Parts Work Online Unconference - Earlier Event
An online gathering to learn, exchange and connect about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and other parts work based systems.
An online gathering of Internal Family Systems enthusiasts, ranging from those ‘curious to learn more’, those actively integrating IFS into their day-to-day activities, professions & inner work (e.g. IFS-based yoga or art), to those actively providing IFS to others via therapy and coaching.
An opportunity to take part in self-organised participatory group and focused sessions, to meet people interested in existing and emergent IFS topics ranging from “IFS and coaching” to “IFS and parenting”, to “IFS informed cooking” (the sky is the limit!)
We will all be sharing experiences, teaching, learning, practicing, and simply connecting with one another. You can expect workshops, panels, brainstorms, and hangouts. Anything really! What happens is up to all of us.
This gathering will be an unconference, a type of an event based on Open Space Technology. We feel it is a model that applies very well to the IFS model: the event takes the role of the Self, allowing for exploring and integrating different flavours of parts and sessions.
WHEN
Date: January 20th 2024
Schedule: The event happens from 11am to 3pm CET.
If this time doesn't work for you, we have another event happening later on the same day!
HOW
1. We will meet, and gather ideas: topics for possible sessions, ideas we want to explore, half shaped workshops we would want to try (or fully shaped ones we want to offer again), experiences we want to share.
2. We will together choose which sessions we want and when to have them.
3. Then we will have those coffee break conversations, sessions/workshops with people sharing similar interests, or with interests we never imagined and want to get to know.
4. To finish, we will harvest together bits of what happened in other sessions and conversations.
We use the Open Space unconference format to support the exchange of learning and connections at the event. The semi-structured format is a fitting reflection of the IFS model. Aside from its parables to the Self (event format & principles) and parts (sessions & participants), we see its promise in bringing a bottom-up approach to exploring how IFS can develop and contribute beyond therapy rooms. We expect the event to forge new connections between IFS and various modalities (e.g. worklife, freediving, etc), to connect a diverse range of people and practitioners, and to help shift IFS into a more peer-based and mainstream model of practice & culture.
You can find out more on our website.
MORE
Our last unconferences brought together a variety of practitioners and IFS enthusiasts, ranging from game designers, trauma therapists, to those using IFS to support their psychedelic experiences. Among other modules, we held a live IFS session, shared discussions about how to do peer-based IFS, and played a participatory game about harnessing crowd intuition. We are beyond curious to find out what this next gathering will bring.
Our unconference is an Open Space Technology based
event, a semi structured event format without a fixed top-down
program. We believe that this format is not only
aligned with the IFS model (e.g Whoever comes are the right people /
parts, it’s safe to leave a space anytime, etc), but also promotes one
of our key missions, which is which is to source and exchange knowledge
between people (whether practitioners of other therapeutic
modalities or persons who learned via personal experiences and
experiments. We see its promise in bringing a bottom-up approach to exploring how IFS can develop and contribute beyond therapy rooms and to help shift IFS into a more peer-based and mainstream model of practice & culture. Among the rest, you can expect workshops, brainstorms, IFS
sessions, and more. Whether as a curious listener or a courageous
contributor, we hope to see you at the event!
We have an FAQ.
WHO are we?
Pau is a certified IFS Practitioner (L3) who loves to support & empower individuals in their healing. Her background is in NVC, coaching and ethnography. She offers 1-1 IFS sessions and is very excited to spread the IFS know-how to enable more people to relate more compassionately with themselves & others.
Alex is an IFS coach who likes to apply his experience in meditation, facilitation, Focusing, and engineering to help individuals & groups get clearer and more aligned. He has been researching and advocating for better ways of relating for over a decade, hosting workshops, participatory events, unconferences, as a way to have people meet, share, and above all, to learn from one another.
Together, we run the IFS Collective, hoping and helping to bring IFS to the everyday, and the everyone that wants or needs it.
We are NOT the IFS Institute.
Note this is not an official event arranged by the IFS Institute. IFS Collective is not an IFSI affiliated entity or individual. Therefore, the IFS Institute does not assume any liability or responsibility regarding its content, or the qualification that attendance to this event may entail.
Attendance to this event shall NOT entitle any participant to take part in any IFSI’s official IFS training either of Level 1, 2 or 3, get IFS continuing education program credit or to obtain (or meet specific requirements to obtain) any kind of IFS certification or accreditation
Organised by the IFS Collective