptoms of trauma
- Beyond the 6 F’s in IFS
Self-Leadership in IFS [Anderson]
- Therapist parts
- The dimensions of Self-Energy
- Differentiating empathy from compassion
- The healing process in IFS
- Unloading family of origin and cultural burdens
- Rewiring implicit emotional memory
- Developing internal communication
- Concept of ‘missing experiences’
- Developing client ability to offer reparative experiences to parts
- Welcoming the parts home now
- Sharing reactions to video excerpts
- Discussion of strengths and limitations of each approach
- Participant Q&A


