Exploring the Impact of Stories: Healing our Stories with IFS

Our minds are not cameras; they are story tellers. We are always telling ourselves stories. Our clients come in to tell their stories and have them heard in a compassionate relationship. Bringing attention to this tendency to story tell and seeing the impact of these stories can open possibilities for living a fuller life.

In this class we will explore how our family, ancestral, and cultural stories impact our perceived experience. We will watch in real time how our parts create narratives to satisfy unmet needs. We will work with ourselves as we explore the impact of the stories that we have been marinated in throughout our lives. We will learn how to help our clients become aware of their need for narrative creation and experience the impact of stepping out of those old cloaks and living stories that promote aliveness and freedom.

The class will use guided meditation, discussion, teaching, and live demos.

This 4-week course will take place on the following Wednesdays from 4:00-6:00 PM EST (1:00-3:00 PM PST): October 7, October 14, October 21, and October 28. 

Participants will receive 12 CEs following their completion of the program/course.

Bonnie Weiss, MA LCSW is a teacher of the Internal Family System Method in online classes and workshops. She has taught internationally in Australia, Israel, Germany, and Ireland. She is the former Director of the Gestalt Center of Long Island, and The Long Island Center for Eating Disorders. Her books include, Self-Therapy Workbook: An Exercise Book for the IFS Processˆ and Freedom from Your Inner Critic and Letting Go of Perfectionism with Jay Earley. She lives and maintains a private practice in Portland, OR.

Additional Program Information:

Target audience: social workers and counselors

Content level: all levels

Learning objectives:

1 . Participants will be able to describe our internal tendency to form narratives. 

2. Participants will discover how stories from our culture, and family are passed down and impact self-perception.

3. Participants will be able to explain how held stories impact our beliefs and view of ourselves - and our lives.

Outline and Agenda:

Class 1

4:00-4:15 Meditation

4:15- 4:45  Brain’s tendency to create stories

4:45 – 5:15 Experiential exercise/impact of stories

5:15-6:00 Demo and discussion

Class 2

4:00-4:15 Meditation

4:15- 4:45 Cultural and ancestral Stories

4:45 – 5:15 Experiential exercise/impact of ancestral stories

5:15-6:00 Demo and discussion

Class 3

4:00-4:15 Meditation

4:15- 4:45 Family Stories

4:45 – 5:15 Experiential exercise/impact of family stories

5:15-6:00 Demo and discussion

Class 4

4:00-4:15 Meditation

4:15- 5:15 Creating our own stories

5:15-6:00 Demo and discussion

Course interaction and system requirements:

This live webinar hosted on Zoom is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation (using their microphones and/or the chat option). System requirements for Zoom can be viewed at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-requirements-for-PC-and-Mac.

Fee and registration:

Cost is $450 for 12 CE credits/hours. Refunds are available for up to seven days prior to the program (this may not include TicketTailor fees). After that, we offer credit that can be applied to a future program. Registration is open until the course is full. In some cases, we will enable a wait list option once the course is full.

Course completion and CE info:

To receive CE credit/hours, participants must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire program and complete an online evaluation at the end of the program. If you are licensed in Illinois, an additional exam must be requested and completed in order to receive credit for the program.

Certificates will be emailed out within 7 business days following receipt of evaluation.

CE credit is currently available for social workers in all 50 states. Our credits are also accepted for counselors in 49 states (excluding New York). All other professionals (including psychologists and marriage and family therapists) must confirm CE approval with their state board.

Bright Ideas Continuing Education, provider # 1757, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/19/2024-11/19/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 12 clinical continuing education credits.

Bright Ideas Continuing Education has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7705. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Bright Ideas Continuing Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Bright Ideas Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0781.

​Bright Ideas Continuing Education is also authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to provide social work continuing education.

If you have any questions, concerns or special accommodation requests, please contact us at 410-575-3870 or info@brightideasceus.com.