Parts Work Online Unconference

An online gathering to learn, exchange and connect about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and other parts work based systems.

An open space to bring together various parts work modalities (including IFS), their practitioners and enthusiasts.
IFS is evolving and expanding, more groups are taking things in their hands, organizing, sharing, teaching, practicing. We wish to continue to encourage the presence of different parts work inspired modalities and to be inclusive to its practitioners and enthusiasts. To include and support coaches and what they bring to the world of IFS and parts work. To welcome psychedelic practitioners, meditation and dharma teachers, those offering support during spiritual emergencies, and people with interesting experiences they want to share. And of course to IFS practitioners and therapists since we don't believe in creating yet more divisions.

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”, to "partsworkers of the world, unite!" (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. Let's meet and dialogue and get to know each other, and see what happens.

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: October, 12th 2024

Schedule: The event happens from 4pm to 10pm CET / 10am to 4pm EST. (follow the link for more timezones)
Please please please DO FOLLOW THE LINK: we probably are not in your timezone, we do not know what times the event is in your timezone, please do not get annoyed if it the times are not what you expect. We publish times for Central Europe (CET) and Eastern USA (ET), and a link to find out in other places.

HOW

The open space unconference 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 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.

How will it happen?

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.

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.

An unconference, or Open Space Technology based event, is 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 advanced practitioners of other therapeutic modalities OR persons who learned via personal experiences and experiments. 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!

Want to know more? We have an FAQ (or write us).

DISCLAIMERS

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 arranged official IFS training either of Level 1, 2 or 3
• get IFS continuing education program credits
• obtain (or meet specific requirements to obtain) any kind of IFS certification or accreditation

Note that this event is NOT intended as a replacement for any existing or potential professional, therapeutic or learning process.

Organised with love by the IFS Collective